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Fade Back In 2:160:00/2:16
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Break Off 3:270:00/3:27
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Hooray Soiree 3:170:00/3:17
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Earthsplain 3:060:00/3:06
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Ferris Wheel 3:320:00/3:32
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Watershed 2:410:00/2:41
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No Illusion 3:000:00/3:00
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Some Psychics 3:110:00/3:11
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Tack Hammer 2:400:00/2:40
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Oligarch In The Park 2:410:00/2:41
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All Beat Up 2:240:00/2:24
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Come On 2:160:00/2:16
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The Rise And Fall 5:500:00/5:50
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Trigger Warning 3:150:00/3:15
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Off and On 3:130:00/3:13
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Dying Scene 2:180:00/2:18
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Guns 2:170:00/2:17
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Blame It On Tomorrow 3:050:00/3:05
FADE BACK IN

"Fade Back In"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
To tell you the truth
I miss the chaos of my youth
'cause the chaos right now
is really freakin' me out
I mean it's stealing my sleep at night
like every night
I used to stay up real late
and then I'd sleep rock hard
like a tombstone
now I'm buried
I'd hate to think that this is it
Waiting around until I quit
It's been a real
long fade out
I can try
to fade back in
I'm as stupid as back then
but I wouldn't do it all again
"Break Off"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
I don't mean to seem aimless
but my sights are off
I can't claim to be blameless
when clearly it's all my fault
I don't want to seem faithless
but what is worth worshipping?
It's hard to play favorites
when you hate everything.
Gotta break off
break off
I'm on the outside
do I get back in?
you decide
you don't like my behavior
you think it's hit and run
no point currying favor
when you hate everyone
"Hooray Soiree "
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
Hey man
lighten up we're having fun
party's on!
Put your boogymen away
it's time to play
hooray soiree
anyway
ok? Ok?
you're so lonely you could die
but it's my party and no one cries
oh man
it's a blow out
hang out
fun affair
and you are there
so put your broken-heart away
It's time to play
hooray soiree
anyway
ok? ok?
we're gonna roll until the broad daylight
so try to have some fun tonight.
"Earthsplain"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
You and me
we've got a thing that's true
I don't need to earthsplain that to you
I'm sure you know what I mean
I know you're green but...
the prime directive
is non-elective
you know I love you
and I don't need to earthsplain that to you
I don't need to earthsplain that to you
Ferris Wheel

"Ferris Wheel"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
Midway's tight with electric light
Good times are high as the passerbys
You lose your shit on the scrambler
Try your luck you're a gambler
the barker is thrilled he made a mark
you gave it whirl just for a lark
and then it's off to the bumper boats
with the scent of exhaust and fried dough
Round and round the carousel
Hello farewell and then hi
No matter how you feel
you gotta ride the ferris wheel
all right
The Rotor sent your mind a swirl
Twirling around like the Tilt-a-Whirl
With all the strength you can conjure
you get in line for the Monster
I love Coney Island's Wonder Wheel
sliding down the rails of steel
But tonight I'll just take what I got
amusement park in the parking lot.
"Watershed"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
The reason we cry
is to fill the ravine in our lives
It's so empty until waterrise
It spills to the lake
as we watch the sunset and we fake
existential crises that we make
creation for creation's sake
and wait
for the flowing of fate
Great
This will not be a watershed
This will not leave the watershed
Down on the bay
catching a breeze and drifting away
on a sunbeat sea
and a tortured wave
Collecting in clouds
making a scene
and cracking out-loud
until rain comes down amid thunder.
Getting soaked by impressions we're under
I wonder
what to cry about now
wow.
"I Want You To Be Happy"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
You seem so distant
though you sit right here
so talk-resistant
you can't even hear
You're deep in your private music
You're making the song your own
But i have to tell you
you are not alone
You could say I've been there
You could say I know
It's constant terror
It's all fight or flight
It will be all right
I want you to be happy
I want things to be cool
I want you
I want you to be happy
So let me hear your music
I want to listen to it
I want to hear your song
I want to tap along
We move to earthly rhythms
so let me listen to them
I love you!
"No Illusion"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
Honestly you're being so dishonest
It's no big deal
yeah yeah I'll be there I promise
You need to find
some kind of moral compass
No illusion
Everything is for real
We should know it's all done with mirrors
We should see ourselves in it real clear
SOME PSYCHICS

