bookmark_borderRunning Low

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

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

bookmark_borderGet Fore

LYRICS
If we don’t know our right
From our left
Will it all be our wrong
Being deft… inept
IN spite of our spite
IF we don’t know what’s right?!?!
The light can’t get through
To shine over you
If that’s all you’re going to do
IF, and, or, but, nooooo
Know…
And/or yet
Fore
Get
Fore
Get
Fore

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Eb Eb7 / Eb Ebsus4 Eb; 50 to 32 to 112 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderFreedom’s Slippery Slope

LYRICS
Slipped on the soap.. box…
… off… stopped the clocks
Well, you can’t just do as you please
If it invades any of these:
My pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness
Within my confines
The whereabouts of “mine”
But that doesn’t include over there…
In the public domain
Refrain while you remain
Don’t be rude
Don’t be a dope
On freedom’s slippery slope

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: F# slide to Em / Em 7 9 11 13 6 / G F# E; 137 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderSnow Globe

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

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

bookmark_borderWhat’s Today?

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

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

bookmark_borderUnhid

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?

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

bookmark_borderOne More Song

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

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

bookmark_borderFigure It Out

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

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

bookmark_borderWho Are You Now?

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

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

bookmark_borderOutside Chance

LYRICS
So, on the outside chance
Know if there’s still romance
Love at such a distance
Meets with such resistance
A life sentence

So, do you know the odds
Know ya gotta summon the gods
Love at such a distance
Meets with such resistance
A life sentence

Blow the winds of change
Know that life is strange
Love at such a distance
Meets with such resistance
A life sentence

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: G Dm / D7 C G
Recording: extemporaneous digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderPassion Causing Crime

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?

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

bookmark_borderThe Sublime Line

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

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

bookmark_borderRecipe For Success

LYRICS
A pinch of this
A dash of that
Life’s spice
So nice
Low fat
Heart dish
Add and stir
For farther / further
A cup of this
A sprig of that
Life’s spice
Large vat
Heart dish
Hold the mad and sad
Add love and a piece of peace
Better than a diet fad
It’ll last you all your life
So, get out your carving knife

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Em F F# G G F# F Em / G Em; 120 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Nor-mal
Incubated The Instrumentals

bookmark_borderWildlife

LYRICS
Eyes peering through the tall grass
Trying to see past the past
At last, it’s time for sights to be cast
Upon our prey that’s moving fast
If you want a life that’s rife with rife
Got to get out and catch that wild life

Wildlife.mp4

DR0000_3683-Wildlife.mp3

Wildlife-Guitar-Loop.mp4

DR0000_3681-Wildlife-Guitar-Loop.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Bm7 F#sus4 / E6 F#sus4
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album Nor-mal
Incubated The Instrumentals

bookmark_borderMajor Reveal (in Minor)

LYRICS
Big deal
Reveal
Strategically designed major reveal
Tragically aligned can not conceal
If we’re not all left as ghosts
It seems at most
Call it, baby, toast
Speel an spew what’s coming due
Do tell your spell of wishing well
If I toss my dime, just in time
… wishing well
Is it too late to tell?
How am I to feel?
Under boot under heel
Crushed soul under your sole
Major reveal
The big deal’s last meal
Return to real

 

 

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about a gender reveal party starting a massive wildfire in California.
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Em7(11) Am9 / Bm7(11) Am7(11) Em7(11); 116 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Nor-mal
Incubated The Instrumentals

Creek Wildfire Started by Gender Reveal Party in California