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Game Show Check

from Collection No. 1 by Dean Batten

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Your heart is a game show check
The player smiles and gets their picture snapped
A polaroid dropping to the ground is the only sound to hear

Your heart is a railroad track
Rolling on forever into the seamless dark
The cross-ties, spikes, rails and little hearts
Droning out their counter-parts

Your heart is a little gold speck
Floating in the air inside a silhouette
It glistens in the lamplight, whispering to everyone,
"It's alright, it's alright"

When everyone you know is in charge
Of everyone they get to discharge
Finger the latch, and finally exit
To the room where you were wrapped in anguish

Your heart is a game show check
The hostess smiles and reaches to shake your hand
An aching knuckle bent with cigarette stains
In between her fingers
Cracks in the beauty of her television image

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from Collection No. 1, released March 22, 2015

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Dean Batten Daytona Beach, Florida

Often genre-bending, thought provoking and emotion stoking, Dean Batten's music is most concretely one thing: captivating.

Moving forward from his previous work, Dean has re-embraced the folk, early rock and country sounds of his childhood with 3 new albums: "Optimist Breakfast", an acoustic album; "Pessimist Lunch", a full band version with the same songs; and "Realist Supper", a live album.
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