Don't you wish you could stop... spinning around like a top? This rock and roll punk song began in Victoria with my good friend, Ron Nielson and the No Stranger Band. Rocking Ronny and the Doll (I was the Doll) played a few bars, pizza joints and city streets in Victoria and Vancouver. I had bright pink rocked out hair at the time. Rolled in rag curls with my best fake pearl necklace on, we went to the old prison in New Westminster for a photo shoot. We even snuck across the train tracks illegally where my dad, Dan Lybarger took one incredible shot.
We we were naughty that day, tagging the walls at the back of the prison where no one could see us. Dad was all too happy to comply, being the break the rules kind of guy. We had a blast as you can see, hamming it up for the camera.That summer, Ron had rainbow hair - I think he was always ahead of his time. He started writing this song in that first year we were together. I loved the hook but Ron never finished it, so I did. The original title was: 'Reality Clock' but people kept asking me to sing Tick Tock, hence the name change. I slowed it down from the original version and jazzed it up a bit. Bill Taylor plays a few tasty guitar leads while Gerry Potter blows pretty good on the saxophone. Like Steve Miller says, "Time keeps on ticking ticking ticking into the future..." this song delves into the reality that we do not know when our time is up. So, until the ticking stops on our clock, remember to Love, Laugh and Dance. ~*.*~ Lea Sheldan
This poem emerged Friday after I heard someone on the telly say: "One Night In Montenegro". I immediately went into the kitchen and told Mark that we had to write a poem or a song. So here it is:
One night in Montenegro
One night in Montenegro
On the Adriatic Sea
Deep in the Balkan Country
Across from Italy
There was an evil brewing
Upon the weathered fjord
The bears and wolves were howling
At the moon over Kotor
On the misty mountain crag
Where no one dares to go
The medieval fairy, Alkima
Was swaying to and fro
When midnight spreads her darken wings
The hour is lost and late
She watches closely guarding life
Within the Fairy’s Gate
Beyond when time remembers
A myth is often told
That high up on the jagged knoll
A magic garden grows
On bloodstained soils from tribal wars
Where callous pirates fell
A place too close to Heaven
Some say too close to Hell
There’s potent buds of healing herbs
And flowers seldom seen
The rarest of the rarest plants
And treasures full of dreams
Spirits guard the flora
With spells as dark as coal
Enter if you dare to breathe
The last gasp of your soul
Some trees are thick as elephants
At least three centuries old
The branches sweat the most expensive
Liquid on the globe
People come from distant lands
To taste the magic food
It makes them strong, it makes them wise
And offers long life too
But hidden in the jungle
Old vampires live and feed
On those who dare to wander by
In search of sacred seed
Werewolves, witches, demon fairies
All dwell on the hill
If you can sneak right by them
You won’t be their next kill
I shook off all the warnings
And headed up the trail
I had to find the hidden bridge
The garden in the dale
I shivered through the haunted woods
And swiftly climbed the ridge
I saw the bloody Tara River
Rushing ‘neath the bridge
The gate was closed, I bowed in awe
To Alkima the queen
She gazed at me surprised that I
Had gotten past the fiends
Her wings spread open strong and wide
Her lips a gentle grin
She opened up the iron gates
And beckoned me come in
I drank the wine and ate the fruit
A lucky strike, I’d say
A haze was cast upon me
As on the grass I lay
One night in Montenegro
Beneath a waxing moon
I dreamed I heard the fairies sing
An eerie ancient tune
written by Lea and Mark Sheldan
March 9, 2019
To listen to a free version of 'Tick Tock' go to my songs page on my website:
www.leasheldan.com
To listen on Spotify click here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1F94bFYiM7dzk9vLWA6xL2?si=JJQnh1WTQEWJpTiD55VJ7A
Sing along with the lyrics below:
Tick Tock
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock 2X
The clock keeps a-ticking pounding against the wall
Reality won’t leave me alone at all Tick tock Tick tock
People keep on marching past my house each day
I have the same fears they fear and the same hates they hate Tick tock Tick tock
Don’t you wish you could stop? Tick tock Tick tock
Spinning around like a top Tick tock Tick tock
Someone stop the ticking of the reality clock Tick tock Tick tock . . .
Say what time is it? It's time for change
What time is it? Time for change
One minute you’re out and the next you’re in Tick tock Tick tock
At times it gets you spinning around the bend Tick tock Tick tock
But people keep on talking, doesn’t matter what they say Tick tock Tick tock
Your time will come one of these days Tick tock Tick tock
Don’t you wish you could stop? Tick tock Tick tock
Spinning around like a top Tick tock Tick tock
Someone stop the ticking of the reality clock Tick tock Tick tock
Say, what time is it? It's time for change
What time is it? Time for change
Say what time is it? It's time for change
Tick tock Tick tock Tick tock 2X
Time to keep on learning get it while you can
Cause right around the corner might be the end
Don’t you wish you could stop? Tick tock Tick tock
You're spinning around like a top Tick tock Tick tock
Someone stop the ticking of the reality clock Tick tock Tick tock . . .
Time for change Time for change
Time to keep on learning get it while you can
Cause right around the corner might be the end
written by Ron Nielson and Lea Sheldan
copyright 1990 socan
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