The King James Version of the Bible translates the words of the angels differently from modern versions, using the words “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men” (where the word “men” is used generically to mean “people” or “human beings”). Most Christmas carols reflect this older translation, with It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, for example, using the words “Peace on the earth, good will to men, / From Heaven’s all gracious King.”
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — majors over minors with a dash of diminished
C Cm D Dm E Em F Fm Adim F#dim C7dim
150Beats Per Minute / Dance Pop
Written and recorded on “Light over Dark” / Diwali night in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Diwali also known as Deepavali and the “festival of lights”, is an ancient Hindu festival celebrated in autumn every year. The festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair. The festival preparations and rituals typically extend over a five day period, but the main festival night of Diwali coincides with the darkest, new moon night of the Hindu Lunisolar month Kartika. In the Gregorian calendar, Diwali night falls between mid-October and mid-November.
LYRICS
When the words start to roam
into a long poem
derived from an ancient oral tradition
The succession of ambition
narrating the deeds and adventures
of heroic and legendary figures
The planting of seeds and paying back of indentures
How humanity of humans will configure
Glory in story,
Mama and Papa saga,
Bend into legend,
Word dance romance,
Ironical chronicle,
Mirth from myth,
Label as fable,
Unveil a tale
End with The End
The Rama Drama:
On completion of the ritual six seasons have passed by
and then in the twelfth month,
on the ninth day of Chaitra month [April-May,]
when the presiding deity of ruling star of the day is Aditi,
where the ruling star of day is Punarvasu (Nakshatra),
the asterism is in the ascendant, and when five of the nine planets viz.,
Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus are at their highest position,
when Jupiter with Moon is ascendant in Cancer, and when day is advancing,
then Queen Kausalya gave birth to a son with all the divine attributes like
lotus-red eyes, lengthy arms, roseate lips, voice like drumbeat,
and who took birth to delight the Ikshwaku dynasty,
who is adored by all the worlds,
and who is the greatly blessed epitome of Vishnu, namely Rama.
— Book I : Bala Kanda, Ramayana by Valmiki, Chapter (Sarga) 18, Verse 8, 9, 10 and 11
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Dm Dsus4 Asus4 Bb
100 Beats Per Minute / Trance
Written and recorded on “Light over Dark” / Diwali day in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
LYRICS
[prelude]
Hit the buttons
Twist the dials
Turn the knobs
But, but, but
Pushing buttons
[intro]
Live from KingArthur.com
Got the microphone
Keyboards and synthesizers
(What’s the difference you tell me)
We got ourselves some mixers… and effects…. and some recording
Ya… and a little light… just in case you want to….
But most importantly for this song called, “Pushing buttons”
We have buttons
Pushing buttons
[song]
Twisting knobs
Pushing Buttons
Turn a couple dials
Trying to create the smiles
Contagious to all of us
The Smiles
Pushing buttons
Yeah, pushing buttons
Just pushing buttons
Pushing buttons
Twisting knobs
Trying to make the heart throb
Turning dials
Creating smiles
Pushing buttons
Push
Hugh
Ya gotta push… huh!
If you want something to happen
Then….
Push the button
Yeah, push the button
and turn the dial
and twist the knobs
and make the heart throb
and dials turn the smiles
if it’s hurtin’
soothin’
pushin’
the botton
go ahead
push
push for all of us
push for all of us
LYRICS
A paralyzed man
And neural regeneration
Just shows we can
Legs dancing with gyration
Just shows we can
With moral fortitude
… the right attitude
The olfactory factory
Lights a bulb
A bright idea
A problem solved
Angels singing Ave Maria
The sensation of neural regeneration
Sensation — neural regeneration
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords/Tempo
C F
G7 C
AbAug Am7 C7 CM7 C
102 Beats Per Minute – Casio WK-3500 Ambient (specialized settings on the midi connected microKorg)
Mixed live through a Behringer mixer. Vocals mic’d one natural Sennheiser and one through a Digitech KP3.
Based on this news story:
A paralyzed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord.
Prof Geoff Raisman, chair of neural regeneration at University College London’s Institute of Neurology, led the UK research team.
He said what had been achieved was “more impressive than man walking on the moon”.
A key difference with Mr Fidyka was that the scientists were able use the patient’s olfactory bulb, which is the richest source of olfactory ensheathing cells.
The complex neural circuitry responsible for our sense of smell is the only part of the nervous system that regenerates throughout adult life.
