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bookmark_borderToday’s Date (June 8)

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LYRICS
Today’s someone’s anniversary
Today’s someone’s birthday
Today’s someone’s funeral
Today’s date
Was it fate?
Coincidentally
Was it meant to be
(Free your will. Free will will.)
Eventually
It will come to be
(Free your will. Free will will.)
See it free
Free me

Escape the hands of destiny
And her tragedy
Own your own trajectory
Today’s date
Was it fate?
Coincidentally
Was it meant to be
(Free your will. Free will will.)
Eventually
It will come to be
(Free your will. Free will will.)
See it free
Free me

When at large
Who’s in-charge?
Satisfaction
In your action
More give than take
In the love you make?
Today’s date
Was it fate?
Coincidentally
Was it meant to be
(Free your will. Free will will.)
Eventually
It will come to be
(Free your will. Free will will.)
See it free
Free me

Chords: Dm Em / Em/G Em C A / G Em / Em Ebm Dm; Part II @ 110 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

bookmark_borderClimate Change: Taste It in the Air

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LYRICS
Are you feeling it?
Can you taste it in the air
You reeling from it?
Climate change has come to bear
Aware
I’m choking
On the smoking
When you can see, smell, taste, touch
The air
Do you care to share your despair?
Can it be, well, haste, waste, such
To the touch
Is “weigh too much”
… way too much?

Climate change is in the air
You can feel
(Can you feel it a bit?)
Primate rearrange
Beware
The real deal
Literally
Litter you can see
Climate change is in the air
You can feel the real deal

[Dog Barking]
Is his bark worse than his bite?
Not tonight!
(Climate change’s bite is worse than the bark)

Climate change is in the air
You can feel the real deal

This song is about the Canadian wildfires of 2023. Up to this point in time it had been easy for people not to really notice climate change. A gradual rise in temperature of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. I mean… what’s the big deal, right? Well, the extreme wildfires are fueled by climate change and people can literally see it. The wildfires create huge CO2 emissions and remove millions of acres of CO2 absorbing old-growth forests creating a worsening feedback loop. Air pollution is: a leading cause of death worldwide, the leading cause of climate change, and the greatest threat to humankind. The good news — the wildfires are very visible. The wildfires are in your face. People can see, smell, taste, and touch the climate change in their face. Perhaps some of the unwoke will wake?

Smoke from wildfires in Canada brought record-breaking air pollution to the United States this spring, creating dangerous air quality from Bismarck, N.D., to Denver and Detroit to New York City and Washington. According to a Washington Post analysis of smoke data through June 7 (2023) from Stanford University, 197 air quality monitoring stations have reported all-time high pollution from wildfires.

This line is about everyone on my facebook feed waking up:
Do you care to share your despair?

Chords: Am D7 / Em / Em C A7 D7 / D7 A7; Part II @ 111 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
Nemo: Dog Barking (Is the bark worse than the bite? Not tonight!)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderPurple Haze

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LYRICS
Amidst a thickening mist
A fatal twist
No joke
That haze is smoke
Haze from a blaze
Enough to make you choke!
[siren sounding jam interlude]

Phased by the thickening haze
Could go on for days and days
No joke
That haze is smoke
Haze from a blaze
Enough to make you choke!
[siren sounding jam interlude]

Clogged with thickening fog
Pig roasted fat hog
No joke
That haze is smoke
Haze from a blaze
Enough to make you choke!
[siren sounding jam interlude]

A song about the air quality in Pennsylvania during June of 2023 as the smoke from the Canadian wildfires impacts life expectancy. The Northeastern USA saw its worst air quality ever. The alert system is color coded:

Daily AQI Color Levels of Concern Values of Index
Orange Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups 101 to 150
Red Unhealthy 151 to 200
Purple Very Unhealthy 201 to 300
Maroon Hazardous 301 and higher

Where I live was in the Purple alert for days. Many of my friends and family were in the Maroon zone. Air pollution is: a leading cause of death worldwide, the leading cause of climate change, and the greatest threat to humankind.

