What's Pandemic Protocol?

CHORUS

F

What's Pandemic Protocol?

Isolate 

the most vulnerable

What's Pandemic Protocol?

The threat is small

& Protect them all

That's Pandemic Protocol?

discoverable

About the overall

G# Bf

VERSE

F

How's the virus spread?

C

Who's the most at risk?

Bf

Take total demographics

F

And analyse this

Ensure protective measures

Do more good than harm

Raise the pros and cons

Before you raise alarm

CHORUS

VERSE

Take in the bigger picture

The long-term side effects

Of any safety measures

On whom you would protect

 

Input consequence

Roll out your precautions

Define application

Equal out distortion

CHORUS

MIDDLE (Whisper)

You can't be swayed by the headlines

Or the panic of the crowd

But be brave

Almost clinical

There is so much at stake

So many implications

Open the schools

Don't deprive the children

CHORUS

Wake up to Social Justice

VERSE

"The Master's house can't be dismantled

By using the Master's tools"
 
That's an anarchic fallacy

And will never set us free

If I get to say what you can say, democracy will end that way
Think reason and rationality

Instead of violent condemnation
Engage... in conversation

VERSE
We must not co-operate with tyranny
By claiming mass conspiracy

Speaking truth in the face of danger
Parrhesia will keep us free

Your way, uses the words I say, to take away my liberty
Freedom is a hard-won thing

Instead of aggressive condemnation
Engage... in conversation

VERSE
Only the Master's tools can dismantle 

Forever the Master's house

Freedom of speech must be defended
Even if we don't like what we hear 
 

If I get to say what you can say, democracy will end that way
Think reason and rationality

Instead of outward condemnation
Engage... in conversation

Keyholes to Open Borders

CHORUS

G                    Em              C         G

Build walls around the welfare state, not a border round the country

        Em                  C                          D                       G

These ideas may sound unfair but poverty's unfairer

C                                 D                G
Keyhole solutions to open borders

VERSE

G                       D                             C                               G
Immigrants took our jobs! took our jobs, took our jobs!
C                                    Em                       D                     G
Use apparatuses like taxes 

as practices to relax the natives 

by paying their taxes 

so their objection collapses

Immigrants only take, and they will break, the welfare state
For these purposes 

make access to services 

purchases 

so this encourages nurturers 

for surpluses

BRIDGE
             D                   C                       D                 G
What about having Blue cards -  as well as Green?

CHORUS            

VERSE
They don’t talk like us, they can't discuss, they can't adjust
To address this request I suggest a language test which selects the best that possess the necessary linguistic finesse

They've got bad ideas, they'll bring them here, these are our fears

Protect from the threat from the outset by vets for citizenship with a net to catch the criminal mindset

BRIDGE

Restriction of movement has given us global apartheid

CHORUS (INSTRUMENTAL)

MIDDLE (CHORDS AS CHORUS)
G                    Em                    C                       G

You say stop immigration when you don't get causation

        Em                  C                          D                       G

When your only tools a hammer, everything looks like a nail

G                    Em              C         G

America had open borders til 1924

        Em                  C                          D                       G

And got  the tired and poor, no none wanted anymore

D                   C                                D                G
It became the richest country in the whole wide world 

CHORUS

BRIDGE

They say stop immigration, cos they don’t understand causation

VERSE
Immigrants they bring crime, all the time, just by design
The data doesn’t back this up but check criminal records
  

They don’t know our culture, or our structure, they are vulgar

Stipulate local knowledge, and a  cultural exam

CHORUS
For many financial and social problems they say restrict immigration
They throw away the benefits cos they don’t understand causation
When your only tools a hammer, everything looks a nail

BRIDGE (Spoken)

These solutions may sound difficult, but they're already in action

Welfare to Work & delayed citizenship have already gained traction

What about Blue cards as well as Green?

 Restriction of movement is global apartheid

 

Heated

VERSE

A                                                   E

Every year the fires are getting worse

D                                                                 A

And red smoke blocks the sun out of the sky

A                          E

Can you really say

C#                   A

That it's ok that way?

D                    E             A

How can you live in denial?

VERSE

When terrifying storms do so much damage

Get stronger and move slower every year

Meteorologists exclaim

That they're running out of names

How can you live in denial?

