01/28/22 Sometime in the late 1980's the studio moved to Hamilton Park. There was a tiny room on the third floor that was more or less isolated from the rest of the house (and from the neighbor's house) where I set up shop. The main thing about it was that I couldn't record a drum kit up there! The result was that I wrote a lot of songs for acoustic guitar and keyboards. This one has about three interwoven acoustic guitar parts and a lead played on the slide guitar I'd made from an end table in Paradise one time when I had the flu. Could be the most optimistic song I've ever written. The Great Ticking Heart.mp3 The Great Ticking Heart We came up From our sleep And we watched The minutes creep Into the Great Ticking Heart Seven jewels Like a crown An avalanche That swept us down Into the Great Ticking Heart Into the Great Ticking Heart The mainspring of the soul- keep alive And through the headlong dive Keep me whole Escapement like a knife seeking home Dividing all we've known In our life We came up From a dream And we watch The seconds stream Into the Great Ticking Heart Into the Great Ticking Heart Into the Great Ticking Heart