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bookmark_borderApeman

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Coversong originally made famous by The Kinks
Written by Ray Davies

   A                                          A
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |   I think I'm sophisticated,
           A                     E                 Esus4   E
'Cause I'm living my life like a good homo sapien,
    A
But all around me everybody's multiplying,
            E                                Esus4  E
And they're walking 'round like flies, man,
   D
So I'm no better than the animals,
                 A                       Asus4  A
Sitting in their cages in the zoo, man,
             A
'Cause com - pared to the flowers, and the birds, and the trees, 
E       E7    A
I am an ape - man!
 
I think I'm so educated, and I'm so civilised,
'Cause I'm a strict vegetarian,
But with the over population, and inflation, and starvation,
And the crazy poli - tici - ans,
I don't feel safe in this world no more,
I don't wanna die in a nuclear war,
I wanna sail away to a distant shore,
And make like an ape - man!

I'm an ape - man, I'm an ape, ape - man,
Oh, I'm an ape - man,
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a vood - doo man,
Oh, I'm an ape - man,
'Cause com - pared to the sun that sits in the sky,
Com - pared to the clouds as they roll by,
Com - pared to the bugs, and the spiders, and flies,
I am an ape - man!
     (D)                (A)(E)      D   E      A
     La-la, la-la!  La - la-la!
   In man's evolution he has created the city,
And the motor traffic rumble, ...but, give me half a chance,
And I'd be taking off my clothes and living in the jungle,
'Cause the only time that I feel at ease,
Is swinging up and down in a coconut tree,
Oh, what a life of luxury to be like an ape - man!
I'm an ape - man, I'm an ape, ape - man,
Oh, I'm an ape - man,
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a vood - doo man,
Oh, I'm an ape - man,
I look out the window, but I can't see the sky,
The air pollution is a - fogging up my eyes,
I want to get out of this city alive,
And make like an ape - man!
    (D)                (A)(E)    D  E    A   N.C.
    La-la, la-la!  La - la-la!               A- come on and..
    E            E  N.C.         A            A  N.C.
...love me       ...be my apeman girl,           and we'd be so..
     E            E  N.C.           A
  ...happy...     ...in my ape-man  world!
I'm an ape - man, I'm an ape, ape - man,
Oh, I'm an ape - man,
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a vood - doo man,
Oh, I'm an ape - man,
I'll be your Tarzan, you'll be my Jane,
I'll keep you warm, and you'll keep me sane,
We'll sit in the trees, and eat bananas all day,
Just like an ape - man!

I'm an ape - man, I'm an ape, ape - man,
Oh, I'm an ape - man,
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a vood - doo man,
Oh, I'm an ape - man,
I don't feel safe in this world no more,
I don't want to die in a nuclear war,
I want to sail away to a distant shore,
And make like an ape - man!
[Coda]

Apeman.mp3

Coversongs

The Beatless Sense Mongers

bookmark_borderLong, Long Way from Home

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Coversong originally made famous by Foreigner
Written by Mick Jones, Lou Gramm, and Ian McDonald

        Dm                               
It was a Monday a day like any other day 
        C                  Dm
I left a small town for the Apple in decay 
         Dm                                 
It was my destiny it's what we needed to do 
         C          Dm              C Bb A
they were telling me I'm telling you 
     Dm                         C                 
I was inside looking outside the millions of faces 
    Dm
but still I'm alone 
                         
Waiting, hours of waiting 
C                      Dm
paying a penance I was longing for home 

F             C           G
I'm looking out for the two of us 
Bb                                   G                A+
I hope we'll be here when they're through with us 
Dm C Dm C C Bb A Dm

I was inside looking outside 
oh the millions of faces but still I'm alone 
Waiting hours of waiting 
I could feel the tension I was longing for home 
I'm looking out for the two of us 
I hope we'll be here when 
they're through with us I’m coming home 
Bb    Dm    Bb    Gm
A+    Dm    C    Dm
C    C    Bb    A    Dm
Dm                            
Monday, sad, sad Monday she's 
C                        C    Bb   A        Dm
waiting for me but I'm a long long way from home 
Sad, sad Monday she's waiting for me 
but I'm a long long way from home 
Sad, sad Monday ah she's waiting for me 
but I'm a long long way from home     
C Bb A Dm

