LYRICS
Junglized
Realized I’ve been junglized
When I first realized I was junglized
I was surprised
Instead of seeing through rose (colored) glasses
I realized we were just making ourselves into asses
We were looking through jungle eyes
We’ve lost clarity of humanity
Junglized
Jungle eyes
Have you realized
We’ve been junglized
Looking at the world through jungle eyes
LYRICS
Bend your mind and stretch through the stars
Send your mind and fetch through the stars
Bend your mind and stretch through the stars
Bend your mind and fetch through the stars
The message that you send
When it reaches your end
Might just be the message you receive
Might just be the message to relieve
Believe
In the end, the message that you send
Might just be the message you receive
Probably can’t hurt if you believe
In the end, the message that you send
Might be the message you receive
It’s in your will to relieve
In spite of what you believe
Believe it’s real
And, you’ll seal
The real deal
Genesis 19 New International Version (NIV)
Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
19 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”
“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom — both young and old — surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here… sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please! 19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. 20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it… it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.)
23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities, and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords/Tempo — Dm BbM7 131 Beats Per Minute / Digital Rock (based on Sodom and Gomorrah)
Written and recorded in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
LYRICS
You want to talk about the bully?
The fact of the matter is… there is no bully
No Boogie Man
’cause there’s no such thing as the Boogie Man
No Boogie Man
Is he underneath your bed
Or is he just in your head
Gotta stand up
Is he underneath your bed
Or is he just in your head
You can make him dead
Be the bully of the Boogie Man
There ain’t no such thing as a bully
There ain’t no such thing as a Boogie Man
Don’t be afraid of the dark
Just be the spark
Set the world alight
Alright!
If you thought
Thought not
Been the victim of a bully?
I don’t suggest you become him
But, I’m… I am….
That you….
LYRICS
Should I go over there and ask her to dance
Take that chance?
Don’t want to come off as some jerk that wants to twerk
Why? I don’t want to be that guy
Want to be next to you in shinning armor
(Maybe even arm in arm… or….)
Should I take a chance and ask her to dance?
Not gonna hassle by asking to hustle
Not even to do the bump
(Might be going to far if we bump rumps)
Should I take a chance and ask her to dance?
Should I go over there and say do you care…
To dance
Would don’t need to slow dance
We don’t need to go that far
We can just get into our own space
And understand at most… just hold a hand
Should I take that chance
Go over there and ask her to dance
“Do you care to dance
I thought I saw you cast a glance
Would you care to dance?”
Should I go over there
(Instead of sitting here with a blank stare)
LYRICS
You thought that one day you’d save
It’s just one day closer to your grave
I hope it’s not a grave… mistake
Mama told you… you had to learn how to behave
And you’re just step… one step closer to your grave
… one day closer to your grave
(Jam)
Do you want to be on the lathe
Everyday a little more shave, shave, shave
As you get one day closer to your grave
Could be a grave mistake
Think that you want to save, save, save, save
Save the day?
One step closer to your grave
So what?
Don’t let it drive you nuts
One day closer
One day closer to your….
(Bass Jam)
Less you become your own slave
You’ve only got so many days to behave
And you’re the slave of how you behave
You’re just one day closer to your grave
One day closer… to your grave
Don’t let it be a grave mistake
Don’t let your life… don’t let it take, take, take
Your life away
Livin’ every day
No regret that it’s closer
Never forget one day closer
To your grave
It would be a grave mistake
LYRICS
Live from KingArthur.com with an important public service announcement:
I’d like to take this opportunity to remind all of you fine citizens out there in TV-land…
Don’t forget to tip the bartender
Don’t forget to tip the waitresseses
I’d like to tip the waitresses
… I’d like to tip the waitresseses
For making us tipsy
A tip for making us tipsy
If you just showed up
Raise a cup
Here’s what’s up
Don’t forget to tip the waitresseses
A tip for getting us tipsy
Now, I think I’ll walk home….
Maybe… if it’s not an inconvenience I’ll just sleep on your couch. I could sleep on the floor… you don’t need to worry… I’ll lock the door… on my out.
I could lock up?
Raise a cup
A tip to the waitresses
Don’t forget the bartender
Yeah, that’s a hard job… listening to all of our wine… ya know… we go into such detail… blah, blah, blah….
Live Video Recording of Writing the Song
ABOUT THIS SONG
A drinking song about playing live in a band… at a venue that is also a bar and a restaurant.
Chords — F# and then sum
120 Beats Per Minute / Shuffle Boogie
Written and recorded on-the-fly and off-the-cuff in an extemporaneous fashion.
LYRICS
An abominable snowman
Part creature… part man
The part abominable
Most probable
Man
Abominable… causing moral revulsion
Diversion, subversion, exclusion
Time for the inclusion solution
Let’s hope humanity can bounce back
After our ethical attack
Pushed ourselves over the cliff
Mostly over a religious riff
The penalty… swift and stiff
Time to be humble
Overcome our bumble
Do what counts
Do the bumble bounce
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — F# / G
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizers (All instruments played simultaneously and extemporaneously.)
“Christians are the most widely persecuted religious group in the world today and this evening we think especially of the Middle East, especially of Egypt, Iraq and Syria,” The Archbishop of Canterbury, Christmas, 2013
This song was inspired by the travesty of religious conflicts and killings during 2013. Unfortunately, the list is too long to list… Shiite, Sunni, Armenians, Christian, Buddhists, Dinka, Nuer, Beni Hussein, Rizeigat, Jews, Muslims… in Syria, Israel, Burma, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Turkey, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq… and on and on. Let’s pray we can bounce back.
LYRICS
Fusion
Confusion
Solar energy
The sun
No matter our distortion
Can’t help the synergy
No matter our destruction
Devastation, eradication
Let the light shine
It’ll all be fine
Just let the light shine
We’ll all be fine
Fusion
Confusion
If the nuclear
Is not clear
You’ve got Fusion Confusion
The sun
Ra, ra, ra
God of the sun
Ray, ray, ray
Which either way you say
Ra, ra, ra
Ray, ray, ray
Whichever way you say
Ra, ra
Ray, ray
Golden
God
The Sun
Turning the plants on
To being green
The sun
If you know what I mean
(Their fill of chlorophyll)
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — F#
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, United States of America.
