Chords: E7 E Esus4 / D A E / E G A A G E: Part II at 121 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Prostrate
At this date
Irate
You’ve got me down
Prostrate
Degrade
I’m throwing myself to the ground
Ask me my state
Straight up, face down
Prostrate
Frustrate with debate
Yet, I hesitate to state
Face-to-face
As I wait…
Prostrate
LYRICS
I look to see the sea
That keeps on floating me
Serene above the scene
On our ship of dreams
Why testify?
I intensify
At our “whether” extreme
Hope our boat can stay afloat
Weather the storm, born…
Fresh and clean
(Fresh and green)
Find myself looking again
Into the ocean
Oh… where to begin
Fame and fortune
Why testify?
I intensify
At our “whether” extreme
Hope our boat can stay afloat
Weather the storm, born…
Fresh and clean
(Fresh and green)
I look to see the see
Deep within me
Yes, I know what to do
How ’bout you?
Why testify?
I intensify
At our “whether” extreme
Hope our boat can stay afloat
Weather the storm, born…
Fresh and clean
(Fresh and green)
Are you vocal about climate change? Are you clear that there is no doubt “whether” humans are influencing climate change? Are you as extreme as the weather?
Chords: Am Em G Am / Am G Em AM / Am C D G Em Am; Part II @ 116 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
I spy something warmer
Comes with a disclaimer
Everything within sight
Could soon ignite
Is running down the street
Burning your feet
Is everyone you meet
Jumping in too deep
Gone dire
On fire
I spy something warmer
Comes with a disclaimer
Everything within sight
Could soon ignite
An apocalyptic view
Coming to you
As every one you meet
Is burning on the street
Gone dire
On fire
I spy something warmer
Comes with a disclaimer
Everything within sight
Could soon ignite
All your hopes and dreams
Like a World War movie scene
No more news flashes
The world lay in ashes
Gone dire
On fire
In the Hawaii wildfires of August 2023, both wind and water flow forces contributed to the devastation. Hurricane Dora was at least 500 miles from Hawaii yet the wind forces impacted the fire in Maui. The winds were so strong that before the fire reached Lahaina extremely hot air blew over the town. The streets were so hot they burnt people’s feet trying to flee. The surface of everything became hot. Even after people jumped into the ocean, they said the debris in the water was too hot to float on.
The blast of hot air over Lahaina created the conditions for a flashpoint. A flashpoint is the temperature at which a particular organic compound gives off sufficient vapor to ignite in air. The entire town ignited so quickly that warning sirens could not be activated and people did not have time to escape.
In an unexpected twist, water flow forces also contributed to the chaos. How could water flow add to the fire emergency conditions? When people fled the heat and fire, they jumped into the sea. ABC news reported: Shawn Dougherty, of Lahaina, was among the hundreds of residents forced to flee the resort city when the wildfire began engulfing their homes.
Like others, Dougherty said his only means of survival was to jump into the ocean with his girlfriend, but while some found safety in nearby jetties, the rocks and coral tore up Dougherty’s body.
“At one point, it seemed like I might drown,” he told ABC News. “I’m a good swimmer, but the water was just really rough because of the wind and the turbulence.”
Chords: Em G A A G Em / Em C D Em / Em B7 B7 Em; Part II @ 120 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (Matthew Thayer/The Maui News via AP)
LYRICS
No, it’s not the fall
No, it’s not the fall at all
Yes, as I recall
Recall it’s not the fall at all
That will kill you
It’s the stop
Not the drop
But the… stop!
[sudden stop]
The same holds true
How the climate crisis
Will be killing you
Do you know
Wind and floods flow?
As man fails (and flails)
Damage scales
Can you see
Exponentially?
@ V ^2
We phased, too
Velocity squared impaired
Some sum momentum
The act of impact
Velocity squared impaired
It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.
I said: Technically speaking it is the impact from the momentum that causes damage and deaths. Global warming causes an increase in mass and/or velocity (momentum) of things that are mass flow driven by heat, like wind and flood. The burning of fossil fuels and other human released emissions have impacted momentum’s impact. A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. Warmer air allows for the creation of more massive raindrops. Warmer ocean temperatures create stronger hurricanes. Hail and tornadoes form in strong thunderstorm clouds with intense updrafts, high liquid-water content, and large water droplets.
