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bookmark_borderThe Spot

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LYRICS
Above the toss and tumble
Above the crowds rumble
Somewhere high
Other than sky
There’s a spot
When you connect the dots
Where you become one
With some / sum
In a place where you can see
What will be
What we’ll be
The hue shines through
The light shines bright
Atmosphere’s right
For dreams to come true

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: A7 Em7(11) / D G / A7 D
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

Written at the corners of Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church

bookmark_borderIntact

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LYRICS
As a matter of fact
Trying to land intact
Not flat on my back
Nor hear a bone crack
… just trying to land intact
Taking up the slack
Why not get it taught
Wrought with fought
Take it back
… just trying to land intact
When I’m rocked, I roll
Torment has no goal
Thrill is sought
Not of naught
… just trying to land intact
Do you know what’s meant
“Wear a helmet”?
Fear the hack
Head gets whacked
… just trying to land intact

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

From the album Premortem

Written at the corners of Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church

bookmark_borderCatching An Old

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LYRICS
Hope i’m not catching an old
Rather it be the flu or cold
But, it sure like like…
I’m coming down with an old
Got the chills.. feeling cold
Better do as the doter told
’cause it sure feels like…
I’m coming down with an old
Can someone fix an elixir
That’ll fix ‘er?

How my vision’s starting to fade
Into the Styx starting to wade
For another day what I’d trade
Home come kingdom come has come
I’m really not ready for done
Try n’ get my ticker to run, run, run

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: A D G E / E E7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

Written at the corners of Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church

bookmark_borderTone

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LYRICS
With an up and down
Strumming sound
Trying to find the tone
Trying to find the zone

Pick glides
Across 6-stings
Fingers slide
Guitar sings
Getting into the tone
Getting into the zone

Can you join in and help me sing?
I’ll see what my heart and soul can bring
We can all get the good news out
That love, love, love is what it’s all about
Going for a ride
Ends on the other side
Going for a ride
Starts on the other side

88 keys if you please
Trying to find the tone
Trying to find the zone

Rhythm and choose
Blues or good news?
Getting into the tone
Getting into the zone
[chorus and bridge]

Tone.mp3
Tone Instrumental

ABOUT THE SONG
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: Am / Em C Am / D Am / Em C Am
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Organ

From the album A kNew Album

bookmark_borderMaybe?

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LYRICS
Maybeeeeee…?
Maybe
I can’t tell “for sure” no more
No more
Know not any more
So you see
Maybe
Certainly hope it works out
But you know what I’m talking about
A probability
Maybe
Maybe may be
Surely, what may be maybe will be?
It’s a possibility
If you ask me
We’ll see
Maybe
Maybe that day will be
We’ll see, hopefully
Throw your odds
Into the hands of the Gods
If you’re a regretting, betting
Man
Aman
To the holy trinity
Maybe?

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Em Am B7 / Em Esus4; 204 BPM Quickstep
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

bookmark_borderThoughtless

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LYRICS
Sorry, I was lost in thought
So I thought I ought
To apologize
Now that I realize
How thoughtless
[Lost my head…
Raising the dead]
So deep in thought
A loss in thoughtlessness
A thought knot
You said
Turn it on its head
A thought not?
I thought not
Therefore, I realize I should apologize
For being lost in thought
So full of thought
That, nevertheless, thoughtless

What was your question again?
Oh, yes…
… your dress…
… is stunning
And your hair?
They’re…
… marvelous…
Simply marvelous
… how thoughtless

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: C C# C#m C#sus4 F#; 130 BPM Cha Cha / 169 BPM Boogie
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderThe Brightside

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LYRICS
Why not look on the brightside
If it wasn’t for the darkside
Then, there would be no brightside
The dichotomy
Along for the ride
Straying from the darkside
Straying on the brightside
Sl… iiiiiiiiiii… de
Slide to the shine
Sure feels fine

Why not look on the brightside
If it wasn’t for the darkside
Then, there would be no brightside
The anatomy
Dissecting the hide
(chorus)

Why not look on the brightside
If it wasn’t for the darkside
Then, there would be no brightside
The astronomy
Found on the flip-side
(chorus)

Why not look on the brightside
If it wasn’t for the darkside
Then, there would be no brightside
The anomaly
Of the celestial tide

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E E6 Eb5 / E F F# / E B
Recording: original take / live digital 11-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Drums

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderThe Quick

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LYRICS
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack burns the candle…
Both ends of the wick
Put on the thimble
Thread the camel
The last straw
Thread the camel
Break his back
Eye of the needle
Step on a crack
Break the camel’s back
And you’ll cry baby cry
Wipes the tear
From the eye
Of your camel
Wipe the fear
From the I
Of your need-le
Life is nimble
Cuts you to the quick
Too quick
The Book read: “The quick and the dead.”
Too quick to quick, my friend
The End

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Am G C; 96 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderOnce You Go….

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LYRICS
Once you go and get it started
Won’t be long ’til the water’s parted
Once you go and get it started
The other half of half-hearted
And the “see’s” are parted

Once you go and you jump right in
Then you’ll begin to learn swimmin’
Once you go and just jump right in
All of your limbs
Learn to swim
Beginning

Once you go and give it a chance
You’ll see we’re all born to dance
Once you go and give it a chance
Surely, won’t hurt to try
Last dance is drawing nigh
Then, bye-bye

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: F# F#7 F#m7 B B7 Bm7 C#7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderSatellite

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LYRICS
Break in the east
Head west all day
A point-of-view that at least
Is in a relative way
Who is going around who?
If you don’t like it
What are you going to do?
There is no self-pity
In relativity
The fact is:
Spinning on our axis
A satellite
Of the sun
When all’s said and done…
A satellite of the sun
Is that right?
… a satellite of the sun
You might be right… not daft
When you say left is right
And, that right is left
… you just might
(Be right)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Dm G / C Am Dm
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderMonkey Do

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LYRICS
Is it true
Monkey see, monkey do?
Through and through
In the me and you
Through and threw, too
[feces flying]
One flew
Over the cuckoo’s nest
Think it best?
Is it true…
Monkey see, monkey do?
Up on a caged pedestal
Above the festival — Washington DC
Undone, I see
Monkey do
It’s true
Monkey see, monkey do
Know evil
Monkey do
Know harm
Monkey do
Ill alarm
Monkey see, monkey do

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Reggae
Chords: F#m F#m9 F#m7(11); 92 BPM Swing Reggae
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Premortem

Band together and join THE RESISTANCE!

bookmark_borderLagophthalmos

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LYRICS
Then I started thinking
What if there were
No blinking
What would protect my “I”?
The smallest bug
Could pull the plug
On my ability to see
“I can see that”
No longer intact
(Intact in fact, in fact intact)
It would seem
No vision to envision my dream
For I
Could no longer do anything
In the blink of an “I”
Nothing
Thinking blinking
Blinking thinking
Helping me see
Dreams come true
Helping the dreams
See through

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Em D Em G Em; 157 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderUndiagnosed

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LYRICS
These symptoms are confussin’
Can’t figure my head from my tail
While all the while I’m oozing
On my knees, to no avail
Don’t ask me
What’s the matter with me
If I knew
Would I be asking you?

These symptoms are less than amusin’
Dumbfounding me to no avail
While all the while I’m loosing
Oh why won’t what ails sail?
Don’t ask me
What’s the matter with me
If I knew
Would I be asking you?

It’s starting to come through
I’m starting to get a clue
The frailty of humanity
Inevitability of mortality
Exactly
What’s the matter with me
Is that what’s ailing you, too?

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: A A7 D D9 / C D A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar

From the album Premortem

Written in between Market, High, Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA — Gay Church

bookmark_borderEasy Way Out

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LYRICS
Hey! Wait just a minute
… you mean I’m already in it?
All the time already been
In the in
I just now figured it out
If you can’t find the easy way out
Do you know what I’m talking about?
Are you trying to tell me
To see “obviously”
All this time I have been
In the in?
Easy! All this time
It’s been inside of me
No doubt
The easy way out
Is inside of me

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E Em7 / A G E / E G A E
Recording: original take / live digital 10-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Drums

From the album Premortem

bookmark_borderStaged

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LYRICS
All is a stage
C. A. G. E.
Come out of the cage
See what it is to be
Come out of the cage
Out of your cage
All is a stage
C. A. G. E.
It’s that easy
They say all play
Come out of the cage
Onto the stage
C. A. G. E.
It’s so freeing
Cage free is for me
In my being
Out of the cage
On the stage
(All is a stage)

ABOUT THE SONG
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania.
The chords spell the word CAGE.
Style: Folk Rock
Chords: C A G E / C B E
Recording: digital 4-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Electric Piano

From the album A kNew Album