"Some Psychics"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
Some psychics are the type who do everything
They can move they read they can sing
Everything
Some psychics can send but can't receive
they don't know when their signals leave
and some just retrieve
like me
Split between the mind and the spirit
Some folks feel it deep in their soul instead
but not you, you're really using your head, man
Some folks feel it deep in their soul instead
but not you, it's all in your head.
The mind alone can deduce relation
the soul alone can handle sensation.
Well some psychics can.
"Tack Hammer"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
Tack Hammer knock it off
Seems to me that everything is coming to a head
Tack Hammer knock it off
For reasons of insanity
there can be no more humanity
in a shameless world that loves to shame
the mob is coming with their rage inflamed...
with their rage inflamed!
In this heightened state of drama
we all suffer blunt force trauma
When all you've got is just a hammer
everything looks like a nail...
everything looks like a nail!
"Over and Over and Overnight"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
I've got a friend he got lucky, right
He got famous overnight
and now he's famous over and over and overnight
He's got a gold record, man
but he plays the damn thing to death!
You'd think it'd be over, right?
But no it goes over and over and overnight
Not me I work by day
I'm just a bitter rock cliche.
"Oligarch in the Park"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
Oligarch in the park
it's such a lovely day
It's always perfect
when the sunbeams seem to fall your way.
Charity
Another gala in the plaza scene
you're being honored by the society magazine
Blind drunk
Getting down to all that Uptown Funk
It's so perfect it's cliche
A luxury window display
Oligarch in the dark
it's such a lovely night.
It's always perfect
when the servant's finally get it right
ALL BEAT UP

"All Beat Up"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
I guess I could just blame someone else
but I don't see how I could face myself
It's my fault
I'm not so tough
I'm all beat up
I go some rounds where I think I'm right.
But I won't last long in a street fight.
"Come On"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman/Blake Girndt
The kids are gonna lead the way
Don't care about your old days talk
They know about the payoff, Marco
Ok?
The kids are gonna make the change
(Hey come on)
they're leading straight from school
(where did we go wrong)
they won't be played for fools, no
(hey come on)
"The Rise and Fall"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
The wild-eyed boy from Bromley
had madness run in the family
So his mind moved with quickness
to try to out-run the sickness
Underwood and under stars
Don't look surprised
Countdown commenced
Prepare for launch into the skies
Rhythm and blues
to choose for theatrically
Failure and loss
bring changes thematically
He met the art and underworld
He gave himself a pretty girl
who broke his heart.
With nothing to lose but everything
he struggled forward
and sold the world
a weirdo tart
Money and time
and tours and needs
before all fell
into the deep freeze
No escape
Witches craved his magic seed
Honey and cocaine are all he needs
No escape
And then he found a modern love
which pacified his tortured head
He made a play at Hollywood
which puffed up his swollen head
His mind slowed
His family curse caught him unaware
He tried to find his missing heart
He followed the crowd in the dark
where no one could help him play the part.
And then his body broke
and then he stopped trying so hard
and the magic returned
His mind and heart and all
replayed the rise and fall
I KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T WANT FOR CHRISTMAS (iT'S ME RIGHT!?!?!)

"I Know What You Don't Want For Christmas (It's Me Right!?!?)"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
As I wandered on through it
the tinsel-strewn ruins of the old square mall
past the shuttered bar
I see some throwing stars
pegged to a corkboard wall
You'd probably want one of those
You might chuck it at me I suppose
But I know what you don't want for Christmas
it's me right!?!?!?
The record shop is run out
the arcade is gone now
it's mostly just dollar stores
and even they never restock
but there's still a kiosk
with cream to clean your pores
You probably need that my friend
I know I get under your skin
But I know what you don't want for Christmas
it's me right?!?!?
It wasn't always this way
it used to be like a sweet holiday
but our love like this mall's a wasteland
like the food court is just a pretzel stand
and I know
the greatest gift
that I could
give to you
would be if
I didn't exist
so maybe
I won't exist
I hope you
like your gift
Do you like your gift?
I know what you don't want for Christmas
It's me right!?!?!
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC

"Trigger Warning"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
We were talking very nice
then I saw the fracture in your eyes
Trigger warning!
Trigger warning!
Uh oh!
Trigger warning!
oh no
Trigger warning!
I don't want to set you off
Things were going very cool
then I saw you start to drool
I hear what you're saying man
but what did you mean by that?
You don't want to set me off.
"Just a Little Moodlight"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman/Jonathan Donaldson
It just doesn't look right
The shades are closed
The lamp glows gold
Incandescent doesn't fit
It's like some mind-trick
Seasonal Affective Disorder
or something much broader
Like the shades of light
the prism
your eyes
on a cloudy sky
it just doesn't look right
oh no
(up to the mountain top down to the valley low
going going)
oh could I possibly have a blue spot?
or just a little moodlight?
"Bride of Gloom"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
Child brides don't get to decide
Child brides have to keep it all inside
But there's an even older tradition
for the oppressed to carry ammunition
their condition says
Go!
She's got the fuel
She's got the flame
She's got the will
She'll keep her name
Papers say:
"Bride of Gloom Fried the Groom"
"Dying Scene"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
I never see you
that's what I mean
You won't be caught dead in a dying scene
It's been a long time
I know that you said
you don't want to live by playing dead
But I'd like to see you
sometime
I'd like to see you
sometime
Yeah I still see them
they asked about you
I know that's not a topic
you want to exhume
I never see you
that's what I mean
You won't be caught dead in a dying scene
"Are You Somewhere?"
Lyrics: Jonathan Donaldson
TO BE ADDED
"Midnight and Earthshine"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
Down and beat up
passed over and snubbed
The beginning?
Are you kidding?
Too tired to walk on
to Lower Allston
It's uneasy
Is it really?
It depends how you go
and of course who you know
Caught it traps
Complete collapse
You feel like a fresh wound
It's no deathbed
Look overhead
you're under a new moon
Midnight and earthshine
Some people just suck
Sometimes it's dumb luck
but to dispair
gets you nowhere
Spent years there myself
in Heartbreak Hotel
but musicians
find their rhythm
and you'll find yours too
then the rest can go screw
"Wine Country Safari"
Lyrics: Jonathan Donaldson
TO BE ADDED
"Eat at Joe's"
Lyrics: Blake Girndt
At the wheel for three long days; radio dead the silence sings
Picking turns at forks in the road
With no particularly direction to go
Cause I needed time to think
And the drive always seems to make sense of things
Still don’t know where to roll anxiety is taking hold
Then I feel the hunger inside of me need grab myself a bite to eat
Diner on the side of the road with a sign that says, “Eat at Joe’s”
I don’t know why life is like living in a fantasy
With moments of clarity
I don’t know what the future brings
But I know that there’s a song for me
Where we can sing along. I wanna sing along
At the counter with an empty plate
Feeling satisfaction with a choice to make
Where the hell am I gonna go?
No longer know where to roll
All the diners are they on the road?
Or grabbing a bite and heading home
Guess I need to go
Pay the tab and hit the road
Then out of the corner of my eye
Tucked in the corner of this funky dive
A psychedelic Wurlitzer chock full of 45’s
I should go up and play a song
Realize the silence has been too long
But another diner has the same thought me
I wonder what song they’re gonna put on?
I don’t know why life is like living in a fantasy
With moments of clarity
I don’t know what the future bring
But I know that there’s a song for me
Where we can sing along
I wanna sing along
I used to drive like I had a destination
At least I thought I did but I was far too wrong
Got to a point and kept driving on
I hope the song they put on is a sing a long
I don’t know why life is like living in a fantasy
With moments of clarity
I don’t know what the future brings
But I know that there’s a song for me
Where you can sing along
We can all sing along
We know what it’s like living in a fantasy
With moments of clarity
We all know what the future brings
There’s going to be a song for you and me
Where we can sing along
We’ll all get to sing along
"Jukebox Selection"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman/Jonathan Donaldson
Watering hole taking a silent dive
into the pool of anything that a fin buys
Hypnotized by the glare there
in the glass
The spell is broken
nothing spoken
but I sense you pass
I watch your hand touch the jukebox side
(It's the dream of your life of your life in one play)
You carefully make your choice and walk away
I can't believe it when I hear what song plays
I turn my head and watch your shoulders sway
Cliche to say but it reminds me of the old days
Oh wee oh it's a connection
Whoah a jukebox selection
That's so cool it's like my favorite song
the chorus makes me swoon
I love it all
it has to be tops to me
such a great melody
I'm into this stuff too.
Silence echoes back the moment gone
then some delay as I wait to get my courage on
Walk up to the corner with the colored lights
and then I swing for the number 1 hit tonight
Pressing the buttons for the same old song.
(It's the dream of your life of your life in one play)
Intro announces and your finger taps.
Then you turn and you smile.
Then I relax.
Nothing needs to be said
as the music plays.
Cliche to say but it reminds me of the old days.
"Now That's What I Call Music"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
If we want the same things
why are we just waiting?
If we want the same things
we must do more than say things
now
I believe we're able
put it on the table
I believe we're able
if we want the same things
now
Maybe it hadn't crossed your mind until now
Maybe we can do it all right now
Now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now!
GUNS

