Tag: This Is Next

bookmark_borderSuperego

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LYRICS
Do you have a healthy superego?
Feel guilt for your wrongs?
Do you know
Or same ole song
Won’t be long
’til we go

Have a healthy superego?
Won’t be long before we go
Right the wrong…
Before we go
You know
Superego’s health
Check the temperature, for sure
Feel the forehead
Make sure you’re not dead

Chords: Dm Dm7 / Dm C D F#dim; 82 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live: digital 1-track stereo

From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderMotion of Your Notion

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LYRICS
Clear these thoughts from your head
No matter what
You’re not better off dead
The motion of you notion
Drives the strive
[em jam]

Clear those thoughts that you dread
No matter what
You’re not better off dead
Recall the though you hear said
You’re not better off dead
The motion of you notion
Drives the strive
[em jam]

Chords: A D A em / D A C Em
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 6-track

Also: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderStop the World!

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LYRICS
Please stop the world
From going round
I’d like to get off
’til common sense is found
There’s a firesale
On old growth timber
The odds we’ll sustain
Are growing slimmer
Will we ever learn
We get what we earn
Given — you were born
Until the time we mourn
Make it what we will
Make it while there’s still

Please stop the world
From going round
I’d like to get off
’til common sense is found
There’s a firesale
On old growth timber
The odds we’ll sustain
Are growing slimmer
Pooping in our drinking water
Sacrificing both son and daughter
Will we ever learn
We get what we earn
Given — you were born
Until the time we mourn
Make it what we will
Make it while there’s still

Please stop the world
From going round
I’d like to get off
’til common sense is found
There’s a firesale
On old growth timber
The odds we’ll sustain
Are growing slimmer
Pooping in our drinking water
Sacrificing both son and daughter
Will we ever learn
We get what we earn
Given — you were born
Until the time we mourn
Make it what we will
Make it while there’s still

A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment
Chords: B 1/2 step walkdown to E / E D C B / F E / G E; 120 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live

Canine Incisors Sessions

Also: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderStepped in It

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LYRICS
Did you hear that sound
Underfoot
Uh oh! Must’ve stepped in it
Hate to look and see what’s found
Uh oh! Hate stepping in shhhhh…
Wait!
Better hold my tongue
’till my nose gets done
And that last step is undone
Yeah, the misdone is undone
So there’s no misstep regret
Noooo… no need to fret

Chords: Em / F Em / Dm Em; 160 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live

Canine Incisors Sessions

Also: Rawhide Underwear and Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderFooling

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LYRICS
Just fooling around?
Better off quieting down
Listen to the words
Understand the sound
And, everything will be…
Alright
(All is found)
And, everything will be…
Alright
Once your ears hear
Insight
… everything will be….

Try n’ be the clown?
Better off quieting down
Dying children
Ain’t no fooling around
Better off quieting down
Listen to the words
Understand the sound
And, everything will be…
Alright
(All is found)
And, everything will be…
Alright
Once your ears hear
Insight
… everything will be….

Chords: Bdim Bb(5) / B E; 80 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Organ
Written and recorded live

From the album: Rawhide Underwear

bookmark_borderMy Position

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LYRICS
Far wide ocean
Large sea
When compared to me
The tide rolls in
High tide
Magnified
My position

Big, big mountain
I see
The valley in me
The tide rolls in
High tide
Magnified
My position

Forever sky
All the stars
Compared to where we are
The tide rolls in
High tide
Magnified
My position

Chords: Asus4 A Gsus4 G Fsus4 F / D C6; 125 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live

From the albums: Rawhide Underwear and Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderEscape Velocity

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LYRICS
Escaping from the blackhole
Gotta get the light to be whole
[Heartbeat]
Reaching escape velocity
Freedom is at hand
Freedom is at hand
Freedom is at hand

Escaping from the blackhole
Gotta get the light to be whole
[Heartbeat]
Reaching escape velocity
Freedom is at hand
If we can just find a place to land
The gravity of the situation
The duality of illumination

Chords: Dm Dm9 Em Em9 D / B C D / G C D; 101 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live on a digital 1-track stereo