MIDDLE

   E                D       A

Slowly, surely sea levels rise

E                        D            A

Along with the  CO2 in the sky

C#                          E                     

If your home was destroyed 

D                           A

Then would you believe?

D                    E             A

How much proof do you need?

VERSE

E    very year things get a little hotter

Each season sets record-breaking highs

All the ice is melting 

The Arctic's close to collapse

How can you live in denial?

VERSE

Forests are disappearing overnight

So many species have been lost forever

How can you say

It is ok this way?

How can you live in denial?

The Man Who Brought The Fire

3 chords: F A#  C 

CAPO 3rd

Guitar chord shapes:

VERSE

D            G                 A          D

A young man came upon a land

D                            G           A

Where there was good and plenty

D                              G             A         D

His thoughts went back to his own island

D                        A            D

Where poorly folk were many

CHORUS

G                   A                D             G

He prayed to know what to take to them

D                G           A

What can one man do?

D                            G

Twas then the fire spoke to him

         A                        D

Said 'I will come with you'

VERSE

D                                  G

A boat was found and readied

                A                          D

And they set out on winter seas

D                                  G

Truly the storms were fearsome

                D                          A

For months the man was ill at ease

CHORUS

G                   A                D             G

But the fire fed by its brother elements

D                G           A

And grew ever more bright

D                              G

Until the storms abated

A                                   D 

And Ireland was in sight 

VERSE

Once upon the shore

The fire grew anew

Feeding on Spring energies

As the earth came into bloom 

By horse and cart they travelled

Bringing light and food to all 

The plague-ravaged population

Came out to heed their call

CHORUS

When they reached the sacred centre there

With a small and solemn band 

The man looked long into the fire

Then buried it in the land

CHORUS

G                   A                      D

When your crops never stop growing

G                           A

Fill your glass to overflowing

D                       G

Drink a toast to Devas

            A                                D

And the man who brought the fire

Logotherapy

VERSE

 D                                 G

Will for power or will for pleasure

A                             D

Dragons you are chasing

Meaning is more powerful

Cos by the means you measure

BRIDGE

Bm                         A                  G                          D

Be it what your encounter, your actions or your deeds

Bm                         A                      G                          D

Welcome lessons as they come, don't try to feed your needs

CHORUS

Bm                         A

Things aren't always the way you see them

G     A                     D

Therapy from meaning

D

VERSE

Old man sad, old man crying

Cos his wife has gone

He loved her more than life itself

It's a tragedy her dying

BRIDGE

But what if he had died before? Think then of her pain

His suffering's the price he's paid to spare her all that strain

CHORUS

Things aren't always the way you see them

Therapy from meaning

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE

Sometimes high anxiety

Others low depression

Hard to keep track of the waves

Where are you in society?

BRIDGE

You've the freedom to choose response to any situation

And suffering's not suffering when you've signification

CHORUS

Things aren't always the way you see them

Therapy from meaning

The Flow (I Get In My Way)

VERSE 

C

I'm tuned into a frequency

Channelling some higher voice

Something that's not part of me

No need to make a choice

F             G

When I am in the flow

BRIDGE 

Am          G                  F

Ideas come like I'm pulling on a string

Words and pictures and everything

Perfectly formed with melody and swing 

             G          F        G             C

I'm picking up mind outside of me

MIDDLE

Am                               G

I wake up gently keep the water's still

Em                     F

Sliding out a dream

Slip into the gentle flow   

An unpolluted stream

I wish I could always be like this

Forever in the moment

No before and nothing after

All I have I own it

In peace I listen to the voices

Passing through my mouth

INSTRUMENTAL

BRIDGE

C                                                  Am

Until my conscious mind starts to wake

F

And to crave

                        G

And end my bliss...

CHORUS

C     G    F    G

I get in my way x2

I'm a stubborn cow

Sat down in the road

A jack-knifed truck

That lost it's load

I'm leaves on the line

Snow on the tracks

The oncoming car

That won't turn back

    

I get in my way x2

I'm the screaming neighbours

And their barking dog

The crying baby           

And a squiling hog

I'm wind on the mic

Dirt on the lens

The ringing telephone

That's an annoying friend

I get in my way x2

          F                           G                 C

The thing that stops the flow is me I know

VERSE

I almost act unconsciously

When the air is still

Words roll out    so effortlessly

Morning pages need no skill

When I am in the flow

 

