Dramatic Pause

Written by Briyan Frederick Baker
℗ by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP | blindmime.com
© Briyan Frederick Baker. All rights reserved.

About the song: I found a couple tracks hiding on 4-track master #3 which were half speed so they must have been leftover tracks from when I was recording on the Studiomaster 4-track, my first 4-track machine, around 1983. The tracks were just acoustic guitars which I fed into Suno and built an arrangement that took a while to flesh out while writing the lyric.

Dramatic Pause

I know I've been given
To dramatic pause
It's quite the anti-climatic fatal flaw
I know

And no doubt I have a litany of reasons
That make me hesitate
And more than just routinely, leave me saddled with restraint
I know

All caught up…
In a dramatic pause
All caught up…
And guilty of the charge
All caught up…
In a dramatic pause
Just because what must be the cause
Is just because

It's terrible to behold
What the circumstance reveals
Because it makes it all the more real
I know

All caught up…
In a dramatic pause
All caught up…
And guilty of the charge
All caught up…
In a dramatic pause
Just because what must be the cause
Is just because

Backwards I find myself falling
Backwards
There and back
And back again
Backwards
Always backwards
Again and again

I know I've been given
To dramatic pause
It's quite the anti-climatic fatal flaw
I know

Yes, I know it's the thing that I do around you
And that this tendency belies
Things I cannot deny are ultimately true
I know

All caught up…
In a dramatic pause
All caught up…
And guilty of the charge
All caught up…
In a dramatic pause
Just because what must be the cause
Is just because