Podcast Pollination

VERSE

A              E                          A

The radio inside my head is dull

D                                E                              A

The presenters have the same boring opinions

D                             A

The programming's repetitive

D                       A

The ideas never new

D                                                     E

If only there was something I can do

CHORUS

A                                    E

My thoughts were all the same

               D                  A

Until you pollinate my brain

            D                      E                      A

After a podcast I have new and shiny thoughts

VERSE

Podcasts have given me my education

I've learnt the most amazing tips and tricks

Adopted happy habits

Stopped what held me back

Turned my life around got back on track

CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE

An ice bath clears my head and trains my body

I want to lift the veil of materialism

I try to be a bit more vegan

ACT upon my thinking

And look forward to the life that comes after death

CHORUS

VERSE

I want to lift the veil of materialism

In reality we're aspects of the one

I bathe inside bliss brain

ACT upon my thinking

Some things stay deeply hidden

Capo 4th

B    G#m    E     B

E    G#m     F#       B

VERSE

G                            Em

Quantum leaps in quantum theory

C                      G

A multiversal prism

C                                             Em

Unthreaded from the theory string

D/F#                 G

A cosmic mechanism

E   F#  

B   F#  G#m

E   F#  G#m

CHORUS

        C                            D

Many ideas are encouraged

  G         F#/D        Em

others are forbidden

  C                     D                      Em

While some things stay deeply hidden

VERSE

Many worlds links many theories

It scratches at the gloss

As carousels of parallels 

Cascade across the cosmos

CHORUS

Theories are proudly postulated

Formulas are written

While some things stay deeply hidden

G#m

E

B

C#/F

MIDDLE

Em,                         

Science is reaching 

 C 

Learning and teaching

G,         

Constantly questioning 

 D/F#

The spaces between

Em

With small steps or leaping

C

Persistently seeking

G

The answers we crave

D/F#

To particles and waves

INSTRUMENTAL (Same chords as Middle)

VERSE

Some or all are not convinced at all

By the patterns placed before them

They interrogate and authenticate

To solve superposition

CHORUS

Many worlds is crying out

Dying to be ridden

While some things stay deeply......... hidden

LYRICS:

Quantum leaps in quantum theory

A multiversal prism

Unthreaded from the theory string

A cosmic mechanism

Many ideas are encouraged

others are forbidden

While some things stay deeply hidden

VERSE

Many worlds links many theories

It scratches at the gloss

As carousels of parallels 

Cascade across the cosmos

Theories are proudly postulated

Formulas are written

While some things stay deeply hidden

                     

Science is reaching 

Learning and teaching       

Constantly questioning 

The spaces between

With small steps or leaping

Persistently seeking

The answers we crave

To particles and waves

Some or all are not convinced at all

By the patterns placed before them

They interrogate and authenticate

To solve superposition

Many worlds is crying out

Dying to be ridden

While some things stay deeply......... hidden

Saint Julie (AJ's wife)

CAPO 4th

VERSE

C

AJ being honest

F               C

AJ listing facts

C                                                 G

AJ entertaining us with all his crazy acts

AJ connecting relatives

AJ saying thanks

AJ outsourcing all his worries, even arguments

BRIDGE

F                                   Am

We all love reading 'bout AJ's life

      F             G                    C

And that very saintly lady AJ's wife?

VERSE

AJ joining Mensa

And taking the bible literally

AJ stoning adulterers in Central Park for all to see

AJ unitasking

AJ peeing in the sink

AJ staying in the moment by saying everything he thinks

BRIDGE

It'd be fun to have AJ in our life

But spare a thought for poor old AJ's wife

CHORUS

C

Saint Julie

G

Must love him truly

F

She's living a movie

G

The kind you watch slowly

Saint Julie

Came down from on high

To take pity on that dorky guy

On the 28th floor

INSTRUMENTAL (CHORUS)

VERSE (Strummed)

AJ and Julie riding in Gondolas having romantic times

AJ and Julie holding hands watching Waking Ned Divine

BRIDGE

We'd kill for dinner with AJ and wife

So we can hear her side of their crazy life

     

Katy Parody

VERSE

G#m

Ever since I've worked from home

I'm spending too much time alone

C#m

I dress for Zoom above the waist

G#m

The part below can suit my taste

D#m

I've split my personality

G#m

'tween me and Katy Parody [cockney]

