bookmark_borderHoliday Day

LYRICS
Holiday! Let’s have a holiday
Let’s have a holiday! Today
A celebration marathon
That runs from dawn to dawn
An on vacation sing-a-long
That just keeps going on
Holiday! Let’s have a holiday
Let’s have a holiday day today

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Christmas Music / Winter / Holiday Songs
Chords: Dsus4 / F D / C Dsus4; 100 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the Christmas 2020 album of music Christmas Cure

bookmark_borderRadiance

LYRICS
Brilliant
Your brilliance is brilliant
Filament
Fulfillment
Radiant
The elegance is radiant
I meant
Commitment
To fulfillment
Let your radiance shine fine
May your brilliance overshadow mine

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Christmas Music / Winter / Holiday Songs
Chords: Fsus4 F Esus4 E; 120 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the Christmas 2020 album of music Christmas Cure

bookmark_borderCanine Eyes

LYRICS
When you look in my eyes
I start to realize
When you get up in my face
I have to face the facts
Relax
And go agile
(For a while)
Found a new style
A smile will take yaaa milesssss

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about the dog licking my face.
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: F# C# B F#
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album De-developed
Instrumentals: Ghosting

bookmark_borderChildren Of the Earth (The Love That’s Coming)

LYRICS
We, children of the Earth
Prepare for rebirth
Can you feel the love that’s coming?
I can feel the love that’s coming!

We, children of the world
Love unfurled
Can you feel the love that’s coming?
I can feel the love that’s coming!

We, children of the day
Let the world hear us say
I can feel the love that’s coming!
Can you feel the love that’s coming?
I can feel the love that’s coming!
Can you feel the love that’s coming?
I can feel the love that’s coming!
Can you feel the love that’s coming?
I can feel the love that’s coming!

Children Of The Earth / The Love That’s Coming.mp3

Children Of The Earth Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Christmas Music / Winter / Holiday Songs
Chords: C G F G walkdown to C; 84 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the Christmas 2020 album of music Christmas Cure

bookmark_borderHibernal Solstice

LYRICS
It’s been reported
Daylight is getting shorter
Sunshine aborted
The year’s final quarter
Then, a new year will begin
The days growing longer, again

Sun’s been thwarted
By the Earth’s axis
Going wholehearted
Into the depths of Christmas
Then, a new year will begin
The days growing longer, again

ABOUT THE SONG
The winter solstice, hiemal solstice or hibernal solstice occurs when one of the Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. The winter solstice was immensely important because the people were economically dependent on monitoring the progress of the seasons. Starvation was common during the first months of the winter, January to April, also known as “the famine months”. The majority of wine and beer made during the year was finally fermented and ready for drinking at this time. The concentration of the observances were not always on the day commencing at midnight or at dawn, but at the beginning of the pagan day, which in many cultures fell on the previous eve. — Wikipedia

Style: Christmas Music / Winter / Holiday Songs
Chords: Gm Cm / Db F Gm
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the Christmas 2020 album of music Christmas Cure

bookmark_borderCome December

LYRICS
Soon as October started
Felt like it was over
Now know November
The next endeavor
Come December
Never ceasing season of peace
Reigning down love from above
And at The End
The angels descend

Then came December
A time we’ll remember
From hustle n’ bustle alarm
To silent night calm
Dreaming on (and on and on)
Never ceasing season of peace
Raining down love from above
And at The End
The angels descend

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Christmas Music / Winter / Holiday Songs
Chords: Bb Db Fm / Fm Db Bb
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the Christmas 2020 album of music Christmas Cure

bookmark_borderRight There

LYRICS
I knew you wouldn’t go far
Right there you are
Just the kind of friend
I want to have to The End
Inspect respect
To see loyalty
To mutually understand
Your fellow man…
How does man stand
Nest to man’s best friend?

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: A G D E / D E; 178 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards

Canine Incisors

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderFrom The Beginning

From the beginning
To the happy ever after ending
Until we meet again
Forever a friend
Together whether together

In the vain
Of one and the same
Post-modern slang
For ying and yang
Together whether together
Together weather together

[instrumental jam]

From the beginning
To the happy ever after ending
Universal message send:
Forever a friend
Together whether together
Together weather together

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: D C B7 / E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album Pandemic
Surge The Instrumentals

bookmark_borderThe Country (Red, White, and) Blues

LYRICS
Wrapped up tight
Quite a sight
In the red, white, and blue
What’s with you
Point-of-view
Blurred in the red, white, and blue
Do we have a clue
What we’re trying to do
Wrapped up in the red, white, and blue

Wrapped up tight
Get it right
For the red, white, and blue
Racial stew
Good for you
Tastin’ the red, white, and blue
Deeds in lieu
Let’s follow through
A present in the…
… for the present
Wrapped up in the red, white, and blue

The-Country-Red-White-and-Blues.mp4

The-Country-Red-White-and-Blues.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Country Blues
Chords: Bb Eb Bb F / Bb Eb F Bb
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Pandemic
Surge The Instrumentals

bookmark_borderToasted And Twisted

LYRICS
Roughed up, bumped up, toasted, and twisted
Round up, dumped, double fisted
Am I left hear all alone
Praying for the patriotic prone
Home, sweet, home
Save the home of the brave
Save
The home of the brave

Toasted-And-Twisted.mp4

DR0000_3413-Toasted-And-Twisted.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: AM7 E A A7 AM7 E / B7 A AM7 E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Pandemic
Surge The Instrumentals

bookmark_borderSprung

LYRICS
Just when I thought I saw everything
Look what they had left
Flood the streets
Let the levy spring
Our final freedom theft
Deft?
Ummm
Free-dumb
Ummm

Mamas and veterans hold back the flood
Over dead bodies and blood
With shock and awe and dropping jaw
I heard a mother say:
“No! Not this way.
No! Not today
Over my dead body.”
No. Nobody
Leave those kids alone
Free and brave
Save our own home
Hey! Lave those kids alone
Over flesh
Over bone
Deft?
Ummm… free-dum
None left.
Not right.
Just deft?
No right.

