bookmark_borderThe Resistance Samba #1

LYRICS
What is the meaning
Of meaning
Has it been bleeding
Receding from truth?
In fact, a derivative
Of fact
In need of a sleuth
That knows how to act
Truth
Al alligator
Into accusations
The allegations
Investigator

What is the meaning
Of meaning
Has it been bleeding
Receding from truth
In need of a tourniquet
With etiquette
You know
To stop the flow
The fears
Of “up to our ears”
In bull$hit
Can you hear it?
I wonder
If you’ve gone under
For a bit?

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: F# G / G A / A B; 106 BPM Samba #1
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Spanish Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Cockamamie

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bookmark_borderNaught Patriot

LYRICS
Oh, the patriots and glory
Same old story
Generals of a vague description
In a major way
Truth / fiction
March
April, May
March
Another day
Generals on average
Commander and thief
Private voyeur of deception
Veiled truth into fiction

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: C Em E6; 116 BPM 6/8/ Rock
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Cockamamie

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bookmark_borderPropose Suppose

From The Book Of Daneil

The King Who Exalts Himself
Daniel 11:36 “The president will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every head-of-state and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place. 37 He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all. 38 Instead of them, he will honor a god of walls

Daniel 12 “The End Of Times”

LYRICS
What do you suppose
Is in those?
What do you propose
To do, too?
Who would have choose
Those?
Now it has arose
What to do?

Fancy is the feast
Last Supper. The Beast.
Can you tell me at least?

665 lucky to be alive
Lucky, to be the 1 / one / won
(In slips 666)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: F# F#m C#7 B F#; 152 BPM Bebop Pop
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Cockamamie

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bookmark_borderIn Vain

LYRICS
Dumbfounded by amazement
Well, how long does this go on?
Well rounded in embarrassment
Tell me where we all went wrong
For how long…
Does this go on?
The shame is in the vain
The pain is in the name
The shame is in…
The pain is in…
The shame and pain within

To the past with harassment
It’s gone on far too long
Just won’t last as establishment
Sing along to the same old song
For how long…
Does this go on?
The shame is in the vain
The pain is in the name
The shame is in…
The pain is in…
The shame and pain within

When you say, “U.S.A.”
You give a way (away a way)
Privileged hearsay
Drive a wedge all the way
For how long…
Does this go on?
The shame is in the vain
The pain is in the name
The shame is in…
The pain is in…
The shame and pain

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: E G A / A G E / A C G A; 92 BPM 16 Beat #6
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Cockamamie

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bookmark_borderOminous Obvious

LYRICS
The travesty
Or the tragedy
Is a mystery
Is there amnesty
In your amnesty
No? Not really
It’s obvious
To most of us
Across the U.S.A.
What do you say?
And, you? Obvious, too?
As for me,
I see
It’s starting to show
Through
It’s starting to come true
Through the mystery
Come to be
What we see
We come to be

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive EDM
Chords: F# G A / G A; 82 BPM Analog Pop
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Cockamamie

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bookmark_borderThe Naked Truth

LYRICS
Is it just me
Butt… in all his majesty
Was the emperor wearing no clothes?
Not even close?
The naked truth
Buck naked truth
Does the buck stop… hear?
Like his clothes
I suppose
That is clear
Doesn’t take a sleuth
To discover the truth
The naked truth
Doesn’t take a sleuth
To know the truth
To “no” the truth
The naked truth

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Am G F E Am; 84 BPM Clubdance
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album 365 And A Quarter

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bookmark_borderNo Walls (Nor Balls)

LYRICS
No castle walls nor cannon balls
Invade the space
Of freedom’s place
No king reigns over (Be the lover)
Freedom rains down (On our town)
Discover minds blown (Seeds sown)
Inner peace release
The last is first (Quenched thirst)
Meek inherit the Earth (New birth)
In the eyes of skies
The glorious “why’s”
Absorb the wise

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: F# F E / E G; 125 BPM Rock #2
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album On The Off Chance

bookmark_borderTweedle Dum Founded

LYRICS
How come?
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
Were sitting on a fence
Tweedle Dee fell off… hence
Dumb was founded
Dumbfounded abounded
It seems to me
Tweedle Dee’s destiny — one with Humpty Dumpty

All the King’s horses
And all the King’s men
All the King’s horses
Know where men have been
All the King’s horses
And all the King’s men
No never put together again
No never put together
No matter the “whether”
… never
Free dumb’s brain forever restrained
Banned from this land wrought with free thought

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive EDM
Chords: Bm D C6 D; 83 BPM 16 Beat #3
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the album On The Off Chance

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bookmark_borderWaste Not

LYRICS
Might be a waste
If you’re going to space
In search of monsters and aliens
They might already be
Where you’ve been

Take me to your leader
The King “Human Rights Beater”
Space monster you want?
Space monster you got!
Go get? You wont want
What you’ve already got

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: C Db D Eb / Gb Db Eb; 90 BPM 60’s Soul
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards (Casio WK-3500, MicroKorg, Korg 364, Ableton / Vortex)

From the album On The Off Chance

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bookmark_borderFactual Fractal

LYRICS
As a matter of factual
Fractal of truthful
You did split it
Where’s the rainbow?
Who wants a black hole / whole

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk Protest
Chords: C D Em / C D E / C ? E; 80 BPM 16 Beat
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Unbelievable

