bookmark_borderNo Joke

LYRICS
Not a joke
The center is evaporating
Fire’s stoked
Extremes are exasperating
Our island
I am thinking is sinking
Down

No mirage
The ground is disintegrating
Failed marriage
Red & Blue are separating
Gone to hell
Rally troops, alarm bell
Sound

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

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderPunchline

LYRICS
If you can’t join ’em
Guess you better beat ’em…
… to the punchline
… in the nick of time
If they don’t know a joke
Dry humored limey bloke
I’m prone to go to the zone
Whacking the funny bone
Perplex with their reflex
Filling the gaff with laugh
Make ’em laugh ’til they cry
Postponing “Till the day I die!”
Killin’ it thrillin’ it to life

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Em7 / C Am F Dm Em; 67 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic/Electric Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderLiving Be

LYRICS
Living be
Living’s easy
Put quite simply
Once I was born
Didn’t have to learn
Sound the horn
Of feel the burn
Once given birth
Fell to this Earth
Didn’t have to strive
To stay alive
Nothing to do with conceit
My heart knew to beat
Begin, began, begun
The lungs knew… begun
Begin, began, begun
To be one
To breath the breeze with ease
Come to life void of strife
Saw the light to insight

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Fm Fsus4 / Eb E Fm / CM7aug Fsus4 Fm; 112 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderScattered Blue

LYRICS
What happens
When your wavelength hits the atmosphere
What happens
Turn to blue from clear?
Is it comforting to know
All the colors of the rainbow?

What happens
As the sun drops late day
What happens
Does it bend or break your ray
Is it comforting to know
All the colors of the rainbow?

What happens
As the day turns to night
What happens
Does the wavelength make red light
Is it comforting to know
All the colors of the rainbow?

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

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderBecome Of Freedom

LYRICS
What has become of freedom?

With rights come responsibilities
It’s not all just, “Me! Me! Me!”
(Rights and responsibilities
From see to shinning see)
If you don’t respect
Your role in society
In retrospect
It’s your hypocrisy
You’ll own your own
Long, long, long
Litany of legacy
The proud shroud
Of hypocrisy
Wear it well
As you’ve made your will
… your will until

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Em G D / D C B; 60 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderThe Skinny on the Fat Cats

LYRICS
Can you get me the skinny
The facts on the fat cats
IF the load is too heavy
If the facts are too many
Then are they cats
Or are they rats?

Can you give me the lowdown
The facts on the highfalutin
If the load has overgrown
And fat cats are overblown
Then are they cats
Or are they rats?

How about something upbeat
Half-full glasses for the masses
A well deserved treat
To dream complete
The flight of the dove
The release of the love
Then are they cats
Or are they rats?

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Bb Ab Gb Bb / Gb Ab Bb; 120 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderGet Along

LYRICS
I think I’m starting to like the motivation
If the pain’s to gain appreciation
I must be departing form the stagnation
If it’s plain to gain appreciation
And we all get along
Falling in love with the same song

Are you starting to like the stimulation
To refrain from strain realization
Stimulate before it’s too late imagination
If it’s plain to gain appreciation
And we all get along
Falling in love with the same song

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

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderTeeth Of The Gears

LYRICS
For smooth opporation
Up the calculation
Add smooth transition
Due to calibration
So the teeth of the gears combine
Spinning ’round to crank out time

For more satisfaction
Lube the operation
A smooth transaction
loss of the friction
And the teeth of the gears combine
Spinning ’round to crank out time

No grind distraction
A perfect interaction
For your attention
The main attraction
For the teeth of the gears combine
Spinning ’round to crank out time

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: F# A / B D F#
Recording: digital 4-track stereo
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Piano

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderI’m in Touch with Your World

