Category: Sir Vent

bookmark_borderBuilding Roam

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LYRICS
So ya think you want to see the world?
Told everyday you’re going to get old
Well maybe you’d better think twice
The big bad world really ain’t nice
Take your life in your own hands…
… a roll of the dice
[interlude]
Gave up on rebuilding roam
Clawing my way back home
Given up on building roam
Clawing my way back home
[Nero fiddles]
Well maybe you’ll find somebody nice
Listen to more than my bad advice
Good humor alone might suffice
Separating the men from the mice

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: C E / Am E / C E Am
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderCome Back

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LYRICS
Here I thought I was ready for bed
But, those thoughts…
Keep racing through my head
Is it true
All you do
Comes back to you
Through and through
Comes back to you
In the morning
In the evening
At the sunrise
As you will dies

Here these thoughts…
Keep racing through my head
I better justify
Before I’m dead

Why’s and why not’s
Keep racing through my head
Here I thought
I was ready for bed

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Bm Em / C D G / G F# Em
Recording: original take / live digital 9-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Drums

From the album Premortem

Written at the corners of Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church

bookmark_borderCatching An Old

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LYRICS
Hope i’m not catching an old
Rather it be the flu or cold
But, it sure like like…
I’m coming down with an old
Got the chills.. feeling cold
Better do as the doter told
’cause it sure feels like…
I’m coming down with an old
Can someone fix an elixir
That’ll fix ‘er?

How my vision’s starting to fade
Into the Styx starting to wade
For another day what I’d trade
Home come kingdom come has come
I’m really not ready for done
Try n’ get my ticker to run, run, run

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: A D G E / E E7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

Written at the corners of Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church

bookmark_borderMaybe?

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LYRICS
Maybeeeeee…?
Maybe
I can’t tell “for sure” no more
No more
Know not any more
So you see
Maybe
Certainly hope it works out
But you know what I’m talking about
A probability
Maybe
Maybe may be
Surely, what may be maybe will be?
It’s a possibility
If you ask me
We’ll see
Maybe
Maybe that day will be
We’ll see, hopefully
Throw your odds
Into the hands of the Gods
If you’re a regretting, betting
Man
Aman
To the holy trinity
Maybe?

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Em Am B7 / Em Esus4; 204 BPM Quickstep
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

bookmark_borderOnce You Go….

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LYRICS
Once you go and get it started
Won’t be long ’til the water’s parted
Once you go and get it started
The other half of half-hearted
And the “see’s” are parted

Once you go and you jump right in
Then you’ll begin to learn swimmin’
Once you go and just jump right in
All of your limbs
Learn to swim
Beginning

Once you go and give it a chance
You’ll see we’re all born to dance
Once you go and give it a chance
Surely, won’t hurt to try
Last dance is drawing nigh
Then, bye-bye

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: F# F#7 F#m7 B B7 Bm7 C#7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderBack Pages

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LYRICS
Am I getting hard
Heart’s grown scarred
Been happening ever since
I lost my innocence
Am I growing cold
As I’m growing old
Been happening ever since
I lost my innocence
Turning back the page
To an early age
Make the decision
To go pre-cynicism

With a slip of the tongue
I’m getting young
Been happening ever since
I found my innocence
If you want to engage
Forget your age
Be happening ever since
You found your innocence
Turning back the page
To an early age
Make the decision
To go pre-cynicism
Turning back the page
Back to page one
Page one won

ABOUT THE SONG
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: C A G A / G A
Recording: digital 4-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Piano

From the album A kNew Album

bookmark_borderGone Wild

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LYRICS
Go wild all day
Go wild all night
Along the way
I try to shed some light
And, as I move along
If things start going wrong
I know it won’t be long
Till I take a right
Leaving left long gone
Will “be” long
We’ll belong

And, as I move along
Think I know what’ll keep me strong
By playing “one more song!”
You can sing along
Will “be” long
We’ll belong

ABOUT THE SONG
Written in between Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church

Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: G A / G A C G / A C A C G
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderClueless

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Homeless Home
LYRICS
Maybe I’m clueless
Guessing the homeless
In spite of the storm
Had to leave home
Not of the norm
In a hurry
Alas, couldn’t last
Had to move fast
Probably had to scurry
Shedding their bedding
Hope the coat can float
Wondering how does it feel
Abandoning your last meal?
I suppose when forced to roam
Everywhere you call is home
Despite the storm
Won’t help to moan
Now, the new norm
Is to hurry
The past couldn’t last
Had to move fast
Probably had to scurry

ABOUT THE SONG
Written in between Market, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA. (Gay Church)

I was sitting on a bench getting ready to write a song when I looked over at abandoned belongings.