From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderEgo Explodes

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LYRICS
If I’m up to mischief…
… no good
Not behaving the way I should
Then I started thinking
When their world implodes
Due part to my shrinking
It’s my ego that explodes

Chords: Gm CM / F Cm / G7 Cm; 140 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live

From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderHerd Absurd

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LYRICS
Way beyond absurd
What I heard
Far beyond bizarre
Where we are
Why don’t we pick up the pieces
Start it over again
Why don’t we pick up our peaces
Let’s discover begin

Should we try to fix
Show me your tricks
Maybe we can mend
S.O.S. send
Why don’t we pick up the pieces
Start it over again
Why don’t we pick up our peaces
Let’s discover begin

Don’t you find it odd
Oh, my God!
Quite severely twisted
Knotted and fisted
Why don’t we pick up the pieces
Start it over again
Why don’t we pick up our peaces
Let’s discover begin

Chords: E D C D E / G E / G / F G; 120 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Organ, Electric Guitar, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live on a digital 8-track

From the album: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderUpping the Ante

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LYRICS
Upping the ante
I’m starting to see
Upping the ante
With a card hidden
Up the sleeve
I’m finding it
A little hard to believe
I’ll see you
And, raise you tow, too

Upping the ante
I’m starting to see
Upping the ante
Finding it a little hard
Seeing how you play your cards
I’ll see you
And, raise to you, too

Chords: Bm D E / E D Bm Em7; 110 BPM
Instruments: Vocals and Organ Flutes Yamaha PSR-740
Written and recorded live

From the album: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderAre You Human?

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LYRICS
A nagging question
I got to get in
Are you human?
the same old question
I ask it again
Are you human?
Or some sort-of alien
From an alien planet
Where they plan it
To find the kind kind
The kind that loves
Unconditionally
And additionally
Lives to give

Chords: D C# D / F# D; 120 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live

From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderLeft to Be

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LYRICS
Please pay no mind to me
I’m happy left to be…
Me
I don’t need to bleed
Concede, nor rumor feed

Please pay no mind to me
I’m happy left to be…
Me
No money, seriously
Pure greed doesn’t interest me

Please pay no mind to me
I’m happy left to be…
Me
No game seeking fame
No pose, I suppose

Chords: C7(11) C / G C; 99 BPM
Written and recorded live

From the album: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderAmazed and Amused

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LYRICS
Amazed at the different ways
Amused how I get confused
Always seems to make my days/daze
Well used
Waste not want not
Motion won’t rot
Give it a shot

Amazed at the different ways
Amused how I get confused
Always seems to make my days/daze
Well used
Waste not want not
Gave it a shot
Thanks a whole lot

Amazed at the different ways
Amused how I get confused
Always seems to make my days/daze
Well used
Spending the time
Harmony and rhyme
Knowing that I’m…
Amazed, amused all my days

Chords: Eb7 Absus4 Gb6 / Db Ebm7; 126 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Organ
Written and recorded live

From the album: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderFind Your Way

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LYRICS
When you can’t find your way
Can’t fine your way…
Make it your home
Can’t find my way
Decide if I’ll stay
Or ride the next day
Can’t find my way
Calling it home
I call the trail on which I roam
Home
Our path on earth on Earth
Home
Can’t explain it
But, I love this planet

Chords: D D walkdown / D F; 150 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live

From the albums: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next

bookmark_borderWord Diet

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LYRICS
I have trouble digesting
When it comes to my own words
Is this karma suggesting
I fall on my own sword?
Couldn’t you just die
For the taste of humble pie
Please add some “I scream”
In the à la Mode of a dream

I’ll be careful what I say
It’s not worth the price to pay
Humor’s on the run
While I try to bite my tongue
Couldn’t you just die
For the taste of humble pie
Please add some “I scream”
In the à la Mode of a dream

Having fed the cat my tongue
Appears my time is done
To find the words to say
Pleas have a pleasant day
Couldn’t you just die
For the taste of humble pie
Please add some “I scream”
In the à la Mode of a dream

Chords: Dm B / C Eaug; 140 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live

From the albums: Rawhide Underwear
Instrumentals: This Is Next