bookmark_borderA Higher Up

LYRICS
What is higher up
The ceiling?
What is higher up
The blue sky?
What is higher up
The feeling?
What is higher up
Give a try
Stand up and cry
“Try a higher up”
Raise your hand
Take a stand
A higher up!
Raise your loving cup
A higher up!
Fire
Higher
Inspire
Higher
Put your hands together
Not a matter
If we can weather the whether
Raise your loving cup
A higher up!

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Em / C B Em; 102 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderInfectious

LYRICS
Oh, so infectious
I caught you
Oh, so infectious
What to do?
Oh, so infectious
Ain’t no flu
My little precious
What to do
Oh, so infectious
I caught you

Oh, so infectious
You contagion, you
Oh, so infectious
Infections grew
And, so lethal
No withdrawal
I guess you know
You’ve got to go

Oh, so infectious
I caught you
You’re so infectious
I caught you

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Electronica / EDM
Chords: Ab / Gb Bb Ab; 77 to 98 to 108 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderMounting

LYRICS
The climate change is changing
The pandemic panic is plaguing
Yet, hear no, see no, speak no
Know
The climb mount is mounting
The hill turned to daunting
Oh no, know no no
Know know no?

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

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderInstant Psychic

LYRICS
Look into the future
There is no amateur
Look into the future
You can to it… I’m sure
Instant psychic
Look, do you see?
It just became presently
What shall be
Has become
Sure am hoping… it ain’t done
For now,
It happens somehow
For now,
The future’s turning to now
See? It just happened then
See? It just happened again
It’s going to hit me
Right in the “I”
Hope I see tomorrow
Before I die

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: A Em G A / D A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderOn With The Show!

LYRICS
Put on my helmet
Strap on my chinguard
I’m diving hard
Into the future’s endowment
Strive to stay alive
Till the final curtain falls
Till the final curtain calls
The show must go on
Onto a new dawn
Until knew dawns
The past too thick
With the raving lunatic
Moving onto where the thinking’s sound
And rational is found

Put on my goggles
Put in my ear plugs
They’re pulling out rugs
And pulling mind boggles
[chorus]

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: Em C D / A G E; 156 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderThe Last Mile

They said there’s just a mile to go
“The last mile”
They said come on don’t you know
Mile wide smile
Then my throat garners a lump
Knowing we our over the hump
And my heart begins to swell
Knowing it all works out well
Ah ha, ah ha

I heard there’s just a mile to go
“The last mile”
I said let the whistle blow
Crank the dial
Knowing we our over the hump
And my heart begins to swell
Knowing it all works out well
Ah ha, ah ha

Have you heard there’s just a mile to go
“The last mile”
You say let the music flow
Dialed up style
Knowing we our over the hump
And my heart begins to swell
Knowing it all works out well
Ah ha, ah ha

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: A C A / B7 G A / G A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderWith Will

LYRICS
With will there’s a way
The way is freewill
Dropping of jaws
Wizard of Oz
What are the odds
Clashing of Gods!

You want freedom to stay?
Yet, you’ve had your fill
Of pissing away
With will there’s a way
The way is freewill
Dropping of jaws
Wizard of Oz
What are the odds
Clashing of Gods!

Into the zone of “own your own”
The “me, me, me-eese” are overblown
Come into the known
There is no alone

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: E F D E / B A E F D E; 120 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderRivers Raging

LYRICS
Rivers raging
Blood boiling
Upstaging
Recoiling
The time for time
Slipping
The yelp for help
Fading
Look up to the sky?
Look into the “I”
Are you where you are?
You have come how far?
Gathered rather
Stones thrown
Maybe the skies will open
And we’ll be saved
All the faith and hopin’
Enslaved to how we behaved

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: Dm7(11) Dm7 / C Dm; 104 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderOnce In A While

LYRICS
Once in a while
I learn about
Where I should file
“The bridge is out”
But now I’m on my way again
Whistlin’ while walkin’
On my way again
Hummin’ and strumin’

Every now n’ then
I get deposed
The if’s and when
“This road is closed”
But now I’m on my way again
Whistlin’ while walkin’
On my way again
Hummin’ and strumin’

Imaginable
Impossible
An immovable
Obstacle
But now I’m on my way again
Whistlin’ while walkin’
On my way again
Hummin’ and strumin’

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: A A7 F#m7 / G Em A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderBorrowed Verse

LYRICS
Maybe I should just borrow a verse
From a parallel universe
A place where they shake-off the hate
And throw the glow of heavenly love

Embrace the human race
Leave bias without a trace
Let everybody’s heart beat true
May that include me and you

An unrehearsed second verse
… the same parallel universe
A place where they shed off the dread
Live life to the fullest ’till they’re dead

Well, it’s come time for the final verse
… from a parallel universe
Before our times come to The End
What’s the message that we send?

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: G#m F#m / F# B
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Piano

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderSwayed

LYRICS
Time keeps rolling on
Better jump on
Or move way
Time keeps rolling along
Better jump back
Attack
Or sway
Sway in good time
Move to the music
Make the moment fine
Sure to make the movement stick
In our thick
In the thick of it
When the fan meets the $hit…
In the thick of it
When the fan meets the…
Quit?
No, never quit!
Sway in good time
Move to the music
Make the moment fine
Sure to make the movement stick
In our thick

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: E E7 E E9 E / A G E / B7 A E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderStill Walking (in the Way)

LYRICS
Do you need to take a break?
Take it all in?
For God’s sake!
A little too late
Should do that before we begin

Shouldn’t we jump out of the way
’cause getting run over ain’t O.K.
Why are we still walking
In the emperor’s clothing
Why are we still walking
… in the way
Something about does, you’s, do’s, blues
And “the price you pay”
Why are we still walking
… in the way

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: Dm C Dm / Dm Em F Em Dm / Dm Em F G Dm / Dm Am G F Em Dm; 74 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderOur Getaway

LYRICS
Laser sight
Tazer bite
Don’t pass!
Tear gas
Can’t get away
No! There’s no way
To get away

You can’t run
You can’t hide
Stifle fun
In the name of pride
Your move meant
Meant your movement
What’s inside
Where does your heart reside

Laser sight
Tazer bite
Don’t pass!
Tear gas
Can’t get away
No! There’s no way
To get away
Yes! There’s a way
To get away
Live for the day
And, love will stay

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: Am E / D Am E Am
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderOptimystic

LYRICS
Know the optimist
Grow the optimism
Go with the optimistic flow
Why not give it a try
And, fly to the optimist’s high

Invest in hope
Divest the nope
Defy the odds of the slope
Why not give it a try
And, fly to the optimist’s high

Digest the yes
Forego the no
Less mess the more that you know
Why not give it a try
And, fly to the optimist’s high

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: F# F#6(9) / C# B F#
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals

bookmark_borderCareful Aim

LYRICS
Hit or miss
Aim for bliss
Nature’s kiss
On the lips

Takin’ a body for a ride
This is bliss
Feelin’ love you can’t hide
Hate to miss

Never miss
Effortless
Make a wish
Hit or miss

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: G D A / E G D A [A A7 Am7 jam]
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album The 2nd Wave
Instrumentals