FORGIVE & FORGET (folksy) Forestville CA 7 Jul 2000
Forgive my for whatever / Forget about the you-know-what
(Never forget, never forgive)
Forgive my my trespassess / Forget aout my fuckups
(Never forget, never forgive)
--
{chorus} Too bad I'm not the forgiving sort / Too bad for you
I never forget what's in my heart / I never do
--
So temper my tempatations / Triangulate my tribulations
(Never forget, never forgive)
Excuse my execrations / Pardon my painful expectations
(Never forget, never forgive) {chorus}
--
Is the future as blank as the past? How can a slate be wiped clean?
(Never forget, never forgive)
Is life always too venal? Is anything forgivable?
(Never forget, never forgive) {chorus}
MILLENNIUM SONG (tango) Forestville CA 10 Jul 2000
Coyotes ripped my flesh - I laughed aloud
Drinking in the sunset's pale perfume
"I like that in a man," Madonna said
From a darkened corner of her room
Whips crashed - knives slashed - teeth gnashed
Precious fluids poured from my body
Another day in Vegas, another night
Another song to raise the Jubilee
Millennium, millennium, millennium
--
And 2000 is just another year
And Saint Stan's is just another beer
Millennium, millennium, millennium
--
Why do you laugh like that? Why d'ya cry?
What's your favorite universe of pain?
Have those sensations taken you away?
And will I ever see you again?
Coyotes ripped my flesh - I ripped right back
We ran, we howled, we cracked, we craved
Another day on Earth, or some planet
Another escape from the {happy} grave
Millennium, millennium, millennium
--
And the century is just another time
And perjury is just another crime
Millennium, millennium, millennium
DIGIDERATA (techno) Forestville CA 18 Jul 2000
Digital heart, digital mind, I'm encrypted in digital time
Digidemeanors, digidelights, digital days and digital nights
Digiridoos and digiridon'ts, digital wills and digital won'ts
Digital flowerpots, digital blooms, digital lives in digital rooms
--
Digital music by digidelay, digital prayer and digital prey
(Digital prayer & digital prayer & digital prayer & digital prayer...)
--
Digidecievers and digital truth, digital Judges and digital Ruth
Digital fog is filling my head, digital women are filling my bed
Digital life and digital death, digital eyes and digital breath
Digital smiles with digital teeth, digital pain and digirelief
--
Digital dumpster - trash, trash, trash, trash
Digital dollars - cash, cash, cash, cash
Digital focking - flash, flash, flash, flash
--
Peace and joy and happiness for you and for me
Falling like diamonds from a binary tree
Health and wealth and wisdom in the home of the free
Digital destiny, digital destiny, digital destiny
--
Virtual chedder, virtual swiss, virtual Venus, virtual bliss
Virtual you, virtual me, virtual meta-reality
Virtual strength, virtual weakness, simulated tenderness
Simulated deep-deep kiss, simulated nothingness
--
Digital ride, digitallatio, digitalinguis, digitalnoia
Digitality, digitalority, digitalinity, digitalosis
Digital, digital, metadigital, digital, digital, metadigital
Digital, digital, metadigital, digital, digital, metadigital...
WHAT DO I SEEM LIKE TO YOU? Graton, CA 20 Jul 2000
[Sound-piece: drums, like Rhythm Of The Saints; starting quiet,
then gets louder:]
Ta-ta-ta-ta-da-da-da-da (several times)
[Voices on one side, singing:]
Ears, nose, fingers, toes / Nostrils, tongue, foot, fun
[Voices on the other side, singing:]
No kissee, no luckee / no kissee, no luckee.
[Singing, first one side, then the other, then both overlaid, drums increasing,
then fade the voices. And then start singing on top of the drums:]
Well, I'm a-staring in your eyeballs
I see my face reflectin' there
I see myself lookin' back at me
I see ya somewhere inside
--
[chorus:] What do I seem like to you?