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bookmark_borderA Situation

New York Times Photo of a Starving Child in Yemen
New York Times Photo of a Starving Child in Yemen

LYRICS
We’ve got ourselves one hell-of-a situation
One nation… divided….
Where’s the God? (How odd)
Are the children all invisible
How is it possible
Without a single care about their air
While the yes-men are starving them in Yemen
Amen?
Giving up on that is where I’m at
A women
I concede is the touch we need

What about the grandchildren?
The massive debt we’ve left for them
Shot our load watching bombs explode
Stubborn fools burning fossil fuels
While the yes-men are starving them in Yemen
Amen?
Giving up on that is where I’m at
A women
I concede is the touch we need

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about children… and Facebook removing a New York Times picture of a 7-year-old girl named Amal that is starving to death due to the war in Yemen.

Photo of a Starving Girl in Yemen Prompts Facebook to Remove Posts of Article

For a few hours after The New York Times published an article about conflict and hunger in Yemen, Facebook temporarily removed posts from readers who had tried to share the report on the social platform.
At issue was a photograph of a starving child.

Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: A C G A / Em A / C Em A / G7 C
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Unbelievable

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bookmark_borderAliens!

LYRICS
Have you heard about the aliens
With their baggage of alien sins
They say they’re coming this way
They say get out of the way
Have you heard about the aliens
Foreign language of alien sins
I hope they don’t say
In some foreign way
“Take me to your leader”
For I’ll have to convey
“You mean the bottom feeder?”
O.K. are you for real
Hey, hey what is your deal
They said you were coming this way
They said get out of your way
They said You’d have alien ways
And rob all of our days
Please don’t take me to task
And be so bold to ask
“Can you take me to your leader?”

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about immigrants and the “migrant caravan”.

In 2014, there were about 600,000 immigrants that became citizens. There are no numbers under the new administration but the forecast is bleak. In any event, adding 1 new worker for every 500 existing workers is better than nothing; however, it is still inadequate to compensate for our aging population.

An even bigger problem for the economy are the “other” migrant workers, such as, “H-2A Temporary Agricultural Workers” and other low paid workers… right now the USA has millions of low-pay jobs we can not fill. Mostly work that had been performed by migrant labor (that US citizens do not want to do.) The current administration has all but eliminated these types of immigrants. So, now that we can not fill the jobs with taxpaying, SS paying, etc. migrant workers, businesses suffer losses and our economic system suffers losses. Perhaps we will find a few US citizens to take jobs they don’t want to do (though the 6 million jobs have gone unfilled for many months.) More likely, the jobs will be eliminated altogether by AI and robotics. Either way, it is a loss and cost for the US economy in the short and long term.

Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Bbm F / F# F
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Unbelievable

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bookmark_borderFade Into Yesterday

LYRICS
You’ve got to break the habit?
I don’t like the sounds of it
You say, “in the bud… nip it!”
I don’t like the sounds of it

(chorus)
Fade away
Into yesterday
Memory
Abandon me

You say the turtle will beat the rabbit
I don’t like the sounds of it
Zorro with a lance stance, stab it
I don’t like the sounds of it
(chorus)

Going to start a new habit?
I don’t like the sounds of it
Sedimentation nation wake to riot
I don’t like the sounds of it
(chorus)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: B E Em7 / A E A B7 E; 106 BPM 8 Beat Rock
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Unbelievable

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bookmark_borderDo The Math

LYRICS
This is not about being political
It is about being analytical
The argument is bullet ridden
Should have been left hidden
Under the rock
From whence it crawled
Flabbergasted and appalled

Do the math
Go figure
Logic bath
Claim your

How do you account for it
If it doesn’t add up?

ABOUT THE SONG
This is a song about immigration.
Old, unhealthy… in fact, “dying slowly” demographics are/our not the soul-ution to your economic problems.
[hint: immigrants (both documented and undocumented are a substantial benefit with little to no cost.)]

As our population ages, we need young and healthier people joining the work force. They are the ones we need to fund our pensions, social security, medicare, health care, national debt, etc. Unfortunately, the people my age have squandered our savings. Now, we need population growth to save us. (e.g. Germany and 1,000,000 immigrants to help solve their problem.)

And then, there is the problem with low paid workers… right now the USA has a millions of low-pay jobs they can not fill. Mostly work that use to be performed by migrant labor that US citizens do not want to do. so, now that we can not fill the jobs with taxpaying, SS paying, etc migrant workers, businesses suffer losses. Perhaps we will find a few people to take the jobs they don’t want to do… and under-perform. More likely, the jobs will be eliminated altogether by AI and robotics. In any event, both a loss and cost for the US economy in the short and longterm.

Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Rock
Chords: F# G A B7; 98 BPM Heavy Metal
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Unbelievable

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bookmark_borderYour Mess Call

LYRICS
Hopped on the train
Ridin’ disdain
Next stop on the tide to the top
Given to the have’s not the have nots
Hopped on the train
Ridin’ disdain
Dear, Lord, everybody on board
Live by the war die by the sword
You can’t get to heaven driving a tank
After all, it’s your mess call
… who do you thank?

Do you have your ticket, Sir
If not, back where you were
Does this train have a brain
Autopilot’s on

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: E7(#9) G#mM7 E7 / A A7 / C B7; 125 BPM Fusion Shuffle
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Climax

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