ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 2
E / E less E
E (add F#, add G, add G#)
slide up an octave to the real E
Written and recorded on July 25, 2012 in West Chester, PA. The song is about the notion of casting your eyes on God. Or, putting a glass on God’s wall… then putting your ear to the glass and hearing what She is saying.
LYRICS
Where would we be without the hives and the trees?
Where would we be without the birds and the bees?
What would you do without the innocence of children?
What would you do without the memory of been?
Do you think you’d miss a cool rain’s kiss?
Would you be remiss… speechless?
ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 5
A (less C#, add A, add F#)
A / D
Written and recorded on July 24, 2012 at Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County, Pennsylvania. For quite sometime, I have been conducting a study on deforestation of the Earth. While writing the song, I noticed the sun shining through the leaves of the tree… like is was winter time; however, it is summer. Then, a couple of small children walked up to me and said, “Thank you guitar man.” What would the world be like without trees? What would the world be like without the innocence of children?
Written and recorded on Sunday, July 21, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It is about the need for people to group love… one person can not do it alone.
LYRICS
Are you afraid to open your door
See people hurting like never before
Are you afraid to answer the phone
Hear the moan become a constant drone
Are you afraid to show your face
Tired of being made a public disgrace
Are you afraid to communicate
The wrong way on a one-way
Bombarded with hate, hate, thate
Then, please don’t hesitate
To call on God. Let Her mediate.
The place is here. The time is now.
Believe She’ll hear… She does somehow
God’s good grace. The mercy upon you.
Redeem your scene to heavenly… see!
ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 1
Em / Am (less C) / D (less D)
Written on July 19, 2012 in Ambler, Pennsylvania. The guitar was recorded on “my favorite bench” at the corners of Ridge and Butler Pike. The vocals were recorded Sunday, July 22, 2012 in West Chester, PA.
LYRICS
If you should go out
There is a storm looming about
Be prepared to go under… how close is the thunder?
If you should go out
There is a storm brooding about
About an unrest in the atmosphere
If you should go out
There is a storm’s thunder shout
About to make Her way near
her intention are clear
About to make Her way here
if you should go out
There is a storm looming about
No question who is the mightiest
No question who is the frailest
Not even a test in jest
From Her foreboding i can foresee
ABOUT THE SONG
Am / Dm
Am / Em (add C)
Written at East Goshen Township Park, Chester County, Pennsylvania on July 18, 2012. Unfortunately, the storm came and the music did not get recorded.
Q: How fast does thunder travel?
A: Thunder travels at the speed of sound… approximately 6 seconds / mile.
ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 5
fingered
Am
Am (less C / add D / add G)
Em
Em (add D / add G)
The meaning of the song has to do with the Complete Theory of the Universe. Some consider String Theory to be the complete theory of the universe. A simplistic view would be to imagine everything as a string. What happens when you try to push a string? A more complex way to look at is through a vibration. Can you imagine everything as a vibration? What kind of vibration will you be?
String Theory states that strings propagate through space and time.
“These oscillations exist in discrete vibrational modes, the spectrum of the theory.”
“An analogy for strings’ modes of vibration is a guitar string’s production of multiple but distinct musical notes. In the analogy, different notes correspond to different particles. One difference is the guitar string exists in 3 dimensions, so that there are only two dimensions transverse to the string. Fundamental strings exist in 9 dimensions and the strings can vibrate in any direction, meaning that the spectrum of vibrational modes is much richer.”
Written and recorded July 17, 2012 at Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County, Pennsylvania using a Boss digital 8-track.
ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 2
E / B
E / B / G / A / E
E / G / A / E
Written and recorded on July 16, 2012 in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
“Human sacrifice was a religious practice characteristic of pre-Columbian Aztec civilization, as well as of other mesoamerican civilizations such as the Maya and the Zapotec.” “Heart-extraction was viewed as a means of liberating the istli and reuniting it with the Sun, as depicted in Codex Magliabechiano, Folio 70 (illustrated in this section), wherein a victim’s transformed heart flies Sunward on a trail of blood.” “The Aztecs would give a series of rituals to unlucky nearby tribesman to be sacrificed with an obsidian knife, and donate their blood to Acolnahuacatl, an Aztec god. When they had known he had finished his drink and he was no longer thirsty, they would end the sacrificing. This ritual would go on for a whole weekend, so as to please the gods.”
A sacrament is “a Rite in which God is uniquely active”
“A calumet is a ceremonial smoking pipe used by some Native American nations. Traditionally it has been smoked to seal a covenant or treaty, or to offer prayers in a religious ceremony.”
LYRICS
What will be your part
When it’s time to depart
What will be the message you send
When you reach your end?
What did you will in your will
Will it serve to help people still
Did you pay off your debt, yet
Let your hair down
Did you care to share your crown
Let it all hang out
Tell the truth what love’s about
Did you care to leave no regret
Or, like an ass
Did you leave nothing behind
Well, it’s not too late
Don’t let another day pass
You can be nice. You can be kind.
Just don’t wait till your post mortem
LYRICS
You just… you might
Yes, I think you’ve already got it
Consider it a gift
Thank God for the Goddess
If it wasn’t for Her
There’d be no seventh day
Without the Goddess
There’d be no Sunday bliss
LYRICS
Though an optimist
I must admit
Some situations on Earth
Are bleak
We forgot to care
For the meek
Now, the social justification
That I did fear
Is much closer
Than just near
Radiate.
Be intimate
Transfer
With Her
Mother of the Earth
Give birth
Bring forth
Bring it down from on above
Radiate
Be intimate
Love
ABOUT THIS SONG
Capo 6
Play chords as if:
C / Em
C add Db
C / Em / Am
Written on April 29, 2012 at Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
The song was motivated by the color of the landscape. Instead of the trees looking like they were coming to life in the springtime, they appeared to be dying as if it were fall.