--
There's no limit to the distance
There no limit to the ten-derness
There's no fire in the forest
There's more gorillas in the mist [chorus]
--
Well, I'm tastin' your breath
Right now, you taste a lot like me
You're breathin' out an you're breathin' in
You take another breath again [chorus]
--
So I'm sampling your senses
Lookin' straight in your eyeballs
I taste your taste and I think your thoughts
What do I seem like to you? [chorus]
[Then go off in a technobabble chaos of "What do I seem like to you?"
repeated & echoed & chopped / sliced / hacked / slashed / mixmastered,
and fade...
VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN (rappish) Hacienda, CA 21 Jul 2000
I think I'll go and vote a few times today
Natural Law and the American Way
Veg-e-tarians and K.K.K.
I think I'll go and vote a few times today (uh uh uh)
--
[chorus] Vote early, vote often (da da da da da)
Vote early, vote often (da da da da da)
Vote early, vote often (da da da da da)
Vote early, vote often (da da da da da)
--
I think I'll go vote for some political swine
What's mine is theirs and what's yours is mine
I think I'll go vote for some political swine
As long as they give me a bottle of wine (uh uh uh) [chorus]
--
I vote so much, I wear out my arm
I vote so much that I lose my farm
I vote cause the candidate is fuzzy and warm
I vote cause I can't do me no more harm (uh uh uh) [chorus]
--
I vote for Republicats, I vote for the Greens
I vote for realities, I vote for my dreams
I vote for the candidate with nice face paint
I vote like a moron & I sin like a saint (uh uh uh) [chorus]
--
I vote for the Anarchists, they're so much fun
I'll vote for a politician on the run
I vote for the living and I vote for the dead
I vote with my heart and I vote with my dickhead (uh) [chorus]
THE ETERNITY WALTZ GODZ Forestville CA 24 Jul 2000
(first melody:)
I saw Jesus' son in a bistro
Smoking a beedee, talking 'bout Proust
I shot Jesus' son in the back of the head
It's the kinda job I like most
-
I saw Juno's daughter in Macy's
Juggling her time on the down escalator
I saw Juno's daughter, she looked so clean
She looked like a strawberry cream
-
I heard Osiris out rattling the windows
Don't know if he was scared when the rope broke
Osiris just skydived the skyscraper canyons
Yelling, "GERONIMO!" -- Thud...
-
Buddha's cousin walked up to my door
Asked me if I'd like to buy a subscription
Wouldn't take 'NO', now I'm signed up for 10 years
Of ARGOSY and GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
-
(next melody:
How many gods and goddesses does
It take 'til the firmament's full of'em?
Can the firmament take any more of'em?
What'll we do with the extras?
-
How many demons and devils does
It take til the underworld's stuffed, overflowing?
Have you whacked any underlords lately?
Is that the only solution?
-
How many spirits can fit in a universe?
A meta-universe? A super-meta-universe?
Where do the spirits go when they turn
The corner, vanishing from your sight?
-
How many days does it take to fill up your nights?
How many nights does it take to fill up your life?
How many lives does it take to fill up your head?
What else would you rather be doing instead?
-
(last melody:)
The time flows in, the time flows out
The time flows under and all about
The time goes leaking thru holes and holes
The time is all you remember
The time is all you remember
-
The real flows in, the real flows out
The unreal flushes your tedium out
The unreal tastes like marshmallow pie
And how much better am I, am I?
And how much better am I?
-
The dweebs roll in, the geeks roll out
The nerds roll under and all about
The next wave rolls up and down your spine
And where the hell is mine, mine?
And where the hell is mine?
THE ANARCHY STOMP (rappy) Forestville CA 28 Jul 2000 *
Da da-da da DAH, da da-da da-da da DAH...
Ya do some window-SMASHing, a little store-TRASHing
A bit of tire-SLASHing, it's the Anarchy Stomp [boom-boom]
--
Da da-da da-da DAH da, da da-da da-da DAH da...
Ya break a few windows, flip over some police cars
Set fire to the trashcans, it's the Anarchy Stomp [boom-boom]
--
Da da-da da-da DAH da, da da-da da-da DAH da...
