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LYRICS
Since everyday
May be my last day
I’d say, hey!
Do you dream, too
That lovin’ will do
Peace comes into view
Understanding de-Man-ding
In a big picture future
Chords: Em/7 / G F# E / C D E; Part II 104 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Coming at the coast
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Live up to the boast
Wind strengthens its blow
Limb lengthens its bow
How much bend to take
Before the break?
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Coming at the coast
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Live up to the boast
Rain strengthens its flow
Flows begin to grow
How much force to make
Before damns break?
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Coming at the coast
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Live up to the boast
Too soon covered in gloom
Sky so dark might be night
How to make a lake
Before daybreak
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Coming at the coast
Ophelia
I’ll feel ya
Live up to the boast
Your fingers linger
Your remnants a testament to what you meant
Chords: F Bb Bb F / Db Eb F / Db G F / E/F; Part II 118 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
The Weather Channel reported:
Ophelia became the 16th storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season early on September 23. Ophelia developed from an area of energy and spin in the mid-levels of the atmosphere that began over the Deep South and swung southeastward across Florida and into the western Atlantic.
The system developed strong winds and increasing surf while sitting over the warm Gulf Stream current on Sept. 21, and attained winds of 40+ mph by late evening. It took on subtropical, then tropical characteristics as it neared the North Carolina coast.
Ophelia may have been a hurricane for a very short time either late on Sept. 22 or early on Sept. 23. Surface winds measured by the Hurricane Hunters temporarily briefly fluttered around 75 mph and an eye feature was briefly seen on radar and satellite data.
The storm lingered over Pennsylvania from Friday night through Monday.
LYRICS
Scales balancing
Justice served
Tales and dancing
Rounded curve
Fetch the home stretch
Could it be downhill?
Coast for the most
May my heart be still
Hold accountable
those past due
Amount capable
Make anew
Fetch the home stretch
Could it be downhill?
Coast for the most
May my heart be still
In The End, my friend
You get served
Love you send, again
Love deserved
Fetch the home stretch
Could it be downhill?
Coast for the most
May my heart be still
Chords: C A D D A E / E D A E / E B A E; Part II @ 122 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
A song of hope about stopping climate change. I had asked:
What will create the change needed?
Litigation against oil companies and governments: The oil industry is going to be like the tobacco industry. The consumers claim they were misled about the dangers of burning fossil fuels and file lawsuits against the oil companies. As litigation drags on, you will not be able to buy oil or get insurance at a reasonable price (similar to what happened to cigarette smokers.) At the same time, children are litigating with their governments for their basic human rights. In Montana, children won the case of Held v. Montana over the “right to a clean and healthful environment.”
California v. Exxon, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP
In September of 2023, the State of California filed the lawsuit for:
What we’re asking the court to do:
LYRICS
The way things are going to go
Some things you ought to know
Can’t go that much longer
When we act like that
Death comes on slow
As maladies grow
Are we strong enough
to hang tough
Are we tough enough
To say “Enough!”
Enough enough
Now you see where we’re going to be
Are you sure we were honest… honestly?
Can’t go that much longer
When we act like that
Death comes on slow
As maladies grow
Are we strong enough
to hang tough
Are we tough enough
To say “Enough!”
Enough enough
Procrastinate to hesitate
To wait too late
Too late to wait
Can’t go that much longer
When we act like that
Death comes on slow
As maladies grow
Are we strong enough
to hang tough
Are we tough enough
To say “Enough!”
Enough enough
Chords: E C G E7 / C D7 D7 C / C D7 G / G A E E A G / G E; Part II @ 126 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
If the world stopped turning
Would the oil stop burning
What will it take
To make up the mistake
If Earth stopped spinning ’round
Could humanity be found
What will it take
To make up the mistake
The ants go marching 3-by-3
“if you don’t know where you’re going…
Don’t ask me!”
The ants go marching 2-by-2
“Don’t know where I’m going…
How ’bout you?”
The ants go marching 1-by-1
’till the last one asks,
“Is the first on dumb?”
Chords: C Am Dm / Dm / Am C E Am / Am G Am; Part III 132 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
The energy building up in me
Combined with the synergy
Extreme ecstasy
You know it was bound to show
Rooted in the ground you know
Re-dream is the scene
You know it
I’ve come to show it
Get to know
What I mean
You blow it
I show it
Grow
The extreme dream
You wanna talk insane hurricane?
Geranimo tornado!
Sustain rain dripping on the brain
Floods and mud
Up to my ears in ankles
Still the water sparkles
Up to my ears
It’s hard to hear
Still the water sparkles
A song about how Mother Nature feels after being supercharged by human’s self-indulgent preoccupations.
