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bookmark_borderSong for the Light

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LYRICS
Hold on, Baby
It’s getting deep
Don’t know if I can ever sleep
Such a long night
Song for the light?
Give us foresight
Sing a song of light

Tell me how can I sleep at night
Knowing “things just ain’t right“?
Such a long night
Song for the light?
Give us foresight
Sing a song of light

Thank you, Baby
You got me thinking
Buoy our spirits… stop the sinking
Such a long night
Song for the light?
Give us foresight
Sing a song of light
Sing a song to get us through the night
A song sung to shower in delight

A song about things I can do to help save the world.
Chords: Gm/Gm7 / Gm C D Gm / Db F Gm; Part II @ 124 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderWhoa! Go!

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LYRICS
It goes in one side
But the gap is too wide
Don’t you think so
(You know?)
Fight a rising tide
We’re in for a ride
Whoa! Let’s go
(You know!)
It’s time to take off
Those kid gloves you love
Pull yourself up
By the straps of your boot
Get ready to shoot

It goes in the other side
But the gap is too wide
Don’t you think so
(You know?)
Fight a rising tide
We’re in for a ride
Whoa! Let’s go
(You know!)
It’s time to put on
Those boxing gloves for love
Fight for what’s right
Shine as a bright light
Delight in insight

It goes in both sides
But the gap is too wide
Don’t you think so
(You know?)
Fight a rising tide
We’re in for a ride
Whoa! Let’s go
(You know!)
Let’s rise above
A reign dance of love
Shine and shine
Throughout all time
Define
Mine

Chords: Em/Em7 A / D7 C/C7/C / C Em
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboard (Kurzweil)
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, PA

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderUplift A-OK

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Giggling at the first chagrin
Just can’t keep it in
Figuring if it keeps happening
My side splits open
And the clouds drift away
Shout out loud:
Beautiful day!
… What a beautiful day
Uplift A-OK

Smiling at the thought of it
Each and every bit
Hoping that I never quit
Make it habit
And the clouds drift away
Shout out loud:
Beautiful day!
… What a beautiful day
Uplift A-OK

Laughing at times gone by
The lowest low, the highest high
Doing my best to laugh n’ cry
Until I die
And the clouds drift away
Shout out loud:
Beautiful day!
… What a beautiful day
Uplift A-OK

230610_3003-Uplift-A-OK.mp3

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

bookmark_borderKnew “You Do You”

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LYRICS
How can you tell
If the sky is blue
When their haze
Fogs up your view
Or just as well
If it comes to you
Then a phase
Knew “you do you”
Be beyond
Circumstance
Over understood
Stand
For human
A Men
Agin’
Yet… still the will to instill…
… wishful…
fool… but….
How can you tell
If the sky is blue
When their haze
Fogs up your view

A song about “the long-term breathing experiment” failing the test during the Air Quality Crisis of 2023. The Canadian wildfires caused 4 days in a row of Unhealthy (151 to 200 AQI) to Hazardous (301 and higher AQI) outdoor air quality across much of the United States.

Chords: C D7 D7 C D7 / D7 C A7 / A7 G7 D7; Part II @ 106 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderPut on Your Cape

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LYRICS
Are you glad that you’re here
That now is near
Not just fad that you hear
Since now is clear
Put on your cape
It’s time to make
Escape
Dear

If anybody can do something
Certainly someone’s you
If everybody does something
We can all pull through
Me… and you, too!
Are you glad that you’re here
That now is near
Not just fad that you hear
Since now is clear
Put on your cape
It’s time to make
Escape
Dear

If we all do something
To lessen the fall
And take lesson
Heed the call
Raise our point-of-view
We can all pull through
Me… and you, too!
Are you glad that you’re here
That now is near
Not just fad that you hear
Since now is clear
Put on your cape
It’s time to make
Escape
Dear

A song about how I’m depending on you to save me from the climate crisis and the lesson learned from
“the long-term breathing experiment” failing the test. During the Air Quality Crisis of 2023, the Canadian wildfires caused 4 days in a row of Unhealthy (151 to 200 AQI) to Hazardous (301 and higher AQI) outdoor air quality across much of the United States.

Smoke from wildfires in Canada brought record-breaking air pollution to the United States this spring, creating dangerous air quality from Bismarck, N.D., to Denver and Detroit to New York City and Washington. According to a Washington Post analysis of smoke data through June 7 (2023) from Stanford University, 197 air quality monitoring stations have reported all-time high pollution from wildfires.