"Guns"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
While everything's a blur
everyone's so sure
so sure
We've all seen the reruns
but we're sticking to our guns
Everyone
And nothings gonna change
except for everything and everyone
so sure that we're right
gripping awfully tight
to every outrage
looking for a fight
We seem to speak in tongue
but we're sticking to our guns
Everyone
COAST

"Coast"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
There's an ocean between us
Right on the edge
Always put on a spin
Always floating the deck
Night-rolling down your street
Just cutting through
There's no one around
just the sound
As I lay it down
Push around
Coast
Coast around
Lay it down
Push
Lay it down
Push around
Coast
I hover by just like a ghost
There's a stark separation
marked down in concrete
and there's fine tiny lines
where each knock is discrete
Street light spinning shadows
in a yellowish hue
There's no one around
just the sound
After all this time I'm gonna coast
I hover by just like a ghost
"Public Eye"
Lyrics: Jonathan Donaldson
LYRICS TO BE ADDED
"Four Wheels In"
Lyrics: Blake Girndt
Landlocked in the summertime
All my friends they want to swim
Can't stand how it feels on the skin
So I'm winging down old back roads
With no destination in mind
Four wheels in, it’s for the drive
Crooked Rain stuck in the tape deck
Versus the feeling
I don’t want it sucked out yeah
Keep four wheels on the pavement
And listen to those lyrics over and over again
Landlocked in a state of mind
Feel the heat two decades in
Can't stand how it feels on the skin
So I'm winging down old back roads
With no destination in mind
Four wheels in, it’s for the drive
"Surf"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
Bikini lays the towel down
Skim kids hang around
And I can sense it all at once
the waves
the haze
the sun
the surf
Out on the horizon
by the whim of Poseidon
Transistor phase washed away in waves of white noise
Ripped out from the current
Ride the disturbance
Glide on to the shore
Spit back in the surf
Sly hides his can label
Quennie rules the sand castle
I can sense it all at once
BLAME IT ON TOMORROW

"Blame It On Tomorrow"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman/Jonathan Donaldson
Think about the days
The hours were surely fine
Blame it on tomorrow
Just blame it on tomorrow
Seconds tick away
but we're not keeping time.
Just blame it tomorrow.
Blame it on tomorrow
Tonight
Thought of this for weeks
I guess we had our time
Now we'll blame it tomorrow
Just blame it on tomorrow
Tonight
Well a moment
a minute
a lifetime
baby, that's tragedy
But now
and then
and always
whatever will be will be
Well I hope
and plead
remember me
but you won't
no you won't
AH REALLY

