Time Bomb – Nick Barker - 1994
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That raw, downplayed and understated guitar that dominated the early 90s is our welcoming guest. Come in, sit down, listen. Let me tell you a story. I been sweeping the leaves out of my driveway. I’ve been living a good life up to now. Tell me about how living a life so mundane and contained has kept you sane. Kept you close to the precipice of sanity while the repetitive noise of just living a good and simple life is keeping you stable. Guitars moving with a purpose, drums steady. Never speeding up, never slowing down. Just onwards. All the time. Well here’s one soul your system won’t save. Well I been living a good life up to now. I been sweet and I been good. I’m doing what is asked from me and trying to make it in this world. I’m doing it all right. And I am so close to the edge of just letting it all fall apart. A time bomb waiting to go off and just burn it all down with me.
Wild guitars, breaking loose from the drudgery of rhythm to just explode in an orgasmic array of sound and over just like that. Slow. Quiet. I been doing my best. I really have. I need my prescription, cause I been having those strange dreams again. I promise you, I will keep it together for one more day. The time bomb is ticking. It’s controlled. Through therapy sessions and basket weaving. But it’s there. Tick, tick, tick. Just let the piano in and the guitars can go a little loose. The piano is soothing but the savagery underneath inside the screaming guitars is still there. And we fade away to silence. Leaving me with the shaky feeling of just driving through a hurricane while screaming I’m ok.