LYRICS
Turning cog
Rum in eggnog
The wheels turn
Will we ever learn
Or just keep spinning
Watching the population thinning
Who’s winning
Watching the population thinning
Egg noggin
Scrambled or fried
Mind untried
Brain died
Heard someone said… dead
Braindead
Eggnoggin
In fact, cracked
Yup
Can I have mine sunny side up
LYRICS
Once I had this vision
Where all this indecision
Resulted in our collision
Then, the vision
Had a division
And, we made a decision
For a revision
Revision vision
Envision a revision vision
Revision vision
Envision a humane human decision
I’m in
Being kind… giving sight to the blind
Vision
Envision a vision vision
LYRICS
Reading minds
Reading between the lines
Which kind want to be kind?
Read between the lines
One finds
Reading between the lines
They’re reading minds
Man’s maneuvers
Purveyors of slayers
Come on groovers
Come on players
Help maneuver the movers
And, say “hey!” to the slayers
Hey! Don’t slay
In essence, this isn’t rocket science
Reading minds
Reading between the lines
LYRICS
Acting like King Kong
Well, what went wrong
Show ya know mercy
Yeah! Show mo’ mercy
Acting like Godzilla (God zilla God zilla)
Some kind-of serial killa’ (God killa’ God kill’ zilla God)
Show ya know mercy
Yeah! Show mo’ mercy
Acting like the CIA
Don’t care if I’m MIA
Show ya know mercy
Yeah! Show mo’ mercy
Just ’cause you’re from the USA
Hey! It doesn’t make it OK
Just ’cause you’re from the USA
Doesn’t make it OK
Don’t care if I’m DOA
Show ya know mercy
Yeah! Show mo’ mercy
LYRICS
The fresh water level is dropping
The salt water level is rising
Shouldn’t be eye-popping
… no, ain’t surprising
Backlash of brackish backwaters
The water table is dropping
See the sea level rising
Shouldn’t be heart-stopping
… no, ain’t surprising
Backlash of brackish backwaters
Our wells are running drier
While the tides are rising higher
Would’ve thought it our desire
To put out this man-made fire
The song was inspired by a lot of misleading information trending in social-media about Nestle and the California drought. The facts of the matter are — most of the water in California is used for agriculture. Nearly 50 billion cubic metres (13 trillion gallons) of water is used in California each year. Nestle bottled water plants only use 705 million gallons a year. Almond growers use about as much water each year as the entire city of Los Angeles. What percentage of California’s water is used by agriculture? 80 %.
The real cause of the problem is Human Induced Climate Change. As droughts increase in frequency and intensity, the sea level is rising. So not only are the droughts a problem, but salt water intrusion is also a problem. As these problems worsen, the solution is not to blame bottled water companies. Nor is the solution to build desalination plants. (Not only do desalination plants contribute to global warming, they also are devastating to the ocean.)
The solution is for humans to take responsibility for the climate change and take action.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, miniNOVA
Written and recorded in Lake Wynonah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania,
LYRICS
Shocking! But, nothing new
Shocking… that no one knew
You discovered it’s true
What are you gonna do?
Now it’s been found
The Earth is round
So, there goes that
With it being flat
Not only that that
But as a matter of fact
It spins around going around and around the sun
No, my wit has not become undone
You see it’s nor heresy, blasphemy nor insanity
It’s been true all the while
Just took us a while to fine the need-le in pile
Shocking! But, nothing new
Shocking… that no one knew
You discovered it, too
What are you gonna do?
LYRICS
If you keep trying to find your place in this space
Even just trying to keep place at your pace
By looking in, by digging in, inside
How are you ever gonna figure it out
Figure out out
Figure out out
If you’re lost in your own space
Trying to figure out what face
To wear
Beware
If you keep digging in
Looking in
To your inside
You’re gonna miss the ride
How ya gonna figure out out
Figure out out?
If it’s all about you
Unlikely life will ring true
But, you’ll get through
Doing all you can do
To figure out out
To figure out out
You’ve got to come out
Look out!
To figure out out
Where to begin?
Get over within
Figure out out
Get over within
Get to figgerin’ out out
Trying to get on and along
Getting over in
Figuring out out
Trying to figure out out
Gonna figure out out
Leaving no doubt
An extemporaneous / impromptu song captured live as a 1-track stereo recording.
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers (microKorg; Yamaha PSR-740; Korg N364), Controller and Computer (Alesis Vortex to laptop running Korg software; also has midi cable to microKorg)
LYRICS
It stands to reason
If the other side of the other of Earth is made of earth
Making me wonder… is the other side of living… more like earth or heaven
It stands to reason
Maybe the opposite season
But nevertheless
More or less —
Earth
(Heaven on Earth)
It stands to reason
On the other side
On the other side of Earth
What’s it made of… earth?
On the other side
No, not quite ready to ride
If it’s high tide here is it low tide there
I don’t want to arrive at the wrong tide
On the other side
If it’s high tide here is it low tide there
If so, I want to beware
On the other side
An extemporaneous / impromptu song captured live as a 1-track stereo recording.
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers (microKorg; Yamaha PSR-740; Korg N364), Controller and Computer (Alesis Vortex to laptop running Korg software; also has midi cable to microKorg)
LYRICS
In this place in space
Graced with a human face
If all I could do is bark like a dog (bark, bark)
Aardvark licking up and all day ’till you pass away
If all I could do is eat like a hog (oink, oink)
A mink… ya think I’ll gloat about being a coat?
All aboard. Praise the Lord
Graced with a face
In the human race
LYRICS
Heard people say you can never go home again
But when I get there they say, “Where’ve ya been?”
Burning bridges mend
Comin’ round the bend
Finding a long lost friend
No surprise when ya look in their eyes
A familiar face… you realize
Burning bridges mend
Comin’ round the bend
Finding a long lost friend
There’s nothing like finding a long lost friend
Except for finding a long lost friend
Burning bridges mend
Comin’ round the bend
Finding a long lost friend
Sorry to say some have passed away
But it’s OK… we’ll meet again some day
Burning bridges mend
Comin’ round the bend
Finding a long lost friend
A live 1-track stereo recording made on a park bench in downtown Clearfield.
Chinklacamoose, spelled many ways, was an old Native American village located at what is now Clearfield, Pennsylvania. The village existed from the early 1st century up until around the mid to late 17th century. The village was about halfway along the Great Shamokin Path, which started at the old Indian village of Shamokin (present day Sunbury), along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River west to its ending point at the village of Kittanning.
Chinklacamoose kept its name up until 1804, when it became the first township for Clearfield County. Only three years later, the township began to split up into smaller townships, like Beccaria, Bradford, Lawrence and Pike by 1813, when Chinklacamoose Township no longer existed and the name was lost to history.
