Tag: folk

bookmark_borderSteady

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LYRICS
Ready. Steady. Know.
Let’s go
Enough to and fro
I want to know
Can we go?
All day long
Sad song
Right turn? No wrong
Left weak now strong
For how long?
I can’t wait
Tempt fate
Can’t hesitate
No! Can’t be late
It’s our date
Rust on vine
It’s time
Now/then combine
Tomorrow’s line (a fine line in time)
Now’s the time

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: D Bm F#
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderSatisfy 3rd Eye

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LYRICS
If this doesn’t satisfy
Your 3rd or middle
Eye
I wonder why

If I can’t justify
Playing second fiddle
I…
Wonder why

I’m going in so deep
My soul starts to seep
And ooze
With more than enough to lose

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Dm Dm6 Dm7 Dm9 Dm7(9) Dm7(11) Bm7(b5); 162 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderQuick Logic

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LYRICS
IF you say “there’s no way out!”
How did we ever get in?
If you say “there’s know way out!”
Where did we ever get in?
Sometimes the air is thick
With an error of logic
Think quick!

If you say “there’s no new way”
How did we ever get on?
If you say “there’s no knew way”
How did we get it on?
Sometimes the air is thick
With an error of logic
Think quick!

If you say “care for no one”
How did we ever get known?
If you say “don’t care no, none”
Victory is never won/one
Sometimes the air is thick
With an error of logic
Think quick!

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Em F#m / C D Em; 183 BPM Hard Rock
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderPriorities

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LYRICS
Say what or it gives
Or nobody lives
Hard to keep priorities straight
When everything is running late
Too late to wait
(Is it too late to wait?)
To give or to take
The bed that we make
Consider the date
Are you doing great?
Surely peace arrives
Saving all our lives

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: g g f# f e / Em / C D Em; 152 BPM 8-Beat
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderPut To Bed

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LYRICS
Can we meet face-to-face
Has the brain gone insane
Or is the notion of meathead
Finally put to bed?

Let’s get together
Weather the stormy whether
Forever

Can our human rights embrace
And hatred start to wane
Everything we said
Finally put to bed?

Let’s get together
Weather the stormy whether
Forever

Can we finally get a taste
Of everything we waste
The riot act read
Finally put to bed?

Let’s get together
Weather the stormy whether
Forever

Can we really get some space
To enjoy the human race
Before we’re dead
Finally put to bed?

Let’s get together
Weather the stormy whether
Forever

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: G Em / C D G
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderGetting Old

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LYRICS
I don’t know where the times went
Our youth and innocence spent
Mother Goose is cooked
Bother is overlooked
Turn the page on age

If I can be so bold
Growing old is getting old
Mother Goose is cooked
Bother is overlooked
Turn the page on age

Sunrise in the east set in the west
Forgetting your lover is probably best
Move on to the next get on with the rest

I don’t know why your dreams ran dry
Never too late to give ‘er a try
Mother Goose on the loose
Wiggle out of your noose
Turn the page on age

Imagine you learn how to pretend
Sign, seal and then you send
Mother Goose on the loose
Wiggle out of your noose
Turn the page on age

Sunrise in the east set in the west
Forget her is likely best
Get on with the rest

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: F Bb / C7 Bb F; 128 BPM Hoedown
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderProfess

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LYRICS
The wicked get no rest
The crooked sins ingest
Bring angels! Think it’s best
You profess — the word is yes

Find evil’s creeping in
The shadow is hoverin’
Bring angels! Think it’s best
I profess — the word is yes

The bad, bad ole boys
Gun for fun deadly toys
Bring angels! Think it’s best
We profess — the word is yes

Black widow venomous
Enough to kill all of us
Bring angels! Think it’s best
Us profess — the word is yes

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: E G A / G A / A G E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Piano

From the album Life After Life

bookmark_borderDizzy

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LYRICS
What’s causing such a stir
Dizzy
Everything’s all a blur
No time for such a stir
Busy
Everything’s all a blur
The changes that you put me through
Are causing a commotion
The ranges of your “brew and stew”
Are extreme emotion

What’s the deal, baby
You are driving me crazy
With your flippant attitude
And your manners oh so rude
Tell me what’s the deal, baby
You are driving me crazy
With an intellect too crude
Eating babies for your food

