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LYRICS
The “ism” of hypocricy
Is the ego in our democracy
Let the heart take part
To negate the hate
Radiate
The love of light
(Glowing in the twilight of insight)
Out of the shadows
Into the meadows
Of the mind
Inherent of the kind that’s kind
Comes to mind
… I find
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: Em / F# F Em; 160 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
From the album Hear Me Out
LYRICS
Jeopardize with lies
And ties
With the underground
Real eyes realize
Grounded found
Cast the die
(Alas, the die is cast)
Cast the dies
Real eyes realize
Freedom dies
Jeopardize
One size
Fits all
The rise
The fall
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Ambient Dystopia
Chords: G Am Em / Em
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards
From the album Hear Me Out
LYRICS
The ship of our see
Heading toward tragedy
Over the falls
Building of walls
Thick rhetoric
Making us sick
Speaking in forked tongues
Of bogus battles won
Best at beating our chests
For poisoning our lungs
Won and done
’till our did
Is diddly squat
’till our did
Is not
Thick rhetoric
Making us sick
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: FmM7 Fm7 Dm7(b5) Fm; 86 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
From the album Hear Me Out
LYRICS
Of all the low down dirty
Looks like the gloves are off
Heard it from a lil’ birdy
Sad tale of flame and moth
A question for you
Have ya really thought this one through?
A yellow-bellied pansy
Against a chicken gone crazy
A ruby-throated zombie
Thrown in as referee
A question for you
Have ya really thought this one through?
Front row ringside
Watching fate collide
Now something you’ve come to know
The need to wear a gore poncho
A question for you
Have ya really thought this one through?
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: F7 Bb7 C7 / Jam F7 hammer on F
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards
From the album Hear Me Out
LYRICS
Don’t know when I’ll be back
Going off on a fact-check
That the heck?
So, I’ll ask you
How long to view
For what is true
When there’s no truth
What’s my time worth?
Don’t know when I’ll be back
Going off on a fact-check
That the heck?
Your power to deceive
Your prowess in deceit
For what it’s worth
To speak the truth
Going off on a fact-check
Don’t know when I’ll be back
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Em7 Em / Em C D Em
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar with Loop Pedal, Keyboards
From the album Hear Me Out
LYRICS
I don’t know about the cause
But after the alarm
The reason for pause…
Old white men in control
Cause out-of-control
(in, out, in, out-of-control)
I don’t know about the cause
But resulting in harm
Turns us to was
Old white men in control
Caused out-of-control
(in, out, in, out-of-control)
Sounding the alarm for years
[howling and sirens]
Spreading and shedding tears
Now you tell me…
None can see?
Nobody hears?
Old white men in control
Chose out-of-control
(in, out, in, out-of-control
… guess that’s how they roll)
Most shockin’ —
At the peril of their own kin
… the demise of their own tribe
Too late to think to learn to think
EXTINCT!
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: AM7 Em E Em7 Em E E7 / A G E / G D A E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar & Loop Pedal, Keyboards
From the album Polymath
LYRICS
The hammer of justice
Is poised above us
And sooner or later
The hammer will fall
After all,
The hammer will fall
Not a juror nor spectator
We’re on trial on the while
The hammer of justice poised above us
And sooner or later
The hammer will fall
After all,
The hammer will fall
Where’s the support
For order in the court
For whom does the gallows’ pole toll
The hammer of justice poised above us
And sooner or later
The hammer will fall
After all,
The hammer will fall
It’s hard to bail
When you have no bail
Looks like we’ll spend the night in jail
With the hammer of justice poised to fall
And sooner or later
The hammer will fall
After all,
The hammer will fall
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Rock
Chords: wide variety of E’s / A D C E / B A E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
From the album Polymath
LYRICS
As to the taste of the highfalutin
And fancy
As to the waste… the flatulence
Of the lazy
If you’re head is up your ask
It’s kind-of hard to bask
In the limelight (Right?)
The envy is not green
If you know what I mean?