Long-Long-Way-From-Home.mp3

Coversongs

The Beatless Sense Mongers

bookmark_borderWith My Eyes Closed

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LYRICS
I can see
With my eyes closed
What will be
The “I’s” impose
Our will we will instill until
Wait! Too late… I spoke too fast
Our will we kill
… it can’t last
If we’re past

I can see
With my eyes closed
What will be
The “I’s” impose
With our dollars and hollers
For hours on ours
Me, my, mine all the time
Human rights crime

I can see
With my eyes closed
What will be
The “I’s” impose
Slash and burn
Yet still we yearn
To dig or more
… all in store
To be sure
Still se drill
Drill until…
Our will we will instill until
Wait! Too late… I spoke too fast
Our will we kill
… it can’t last
If we’re past

With-My-Eyes-Closed.mp3

Chords: F C G / G G7 C / C E E C
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderNitwit Lit It

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LYRICS
Remember when we had it so good
Before
Overload our plate
And come back for more
Longing for the way it use to be
Instead of making progress ‘gainst tragedy

Insistent on inevitability
… really?
It’s your man-made destiny
Longing for the way it use to be
Instead of making progress ‘gainst tragedy

Can’t debate we participate
Rapid rate desecrate
The nitwit…
Our fuse is lit
We know
It’s going to blow
Good ending is not enough
From rough…
To muffled snuff

Nitwit-Lit-It.mp3

Chords: E G E A / E G A G E / E C A
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderThe Looks of It

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LYRICS
How do you like the looks of it?
I don’t… not a bit
There goes the habitat
Like that
Now, here’s where we’re at:
There’s no going home
We’re going to roam
Refugees, we flee

How do you like the looks of it?
I don’t… not a bit
There goes the habitat
Like that
Now, here’s where we’re at:
Burning down our home
Out here on our own
Realize our demise

How do you like the looks of it?
I don’t… not a bit
There goes the habitat
Like that
Now, here’s where we’re at:
Spent our environment
Meant our embarrassment
No new/knew ones
In our ruins

Chords: Am / G Am / C D Am
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderWelcome to Our History

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LYRICS
Welcome to our history
“Are” last page
Succumb to our misery
Final stage
Civilized attitude
Rude & Crude
Past our prime
… and… out of time

Hope you liked our show
You never know
Close-up blow-by-blow
We’ve gotta go
Civilized attitude
Rude & Crude
Past our prime
… and… out of time

Thus our last act
It’s a fact
Systems under attack
We won’t be back
Civilized attitude
Rude & Crude
Past our prime
… and… out of time

Welcome-to-Our-History.mp3

Chords: Bb7 / Db F Bb7 / Bb7 Fsus4 Bb7
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderWormhole to Your Heart

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LYRICS
Can you bare it?
Rare entertainment!
Can you share it
The wormhole to your soul?
Sing your song
People, sing a long
La, la, la, la, la

Can you bare it?
Rare entertainment!
Art of the part
Dare to bare the soul
Sing your song
People, sing a long
La, la, la, la, la

Can you bare it?
Rare entertainment!
At any age
On stage
Soul’s goal
Sole goal
Goal — soul
Sing your song
People, sing a long
La, la, la, la, la
Ohmmmm
Ohh, ohh, ohh
La, la, la, la, la

Wormhole-to-Your-Soul.mp3

“A wormhole is like a tunnel between two distant points in our universe that cuts the travel time from one point to the other. Instead of traveling for many millions of years from one galaxy to another, under the right conditions one could theoretically use a wormhole to cut the travel time down to hours or minutes.” — Astronomy

“A wormhole is a hypothetical structure connecting disparate points in spacetime, and is based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations. A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate points in spacetime (i.e., different locations, different points in time, or both).” — Wikipedia

Writing and singing a song lets others see through a window to your soul… or if the listener wants to participate, a wormhole between our souls.

