Tag: alternative rock

bookmark_borderOn High

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LYRICS
Wipe that smile right of my face?
Imply I lace disgrace
Upon the entire human race
At least a taste of grace?
(In our space)
Seems this deems the high beams
Where you’re throwing shadows
We’re casting light
Now we just might
Brighten the tomorrows
Might shine the light
(sigh) I’m on high!
Be a saint and paint a smile
Make it wide… a country mile
Steaming and beaming from ear-to-ear
Lighting up everything far and near
Absurd actions speak louder than your word
Then, which is mightier… pen or sword?
No matter how you slice and dice
We’d all be better off thinking twice

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive
Chords: D D7 C / G F D; 176 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderGuerillas With Guitars

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LYRICS
Locked and loaded
Ready to roll
Rock exploded
Gone for a stroll
Rock and roll
Come on fellas
I think it’s time to unload
Guerillas
Got guitars
Hittin’ the road
Road warriors
Soul soldiers
Secret decoded
We’re on a roll
Nerves eroded
Loss of control
Come on ladies
I think it’s time to unload
No more maybe’s
Get powered
Hittin’ the road

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Blues / Folk Rock
Chords: E A G E / G D E
Recording: Lake Wynonah, PA
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderIn One Ear

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LYRICS
To hear in one ear
And right out the other
Only a fool to full/fool
With the bull
If he has horns
One learns
A dose of close
Only counts
In horseshoes
Hand grenades
And water balloons
It comes on soon
Court jester or wild loon?
My mother heard my father
Say to my brother
… and right out the other

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: Em7(11) Em Esus4 / D F Em; 66 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderVenus’ Mist

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LYRICS
Do you like the sound of this
Your desire
Your wish
Stoke the fire
Passionate kiss
The new wish-list
Venus’ mist
Heavenly bliss
Do you hear
The angels whispering
In your ear?
Do you hear
In your ear
Angels whispering?

Do you like the sound of this
Stroke desire
… polishes
Feed the fire
Passionate kiss
Dimpled skin
Flush within
Then, still
A special chill
Up and down the spine
… in time

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: G F# / E F# / Asus4 E7(9); 110 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderDig In / Sprout Out

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LYRICS
The beauty from within
Will sprout out
A season will begin
You’ll bloom soon
No doubt
The roots dig in
Giving power
To your flower
Your hour
Your our
The peddle of the petal
Won’t settle
Until it sprouts out
Colors of the rainbow flow
For all to see
The beauty
That you’ll bloom to be
The beauty you’re soon to be

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Ambient
Chords: Bm7 Am Am9 Bdim; 69 to 128 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Classical Guitar, Keyboard

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderThe $.H.I.T. (Snake Handling In Tongues)

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LYRICS
What you say
And what you do
Do in some way
Say
You do
In some way
Combine “I’m”
I’m all about me
See? Do you…
Do you, too?
Say “I’m”
Over time I’m
I am; therefore, I am
You, too?
Now, I see
I’m all I can be

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Extemporaneous Prog. Rock
Chords: Em9 Em7 E7; 136 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderTerra Terror

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LYRICS
Just flew in
Where to begin
Terra wreaking terror
Give a wide berth
To spaceship Earth
Terra wreaking terror
We’re the race of the troll
And we’re out of contrl
You won’t see humanity
In any human
Amen
(Ahhhh men!)

Homo Sapien at it again
Terra wreaking terror
Over your race
It’s all our space
Terra wreaking terror
We’re the race of the troll
And we’re out of contrl
You won’t see humanity
In any human
Amen
(Ahhhh men!)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Psychedelic Folk
Chords: A D E / A E A B7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderGamblin’ Man?

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LYRICS
If you’re playing heads or tail
Even odds that you’ll fail
Better name a different game
If you want to remain sane
In sane
Not insane
Playing the game

Roulette 37 to 1
Chances are won’t have won
Better name a different game
If you want to remain sane
In sane
Not insane
Playing the game

Blackjack less than even odds
Unless you’ve got your own Gods
Better name a different game
If you want to remain sane
In sane
Not insane
Playing the game

Holy crap when it comes to craps
The odds on Odds are fair
I wan’t aware
Now you’ve named the game
I’ll be right there
Kind-of like a kick to the groin
Might as well flip a coin

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: A G A C / Em C / A; 125 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderYear After Year

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LYRICS
The first year that went by
I was too young to know why
Year after year (after year after year…)
Accumulate in the rear
Until you fear
“The End” draws near

Grew into a young lad
Growing older made me glad
Year after year (after year after year…)
Accumulate in the rear
Until you fear
“The End” draws near

Years of ten were lean and mean
A fertility machine
Year after year (after year after year…)
Accumulate in the rear
Until you fear
“The End” draws near

Had a wife and had my kids
The best thing I ever did
Year after year (after year after year…)
Accumulate in the rear
Until you fear
“The End” draws near

Now that I’m growing old
A different story to be told
Year after year (after year after year…)
Memories to hold dear
Never in fear
“The End” draws near

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: D D9 Em G
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderDesire To Climb

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LYRICS
Wrestling with dirt and dust
Destination or bust
Your burden is the baggage you load
Lighten it up on the high road
The desire to climb
Higher and higher
With the insight
To shine the light
Letting the light shine bright

Finding my way or the highway
Leads to dismay in the disarray
Your burden is the baggage you load
Lighten it up on the high road
(chorus)

Forget accumulation of regret
Seek out and resolve the debt
Your burden is the baggage you load
Lighten it up on the high road
(chorus)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: C A C E A; 111 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderWhich Came First

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LYRICS
I’m not sure
The question I be
I’m not sure
Did I lay an egg?
Feelin’ soon
Going over like a lead balloon
Then again
Flyin’ like Led Zeppelin?
Who knows
It’s time to put on the nose
In fact
Time to get together the act
To their surprise
Rise!
Don’t think Titanic
And sink
Doing the bootstrap rap
Pull myself up and go
Into the flow

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: G E / C D G; 130 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_border* A Carbon Footnote

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LYRICS
A hit or miss
Misfit fit bit
Accompanied
By company
A lil’ under lit
Do what we can
With what we’re given
The basic human
Opinion driven
Until the grave
Shave
Humanity
(a sliver of live-er)
Driven to heaven
Being a being
Human humanitarian
(Sing it again!)
A carbon footnote *
Rote
In repetition
Of trying to be me
At all cost
Lost
Boasts of milk-toast
Fiddling at the fall
… of civilization
The balls of the ball
… castration

Do what we can
With what we’re given
The basic human
Until the grave
Save
Humanity
Driven to heaven
Being a being
Human humanitarian
Sing it again!
Amen
(Quote:
* a carbon footnote)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: A D E; 130 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderWay Out

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LYRICS
There’s no going back
Find our way out
No need to re-track
Blind? Feel about….
There’s no going back
Find our way out
Knowledge we lack
Intuitive route
Eventually we’ll see
Light! Darkened bright
Smell the fresh air
Almost there
Getting out of here
Is near
Knock, knock. Who’s there?
Don’t know it
If you don’t care
The aware
Share in all that’s fair

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Dm Em C Dm / Am Em Dm; 160 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderHarp On The Truth

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LYRICS
The truth is the truth
Whether I like it or not
Why attack a fact?
Like it or not… caught
Between rock!
And a hard place
Just sayin’ the way it is
If I fancy it, or not
This is is
Soon to be was… because
That’s how time and space
Embrace

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: E A B7; 111 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead

bookmark_borderExcuse Me

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LYRICS
Is that a tuna factory
Attacking my olfactory
What’s that smell
Can you tell
(Sure smells fishy
If you ask me)

Limburger cheese
Stow it, oh please
What’s that smell
Satin’s spell

Take no pleasure
In burning sulfur
What’s that smell
Smells like hell

Plug my nose
Plug your knows
Unknown smell
Just as well
(Smell it still
Paper mill?)
Unknown smell
Just as well
(’cause possibly
It’s coming from me?
Quite possibly….)
Excuse

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: F F# G / E G; 138 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Among The Living Dead