The left ain’t right
And the right’s left
(And, that ain’t right)
Vota-a-Rama
Enough drama
Vota-a-Rama drama
Vota-a-Rama.mp3
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Rock
Chords: Em / Em Dm C Em
Rhythm: 120 BPM
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Keyboards and Synthesizer
A song about senators pulling a vote-a-rama.
As Republicans push forward with repealing the Affordable Care Act, lawmakers are about to undertake a grueling Senate tradition: the vote-a-rama, a marathon of rapid-fire votes that is likely to stretch on for hours.
Yes, that’s really what it’s called. — New York Times
LYRICS
It’s hard to face the facts
When the facts lack
Or pull yourself up by the bootstraps
A barefoot kickback
Going to find the facts
Put an end to this fact flack
Get baby a new pair of shoes
Compassion’s for those that choose
Give me a break
There’s a lot at stake
When the POTUS turns fake
And the news — if only we knew
Now that I’m facing the facts
We elected a slack
In need of a boot to the ass
To show us worldly class
Back from fact finding
No need in reminding
Don’t ever, ever, ever let in
A con-man with thin skin
Give me a break
There’s a lot at stake
When the POTUS turns fake
And the news — if only we knew
Give me a break
There’s a lot at stake
When the POTUS turns fake
And the news — if only we knew
Fake kNews.mp3
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: F A C E / G A / G A G E
Recording: digital 10-track stereo
LYRICS
The fear
Of his smoke and mirror
I tire
Of the bold face liar
Bankruptcies
As far as the eye sees (the I’s see)
Oligarchists
Stealing money hands over fists
Took a full-time job
Taking money from the mob
Imagine this
Russian prostitute piss
What’s next
Off shore snakeoil drilling
Perplex
For sure, taxpayer billing
OH! Sob…
Dirty laundering with the Russian Mob
Now you
Make ‘merica squandering, again
Blowing Smoke.mp3
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: The Blues
Chords: E’s / B D A E
Recording: live digital 8-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Martin Guitar
LYRICS
One door will make you small
The other one will make you tall
Fly out the window
Up to the sky
Or maybe you’ll follow
The call of gravity… and fall
Command and choose a hand
You’ll come to understand
The wisdom of random
In our chaos kingdom
Or maybe you’ll swallow
The bliss of ignorance
One side will fix it all
The other drop the ball
One lives in shadow
The other blue sky
Belly ache n’ wallow
Or get it on the ball
After all
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E G / A C / A C E
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Organ
A song about chaos not being random (and the science of political science. ) “A dripping faucet seems random but when plotted… reveals an eerie order unexpected by conventional means.”
LYRICS
Wait a second?
I can’t wait a second
’cause I reckon
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
Leap a second
And before long
A second second
Thus this song
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
The spinoff of taking a spin off
You scoff?
Well, do you wanna get off?
’cause
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
It’s that mean solar time
Or UT1
Try to coordinate Universal time
Or UTC
And I for one can see
You won’t even give away
The time of day
No way
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
Screenshot of the UTC clock from www.time.gov during the leap second on December 31, 2016.
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E B E –> 7th fret and slide down to E
Recording: digital 8-track stereo recorded live
This song is about the Earth slowing down. Why is the Earth slowing down?
The Earth is slowing down and speeding up for many reasons. In general, the Earth is slowing down it’s rotation due to friction. The wind and the oceans and mountains, tides and gravity cause friction that slows an object in motion.
A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time, or UT1. Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth’s rotation drifts away from atomic time because of irregularities in the Earth’s rate of rotation. Since this system of correction was implemented in 1972, 27 leap seconds have been inserted, the most recent on December 31, 2016 at 23:59:60 UTC.
So, every once in a while humans travel a second forward in time. “Specifically, a positive leap second is inserted between second 23:59:59 of a chosen UTC calendar date (the last day of a month, usually June 30 or December 31) and second 00:00:00 of the following date.”
Why is the moon falling farther away from us?
The migration of the Moon away from the Earth is mainly due to the action of the Earth’s tides. The Moon is kept in orbit by the gravitational force that the Earth exerts on it, but the Moon also exerts a gravitational force on our planet and this causes the movement of the Earth’s oceans to form a tidal bulge.
LYRICS
Please open your book
And take a look
Page 1
Political Science 101
Political science
Or better of silent?
Not nice
Dealing with the intolerant
Should remain silent
Open it… remove doubt
Rivals
As it riles
My mind
Being kind
Being to our kind, kind
Kind to the humankind
Ignorant to the intolerant?
If they only knew
They are the ignorant
The intolerant ignorant
The few intolerant
They are the intolerant few
With an intolerant view
Political science
Political science 101
I won + you won = won
One won
Won one
Political science 101
Political science
Break the silence
A few things you need do…
Not be indifferent
To the intolerant
Not be indifferent
To the intolerant
So that you are not ignorant
To you
To your intolerance
Ignorant of intolerance
Political science
So that you are not ignorant to intolerance
The science of political science
The bi-ology
Of buy-ology
The science of political science
Beautiful people
Come out of your steep ill
Beautiful people
Come out from under you steeple
Come out from under your steep ill
Political Science 101
When 1 + 1 = won
When won is one
And one is won with one
LYRICS
You don’t have time?
You’re stuck in “I’m”
Viewed through the grime
Waste is a crime
Gonna while away the day? Hey?
Come out, play, join the foray
Be a tunesmith
Legend… a myth
Without or with
Added wordsmith
Gonna while away the day? Hey?
Come out, play, join the foray
Lend us your hand
Join with the band
Beyond the land
Souls understand
Gonna while away the day? Hey?
Come out, play, join the foray
LYRICS
Without your gravity
I can clearly see
I can see clearly
… fall by the way
Hey, hey, hey
By the wayside
Can’t really run
Can’t really hide
Falling away from the sun
My world’s come undone
Without your gravity
Lack of tether elasticity
My time’s been bide
My time’s been bye’d
Bye, bye, bye’d
Without your gravity
Hard to be
I can see clearly
Short term longevity
I spy…
Somebody’s watching…
Someone’s following…
Somebody’s spying on me
Let’s see what I can spy
I spy your spying eye!
Let’s see what I can spy
I spy your spyin’ lyin’ eye!
Cloak and dagger
Bond-ish swagger
We’re stirred
You’re shaken
From the lines you’ve blurred
You will awaken
The abortion of extortion
The collapse of your foundation
The execution of the solution
Humanity’s rejuvenation