Chords: E / G A D E / D E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

bookmark_borderFools Thinking It’s Cool

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LYRICS
With the temperature rising
Do you find it surprising
Fools thinking it’s cool
Cling to beliefs
While acting as thieves
Steal the real deal
Hold that line
“We can turn back time”
Hold that line
“It will all be fine”
Lying…
Amidst the crying
… and dying
Can’t hold back

With the temperature rising
Do you find it surprising
Fools thinking it’s cool
Cooking with gas
Heading real fast
To earn no return
Hold that line
“We can turn back time”
Hold that line
“It will all be fine”
Lying…
Amidst the crying
… and dying
Can’t hold back

With the temperature rising
Do you find it surprising
Fools thinking it’s cool
Though the End does loom
… return to consume
Dear, hold my beer
Hold that line
“We can turn back time”
Hold that line
“It will all be fine”
Lying…
Amidst the crying
… and dying
Can’t hold back

Chords: Dm C Am Dm / Dm Am / Dm C Am / Am Dm; Part II at 130 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderAnthropogenic Rapid Change

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LYRICS
Change… I expected to see
But I didn’t think it would be
So rapidly
Strange… days indeed
Yet I don’t think all concede
Thick in anthropogenic
Mother’s sick

While babies cry
If mama dies
Baby gonna realize
If mama goes
Then all of those
Come to a close
(Change, I expected to see
Just not so rapidly)
Thick in anthropogenic
Mother’s sick
Peril of the penguin
We break their ice
It breaks my heart
Same mistake again and again
Ignored advice
Go back to start

While babies cry
If mama dies
Baby gonna realize
If mama goes
Then all of those
Come to a close
(Change, I expected to see
Just not so rapidly

Change… I expected to see
But I didn’t think it would be
So rapidly
Strange… days indeed
Yet I don’t think all concede
Thick in anthropogenic

Chords: C A G A / A G# G F# D D# E / E G A E: Part II at 108 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

ABOUT THE SONG
an·thro·po·gen·ic
/ˌanTHrəˌpōˈjenik/
adjective
adjective: anthropogenic
(chiefly of pollution or environmental change) originating in human activity.
“anthropogenic emissions of sulfur dioxide”

At what rate is climate change accelerating?
A: Rapidly
We do not know the rate of acceleration other than to say it is more rapid than previously thought. In the summer of 2023, the extreme temperatures left most climate scientists shocked. The average earth surface temperature recorded record highs for months reaching over 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The Paris Agreement calls for keeping temperatures below 1.5 degrees. Scientists concur that a rise of 2 degrees will trigger feedback loops and tipping points. Triggering these tipping points results in the CO2 stored in nature to be released. Though we do not know how much carbon is stored in nature, it would be reasonable to assume that the temperature could be pushed from 3 degrees to 6 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Humans can not thrive above a rise of 1.5 degrees. Humans can not survive if the temperature rises 6 degrees.

About the 2023 wildfires in Hawaii, Governor Josh Green said, “For perspective, we’ve had six fire emergencies this August, we had six fire emergencies between 1953 and 2003. That’s how- how fast things are changing. I know that there is debate out there whether we should be talking about climate change or not. Well, let’s be real world, climate change is here we are in the midst of it with a hotter planet, and fiercer storms.”

About the catastrophic die-off of 10,000 emperor penguin chicks in the Antarctic, Dr. Caroline Holmes of the British Antarctic Survey (an expert on Antarctic sea-ice) said, “What we’re seeing right now is so far outside what we’ve observed previously. We expected change but I don’t think we expected so much change so rapidly.”