VERSE

Luckily my girlfriend has my size

Though things get tight around the thighs

She's got a mini-skirt I love

And that one fits me like a glove

What a sexy sight to see

Me as Katy Parody

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE

I think she's started to suspect

When she does washing she inspects

When she noticed lingerie was stretched

I was ready to confess

But I don't think she would like to see

Me as Katy Parody

VERSE

In team reviews I wear high heels

It gives me power the way it feels

I've been promoted twice then 

I've got a power over men

What a sexy sight to see

Me as Katy Parody

Bliss Brain

VERSE

                                                 C

Start with your tongue loose inside your mouth

                                       G

This will relax your vagus nerve

                                    F

Take the Parasympathetic lane 

           G      C

To Bliss Brain

Now imagine a void behind your eyes

Turn off your frontal lobe

Everything's changed

Bliss Brain

Regulate your breathing now

Six seconds in six out

Start a heart coherence chain

To Bliss Brain

CHORUS: C F C G x2

VERSE

Visualise breath through the heart

A sphere of energy

Start to take aim

At Bliss Brain

Next send a beam of energy

To a place that feels wonderful

Thank God you're going again

To Bliss Brain

Gradually expand this beam out

For universal compassion

So simple to attain

Bliss Brain

CHORUS

MIDDLE

Am

Change the hardware of brain

F

With the software of mind

C

Flourish in compassion

G

Become truly kind

    

In complete coherence

An alpha state

Every day more

The more you meditate

VERSE

Remember tongue loose inside the mouth

A void behind your eyes 

Breath your way

Into Bliss Brain

You are responsible

VERSE

Fm

Could you shoot a cow?

Cm

Stab a goat?

Bfm

Hold a little sheep

Fm

And slit its throat

Would you feed a pig a diet that includes

Euthanised pets

Which have been dried and ground and sold as

"Protein concentrates"?

Then slaughter it

And eat its guts

Then grind up whatever's left

for growing piglets?

CHORUS

This is you

I'm afraid it's true

Cos the men who do

They work for you

VERSE

Could you inseminate a cow?

In a very very painful way

Then 9 months later come back and

Take its baby away

Then drag that calf down 

Into your basement

And never ever let it

See light again

Chain it up 

So it can't sit down

Give it a diet of liquid food

So it lives with diarrhoea

CHORUS

This is you

I'm afraid it's true

Cos the men who do

They work for you

MIDDLE

Fm

You are responsible

Bfm

You are responsible

Fm

You are responsible

Cm

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE

Would you feed your children hormones

In the interests of economics

Or give them health complications

From a diet of animal antibiotics

Or have them absorb the emotions

Of an animal that lived in torture

And thoughts from the mind of the man

Who shot it through the head

CHORUS

But you do

I'm afraid it's true

If only they knew

The things they chew

This is you

It's all you

If only you knew

Well now you do

Unbendable

CAPO 6th

VERSE

C (F#)

Born in Brooklyn

Raised in the boom

A mensch man with honour

From class to courtroom

F (B)

Taught to fight

For constitutional rights

CHORUS

                                 G (C#)

Defend the undefendable

F (B)

Make complex comprehendible  

G (C#)      

With principles 

                C (F#)

Unbendable

VERSE

Defending due process 

The truth not coerced

Freedom for all

First Amendment comes first

Taking the stand

When others stand down

 

CHORUS

MIDDLE

Am (D#m)

Trial by jury

Em (A#m)

And trial by state

F (B)

Or trial by Twitter

G (C#)

Trial by hate

Media censored 

Socially censured 

The mob mentality's

Our new normality

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE

Impeached or accused

Now doubt is removed

But aren't we all innocent

Until guilt is proved?

Trial by ordeal

Without appeal

CHORUS

What would Tom do?

VERSE

G
Sometimes I get a little down

C                           G

I know I really shouldn't 

I have so much to be grateful for

While others they have nought

Lately I don't go out so much

It's safer in my home

I have my cats for company    

Me I live alone

BRIDGE

C     

But there's one thing guaranteed

To get me over me

D                     C                 D      

I ask myself a very simple question

CHORUS

G           C               D

What would Tom do?

If he were here with me

What would Tom do?

In a situation like this

What would Tom do?

To blow away the blues

What would Tom do?

If he were in my shoes

C

He'd make a game of indoor croquet

D

Eat humus all day

C

Write a play or do cabaret

D

Bake a friend a birthday cake

C

And if it was terrible

Completely inedible

D                             C      G

He'd say it doesn't matter anyway.