Sprung-Unplugged.mp4

Sprung-ed.mp4

DR0000_3392-Sprung.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
July 20, 2020: “A group of mothers in Portland has been intervening at demonstrations over the weekend to protect protesters from uniformed federal officers who have been sent to the city to impose “law and order”.
We were gassed for chanting ‘Leave The Kids Alone.’
July 21, 2020: “A Navy Veteran Had a Question for the Feds in Portland. They Beat Him in Response. The veteran said he wanted to ask the officers whether they felt their actions violated the Constitution.

Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Dm Am / G D7
Unplugged: original take / live digital 1-track stereo / Vocals, Guitar
Recording: digital 11-track stereo / Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion

From the album Pandemic
Surge The Instrumentals

bookmark_borderUnder The Freedom Train

LYRICS
Oooey gooey was a worm
And a mighty worm was he
He sat upon a railroad track
And a train he did not see,
Oooey Gooey!

Under the freedom train
Outside the station
Just a-cross the tracks
Where the matters
Met the facts
A relationship strain
Under the freedom train
Tagged
Bound and gagged
Found
Bound and gagged
Mothers wept for the swept
Tagged. Bound and gagged.
Under the freedom train
Violent base without a brain
Don’t grasp there’s nothing to gain
Under the freedom train
(Time to train the brain)
Outside the freedom train
When I say outside, I mean they ride…
Under the freedom train

Wall Of Mothers
Wall Of Mothers

ABOUT THE SONG
July 20, 2020: “A group of mothers in Portland has been intervening at demonstrations over the weekend to protect protesters from uniformed federal officers who have been sent to the city to impose “law and order”.
We were gassed for chanting ‘Leave The Kids Alone.’
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: C9 C7; 104 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Pandemic
Surge The Instrumentals

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

bookmark_borderThe Kill (Bury Me)

Coversong written by Jared Leto originally made famous by 30 Seconds To Mars
Jared Leto described the meaning of the song as, “It’s really about a relationship with yourself. It’s about confronting your fear and confronting the truth about who you are.”

C                     D
What if I wanted to break  
                       Em
Laugh it all off in your face
               Bm
What would you do?
C                     D
What if I fell to the floor
                      Em
Couldn’t take this any…more
               Bm
What would you do?
C              D
Come, Break me down
Bury me, Bury me
Em                 Bm
I am finished With you

C                     D
What if I wanted to fight
                       Em
Beg for the rest of my life
               Bm
What would you do?
C                     D
You say you wanted more
                      Em
What are you waiting for
                Bm
I'm not running from you
C              D
Come, Break me down
Bury me, Bury me
Em                 Bm
I am finished With you
C                D
Look   in   my  eyes   
You’re killing me, killing me
Em               Bm
All I wanted was you

[Bridge]
  C            D      Em
I tried to be someone else
    G                 C
But nothing seemed to change
  D          Em            G        C
I know now, this is who I really am inside
        D        Em
Finally found myself
G              C
Fighting for a chance
  D         Em           C
I know now, this is who I really am
C              D
Come, Break me down
Bury me, Bury me
Em                 Bm
I am finished With you
C                D
Look   in   my  eyes   
You’re killing me, killing me
Em               Bm
All I wanted was you
C                     D
What if I wanted to break  
                       Em
Laugh it all off in your face

The-Kill–Bury-Me.mp4

DR0000_3388-The-Kill.mp3

DR0000_6076-The-Kill.mp3 (Live on the Lake)

4-track recording
From the album Pandemic

bookmark_borderHeart Bomb

LYRICS
My heart is going to explode
Now, your heart’s my abode
The way you display your posture
I’m sure of a pure future
Through your eyes
I realize
Adapt our hope
Yes, know no nope
I can see within you
There’s a lot we can do
When I listen to what there is to say
I can see the way to the day
Raise our spirits!
Can you hear it?
Raise our spirits!

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: C A7 / Em A7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album Pandemic
Surge The Instrumentals

bookmark_borderIt’s Knot, My Dog

LYRICS
Yeah, the top dog hopped upon his spot
No, his name’s not spot
It’s not
It’s knot
Top dog
He’s the top dog
Jumped upon my bed
On top
Decides to lay his head
… on… my bed
On top
Now, he’s the top dog
I’m the man cog
He’s the top dog
Knot tied tight
Knot tied right
Not naughty
Not knot
Good dog?
Great dog.
Top dog
He’s a great dog
Rate dog: top dog

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: F# / E A F#
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitars and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album Pandemic
Surge The Instrumentals