Tag: Premortem

bookmark_borderSatellite

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LYRICS
Break in the east
Head west all day
A point-of-view that at least
Is in a relative way
Who is going around who?
If you don’t like it
What are you going to do?
There is no self-pity
In relativity
The fact is:
Spinning on our axis
A satellite
Of the sun
When all’s said and done…
A satellite of the sun
Is that right?
… a satellite of the sun
You might be right… not daft
When you say left is right
And, that right is left
… you just might
(Be right)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Dm G / C Am Dm
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderMonkey Do

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LYRICS
Is it true
Monkey see, monkey do?
Through and through
In the me and you
Through and threw, too
[feces flying]
One flew
Over the cuckoo’s nest
Think it best?
Is it true…
Monkey see, monkey do?
Up on a caged pedestal
Above the festival — Washington DC
Undone, I see
Monkey do
It’s true
Monkey see, monkey do
Know evil
Monkey do
Know harm
Monkey do
Ill alarm
Monkey see, monkey do

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Reggae
Chords: F#m F#m9 F#m7(11); 92 BPM Swing Reggae
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Premortem

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

bookmark_borderLagophthalmos

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LYRICS
Then I started thinking
What if there were
No blinking
What would protect my “I”?
The smallest bug
Could pull the plug
On my ability to see
“I can see that”
No longer intact
(Intact in fact, in fact intact)
It would seem
No vision to envision my dream
For I
Could no longer do anything
In the blink of an “I”
Nothing
Thinking blinking
Blinking thinking
Helping me see
Dreams come true
Helping the dreams
See through

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Em D Em G Em; 157 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderUndiagnosed

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LYRICS
These symptoms are confussin’
Can’t figure my head from my tail
While all the while I’m oozing
On my knees, to no avail
Don’t ask me
What’s the matter with me
If I knew
Would I be asking you?

These symptoms are less than amusin’
Dumbfounding me to no avail
While all the while I’m loosing
Oh why won’t what ails sail?
Don’t ask me
What’s the matter with me
If I knew
Would I be asking you?

It’s starting to come through
I’m starting to get a clue
The frailty of humanity
Inevitability of mortality
Exactly
What’s the matter with me
Is that what’s ailing you, too?

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: A A7 D D9 / C D A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

Written in between Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church

bookmark_borderEasy Way Out

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LYRICS
Hey! Wait just a minute
… you mean I’m already in it?
All the time already been
In the in
I just now figured it out
If you can’t find the easy way out
Do you know what I’m talking about?
Are you trying to tell me
To see “obviously”
All this time I have been
In the in?
Easy! All this time
It’s been inside of me
No doubt
The easy way out
Is inside of me

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E Em7 / A G E / E G A E
Recording: original take / live digital 10-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Drums

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderBowel’s Vowels

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LYRICS
Dig down through the vowels
(Dig deep… deep seep)
And grab your “I”
[Jack, I’ll buy an eye-for-an-eye]
Ohhh how about U
A men
E z
An I
For an O U
Sometimes Y?
(I gotta ask
Behind the mask
Sometimes why?
Why sometimes why?)
Deep down in the bowels
Of my vowels
Deep down in the vowels
Of my bowels
I, I, I…
Poke me in the I
Poke my I out
Deep seep out of my I

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Em F#7 Em7(11); 182 BPM Prog Rock n’ Roll
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderPhobiaphobia

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LYRICS
The fear of fear
Phobiaphobia
Does it get ya
Is it near
Have I realized
I’m paralyzed
Out on the ledge
Overlooking the edge
Get a grip
Stiff upper lip
The fear of fear
Phobiaphobia
Encyclopedia
Of the queer
Out on the ledge
Overlooking the edge

The more I know
The more I know the less I know
Have know fear
Of the unknown
Cover blown
Out of the closet
Out of the dark
Moves the farthest
Beyond
Embark

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: D F# G; 122 BPM Hard Rock
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderNothing Better

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LYRICS
Until when there’s nothing better
’til dead and gone, the go-getter
Getting hotter, getting wetter
Getting dryer, you’re on fire
Last gasp and final desire
Damn the straits be thee dire
Spirits going to lift me higher
Stay out of harms way
(Hopefully today)
Chalk it up to your power
In God’s final hour
Our hour of power
Power our are
Are our

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: F#m F#m9 F#m7(11) / F#m F#m7 B B7 C#7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

Written in between Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church

bookmark_borderRoute Out

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LYRICS
Is it time to break camp
Stamp the ember out
Fold the tent
Our time’s lent
Orient a new route
It’s in the stars this evening
Bring on the dawn in the morning

Being nomad isn’t so bad
Everywhere you roam is home
Features
All the creatures
Best I’ve ever had
It’s in the stars this evening
Bring on the dawn in the morning

Planet Earth was great for a birth
Being a being
More universe
Chapter and verse
Free for the seeing
It’s in the stars this evening
Bring on the dawn in the morning

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: D A / C G D
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

Written in between Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church

bookmark_borderPo Lease

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LYRICS
Ohhhh The Po Po Po’s
Lease on life
At the least
Is rife with strife
Do you hear the howl
All the while
The downtrodden’s growl
No compassion
In their fashion
Badge and club and gun
Make you want to run
We’ll shed a tear today
Run, run, run away
We’ll keep the fear at bay
Where there’s a we’ll / will
There’s a way
You know…
It won’t be over
’til we overthrow
Our overlords
(Hear the hoards
Here the hoards)

ABOUT THE SONG
Written in between Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church

Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Em C / D Em / G F# Em
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Premortem

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

bookmark_borderGone Wild

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LYRICS
Go wild all day
Go wild all night
Along the way
I try to shed some light
And, as I move along
If things start going wrong
I know it won’t be long
Till I take a right
Leaving left long gone
Will “be” long
We’ll belong

And, as I move along
Think I know what’ll keep me strong
By playing “one more song!”
You can sing along
Will “be” long
We’ll belong

ABOUT THE SONG
Written in between Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church

Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: G A / G A C G / A C A C G
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem