Category: The Beatless Sense Mongers

bookmark_borderCatch My Breath

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LYRICS
Just one minute
While I catch my breath
One more minute while I…
Catch my breath
Seems I’m running low on oxygen
Can we just start over again?

The homo sapiens are in despair
They have no more air to share
Cry in discontent “This isn’t fair!”

The institute of “Let’s pollute”
The lesson of “forbidden fruit”
To live and learn we refute
Arrogance and ignorance

Segregate our fade by shade
Despite us all being man-made
To do it again what would you trade
A little late to eat our fate

Catch My Breath .mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: A Em G A / C B7 / Em C / B7 A
Recording: digital stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Piano

From the album A kNew Album

bookmark_borderIronic Or Funny?

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LYRICS
Funny how things work out
Karma kicks in
Sooner than later
About to kick in
Lover or hater?
Go ahead open the door
Already know what’s in store
What goes around
Comes around
Little Jack Horner got some more
Jack and Jill both fell down
Go ahead step outside
Unless there’s something to hide?
Sooner or later
The procrastinator
Comes to learn — it’s too late
Why wait for your fate?

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: G#m B F# B / A B F# B
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Proactive Inhibition

bookmark_borderGiven Name

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LYRICS
Though it sounds insane
You can’t pick your own name
It’s your mom and dad
Best they had
You can’t pick your own name

You can’t pick your mom and dad
Even if you’re the best they had
Just be glad
It’s your mom and dad
Store the mad and sad
Just be glad

Lewd, rude and crude
You can pick your attitude
Change your mood
Heart needs food
Improved my attitude

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E A G E / E G A E / E D A E; 200 BPM Blues Jazz Waltz
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Proactive Inhibition

bookmark_borderDo You Know (a Song We Know?)

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LYRICS
Hey, Maestro, do you know
Remember how the tune goes
With a familiar beat
That’ll shake your seat
We’d love to dance
If you’d give us a chance
Make us shake and quake
Take us to the promised land
In the bliss of understand
Hey, Band!
One more song
One that goes on and on so long
So long

ABOUT THE SONG
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: D A G E / A E A B7
Recording: digital stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Piano

From the album A kNew Album

bookmark_borderLaissez-faire

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LYRICS
The wait n’ see
Is gettin’ to me
Transparency
Of hypocrisy
Laissez-faire
Market place
Not so fair
Human race
Is it any surprise
When the masses arise
Institutional
Revolution all

Let it be
All set free
Tyranny Irony
Dare compare
Then and now
No one there
Can say how

Better be careful what we wish for
Might be something we can’t endure
But, when there’s a problem we can’t ignore
Going to fight for right… that’s for sure

Laissez-faire .mp3

Laissez-faire Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: G A / A B / B D / D E / E F F# G
Recording: digital stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Electric Piano

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

bookmark_borderPig Fly

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LYRICS
When a unicorn farting butterflies
Fails to surprise
I realize
Low and behold
The pot at the end of a rainbow
May not be full of gold
As I was told
It might take searching near and far
To find out where the facts are

When a pig that jigs
Takes off and flies
Fails to surprise
I realize

When a grieving mother
Breaks down and cries
Fails to surprise
I realize

When you give up “tries”
And all hope dies
Fails to surprise
I realize
Low and behold
The pot at the end of a rainbow
May not be full of gold
As I was told
It might take searching near and far
To find out where the facts are

All I could see were clouds in my coffee
Now, I can see more clearly
Now, I can see more clearly

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

From the album Proactive Inhibition

bookmark_borderThe In’s And Out’s

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LYRICS
Am I blind
trying to find
A kind kind
To combine
One that knows
“In’s and out’s”
That knows what it’s about
I see the grind
Rear-view rewind
Before it’s too late
Determine my fate

Am I the kind
That pays no mind
To being kind
Remind
One that knows
“In’s and out’s”
that knows what it’s about
Be free of grind
Peace we find
Before it’s too late
Determine our fate

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E Em / A G E / E G A C B7 E; 129 BPM Hully Gully
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Proactive Inhibition

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

bookmark_borderSave Me

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LYRICS
Must be under some sort of spell
Oh well farewell
Released blunder from south of hell
Oh well farewell

Save me from humanity
Insanity
There’s rarity in clarity
Clearly we be
(To be, being, been)

This isn’t a drill
Oh well farewell
Hope you’ve got the bill
Oh well farewell

No longer somber dwell
Oh well farewell
Neurons on the jell
Oh well farewell

Holding the answer? Do tell
Oh well farewell
Can’t unring the bell
Oh well farewell

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: G F# F E / D E; 150 BPM Big Band Boogie
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Proactive Inhibition

bookmark_borderGuerilla War, Fair?

