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LYRICS
Bullets flying
People dying
Bombs are dropping
There’s no stopping
Liar!
Cease fire
We’re mired in dire
And believe it or not
It’s all your fault
“I will not invade”
Liar!
“I will let in aid”
Liar!
“This is not a war”
Liar!
“What’s ours and no more”
Liar!
Liar!
Liar!
Chords: Bdim F / Fm F G Bb / Bdim; 97 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
LYRICS
Sensing the peace dove is in flight
Bringing light
Into the darkest night
Delight
When my problems are compiling
I see the light when I’m smiling
When the damn man is demanding
Reach out my hand
For understanding
Chords: Gm Fm / G F; 101 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
LYRICS
Caught between a rock
And a hard place
World we’re calling to you
Caught between a rock
And a hard place
World we’re calling for you
Please pull us through
To your point-of-view
Caught between a Glock
And a hard race
World we’re calling for you
Please pull us through
To your point-of-view
Caught between a knock
And an embrace
World we’re calling for you
Please pull us through
To your point-of-view
Chords: Em Esus4 Em / C D Em
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Loop Pedal, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
LYRICS
They say
The peace train’s coming
Any day now
This way
The peace train’s coming
Any day now
Coming to our station
Can you see the light
Come to save our nation
Going to be the light
(Going to be alright)
They say
The peace train’s coming
Any day now
This way
The peace train’s coming
Any day now
Deliver our salvation
Can you be the light
Far from damnation
Going to be the light
Going to be alright
Going to be made right
Alright?
All right!
Riff: c c b c b c b c d e c
Chords: C CM7 / C D E C / B5 C5; 80 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 2-track
LYRICS
Gone the birds and bees
Farewell life of ease
We’ve fallen… under siege
Under siege
Forced down on our knees
Begging for the keys
We’ve fallen… under siege
Under siege
An inhumane squeeze
No way to appease
We’ve fallen… under siege
Under siege
Trying to starve and freeze
Atrocities as these
We’ve fallen… under siege
Under siege
Everyone sees your sleaze
We’re calling out your siege
Is that you want to be
Besiege
Is that where you want to be
Besiege
Tragedy
Besiege
Travesty
Besiege
The way you be
Be siege
Chords: Dm / G F Dm / C B A / G F D / F D; 164 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Electric Guitar
Written and recorded live to a digital 6-track
An album of songs in support of Ukraine
LYRICS
Feel the onslaught coming
Enter the terror reign
See the forces are bombing
The human error rain
If you believe in God
It’s time to pray for peace
If you’re an atheist
Some empathy at least?
Evils not relenting
Reign of terror remains
See all the rules bending
Beyond moral restrains
If you believe in God
It’s time to pray for peace
If you’re an atheist
Some empathy at least?
The battlelines redrawing
Extend the terror range
At our hearts it’s gnawing
Do you find guilt strange?
If you believe in God
It’s time to pray for peace
If you’re an atheist
Some empathy at least?
Amen
A Men
All men
Human
Chords: C Cm / Bb C; 125 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
LYRICS
The drums of war
Are growing louder
Chimpanzees
Thump their chests louder
The offspring ring
Their bells and sing
“No more war!”
The offspring ring
Their bells and sing
“War no more!”
Wars can cease
Ring in peace
May wars cease
Bring in peace
The guns of war
Are growing louder
Enemies
Keep dry powder
The offspring ring
Their bells and sing
“No more war!”
The offspring ring
Their bells and sing
“War no more!”
Wars can cease
Ring in peace
May wars cease
Bring in peace
The pain of war
Is crying louder
Chimpanzees
Could not be prouder
The offspring ring
Their bells and sing
“No more war!”
The offspring ring
Their bells and sing
“War no more!”
Wars can cease
Ring in peace
May wars cease
Bring in peace
Riff: f g f g f g f a g / f g g f g f g f a g
Chords: G / F5 G5 / Bb F G; 113 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitars, Glass Bells
Written and recorded live to a digital 10-track
LYRICS
In case I’m not clear
The time draws near
We’ve got to get out of here
… gotta get out of here
Off base
It’s not clear
If you can here
We’ve got to get out of here
… gotta get out of here
The way you veer
Please let me steer
We’ve got to get out of here
… gotta get out of here
Chords: D Fm Fm D / G A D
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Loop Pedal, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
LYRICS
Do you think we’ve reached the age
Of getting along now?
Do you think we’ve reached the age
Of getting along here?
Beyond the row
In the clear
I see and how
The haze cleared
Chords: AM G Bm Am Bm C Am; 80 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
LYRICS
Chariots of fire
Desire The End
To transpire
Raining hellfire
Higher the trend
Reeks of dire
How quaint
The picture you paint
Your quest
March to death
Killing time
It’s a crime
Chariots of fire
Desire The End
To transpire
Raining hellfire
Higher the trend
Reeks of dire
How far
To lower the bar
Your goal
Raise the death toll
Killing time
It’s a crime
Chords: Am G F E / E Bm E / F G A / A Am; 142 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Organ, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Yamaha PSR-740 Workstation
Written and recorded live to a digital 8-track
LYRICS
We saw it coming
Beyond mind numbing
Such the farce
From the arse
Blowin’ wind
We saw it coming
Beyond mind numbing
Oil n’ gas
Pass to past
Blowinininin in wind
Putin puttin’ money
Where his mouth is
Political show biz
His mouth is where his head is
Where’s his head, you ask?