Chords: E C D / D C E / E A7 B7 E; Part II at 126 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
As we lose the reasons
For the changing of the seasons
Have we learned the lessons
Of procrastinated confessions
After all
What about the Fall
Stave
The endless heatwave
What a way to behave
As we lose the reasons
For the changing of the seasons
Have we learned the lessons
Of procrastinated confessions
Here’s the thing
What about the Spring
Stave
The early heatwave
What a way to behave
As we lose the reasons
For the changing of the seasons
Have we learned the lessons
Of procrastinated confessions
I wanna know
What about the snow
Crave
The White Christmas scene
I mean…
How obscene
As we lose the reasons
For the changing of the seasons
Have we learned the lessons
Of procrastinated confessions
Big bummer
The endless summer
Slave
Live in a cave
What a way to behave
Chords: C FM7 / Esus4 Em C FM7 FM7 C; Part II 108 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Blue sky
Wonder why
Why not now
PM2.5
Winds do blow
Try to stay alive
No know how
To hold your breath
For all the rest
’cause all that’s left
… is… death
The bridge…
On edge
Bleeding
Leading
Edge
Dreams weave air to breath
Sow seems of heavenly scenes
As birth on Earth
Blue sky
Wonder why
Why not now
PM2.5
Winds do blow
Try to stay alive
PM2.5
No know how
That’s why not now
To hold your breath
For all the rest
’cause all that’s left
… is… death
The bridge…
On edge
Bleeding
Leading
Edge
Dreams weave air to breath
Sow seems of heavenly scenes
As birth on Earth
Chords: A Bb A / A C Bb A / Em / Esus4 FM7 / A7 Esus4; Part II at 94 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
From the Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC):
The Air Quality Life Index, or AQLI, converts air pollution concentrations into their impact on life expectancy.
Particulate air pollution is the greatest risk to human health.
Pollution and pollen, etc. PM2.5 microns thick.
Reduces quality of life.
Reduces the average human life by 10 years.
LYRICS
Super startrooper
Slow burn as hero
Her Zeus let us loose
Return to zero
Given all we’ve lived to regret
If Mother Nature could just reset
3, 2, 1
We’re almost done
Too much fun
Lit-up everyone
3, 2, 1
Return to zero
You’re the one
Be my hero
Super startrooper
Rule the universe
Should us mere mortals
Shift in to reverse
Given all we’ve lived to regret
If Mother Nature could just reset
3, 2, 1
We’re almost done
Too much fun
Lit-up everyone
3, 2, 1
Return to zero
You’re the one
Be my hero
Super startrooper
Mend our mistake
Humane humans make
Mere mortals wake
Given all we’ve lived to regret
If Mother Nature could just reset
3, 2, 1
We’re almost done
Too much fun
Lit-up everyone
3, 2, 1
Return to zero
You’re the one
Be my hero
Wake
Wake
Chords: E C D E / D C E / D A E; Part II and III 140 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
On the run
When you come to know
On the run
With nowhere to go
Your past is on your tale
Due time for the crime trail
It came back to bite you
Boo who?
On the run
When you come to know
On the run
With nowhere to go
Past due canine time
Make do so sub-prime
“It came back to bite you”
Comes true
On the run
When you come to know
On the run
With nowhere to go
So, get it through your head
Or else you’ll end up dead
It’ll come back to bit you…
It’ll come back to bit you in the….
Ask
… just ask
It’ll come back to bit you in the ask
A song about an escaped murderer on the loose in the neighborhood for two weeks in September of 2023.
Did I hear right they said the dog captured him by the scalp?
Yes… dog got ’em… by the head. Hero dog was trained to hold and secure until release command. There was not much wound to the scalp… it’s just that head wounds tend to bleed a lot. The picture was originally released by the Border Patrol. The dog, Yoda, is part of the Border Patrol team. The Border Patrol works under different laws than the State Police. Under normal circumstances, they can only operate within a ‘reasonable distance’ of the border… 100 air miles from any external boundary of the U.S.
Chords: D C A A E A / A G A / A G E A; Part II from 124 Beats Per Minute / Accelerando
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Is it hot enough
Humid, too?
Make conditions tough/rough
Humans do
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to recharge
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to love large
With our over abundance
Of energy
A-bun-DANCE
Give away your wealth
A-bun-DANCE
Live for better health
A-bun-DANCE
Open up your mouth
A-bun-DANCE
Stand in the light
Fight for the children…
… the children’s rights
Is it hot enough
Humid, too?
Make conditions tough/rough
Humans do
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to recharge
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to love large
With our over abundance
Of energy
A-bun-DANCE
Forget about the money
A-bun-DANCE
Forge for times more sunny
A-bun-DANCE
Get to the land of honey
A-bun-DANCE
Stand in the light
Fight for the children…
… the children’s rights
Is it hot enough
Humid, too?
Make conditions tough/rough
Humans do
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to recharge
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to love large
With our over abundance
Of energy
A-bun-DANCE
Given the perfect chance
A-bun-DANCE
A natural romance
A-bun-DANCE
Dance, dance
A-bun-DANCE
Stand in the light
Fight for the children…
… the children’s rights
Chords: Em F G / G F Em / E C C E / E C B7 E; Part II from 109 to 122 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
A song about children suing governments over their right to live.