Chords: Fm Bb / Bb Fm / Fm Cm Cm Fm / Fm F G C / C Cm; Part II @ 118 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

Smoke from wildfires in Canada brought record-breaking air pollution to the United States this spring, creating dangerous air quality from Bismarck, N.D., to Denver and Detroit to New York City and Washington. According to a Washington Post analysis of smoke data through June 7 (2023) from Stanford University, 197 air quality monitoring stations have reported all-time high pollution from wildfires.

bookmark_borderFacing Spacing

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LYRICS
Should be interesting to see
The way things are going
Just between you and me
The way things are going
Just between you and me
Interesting to see
The way it’s going
The curve’s sloping up
The curve’s sloping down
All de;ends which way you’re facing
Spacing
Bottom of the cup
Or upside down frown
All depends which way you’re facing
Spacing
So it should be interesting to see
The way things are going
Just between you and me
The way things are going
Just between you and me
Interesting to see
The way it’s going

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. How extreme the slope appears depends on where you are facing.

Chords: FM7 A7/A / Am Em C Am; Part II @ 121 and increasing BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderNash Calabash

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LYRICS
All’s fair in love and war?
I’d much prefer
There’s war no more
Where there’s peace and love
The least can rise above
And we’ll all sail on as one
When won is one
One sailing on
Raise the rise in “I’s”
As one
In a win-win
Game on
A little bit of Nash calabash
Bash
Shake it
John Nash style for a while
Game on
Sail on
What’s good for me
Is good for you, too
Starting to see
What’s good for me
Is good for you, too

230605_2967-Nash-Calabash.mp3

A song about Nobel prize winning mathematician John Nash. His advances in game theory proved The Golden Rule.
“The best responses of all players are in accordance with each other.”
— John Nash, Jr.

Chords: D C G D / D A D
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

bookmark_borderLook Up!

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LYRICS
Look there!
Where?
Look up!
Aware
We’re
Looking up
As hard as it ever gets
There’ll be no regrets
As long as no one forgets:
Let’s try our best
Follow your heart
You can’t go wrong
Be head and arm strong
Sing and dance along

Hey there!
Who?
Look up!
Do!
Looking up
As hard as it ever gets
There’ll be no regrets
As long as no one forgets:
Let’s try our best
Follow your heart
You can’t go wrong
Be head and arm strong
Sing and dance along

Hello!
Know?
Look up!
We’ll go
Grow
Looking up
As hard as it ever gets
There’ll be no regrets
As long as no one forgets:
Let’s try our best
Follow your heart
You can’t go wrong
Be head and arm strong
Sing and dance along

A song about the picture taken at the first birthday party.
Chords: A Am7 A / A Bb / Bb A / C D A Bb A; Part II @ 128 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

Look up!
Look up!
Sing and dance along!
Sing and dance along!

bookmark_borderDying to Meat You

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LYRICS
What about that cold front?
Or crustacean invasion?
Where the extreme won’t relent
You’ve got to eat your excretions
In dismay
About gourmet
Our whiskey sour
Excrement
Experiment

They said it wouldn’t amount to much
Now weigh too much
Where the extreme won’t relent
You’ve got to eat your excretions
In dismay
About gourmet
Our whiskey sour
Excrement
Experiment

Put the crab on my tab
He’s been dying to “meat” me
Let me take a stab
You’re willing to treat me?
Where the extreme won’t relent
You’ve got to eat your excretions
In dismay
About gourmet
Our whiskey sour
Excrement
Experiment

230604_2957-Dying-to-Meat-You.mp3

A song about how climate change is causing the New England coastal waters to warm and humans to adapt. The famous Maine lobsters are moving North and the invasive miniature green crabs are taking over (eating all the other sea creatures.) So, the humans are turning the green crabs into whiskey, as well as, cracking, cooking and eating them whole like popcorn.

Chords: F / Bb F Eb Db / Db C F
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderTime We’ve Bound

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LYRICS
The Earth is spinning ’round n’ round
As we go around the sun
The thrill
Of never standing still
On the run
’round the sun
Spinning round n’ round
Getting dizzy?
Spinning round n’ round
Keeps us busy
Bound… as time is wound

What’s up?
What’s going down
Is spinning ’round
Spinning round n’ round
A trace in space
Spinning round n’ round
The heavens’ grace
Have any advice…
Ever the same place twice?
No?
Never slow?
Bound as time is wound
Bound by time we’ve wound

Chords: E A C D / D G B / B G D / B7 C E; Part II @ 130 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

bookmark_borderDrive the Alive

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LYRICS
More than just lucky
I’m so thankful
Because and after all
Look to see
Be brisk to hedge the risk
Into the bliss of risk-less

