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 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
LYRICS
Yes, Mama, it’s true
You are growing old, too
That’s the value
Of loving the whole time through
My Mother, the sun is shinning bright
My Mother, can you still see the light?
Yes, Mama, bones disintegrating
Yes, Mama, most devastating
Yes, Mama, the ear won’t hear
Yes, Mama, the plight of sight
Yes, Mama, it’s true
You are growing old, too
That’s the value
Of loving the whole time through
In the end, you get what you give
Cherish every moment you live
My Mother, the sun is shinning bright
My Mother, can you still see the light?
LYRICS
You cut off your nose to spite your face?
Another by-product of the human race
Do you cover your ears ’cause you fear to hear?
Do you cover eyes… no looking here!
Do you cover your lips ‘less truth slips?
In a disgrace did you rig the race?
Is your space way out of place?
Do you cover your ears ’cause you fear to hear?
Do you cover eyes… no looking here!
Do you cover your lips ‘less truth slips?
Pick up a guitar… pick up a bass
Why don’t we just rock this place
Uncover your ears we have no fears
Uncover your eyes stand-up to lies
Uncover your voice! We have a choice!
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: D G A E / D A C E
Recording: digital stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Organ
The three wise monkeys (Japanese: 三猿 Hepburn: san’en or sanzaru ?, alternatively 三匹の猿 sanbiki no saru, literally “three monkeys“), sometimes called the three mystic apes, are a pictorial maxim. Together they embody the proverbial principle “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”.
LYRICS
They call me a dreamer
It’s the best I can do
They call me a dreamer
Nuttin’ better to do
They call me the dreamer
With the follow-through
Look out, mama, I’m coming for you
American dreamer
In this day and age?
American dreamer
Future history page
American dreamer
Unlock your cage
Lookout, mama on the rampage
Come be a dreamer
For the best, if you do
Come be a dreamer
Nuttin’ better to do
Come be a dreamer
Grey sky turned blue
Come on, mama, we’ll make it come true
Come on, mama
You know you want to
Woohoo!
LYRICS
Welcome to the age of opportunity
Polish and rub till it’s shiny
Smooth “like a well oiled machine”
No couth… just lean and mean
Removed the polish from humanity
Homogenized diversity insanity
The gene pool is going to dry (too dry)
Deaf, dumb and blind we’re all going to die
Mend
Comprehend
Message
Send
Our age sage
Mend comprehend
Lend hand
Understand
Opportunity tune-ity unity
ABOUT
A song about the power of music helping to get through dire straights. That is to say, the opportunity for unity through tune-ity.
Style: Neo-progressive Polka
Chords: Em Em7(11) Esus / C Em / Esus+Bb
Rhythm: 122 BPM Polka Pop Rock
Recording: digital 12-track stereo
Vocals, Electric Slide Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers
LYRICS
Eventually
We will see
The sky will clear
Especially
We will be
Without a fear
Jump for joy
Give everybody a smile
Jump for joy
Try humor on for a while
Finally
We are free
Hold freedom dear
Totally
Beings be
Come lend an ear
Gratefully
Feeling glee
Smiles do appear
Musically
Elevates me
May angels hear
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E D A / F# F E
Vocals, Guitars
Written at the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA. It’s about strangers walking by and saying things like “You are the best.”
LYRICS
Strange… took a bite of orange
And the only thing I got
Was a mouthful of maggot
Wish I could forget
The orange maggot
Much to my regret —
Orange maggot
As the heads get flatter
Peach lives matter!
When I said impeachment
I meant im-orange-ment
The guy is a fruit fly
Won’t rest being a pest
What do you say to bug spray?
Wish I could forget
The orange maggot
Much to my regret —
Orange maggot
LYRICS
Wait a second?
I can’t wait a second
’cause I reckon
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
Leap a second
And before long
A second second
Thus this song
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
The spinoff of taking a spin off
You scoff?
Well, do you wanna get off?
’cause
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
It’s that mean solar time
Or UT1
Try to coordinate Universal time
Or UTC
And I for one can see
You won’t even give away
The time of day
No way
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
Screenshot of the UTC clock from www.time.gov during the leap second on December 31, 2016.
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E B E –> 7th fret and slide down to E
Recording: digital 8-track stereo recorded live
This song is about the Earth slowing down. Why is the Earth slowing down?
The Earth is slowing down and speeding up for many reasons. In general, the Earth is slowing down it’s rotation due to friction. The wind and the oceans and mountains, tides and gravity cause friction that slows an object in motion.
A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time, or UT1. Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth’s rotation drifts away from atomic time because of irregularities in the Earth’s rate of rotation. Since this system of correction was implemented in 1972, 27 leap seconds have been inserted, the most recent on December 31, 2016 at 23:59:60 UTC.
So, every once in a while humans travel a second forward in time. “Specifically, a positive leap second is inserted between second 23:59:59 of a chosen UTC calendar date (the last day of a month, usually June 30 or December 31) and second 00:00:00 of the following date.”
Why is the moon falling farther away from us?
The migration of the Moon away from the Earth is mainly due to the action of the Earth’s tides. The Moon is kept in orbit by the gravitational force that the Earth exerts on it, but the Moon also exerts a gravitational force on our planet and this causes the movement of the Earth’s oceans to form a tidal bulge.
The Battle of Terra Firma (Awe)
Can you confirm? (Awe)
Is there cause for concern
Should I sound the alarm
They slash and burn
You could lose a leg
They slash and burn
You could lose an arm
On your knees and beg The Battle of Terra FIrma
They’re tearing up Terra Firma
With warmonger awe
They soil the soil
With the souls of men
Imagine how things could have been
If we could only “do over” again
They’ve ground the ground
Turned dust to dust
The scarcity of humanity
Till total terrestrial denial
No Earthling left to sing
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Progressive Rock / ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em7 Em G
Rhythm: 112 BPM Slow Rock and 4/4 Blues
Recording: digital 16-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards and Synthesizers
