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bookmark_borderOf Fresh Air

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[Intro]
You are…
(A breath of fresh air)

[Verse 1]
In the stench
Of the thickness
The wretched
… and the wicked
(Relentless)

[Bridge]
Have they come to know
(The final blow)

[Chorus]
You are…
(A breath of fresh air)
Airination
Aware
(You’re there)
Oxygenation
(A breath of fresh air)

[Verse 2]
The foulest odors
Overwhelm
In the realm…
Of the brokers
… of crime
Of our time

[Bridge]
Have they come to know
(The final blow)

[Chorus]
You are…
(A breath of fresh air)
Airination
Aware
(You’re there)
Oxygenation
(A breath of fresh air)

[Bridge]
We have come to know
(Which way the winds blow)
You know…
(To or fro… friend or foe)
Oh, oh, oooooooh

[Chorus]
You are…
(A breath of fresh air)
Airination
Aware
(You’re there)
Oxygenation
(A breath of fresh air)

[Outro]
Begin
(Breathe in)
Again
(Breathe out)
Oh, oh, oooooooh
(A breath of fresh air)
Aware you’re there
(A breath of fresh air)

From the album “Razz“

The Human Induced Climate Change

bookmark_borderRaspbarely

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[Intro]
(Rasp) … barely

[Verse 1]
Hard for me to say
Thought he was OK
Turns out another way

[Bridge]
Caught in a flood
… avalanche of mud

[Chorus]
(Rasp) … barely
Can utter a word
(Rasp) … rarely
Has it been this absurd

[Verse 2]
No longer hard to say
That man’s not OK
Can’t just look away

[Bridge]
Caught in a flood
… avalanche of mud

[Chorus]
(Rasp) … barely
Can utter a word
(Rasp) … rarely
Has it been this absurd

[Verse 3]
Had to learn the hard way
Got to stop it today
Stand up… have your say

[Bridge]
Caught in a flood
… avalanche of mud

[Chorus]
(Rasp) … barely
Can utter a word
(Rasp) … rarely
Has it been this absurd

[Outro]
(Or haven’t you heard?)
The crime of all time
(Now it’s time to go)
So now you know
(Say, “Hey!”)

From the album “Razz“

The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderGuru

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[Intro]
A guru or two

[Verse 1]
What we need
Is a spiritual guide
(… a teacher)
Our hearts bleed
Where our souls reside
(… a feature)

[Chorus]
I’m looking to you
For a guru or two
Show me the way
To a better day

[Bridge]
Where the light
(Shines on)
We delight
(In the love)
From above

[Verse 2]
What we need
Is a spiritual teacher
(… a guide to other side)
Conscious concede
Get up off the bleacher
(… a movement is meant)

[Chorus]
I’m looking to you
For a guru or two
Show me the way
To a better day

[Bridge]
Where the light
(Shines on)
We delight
(In the love)
From above

[Chorus]
I’m looking to you
For a guru or two
Show me the way
To a better day

[Outro]
Pull through
(Be a guru)
We knew
(You could do)
Bring the light
(Shine on)
We delight
(In the love)
From above
… and take the chance
(To dance)

From the album “Razz“

Also found on the album “Reggae Segue“

bookmark_borderSwig

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[Intro]
Take a swig….
(And, pass it ’round)

[Verse 1]
Why not take the day
And turn it on its head
Make it a holiday
Put the work to bed

[Chorus]
Take a swig….
(And, pass it ’round)
Do a jig
(Turn up the sound)

[Bridge]
Have a hearty party
(Party!)

[Verse 2]
Hey, hey, hey, hey
What do you say
We turn the day
Into a national holiday

[Chorus]
Take a swig….
(And, pass it ’round)
Do a jig
(Turn up the sound)

[Bridge]
Have a hearty party
(Party!)

[Chorus]
Take a swig….
(And, pass it ’round)
Do a jig
(Turn up the sound)

[Outro]
Have a hearty party
(Party!)
Let’s start
(From the heart)
Party!

From the album “Razz“

bookmark_borderCame Out Screaming

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[Intro]
No question
If I was alive
Came out screaming
(“I have arrived!”)

[Verse 1]
No need to slap
This baby’s bottom
No, ’cause I’m apt…
And won’t be forgotten

[Bridge]
Into the place
(Shakin’ the space)

[Chorus]
No question
If I was alive
Came out screaming
(“I have arrived!”)

[Bridge]
Arrived (Alive!)

