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LYRICS
Roughed up, bumped up, toasted, and twisted
Round up, dumped, double fisted
Am I left hear all alone
Praying for the patriotic prone
Home, sweet, home
Save the home of the brave
Save
The home of the brave
DR0000_3413-Toasted-And-Twisted.mp3
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: AM7 E A A7 AM7 E / B7 A AM7 E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
From the album Pandemic
Surge The Instrumentals
LYRICS
Just when I thought I saw everything
Look what they had left
Flood the streets
Let the levy spring
Our final freedom theft
Deft?
Ummm
Free-dumb
Ummm
Mamas and veterans hold back the flood
Over dead bodies and blood
With shock and awe and dropping jaw
I heard a mother say:
“No! Not this way.
No! Not today
Over my dead body.”
No. Nobody
Leave those kids alone
Free and brave
Save our own home
Hey! Lave those kids alone
Over flesh
Over bone
Deft?
Ummm… free-dum
None left.
Not right.
Just deft?
No right.
ABOUT THE SONG
July 20, 2020: “A group of mothers in Portland has been intervening at demonstrations over the weekend to protect protesters from uniformed federal officers who have been sent to the city to impose “law and order”.
We were gassed for chanting ‘Leave The Kids Alone.’
July 21, 2020: “A Navy Veteran Had a Question for the Feds in Portland. They Beat Him in Response. The veteran said he wanted to ask the officers whether they felt their actions violated the Constitution.
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: Dm Am / G D7
Unplugged: original take / live digital 1-track stereo / Vocals, Guitar
Recording: digital 11-track stereo / Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion
From the album Pandemic
Surge The Instrumentals
LYRICS
Oooey gooey was a worm
And a mighty worm was he
He sat upon a railroad track
And a train he did not see,
Oooey Gooey!
Under the freedom train
Outside the station
Just a-cross the tracks
Where the matters
Met the facts
A relationship strain
Under the freedom train
Tagged
Bound and gagged
Found
Bound and gagged
Mothers wept for the swept
Tagged. Bound and gagged.
Under the freedom train
Violent base without a brain
Don’t grasp there’s nothing to gain
Under the freedom train
(Time to train the brain)
Outside the freedom train
When I say outside, I mean they ride…
Under the freedom train
ABOUT THE SONG
July 20, 2020: “A group of mothers in Portland has been intervening at demonstrations over the weekend to protect protesters from uniformed federal officers who have been sent to the city to impose “law and order”.
We were gassed for chanting ‘Leave The Kids Alone.’
Style: Progressive Protest Rock
Chords: C9 C7; 104 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
From the album Pandemic
Surge The Instrumentals
Coversong written by Jared Leto originally made famous by 30 Seconds To Mars
Jared Leto described the meaning of the song as, “It’s really about a relationship with yourself. It’s about confronting your fear and confronting the truth about who you are.”
C D
What if I wanted to break
Em
Laugh it all off in your face
Bm
What would you do?
C D
What if I fell to the floor
Em
Couldn’t take this any…more
Bm
What would you do?
C D
Come, Break me down
Bury me, Bury me
Em Bm
I am finished With you
C D
What if I wanted to fight
Em
Beg for the rest of my life
Bm
What would you do?
C D
You say you wanted more
Em
What are you waiting for
Bm
I'm not running from you
C D
Come, Break me down
Bury me, Bury me
Em Bm
I am finished With you
C D
Look in my eyes
You’re killing me, killing me
Em Bm
All I wanted was you
[Bridge]
C D Em
I tried to be someone else
G C
But nothing seemed to change
D Em G C
I know now, this is who I really am inside
D Em
Finally found myself
G C
Fighting for a chance
D Em C
I know now, this is who I really am
C D
Come, Break me down
Bury me, Bury me
Em Bm
I am finished With you
C D
Look in my eyes
You’re killing me, killing me
Em Bm
All I wanted was you
C D
What if I wanted to break
Em
Laugh it all off in your face
DR0000_6076-The-Kill.mp3 (Live on the Lake)
4-track recording
From the album Pandemic
LYRICS
Did we land in Afghanistan?
