RIVER, RIVER  [tinkly folk-metal]  Lee Vining, CA  8 May 2002

 
[chorus:]
 River, river, tell me your secrets
 River, river, tell me your story
 River, river, what are you hiding?
 River, river, what are you hiding?
 -
 Civilizations, washed away
 River, river, what would they say?
 Did you drown a sparkly Atlantis?
 Was Lemuria just as tragic?  [chorus]
 -
 Ragnarok, the death of Xibalba
 Noe's flood and vanished Antilla
 Did you wash away their blood?
 Are their wonders sunk in mud?  [chorus]
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 Did you deluge Hyperborea?
 Did you send Incas to Korea?
 Will you wash away our myths?
 Is memory a bitter gift?  [chorus]


 ATLANTIS BOOGIE  [guitar boogie & electronics]  Lee Vining, CA  8 May 2002


[guitar boogie] ATLANTIS! [repeat 25 times]
[guitar boogie] LEMURIA! [repeat 25 times]
[various improvs and overlays et cetera]
 

 BECAUSE I'M GOD  GODZ  [doo-wop / surf]  Kernville, CA  11 May 2002

 
[intro:]
 Fun-fun-fun-fun fund-da-mental [4 times]
 Men-tal, men-tal, men-tal...
 -
 I'm God, and I've got plans for you
 For everything that you'll say or do
 You won-der why I play this game with you
 -
[chorus:]
 Because I'm God, that's why, that's why
 Because I'm God, that's why
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 I'm God (GOD!) and your future's writ
 Each sin and ecstasy, each flashing tit
 You won-der why I put you through this shit  [chorus]
 -
[bridge:]
 Omniscience, it's such an easy game
 Good and evil, it's all the same
 Just the field, where you're playin'...
[instrumental]
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 I'm God, and humans are my toys
 You howling women, you screaming boys
 You won-der why you make this awful noise  [chorus]
 -
[repeat intro]


 WHY LOVE DOESN'T ALWAYS LEAVE YA FEELING GOOD   Fairview, CA  12 May 2002


 I had some experimental surgery
 She ripped my heart right out of me
 And left me in the road for all to see
 And left me in the road for all to see
 -
 She did it without anas-thesia
 Poked every pain center that she saw
 And used a blowtorch where the nerves were raw
 And used a blowtorch where the nerves were raw
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 She was sweet and polite and so dead-on
 Told me that she was moving on
 Now my heart and soul are dead and gone
 Now my heart and soul are dead and gone


 ANOTHER ROOM   [bluesy]  Santa Rosa, CA  25 May 2002


 You had a smile like gold, laughs like quicksilver
 You treated me like a refugee, just across the river
 I gave you all I had, all I could deliver
 -
 You treated me to sushi, you treated me to meth
 You had complex carbohydrates on your breath
 You put me on the subway and sent me to my death
 -
 Just like television, the end came too soon
 There I was, all wrapped up, walking on the moon
 There you were, cold and quiet, in another room
 There you were, cold and quiet, in another room
 There you were, cold and quiet, in another room


 GREETINGS, EARTHLINGS   [techno]  Santa Rosa, CA  25 May 2002


 The warning signs of alien abduction
 The bumps, the blood, the blues
 Sucked up by Reptilioids, really bad bad news
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[chorus:] Greetings Earthlings, we come in peace [3 times]
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 I gota get outa the abductee support group
 Aliens drinking beer, never any droop (droop)
 Milked by Reptilioids, the smiling Guadelupe  [chorus]
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 The warning signs of ET infestation
 The plastic fantasies, the flashing reds
 Bloodied in Reptilioid electric beds  [chorus]
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 We've gotta drive the aliens away
 Better than underarm protection
 Universal brotherhood or whatever  [chorus]


 DAMNED AND HAVING FUN   [doo-wop]  Northern California  May 2002


[background:] Two-shoes, two-shoes, two-shoes...
[foreground:] Well I usta be a goody
 But I couldn't fix my woody
[background:] Bad news, bad news, bad news...
[foreground:] I was runnin' all over the place
 Cruisin' for some loving grace
[background:] No blues, no blues, noblues...
[foreground:] Then I found out about sinnin'
 And that's why I'm still grinnin'
 -
[chorus:] Now I'm damned and havin' fun
 Yes I'm damned and havin' fun
 O I'm damned and havin' fun
 Yes I'm damned, Yes I'm damned
 -
[background:] Four-by, four-by, four-by...
[foreground:] O-o I was such a dreamer
 Then I got myself a Beamer
[background:] 4-square, 4-square, 4-square...
[foreground:] Playing all sortsa tricks
 Picking up autistic chicks
[background:] O I'd get'em o so high
 Then I'd spread their creamy thighs  [chorus]
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[bridge:] 
 Who cares (who cares) 'bout damnation (who cares)? 
 It's not (no not) so mu-ch to pay-ay-ay
 For orgasm (orgasm) after orgasm (orgasm)
 All nite (all nite) all nite (all nite) and day-ay-ay
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[background:] Threeway, threeway, threeway...
[foreground:] So I used to be a loner
 'Til I learned to use my boner
[background:] Freeway, freeway, freeway...
[foreground:] And give it to the girls
 For a trip around the world
[background:] Leeway, leeway, leeway...
[foreground:] And a little pinch of crystal
 Makes'em hotter than a pistol  [chorus]



 STANDING AT THE BATHROOM WINDOW   [rock]  Santa Rosa, CA  1 June 2002


 Standing at the bathroom window, Looking at the sky
 Sometimes it's dark clouds, Sometimes it's bright
 -
 Standing at the bathroom window, Waiting to take a piss
 Sometimes I hit, Sometimes I miss
 -
 Standing at the bathroom window, Wonder what the neighbors think
 Sometimes they party, Sometimes they drink
 -
 Standing at the bathroom window, Two stories high
 Cats down below me, Cats up in the sky
 -
 Standing at the bathroom window, Feel that suburban breeze
 Sometimes I inhale, sometimes I just sneeze


 GIRLS ON DRUGS   [click pop]  Santa Rosa, CA  20 June 2002


 She came in late / she was in the mood
 And pretty soon / she was wet and nude
 I think she wanted / something lewd
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[chorus:] Girls on drugs, girls on drugs, girls on drugs
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 She was so radiant / she was so nice
 She had a smile / like neon ice
 I took her once / or maybe twice  [chorus]
 -
[bridge: chorus repeated, chromatic descending]
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 She came in first / and she came in fast
 She breathed a curse / and she breathed her last
 I never looked in-to her past  [chorus]


 BLACK HOLE   [techno]  Santa Rosa, CA  21 June 2002


 Stretching pain, and she zoomed out
 Stars are churning, like heaven's gut
 Into the black hole, the black hole
 Into the black hole, the black hole
 -
 How sweet immortality is, right?
 Resonances of darkness, of light
 Into the black hole, the black hole
 Into the black hole, the black hole
 -
 She surfed across the accretion disk
 Eternity is the ultimate risk
 No refuge for a surrealist
 No refuge for a surrealist


 OVERNIGHT   [slo-mo]  Santa Rosa, CA  30 June 2002


 Down at the end of a county lane
 The movie's over, the last cartoon
 And now we're laughing at a world of pain
 -
 You rub my leg and you smile at me
 The world explodes like a butterfly
 Your love is more than I can ever see
 -
 The sun's rising from the eastern hills
 You're all around me, I feel so small
 The way I love you, no words can tell