Tick Tick Boom (song)

From The Stools Debut Album Draconian Messures

Players:

Elvin Anderson - Guitar, Vocals

Cosmo Ditmar - Guitar, Uke, Bass

Antonio Moretti - Drums

Lyrics:

TICK TICK BOOM

Artemus roman was the only man that I had ever seen cry

And he did it every year, but only on the fourth of July

It wasn’t that he was a patriot or the sentimental kind

It was a curse you see, the anniversary of when Artemus lost his mind

See, he got married when he was young, and she was younger still

Thought the proverbial milk was free, he still couldn’t get his fill

Oh. He was in love, but she was innocent of, feeling that way too

They made the news, when she lit the fuse and he went tick tick boom

Ch.

She was a whore, just not the professional kind

And he’d have to pay for her bed frame of mind

One summer afternoon…………… tick tick boom

I was about six when we first met in that bar that day

First, he bummed a cigarette then ordered a round but didn’t pay

I stood on my chair grabbed his hair and punched him in the flume

The flood gates opened up, he said hold it bub, and then went tick tick boom

Ch.

He cried like a baby, just not the coochie coo kind

When his old lady got a bedframe of mind

He came home too soon…… tick tick boom

Yes, Artemus roman was the only man I’d ever seen cry

Who didn’t try to pass it off as something in his eye

On independence day we gather at her grave and have a toast

It seems queer, faithfully tipping beer to a faithless ghost

What’s you gonna do?..... Tick tick boom