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Workaholic

from You Toe Pee Yah by Thinkspeak

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I heard a loud crack or bang one night and noticed my own reaction: sudden alertness until I explained it to my self then back to my book, or whatever I had been doing. This small experience then prompted the song, ruminating over various levels of being and consciousness.

I brought in keyboards, a couple layers, to lend that atmospheric effect for the other-worldly reflection on mortality, the passage of time and physical reality.

lyrics

a flash in the night catches my attention
like anybody else's instinctive reaction
but i'm not a raven shiny object search
I can get back to my work

the day is flash-in-the-night enough for me
it comes in repetition it still surprises me

flash in the night don't blind me
flash in the night don't describe me
flash in the night ain't we a flash in the night

workaholic cries jobs jobs mister minister calls god god god
entrepreneur wants everything easy

2.
a loud noise catches my attention
like anybody else's instinctive reaction
but i'm not a dog tail tucked between my legs
I can get on with my list of things

the day is big-bang-enough for me
it comes in repetition it still surprises me

flash in the night don't blind me
flash in the night don't describe me
flash in the night ain't we a flash in the night

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from You Toe Pee Yah, released November 11, 2013

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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