Jealousy of decrepitcy
Is beyond silly
Delicious ludicrous
Salacious hypocrites
And dimwits
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: C# C#m C#9 / A A# C#; 160 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
From the album The Zone Zone
LYRICS
Who wants to be the agitator
Of a wasp or an alligator
Not long to ponder
I think it’s best
Better not stir the hornets’ nest
Watch the silly monkey
Mouse around with the angry
What a silly monkey
To horse around…
With tolerancey
Who wants to be the one to rile
A viper or a crocodile
No time to wonder
I think it’s best
Better not stir the hornets’ nest
(chorus)
Who wants to be the one to say “I am!”
When asked the task
“Who’ll put their head in the mouth of this lion?”
No time to squander
I think it’s best
Better not stir the hornets’ nest
(chorus)
[Poke the bear… if you dare]
ABOUT THE SONG
The song was inspired by Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes’ questioning of Dr. Fiona Hill during the impeachment inquiry.
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E F / G E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
From the album The Zone Zone
LYRICS
Do you hear war drums
Cat n’ dog at it again?
Flash of firing guns
Let the war games begin!
Once cannonballs are flying
Youth rising are dying
Time we end the debate
Over hate
(No debate. End the hate.)
The left and the right
In the middle between their fight
Brings out the fright
They may never see the light
Dropping like flies
Got our rights in their sights
Everyone dies
They say,
“Live to fight another day”
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: F# F E / D A E / C G D
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
From the album The Zone Zone
LYRICS
Too bad… mad
In every sense
Or lack there of
Membrane dense
Heart without love
Mad… angry
I can see
Mad… crazy
Sad to see
Insane in the membrane
Just hate does remain?
Where to begin?
“Don’t let them in!”
Another hypocritical sin
Jesus! You claim religion
And, dig your heels in
You claim, “America first!”
Yet, native blood you thirst
Just another rampant tangent
Bible thumper stumped
Gone mad… sad.
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: D F / D C / A G D; 124 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
From the album The Zone Zone
LYRICS
Losing all respect for the country folk
Living in sin… part of a bad joke
Redneck hate hoping we’ll choke
Oh, Lord, help them see
They need religion more than me
Oh, Lord, show them light
’cause racist bigotry just ain’t right
High hypocrisy the least of the crime
With that laundry list they should be doing time
Redneck hate dissipates too late
Oh, Lord, help them see
They need religion more than me
Oh, Lord, show them light
’cause this ignorance bliss just ain’t right
Every time they shout “U.S.A.”
Someone should show them the way
Redneck hate dissipates too late
(chorus 1)
Losing all respect for the country folk
It’s a sin the fun that they poke
Redneck hate hoping we’ll choke
(chorus 2)
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Country Folk
Chords: G# G#m C# / E G#
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
From the album The Zone Zone
LYRICS
Walled-off in his “emperor’s clothes”
His heart is empty
His mind is closed
He doesn’t seem to know
His seams don’t show
Bare-assed and dangerous
The wolf in wolf’s clothing
… clinging…
To the darkness
They say he has no vertebrae
Yet, he thinks he rules the day
The king of the worms squirms
Drained his swamp
Mad, he stomps
Coldblooded crawl
Cold hearted claw
Ate procrastinate to stall
But, after all…
We all heed the call
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: D F G D / F D / A G F D; 127 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
From the album Highly Suspect
LYRICS
The skew in you
Misconstrue
To narcissistic view
I’m in between in and out
Not sure what you’re talking about
Fear I may hit the floor
If you say any more
No more
Noooo… no more
Someone needs to correct you
’cause you’re talking cuckoo
The narcissistic view
(You, you, you)
I’m in between in and out
Not sure what you’re talking about
Fear I’ll go through the roof
Train-of-thought is too aloof
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Rock
Chords: A A7 / Em G D / A D Ab A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
From the album Highly Suspect
LYRICS
Though the sky is bright and clear
There is something still to fear
Another storm is drawing near
Round up those you hold dear
Send ’em below (or to the rear)
Make it known for all to hear
No one winds an economic war
The rich get poorer…
So do the poor
Trade your trade war
For no more
Look out past the horizon
There’s a hard rain and wind that’s drivin’
In its path weaving leaving none
When all is said and done
(Q) How deep will the loses run?
(A) A total loss and none have won
ABOUT THE SONG
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: F Ab Bb F / Db F Db C7 F
Recording: digital stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
From the album A kNew Album