Category: Speciman

LYRICS
Can you get me the skinny
The facts on the fat cats
IF the load is too heavy
If the facts are too many
Then are they cats
Or are they rats?

Can you give me the lowdown
The facts on the highfalutin
If the load has overgrown
And fat cats are overblown
Then are they cats
Or are they rats?

How about something upbeat
Half-full glasses for the masses
A well deserved treat
To dream complete
The flight of the dove
The release of the love
Then are they cats
Or are they rats?

• The-Skinny-on-the-Fat-Cats.mp4
• DR0000_3751-Skinny-on-the-Fat-Cats.mp3
• The-Skinny-on-the-Fat-Cats-Instrumental.mp4
• DR0000_3750-Skinny-on-the-Fat-Cats-Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Bb Ab Gb Bb / Gb Ab Bb; 120 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

LYRICS
For smooth opporation
Up the calculation
Add smooth transition
Due to calibration
So the teeth of the gears combine
Spinning ’round to crank out time

For more satisfaction
Lube the operation
A smooth transaction
loss of the friction
And the teeth of the gears combine
Spinning ’round to crank out time

No grind distraction
A perfect interaction
For your attention
The main attraction
For the teeth of the gears combine
Spinning ’round to crank out time

• Teeth-Of-The-Gears-Part-I.mp4
• Teeth-Of-The-Gears-Part-II.mp4
• DR0000_3739-Teeth-Of-The-Gears-Part-I.mp3
• DR0000_3741-Teeth-Of-The-Gears-Part-II.mp3
• Teeth-Of-The-Gears-Instrumental.mp4
• DR0000_3742-Teeth-Of-The-Gears-Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: F# A / B D F#
Recording: digital 4-track stereo
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Piano

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

LYRICS
If I had more, there’d be some for you
I checked my store… not much to do
I went there and the cupboard was bare
Said wasn’t fair… just stood there to stare
Always want what I haven’t got
Hard to flaunt? Wonder why not

I said before, there’d be none for you
Find the door… from fly to flew
Cup runneth over soon will discover
Never say never become a lover
Always want what I haven’t got
Hard to flaunt? Wonder why not

• Running-Low.mp4
• DR0000_3735-Running-Low.mp3
• Running-Low-Guitar-Loop.mp4
• DR0000_3734-Running-Low-Guitar-Loop.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: E B A E / A D G E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

LYRICS
Living within a snow globe
Shake it up… world turned cold
Don’t look now but the sky is falling
Should have paid heed to Mother Nature’s calling
Turned our snow globe upside down
Right side up it comes falling down

Life within a fragile globe
Shook up world turned cold
Don’t look now but the sky is falling
Should have paid heed to Mother Nature’s calling
Turned our fragile world upside down
Right side up comes falling down

• Snow-Globe.mp4
• DR0000_3729-Snow-Globe.mp3
• Snow-Globe-Guitar-Loop.mp4
• DR0000_3728-Snow-Globe-Guitar-Loop.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: G A E / A D G
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitars and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

LYRICS
What’s today?
Have to see you later
On my way
Whims I’m off to cater
Gotta go
Long gone
So long

Did you say
“Can I come with you?”
On our way
Change our point-of-view
Gotta go
Long gone
So long

• Whats-Today.mp4
• DR0000_3725-Whats-Today.mp3
• Whats-Today-Guitar-Loop.mp4
• DR0000_3724-Whats-Today-Guitar-Loop.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: A G / A E A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitars and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

LYRICS
If you want
You know we could
Do what we should
… for mankind
Not for want
We’ve done what we did
Left with squat
All is gone
Unhid
Out in plain view
For all of you
Plain view
From whence to thence
Has been
Bounce back again
Bounce back, bounce back higher
Aspire
How come what will become
Will become of me
The part of I that is be
Therefore
I am
I think?

• Unhid.mp4
• DR0000_3723-Unhid.mp3
• Unhid-Instrumental.mp4
• DR0000_3720-Unhid-YamahaPSR740.mp3
• DR0000_3721-Unhid-Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Em / A G Esus5 Em / C D Em/9/sus4/7(11); 104 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

LYRICS
Never a chore
Never a bore
Always adore
Play one more song
Make it long
Play it strong
(One more song)
Can’t go wrong
Sing along
(Wontcha just play one more song?)
Just one last song
That will last, last, last

• One-More-Song.mp4
• DR0000_3719-One-More-Song.mp3
• One-More-Song-Guitar-Loop.mp4
• DR0000_3716-One-More-Song-Prelude.mp3
• DR0000_3717-One-More-Song-Guitar-Loop.mp3
• DR0000_3718-One-More-Song-Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: E7 A7 B7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitars and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

LYRICS
Trying to figure it out
What the fuss is about
Now that I see there is doubt
… in humanity

When You lose faith in your fellow man
It’s hard to try to be the best that you can

When we lose sight it’s just a man-made plan
Obvious to us we don’t give a god damn
When You lose faith in your fellow man
It’s hard to try to be the best that you can

When we lose self-respect can’t reflect
Habit of our habitat wreaked and wrecked
When You lose faith in your fellow man
It’s hard to try to be the best that you can

When we put hand in hand we can understand
How to be kind to our fellow man

• Figure-It-Out.mp4
• Figure-It-Out.mp3
• Figure-It-Out-Instrumental.mp4
• DR0000_3714-Figure-It-Out-Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Am C E / Am Esus4 Am
Recording: 8-track stereo
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Piano

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

LYRICS
Who are you now?
Changes somehow
Do you still reside
In the shell inside
(Hide in the hide)

Is it skin deep
Did your soul creep
Do you still reside
In the shell inside
(Hide in the hide)

Is the heart true
Is that still you?
Do you still reside
In the shell inside
(Hide in the hide)

Yet, no regret
Did you forget
To the letter
Are you better?

Who-Are-You-Now.mp4

DR0000_3708-Who-Are-You-Now.mp3

Who-Are-You-Now-Instrumental.mp4

• DR0000_3706-Who-Are-You-Now-Reprise.mp3
• DR0000_3707-Who-Are-You-Now-Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: C# D# G# F# / G#sus4 G# F#sus4 F#; 130 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Primative Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

LYRICS
In the heat of the moment
Of passion causing crime
To the beat of the movement
Shouting it’s about time
Can you hear reckoning coming
Feel the heat of marching feet
They say every dog has it’s day
’til hubris and nemesis meet
Has it really come to this?!?!?
Nemesis,
Has it really come to this?

• Passion-Causing-Crime.mp4
• DR0000_3700-Passion-Causing-Crime.mp3
• Passion-Causing-Crime-Guitar-Loop.mp4
• DR0000_3698-Passion-Causing-Crime-Guitar-Loop.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Bm Em / Bm Asus4 Em / A G E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album Primative Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

LYRICS
Do you know the time of day
How to go or the which way
Do you know stalker or prey
Black, white, or gray
In the shade of the shades
In the throws of the shadows

Do you want to cross the sublime line
Between right and wrong
As seen in the difference between
Trite… and same old song
Between right and wrong
Between wrong and right
Between day and night

• The-Sublime-Line.mp4
• DR0000_3697-The-Sublime-Line.mp3
• The-Sublime-Line-Instrumental.mp4
• DR0000_3696-The-Sublime-Line-Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Esus4 Em Em7 Em9 Esus4; 83 to 99 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Primative Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten