Ticking Clocks – She ’ s coming home
I had a little chord progression that got me thinking…nothing complicated just some interesting inversions on BM7, FM7 Gm7 and C7 that came up on a social media site. Sounded nice, but I ditched the BM7 and the C7 and just oscillated between the other two to sing an ad lib lyric…and then to break away into a chorus based on Dm7 Am, and Gm7.
Thing is, I thought I came up with something neat lyrically, a kind of riposte to The Beatles’ song She’s Leaving Home, whereby we find the protagonist returning to her childhood home after her parents have died, there always was the implication of a less than happy childhood for her, but what if it had been worse, what if it were a miserable childhood, one in which one or both parents were abusive in some way? That was my train of thought when I came up with this little lot…
Ticking Clocks
The key turns in the lock, she shoves the door wide open with her suitcase
It’s a shock, to find herself back here once again.
CHORUS
She locked her secret deep inside
Unanswered prayers her woe betide
Now silent screams, the sound that mocks
Those echoes drowned by ticking clocks
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK
No need to knock, she clutches letters from the floor
She’s taking stock. Of secrets she holds, no time to worry more
CHORUS
She winds the clocks That stopped the day she stepped away
From darning socks and all the hazards that entailed
Finding keys and picking locks. She didn’t need to hurry
There’s alwa...
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