LYRICS
Hope you brought your goggles
Wind whipped watering eye
As you mind boggles
Wind of vain waters your I
Eventually the wind will die
Exponentially the answer to why
As I/eye observe
Under the curve
Photons traveling at the speed of light
Pass right through the windshield
You’re on to something… ideas bright
Spinning molten core of ore’s magnetic field
(interlude: momentary lapse of magnetic field)
Chorus
Colliding with stardust
Bust stardust that’s us
Pinprick holes add to our pores
As the starlight pours
(Chorus)
ABOUT THE SONG
A song about Earth as our spaceship and the delicate nature of our atmosphere. The atmosphere protects humans in many ways, including stopping billions of little meteors from passing through our bodies. Remember to appreciate friction, too… not only does it burn up all those meteors, it also stops us from dying every time it rains.
Style: Alternative Rock / Folk
Chords: A C7 / Em C / C Bb A
Recording: original take / digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar
LYRICS
Ride with the tide
Who knows…
Whichever way the wind blows?
Rise on arise
Time flows
On the space continuum
… I am
At the mercy of forces
Far beyond me
I see
There’s much more to the virtue
Of “be”
Is the alignment true
Truly true in me
Ahhh…. the virtue in you
Alignment true?
Roll towards the goal
Take control
Avoid the blackhole
Eyes on the prize
Time bends
Around the gravity of me
Vibe sends
Time curves
Nerves converge
Energy conserves
LYRICS
While I ride off into the sunset
Hope I never forget
There really is a difference
Absence / presence
Essence
As the skyline of the horizon
Paints a fine line… night into dawn
Is it really clear
Are you here?
Will the mass of your matter
Really matter
Flatter
Flatter your dimension
Into 2-D
Flatter your intention
Oh so Godly
Heavenly
LYRICS
I’m finding the utmost interest
In relativity
Feeling dependence on existence
Surreality
Trying to make sense
Of perception without senses
Perceive what I believe
Experience presence
Leap from “Ludwig’s Ladder”
Leave logic a tattered
Chaos theory delivery
The irony of destiny
Sixth sense third-eye I see
Spring from the last rung
Among angels in song
Soul music being sung
Time can’t be too long
In the essence of existence
Is the essence of existence
In the absence of existence
Will exist persist?
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Em C7 E C7 / E C7 A [C G7 A]
Recording: digital stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Wittgenstein’s ladder
A Wittgenstein’s ladder is a simplified explanation of a technical or complex subject that is used as a teaching tool, despite being technically wrong. The term stems from proposition number 6.54 by Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
LYRICS
In the beginning
Could the Big Bang
Be heard around the world?
I’ve been told
Sound doesn’t travel in space
Sound doesn’t race through space
So, if so…
At what pace
’cause if there is no sound and no one around
How big can a bang be?
Answer’s troublin’ me
Eluding Man’s history
How big of a bang can it be?
LYRICS
It all adds up
We know what to do
First there’s one
Then there’s two
We can figure
What we need to do
First there’s one
Then there’s you
Agreein’ with Pythagorean
We’ve got to get it right…
Got to get our angle right
Right?
Quite right!
May the sum of your square be right there
Time to play a little Pythag tag…
You’re it!
This “to infinity” bit just won’t quit
Pi won’t die…
It just keeps on going and going and going
(and, I thought 33 and a third was absurd — 33.33)
LYRICS
Through time-space
Gemini race
I’m dreaming I’m with you
Combined one from two
Through space-time
Know that I’m
Dreaming through and through
Dreaming of you
Mental projection
Gentle affection
I’m dreaming I’m with you
Combined one from two
Spirits behave
As particle-wave
Know that I’m
Dreaming through and through
Dreaming of you
Through heaven’s grace
Traveling through space
I’m with you
Dreaming, too
I’m with you
Dreaming two
LYRICS
What is meant by experiment?
ExperiMental
Good for mental health
Experi-mental
Good for social wealth
ExperiMental
Mental that is meant for all
If you don’t know
Dip in your toe
Give it a test
So you can figure the rest
Don’t be shy
Give ‘er a try
I’m not going to lie
We are all going to die
The trick is to experiment with it
Before you get too sick
Not knowing “why”
Before you die
Got to know why
Before I die
Got to know why
Before you die
Got to know why
Before we die
LYRICS
Don’t you think it’s time…
We see
The entire galaxy?
Beyond the closest star
Wanna go far
Gotta get out and explore some more
Take a picture for sure
Of a whole black hole
Don’t forget your rocket
With a digital input socket
Tunes wit a groove in the pocket
A roadtrip soundtrack to rock it!