BRIDGE

Musn't think or question why

If I pause the flow will dry

It only works when I do not  try 

I'm picking up mind outside of me

The Universal Force

INTRO

Your highest visualisations will never come into existence

Unless you apply the 3rd degree of divine creative energy

Because this power is everything there is

Everything there ever has been

And everything there ever can be

This is the single, all pervasive force

All types of energy are different expressions of the one universal prana

VERSE

                 G

The power, that energises a sun 

Or a galaxy

                  C                            G

Is the same power that's inside your beating heart

The power, that brought everything into creation

And binds everything in existence

Is the same power that's inside your beating heart

The power, that exists in every world

In every living being

Is the same power that's inside your beating heart

CHORUS

                 Em          

Look inside

                              C

Harness this power

Em                           F#/D                G

Rise through cosmic consciousness become one with everything

VERSE

The life - that cannot be seen

That travels through all

Is the same life that's inside the heart of you

The wisdom - that's contained within a sun

Is behind all manifestation

Is the same wisdom that's inside the heart of you

The force - travelling through the galaxies from the creator itself

The most sacred of the sacred

Is the same force that's inside the heart of you

CHORUS

OUTRO

                Am           C           Em            

Finally, you'll walk as the simplest version of you

Am          C               Em

To decide your future

Am                                 

You'll reflect on this force

Em

The life power

C

And understand your records

              Am                       C                       Em

Then with clemency - travel - back into the flow

 

Beating Guns

Song about gun control. 105 people die every day in America from guns and there are mass shootings every week. Check out the website https://www.beatingguns.com/ These guys beat guns into garden tools. Make them hot in a furnace and then hammer them down.

I think we should keep this a percussion only track. So like this, but better. 

CHORUS

Beat swords into ploughs

Sow seeds of peace

Grow a world of hope

And be released

Bang bang goodbye

This gun's reborn

Transformed in the fire

No more we mourn

Oh oh oh

VERSE

I love my country, I love freedom

I'll stand up for my rights I know that I need them

But the constitution never   had guns or swords

Don't need no amendments to the words of the Lord

CHORUS

Beat guns into hammers

Melt bullets into nails

Build heaven on earth

Cos like this we fail

Fill your head with bravery

Make your heart sincere

Don't need to hold a gun

Once you let go of fear

Oh oh oh

VERSE

I beat by guns into garden tools

Gonna grow food for the hungry

If someone breaks into my house to steal

Gonna sit 'em down - cook 'em a meal

CHORUS

Hammer out hatred

Smelt down mistrust

Forge a new future

That's fair and just

Lock and load with love

Set your sights on harmony

Take a shot at solidarity 

Pull the trigger on peace

VERSE

My little boy went to school one day

He never came home

Don't pray for him

Don't pray for me

Pray for gun control

No more guns, please

CHORUS (minor)

Hammer out hatred

Smelt down mistrust

Forge a new future

That's fair and just

Lock and load with love

Set your sights on harmony

Take a shot at solidarity

Pull the trigger on peace

Blind and groping in the dark

VERSE

                       Bm               Em         F#m             Bm

There’s so much beauty here before me, but how little I perceive

     Em                   F#m           Em                   F#m

Of other realms existing here, I cannot conceive

Bm                      Em                     F#m             Bm

Between me and the mystics, the difference is stark

Bm                      Em                     F#m             Bm

I'm an involved creature, blind and groping in the dark

 

VERSE

While the psychics can see colours for which we have no names

Clairvoyance shows them devas flying, while they play fantastic games

They also see the difference 'tween them and me so stark

As I wallow in the filth, blind and groping in the dark

 

INSTRUMENTAL

Bm               Em         F#m             Bm x2

 

VERSE

My mind's an open book to them, if they were bored enough to read

While Psychometry can tell them more than you would dare believe

Or hear me talking miles away, saying some snide remark

While I cannot even hear the silence, blind and groping in the dark

 

MIDDLE

Em

What makes this so much harder

Bm

What grinds me finer still

Em

Is that I know that I could join them

F#m

If only I had the will

 

Bm

I've know the breaths and Mantras

Em

Worth more than any jewel

Bm

That you'd only learn in ages past

F#m

After years in Mystery Schools

 

But instead of listening to discourses that would blow your mind apart

I'm arguing with idiots, blind and groping in the dark

 

INSTRUMENTAL

 

VERSE

Yet inevitably one day I will turn back to the source

When the serpent stirs and starts to climb along Sushumna's course

On that day I'll ignite again, I am a divine spark

Until then I'm the ashes, blind and groping in the dark

The Golden Fountain

VERSE

C             Am           F                G

Throughout the ages men have fought against mortality

Sought the elixir of life for vitality 

Famous alchemists have tried to formulate it

Great adventurers set sail to locate it

Am        G

Only to discover

                F                      C

That the source that they sought

Am                     G            F

Was very much closer to home

                          G

Than they I known

CHORUS

                            C

The mythical... Golden Fountain

                       F

The elixical fountain of youth

                    G

Brings out the beauty within

             Bf                F

Can you handle the truth?

Take a sip from... the Golden Fountain

Wash your hair and your skin

Your whole body will glow

Cleansing and moisturising

VERSE

C                       

You have the secret now you have to keep it

F

Can't tell nobody cos nobody will believe it

C

They'll call you names and whisper from the shadows

G

Strangers'll phone you and ask you onto chat shows

BRIDGE

F                  Am

Your family name

F                                     Am

Will become a byword for shame

F                                       G

And they taunt you again and again

CHORUS

That's the price of the...... Golden Fountain

The elixical fountain of youth

Brings out the beauty within

Can you handle the truth?

Take a sip from... the Golden Fountain

Wash your hair and your skin

Your whole body will glow

Cleansing and moisturising

CHORUS INSTRUMENTAL

MIDDLE

         F                                       C

It will miraculously heal your wounds

         F                   Am          G

Cure allergies and decongest you

Boost immunity and protect from a virus

Help with diabetes and even arthritis 

CHORUS

The inexaustable...... Golden Fountain

The elixical fountain of youth

Brings out the beauty within

Can you handle the truth?

Take a sip from... the Golden Fountain

Wash your hair and  your skin

Your whole body will glow

Cleansing and moisturising

Mouth Breather

VERSE

A                            F#m

Well his bad breath is deadly

D                            A

And his teeth are decayed

F#m            D           E

His dentist is a worried man

A                            F#m

All because he never used

D                            A

His nose like he should

D             E           A

Things are going downhill from here

CHORUS

                              D

Cos he's a mouth breather

                                            A

He doesn't sleep cos he's a mouth breather

                                           D

My mama didn't raise no mouth breather

                                                   A

You look so poorly, cos you're mouth breather

E                       D       A

Who know so many side effects?

VERSE

Now his chin is receding

And his face is too thin

So much he's got an overbite

At school he's no attention

Cos he don't sleep so good

Now they got him on Ritalin

CHORUS

MIDDLE

F#m

After years of poor sleeping

A

Made worse by the drugs

Bm                D

He's failed academically

Now he's a labourer

Thinks he's a failure

He draws in a long breath

Then  let's out a deep sigh

"It's not cos I didn't try"             

If only then I had known why

CHORUS

 E                                A

Nobody saw I was a "Mouth Breather"

                                                   F#m

They could have warned me "Mouth Breather"

                                               D

They should have called me a "Mouth Breather"

                        E

I would have changed 

Now I've poor immunity "Mouth Breather"

Zero opportunity "Mouth Breather"

I lost my dreams "Mouth Breather"

It's too late for me

But think of the children "Mouth Breather"

Save one of them "Mouth Breather"

Shout out to everyone "Mouth Breather"

The cycle must stop

INSTRUMENTAL OUTRO

In My Opinion

VERSE

D

My opinion

                         A

Is what people pay me for

                        G

I don't think I know anymore

D                         A

Than you or anyone else

My opinion

Is for the gullible

I'm not culpable

Just an actor playing a part

BRIDGE

Em                                           A

I tell people what they want to hear

An affirmation of their own ideas

CHORUS

Em

And in a world of minions

G

Under dominion

A

You need strong opinions

D

Lightly held

VERSE

My opinion

Maybe overkill

But it pays my bills

Which is more than you can say for yours

My opinion

Brings in advertising

Which sells people other things

The secret cycle is shuddering

BRIDGE

I'm an illustrator that is all

The picture that I paint must be colourful

CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL (BRIDGE & CHORUS)

MIDDLE

Em                                              Am

Take what I say with a pinch of salt

The actions of others are not my fault

Can I be blamed for behaviour or refusal to think?

If someone pours you poison do you drink?

CHORUS