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderLet’s Rock

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LYRICS
Sedimentary
Find it ordinary
Said dim is bliss
In ignorance
Unlock
Dumb as a rock
Metamorphic
Quick! We’ll do the trick
Just like magic
Shapeshift a little bit
Granite
Don’t take it for granted
Igneous
Ingenious
Now we know the flow
See the key in geology
Is getting the rock to go…
Rock n’ roll
Polish the soul
Rock n’ roll
A diamond from coal?
Ignorant of igneous
Or close enough for rock n’ roll?

Chords: C Em Am / Em Am / E 7 D E; Part II from 100 to 110 to 120 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

bookmark_borderUp the Hill

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LYRICS
Climbing up the hill again
Climbing up the hill again
Climbing up the hill again
Into the landslide

Climbing up the hill again
Into the landslide
At The End, begin

Climbing up the hill again
Nemesis’ pride
At The End, begin

Climbing up the hill again
There ain’t no free ride
At The End, begin

Climbing up the hill again
To see the other side
At The End, begin

Up-the-Hill.mp3

Chords: F/7 Db Eb F / Ab Bb F
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderWe Burned

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LYRICS
What have we learned
After all these years
After all be burned
Brings fears
What have we earned
Minus our dues
Still haven’t learned
Haven’t a clue
Do you?

Refuse to face the facts
Reuse and reduce lacks
What have we earned
Minus our dues
Still haven’t learned
Haven’t a clue
Do you?

We chose to limit our days
Unwilling to adapt our ways
What have we earned
Minus our dues
Still haven’t learned
Haven’t a clue
Do you?

We-Burned.mp3

“In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first predicted that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect. In 1938, Guy Callendar connected carbon dioxide increases in Earth’s atmosphere to global warming.” — NASA

Chords: E C / C A C / C E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderThe Unsung Young

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LYRICS
Keep it simple?
It’s a complex world
Solve the riddle
Before growing old
If you dream big enough
And your heart’s not too tough
Begun the unsung young

The-Unsung-Young.mp3

Human induced climate change is an exponential component of an unordered system (chaos theory). That means global warming is accelerating at a rapid rate in a complex way — a climate crisis. A simple way to try to explain it can be found in the explanation of tipping points:

Push a glass toward the edge of a table and eventually it will fall off on its own. No matter how slowly or meticulously you push… no matter how you weight or fill the glass, it will reach a tipping point and fall off before being pushed completely off the table. No matter whether you believe the glass is half-empty or half-full, when the tipping point is reached it will plummet out-of-control to its end. This is science not fate, faith, nor belief. Human induced climate change has resulted in environmental tipping points being breached.

The youth offer us our best hope. Keep your heart and mind young. Save the world.

Chords: Em F#M7 / G D C C D G
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderNew Time Zone

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LYRICS
Going ahead knowing what it is we lack
The capacity of ever looking back
Out here on our own
There’s no going home
New time zone
Our race’s race to race
Has outpaced our place
Who chose to burnout
Instead of fade away
Anyway?

Going ahead knowing what it is we lack
The capacity of ever looking back
Out here on our own
There’s no going home
New time zone
Our gumption for consumption
The ignition for combustion
Who chose to burnout
Instead of fade away
Anyway?

Going ahead knowing what it is we lack
The capacity of ever looking back
Out here on our own
There’s no going home
New time zone
Our race to raze the place
Erased the humane trace
Who chose to burnout
Instead of fade away
Anyway?

Chords: E9 E E7add9 / A C E / E Em E / A C B7 E: Part II at 120 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderThen Possibly

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LYRICS
If you could see
Just what I see
Then possibly
You could set us free
With dignity
And due respect
Do your best
To save “we”
Yeah, “We the People”
Our mind’s our simple

With dignity
And due respect
Do your best
To save “we”
’cause in our joint
It’s come to the point
Where we draw the line
We define
Resolute
Absolute
Draw the line
We define
Pollute
Pollution definition: human population

Chords: E/7/m7 / E C D / E / D C E / E A C / D G E: Part II at 96 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

What you can do today. How to save the planet.

Climate Change: The End of Times

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment