Can You Hear Me Now? - Tombstone Chronicles VIII - Holworks Music - 2026 all rights reserved
Holworks Music - publishing,label
Mark S. Holman - Song, keyboards, production recording
Meristolis and the AI Choir - Vocals and production
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Can You Hear Me Now" is the moment the line crackles to life. It's not a desperate plea anymore—it's a direct, unflinching transmission. The speaker stands on the edge of that old graveyard ridge, phone (or spirit-radio, or beating heart) held high, no longer asking if anyone's out there... but demanding recognition that the message has landed.I'm your first light aspiration ? the spark that woke you when everything else was dark.
I'm your soul resuscitator of your tribe ? the force that drags the collective spirit back from flatlining, breath by ragged breath.
I'm your slack jawed skin in the face that will on ghost to... ? the stunned, open-mouthed witness to your own haunting, the flesh that's learned to wear eternity like a second skin.
This isn't just a song—it's the turning point in the saga where isolation fractures. The chronicles have always been about connection across impossible distances: past lives, lost loved ones, the Creator's faint reply, the inner voice drowned by noise. TCVIII declares the channel open. The static clears. The other side answers—not with thunder, but with presence.The track pulses with that quiet triumph: urgent yet calm, raw yet resolute. It's the sound of finally being heard after chapters of being overlooked, misunderstood, or straight-up erased. In the Tombstone universe, this is when the dead start listening back... and the living finally hear their own echo.
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Can You Hear Me Now?
I'm your one-part inspiration
I'm your first light aspiration
I'm your soul inclination
The resuscitator of your tribe
I'm your slack old skin in the mirror
I am your face that will deliver
I’m your forlorn ghost to consider
I'm the reason in your eyes
I know what you're wanting before you even know
I will be by your side when you're found
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
I'm standing right behind you
I'm the word that keeps and binds you
I am the pleasure note that reminds you
I am a warm dream waiting to find you
To seal everything inside.
I'm your first call out to the morning
I'm your evening star's orange warning
I'm your relished banquet born again
A cornucopia of delights
I know what you're wanting before you even know
I will be by your side when you're found
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
I'm standing right beside you
I'm your sleek hunger that bursts at dawn
I'm the red coat that you put on
I'm your redneck exasperation song
Yet I complete your soul
I'm your access to an open sky
I'm your inspector's infallible eye
I'm your courage to give it one more try
When there's no place left to go
I know what you're wanting before you even know
I will be by your side when you're found
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
I'm standing right beside you
I am your easy climb out of darkness.
I am your rage for a honeyed sweetness
I am your first and last recompense
Life is all just one big expense
I am the light that holds the stars inert
I am the feeling you have when you have dessert.
I am the hand that will heal your hurt
When there is no sound left to cry.
I know what you're wanting before you even know
I will be by your side when you're found
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
I'm standing right in front of you
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
I'm standing right beside you
Can you hear me now?
Mark S. Holman
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