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LYRICS
Here I am
Think I can
Be human?
Think I can
Be human
Once again?
What’s your stance
Do you only live once
Or get a second chance
Born to die
Tell me why
I will try
In time I’m
Tryin’ for two
How ’bout you?
Here I am
Think I can
Be human?
Think I can
Be human
Once again?
Chords: C D Em / G A B; 112 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
Written and recorded live to a digital 2-track
LYRICS
Rough and tumble
May be the call
But, then…
When you get down to it all
The in’s and out’s
What it’s all about
Sometimes you win
Hope not to lose
Have to choose
To start over again
The in’s and out’s
What it’s all
Chords: D C E A / C B7 E
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Ride Cymbal
Written and recorded live to a digital 1-track
LYRICS
Exit is the way to get back in
From where you leave
Is where you go
Exit is the way to get back in
The moment you leave
You begin
From when you leave
You come to know
The past you weave
The future show
The door swings both ways
In or out decays
Consider in the stays
How to spend the day?
Chords: riff d e a b g a d e e / Em D D Em / A G D Em; 120 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live: digital 2-track stereo
From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
Flying in the face of reality
At odds with rationality
Determined to define difficulty
Flying in the face of reality
At odds with rationality
Determined to define non-conformity
On a tangent
Out of bounds
Running rampant
Alarm sounds
Flying in the face of reality
At odds with rationality
Determined to define difficulty
Drying on my face… more tears flow
Odds are low at coming to know
Destined to define non-conformity
On a tangent
Out of bounds
Running rampant
Alarm sounds
Flying in the face of reality
At odds with rationality
Determined to define difficulty
Flying by the season of reason
There is no time for reason or rhyme
Destined to define non-conformity
On a tangent
Out of bounds
Running rampant
Alarm sounds
Chords: D C A D7 / A E A D7; 116 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric/Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live on a digital 8-track
Also: Rawhide Underwear and Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
Turn left, turn right
I find no light
Right in front of me
I see…
… infinity
Light years of bright years
Light…
… always in sight
Chords: A7sus4 Em7 Em7 Em
Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live: digital 1-track stereo
From the album: Knew Normal
LYRICS
Hoping the days don’t fade away
Before the kids have a say
The power to understand
Lay in their hand
They’re looking out for all of us
Making the world more fabulous
They’re looking out for all of us
Giving faith to Miraculous
Hoping my days don’t slip away
Before the children make way (make way!)
The power to understand
Is at their command
They’re looking out for all of us
Making the world more fabulous
They’re looking out for all of us
Giving faith to Miraculous
Chords: Dm C C Dm / Dm F G A / A B C C# Dm; 101 BPM
Recording: digital 10-track
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas
LYRICS
As we start to round the bend
To The End
I begin to see how we’ll begin
Again
A new way to see ultraviolet… x-ray
A knew way to be
A non-violent all day
As we start to round the bend
To The End
I begin to see how we’ll begin
Again
A new way to live
Carefree freewill
A knew way to give
Start the heart we will
As we start to round the bend
To The End
I begin to see how we’ll begin
Again
A new entity
Collective our soul
A knew clarity
Extrospective our goal
Chords: Ebsus4 Eb Ebm Eb9 / Eb Db; 152 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live: digital 2-track stereo
From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
Back to the dark
Headed to light
Out of the dark
In to insight
Just like you said
It’s happening
Inside my head
It’s happening
On the start
To the hear
And back again
Not looking back
Headed to light
Getting the knack
In to insight
Just like you said
It’s happening
Inside my head
It’s happening
On the start
To the hear
And back again
Back to the dark
Facing the light
Head out of dark
In to insight
Just like you said
It’s happening
Inside my head
It’s happening
On the start
To the hear
And back again
Chords: A AM7 A / C D A; 104 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live: digital 9-track stereo
From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
Hello opportunity!
Oh so glad you see in me
The possibility
To be what I can be
The mortality
To stress the urgency
Have faith in humankind
The kind you’d like to find
During this holiday time
I try to keep in mind
Hello opportunity!
Oh so glad you see in me
The possibility
To be what I can be
Chords: C G C G D G / G D D G / C D G; 110 BPM
Recording: digital 10-track
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas
LYRICS
Just turn around
See what’s been found
Just turn around
There’s a whole world
To unfold
To envelop
Outside the envelope
Just turn around
See what’s been found
Just turn around
[Dm7(11) jam]
There’s a big wide world
Yet to view
And a lot of things
Left to do
[A lot of things I’d love to do
With you]
[A / Am jam]
Just turn around
See what’s been found
Just turn around
There’s a big wide world
Yet to view
And a lot of things
Left to do
Chords: Am G F Dm / F Dm / Dm F G A / A Am; 100 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live: digital 10-track stereo
From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
Hard to choose
Just can’t lose
If picking both
is not a choice?
Might as well
Roll the dice
Craps! Snake eyes
Tell no lies
Keep rollin’
Keep rollin’
Hard to choose
Just can’t lose
Baby needs some new shoes
Hard to choose to lose
If picking both
is not a choice?
Might as well
Roll the dice
Craps! Snake eyes
Tell no lies
Keep rollin’
Keep rollin’
Chords: D C# D / G D F D / C C# D; 142 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live: digital 10-track stereo
From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
I didn’t hear the light switch click
Now I’m standing here
In the dark
Waiting on that magic spark
… on a lark
I didn’t know the sun went down
Don’t know where to go
In the dark
Waiting on that magic spark
… on a lark
Now come on
Who pulled the plug
Waiting on dawn
Through the dark
Waiting on that magic spark
… on a lark
Chords: Ebm Gb Ebm / Ebm Ebsus4 Ebm / Gb Ebm; 109 BPM
Instruments: Vocals, Keyboard, Synthesizers
Written and recorded live: digital 2-track stereo
From the album: Knew Normal
Instrumentals: This Is Next
LYRICS
If your soul thirsts
Put others first
And you will feed it
Your heart will start to beat
Along with dancing feet
Your mind you’ll get to know
The blood will start to flow
If your soul starves
The knife that carves
— your goodwill feeds it
Your heart will start to beat
Along with dancing feet
Your mind you’ll get to know
The blood will start to flow
when your soul strives
Brings others ‘live
A need, we feed it
Your heart will start to beat
Along with dancing feet
Your mind you’ll get to know
The blood will start to flow
Chords: C# D# F# G# / C# D# F# A# G# / F# G#; 100 BPM
Recording: digital 8-track
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas
LYRICS
My fellow gentlemen
Are you weary of soul?
And all you women
Did the world take it’s toll?
Well, there’s a star
With a tail so long
If you follow her
You can’t go wrong
No matter where you are
There’s a star
People of all ages
Have you had enough
Of hanging tough
Both young and old
The story’s told
Come in from the cold
Well, there’s a star
With a tail so long
If you follow her
You can’t go wrong
No matter where you are
There’s a star
Chords: Bm Em / A C Em
Recording: live
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas
LYRICS
The cost of the “12 Days of Christmas”
Is getting absurd
(In case you hadn’t heard)
It’s for the birds
7 swans a swimming
6 geese a laying
2 turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree*
*Pear tree not included
**All scenery excluded
***It’s for the birds
You can try, try, try
You can cry, cry, cry
But the price of the birds
Has gone sky high
Inflation elevation
It’s for the birds
Hadn’t you heard?
ABOUT THE SONG
The song was inspired by the 2021 cost of the “12 Days of Christmas”. The annual survey concluded “Even ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ is being slammed by inflation”. “PNC’s annual Christmas Price Index, which totals out the current cost of the gifts in the holiday song “The 12 Days of Christmas,” has been published—and all of those birds in the song come at a hefty price. Two turtle doves will cost you 50% more this year, coming in at $450. Those three French hens? That’s up 40.5% to $255. And the six geese-a-laying saw prices soar 51% in the past year.”
Chords: F#9 F# / B F# / C# walkdown riff; 166 BPM
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers
From the Christmas 2021 album of music Spirit of Christmas