… up his a$$
Chords: E Asus4 B E / G A E [jam]
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track\
LYRICS
Russia is rushin’
To a third world war
Rushin’ and pushin’
To nuclear horror
No to war
The people
Take to the streets
No to defeat
Russia is rushin’
Toward genocide
Rushin’ and pushin’
Along for the ride
End the gore
No to war
The people
Take to the streets
No to defeat
Russia is rushin’
The edge of a cliff
Rushin’ and pushin’
With stiff upper lip
How much more?
No to war!
The people
Take to the streets
No to defeat
Chords: G Bb / G F Eb F G; 110 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Electric Guitar
Written and recorded live to a digital 6-track
LYRICS
Looks like the spoils of your war
Have spoiled on your plate
Perhaps your eyes are bigger
Then the spoils you ate?
At any rate
You cast your die
Die is your fate
Looks like the spoils of your war
Have spoiled on your plate
Perhaps your eyes are bigger
Then the spoils you ate?
At any rate
You’re in too deep
To keep irate
Looks like the spoils of your war
Have spoiled on your plate
Perhaps your eyes are bigger
Then the spoils you ate?
At any rate
Cut off your nose
to spite your face
Lord knows
Human race disgrace
Chords: A Am7 B7 E / E [jam]
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Loop Pedal, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
LYRICS
Your second lease
Your chance for peace
is within reach
Time, time will tell
If you fare well
Reach for the beach
In an ocean full of tears
Terror of worse fears
For what seems years and years
Swimming for sure / shore
Far from the war
Your second chance
To choose romance
Is within reach
Time, time will tell
If you fare well
Reach for the beach
In an ocean full of tears
Terror of worse fears
For what seems years and years
Swimming for sure / shore
Far from the war
Your final stand
For love’s demand
Is within reach
Time, time will tell
If you fare well
Reach for the beach
In an ocean full of tears
Terror of worse fears
For what seems years and years
Swimming for sure / shore
Far from the war
Chords: Dm F G A / C A / A G F G F Dm; 83 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
LYRICS
What’s the answer
So perplexing
Witches’ hexing
Please tell me, sir
A gremlin in charge of the Kremlin
With a narcissist twist
The underground children trembling
Politicians are rambling
A gremlin in charge of the Kremlin
With a narcissist twist
The underground children trembling
With their lives we’re gambling
For Christ’s sake
How much can they take?
Chords: E7sus4 / E B B E / C D E; 83 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded live with layered digital 1-tracks
LYRICS
You had me right from the get-go
Now it’s time to let go
How it’s time for me to let go
The world’s about to know
Our resistance
The essence
Of presence
You had me right from the get-go
Now it’s time to let go
Want all the world to know?
Uh oh… oh no!
Our resistance
The essence
Of presence
You had me right from the get-go
Now it’s time to let go
Is it time to throw the last blow
Oh oh you know
Our resistance
The essence
Of presence
Chords: A G A / D E A / C E A
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
LYRICS
You’ve got to love it
The spirit
The soul
The way they roll
You’ve got to love it
When tyranny is too close to see
And you can’t be
Where you want to be
There’s a thrive
To stay alive
You’ve got to love it
The spirit
The soul
The way they roll
You’ve got to love it
When tragedy is too close to me
And I can’t be
Where I want to be
There’s a thrive
To stay alive
You’ve got to love it
The spirit
The soul
The way they roll
You’ve got to love it
The harmony we can bring to be
Will get us where we need to be
There’s a thrive
To stay alive
Chords: E E7 / A D G E / A C D E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
LYRICS
Nemo! Nemo, go!
Whoop, whoop, whoop
Do you want to go in or out
Know where to begin…
… or in doubt?
Chords: E A E / B7 A E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
Written and recorded live
Also: Rawhide Underwear
LYRICS
Did you hear that sound
Underfoot
Uh oh! Must’ve stepped in it
Hate to look and see what’s found
Uh oh! Hate stepping in shhhhh…
Wait!
Better hold my tongue
’till my nose gets done
And that last step is undone
Yeah, the misdone is undone
So there’s no misstep regret
Noooo… no need to fret
Chords: Em / F Em / Dm Em; 160 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live
Also: Rawhide Underwear and Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly
That’ll be the day that I die
Said Johnny, “Be good”
That’ll be the day that I die
Said I
why
Does my heart sing,
Wild Thing?
Lucy in the sky
With diamond dogs
I’d rather drink Muddy Waters
Sleep in hollow logs
I, I, I….
DR0000_6867-Shooting-Rockstars.mp3
Chords: A D A E A B7 E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
Written and recorded live
From the album: Booster
Originally made famous by Joe Walsh and Barnstorm
Written by Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale, Rocke Grace, Kenny Passarelli
E E D A (4 times)
D D D D E (6 times)
E A G E
Spent the last year Rocky Mountain Way
E A G E
Couldn't get much higher
E A G E
Out to pasture think it's safe to say
E7
Time to open fire
A7 E7 E
And we don't need the ladies cryin' cause the story's sad Ah ha
A7 B7
Cause the Rocky Mountain Way is better than the way we had
D D D D E (4 times)
E A G E
Well he's tellin us this and he's tellin us that changes it every day
E A G E
Says it doesn't matter
E A G E
Bases are loaded and Casey's at bat playin it play by play
E7
Time to change the batter
[Chorus]
Coversong originally made famous by Tom Petty
Written by Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Mike Campbell
E E
It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down
Dsus2 | E | % |
I had the radio on, I was drivin'
E E
Trees flew by, me and Del were singin'
Dsus2 E
“Little Runaway” - I was flyin'
D5 G E
Yeah, runnin' down a dream
E G A
That never would come to me
D5 G E
Workin' on a mystery
E G A
Goin' wherever it leads
A G E
Runnin' down a dream
E E
I felt so good like anything was possible
Dsus2 | E | % |
I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes
E E
The last three days the rain was unstoppable
Dsus2 | E | % |
It was always cold, no sunshine
[Chorus]
E E
I rolled on as the sky grew dark
Dsus2 | E | % |
I put the pedal down to make some time
E E
There's something good waitin' down this road
Dsus2 | E | % |
I'm pickin' up whatever's mine
[Chorus]
Coversong first made famous by Shocking Blue
Written by Robbie van Leeuwen
B7 Em A 4x
Em A Em A
The goddess on the mountain top,
Em A Em A
was burning like a silver flame
Em A Em A
The summit of beauty and love,
Em A Em
and Venus was her name
Am D Am
She's got it,
D Em A Em A
yeah baby, she's got it
C B7
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire;
Em A Em A
at your desire
C B7
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire;
Em A Em A
at your desire
Em A Em A 4x
Her weapons were her crystal eyes,
making every man mad
Black as the dark night she was;
got what no one else had
Wow!
She's got it,
yeah baby, she's got it
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire;
at your desire
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire;
at your desire
Em A Em A
Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh 4x
She's got it,
yeah baby, she's got it
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire;
at your desire
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire;
at your desire
B7 Em A 4x
Venus.mp3 (Unplugged)
Coversong originally made famous by Bad Company
Written by Paul Rodgers
E C D Here comes the jesters, one, two three E C D It's all part of my fantasy E C D I love the music and I love to see the crowd E E Dancin' In the aisles and singin' out loud, yeah E C D Here comes the dancers one by one E C D Your mama's callin' but you're havin' fun E C D You find you're dancin' on a number nine cloud E Put your hands together now and sing it out loud C A G D A It's all part of my rock 'n roll fantasy C A G D A It's all part of my rock 'n roll dream yeah [solo] Its all part of my rock 'n roll fantasy Its all part of my rock 'n roll dream yeah Put up the spotlights one and all And let the feelin' get down to your soul The music's so loud you can hear the sound Reachin' for the sky and churnin up the ground [Chorus] Fantasy yeah yeah yeah yeah x2
DR0000_6339-Rock-n-Roll-Fantasy.mp3 (Unplugged / Live on the Lake)
Coversong originally made famous by Grand Funk Railroad
Written by Don Brewer
D C Bb C D D D C G DD Bb
D
Out on the road for forty days
C G D
Last night in Little Rock, put me in a haze
D
Sweet, sweet Connie was doin' her act
C D
She had the whole show and that's a natural fact
G D
Up all night with Freddie King
C D
I got to tell you, poker's his thing
G D
Booze and ladies, keep me right
F G
As long as we can make it to the show tonight
D
We're an American band
C
We're an American band
Bb
We're comin' to your town
C
We'll help you party it down
D
We're an American band
D D C G DD Bb
Four young chiquitas in Omaha
Waitin' for the band to return from the show
A feelin' good, feelin' right and it's Saturday night
The hotel detective, he was outta sight
Now these fine ladies, they had a plan
They was out to meet the boys in the band
They said, "Come on dudes, let's get it on!"
And we proceeded to tear that hotel down
(chorus) We're an American band -- break --- repeat chorus
DR0000_6338-Were-an-American-Band.mp3 (Unplugged / Live on the Lake)
Coversong originally made famous by Cheap Trick
Written by Rick Nielsen
Intro G | |F C |G ||
G D/F#
I want you to want me
Em Em7/D
I need you to need me
C G/B
I'd love you to love me
G D/F#
I'm beggin' you to beg me
Em Em7/D
I want you to want me
C G/B
I need you to need me
G D/F#
I'd love you to love me
Em A
I'd shine up my old brown shoes
F G
I'd put on a brand new shirt
Em A
I'd get home early from work
F Fm Em
If you'd say that you love me
G D
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
Em C
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
G D
Feelin' all alone without a friend you know you feel like dyin'
Em C
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
I want you to want me
I'd shine up my old brown shoes
I'd put on a brand new shirt
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
G D
Feelin' all alone without a friend you know you feel like dyin'
Em C
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
repeat
I want you to want me