[Verse 2]
You can cut the cord
Before I get board
Won’t be stunning…
If I hit the ground running

[Bridge]
Into the race
(Shakin’ the space)

[Chorus]
No question
If I was alive
Came out screaming
(“I have arrived!”)

[Bridge]
Arrived (Alive!)
Into the race
(Shakin’ the space)

[Chorus]
No question
If I was alive
Came out screaming
(“I have arrived!”)

[Outro]
Arrived (Alive!)
Among our race
(Movin’ through space)
We strive to thrive

From the album “Razz“

bookmark_borderRazor Sharp

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[Verse 1]
Stumbling around
(In the dark)
What light can be found
(We need a spark)

[Bridge]
Razor sharp
(Out of the dark)

[Chorus]
On the bleeding edge
(Laser focused)
Won’t fall off the ledge
(Strength’s amongst us)

[Verse 2]
Leather strap
(And wet stone)
Sharpened rap
(All well honed)

[Bridge]
Razor sharp
(Out of the dark)

[Chorus]
On the bleeding edge
(Laser focused)
Won’t fall off the ledge
(Strength’s amongst us)

[Bridge]
Razor sharp
(Out of the dark)

[Chorus]
On the bleeding edge
(Laser focused)
Won’t fall off the ledge
(Strength’s amongst us)

[Outro]
Razor sharp
(Out of the dark)
Hold on tight
(At the speed of light)
Out of the night
(Light’s in sight)
Light’s insight

From the album “Razz“

bookmark_borderCrypto

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[Intro]
Oh no (… here we go)

[Verse 1]
It slices (it dices)
It can polish your dog
In a blitz it splits
(You’ll be riding high on the hog)

[Bridge]
Oh no (… here we go)

[Chorus]
Take your wad and blow
(You know… crypto)
Who’s to blame in the shell game
(You know… crypto)

[Verse 2]
It cures what ails
It never fails
A miracle remedy
(If you’re blind…. you’ll see)

[Bridge]
Oh no (… here we go)

[Chorus]
Take your wad and blow
(You know… crypto)
Who’s to blame in the shell game
(You know… crypto)

[Bridge]
Oh no (… here we go)
Bringing on the whoa
(Woe, woe, woe)

[Chorus]
Take your wad and blow
(You know… crypto)
Who’s to blame in the shell game
(You know… crypto)

[Outro]
Oh no (… here we go)
Bringing on the whoa
(Woe, woe, woe)
Come on… ya gotta know?
(Woe, woe, woe)
Just say no
(Know no-no)

From the album “Razz“

bookmark_borderRazz

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[Intro]
Zzzzz, z, z

[Verse 1]
Got the raspberries
And rotten tomatoes
Times are getting scary
As if no one knows

[Bridge]
Zzzzz, z, z

[Chorus]
Does the razz baffle…
(Razzle dazzle)
Causing you to spaz
(Razamanaz)

[Bridge]
Razzmatazz

[Verse 2]
Tossing rotten fruit
Instead of salad
Not too astute
Answer’s invalid

[Bridge]
Zzzzz, z, z

[Chorus]
Does the razz baffle…
(Razzle dazzle)
Causing you to spaz
(Razamanaz)

[Bridge]
Razzmatazz

[Chorus]
Does the razz baffle…
(Razzle dazzle)
Causing you to spaz
(Razamanaz)

[Outro]
Razzmatazz
(And all that jazz)
Bamboozle
(Lashes with a wet noodle)
An institution
(Of mental masturbation)
Saturation

From the album “Razz“

bookmark_borderRouse

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[Intro]
(Rise up soaring)
Arousing
(Roaring)

[Verse 1]
Awaken from slumber
(Out of deep sleep)
Shakin’ your number
(Arise to the cries)

[Chorus]
Come rally round
(Rise and rouse!)
Found the sound
(Rise and rouse!)

[Bridge]
It’s that time of day to say
(OK!)

[Verse 2]
Shake clean from the dream
(Open you eyes)
Wake up! Hear the scream
(Past time to realize)

[Chorus]
Come rally round
(Rise and rouse!)
Found the sound
(Rise and rouse!)

[Bridge]
It’s that time of day to say
(OK!)

[Chorus]
Come rally round
(Rise and rouse!)
Found the sound
(Rise and rouse!)

[Outro]
It’s that time of day to say
(OK!)
Got to wake
(With what’s at stake)
Ready and roaring
(Rise up soaring)
Arousing
(Rouse)

From the album “Aardvark“

bookmark_borderSingularity

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[Intro]
The Fat Lady Sang:
(“Big bang!”)

[Verse 1]
Am I too dense
That I can’t understand
Which side of the fence
Is common sense… and which is man

[Chorus]
The singularity
(Infinite density)
Gravitational
(Singularity)

[Bridge]
Searching for clarity

[Verse 2]
Of all the nerve
… threw me a curve
With that curvature
(How sure is the future?)

[Chorus]
The singularity
(Infinite density)
Gravitational
(Singularity)

[Bridge]
Searching for clarity

[Verse 2]
Oh, the whole black hole
Not trying to be droll
… just curious if your serious
(… or delirious)

[Chorus]
The singularity
(Infinite density)
Gravitational
(Singularity)

[Bridge]
Searching for clarity
Searching for clarity
In infinity
(The sense in how dense)
General relativity
(Relative generally)
[Break down]
Breaks down
(Break down)
Down, down, down

[Chorus]
The singularity
(Infinite density)
Gravitational
(Singularity)

[Outro]
(Break down)
Reaching infinity
(Breaching reality)
Break down
(Break down)
General relativity
(Relative generally)
Breaks down
(Break down)
Break down

A SCIENCE NOTE
Singularity in physics is a point at which a function takes an infinite value, especially in space-time when matter is infinitely dense, as at the center of a black hole. Examples of singularities in physics include the gravitational singularity at the center of a black hole and the Big Bang singularity, both representing points of infinite density and curvature where the known laws of physics, such as those of general relativity, break down. These are points in spacetime where mathematical descriptions of the universe become infinite, indicating that the current theories are incomplete and new physics are needed to understand these phenomena.

From the album “Aardvark“

bookmark_borderSaddle(d)

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[Intro]
Riddle:
Saddle or saddled?
(Back in or burdened?)

[Verse 1]
Woke up this morning
Had to decide
Should I heed warning
Or ride on and die

[Chorus]
Riddle:
Saddle or saddled?
(Back in or burdened?)
’cause I’m back in the saddle (again)
Begin!

[Bridge]
(Tossing excess baggage)
Oops, there goes a trunk
(Who would’a thunk)
Glossing nemesis’ age
(Oops, there goes your case)
Smack dab in the face

[Verse 2]
Woke up this morning
My lucky day
Bleeded… then heeded the warning
Lived another day… to see another way

[Chorus]
Riddle:
Saddle or saddled?
(Back in or burdened?)
’cause I’m back in the saddle (again)
Begin!

[Bridge]
(Tossing excess baggage)
Oops, there goes a trunk
(Who would’a thunk)
Glossing nemesis’ age
(Oops, there goes your case)
Smack dab in the face

[Chorus]
Riddle:
Saddle or saddled?
(Back in or burdened?)
’cause I’m back in the saddle (again)
Begin!

[Outro]
(Tossing excess baggage)
Oops, there goes a ton of gold
(Humanity’s soul sold)
Glossing Nemesis’ Age
(Hubris has left the stage)
Me? I’m baggage free
(Living life happily)
And, I hope you, too
(Find your point-of-view)

From the album “Aardvark“

bookmark_borderRoud Crowd (G C D)

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[Intro]
The crowd got loud
(Bring on the Roud)

[Verse 1]
Whisper down the lane
Is never quite the same
A little day by day
Changes ‘long the way

[Bridge]
The crowd got loud
(Bring on the Roud)

[Chorus]
Navigation
(Through variation)
Lyric and music
(Quick!)

[Bridge]
Play another song
(So we can sing along)

[Verse 2]
A variant deviates
Observant hips gyrate
Improvisational
Spawns inspirational
(And on and on)

[Bridge]
The crowd got loud
(Bring on the Roud)

[Chorus]
Navigation
(Through variation)
Lyric and music
(Quick!)

[Bridge]
Play another song
(So we can sing along)
The crowd got loud
(Bring on the Roud)

[Chorus]
Navigation
(Through variation)
Lyric and music
(Quick!)

ABOUT THE SONG
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. The primary function of the Roud Folk Song Index is as a research aid correlating versions of traditional English-language folk song lyrics independently documented over past centuries by many different collectors across (especially) the UK and North America. It is possible by searching the database—for example by title, first line(s), or subject matter (or a combination of any of a dozen fields)—to locate many of the variants of a particular song. Comprehensive details of those songs are then available, including details of the original collected source, and a reference to where to find the text (and possibly music) of the song within a published volume in the EFDSS archive.

From the “Aardvark” sessions. Found only on the Unplugged Underground Vol. XXV collection.

bookmark_borderF Eel

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[Intro]
How do you
(Fa, fa, fa) Feel

[Verse 1]
What’s the real deal
Is it mirrors and smoke
Afraid of the woke

[Bridge]
How do you
(Fa, fa, fa) Feel

[Chorus]
Electrostatic music
(Shockingly)
A “living battery”
(We all can be)

[Bridge]
Shockingly
(“living battery”)
The light… to see

[Verse 2]
Is it a for real deal
Where you break with take
And live to give

[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
How do you
(Fa, fa, fa) Feel
Shockingly
(Like a “living battery”)
The light… to see
(The light in you n’ me)
Enlighten to be free
… incite insight
(Toward tranquility)

[Chorus]

[Outro]
… shockingly
(Turn on your “living battery”)
turn on the light… to see
Light up! Be.
(Enlighten n’ free)
Incite insight
(To tranquility)
The infinity
(In eternity)
At the speed of light
(Light, light, light)

ABOUT THE SONG
Electric eels don’t just swim — they illuminate. Their bodies are wired with thousands of electrocytes stacked in series, each one a spark waiting to fire. When a nerve signal flips the switch, these cells release their charge in perfect unison, summing their potentials into a jolt strong enough to light the dark and still the waters. Head to tail, positive to negative, the eel becomes a “living battery,” bending the current of nature itself.

In F Eel, that same principle becomes a metaphor for love. We are wired with the same potential — charged when we connect, luminous when we give, unstoppable when we unite. Like the eel’s electric field that surrounds and transforms everything near it, our love can ripple out, shockingly powerful, illuminating the path toward freedom, insight, and tranquility.

Turn it on. Feel it. Be the light.

From the album “Aardvark“

bookmark_borderSwab the Poop Deck

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[Verse 1]
Can’t you see
(The seaweed)
The decree
(Do the deed)

[Chorus]
Guess it’s time I’m
Swabbing the poop deck
The voyage dim and grim
(What the heck?)

[Bridge]
Swab the poop deck!
(Way, hay, and up she rises)
There are no surprises
(Way, hay, and up she rises)

[Verse 2]
If there’s a fire
(Situation turns dire)
Yes, indeed
(Do the deed)

[Chorus]
Guess it’s time I’m
Swabbing the poop deck
The voyage dim and grim
(What the heck?)

[Bridge]
Swab the poop deck!
(Way, hay, and up she rises)
There are no surprises
(Way, hay, and up she rises)

[Chorus]
Guess it’s time I’m
Swabbing the poop deck
The voyage dim and grim
(What the heck?)

[Outro]
Swab the poop deck!
(Way, hay, and up she rises)
There are no surprises
(Way, hay, and up she rises)

ABOUT THE SONG
The song is a metaphor for social responsibility.

“Swab the poop deck” means to mop the highest, rearmost deck of a ship. This instruction was given to keep the wooden deck damp to prevent it from drying out, rotting, and becoming a fire hazard, especially around gunpowder. It also served to clean away salt and seaweed from the deck and keep the crew occupied on long voyages.

Why was the poop deck swabbed?
Preventing fire: In an era of cannons and gunpowder, a damp deck could reduce the risk of fire.
Preserving the wood: Keeping the wooden planks moist helped them to swell, which sealed the seams and prevented water from seeping into the lower decks. It also helped to prevent the wood from drying out and becoming brittle.
Fighting fungus: Saltwater helps to prevent fungus and mold from growing on the wooden planks.
Cleaning: Regular swabbing cleaned away dried salt, dirt, and seaweed that collected on the deck.
Discipline and boredom: On long voyages, swabbing the deck was a task that kept sailors busy and prevented idleness and boredom.

From the album “Aardvark“

Also found on the album “Reggae Segue“

bookmark_borderSwiss Cheese

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[Verse 1]
There’s one for you
(And two for me)
When it’s all through
(Maybe you’ll see)

[Bridge]
Oh please (Swiss cheese)

[Chorus]
You’re strategy
(Is full of holes)
In relativity
(To reality)

[Verse 2]
Gonna take, take, take
(More than I make)
Makes it hard to forgive
(What little you give)

[Bridge]
Oh please (Swiss cheese)

[Chorus]
You’re strategy
(Is full of holes)
In relativity
(To reality)

[Bridge]
Oh please (Swiss cheese)

[Chorus]
You’re strategy
(Is full of holes)
In relativity
(To reality)

[Outro]
Oh please (Swiss cheese)
All your roles (full of holes)

From the album “Aardvark“