VERSE

But then I wake up next day

I need building up again

And Tom he isn't here to play

And outside looks like rain

I need to make an effort

And do the best I'm able

So I put on the watermelon song

                               D

And dance around the table

BRIDGE

CHORUS

OUTRO

G

What would Tom do?

Em

What would Tom do?

C

What would Tom do?

D

What would Tom do?

LYRICS:

Sometimes I get a little down

I know I really shouldn't 

I have so much to be grateful for

While others they have nought

Lately I don't go out so much

It's safer in my home

I have my cats for company    

Me I live alone

But there's one thing guaranteed

To get me over me

I ask myself a very simple question

What would Tom do?

If he were here with me

What would Tom do?

In a situation like this

What would Tom do?

To blow away the blues

What would Tom do?

If he were in my shoes

He'd make a game of indoor croquet

Eat humus all day

Write a play or do cabaret

Bake a friend a birthday cake

And if it was terrible

Completely inedible

He'd say it doesn't matter anyway

But then I wake up next day

I need building up again

And Tom he isn't here to play

And outside looks like rain

I need to make an effort

And do the best I'm able

So I put on the watermelon song

And dance around the table

But there's one thing guaranteed

To get me over me

I ask myself a very simple question

What would Tom do?

If he were here with me

What would Tom do?

In a situation like this

What would Tom do?

To blow away the blues

What would Tom do?

If he were in my shoes

He'd make a game of indoor croquet

Eat humus all day

Write a play or do cabaret

Bake a friend a birthday cake

And if it was terrible

Completely inedible

He'd say it doesn't matter anyway

What would Tom do?

What would Tom do?

What would Tom do?

What would Tom do?

What would Tom do?

What would Tom do?

What would Tom do?

What would Tom do?

The One Energy

VERSE

                 G

The one energy 

which powers the sun 

In its journey through space

                  C                            G

Makes the heart of small man beat

The same energy 

which is used by divine essence

Becomes all that's manifested

Makes the small man's     heart beat

The same energy 

which holds a million worlds

In the vastness of space   

makes small man's heart beat

CHORUS

                               Em          

If you go into this heart

                                              C

And use this most wonderful energy

Em                           F#/D                G

You can contact the vastness of all things

VERSE

The light 

Which in invisibility 

Travels through all space and time

Is the same light which 

shineth In small man's soul

The light 

Which coming before a sun 

Doth light that

Is the same light which 

shineth in small man's soul

The light 

Which travelling through a million worlds From the heart 

of the divine essence is the same light which 

shineth in small man's soul

CHORUS

Go within, contact this light

And extend through space and timelessness

To that dimension where dwelleth unmodified peace

OUTRO

                Am           C           Em            

When you stand oh man, as man

Am          C               Em

In the hall of judgement

Am                                 

You look upon this love energy

E     m

This light energy

C

And see your failings

              Am                       C                           Em

And in mercy go into that river wherein you fell

 

Mailing list

VERSE

C

Here's the tale of our stale indie music

F

Speaking to you like this is very therapeutic

Nobody buys CDs, they're only streaming

Fractions of cents are all I get for dreaming

One day perhaps I'll make it on a proper playlist

Glad you like my music, will you join my mailing list

I am glad you like my music, will you join my mailing list

I joined Band Builder, I'm in Todd's Academy

I got the secrets of the big label strategies

I play for algorithms, write for AIs

I'm on a left brain, right brain, strategem

I watch the metrics, got a box of tricks to enlist

Glad you like my music, will you join my mailing list

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I'm glad you like my music, will you join my mailing list

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Let's keep in touch now, and be like real friends 

I’ll be the annoying one, who's goes on 'bout what’s going on with them 

Don't be shy though my lyrical prowess is scary

The secret is I use a rhyming dictionary

I've got a podcast now with songs about the guests that's the twist

You've heard the music, now sign up to the mailing list

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I'm glad you like my music, will join my mailing list

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F

You cannot unsubscribe

Am

Request denied

G

I'll never cease

Am

I'll never desist

F

You said you liked my music

                                               C

Now you're on my mailing list

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I've got you forever, now you're on my mailing list

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Even if you die, you'll stay on my mailing list

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Even on the astral, you'll be on my mailing list

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I need your email cos my posts won't win a Grammy

My social media anemia's a tragedia

I have to pay Facebook to get it to remind you I exist

I'm glad you like my music, will you join my mailing list