More than just lucky
I’m so thankful
Because and after all
Look to see
Be brisk to hedge the risk
Into the bliss of risk-less
Envision the dream
Then live in the scene

More than just lucky
I’m so thankful
Because and after all
Look to see
Be brisk to hedge the risk
Into the bliss of risk-less
Envision the dream
Then live in the scene
Focus illustrious
Drive the alive

More than just lucky
I’m so thankful
Because and after all
Look to see

Chords: Am / Am C E Am / Am Em Am; Part II @ 130 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

bookmark_borderHero Style

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LYRICS
Do you crave a way
To save the day
Every once in a while
In a brave foray
Rescue Mayday
Dogs in a pile
Every once in a while
People hope and pray
You’ll find a way
Hero style
Dogs in a pile
Every once in a while

The White Knight
Delivers the light
The damn souls in distress
Confess
Indeed
They’re in need
Stop the bleed
Calling on you
To pull through
Every once in a while
Hero style

A song about finding the hero in you to save Man from Man and reverse climate change.

Chords: A/A7 / C D A / D G A / C E A / G A; Part II @ 123 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderThe Secret

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The song of the day *The Secret* is written for the youngest Brouse’s 1st birthday. From the first day she could crawl, she would climb up my leg and dance as soon as the guitar started playing. Now, she pounds on my guitar case until I start playing. The best audience ever. Happy Birthday, Baby!

So, this is what she taught me over the last year:

LYRICS
The secret’s in the inspiration
If you keep on playing
You’ll never grow old
Come along to a sing-a-long
Won’t be long till you’re lost in song
And found your way
(What a day!)

The spirit is the inspiration
Let’s keep on playing
It never grows old
Come along to a sing-a-long
Won’t be long till you’re lost in song
And found your way
(What a day!)

We strive and thrive on inspiration
Saying and playing
“Let’s never grow old!”
Come along to a sing-a-long
Won’t be long till you’re lost in song
And found your way
(What a day!)

Chords: C C9 C7 C / G D / Am C D; Part II @ 100 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

bookmark_borderQuality Air

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LYRICS
Don’t you want a little bit of…
Quality air
The problem is I’m unaware of…
Any there
Any anywhere
That I’m aware
Cupboard’s bare
It’s time we pay attention
To our unintended consequences
Burning bridges and building fences
At last a grasp of comprehension
Stand for understand
Understand?

2. Wildfires to the West
Wildfires to the East
Breathability at its least
Deniability at its best
[chorus]

3. Ozone prone zone
Packed with particulates
Kiss at your own risk
Hold your breath till death
[chorus]

A song about climate change and pollution. In May of 2023, wildfires across Canada were impacting the air quality in the Northeastern USA. High particulate matter caused unhealthy air quality. Then on June 1, 2023, ozone pollution made the air unhealthy to breath. Air pollution is a leading cause of death worldwide. The solution to both the particulate and ozone problems leads to same conclusion — stop human induced climate change.

Chords: A C / C A / A / C E A / C A C B7 A E; Part II @ 119 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderPut-on

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LYRICS
Asked one time
Asked tow times
Is this a put-on?
Asked once more
Just to make sure
Is this a put-on?

Come on Man
We can do better
Come on Man
Be the go getter
Get it on

Back again
For repeatin’
Is this a put-on?
The heat we store
Just how much more?
Is this a put-on?

Come on Man
We can do better
Come on Man
Be the go getter
Get it on

Still can’t believe
Forget conceive
Is this a put-on?
Burn fossil fuels
Till fossil fools
Is this a put-on?

Come on Man
We can do better
Come on Man
Be the go getter
Get it on

230530_2921-Put-on.mp3

Chords: E E7 G / A D G / G E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderFess-up

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LYRICS
The glacier confessed
To complete defeat
Warming to retreat
The messed up
Is going down
Time to take a look around

The ocean on an acid trip
While the ‘bergs continue to drip, drip, drip
You guessed it…
The messed up
Is going down
Time to take a look around

The energy, though hard to see
Comes to be
With intensity
Know what it means
At the extremes
As is meant
In weather event
Not whether event
Certainly with energy, though hard to see
It’s all around me
So you see
It’s time we
Fessed-up
The messed up
Is going down
Time to take a look around

Chords: Em7/Em / Am C B7 Em; Part II @ 124 to 140 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment