Clicking Tocks by Craig Haller

Clicking Tocks.

Clicking Tocks draws you into a layered world of sound and reflection. Built from layers and subtle textures, it moves between tension and release — songs that turn repetition into rhythm and thought into melody.

The lyrics invite reflection, exploring time not as something passing, but as something gathering.

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Tracklist.

  • Train like a gun
    Shoot through the desert and sun
    Attraction is a bitch
    Your devilish smile
    Combined with heavenly style
    You're really quite a dish

    You're fighting for attention
    You fight with your past
    You're dangerous shattered glass
    Train like a gun
    You shoot but you've just begun
    To ride out on your own
    Ride out on your own

    Dry your eyes and touch the sky

    Train like a gun
    Unload a barrel of fun
    Disaster is a fix
    Invisible care
    When you're visibly scared
    It's really quite a mix

    You're fighting for affection
    You're fighting to last
    You're dangerously relaxed
    Train like a gun
    You shoot but you've just begun
    To ride out on your own
    Ride out on your own

    Now it's in motion
    The commotion
    You could not say out loud

    Train like a gun
    Shoot through the desert and sun
    Attraction is a bitch
    Your devilish smile
    Combined with heavenly style
    It's really quite a mix

    You're fighting for affection
    You're fighting to last
    You're dangerously relaxed
    Train like a gun
    You shoot but you've just begun
    To ride out on your won
    Now ride out on your own

    Dry your eyes and touch the sky

  • Close your eyes
    Open up your mind
    There's too much distraction going on outside
    Just leave it all behind
    If you want to fly
    You've gotta leave it all behind

    Forget what they say
    You gotta make your own way
    There's too much confusion going on inside
    You gotta leave it all behind
    If you want to fly
    You've gotta leave it all behind

    To overcome what holds you down
    You must become the head that wears the crown

    On your mark
    Open up your heart
    There's too much affliction going on outside
    You gotta leave it all behind
    If you want to fly
    You gotta leave that shit behind

    Forget what they say

  • Down and out on a dark and dreary night
    I feel a bit crazy
    Heaven help me if I never see the light
    Emancipate me

    I've played their games, with all their rules
    There's nothing there but kings and fools
    Fan the flame to frame my name
    It's time to tell the truth

    The world is made of fire
    A flame that love inspires
    With a heart full of gasoline
    I'm gonna watch it burn
    Watch it burn

    I clear my mind of everything I know
    I feel a bit lighter
    Strike a match and revel in the glow
    It's getting brighter

    Who am I if not myself?
    When I'm not me then I'm not well
    Stoke the flame, watch it burn
    My heart will tell the truth

    The world is made of fire
    A flame that love inspires
    With a heart full of gasoline
    I'm gonna watch it burn
    Watch it burn

  • I've tried wine
    Been whisked away by whiskey's kiss
    I got baptized in a pool of gin
    Just to wash you away

    It feels like a dream
    Broken flowers on the floor
    I know it's my fault, so I drink the blame
    Just to wash you away

    I drink about you every day
    There's no cure for broken hearts
    So I'm drinking to wash you away

    There's no relief
    There's no shelter from your storm
    I'm an empty shell of my old self
    I can't wash you away

    I drink about you every day
    There's no cure for broken hearts
    So I'm drinking to wash you away

  • Everything is far
    Close enough to see
    But just out of reach
    You have a poet's voice
    Your words are paper-thin
    Springing from a fountain
    High up on a mountain

    In the beginning
    There was nothing up above
    Heaven is a cloud of dust
    That stuck together in the name of love
    In the beginning
    There was nothing here but time
    Now time keeps moving on
    It never was and will never be enough

    Everything is clear
    Perfect like the sky
    So endlessly open
    You swim against the tide
    Desire sets you free
    The struggle was worth it

    In the beginning
    There was nothing up above
    Heaven is a cloud of dust
    That stuck together in the name of love
    In the beginning
    There was nothing here but time
    Now time keeps moving on
    It never was and will never be enough

Credits.

Musicians

  • Craig Haller – all sounds, voices, programming

  • Ryan Madora – bass

Production

  • Produced and engineered by Craig Haller

  • Mixed by Brad Jones at Alex the Great Recording, Nashville

  • Mastered by Erik Thompson at Reel Recording

Artwork & Design

  • John Reed

Publishing

  • Released on June 9, 2017

  • Words and music by Craig Haller

  • ℗ 2017 Settlement Orange Music

  • © 2017 My Buddy Craig Music [BMI]

Heaven is a cloud of dust
that stuck together in the name of love.

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