Tag: MIDI

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LYRICS
If your soul thirsts
Put others first
And you will feed it
Your heart will start to beat
Along with dancing feet
Your mind you’ll get to know
The blood will start to flow

If your soul starves
The knife that carves
— your goodwill feeds it
Your heart will start to beat
Along with dancing feet
Your mind you’ll get to know
The blood will start to flow

when your soul strives
Brings others ‘live
A need, we feed it
Your heart will start to beat
Along with dancing feet
Your mind you’ll get to know
The blood will start to flow

Chords: C# D# F# G# / C# D# F# A# G# / F# G#; 100 BPM
Recording: digital 8-track
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas

bookmark_borderStop the World!

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LYRICS
Please stop the world
From going round
I’d like to get off
’til common sense is found
There’s a firesale
On old growth timber
The odds we’ll sustain
Are growing slimmer
Will we ever learn
We get what we earn
Given — you were born
Until the time we mourn
Make it what we will
Make it while there’s still

Please stop the world
From going round
I’d like to get off
’til common sense is found
There’s a firesale
On old growth timber
The odds we’ll sustain
Are growing slimmer
Pooping in our drinking water
Sacrificing both son and daughter
Will we ever learn
We get what we earn
Given — you were born
Until the time we mourn
Make it what we will
Make it while there’s still

Please stop the world
From going round
I’d like to get off
’til common sense is found
There’s a firesale
On old growth timber
The odds we’ll sustain
Are growing slimmer
Pooping in our drinking water
Sacrificing both son and daughter
Will we ever learn
We get what we earn
Given — you were born
Until the time we mourn
Make it what we will
Make it while there’s still

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment
Chords: B 1/2 step walkdown to E / E D C B / F E / G E; 120 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live

Canine Incisors Sessions

Also: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderIt’s for the Birds

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LYRICS
The cost of the “12 Days of Christmas”
Is getting absurd
(In case you hadn’t heard)
It’s for the birds
7 swans a swimming
6 geese a laying
2 turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree*

*Pear tree not included
**All scenery excluded
***It’s for the birds

You can try, try, try
You can cry, cry, cry
But the price of the birds
Has gone sky high
Inflation elevation
It’s for the birds
Hadn’t you heard?

ABOUT THE SONG
The song was inspired by the 2021 cost of the “12 Days of Christmas”. The annual survey concluded “Even ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ is being slammed by inflation”. “PNC’s annual Christmas Price Index, which totals out the current cost of the gifts in the holiday song “The 12 Days of Christmas,” has been published—and all of those birds in the song come at a hefty price. Two turtle doves will cost you 50% more this year, coming in at $450. Those three French hens? That’s up 40.5% to $255. And the six geese-a-laying saw prices soar 51% in the past year.”

Chords: F#9 F# / B F# / C# walkdown riff; 166 BPM
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers

From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas

bookmark_borderStepped in It

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LYRICS
Did you hear that sound
Underfoot
Uh oh! Must’ve stepped in it
Hate to look and see what’s found
Uh oh! Hate stepping in shhhhh…
Wait!
Better hold my tongue
’till my nose gets done
And that last step is undone
Yeah, the misdone is undone
So there’s no misstep regret
Noooo… no need to fret

Chords: Em / F Em / Dm Em; 160 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live

Canine Incisors Sessions

Also: Rawhide Underwear and Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderFooling

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LYRICS
Just fooling around?
Better off quieting down
Listen to the words
Understand the sound
And, everything will be…
Alright
(All is found)
And, everything will be…
Alright
Once your ears hear
Insight
… everything will be….

Try n’ be the clown?
Better off quieting down
Dying children
Ain’t no fooling around
Better off quieting down
Listen to the words
Understand the sound
And, everything will be…
Alright
(All is found)
And, everything will be…
Alright
Once your ears hear
Insight
… everything will be….

Chords: Bdim Bb(5) / B E; 80 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Organ
Written and recorded live

From the album: Rawhide Underwear

bookmark_borderMy Position

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LYRICS
Far wide ocean
Large sea
When compared to me
The tide rolls in
High tide
Magnified
My position

Big, big mountain
I see
The valley in me
The tide rolls in
High tide
Magnified
My position

Forever sky
All the stars
Compared to where we are
The tide rolls in
High tide
Magnified
My position

Chords: Asus4 A Gsus4 G Fsus4 F / D C6; 125 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live

From the albums: Rawhide Underwear and Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderLighting Up Our Way

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LYRICS
Daylight grows shorter
The night rolls over
Another moon’s quarter
Nightlight discover
Their days reflected rays
Lighting up our way

Wintertime moonshine
Clear sky… scene glows
Black n’ white fine line
Casting shadows
Their days reflected rays
Lighting up our way

Winter solstice
Live days in dark
Seeking justice
Equinox embark
Their days reflected rays
Lighting up our way

Chords: E G / D F / C C7 Am7 AbM7aug C; 120 BPM
Recording: digital 10-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizers

From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas

bookmark_borderHeartfelt

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The children have started to pray
Hoping the snow will lay
All the parents can say
When will it all go away?
The season’s greetings
Are fleeting
The kids all wish it’d stay
Feelings heartfelt
Watching snowflakes melt
The kids all wish they’d stay

