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LYRICS to our 21st century set, because Stacy asked for them. :)


GARBAGE


Dark & rainy morn, quiet on the side streets.

Early workers rising, lights against the night.

The rest of us are sleeping.

? up on the roof top.

Puddles froming on the ground.

A distant rumble sounds.


Punch a time clock, start up a cold truck.

Thermos full of coffee. Streets before the dawn.

Big city ghost town. All right all night greasy spoon.

Cops and crazies roaming. Ride through darkness morning.


Banging clanging cans and bottles smashing

Lifting dumping tons of waste each morning

Rotting stinking food unused for eating

???? Machine mouth opens hungrily


Residential silence shattered. Window rattle, bleating

Dogs begin to bark. Angry sleepers open wide

Cats go under bed. Quickly move from house to house

Small can into large, dump large can into garbage barge.


TOUGH GUY IN THE LAB


Tough guy in the lab,

battling the test tubes.

Tough in the lab

manipulates the genes.


Hard-nosed, mean, and ornery,

he's building a new world.

Old man sees the modern age  

as weakened and absurd.


Eats his with white rats.

Sleeps upon the floor.

Doesn't cut his toenails,

and won't walk out the door.


Hasn't left in ten years.

The government pays his bills.

Building a new master race

that smiles when it kills.


Tough guy in the lab,

battling the test tubes.

Tough in the lab

manipulates the genes.


Hard-nosed, mean, and ornery,

he's building a new world.

Old man sees the modern age  

as weakened and absurd.


The project is top secret.

The Pentagon is mum.

Rumors leaking to the press

are stamped out one by one.


Lies


Lies are getting me, lies are getting me down


Lies are all over, lies are all over town


Lies what they’re doing, lies what they’re doing to me


Lies if you could, lies if you could see.




If you’d look in your head for one minute


You’d know what a fool you are


Never thinking about long term effects


You’re going crazy all by yourself.




Size it up and maybe you will see


Your kinda problem is a great big problem to me


With your loose tongue wagging like a dog


Gonna get lost just running in your own fog




Lies are getting me, lies are getting me down


Lies are all over, lies are all over town


Lies what they’re doing, lies what they’re doing to me


Lies if you could, lies if you could see.




Lies what they’re doing


Oh Lies what they’re doing


Oh Lies what they’re doing


Oh Lies what they’re doing, to me




What Happened to Me ?




The questions come when I ask myself; What happened to me?


The  wandering Pilgrim blessed in the Holy Trinity


Who looked on high and hoped to see, God’s face


And then found his faith, so easily replaced




What ideas create meaning, for all the world to share?


Beyond the sales and sports and flags and the facade of care?


How many times has the moment seemed so    right?


Before the whisper of hope fled back into the night?




What things in life did I hold so dear?


The prospect of a better world, I saw so clear


Faith in God, then faith in Marx, then faith in humankind


Displaced by cynics and scammers and wars, fought by the blind




Painting A Picture




Painting a picture that has something to say


I want to talk to you, but the words slip away


It’s not that I’m shy, you know I’ve Been here before


I choose from my palette, but I can’t paint the door




It’s been such a long time since loves come around


My heart was so broken, I can still here the sound


Of glass hitting concrete, a blender on high


When the rain started falling, I thought I would die




I want to move forward, I want love to grow


My heart isn’t willing, my heart still says no


The eclipse of the moon, the sun and the stars


It seemed so much simpler when seen in the cards




I haven’t much time, the pace is so swift


I’ve been in a lifeboat that just wants to drift


The sea is too large too lonely too cold


Throw me a line and I will try to


Bad Gossip


Am I invisible? Have I disappeared?

You look at me and think I'm pretty weird.

Playing my heart out but you don't care.

Mouth half open you stand and stare.


How long has this been going on?

All you want is the same.

Stupid. Song.


You're so modern in your trendy clothes.

You're a cow with a slaughterhouse ring in your nose.

The snobs say “JUMP!”, you're in the air.

Think for yourself, if you dare.


How long can this go on?

All you want is the same.

Stupid. Song.


Discover Your Feet



Whacha gonna do when the oil's all gone

Park your car on the front lawn

Back on our feet again  Feet to earth again

In the future   We can walk now


Freeways are breezeways ? where traffic flowed

Fossils for the future where a Studebaker rode

Signs all ? slid off the California Hills

Refuge from a set by Cecil B DeMille


Abandoned hot rods? in the sun

parked forever with the radios on

ragtop flapping waving in the wind

used to fold back, let the stars in


Hubcaps shining On wheels that never turn

When we gonna lose Will we ever learn

Going nowhere nothing even goes ?

End of an era


That's the way it goes.

Once it goes, it's gone.


No drive in movie on a Saturday night,

no cruisin' for burgers, race to beat the light

Back on my feet again

Feet to earth again

In the future


We can walk now


Hopstepping crosstown wind in your face

Watch out for that ? robot with a can of mace

No more flat tire no more red light?

End of an era


That's the way it goes.


Once it goes, it's gone


Wacky Dog

Known to us as Peetie


When we’re little watching TV


With that circle ‘round you eye


What a little cutie pie


Grown up now to be a tough guy


Bite you hard sometimes you die


When he’s walking down the street


Everybody moves their feet




Mother and son, Daughter and dad.


Your own Mom’s out, your Dad’s long gone


You’ve got your dog to keep you strong


Keep you strong, right or wrong


You know that dog is gonna keep you strong




Wacky Dog it’s not your fault that you’re wound up in a somersault


Mouth that’s meant to eat a meal


Are now jaws with teeth of steel.




Wacky Dog it’s not your fault that you’re wound up in a somersault


Mouth that’s meant to eat a meal


Are now jaws with teeth of steel.