What happened to the land of the free
If you ask me
We need to save
The home of the brave
I do not understand…
Did we land in Afghanistan?
Is anybody really sure
Definitely not in Kansas anymore
That includes Toto, too
Not to mention me and you
Did we land in Afghanistan?
Ruled by a one man Taliban
Out to rape every man
Time to ban the President
Since he doesn’t represent
Did we land in Afghanistan?
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: B A G D E / Em Em7(11) Em7; 156 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals
LYRICS
What do you make of it?
The human habitat (bull$hit)
And all that (bad habit)
Looks like they’re losing ground
All around
Save the sinking ship
Going to drown
Going down
Down
Down
Down
Living it up in America
Volatility of humanity
In a pandemic society
Protest: they riot and loot
Garnishing and licking boot
Ha, ha
Ahh… living it up in America
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Rock
Chords: A Am7 / E D A / Am7 A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitars and Loop Pedal, Keyboards
From the album COVID-EO
LYRICS
All the malfeasance
Humanitarian treasons
Decadence residence
Resonates in hate
Dredge the pledge
… of allegiance
All the wrong doing
Humanity travesty
To hell we’re going
A political catastrophe
From sea to declining see
See?!?!?!
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Hard Rock
Chords: F# G A B / C A B; 130 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
From the album COVID-EO
LYRICS
On their last leg
The blight of the plague
Brought on my their own
On climate change
Innards rearrange
Supper’s blown
Tunnel’s first light
Comes into sight
Much to our delight
On their knees… beg!
The plight of the plague
Brought on by their own
Oh very strange
Elect and derange
Crown and a throne
Tunnel’s first light
Comes into sight
Much to our delight
On our best leg
In flight of the plague
Out grown our own
Explore new range
Out of the grange
In the wind… blowin’
Tunnel’s first light
Comes into sight
Much to our delight
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Rock
Chords: Em Bdim Am Em / C B C B Em
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
From the album COVID-EO
LYRICS
I’m just a creature of circumstance
Come here as human observance
As a matter of fact
I don’t want to go back
Off to explore some more
I’m just a creature of circumstance
Cast here as human observance
Imagine what we can do with new
Knowing now what we knew
As a matter of fact
I don’t want to go back
Off to explore some more
I’m just a creature of circumstance
Last here as human observance
Imagine what we can do with new
Knowing now what we knew
I’m starting to see what can be
Quarantined me knows “to be free”
As a matter of fact
There’s no need to go back
Off to explore for more
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Rock
Chords: E C A / A G A / C E A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards
From the album COVID-EO
LYRICS
First strikes the bolt of lightning
Follows the crack of thunder
Doesn’t it make you wonder
If sound and light are fighting?
Am I fast enough
To pick up my stuff
And get out of the reign
Am I smart enough
To call the bluff
And get our of the reins
(The bridle of the Bible. Amen.)
Come into existence
At the same instant
Yet come to me at a different rate
I guess you had to separate
… from a seed into a plant
(chorus)
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: A C C A / A E7 E A / G7 C
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar and Loop Pedal
From the album Testing
LYRICS
There is nothing to fear
Why there’s nothing to fear here
Isn’t clear
Even stranger
Is the clear and present danger
Has no manager
Just a fool with a deadly tool
Far out-of-control
As a matter of fact
Off the tracks
Full body roll
After all the virus among us
Has gone viral
For real
In the thickness of the sickness
The President hellbent
Mentally absent
(chorus)
ABOUT THE SONG
Inspired by our mindless President and the coronavirus.
Style: Protest Rock
Chords: F#m B7 / D B7 / D F#m
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
From the album Hear Me Out
LYRICS
Despite all my trying
There’s still people dying
Due to “unkind closed mind”
The science denying
Leaves me crying
Has freedom left us dumb… numb?
Is your God calling you home
Crawl into your catacomb
Place pennies on your eyes
Watch “the unwise dies”
Ignorance harbors no borders
Despite my explaining
They’re still complaining
Shut-in and sufferin’
Still fail to see
The reality
Has freedom left us dumb… and numb?
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Rock
Chords: Em7 Cdim C Em / Am Em / B7 Em
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards
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