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LYRICS
The scent of pine in here
Means “the tree” is near
Decorated or not
That sweet smell
Hits the spot
There! Wafting in the air
The cookies must be cookin’
Decorated or not
That sweet smell
Hits the spot
Mmmm… that sugar and spice
An aroma oh so nice
Just a dream or not
That sweet smell
Hits the spot
Chords: Fsus4 F9 F / C7 F; 160 BPM
Recording: digital 10-track
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas
LYRICS
I didn’t hear the light switch click
Now I’m standing here
In the dark
Waiting on that magic spark
… on a lark
I didn’t know the sun went down
Don’t know where to go
In the dark
Waiting on that magic spark
… on a lark
Now come on
Who pulled the plug
Waiting on dawn
Through the dark
Waiting on that magic spark
… on a lark
Chords: Ebm Gb Ebm / Ebm Ebsus4 Ebm / Gb Ebm; 109 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live: digital 2-track stereo
From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
Look at you
The things you do
Just look at you
The way you come through
Just look at you
Cohesion… our glue
Just look at you
Look at you
The things you do
Just look at you
Our new point-of-view
Just look at you
Love through and through
Just look at you
Look at you
The things you do
Just look at you
A heart pure and true
Just look at you
Joy that’s overdue
Just look at you
Chords: C F G F C / Em C
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
Also: Rawhide Underwear
LYRICS
When the last week of the month
Is the last week of the year
And the last week of the year
Is reserved for faith an cheer
Have faith in humankind
Keeping in mind being kind
For it’s clear that brings cheer
So we can be happy all year
For it’s clear that brings cheer
Brings cheer here
When the last week of the month
Is the last week of the year
And the last week of the year
Is reserved for faith an cheer
Have faith we will find love
With the light from above
For it’s clear that brings cheer
So we can be happy all year
For it’s clear that brings cheer
Brings cheer here
Chords: D / G D / C D / G C D
Recording: digital 8-track
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas
LYRICS
The problem with a couple
Wher4e you run into trouble
The problem with a couple
You’ve only two
(Limiting what you can do)
But much of the time
It works just fine
You can’t lose
With a pair of shoes
A pair of glasses
Also passes
Burt if you ask me
For several
Need at least three
The problem with a couple
Wher4e you run into trouble
The problem with a couple
You’ve only two
(Limiting what you can do)
But much of the time
It works just fine
Gotta love
A pair of gloves
Can’t compare
to a matching pair
Burt if you ask me
For several
Need at least three
DR0000_7699-The-Problem-With-a-Couple.mp3
Chords: A E A / A G A / A D E A
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
Also: Rawhide Underwear
LYRICS
There’s a ripple
On our surface
There’s a rip in
The human race
So it seems
Our seams
Need sown
No deceit in deficit; to own
Is there a tear
In the fabric
Is it hip
Or is it tragic?
So it seems
Our seams
Need sown
No deceit in deficit; to own
Chords: Ebm7; 128 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live: digital 1-track stereo
From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
Are things changing
The ways before
Are now no more
Are they rearranging
The ways before
Are now no more
The more things change
The less remains
The more things change
The more remains
Are you changing
The ways you were
Are you engaging
The ways before
Are now no more
The more things change
The less remains
The more things change
The more remains
Chords: A Bb A / C A C A
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
Also: Rawhide Underwear
LYRICS
The knights mount up
Their colors blowing in the wind
Beast upon beast
Riding into The End
To write the final chapter
Final verse
The nights lit up
The colors glowing from what’s been
Bombardment meant
Bringing on The End
To write the final chapter
Final verse
They can’t give up
Their colors running with the blood
Belly of the beast
Always wins in The End
To write the final chapter
Final verse
Chords: Dm Bb / Dm Eb Em Bb Dm; 120 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
Also: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
Do you have a healthy superego?
Feel guilt for your wrongs?
Do you know
Or same ole song
Won’t be long
’til we go
Have a healthy superego?
