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The Quiet Sounds of Sewing

from Optimist Breakfast by Dean Batten

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Written the week following Dean's grandmother's death, which he "was fortunate enough to witness". At that point in time, Dean was still about half-in-half-out with his transformation into someone who wanted to live and his artistic style-change. This is the first "country" song he ever wrote.

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Now grandma's gone to better things
And I think I am afraid of things
I haven't been believing
I can hear your wisdom now, ma
Like the quiet sounds of sewing
Let it stitch me back together like a song

While domiciles and suicides are passing through my mind
I got a couple letters to send my love
And a ladder to climb

Twenty-five years old, my God,
How has it run this long?
"I even wear my trousers rolled," says Eliot
Sojourners in a foreign land
That wording has it right
Four hundred years of toil will pass by night
And fade into daylight

While domiciles and suicides are passing through my mind
I got a couple letters to send my love
And a ladder to climb

While domiciles and suicides are passing through my mind
I got a couple letters to send my love
And a ladder to climb

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from Optimist Breakfast, released April 29, 2023

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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. ... more

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