2025 Competition Entry:

Tick Tock (Goes the Winding Clock) by Weak Ass Mushroom Tea

Genre

Rock

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Lee Dellapina (me) Bass, rhythm guitar, and lead vocals
Andrew Leichter Drums, backing vocals
Art Tantasook Lead guitar
Erik Melton Backing vocals

Description

My three friends and I were in a band together 30 years ago and had mostly lost touch with each other. Being if four separate parts of the country we reconnected virtually in 2020, and started writing and recording music again. This was a song which I had the music finished, but only the first line of the lyrics “Tick tock goes the winding clock”. When I shared it with the band, our guitarist asked “Is that song about growing older?” And I replied “It is now!” Inspired by that concept I wrote the rest of the lyrics.

Bio

Around 30 years ago the guys in Weak Ass Mushroom Tea formed a band in their hometown of Lexington, KY. They had some fun, wrote some cool tunes, and released one album under the name “The Down” in 1997, but like most local bands, the fun was short lived, and the guys went their separate ways.

Life happened. Families and jobs transported each member to a different part of the country. From Seattle to Chicago to Georgia and Kentucky, the guys were separated by time and distance, and had mostly lost touch with one another.

But in 2020, during the lock-down, they reconnected via a group text, and started catching up. Then, in early 2022, to mark the 25th anniversary of their original CD release, they reconvened in Lexington for an epic weekend of rock music. For two days they relived “the good old days,” staying up all night, sharing stories, and playing music. It was like no time had passed at all.

When the weekend was over, the guys vowed not to let another 30 years go by, and started writing music together again. They shared files online with their individual parts, and mixed them together to create new songs. After a few successful attempts at writing new music, the decision was made to make a full length album, and Weak Ass Mushroom Tea was born.

All of their music is recorded remotely, with none of the members playing even a single note together in person.

Over the years, each member of the band has grown and matured musically. They have each developed their own individual styles which are distinctive from the others, resulting in a dramatically diverse portfolio featuring a wide rage of musical styles.

With four song writers and four lead singers, Weak Ass Mushroom Tea has a diverse sound with elements of punk rock, bluegrass, alternative, jazz, americana, funk, pop rock, surf rock, metal, grunge, and more

Lyrics

Tick Tock goes the winding clock
Time is Cheap but not as cheap as Talk
I hear your voice ringing in my ears
telling me your deepest fears

We’re out of time

Sanity unwinding slow
give up the ghost no matter friend or foe
cracking bones in nursing homes
until they leave you there to die alone

We’re out of time

The Silver Fox inside a dusty box
Slam the door and change the locks
An empty bench in central park
the night is bright and the day is dark

We’re out of time

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