Tick Tock

Original sketch by Kate Edwards.

Tick Tock

Lyrics & Music by Kate Edwards.

Tick tick tock chimes the clock inside my head. Its hands winding through my brain, wake me in my bed.

Pound, pound, pound, the noise against my heart. Was I even list-en-ing when you where there at the start.

Rope tightly coiled up, deep inside my mind. Stretching out from within, to where you fell behind. Silver thread follows my emotions as away they fly & keep me bound & wrapped in tears, to you who I am tied

I wont believe that in this life you’re not meant to be

In my arms safe & warm with me

I wont believe that I'm not meant to be

I’ll keep on hoping, you’ll find your way on back to me. 

Floating gently now on an endless sea of hope. My hands caress the water from my fear filled boat. I would swim out on my own if I could stop the chimes. But time is something I can’t control so, I will you to be mine 

I won’t believe, that in this life youre not meant to be

In my arms, safe & warm with me

I wont believe that Im not meant to be

I’ll keep on hoping, you’ll find your way back, to me.

I’ll keep hope & its joyous sound, above the tick tick tock & hope to hold you in my arms before the breaking of the clock

Tick tock, tick tock………. 

KE 

29/07/09

I wrote these lyrics in Sept of 2009. I was laying on the acupuncturist’s table. Trying to relax & all I could hear was the clock on the wall, ticking on and on and on. Shouting at me “you’re running out of time” over and over again. I’d had 2 miscarriages by this stage.

The melody came to me when we were living in Up State New York, months later in 2010. I was dreaming, with this melody “playing” over and over throughout the dream. I got up that morning and wrote & recorded the music and my vocals. The sketch I did last year in March of 2021. I found myself thinking of the songs I’d written all those years ago and just felt the need to sketch what the lyrics made me see. Sometimes it’s a long process!!! This song still hold so much meaning for me. And even more as I sit here typing this, listening to the song with my eldest daughter, who I fell pregnant with in 2011 after 4 rounds of IVF. Our beautiful twins joined our family 2 years later after what was to be our final round of IVF before we “closed” that chapter of our lives.

Sometimes it’s a very long process.

Kate Xx