ABOUT THE SONG
You can not really take a picture of a black hole. No light escapes from a black hole, so you won’t see anything. That is why it is called a black hole; however, theoretical astronomers have attempted to take the first picture of a black hole.
Style: Progressive Rock / Space
Chords: Em D / Am C Em / C Am Em
Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.
LYRICS
Suckling the nipples of the Milky Way
Singing spirituals of a better day
Through the nectar of stardust, we weigh
Through the dust to dust, we will return someday
A snake eating it’s own tail
Talk about an epic fail
Want to write a better tale
Into the galaxy we sail
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey
Along came a blackhole and sucked up inside her
Making more mortality a blur (more mortality)
Just for fun run ’round the sun
As we make our way
So our mass may pass
Into the future past
To say “we are stardust” may be a cliche, but it’s an undeniable fact that most of the essential elements of life are made in stars.
“For the first time, we can now study the distribution of elements across our Galaxy,” says Sten Hasselquist of New Mexico State University. “The elements we measure include the atoms that make up 97% of the mass of the human body.”
The new results come from a catalog of more than 150,000 stars; for each star, it includes the amount of each of almost two dozen chemical elements. The new catalog includes all of the so-called “CHNOPS elements” – carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and sulfur – known to be the building blocks of all life on Earth. This is the first time that measurements of all of the CHNOPS elements have been made for such a large number of stars.
— Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS/APOGEE) / January 5, 2017
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: C Em Cm / 104 BPM
Recording: digital stereo
LYRICS
My God, out there… there’s a lot of space
How do you keep any of it from going to waste
My God, how do you keep track
My God, step back!
When there is no trace
My God, we better make haste
How do you keep it in
So our space doesn’t become outer
I know I should “no” better
But I don’t know where to begin
I’m starting to doubt the existence of this “space”
I’ve asked the whole human race
And, no one can show me any of this space
It has no smell, touch nor taste
Yet we can’t let space go to waste?
Is that right? There’s none in sight
No sound is found
Just look around
Under what basis
Is this space “is”
LYRICS
Wait a second?
I can’t wait a second
’cause I reckon
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
Leap a second
And before long
A second second
Thus this song
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
The spinoff of taking a spin off
You scoff?
Well, do you wanna get off?
’cause
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
It’s that mean solar time
Or UT1
Try to coordinate Universal time
Or UTC
And I for one can see
You won’t even give away
The time of day
No way
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
Screenshot of the UTC clock from www.time.gov during the leap second on December 31, 2016.
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E B E –> 7th fret and slide down to E
Recording: digital 8-track stereo recorded live
This song is about the Earth slowing down. Why is the Earth slowing down?
The Earth is slowing down and speeding up for many reasons. In general, the Earth is slowing down it’s rotation due to friction. The wind and the oceans and mountains, tides and gravity cause friction that slows an object in motion.
A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time, or UT1. Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth’s rotation drifts away from atomic time because of irregularities in the Earth’s rate of rotation. Since this system of correction was implemented in 1972, 27 leap seconds have been inserted, the most recent on December 31, 2016 at 23:59:60 UTC.
So, every once in a while humans travel a second forward in time. “Specifically, a positive leap second is inserted between second 23:59:59 of a chosen UTC calendar date (the last day of a month, usually June 30 or December 31) and second 00:00:00 of the following date.”
Why is the moon falling farther away from us?
The migration of the Moon away from the Earth is mainly due to the action of the Earth’s tides. The Moon is kept in orbit by the gravitational force that the Earth exerts on it, but the Moon also exerts a gravitational force on our planet and this causes the movement of the Earth’s oceans to form a tidal bulge.
LYRICS
Without your gravity
I can clearly see
I can see clearly
… fall by the way
Hey, hey, hey
By the wayside
Can’t really run
Can’t really hide
Falling away from the sun
My world’s come undone
Without your gravity
Lack of tether elasticity
My time’s been bide
My time’s been bye’d
Bye, bye, bye’d
Without your gravity
Hard to be
I can see clearly
Short term longevity
Light Year: a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is 9.4607 × 1012 km (nearly 6 trillion miles).
LYRICS
Duel black holes orbiting
Behavior that is fitting
Einstein wasn’t kidding
Mighty brave…
Surfing a gravitational wave
It will begin
To pull you in
Spacetime has-been
Sucking in light
Black as the night
Density’s might
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: G F# E / C Am Em
Recording: digital 5-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards
“A binary black hole (BBH) is a system consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other.”
“Scientists announced that they have once again detected ripples in space and time from two black holes colliding far away in the universe.” The discovery comes just months after the first-ever detection of such “gravitational waves.”