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: F#m G G# / G#sus4 G# G#m; 122 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Turning Of The Tuning Knob

bookmark_borderFull Steam Ahead

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LYRICS
When I saw the mountain
Just had to give a try
Need to know for certain
Just how high
I can get
With no regret
Life’s a bet

When I saw the river
Just had to give a try
Need to know “deliver”
By and by
With the flow
Here we go
Need to know

At the fork in the road
Knew which path I should try
No matter the load
Just how high
I can get
With no regret
Life’s a bet

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: E’s / G A E; 160 BPM Rock Shuffle
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Turning Of The Tuning Knob

bookmark_borderJumpin’in

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LYRICS
Here we go again
Jump in
Cross into begin
Jumpin
Jumpin’in
At the starting line
Getting ready to make time
When you hear the gun
Start to run… run!
Lurch off or you perch
Hit the ground runnin’
Finesse is stunnin’
Off to search
Just in time the finish line
Let your glory shine
Omen of a showman
Call “curtain”
(Curtain call for all)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: a g# g f# f / D E / D G E / G E; 128 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Turning Of The Tuning Knob

bookmark_borderCope Is Coy

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LYRICS
Hope and joy and dreams of prosperity
Cope is coy the seams/seems of reality
Split it
Exit exist

The further you may go
The more you may know
About has been
Then again?

The farther from so far
The closer that you are
Savor our
Exist a bit

The wonder in your wander
The more life’s held fonder
Endear
The near

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: A G F# / E A / A A7; 120 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Turning Of The Tuning Knob

bookmark_borderOne Of Those

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LYRICS
Yes, I suppose
I’m one of those
Though if I chose
Avoid the woes / whoas
Of segmentation
Generalization
Invalidation
Segmentation
Damn damnation

Yes, I suppose
I’m one of those
I’ve got 10 toes
Eyes and a nose
What segmentation
Of civilization
Regurgitation
Segmentation
Damn damnation

Yes, I suppose
I’m one of those
Is it my clothes
Or the wind blows…
Your imagination
To segmentation
Invalidation
Segmentation
Damn damnation

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: F# F E / E F F#; 130 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Turning Of The Tuning Knob

bookmark_borderLove At First Sight

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LYRICS
Love
Love at first sight
Kiss her goo night
Forget the fright
Step out of the light
You know…
Into the afterglow
Stars
Stars in your eyes
You did
Oh how cupid…
Tries
Stars
Stars in our I’s
Lucid
The hearts surprise
Command
“Hold my hand?”
Demand
Hearts start to understand
Falling in love
How do we land
Push came to shove
Falling in love

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: G#sus 4 D#7 F#6 G#sus4; 166 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Turning Of The Tuning Knob

bookmark_borderA Head Ahead

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LYRICS
My mind goes round and round instead
Will I ever get ahead
A head ahead
Fast stead steadfast
Free me at last
(A head ahead)

In the narrow and the straight
Can’t move forward at any rate
Mind goes round and round instead
Will I ever get ahead
A head ahead
Fast stead steadfast
Free me at last
(A head ahead)

In the cold and dark of night
Looking for a sliver of light
In sight insight
A head ahead
Steadfast at last
In sight
A head
Ahead
Insight

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: E A D G / B E / B7 A G E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Electric Piano
Location: Lake Wynonah, PA

From the album Turning Of The Tuning Knob

bookmark_borderLapse In Memory

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LYRICS
I forget what I was going to say
I forget what I was going to play
Then, it all comes rushing back
… all comes flooding back
Lapse in memory attack

I forget what I was going to do
Please tell me, tell me, tell me true
Then, it all comes rushing back
… all comes flooding back
Lapse in memory attack

Hands are wrung on the tip-of-my-tongue
Mental trip… more than a Freudian slip
Then, it all comes rushing back
… all comes flooding back
Lapse in memory attack
Lapse
Hard to grasp
Think fast

I forget what I was thinking of…
Of course, what other than a song of love
Yeah, it all comes rushing back
… all comes flooding back
Lapse in memory attack
Mem-or-me

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: E7 E G D A / A D E; 130 down and up to 150 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Turning Of The Tuning Knob