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The Quiet Sounds of Sewing

by Dean Batten

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Written on a borrowed guitar the week his grandmother died. Dean has dedicated this song to his Grandmother and his mother.

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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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released February 11, 2022
Written, recorded and produced by Dean Batten
All instruments played by Dean Batten
Main vocals by Dean Batten
Backing harmonies by Dean and his mother Myra Wooden
Recorded in his mother's guest bed room
Cover art edited and assembled by Dean Batten
Cover Photo by Santiago Charboneau

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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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