Litigating for Children’s Right to a Stable and Healthy Climate
Children have filed lawsuits worldwide against their governments over their basic human rights. Our Children’s Trust reported:
In November 2013, hundreds of Dutch citizens, along with the Dutch Urgenda Foundation, sued their government to hold the state liable for failing to take measures to prevent dangerous climate change. The plaintiffs argued that under Dutch tort law, the State could be held liable for negligence due to its failure to adequately reduce greenhouse (GHG) emissions in line with its previous international commitments to reduce emissions by 25-40% by 2020. They also argued that the government’s failure to achieve its GHG emission reduction commitments violated their fundamental rights to life, privacy and health under the European Code of Human Rights. The plaintiffs sought a declaration that the Netherlands was acting unlawfully towards the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs also sought injunctions ordering the Netherlands to limit its GHG emissions to a level of 40%, or at least 25% below 1990 levels before 2020 and to present to Parliament within 6 months a program of measures with corresponding budgets that would ensure such GHG emissions reductions. In June 2015, the Hague District Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, imposing a 25% reduction of GHG emissions by 2020. The District Court’s decision was upheld by both the Court of Appeals in October 2018 and the Netherlands Supreme Court in December 2019.
In August 2023, the Journal Nature reported:
Advocates for action on climate change won a major court victory in the United States this week. A district court judge ruled in Held v. Montana that Montana’s Environmental Policy Act, which prohibits the state from considering the climate impact of proposed energy projects, violates the “right to a clean and healthful environment” promised by the state’s constitution. Montana’s attorney-general has vowed to appeal. The case was brought in 2020 on behalf of a group of 16 young people, now between 5 and 22 years old, and was litigated by Julia Olson at the non-profit law firm Our Children’s Trust. Olson has been involved with dozens of climate cases since around 2010.
LYRICS
It’s not like it’s the first time
Been said time and again
Won’t find reason or rhyme
If The End
Is to begin
Turn off the light
Best say good night
Turn off that light!
Hate to spoil
Your midnight oil
More like it’s the last time
Oxygen is getting thin
Won’t find reason or rhyme
If The End
Is to begin
Turn off the light
Best say good night
Turn off that light!
Hate to spoil
Your midnight oil
Welcome to The End of our time
Not said ever again
Won’t find reason or rhyme
If The End
Is to begin
Turn off the light
Best say good night
Turn off that light!
Hate to spoil
Your midnight oil
Chords: E C D G F# F E / E Em7 / G F# F E; Part II at 114 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Sitting here thinking
I bet I never would have thought of that
And that was that
Like a light bulb
Or grenade lob
Going off in my head
I said,
“That’s it!
You nailed it!!
Hard to believe
I could conceive
Because there I was
Sitting and thinking
Just sitting and thinking
Sitting here thinking
I bet I never would have thought of that
And that was that
Like a light bulb
Or grenade lob
Going off in my head
Chords: E/7/m7 D A E / E C D E; Part II at 109 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Look at the monster we’ve created
Built our Frankenstein
Then we aggravated
Running out of time
(It’s Frankenstein time)
Our beast is on the loose
Let’s see what fear we’ll induce
The extreme havoc we’ll produce
Look at the disasters… all related
From the monster we created
Then aggravated
Of course we should be berated
’cause we’re… running out of time
(It’s Frankenstein time)
Our beast is on the loose
Let’s see what fear we’ll induce
The extreme havoc we’ll produce
Look how mean is our extreme
Knowledge based on a friggin’ meme
Dangerous to all of us
Dangerous to us
Disastrous to us
It’s Frankenstein time
Our beast is on the loose
Let’s see what fear we’ve induced
The extreme havoc we produced
This song is based on a “discussion” with Darren Wolfe of Philadelphia, PA — How to shutdown a climate denier making a “false narrative” political stand.
Chords: Em7(11) Em7 A5 G5 E5 / A5 C5 D5 E5; Part I at 122 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Looking up
Interrupt
Looking down
Look around
What’s found
May astound
It’s bound
Look around
Firefly light on a starry night
Outstanding in a field
Atlantic Coast for dawn’s daylight
What will our days yield?
Looking up
Interrupt
Looking down
Look around
What’s found
May astound
It’s bound
Look around
Flat on the back to the Milky Way
Reclining on a peak/peek
Looking West on the fading day
Finding what we seek?
Looking up
Interrupt
Looking down
Look around
What’s found
May astound
It’s bound
Look around
Remember the days when you could see the stars
… see Mercury, Venus, and Mars
Get to see the sunset
Set eyes on the sunrise
Looking up
Interrupt
Looking down
Look around
What’s found
May astound
It’s bound
Look around
Chords: D B D / Am D / Am G D; 112 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Yamaha PSR740, Korg PS60, MicroKorg)
An improvisational song written and recorded on-the-fly as a digital 1, 2 and 3-tracks