It is this ability that scientists have tried to exploit in stimulating repair in the spinal cord.
Every time we breathe, molecules carrying different odours in the air come into contact with nerve cells in the nose.
These transmit messages to our olfactory bulbs – at the very top of the nasal cavity, sitting at the base of the brain.
The nerve cells are being continually damaged and must be replaced.
This process of regeneration is made possible by olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which provide a pathway for the fibres to grow back.
Scientists believe this is evidence that the recovery is due to regeneration….
— BBC
Written and recorded in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Genesis 19 New International Version (NIV)
Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
19 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”
“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom — both young and old — surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here… sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please! 19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. 20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it… it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.)
23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities, and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords/Tempo — Dm BbM7 131 Beats Per Minute / Digital Rock (based on Sodom and Gomorrah)
Written and recorded in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
LYRICS
Would you consider me a loon
If I insist we’re living on the moon
Can’t I see that’s lunacy?
Yet we won’t believe in reality
The Earth’s getting hot, hot, hot
Before you know it, we’ll be not
It’s not surprising
The temperatures rising
Is all logic forgot?
What kind-of ticket have we bought
Time we take some giant steps
To our balance there are checks
Yup, giant steps are what we take
If we could only awake
Yup, giant steps are what we take
Leaps and bounds from the fake
142 Beats Per Minute / Reggae (with some inspiration from the Police song “Walking On The Moon”)
The song is about the human race not taking responsibility for global warning and other “real life” man-made atrocities… while getting all wrapped up in make-believe and conspiracies.
Written and recorded West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
LYRICS
Sexual intercourse of course
Always done sideways
In the earliest of days
Square-dance style
All the while
Go for a fling and swing….
Swing your partner round and round
Until the genitalia are found
Cheese grater grip on your appendage
May require a bandage
So, listen…
Three hundred and eighty million years ago
They didn’t know
About the creation of the missionary position
There was a trick to guide the slide
Then, giddy-up for the ride
First act of sexual intercourse ‘was done sideways, square-dance style’
Fossilised features of antiarch fish suggest that early intercourse was not the smoothest of affairs, with males faced with the task of steering their bony L-shaped organs between twin genital plates that adorned the females like tiny cheese graters.
The male’s organ was nearly as long as his body and fixed rigid, leading paleontologists to finally work out that the creature’s small, jointed arm-like appendages were probably of help in achieving the correct position.“Fundamentally, they could not have done it in the missionary position,” said John Long, professor of palaeontology at Flinders University in Adelaide. “The very first act of copulation was done sideways, square-dance style.”
Written and recorded West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
LYRICS
A copulation population explosion
Policed by the copulation cop
You better not get caught
Who’s on top?
Naughty to be naked? Not.
We’re born with what we got
A copulation population induction
Irrational about reproduction
Going to great strides to hide our hide
Thin skin over exposed skin
Naughty to be naked? Not.
We’re born with what we got
A copulation population revolution
Going to turn the bed on it’s head
Tired of being told what we ought
Time to stand up for laying down… let the fight be fought
Naughty to be naked? Not.
We’re born with what we got
First act of sexual intercourse ‘was done sideways, square-dance style’
Fossils of 380m-year-old lake-dwelling placoderms point to bony, L-shaped male organ and female ‘cheese-grater’ genitals, scientists say
Written and recorded West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
LYRICS
If we could sound some sort-of siren
An alarm for attention
To the general population
“General Population reporting for duty, Sir.
From my naivety you may infer!”
If we could sound some sort-of siren
An alarm for attention
To the general population
Not on my leg using your urine
Not through some giant money siphon
More like firin’ up the horizon
The enlighten siren
Sirens of silence
Falling on deaf ears
Sirens of silence
Playing out our fears
If we could sound some sort-of siren
An alarm for attention
To the general population
Not the ice that’s crashing into the sea
Not the smog foggin’ up what I see
Not ozone in the wind a blowin’
Not ebola in the gut growin’
You’d think these would all make a fine sign
Nooooo… we pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
We’re taking the free trial of denial for certain
Sirens of silence
Falling on deaf ears
Sirens of silence
Playing out our fears
Calm Before The Storm in the Studio
LYRICS
Just calm your ass down?
Calm YOUR ass down
Don’t-cha think it’s be better
If we were all the class clown?
Calm your ass down
Sorrows? Let ’em drown
180 degrees on the frown
Let it be shown you’ve grown
Won’t let this opportunity be blown
Be the driver… know where you’re goin’