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LYRICS
Guerilla war
Fair? Nowhere
None to be found
No none around
Guerilla warfare
No more
Guerilla tactics
Spastic
Thick and sick
Where to stick
Where the sun don’t shine
(No more. No more war)
Sounds just fine
And, if you don’t mind
Find
Some kind of kind

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: B D / B D E C# D E B; 147 BPM 6/8
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Proactive Inhibition

bookmark_borderStolen Glory

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LYRICS
As they try to wipe the Stars And Stripes
Don’t let them swipe

Careen from the se1rene scene
Under the red, white and blue
Unfold the Old Glory story
A victim of racism, too

Supremacists insist and persist
Usurping a symbol for hate
#HashTag Confederate Flag
In the state of the irate

Proud to be an American
You’d better think and think again
Giving Nemesis a call
Is bound to be your downfall

Understand your stolen land
Is not at your command
Sooner or later it’s got to get through
The black and white of red, white and blue

Now, I can’t even fly our colors
Ashamed it smells of your odors
F.U. and your racist attack
I want my flag back

[Not going to take it
Going to take it back]

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Twisted Country
Chords: Db Ab / Eb Db Ab / Ab G Db
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Proactive Inhibition

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

bookmark_borderSleep On it

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LYRICS
Can you please tell me
About molten steel
At any degree expertise
Without any college degrees
Sleep on it
Ask me again in the morning
It’ll give you time
For some learning

Hey, now! Take another look
At how you view Sandy Hook
Disrespecting all the dead
Is about all you’ve said
Sleep on it
Ask me again in the morning
It’ll give you time
For some learning

If this is ignorance bliss
Brain strike
Swing and a miss
Lame brain causing pain
Is disASStrous
You’d better sleep on it
Ask me again in the morning
It’ll give you time
For some learning

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

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderHear Me Rocking?

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Hear My Rocking? .mp3

Hear My Rocking (Music Video).mp4

LYRICS
I keep on rocking
Can’t see you frolicking
I keep on talking
Can’t hear you listening
I keep on knocking
But you’re not answering
Is there anyone at home?
I keep on knocking
But you leave me standing all alone

2) If a tree falls in the forest
And you’re the closest
Do you turn a deaf ear
To be clear: do you hear?
Is there anyone at home?
I keep on knocking
But you leave me standing all alone

3) If Little Bo Peep lost her sheep
Would you bother to wake from sleep
River runs deep…. is faith the leap
Pray to God my soul to keep
Is there anyone at home?
I keep on knocking
But you leave me standing all alone

Hear My Rocking Guitar Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
The song was inspired by the dancing kids (one dressed like Little Bo Peep) that were listening to me write this song… as their parents appeared to be in their own little worlds. A five-year-old girl even made a point of showing me how her doll dances, but her parents couldn’t seem to hear the music. Moral of the story: “Don’t grow old. Listen to the music. Dance and jump about!” Written between the corners of Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church.

Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: G Eb F G
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderCoefficient Of Friction II

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LYRICS
Humpty Dumpty’s egg
Is on its last leg
In free fall
Off the wall
Please don’t forget
A bombardier’s regret
When bombs fall
There’s no recall
Their shadows foreshadowing
Where things are going

A race in motion
Commotion
Will stay in motion
Run its natural course
(Of course)
A race in motion
In need of notion
In need of an outside force

The coefficient of friction
Is too inefficient
Our vice — slippery ice
In free fall…
… falling down
With nothing
To slow us down
… no, nothing to slow us down

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Em Em7(11) D / CM7 Em7(11) Em7; 140 BPM Bossa nova
The phrase bossa nova means literally “new trend” or “new wave”.
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Premortem

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

bookmark_borderOut From Under

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LYRICS
Out from under
The stress of duress
Puzzle pieces jell
Out of the mess
Finally, we see
What shall be
Completely
Arrive at the perfect place
In the human race

Out of wonder
Ask the question
Please do tell
I’m up for suggestion

In the clear
See fro miles
No fear
From ear to ear
The child smiles

Out From Under .mp3

Out From Under Guitar.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: A D G A / G A D / Em A
Recording: digital stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album A kNew Album

bookmark_borderThe Genie is Out of the Bottle

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LYRICS
1, 2… wishes… 3
Do believe they’re due to me
Fame, fortune and gluttony
Wish for more wishes? Certainly
(With certainty)

The Genie’s out of the bottle
Lost control of the throttle
Can’t begin to get her back in
Might just lose this fight
Over right
Outright

1, 2, 3 silly me
I forgot immortality
Living through eternity
Money, sunny, celebrity

3, 2, 1 I’ve had my run
The real feel of being done
Lack of trying is not much fun
End my run! I’m done

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E G / D A E / A
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