LYRICS
I heard on Christmas Day you can feel
It’s the real deal
I heard on Christmas Day you can feel
It’s the real deal
The act of kindness comes upon us
And for at least one day
We find a way
To be kind
It comes to mind
On Christmas Day
I heard on Christmas Day you can feel
It’s the real deal
You can see humanity
See a human being humane
Slightly humane
It doesn’t just remain slightly
You can see humanity spreading growing like a weed
And, we’d appreciate if at least on Christmas Day
You’d find a way to say
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
On Christmas Day
I heard ’em say
I know it’s true
On Christmas Day for me and you
You can feel
It’s the real deal
I heard on Christmas Day you can feel
It’s the real deal
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: G Gaug G6
Rhythm: 110 Beats Per Minute / Reggaw #1 and Swing Reggae
Recording: 1-track digital stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
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This is a soundcheck… for a reggae sort-a thing… that will be extemporaneous
We’ve made it this far
Rather combine forces and become a star
We’ve made it this far
The I in the I
And the you in you, too
We…
We can determine destiny
Or, so they say
We’ve made it this far
Combine become a star
Become the star you know you are
We’ve made it this far
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em7 Em
Rhythm: 100 BPM / Ambient #1 and Swing Reggae
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
When you sing Christmas carols in your native tongue
I feel the Earth is as one
Heartfelt moment
It’s a heartfelt moment
First, my spirit went silent
Then, it skipped a beat
When you throw out conceit…
When you throw out defeat…
Heartfelt moment
Wait a minute
No, don’t wait a minute
I feel your spirit
Not only can I hear it
I feel it
Deep within
Heartfelt moment
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em E D6 E7sus4
Rhythm: 90 BPM / Ambient #1 and Reggae
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Inspired by a friend singing Christmas carols in Thai.
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
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Good ‘ole Saint Nick
Up his sleeve, he’s got a trick
He’ll make those reindeer fly
Taking toys high in the sky
Good Saint Nick
Overcoming adversity
To try n’ make everyone happy
Good Saint Nick
Good ‘ole Saint Nick
Here’s the trick
If all year long, we just kept a lil’ good ‘ole Saint Nick
As our secret trick
As our back-up plan
To show a human
Humanity
Yeah, let’s see if we can show humanity someone being humane
If any remain?
Good Saint Nick
Keep a little in your heart
That a good place to start
Good Saint Nick
Keep a little in your heart
Maybe we’ll start
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em G Bdim Em
Rhythm: 120 Beats Per Minute / R&B and Cool Dance
Recording: 1-track digital stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
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[knock, knock]
I swore I heard a knock at the door
When I went to explore
I found they were no more
There was no body
Nobody was there
It was the strangest thing
I heard the doorbell ring
Thought maybe it was some carolers coming to sing
The strangest thing
When I answered the door
They were no more
There was no body there
Nobody
[knock, knock]
Who is it?
Up on the rooftop
Most baffling
Hearing the strangest thing
Like 8 little reindeer hoof
When I say little… they weren’t really that little… but compared to the roof
8 reindeer hoofs… 8 x 4… maybe even more
If ya count the one rednosed one
So I arose
Trying to be on my toes
I suppose…
Out of curiosity
I had to see
If there was anybody there
Some body
Somebody
Coming down the chimney
I had to see
’cause I’d heard
It was a tradition
And, I was just itching
To find out if this tradition was just fiction
Or, if there was just a sliver of truth
Because if it could be true for me
Maybe it could be true for you, too
So I had to see what this clutter was… this clutter of clatter
If it ’twas the spirit of Christmas
Is that no body somebody
Hard to put my finger on it
This Christmas spirit
But, I tell ya I hear it
Up on the rooftop
Yes, I suppose when I arose
I just had to look in the right place
If I wanted to see the Christmas spirit’s face
It was right in front of me the whole time
And, here I am searching high and low
At least now I know
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: F# D# G# F#
Rhythm: 134 Beats Per Minute / Ambient #3 and Big Band #1
Recording: 1-track digital stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
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I’m just a bland gland
I don’t understand
Just a bland gland
I don’t know
It’s hard to believe I’ve developed beyond and embryo
I don’t understand
I’m just a bland gland
Like the belly…
No not just the belly
The underbelly of the lowlyest worm at the bottom of the sea
Yeah that’s me
I don’t understand
I’m just a bland gland
Do I care if I see an atrocity
Nooooo
I just plead ignorance
My indifference passed off as ignorance
I’m guessing people will feel sorry for me
If I don’t understand the atrocity
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E C D E / E G / AbmM7
Rhythm: 129 BPM / Ambient #2 and Big Band #1
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: G A / A B / D E
Rhythm: 118 Beats Per Minute / Soul and Handbag
Recording: 1-track digital stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
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If you consider all homeless
To be terrorists
What’s up with your self-interest?
That’s messed up
That’s what’s up
How can you raise fear about fear
When you create the terror aren’t you the terrorist
It’s implicit
After all, who created the homelessness
That lack of nest
If you create terrorists
Chances are large you’ll live in fear
Next, you’ll tell me that you hate hate
Well, isn’t that hate that you create
Then, you cheer on your fear
Got terror in error
When the twist is you’re the terrorist
The twist is you’re the terrorist
Do you think you can resist becoming the terrorist
When you hold your fear dear
Like your fear is more dear than my fear
Then I fear fear itself
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E Esus4 E7
Rhythm: 114 BPM / Funk #2 and Funky Trip Hop
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
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The air in Beijing
Is breathtaking
If you go there
You better be taking your own air
You’re not suppose to be able to see
The quality
Of air
Beware!
The air in Tehran
Iran
It’s terrorizing
We’re not alone
Closer to home
Philadelphia
Well, the air there
Is filth dealt to ya
Breathtaking
Better not gasp
’cause your lungs won’t last
You’re not suppose to be able to see
The air quality
We’ve gotta gotta find
Rack your mind
We’ve gotta find
A solution to all our air pollution
Gotta find
What comes to mind?
For crying out loud
My, Lord!
We’re not suppose to be able to see the air quality
We’re not suppose to be able to see the air…
Quite frankly
Living in a fog
When you’re living in smog
Clearly there’s no clarity
The air there is breathtaking
If something’s ever been meant for “goodness saking”
It’s air that’s breathtaking
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Ebsus4 Absus4 Ebm
Rhythm: 112 BPM / 16 Beat #3 and Funky Trip Hop
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
This song is about humans making the planet uninhabitable. Over the last couple weeks, major cities including Beijing, Tehran and Philadelphia have declared air quality alerts. People are advised not to breath.
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
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Is that the way it is?
Because if that’s the way it is
Now, it was
Is that the way it is?
’cause that is turned to was
The is is now was
Shall we get to will be
What will be
What will be will be
If we chart our destiny
Well, is that the way it
Now, that’s the way it was
Is that the way it is
Because…
Now, that’s the way it was
Is that the way it is
’cause now that’s the way it was
Because
As fast as it is is
Is was
In the blink of an eye I go from is to was
So as long as I shall be
I will be
Living in what will be
In charge of our density
Sailing the sea we’ll see what will be charting our destiny
Is that the way it is
Is that the way it is
Is that the way it is
If that’s the way it is
Then that’s the way it is
PART 3
Is that the way it is?
Because
If that’s the way it is
Now, that’s the way it was
As is turns to was
I’d like to see how we chart our destiny
So we set sail for the sea we shall see how we chart our destiny
Is that the way it is?
Because
Now, that is was
Is that how it is?
Because
Now, that is has turned to was
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Dm Bm7
Rhythm: 104 BPM / Pop Rock #2 and Blues Rock
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
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I’ve been wandering
Wondering as I’m wandering
Out on the range
Isn’t life strange
I hope I’m not walking
I hope I’m not talking
In circles
I’d feel like such a circle-jerk
That just won’t work
I’ve been wandering
Wondering as I’m wandering
Out on the range
Isn’t life strange
Let’s begin to soak it in
It doesn’t matter where you begin
Soak it in
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: F Bb C
Rhythm: 100 BPM / Pop Rock #2 and Blues Rock
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
A song about the downtrodden and our hope, faith and charity.
The first time I recorded a version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, I was just learning what the song meant. The time was right after 9/11. As I started to look into the song, I found it was an Old English Carol about the downtrodden. Then, a new mate from England wrote me and said:
Merry in the Old English of this carol did not mean “Happy” it meant “Mighty” or “Powerful” (Think Robin Hood’s Merry Men – They weren’t happy because they were wearing tights… you know… they were a powerful fighting unit) The word “Rest” in the Old English also meant to invest a property in… or in other words to “make”.
So the first line of the carol in modern English would be “God Make You Mighty Gentlemen” Similarly the term “Merry Christmas” means have a “Powerful” Christmas. Kind of gives the phrase a whole new meaning doesn’t it?
Since then, I started to learn about the song “House of the Rising Son”. It turns out this, also, may be an Old English Traditional song (that USA blues guys adapted.) Coincidentally, it is also a song about the downtrodden. Both songs are about redemption… faith, hope and charity.
The video is a combination of man’s sins with God’s glory fading in and out.
Am
God rest ye merry, gentlemen
F E
Let nothing you dismay
Am
Remember, Christ, our Saviour
F E
Was born on Christmas day
Dm C
To save us all from Satan's power
Am G
When we were gone astray
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy,
G
Comfort and joy
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy
Am
From God our Heavenly Father
F E
A blessed Angel came;
Am
And unto certain Shepherds
F E
Brought tidings of the same:
Dm C
How that in Bethlehem was born
Am G
The Son of God by Name.
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy,
G
Comfort and joy
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy
Am
And when they came to Bethlehem
F E
Where our dear Saviour lay,
Am
They found Him in a manger,
F E
Where oxen feed on hay;
Dm C
His Mother Mary kneeling down,
Am G
Unto the Lord did pray.
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy,
G
Comfort and joy
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy
Am
Now to the Lord sing praises,
F E
All you within this place,
Am
And with true love and brotherhood
F E
Each other now embrace;
Dm C
This holy tide of Christmas
Am G
All other doth deface.
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy,
G
Comfort and joy
C E Am
O tidings of comfort and joy
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Recording: 4-track digital stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
G D G
Silent night! Holy night! All is calm all is bright
C G C G
Round yon virgin mother and child Holy infant so tender and mild
D G Em G D G
Sleep in heavenly peace! Sleep in heavenly peace!
G D G
Silent night! Holy night! Shepherds quake at the sight
C G C G
Glories stream from heaven afar Heavenly hosts sing Hallelujah
D G Em G D G
Christ the Saviour is born! Christ the Saviour is born!
G D G
Silent night! Holy night! Son of God love's pure light
C G C G
Radiant beams from thy holy face With the dawn of redeeming grace
D G Em G D G
Jesus lord at thy birth! Jesus lord at thy birth!