Sidd added: It’s worse than that. Wind and water flow forces scale as the square of velocity, so as flow speeds increase (say due to more intense heating or heavier rain) the damage scales as the square of the velocity.
you will see that force is proportional to density times square of velocity (v^2)
So a twenty mile an hour wind exerts four times as much force as a ten mile an hour wind. And a forty mile an hour wind exerts sixteen times as much force as a ten mile an hour wind. A wind of fifty miles an hour exerts twenty five times and a wind of sixty miles an hour exerts thirty six times as much force as one of ten miles an hour.
Then you have the density term. Water is about eight hundred times denser than air, So the force exerted by a ten mile an hour flow of water is eight hundred times that of a ten mile an hour wind. So as flow velocities go up due to climate change, force and damage scale as square of the velocities. What is not clear is how much these velocities increase with climate change. But in a sense we are seeing this already as, for example, flood and sewage systems succumb and hillsides fall down, and so on. — from “Climate Change: The Equation” Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)
LYRICS
First one fell
Oh, well
This is hell?
Fare thee…
Scarcity
Forget about variety
Pales in comparison
Stale’s new companion
The dream of thrive
Is barely alive
Now we strive
Just to stay alive
First one fell
Oh, well?
What the heck
Knocked the next
Second fell
Just as well?
This is hell
Fare thee…
Another down
Come sing around
Another down
Come sing around
Another down
Come sing around
Pales in comparison
Stale’s new companion
The dream of thrive
Is barely alive
Now we strive
Just to stay alive
Human induced climate change is an exponential component of an unordered system (chaos theory). That means global warming is accelerating at a rapid rate in a complex way. Humans have caused chain-reactions resulting in domino-effects, snowball effects, and feedback loops. This song is about the first domino falling… starting the chain-reaction of falling dominoes. Tipping points are similar to falling dominoes, and feedback loops are similar to a snowball rolling down a hill. So part of the climate change formula might look something like this:
the domino effect * the snowball effect:
Chords: Dm D#m Em / G D C / C Em Em C
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, PA
LYRICS
3, 2, 1…
Get ready to run
’cause you know
Next up…
Zero
Blast off
Post scoff
Falling domino
Rolling snowball
Societal fall
Time to go
Try to calculate the rate
Of acceleration
Take the bait
And contemplate
Civilization
1, 2, 3
Start your engines
it gets worse
Than one imagines
Blast off
Post scoff
Falling domino
Rolling snowball
Societal fall
Time to go
Try to calculate the rate
Of acceleration
Take the bait
And contemplate
Civilization
Sooooo…
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0
Blast off
Post scoff
Falling domino
Rolling snowball
Societal fall
Time to go
Try to calculate the rate
Of acceleration
Take the bait
And contemplate
Civilization
Human induced climate change is an exponential component of an unordered system (chaos theory). That means global warming is accelerating at a rapid rate in a complex way. Tipping points and feedback loops are parts of an equation that determine the rate of acceleration in climate change.
LYRICS
Where should I start…
It’s tearing me apart
So from the heart
Going to do my part
Begin
To put it back together
Again
See if we
Can rescue Humpty
Dumb… what dignity?
Come… see what I see
Human race race
To clean-up our place
So from the heart
Going to do my part
Begin
To put it back together
Again
See if we
Can rescue Humpty
Dumb… what dignity?
Come… see what I see
Ways way less cruel
No fossil fuel fools
So from the heart
Going to do my part
Begin
To put it back together
Again
See if we
Can rescue Humpty
Dumb… what dignity?
Come… see what I see
Chords: Em Am / Am G Am / C D G G Am / Em Am; Part II @ 102 > 112 > 124 > 132 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Ebb and flowing
Without knowing
Said we’re going
Rushing out
A bout of about
We don’t know
So we cry and pout
Forego go
What’s that on the road…
A head?
One of the signs
I dread
Oscillating
To and fro
While we’re waiting
To find out
A bout of about
We don’t know
So we cry and pout
Forego go
What’s that on the road…
A head?
One of the signs
I dread
Back and forth
On the fence
What’s the worth
Shout some sense
A bout of about
We don’t know
So we cry and pout
Forego go
What’s that on the road…
A head?
One of the signs
I dread
LYRICS
On our extreme theme
The lights went out
Can’t miss us shout
Hey! What have you to say
Say! What ever you may
Today
Is the day
Payday
Say hey
Payday
Extreme broken dream
Our sight
went out
Left us to shout
Hey! What have you to say
Say! What ever you may
Today
Is the day
Payday
Say hey
Payday
Serene broken scene
Once right, now doubt
We cry and shout
Hey! What have you to say
Say! What ever you may
Today
Is the day
Payday
Say hey
Payday
Chords: C D Bb A / A C D Bb A / D Bb A / A C C A
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Are you living in a bubble
Living life is too much trouble?
Well you better get ready to pop
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Hate to burst your bubble
But we’re destined for rubble
With our facade of charade
In a parade of la-te-da
Are you living in a glass house
Throwing rocks what you espouse?
Well you better get ready to pop
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Hate to burst your bubble
But we’re destined for rubble
With our facade of charade
In a parade of la-te-da
Are you living for giving
Giving all the love you’ve got
If not why not start
Participating from the inside with heart
or
Are you living in a bubble
Living life is too much trouble?
Well you better get ready to pop
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Hate to burst your bubble
But we’re destined for rubble
With our facade of charade
In a parade of la-te-da
Chords: A G A / C D A / C B7 E / E G G E / E A C B7 E / E F (F# G G#) A; Part II @ 112 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Are you sowing wisdom’s seeds
Be bestowing random deeds
Free the way for some freedom
Lead the way through the undone
Gotta undo what we did
Who we tryin’ to kid?
Are you “so”-ing random pleads
Are you showing wisdom leads
Free the way for some freedom
Lead the way through the undone
Gotta undo what we did
Who we tryin’ to kid?
confess to our mess and redress
Refute the dispute
To refuse our refuse
Are you growing? Wisdom feeds
Be bestowing golden deeds
Free the way for some freedom
Lead the way through the undone
Gotta undo what we did
Who we tryin’ to kid?
confess to our mess and redress
Refute the dispute
To refuse our refuse
Time to claim our shame
And tame our appetite
Can’t you see
We’re barking up the wrong tree
Time to claim our shame
And tame our appetite
… we just might
See the light
Chords: B E A / D E A / C D E A / C D A; Part II @ 98 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
When it comes to reuse
We refuse
But come to makin’ waste
We make haste
Makin’ waste
Oh what a shame
That we can’t reclaim
Oh just the same
By name
The Lame
If we could just get back
What it is we lack
Concede
Stop the bleed
Oh what a shame
That we can’t reclaim
Oh just the same
By name
The Lame
Chords: E D / C D7 / Em / Em G D C Em; Part II @ 110 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Minimum damage
Or maximum pain
“I Need Some” — Damn Age
Think you’re insane
In the eye of the storm
Everything’s calm
Feel the norm
Forget the bomb?
The other eye of the hurricane
Still remains
Shame the human brain
Can’t refrain
In the eye of the storm
Everything’s calm
Feel the norm
Forget the bomb?
As the eye moves on from I
I soon realize
That wind and rain bring on pain
Should come as no surprise
Left the eye of the storm
All has gone wrong
Deal with a new norm
Cry your same old song
A song about the speed of climate change and the illusion of “calm” when you are in the eye-of-a-hurricane. Tipping points and feedback loops are parts of an equation that determine the rate of acceleration in climate change. Just like coming out of the eye back into the hurricane, the rapid rise in global warming should come as no surprise. A hurricane is a chaotic system, as is climate change. Human induced climate change is an exponential component of an unordered system (chaos theory). That means global warming is accelerating at a rapid rate in a complex way.
Chords: A C G D / E A D / D C / C E / E A/m7; Part II @ 126 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