Style: Folk Rock
Chords: C7 C / Am Em
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Blown Away

bookmark_borderHeads Will (Rock n’) Roll

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LYRICS
Are you willing to sacrifice
Those that are not nice
If you need to think twice,
No dice!
Let those heads roll
Letting them roll
Built on solid rock
Letting them roll

See the bully pick on me
What’s it going to be
Pry open the condemned heart
It’s a start

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E D C B; 160 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Blown Away

bookmark_borderRhamnousia

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LYRICS
If you’ve got it and you know it
Are you going to show it?
If you’ve got it and you show it
Please don’t blow it
Hubris, this is Nemesis
A doctoral thesis
On the human species

If you want it then you flaunt it
Might as well forego it
’cause you know it when you show it
Oh, you no, no it

Too big for your britches
Pulling out the stitches
The higher is tall…
Further the fall

If you’ve got it then you drop it
Know it’s going to stop it
It’s time to understand
“In the palm of your hand”

ABOUT THE SONG
Written in between Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA. Gay Church

Style: Folk Rock
Chords: Bm Em A7 Em / C Em
Recording: digital stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Blown Away

bookmark_borderMake Way

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LYRICS
What else can I say
Another beautiful day
Hope is on its way
Make way
The sun is shinning down
Not a frown found all around
Children quick to frolic
Young at heart foray at play
The warm tease of a cool breeze
A gentle wind through the trees
Reflections of my memories
Forever cherish days like these
[Latin jam]
Embrace a smile on every fact
Dogs prance while their masters dance
Church bells ring as the birds sing
Romance fills the air… love is everywhere

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: C F G / C Am / G Bm E G Bm Am
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Blown Away

Written in between Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.
Gay Church

bookmark_borderThe Title Bout

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LYRICS
I don’t know (No, no, no!)
Here we go? (Know, know, know!)
Fasten my safety belt
Less impact felt
Hold on with white knuckle
Double check the buckle
Prepare to bring about
The inside out
The title bout

I don’t know (No, no, no!)
Here we go? (Know, know, know!)
Strappin’ my helmet on
It won’t be long
Witnessin’ a new dawn
Captured in song
Prepare to bring about
The inside out
The title bout

I don’t know (No, no, no!)
Here we go? (Know, know, know!)
Going for one more ride
To the top of the slide
will the will to let go
Learn what I know
Prepare to bring about
The inside out
The title bout

I don’t know (No, no, no!)
Here we go? (Know, know, know!)
Fasten your safety belt
Less impact felt
Hold on with white knuckle
Double check the buckle
Prepare to bring about
The inside out [vomiting noises]
The title bout

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E F F# / B F# C#7; 170 BPM Country Pop
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Blown Away

bookmark_border(2+2)*2

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LYRICS
2 and 2 and 2 and 2 is eight
Is it too, too, too, too late
(2+2) x2 is 8
Is it too, too, too, too late
Not too late to appreciate
Another day above ground
On our world spinning ’round
Feel the sound

I’m counting out time at a rapid rate
Quicksand trap of the hourglass’ bait
(chorus)

Avoiding the low road
Interstate of hate
Taking the high road
Inner state’s pearly gate
(chorus)

Numbered are the days
Till our final date
Expiration is sealed
In our fate
(chorus)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Dm F / Am G F E Dm; 124 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderBad Knews

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LYRICS
Say, hey… what’s up with all the bad “knews”?
(I knew them yesterday)
They say
“Another passing on the way”
And it’s too shocking to me
Did you see?
Laid to rest
(Not for the best)
Too today
Take the cues
(Without clues)
Singing the blues

Say, hey… what’s up with all the “6-feet-deep”?
Doing the macabre dance
Reaper creep
Oh, no it’s not for the best
Any day
Laid to rest
(Not for the best)
Too today
Take the cues
(Without clues)
Singing the blues

Oh, no did you know another friend
Reached “The End”
Ohhhhh, how I hope we meet again
Up beyond the sky so blue
Making music for you
Laid to rest
Playing with the best
… in The End

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: E G#dim / C B E; 112 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderExtreme Event Vent

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LYRICS
Whoa oh oh
Woe oh oh
Listen to the wind blow
Through the cracks and crevices
Whistles and moans
Weather: the extreme theme
Weather the extreme theme
It’s now or never
Forever ever
The “nevertheless”es
Blowin’ in… whoa… listen to the wind blow
Whistles and moans
Rattles the bones
With a “shiver me timbers” timbre
An extreme event vent
Not whether weather
Weather
Extreme human being
Being extreme
Event vent

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment and extreme weather events.

Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Em7(11) Em13 / D Em / Bm Em; 142 BPM Rock
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life