Written by Ric Ocasek
Made famous by The Cars

C#-F#-C#      E   - B  -  C#    C#-F#-C#        B    - C  -   C#
   You can tuck it on the inside,    you can throw it on the floor
C#-F#-C#      E   - B   -  C#    C#-F#-C#        B  - C  -  C# (C#/G#-F#-C#/F  B-C-C#) x2
   You can wave it on the outside,   like you never did before
C#-F#-C#          E - B -  C#    C#-F#-C#            E  - B - C#
   You get the diplomatic treatment,  you get the force fed future
C#-F#-C#          E - B -  C#   C#-F#-C#            B  - C    -  C#
   You get the funk after death,     you get the weisenheimer brainstorm
C#/G#-F#-C#/F    B   -     C -  C#  C#/G#-F#-C#/F B     -  C   -  C#
      I'm in touch with your world,      so don't you try to hide it
C#/G#-F#-C#/F    B   -     C -  C#  C#/G#-F#-C#/F   B   -  C   -    C#
      I'm in touch with your world,      and nobody's going to buy it
A              B            C#-F#-C# E-B-C# A             B
   It's such a lovely way to go               it's such a lovely way to go
Solo: ( C#-F#-C# E-B-C# C#/G#-F#-C#/F B-C-C#  C#-F#-C# B-C-C# C#-F#-C# B-C-C# ) x2

    I've been lying on your feathers,     you keep talking 'bout the weather
    I'm a psilocybin pony,      you're a flick fandango phoney
    It's a sticky contradiction,   it's a thing you call creation
    Everything is science fiction,   and  I  ought to know 
      I'm in touch with your world,      so don't you try to hide it
      I'm in touch with your world,      and nobody's going to buy it
   It's such a lovely way to go               it's such a lovely way to go
          Uh oh oh oh         I'm in touch with your world
      I'm in touch with your world,      I'm in touch with your world
      I'm in touch with your world

From the album Primitive Primates

bookmark_borderRunning Low

LYRICS
If I had more, there’d be some for you
I checked my store… not much to do
I went there and the cupboard was bare
Said wasn’t fair… just stood there to stare
Always want what I haven’t got
Hard to flaunt? Wonder why not

I said before, there’d be none for you
Find the door… from fly to flew
Cup runneth over soon will discover
Never say never become a lover
Always want what I haven’t got
Hard to flaunt? Wonder why not

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

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderFreedom’s Slippery Slope

LYRICS
Slipped on the soap.. box…
… off… stopped the clocks
Well, you can’t just do as you please
If it invades any of these:
My pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness
Within my confines
The whereabouts of “mine”
But that doesn’t include over there…
In the public domain
Refrain while you remain
Don’t be rude
Don’t be a dope
On freedom’s slippery slope

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: F# slide to Em / Em 7 9 11 13 6 / G F# E; 137 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderSnow Globe

LYRICS
Living within a snow globe
Shake it up… world turned cold
Don’t look now but the sky is falling
Should have paid heed to Mother Nature’s calling
Turned our snow globe upside down
Right side up it comes falling down

Life within a fragile globe
Shook up world turned cold
Don’t look now but the sky is falling
Should have paid heed to Mother Nature’s calling
Turned our fragile world upside down
Right side up comes falling down

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

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderWhat’s Today?

LYRICS
What’s today?
Have to see you later
On my way
Whims I’m off to cater
Gotta go
Long gone
So long

Did you say
“Can I come with you?”
On our way
Change our point-of-view
Gotta go
Long gone
So long

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

From the album Primitive Primates
The Instrumentals: Quieten

bookmark_borderUnhid

LYRICS
If you want
You know we could
Do what we should
… for mankind
Not for want
We’ve done what we did
Left with squat
All is gone
Unhid
Out in plain view
For all of you
Plain view
From whence to thence
Has been
Bounce back again
Bounce back, bounce back higher
Aspire
How come what will become
Will become of me
The part of I that is be
Therefore
I am
I think?

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Em / A G Esus5 Em / C D Em/9/sus4/7(11); 104 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

bookmark_borderOne More Song

LYRICS
Never a chore
Never a bore
Always adore
Play one more song
Make it long
Play it strong
(One more song)
Can’t go wrong
Sing along
(Wontcha just play one more song?)
Just one last song
That will last, last, last

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: E7 A7 B7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitars and Loop Pedal, Keyboards