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LYRICS
Oh, so here we go
Off to be show
I mean… you know…
Dazed, confused… we lit the fuse
(Bomb go BOOM!)
While you scoff
You’re aloof
You laugh
You jack-off
You scoff
Jack-off
Aloof
You laugh
’cause right now…
You are not only
Lewd and crude
With a piss-poor attitude
You’re screwed
You are…
Lewd and crude
With a piss-poor attitude
And screwed
Chords: C Am / Am Em Em Am / C B7 Em
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
LYRICS
On the run
When you come to know
On the run
With nowhere to go
Your past is on your tale
Due time for the crime trail
It came back to bite you
Boo who?
On the run
When you come to know
On the run
With nowhere to go
Past due canine time
Make do so sub-prime
“It came back to bite you”
Comes true
On the run
When you come to know
On the run
With nowhere to go
So, get it through your head
Or else you’ll end up dead
It’ll come back to bit you…
It’ll come back to bit you in the….
Ask
… just ask
It’ll come back to bit you in the ask
A song about an escaped murderer on the loose in the neighborhood for two weeks in September of 2023.
Did I hear right they said the dog captured him by the scalp?
Yes… dog got ’em… by the head. Hero dog was trained to hold and secure until release command. There was not much wound to the scalp… it’s just that head wounds tend to bleed a lot. The picture was originally released by the Border Patrol. The dog, Yoda, is part of the Border Patrol team. The Border Patrol works under different laws than the State Police. Under normal circumstances, they can only operate within a ‘reasonable distance’ of the border… 100 air miles from any external boundary of the U.S.
Chords: D C A A E A / A G A / A G E A; Part II from 124 Beats Per Minute / Accelerando
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Start again?
No option
… to… start again
We got to begin
But then went afoul
Religion is sin
The ironic fool
Almost there
Unaware
… we’re… almost there
We got to begin
But then went afoul
Religion is sin
The iconic fool
At The End
Recommend
… to… start again
Start again?
No option
… to… start again
We got to begin
But then went afoul
Religion is sin
The ironic fool
Chords: D A E / E A D G E; Part II 107 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Is it hot enough
Humid, too?
Make conditions tough/rough
Humans do
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to recharge
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to love large
With our over abundance
Of energy
A-bun-DANCE
Give away your wealth
A-bun-DANCE
Live for better health
A-bun-DANCE
Open up your mouth
A-bun-DANCE
Stand in the light
Fight for the children…
… the children’s rights
Is it hot enough
Humid, too?
Make conditions tough/rough
Humans do
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to recharge
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to love large
With our over abundance
Of energy
A-bun-DANCE
Forget about the money
A-bun-DANCE
Forge for times more sunny
A-bun-DANCE
Get to the land of honey
A-bun-DANCE
Stand in the light
Fight for the children…
… the children’s rights
Is it hot enough
Humid, too?
Make conditions tough/rough
Humans do
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to recharge
Is it really…
… really that hard
Hard to love large
With our over abundance
Of energy
A-bun-DANCE
Given the perfect chance
A-bun-DANCE
A natural romance
A-bun-DANCE
Dance, dance
A-bun-DANCE
Stand in the light
Fight for the children…
… the children’s rights
Chords: Em F G / G F Em / E C C E / E C B7 E; Part II from 109 to 122 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
A song about children suing governments over their right to live.
Litigating for Children’s Right to a Stable and Healthy Climate
Children have filed lawsuits worldwide against their governments over their basic human rights. Our Children’s Trust reported:
In November 2013, hundreds of Dutch citizens, along with the Dutch Urgenda Foundation, sued their government to hold the state liable for failing to take measures to prevent dangerous climate change. The plaintiffs argued that under Dutch tort law, the State could be held liable for negligence due to its failure to adequately reduce greenhouse (GHG) emissions in line with its previous international commitments to reduce emissions by 25-40% by 2020. They also argued that the government’s failure to achieve its GHG emission reduction commitments violated their fundamental rights to life, privacy and health under the European Code of Human Rights. The plaintiffs sought a declaration that the Netherlands was acting unlawfully towards the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs also sought injunctions ordering the Netherlands to limit its GHG emissions to a level of 40%, or at least 25% below 1990 levels before 2020 and to present to Parliament within 6 months a program of measures with corresponding budgets that would ensure such GHG emissions reductions. In June 2015, the Hague District Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, imposing a 25% reduction of GHG emissions by 2020. The District Court’s decision was upheld by both the Court of Appeals in October 2018 and the Netherlands Supreme Court in December 2019.
In August 2023, the Journal Nature reported:
Advocates for action on climate change won a major court victory in the United States this week. A district court judge ruled in Held v. Montana that Montana’s Environmental Policy Act, which prohibits the state from considering the climate impact of proposed energy projects, violates the “right to a clean and healthful environment” promised by the state’s constitution. Montana’s attorney-general has vowed to appeal. The case was brought in 2020 on behalf of a group of 16 young people, now between 5 and 22 years old, and was litigated by Julia Olson at the non-profit law firm Our Children’s Trust. Olson has been involved with dozens of climate cases since around 2010.
LYRICS
Get your glide on
Like a swan
Swimming on a pond
Watch the duck make a wake
On the lake
It looks so easy
But, you’ve got to be free
… looks so easy
Just set yourself free
Open… open your mind
You’ll find
There’s space
All over the place
So seize “me”
It looks so easy
But, you’ve got to be free
… looks so easy
Just set yourself free
Chords: C7 C E / E C C D E / E C C7 / C E E C
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
LYRICS
Some good things are:
Are closest star
And things not so far
Some good things are:
Being on par
For going that far
Well if we are….
All right then here we go
We get to know
The right to yearn to learn
We get to grow
The right to learn and know
Sounds good so far
Dreams, happiness, peace, love
All the above
Sounds better yet
Hope I never forget
All the above
Chords: E D G E / A C D E / E A C E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
LYRICS
It’s not like it’s the first time
Been said time and again
Won’t find reason or rhyme
If The End
Is to begin
Turn off the light
Best say good night
Turn off that light!
Hate to spoil
Your midnight oil
More like it’s the last time
Oxygen is getting thin
Won’t find reason or rhyme
If The End
Is to begin
Turn off the light
Best say good night
Turn off that light!
Hate to spoil
Your midnight oil
Welcome to The End of our time
Not said ever again
Won’t find reason or rhyme
If The End
Is to begin
Turn off the light
Best say good night
Turn off that light!
Hate to spoil
Your midnight oil
Chords: E C D G F# F E / E Em7 / G F# F E; Part II at 114 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Sitting here thinking
I bet I never would have thought of that
And that was that
Like a light bulb
Or grenade lob
Going off in my head
I said,
“That’s it!
You nailed it!!
Hard to believe
I could conceive
Because there I was
Sitting and thinking
Just sitting and thinking
Sitting here thinking
I bet I never would have thought of that
And that was that
Like a light bulb
Or grenade lob
Going off in my head
Chords: E/7/m7 D A E / E C D E; Part II at 109 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
You can get a glimpse
Of a 3-eyed shrimp
At the festival
No more can the dinosaur
Soar or explore
Since the festival
March of the human race
Has left it’s deadly trace
Through the heart of the desert
Planned it
Damn it!
Took the chance to dance
On an ancient stance
At the festival
3-eyed shrimp could not endure
Put an end to the dinosaur
Since the festival
March of the human race
Has left it’s deadly trace
Through the heart of the desert
Planned it
Damn it!
Three-Eyed-Dinosaur-Shrimp.mp3
This is a song about the Burning Man festival of 2023. The Metro UK reported, “Floods at Burning Man have woken up organisms that can lie dormant in the dried-out lake bed for decades. Triops and fairy shrimp are small crustaceans that can survive extreme environmental conditions like drought. They do this by laying eggs that can remain dormant for years until the right conditions are met. When it rains, the eggs hatch and the shrimp emerge to live in the newly formed water. Triops are related to the oldest living creature, Triops cancriformis, which is why they are sometimes called ‘dinosaur shrimp’.”
Rain is rare in the desert of Nevada. 70,000 people marching over the mating of 3-eyed shrimp is even rarer. Now the question is — will any of the Three-Eyed Dinosaur Shrimp survive?
Chords: D A D / C A / C G D
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
LYRICS
It’s hard to talk
To a rock
No matter how hard
You knock, knock, knock
An intelligent question?
Out of the question
Maybe it’s time
You clean your clock
Toys in the attic
Check your stock
It’s hard to talk
To a rock
No matter how hard
You knock, knock, knock
An intelligent question?
Out of the question
Mental digestion
Mental suggestion
Regurgitated meal spiel
Spew through and through
Unkind diarrhea of the mind
It’s hard to talk
To a rock
No matter how hard
You knock, knock, knock
Chords: E A / A B7 G E; Part II at 119 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Look at the monster we’ve created
Built our Frankenstein
Then we aggravated
Running out of time
(It’s Frankenstein time)
Our beast is on the loose
Let’s see what fear we’ll induce
The extreme havoc we’ll produce
Look at the disasters… all related
From the monster we created
Then aggravated
Of course we should be berated
’cause we’re… running out of time
(It’s Frankenstein time)
Our beast is on the loose
Let’s see what fear we’ll induce
The extreme havoc we’ll produce
Look how mean is our extreme
Knowledge based on a friggin’ meme
Dangerous to all of us
Dangerous to us
Disastrous to us
It’s Frankenstein time
Our beast is on the loose
Let’s see what fear we’ve induced
The extreme havoc we produced
This song is based on a “discussion” with Darren Wolfe of Philadelphia, PA — How to shutdown a climate denier making a “false narrative” political stand.
Chords: Em7(11) Em7 A5 G5 E5 / A5 C5 D5 E5; Part I at 122 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Now that I’m stuck betwixt
Try n’ find an easy fix
I mean between
A rock and a hard place
The place I’ve been placed
By the human race
I mean obscene
Can’t keep up the pace
Without falling on my face
When you look inside
Deep, deep inside
There’s no where to run
There’s no where to hide
When we rearrange rearrange
With climate change
We accelerate the strange
Now that we’re stuck betwixt
Try n’ find an easy fix
I mean between
A rock and a hard place
The place we’ve been placed
By the human race
I mean obscene
Can’t keep up the pace
Without falling on our face
When you look inside
Deep, deep inside
There’s no where to run
There’s no where to hide
Chords: D/9/6 A E B7 / B7 C E; Part III at 120 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
LYRICS
Near the top of the mountain
Where the river starts to flow
Here the “opt in” to begin
To deliver down below
What will we see
On the way to the sea
What will become of me
The curtsy of humanity
Or our catastrophe?
Down into the valley
Where the river’s heart does glow
Because quite sadly
The humans made it so
What will we see
On the way to the sea
What will become of me
The curtsy of humanity
Or our catastrophe?
Somehow through the mouth of the bay
Diluted by all they’ve polluted
They say it had to be this way
Wild-eyed and deluded
Had what we’ll be in our home in the see
What became of we
Cruelty of humanity
Till we can not sea
Chords: E9 E E7/m7 / G D A / G D A E / B7 A E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded over Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania… where the Blue Mountain forms a tributary to the Schuylkill River… flowing past Reading and Philadelphia… to its confluence with the Delaware River… into the Delaware Bay… through to the Atlantic Ocean (between Cape May and Cape Henlopen.)
LYRICS
Have some
Have some more
Handsome
Nevermore
Well, son
Do you want to endure?
Why indulge the bulge
Encourage the gorge
Topped with a surplus of splurge
Do you really want some
Well, son
Have some… have some more
Then, some
Pour until poor
Why indulge the bulge
Encourage the gorge
Topped with a surplus of splurge
Do you really, really want some
Then some
Some sum
Ridiculous and/or dumb
Not “need some else I’m done”?
Why indulge the bulge
Encourage the gorge
Topped with a surplus of splurge
Chords: C Em C E / C D A / A C D A / C B7 E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
In 2023, we wrote about having crossed tipping points in the paper, “Climate Change: How Long Is ‘Ever’?“. When we forecast crossing these tipping points, we thought it would not happen for centuries. We underestimated Man’s ignorance and arrogance. Fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions have continued to set record highs. Humans have caused chain-reactions resulting in domino-effects, snowball effects, and feedback loops.
The United States has unsustainable mass consumption. US consumers are destroying the world’s environment and economies. The excessive demand of US consumers has resulted in the exploitation of natural resources, the largest emissions of pollution and greenhouse gases, inflation, currency disparity, and the largest redistribution of wealth in the world. Americans’ mass consumption is responsible for creating the greatest income disparity, wealth inequity, and poverty.
LYRICS
Pissed away a nice sunny day
Missed a way to pull you through
If the proof is in the pudding
Then what the hell are we doing?
The aloof in charge of pushing
Whatever the hell we’re doing
Pissed away a nice sunny day
Missed a way to pull you through
If it’s plain as the nose on our face
Then why the damn disgrace
The insane in charge of the place
“Whatever,” the human race says
Pissed away a nice sunny day
Missed a way to pull you through
If the road ahead is obvious
Then what the hell is wrong with us
We’ll erode our charge illustrious
Whatever the hell destroys us
Pissed away a nice sunny day
Missed a way to pull you through
Chords: Eb Bb / Eb Bb F Bb
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania