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