"Ah Really"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman/Jonathan Donaldson
Deep in a chorus that plays inside of my ears
Beat bangs a motion like some sort of puppeteer
I don't know the lyrics of a record I don't want to hear
but you put it on and my song simply disappears
Ah really (ah get excited look my way yeah you better stay)
That's how it is, is it?
Stuck between stations I can't really make out the sound
Requested an old song I loved but it's static drowned
I don't know the words of a commercial
from a hole in the ground
but you are the DJ so I'm sure you'll straighten me out
"Queen Celeste"
Lyrics: Jonathan Donaldson
Now that you finally learned to trace
The hexagonal lines behind
Blast off exploded into space
Canyon wide let it ride
Ice cream flowing down
Pinwheels made of hands
They’re going to call you away
You’re going to stop so you better say
Those bottles brewed with the nightshade eyes
The prophecy defines step inside
Sit back it’s no big deal
You don’t have to tell anybody how you feel
Let it roll, fill your soul
Ice cream flowing down
Pinwheels made of hands
They’re going to call you away
You’re going to stop so you better say
"Total Disaster"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
Well I don't what's worse
lobbing bombs or scorching earth
but really I don't think it matters
As I look around in the grand scheme of things
Oh my god!
It's a total disaster
I said heeeee hoooo
I'm a terrible force
but a victim of course
I can't help when I reach for my blaster
Well the system has failed
Society has sailed
Oh my god!
It's a total disaster
heeeeee hoooo
I really have nothing left to say
so how about some maniacal laughter?
It's a total disaster
I said heeeee hoooo
OCEAN STATE

"Crazy in Every Way"
Lyrics: Blake Girndt
Thoughts don't communicate
Only words
And corresponding actions
Is it so absurd
To hang on every word
I say what I mean
And I mean what I say
But it don't matter I'm already crazy
Crazy for you everyday
Crazy in every way
Does it reside in my cells the feeling I can't describe
Every time I have you on my mind
The feeling just reinforces my attraction to you
Every thing you say
And do
And we may fight
But we make up
Same for people all around the world
Past, present, future it’s all the same
Crazy in every way
Does it reside in our cells the feeling we can’t describe
Every time I have it on my mind
The feeling just overwhelms and now I lose my control
Over everything I say
And do
And I lost my mind
Yes I’ve lost my I
Because I’m crazy in every way
Crazy everyday
"Three Short Days"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
From the gaze that they wear when they're staring
hoping to scare everybody
These are such horrible people
Yet there's longing for love and acceptance
Hoping to please everybody
Accepting unspeakable evils
There's no time
to get things off my mind
It's just that I think of tonight
as three short days
Just a long weekend
slipping by
with too much going on
So you search for a margin of error
hoping to solve everybody
scraping away like a scalpel
But the gaze that they wear when they're staring
hoping to scare everybody
You know such horrible people
"Ocean State"
Lyrics: Jonathan Donaldson/Jim Gerdeman
(?)
Rigid and high like a mountain sky
Granite State wait through an endless toll
You'll make it down in due time
when your mind will flow with the tide
and your future's great
in Ocean State
"Love is Such a Real Thing"
Lyrics: Jonathan Donaldson
Just one thing I don't understand 'cause
Love is such a real thing
Love is such a real thing
Ooh, a situation for a quick cigarette a real thing
Come make my day
Take up all my fun away
Come make my night
Use up everything in sight
You may be dull and you may be drastic, but
Love is such as real thing
Love is such a real thing
Ooh, a situation when you can't understand anything
Come make me real
You put in a real raw deal
Come make me til
You can then you won't then you will
It may not be worth your first arrest, but
Love is such a real thing
Love is such a real thing
Ooh, a situation for a quick cigarette a real thing
Love is such a real thing
Just one thing I don't understand 'cause
Love is such a real thing
Love is such a real thing
Yeah, oh, yeah, oh yeah
"She Wanna Move"
Lyrics: Jim Gerdeman
She lived in Deadville
most of her life
She'd like to get out but she isn't the type
She wanna move
She wanna move
but she can't because she's Stacy Stasis
Lives with Debbie Dangerous
Pays her rent to Rudy Racist
She wanna move
She wanna move
but she can't