You spill some DNA [boom], you spill a little blood [boom]
You're screwing in the mud, it's the Anarchy Stomp [boom-boom]
--
Da da-da da DAH, smash the State, smash the State, smash the State
Da da-da da DAH, smash the corporations, corporations, too [boom]
[sirens, explosions, chanting, bullhorns, modem noise, shouts etc]
--
Da da-da da-da DAH da, da da-da da-da DAH da...
You start another ListServ, you hold a press conference
You organize the rebels, it's the Anarchy Stomp [boom-boom]
--
Da da-da da-da DAH da, da da-da da-da DAH da...
You're working for a dream, you're working for The People
You're part of some conspiracy, the Anarchy Stomp [boom-boom]
--
(Smash the State, again...)
--
Da da-da da-da DAH da, da da-da da-da DAH da...
So out with the OLD exploiters, in with the NEW exploiters,
There ain't no power vacuums with the Anarchy Stomp [boom-boom]
--
Da da-da da-da DAH da, da da-da da-da DAH da...
Power loathes a vacuum, so grab some power now
Grab it now, grab it now, do the Anarchy Stomp [boom-boom]
THE HEAT (woodpecker jazz) Forestville CA 31 Jul 2000 *
Da-da da DAH dum, da-da da DAH dum, (da da-da)
Da-da da DAH dum, da-da da DAH dum, (da da-da)
I feel like some SUN burn, I'm feelin' THE heat, (da da-da)
I feel like som AR-son, go burn down THE street, (da da-da)
I feel like some HEAT rash, set fire to THE trash,
To the TRASH, to the TRASH, to the TRASH, to the TRASH
--
Da-da da DAH dum, da-da da DAH dum, (da da-da)
Da-da da DAH dum, da-da da DAH dum, (da da-da)
Now pull out the LIGHTER fluid, drink it ON down, (da-da da-da)
Now spit out the WIN-dow, set fire to THE town, (da-da da-da)
Look out for the LIGHT-ning, look out for THE smoke,
For the SMOKE, for the SMOKE, for the SMOKE, for the SMOKE
--
Da-da da DAH dum, da-da da DAH dum, (da-da da-da)
Da-da da DAH dum, da-da da DAH dum, (da-da da-da)
My mind is SMOULD'ring, my mind is ON fire, (da da-da)
My heart is SMOKING, aflame with DE-sire, (da da-da)
A little more FAREN-height, a little MORE flame,
What's your name, what's your name, what's your name...
--
Da-da da DAH dum, da-da da DAH dum...
--
[slower] Da, da, dah, DAH, da, dah
You'll combust, under certain conditions / Spontaneous, or otherwise
Let's avoid, premature, ignition / Let's try, to enjoy, the ride...
[resume]
--
Da-da da DAH dum, da-da da DAH dum, (da da-da)
Da-da da DAH dum, da-da da DAH dum, (da da-da)
We turned into PLAS-ma, we're starting TO glow, (da-da da-da)
So hot when we're COM-ing, so hot where WE go, (da-da da-da)
We're totally VAPOR-ized, so say good-BYE fast,
It's a gas, it's a gas, it's a gas, it's a ga-ASS...
--
Da-da da DAH dum, da-da da DAH dum, (da-da da-da)
Da-da da DAH dum, da-da da DAH dum, (da-da da-da)
OCEANSIDE OVERTURE (Mozartian) Graton, CA 1990? - 31 Jul 2000 *
[major] Come along my love with me, we will make away by sea
From Diego to Seattle, we'll skedaddle on some lumber
that we'll straddle as we paddle while we flea
Come along my love today, we'll escape across the bay
Past the barnacles and urchins and the otters and the merchants
who will try to sell us tea-shirts all the way-ay
--
[minor] Come along and don't look back, we will carve a nice kayak
Out of driftwood from the nether shore,
go coasting past the ocean's roar
And close a final door upon our past
Past the kelp and sargassos, and the Japanese cargoes
We'll abandon all our former life,
you'll no more be a fishlord's wife
And strife will slide away beneath your toe-oes
--
(to be continued...)
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