Won’t be long before we go
Right the wrong…
Before we go
You know
Superego’s health
Check the temperature, for sure
Feel the forehead
Make sure you’re not dead
Chords: Dm Dm7 / Dm C D F#dim; 82 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live: digital 1-track stereo
From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
Clear these thoughts from your head
No matter what
You’re not better off dead
The motion of you notion
Drives the strive
[em jam]
Clear those thoughts that you dread
No matter what
You’re not better off dead
Recall the though you hear said
You’re not better off dead
The motion of you notion
Drives the strive
[em jam]
Chords: A D A em / D A C Em
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 6-track
Also: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
If your soul thirsts
Put others first
And you will feed it
Your heart will start to beat
Along with dancing feet
Your mind you’ll get to know
The blood will start to flow
If your soul starves
The knife that carves
— your goodwill feeds it
Your heart will start to beat
Along with dancing feet
Your mind you’ll get to know
The blood will start to flow
when your soul strives
Brings others ‘live
A need, we feed it
Your heart will start to beat
Along with dancing feet
Your mind you’ll get to know
The blood will start to flow
Chords: C# D# F# G# / C# D# F# A# G# / F# G#; 100 BPM
Recording: digital 8-track
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas
LYRICS
My fellow gentlemen
Are you weary of soul?
And all you women
Did the world take it’s toll?
Well, there’s a star
With a tail so long
If you follow her
You can’t go wrong
No matter where you are
There’s a star
People of all ages
Have you had enough
Of hanging tough
Both young and old
The story’s told
Come in from the cold
Well, there’s a star
With a tail so long
If you follow her
You can’t go wrong
No matter where you are
There’s a star
Chords: Bm Em / A C Em
Recording: live
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas
LYRICS
Please stop the world
From going round
I’d like to get off
’til common sense is found
There’s a firesale
On old growth timber
The odds we’ll sustain
Are growing slimmer
Will we ever learn
We get what we earn
Given — you were born
Until the time we mourn
Make it what we will
Make it while there’s still
Please stop the world
From going round
I’d like to get off
’til common sense is found
There’s a firesale
On old growth timber
The odds we’ll sustain
Are growing slimmer
Pooping in our drinking water
Sacrificing both son and daughter
Will we ever learn
We get what we earn
Given — you were born
Until the time we mourn
Make it what we will
Make it while there’s still
Please stop the world
From going round
I’d like to get off
’til common sense is found
There’s a firesale
On old growth timber
The odds we’ll sustain
Are growing slimmer
Pooping in our drinking water
Sacrificing both son and daughter
Will we ever learn
We get what we earn
Given — you were born
Until the time we mourn
Make it what we will
Make it while there’s still
A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment
Chords: B 1/2 step walkdown to E / E D C B / F E / G E; 120 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live
Also: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
Hello! Here to greet you
Sure would love to meet you
Do-si-do under mistletoe
It’s alright to let yourself go
Sing a song or tow
How festive the spirit
Is up to you
The feeling in the air…
There!
Can you hear it?
DR0000_7679-How-Festive-Live.mp3
Chords: E9 E6 / A B7
Recording: live
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas
LYRICS
The cost of the “12 Days of Christmas”
Is getting absurd
(In case you hadn’t heard)
It’s for the birds
7 swans a swimming
6 geese a laying
2 turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree*
*Pear tree not included
**All scenery excluded
***It’s for the birds
You can try, try, try
You can cry, cry, cry
But the price of the birds
Has gone sky high
Inflation elevation
It’s for the birds
Hadn’t you heard?
ABOUT THE SONG
The song was inspired by the 2021 cost of the “12 Days of Christmas”. The annual survey concluded “Even ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ is being slammed by inflation”. “PNC’s annual Christmas Price Index, which totals out the current cost of the gifts in the holiday song “The 12 Days of Christmas,” has been published—and all of those birds in the song come at a hefty price. Two turtle doves will cost you 50% more this year, coming in at $450. Those three French hens? That’s up 40.5% to $255. And the six geese-a-laying saw prices soar 51% in the past year.”
Chords: F#9 F# / B F# / C# walkdown riff; 166 BPM
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas