Tom Ciurczak's Music Video "The Watcher"

 The first music video from Americana Singer-Songwriter Tom Ciurczak's upcoming album, “Yorick,” is called "The Watcher." 

“The Watcher” is Tom’s song about an alien looking for the other aliens that left him as he treks across the planet earth at “every alien crash site” according to the song lyrics. “The song is my take on the origins of the “Men In Black,” he says. “He was dropped off thousands of years ago to carve the ‘Nazca Lines’ and then for whatever reason, the Aliens never came back to get him. Feeling abandoned on the planet, he gets depressed and laments about his former life traveling the universe and wonders why they left him. He goes into mourning and starts dressing in black and decides to start showing up at all the Alien related sites throughout history hoping he’ll get noticed and rescued in time for supper.”

“The Watcher” music video includes Tom being photobombed into historical scenes from the pyramids to the fall of the Roman Empire, to climbing frozen cliffs.  Thousands of years later a spaceship finds him, and he’s swooped up to return home, but not in time for supper!

Taking songwriting tips from artists like Bruce Springsteen, Warren, Zevon, and Steve Earle (who was his teacher at a songwriting camp he attended in 2014, which got him on the road to finishing song ideas and creating new ones), “I knew I found my tribe!” A transplanted New Yorker living in Southern California, Tom put together his prestigious recording team of producer/drummer Stephen Haaker, sound engineer Brett Grossman and a number of A-List of studio musicians to record his first CD, the powerfully-combustive “Call Me Ishmael.”  Follow up releases were a 2021 single “Christmas Time in Hollywood” his second CD, “I Ain’t Ever Growing Up,” and 2023’s “I Ain’t Ever Growing Up-Volume II” and an ep, “Christmas Time in Hollywood.” He and five other songwriters from the Steve Earle tribe put together “Muscle Shoals Record Shop” recorded at Muscle Shoals legendary Cypress Moon Studio, home of the Swampers (aka Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section)!    

Tom performs with his band at music venues throughout Southern California to promote his own brand of Heartland Rock. Having played such well-known venues as the Whiskey A Go Go, The Mint, The Viper Room, The Coach House, this singer/songwriter/recording/performing artist is proof that, once lit, the musical spark never dies – he’s just blazing its magic! 

“The Watcher”

A couple thousand years ago

I came down here to carve the Nazca lines

They said they’re coming back for me

planned to get me home by supper time           

 

Day after day I keep waiting for you

Searching the skies and checking the news

Gone into mourning so I’m dressing in black

Wondering if you’re ever coming back   

 

I’ve been traveling everywhere

Stonehenge to Tiananmen square

Took advantage of every photo-op under the sun

Been to every alien crash site

Hollow Earth theory doesn’t seem right

But I think they’re hiding something at Area 51

 

Watched you build the Pyramids

Saw the Roman Empire fall              

Sent Rocket ships up to the moon

Man, I seen it all

Still, I wonder why

I was left behind

 

I used to travel all across the Universe

I’ve seen lots of planets born and die

Better fasten your seat belts

it’s going to be a bumpy ride when the ice caps melt

getting out of here, never been more clear

 

I keep staring at the sky

those signs aren’t hard to recognize

Don’t know how they could ever make a wrong turn

This was always the final frontier

Still no reason to have left me here

But watching it all go to hell just ain’t my concern

 

Day after day I keep waiting for you

Searching the skies and checking the news

Gone into mourning so I’m dressing in black

Wondering if you’re ever coming back

C 2025 Tom Ciurzcak / Ciurczak Songs (BMI), All Rights Reserved

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