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Bless My Eyes

from Diesel Town by Rick Todd

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The song started with seven syllables, almost like a haiku. Not addressed to anyone or anything. Just a humble request thrown out into the universe. I am partial to a waltz, so that informed a simple structure and melody. I let the words flow, not much concerned about what they meant, but trusting that they would.

It's a short song, two verses and two choruses. I needed a middle bit that really took off. I built the bridge around the 5-2-4-1 chord progression and added a couple acoustic guitars for punch and two mandolins for shimmer. But the sonic texture I wanted wasn't quite there. Enter my pickin' buddies Dan Rankins from Tulsa, OK and Matt Dwyer from Hastings, NE. I set up my recording gear at David Parker's Pickin' Parlor in Canyon, Texas. Dan laid down pedal steel guitar and Matt added dobro, and the song, and especially the bridge, came alive.

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BLESS MY EYES

Goin' down for another last time
I saw you floating by
Wavin' your hand I could not tell
If it was hello or goodbye

It's been a good run, I must say
You had your moment in the sun
Wrong or right, you acted like
You could fool everyone

Bless my eyes and let me see
Walls fall down around you and me
Change, change, change it must
The only thing you can ever really trust

Damascus just over the hill
But the road is still so long
Take one step, let another one follow
There is no right turn or wrong

Let go your bones, shed your skin
Draw a breath, out and in
Sit stock still, walk a mile
Standing naked with only a smile

Bless my eyes and let me see
Walls fall down around you and me
Change, change, change we must
The only thing you can ever really trust

Let go your bones, shed your skin
Draw a breath, out and in

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from Diesel Town, released July 1, 2023
Rick Todd: Vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, bass
Matt Dwyer: Dobro
Dan Rankins: Pedal steel guitar

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Rick Todd Amarillo, Texas

Rick Todd is a songwriter, performer and multi-instrumentalist based in Amarillo, Texas. His music resonates from a space between Americana, folk, and country. After a few lifetimes as a Telecaster-slinging rocker, farm manager, studio producer and engineer, and award-winning research scientist, Todd turned his creative talents to making music once again. The result is Diesel Town. ... more

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