Tag: progressive rock

bookmark_borderSlight Slice of Delight

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LYRICS
Should the known dead end
Be just around the corner
Maybe a better way is found
BY circling around
Can’t go over
Can’t go under
There’s no wonder
To discover
Might as well stray
From the wrong way
At the end of the tunnel
There’s a light
Forego the pummel
Stay to the right
Head toward the light
Delight
Slight slice of delight

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Eb Db Eb / Bb Db Gb Eb; 155 BPM Pop Bossa Nova
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Highly Suspect

bookmark_borderGet Back Home

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LYRICS
From time-to-time
… like to get out and roam
Be the main character of a poem
Because… it sure feels good to get back home

Life on the road
… there’s nothing you own
Surrounded by people
Yet, feel all alone
It sure feels good to get back home

Living on borrowed time
… life’s on loan
Too many days away
Will make you moan
It sure feels good to get back home

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: F Bb F / Db Eb F
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Highly Suspect

bookmark_borderSkew You

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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

bookmark_borderListen Lessen

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LYRICS
Lessen the listen
Or… lesson “the listen”?
Alright, if you’re that uptight
Insanity of anxiety
Doesn’t strike home with me
But, I’ll lend an ear
So, I can see
You hear: “There’s reason to fear”
It smells of something wrong
A bad taste… lingers too long
Too much touch
Left more than a footprint
My carbon stint
Is that right
(Left a stench)
Have I lost sight?
Listen to the knows
The knows knows

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Am7 Em7 Am7(11); 176 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Highly Suspect

bookmark_borderGo Down

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LYRICS
Do you want me to go down there?
Guess I’d better take enough air
Their bomb scare
Bobmshell-hell-ter
Afraid
Air-raid
Dumb blonde bomb
Chemical weapons
Of mass destruction
My life depends
On resurrection
Bombshell hell, well
Can’t stand the smell
Not feeling well
No place to dwell

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: G F# F E / A7sus4 E Em(13)
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Highly Suspect

bookmark_borderFoot In Mouth Disease

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LYRICS
Do this? Do that?
As a matter of fact
Why don’t I act?
If spew and spew
Is all I do
Where will it get you?
I see…
I am the dilemma…
In me

What tit for tat
Engage in spat
Why don’t I act?
If spew and spew
Is all I do
Where will it get you?
I see…
I am the dilemma…
In me

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Gm C / D C B; 116 BPM Soul
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Highly Suspect

bookmark_borderFor The Best

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LYRICS
Will you ever forget
All you regret
If your heart will let
Your mind will rest
So, don’t you think it’s best
To free yourself from fret

Will you ever relent
You’ve over spent
If your heart will lend
your mind will mend
So, don’t you think it’s best
Love yourself like the rest

Sure am glad to be free
From the misery
Where there’s love to be found
I’ll let it surround
I know it’s for the best
If peace of mind is the quest

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: B E G A / D C A / D C E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Highly Suspect

bookmark_borderA Hard Back Novel

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LYRICS
How novel…
Novel
A tail telltale tell-it-all
Novel…
How novel
The bounce pronounced tells it all
Novel…
How novel
Do you have a minute to talk
A story about your walk
Novel…
How novel
Page 1 starts where you take a stance
The plot thickens when you start to dance
Climax comes when you take off your pants
A tail
A telltale tail
Tell-it-all novel
The way it talks the talk
When I see you walk your walk
A tell-it-all novel
Half fact… half friction

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: F#7sus4 F# / A B F# / B C#7 F#
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Highly Suspect

bookmark_borderWhat Is Up?

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LYRICS
What is up? Are we all gullible
Naive
What is up? Are we all liable
Retrieve
Can’t plead insane
And still remain
Is it too late now?
Believe (You’ve got to believe)

What is up? Are we all ignorant
Numb n’ dumb
What is up? Are we all arrogant
Dumb n’ numb
Is it too late now?
Believe (You’ve got to believe)
Relieve

What is up? Caught in a row
Fight delight
What is up? Forgot how?
Light insight
Is it too late now?
Believe (You’ve got to believe)
Relieve
Receive

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E A G E / E’s
Recording: digital 6-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Xylophone, Melodica

From the album Highly Suspect

bookmark_border(We’ve) Got The Power

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LYRICS
Who has the pow!
Who has the power, now?
The lights are dimming
Glow goes sour
Who has the power?

Who has the pow!
Who has the power, now?

The air is chilling
In the corner, cower
Who has the power?

Who has the pow!
Who has the power, now?

Clock isn’t blinking
For another hour
Who has the power?

Who has the pow!
Who has the power, now?

Bath water is freezing
Must forego a shower
Who has the power?

Who has the pow!
Who has the power, now?

Set the juice loose
Blackout on track
Tail/tale end: caboose
We’ve got the pow!
We’ve got the power, now!

ABOUT THE SONG
Recorded during the power outage of October 17, 2019
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: G A G / C E A
Recording: digital 6-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Xylophone

From the album Highly Suspect

bookmark_borderGet Up!

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LYRICS
When I fall on my butt
I get up and try it again
No “if, and, nor no but”
Persistence till conquerin’
Until gain with no pain
Never retreat
Just repeat… re, re, re, p, p, p, eat

Get it right the first time
Then, I’m free to keep movin’
Go with the reason, flow with the rhyme
Slip right in to the lovin’

When I fall into the Zen
Want that feeling again and again
Then, it feels like heaven
’cause I’m not one for practicin’

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E A D G E / F# F E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Highly Suspect

bookmark_borderTime Well Spent?

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LYRICS
Who knows where the time goes
But it’s gone, it’s went, it’s spent
Living on borrowed… living on lent
Skip the foes, the woes, the lows
The hands keep on spinning
The world goes round and round
The herd keeps on thinning
Argh… we all fall down

The clock keeps on tickin’
Hoping more can be found
The plot start thicken
Argh… we all fall down

Father Time is aging
On a train homeward bound
The river Styx is raging
Argh… we all fall

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alt. Folk Rock
Chords: G Bb / F C Bb G / C G
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Highly Suspect

bookmark_borderYou Are The Angel

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LYRICS
You are the angel
Spread your wings
I’ll be your breeze
The wings sing
Let’s “sure” to the highest height
Soar down and save without might

You can do anything
Lifted by the light
The Glory will bring
Insight with in sight
Sight within sight
Insight within sight

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: C Em D / D C / C Em D / C Em Am / Em Am; 128 BPM with time changes
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the Christmas 2019 album of music Advent

bookmark_borderThe Long and Short of It

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LYRICS
… the long and short of it:
We did what we did
That’s it
The long and short of it
Period

Now what will we do
To come to the rescue
Rescue you
Rescue me
To save us from our collective “we”
That’s the long and short of it
That’s it
The long and short of it
Period

Let us — soup to nuts
The whole ball of wax
As just the basic facts
That’s the long and short of it
That’s it
The long and short of it
Period

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: B A E / A E / A E A E B7 E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Highly Suspect

The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

bookmark_borderTrade War

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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

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