LYRICS
If you’re feelin’ a ‘lil blue
I’ve the remedy just for you
The blues will take your blues away
Bluebird singin’ about a sunny day
Sunny days are on your way
If a black cloud follows you around
Don’t let it ever let it get you down
Ear to the earth and feel the sound
Soon enough your song will be found
If a shadow follows you
Something you can do
To your heart be true
Shine the point-of-view
LYRICS
I really don’t know
Why ya wanna go so low
Shouldn’t we give high a try
Take my hand and learn to fly
Air thins into heaven… into the heavens
We’re seeing the show
Your reap, your sow
Whoa… oh, oh, oh
I really don’t know
But what the hey, hey!
Let’s give’r a try
Take my hand we’ll learn to fly
The air thins in heaven
Air is thin in heaven
Air is thin
We’re in heaven
Comin’ home again
LYRICS
A dude in Düsseldorf wielding and axe
Orlando, Bowling Green and other lax facts
We call these terrorist attacks?
We call these…
Oh, Lord, please
Woods through the trees
Watching hell freeze…
Over
Discover getting closer to over
Try to bend The End?
Make no mistake
It might break
A machete at the Leuve
Messing with the groove
Bomb the Boston Marathon
The list goes on and on
Sandy Hook we mistook
Virginia Tech… what the heck?
Colorado… we don’t know
South Carolina… na, na, na
ABOUT THE SONG
A song about mistaking acts of violence as “terror attacks”.
Dusseldorf axe attack leaves seven people injured
Mar 9, 2017 – One man arrested after what German police say appears to be a random attack at city’s main train station.
Kellyanne Conway cites ‘Bowling Green massacre’
Feb 3, 2017 – 2, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway defended President Trump’s travel ban with inaccurate claims of a “Bowling Green massacre,”
Feb 3, 2017 – PARIS — French soldiers opened fire on a man wielding a machete who shouted “Allahu akbar” as he attacked them near the Louvre museum
Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: E E7 / A G E / A G A G A G E
Vocals, Guitar
Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.
LYRICS
Partly cloudy
Just enough blue
Let’s the sun through
A pretty day in the city
A great day in America
The children sing, “La, la, la”
A warm breeze
Turns thoughts like these
Into life’s keys
A glimpse of you
In the rearview
Are you coming to?
A pretty day in the city
A great day in America
The children sing, “La, la, la”
LYRICS
Is this going to be big
Is it going to be epic
Quick, cut to the quick
Big… large?
Who’s in charge?
Don’t want to be seasick
Got to cut to the quick
Is it going to be big… is it going to be epic
It looks like this is going to be epic
Dig… dig deep… is it going to be big? Dig!
Is it going to be XXL… who’s in charge?
Who’s in charge to be in charge
Cut to the quick, quick!
Will you please appease and cut to the quick, quick
It seems the seams of the dreams have come un-stitched
Reincarnation itch
Is it a bitch?
We can do better
The fact of the matter… it matters, in fact, we can do better
It seems the seams seep reality… for me… you and me… we… reality
LYRICS
[I’m bringing home a baby bumble bee
Won’t my Mama be so proud of me]
A buzzard is two-faced
Their drink is laced
The politician, again?
You bet he can
(Crooked politician)
The tainted drink you consume
Designated mental tomb
What do you mean?
Obscene… at the Inn and no room?
At the “in” and no room
Better let it out
Be it scream… be it shout
Let there be no doubt
Better let it out
Be it word… be it rhyme
Now is the time
Pre-post-prime
Prime time
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
Loom BOOM!
What was it that you wanted?
Make room
Egos are over flaunted
The lowering of the boom
Can happen none to soon
The more I realize
The less the surprise
Loom BOOM! What is it you want to do?
Got broom… is it time to clean the zoo?
Loom BOOM! Where is it you want to go?
Zoom zoom… round and round if you don’t know
Loom BOOM! Who is it you want to see?
Soul groom… what it is that I can be
Loom BOOM! When is it you want to start?
Doom boom… let’s blow if up with our heart
LYRICS
A pinprick in the night
A sliver of starlight
Then quick… with the millionth pinprick
Can’t count all the lights in sight
You know… when the horizon starts to glow
It won’t be long till dawn’s daylight
You know your star is rising
Cock’s crow… sunrise… good morning
Good news: good knews
Is coming our way
Who knows… no no’s
A-OK
LYRICS
I got a permit to carry my axe
Now going out and have some attacks
Allowed to sing and dance some, too
Now the question is, “How about you?”
Got your permit?
We’ll get lit!
Got your permit?
Let’s get lit!
Got your permit?
Come get lit!
Got your permit?
Get you permit
You better make it quick
Do some magic that’s really slick
Rabbit from a hat… or slight-of-hand trick
I might recite while fire juggling
Thespian, asked again, “Are you acting?”
I might read what I write
Then play it right into the night
Draw with chalk on the sidewalk
Now I’ve a permit, they can’t balk
Got your permit?
We’ll get lit!
Got your permit
Let’s get lit!
Got your permit?
Get you permit
You better make it quick
ABOUT THE SONG
A song about an unconstitutional law that makes performance art a crime in West Chester, Pennsylvania. You must have a permit to do any of the following:
acting, singing, playing musical instruments, pantomime, juggling, magic, dancing, reading, puppetry, sidewalk art (working with non-permanent, water-soluble media, i.e., chalk, pastels, or watercolors directly on the pavement), and reciting.
Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: E A B7
Vocals, Guitar
Alternative version includes electric piano and electric slide guitar
Written and recorded West Chester, Pennsylvania
From the album Gay Church
A Tribute to Ikutaro Kakehashi
I happened to be in the midst of recording a MIDI based album when I learned of the passing of Ikutaro Kakehashi:
Ikutaro Kakehashi (梯 郁太郎 Kakehashi Ikutarō 7 February 1930 – 1 April 2017) was an engineer, an entrepreneur, and the founder of Ace Tone, Roland Corporation and ATV, Japanese manufacturers of electronic musical instruments. He was known for his role in the development of Ace Tone and Roland drum machines and the MIDI standard.
LYRICS
In a mind down in the gutter
Pick it up and feel better
Being kind sure does matter
Me as debtee or debtor?
Waiting at the pearly gates
Don’t wanna be a faster regretter
Is my will free or is it fate’s
Name in The book letter-for-letter?
In line on their judgement day
Will I be searching for words to say
Don’t want it all to end that way
Want to go feet first… no debts to pay
On the fence at heaven’s gate
Don’t want to teeter ‘fore St. Peter
Repent offense ‘fore it’s too late
Wanna be in time with the master’s meter
[Sir Vent your servant]
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: riff-efg G A B7 / E G A
Recording: digital stereo