Chords: E/E7/Em7 / C D E / G A C D E; Part II @ 120 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderWhistling in the Wind

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LYRICS
Do you feel like whistling into the wind
Thinking about the way things could have been?
Do you feel like humming ’bout days gone by
Accompany blues strumming… our lull-a-bye?
Not to worry about yesterday
Nor the way you had no say
It’s O.K.
I’ll find a way
I’ll feel I’m whistling with the wind
Bringing about the way
Things are headin’

230608_2989-Whistling-in-the-Wind.mp3

Chords: D C/C9 D/Em7 D / Am D
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Whistling

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderToday’s Date (June 8)

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LYRICS
Today’s someone’s anniversary
Today’s someone’s birthday
Today’s someone’s funeral
Today’s date
Was it fate?
Coincidentally
Was it meant to be
(Free your will. Free will will.)
Eventually
It will come to be
(Free your will. Free will will.)
See it free
Free me

Escape the hands of destiny
And her tragedy
Own your own trajectory
Today’s date
Was it fate?
Coincidentally
Was it meant to be
(Free your will. Free will will.)
Eventually
It will come to be
(Free your will. Free will will.)
See it free
Free me

When at large
Who’s in-charge?
Satisfaction
In your action
More give than take
In the love you make?
Today’s date
Was it fate?
Coincidentally
Was it meant to be
(Free your will. Free will will.)
Eventually
It will come to be
(Free your will. Free will will.)
See it free
Free me

Chords: Dm Em / Em/G Em C A / G Em / Em Ebm Dm; Part II @ 110 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

bookmark_borderClimate Change: Taste It in the Air

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LYRICS
Are you feeling it?
Can you taste it in the air
You reeling from it?
Climate change has come to bear
Aware
I’m choking
On the smoking
When you can see, smell, taste, touch
The air
Do you care to share your despair?
Can it be, well, haste, waste, such
To the touch
Is “weigh too much”
… way too much?

Climate change is in the air
You can feel
(Can you feel it a bit?)
Primate rearrange
Beware
The real deal
Literally
Litter you can see
Climate change is in the air
You can feel the real deal

[Dog Barking]
Is his bark worse than his bite?
Not tonight!
(Climate change’s bite is worse than the bark)

Climate change is in the air
You can feel the real deal

This song is about the Canadian wildfires of 2023. Up to this point in time it had been easy for people not to really notice climate change. A gradual rise in temperature of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. I mean… what’s the big deal, right? Well, the extreme wildfires are fueled by climate change and people can literally see it. The wildfires create huge CO2 emissions and remove millions of acres of CO2 absorbing old-growth forests creating a worsening feedback loop. Air pollution is: a leading cause of death worldwide, the leading cause of climate change, and the greatest threat to humankind. The good news — the wildfires are very visible. The wildfires are in your face. People can see, smell, taste, and touch the climate change in their face. Perhaps some of the unwoke will wake?

Smoke from wildfires in Canada brought record-breaking air pollution to the United States this spring, creating dangerous air quality from Bismarck, N.D., to Denver and Detroit to New York City and Washington. According to a Washington Post analysis of smoke data through June 7 (2023) from Stanford University, 197 air quality monitoring stations have reported all-time high pollution from wildfires.

This line is about everyone on my facebook feed waking up:
Do you care to share your despair?

Chords: Am D7 / Em / Em C A7 D7 / D7 A7; Part II @ 111 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
Nemo: Dog Barking (Is the bark worse than the bite? Not tonight!)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderPurple Haze

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LYRICS
Amidst a thickening mist
A fatal twist
No joke
That haze is smoke
Haze from a blaze
Enough to make you choke!
[siren sounding jam interlude]

Phased by the thickening haze
Could go on for days and days
No joke
That haze is smoke
Haze from a blaze
Enough to make you choke!
[siren sounding jam interlude]

Clogged with thickening fog
Pig roasted fat hog
No joke
That haze is smoke
Haze from a blaze
Enough to make you choke!
[siren sounding jam interlude]

A song about the air quality in Pennsylvania during June of 2023 as the smoke from the Canadian wildfires impacts life expectancy. The Northeastern USA saw its worst air quality ever. The alert system is color coded:

Daily AQI Color Levels of Concern Values of Index
Orange Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups 101 to 150
Red Unhealthy 151 to 200
Purple Very Unhealthy 201 to 300
Maroon Hazardous 301 and higher

Where I live was in the Purple alert for days. Many of my friends and family were in the Maroon zone. Air pollution is: a leading cause of death worldwide, the leading cause of climate change, and the greatest threat to humankind.

Chords: Fm Bb / Bb Fm / Fm Cm Cm Fm / Fm F G C / C Cm; Part II @ 118 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

Smoke from wildfires in Canada brought record-breaking air pollution to the United States this spring, creating dangerous air quality from Bismarck, N.D., to Denver and Detroit to New York City and Washington. According to a Washington Post analysis of smoke data through June 7 (2023) from Stanford University, 197 air quality monitoring stations have reported all-time high pollution from wildfires.

bookmark_borderFacing Spacing

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LYRICS
Should be interesting to see
The way things are going
Just between you and me
The way things are going
Just between you and me
Interesting to see
The way it’s going
The curve’s sloping up
The curve’s sloping down
All de;ends which way you’re facing
Spacing
Bottom of the cup
Or upside down frown
All depends which way you’re facing
Spacing
So it should be interesting to see
The way things are going
Just between you and me
The way things are going
Just between you and me
Interesting to see
The way it’s going

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. How extreme the slope appears depends on where you are facing.

Chords: FM7 A7/A / Am Em C Am; Part II @ 121 and increasing BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderNash Calabash

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LYRICS
All’s fair in love and war?
I’d much prefer
There’s war no more
Where there’s peace and love
The least can rise above
And we’ll all sail on as one
When won is one
One sailing on
Raise the rise in “I’s”
As one
In a win-win
Game on
A little bit of Nash calabash
Bash
Shake it
John Nash style for a while
Game on
Sail on
What’s good for me
Is good for you, too
Starting to see
What’s good for me
Is good for you, too

230605_2967-Nash-Calabash.mp3

A song about Nobel prize winning mathematician John Nash. His advances in game theory proved The Golden Rule.
“The best responses of all players are in accordance with each other.”
— John Nash, Jr.

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

bookmark_borderLook Up!

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LYRICS
Look there!
Where?
Look up!
Aware
We’re
Looking up
As hard as it ever gets
There’ll be no regrets
As long as no one forgets:
Let’s try our best
Follow your heart
You can’t go wrong
Be head and arm strong
Sing and dance along

Hey there!
Who?
Look up!
Do!
Looking up
As hard as it ever gets
There’ll be no regrets
As long as no one forgets:
Let’s try our best
Follow your heart
You can’t go wrong
Be head and arm strong
Sing and dance along

Hello!
Know?
Look up!
We’ll go
Grow
Looking up
As hard as it ever gets
There’ll be no regrets
As long as no one forgets:
Let’s try our best
Follow your heart
You can’t go wrong
Be head and arm strong
Sing and dance along

A song about the picture taken at the first birthday party.
Chords: A Am7 A / A Bb / Bb A / C D A Bb A; Part II @ 128 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Look up!
Look up!
Sing and dance along!
Sing and dance along!

bookmark_borderDying to Meat You

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LYRICS
What about that cold front?
Or crustacean invasion?
Where the extreme won’t relent
You’ve got to eat your excretions
In dismay
About gourmet
Our whiskey sour
Excrement
Experiment

They said it wouldn’t amount to much
Now weigh too much
Where the extreme won’t relent
You’ve got to eat your excretions
In dismay
About gourmet
Our whiskey sour
Excrement
Experiment

Put the crab on my tab
He’s been dying to “meat” me
Let me take a stab
You’re willing to treat me?
Where the extreme won’t relent
You’ve got to eat your excretions
In dismay
About gourmet
Our whiskey sour
Excrement
Experiment

230604_2957-Dying-to-Meat-You.mp3

A song about how climate change is causing the New England coastal waters to warm and humans to adapt. The famous Maine lobsters are moving North and the invasive miniature green crabs are taking over (eating all the other sea creatures.) So, the humans are turning the green crabs into whiskey, as well as, cracking, cooking and eating them whole like popcorn.

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

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderTime We’ve Bound

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LYRICS
The Earth is spinning ’round n’ round
As we go around the sun
The thrill
Of never standing still
On the run
’round the sun
Spinning round n’ round
Getting dizzy?
Spinning round n’ round
Keeps us busy
Bound… as time is wound

What’s up?
What’s going down
Is spinning ’round
Spinning round n’ round
A trace in space
Spinning round n’ round
The heavens’ grace
Have any advice…
Ever the same place twice?
No?
Never slow?
Bound as time is wound
Bound by time we’ve wound

Chords: E A C D / D G B / B G D / B7 C E; Part II @ 130 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

bookmark_borderDrive the Alive

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LYRICS
More than just lucky
I’m so thankful
Because and after all
Look to see
Be brisk to hedge the risk
Into the bliss of risk-less

More than just lucky
I’m so thankful
Because and after all
Look to see
Be brisk to hedge the risk
Into the bliss of risk-less
Envision the dream
Then live in the scene

More than just lucky
I’m so thankful
Because and after all
Look to see
Be brisk to hedge the risk
Into the bliss of risk-less
Envision the dream
Then live in the scene
Focus illustrious
Drive the alive

More than just lucky
I’m so thankful
Because and after all
Look to see

Chords: Am / Am C E Am / Am Em Am; Part II @ 130 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)