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The Talk

from Call Out by Martha Groves Perry

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Written several years ago about a disturbing moment in an unhealthy relationship, The Talk pulses with a dark intensity that resonates powerfully with my fractured mindset in times of trouble. Producer Kenny Schick combined huge, warped percussion with raw, brutalized treatments, giving this song a decidedly noir atmosphere. The result is a track that reflects the contradiction between things clicking into place while falling apart, dissociating while assimilating, and shattering while growing stronger. I chose to include this song on the album because the last chorus, which features me screaming, sounded like the inside of my head at the time we were working on it.

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Standing naked at the bottom of the stairs
Calling to someone who I knew was not there
Invisible to no one except me
Coming face to face with all that I can’t see

I talk and you talk
Never did we have the talk
Only in our silence did we talk

Crushed into silence by my own desire
Unable to make sense of my own fire
I see now I did not know who I was
I understand the pain that absence caused

I talk and you talk
Never did we have the talk
Only in our silence did we talk

There were some moments I was in too deep
But there were no promises I did not keep

I see the memory around your eyes
My interest in your words is my disguise
To speak about it now would seem amiss
Yet silence seems the height of cowardice

I talk and you talk
Never did we have the talk
Only in our silence did we talk

I talk and you talk
Never did we have the talk
Only in our silence did we talk

credits

from Call Out, released April 21, 2023
In addition to songwriting, lead vocals, and writing the harmony vocals, I performed backing vocals on this song. Kenny Schick, my producer, also sang backing vocals and played or programmed all of the instruments. Kenny recorded his parts at Basement3Productions in Nashville, Tennessee, and I recorded my parts in May 2022 with Steven Glaze at ToneFreq Studio in San Jose, California.

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Martha Groves Perry San Francisco, California

Martha Groves Perry is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in San Francisco, California. Her bold, alternative Americana original music has a straightforward, compelling and sometimes edgy clarity with strong blues, rock, and experimental influences. Her penetrating, poetic lyrics reflect the fearless truth-telling and unbothered amusement of a seasoned, female point of view. ... more

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