The children have started to play
Hoping it’ll last all day
All the parents can say
When will it all go away?
The season’s greetings
Are fleeting
The kids all wish it’d stay
Feelings heartfelt
Watching snowflakes melt
The kids all wish they’d stay

The children hold elders at bay
Hoping they’ll all go away
All the parents can say
Santa’s watching your way
The season’s greetings
Are fleeting
The kids all wish it’d stay
Feelings heartfelt
Watching snowflakes melt
The kids all wish they’d stay

Chords: A G D / C D; 178 BPM Cowboy Boogie
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas

bookmark_borderEscape Velocity

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LYRICS
Escaping from the blackhole
Gotta get the light to be whole
[Heartbeat]
Reaching escape velocity
Freedom is at hand
Freedom is at hand
Freedom is at hand

Escaping from the blackhole
Gotta get the light to be whole
[Heartbeat]
Reaching escape velocity
Freedom is at hand
If we can just find a place to land
The gravity of the situation
The duality of illumination

Chords: Dm Dm9 Em Em9 D / B C D / G C D; 101 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live on a digital 1-track stereo

From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderEgo Explodes

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LYRICS
If I’m up to mischief…
… no good
Not behaving the way I should
Then I started thinking
When their world implodes
Due part to my shrinking
It’s my ego that explodes

Chords: Gm CM / F Cm / G7 Cm; 140 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live

From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderHerd Absurd

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LYRICS
Way beyond absurd
What I heard
Far beyond bizarre
Where we are
Why don’t we pick up the pieces
Start it over again
Why don’t we pick up our peaces
Let’s discover begin

Should we try to fix
Show me your tricks
Maybe we can mend
S.O.S. send
Why don’t we pick up the pieces
Start it over again
Why don’t we pick up our peaces
Let’s discover begin

Don’t you find it odd
Oh, my God!
Quite severely twisted
Knotted and fisted
Why don’t we pick up the pieces
Start it over again
Why don’t we pick up our peaces
Let’s discover begin

Chords: E D C D E / G E / G / F G; 120 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Organ, Electric Guitar, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live on a digital 8-track

From the album: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderUpping the Ante

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LYRICS
Upping the ante
I’m starting to see
Upping the ante
With a card hidden
Up the sleeve
I’m finding it
A little hard to believe
I’ll see you
And, raise you tow, too

Upping the ante
I’m starting to see
Upping the ante
Finding it a little hard
Seeing how you play your cards
I’ll see you
And, raise to you, too

Chords: Bm D E / E D Bm Em7; 110 BPM
Instruments: Vocals and Organ Flutes Yamaha PSR-740
Written and recorded live

From the album: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderMistletoe?

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LYRICS
I didn’t know
That there’d be mistletoe
Now you mention it
I’d love to go
If we’re lucky
It might start to snow
Spectacle
Of Mother Nature’s show
Then, maybe we should spend the night
Snuggle up tight
By firelight
Think maybe we should spend the night?
Snuggle up tight
By firelight

I didn’t know
That there’d be presents, too
Now you mention it
Love to see you
They say the temperature
Might drop real low
Spectacle
Of an icicle show
Then, maybe we should spend the night
Snuggle up tight
By firelight
Think maybe we should spend the night?
Snuggle up tight
By firelight

I didn’t know
That she’d be there
Now you mention it
I’ve love to share
If we’re lucky
It might start to snow
After all
I’ve nowhere else to go
Then, maybe we should spend the night
Snuggle up tight
By firelight
Think maybe we should spend the night?
Snuggle up tight
By firelight
Think maybe we should spend the night?

Chords: C F C / F Bdim C / Bb G / riff f e d g c; 66 BPM
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas

bookmark_borderChristmas Valentine

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LYRICS
I’d travel through the snow
Oh, the lengths I’d go
Only heaven could know
To what lengths I’d go
To find a Christmas Valentine

Uncharted boat I’d stow
Oh, the lengths I’d go
Only heaven could know
To what lengths I’d go
To find a Christmas Valentine

Paddle against the flow
Oh, the lengths I’d go
Only heaven could know
To what lengths I’d go
To find a Christmas Valentine

I’d search both high and low
Oh, the lengths I’d go
Only heaven could know
To what lengths I’d go
To find a Christmas Valentine

[Under the tree…
… waiting for me]

Chords: Dm C6 / riff low d high d a g f e d; 102 BPM
Recording: digital 7-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas

bookmark_borderYou Bet Your Life

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LYRICS
You want to bet your life
You only go round once
Well, my mamma told me
“Don’t be a dunce”
The only way you get to go round twice
Is by being nice

Still want to bet your life
You’ve but one life to live
Well, my mamma told me
“Depends what you give”
The only way you get to go round twice
Is by being nice

Who wants to bet their life
That there’s nothing more
Well, my mamma told me
“Open the door”
The only way you get to go round twice
Is by being nice

Chords: D B / A G F E; 104 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Organ
Written and recorded live

From the album: Rawhide Underwear