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Still an actual theme these days....

Pastel and colored pencil on Steinbach paper (no. 1108-2008) - Elton John Songs Illustrated - TICKING (Caribou album, 1974) was for a very long time never one of my favorite EJ songs, but I still like it somehow. I always skipped it -or turned the record off - when it started to play. I didn't want to listen to it. But now, I really appreciate it, even more since I heard it "live" in 2008. I never made a drawing of it and even this time I combined it with "The Ballad Of Danny Bailey, 1909-34" from the EJ 1973 "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" album. That is perhaps a strange combination, but I like sometimes putting songs together in one drawing. And hey, it's there now, so you can or may think whatever you want about it. Like Bernie said in an interview, you can interprete it as you like.
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TICKING
Music and lyrics by Elton John and Bernie Taupin
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"An extremely quiet child" they called you in your school report
"He's always taken interest in the subjects that he's taught"
So what was it that brought the squad car screaming up your drive
To notify your parents of the manner in which you died

At St. Patricks every Sunday, Father Fletcher heard your sins
"Oh, he's unconcerned with competition he never cares to win"
But blood stained a young hand that never held a gun
And his parents never thought of him as their troubled son

"Now you'll never get to Heaven" Mama said
Remember Mama said
Ticking, ticking
"Grow up straight and true blue
Run along to bed"
Hear it, hear it, ticking, ticking

They had you holed up in a downtown bar screaming for a priest
Some gook said "His brain's just snapped" then someone called the police
You'd knifed a Negro waiter who had tried to calm you down
Oh you'd pulled a gun and told them all to lay still on the ground

Promising to hurt no one, providing they were still
A young man tried to make a break, with tear-filled eyes you killed
That gun butt felt so smooth and warm cradled in your palm
Oh your childhood cried out in your head "they mean to do you harm"

"Don't ever ride on the devil's knee" Mama said
Remember mama said
Ticking, ticking
"Pay your penance well, my child
Fear where angels tread"
Hear it, hear it, ticking, ticking

Within an hour the news had reached the media machine
A male caucasian with a gun had gone berserk in Queens
The area had been sealed off, the kids sent home from school
Fourteen people lying dead in a bar they called the Kicking Mule

Oh they pleaded to your sanity for the sake of those inside
"Throw out your gun, walk out slow just keep your hands held high"
But they pumped you full of rifle shells as you stepped out the door
Oh you danced in death like a marionette on the vengeance of the law

"You've slept too long in silence" Mama said
Remember Mama said
Ticking, ticking
"Crazy boy, you'll only wind up with strange notions in your head"
Hear it, hear it, ticking, ticking

You gotta get there by doin' what you want

Everywhere - Common

Finally got a jumping photo, BY MISTAKE. LOL

part of my Shadows assignment.

OMG BTS was NUTS! i have not screamed and ran around the room so much then at BTS. it was nuts! i got my promotion to senior rep! and im all pumped up! i wanna win that trip to HAWAII!!! Shoot for HAWAII settle with VEGAS!!!

yes, I'm a bit excited about everything right now so you wont understand half my babble. just know..... BTS was crazy.

Project 365: Day 104
TOTW: lyrically inspired
30 songs in 30 days: Day 1: Everywhere by Common
FGR: this is a badass photo. seriously it is. :D

Exposure:0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture:f/6.3
Focal Length:35 mm
Exposure:+0.10
ISO Speed:100

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