The Meaning in the Moment

VERSE

                                       F

Finding meaning in the moment

                                      C

Appreciate the time we have

                                    Bf

Try communing with creator

                                            C

Instead of drowning in the data

                                            F

Find the meaning in the moment

 

Read the Denial of Death

Accept your own mortality

Perfect the art of passing on

Sound like a princess dying young

Read the Denial of Death

CHORUS

Dm                         Am

In the solace of solitude

C                     

The space there to create

Bf

Inside the flow state

In the lineup of molecules

Some meaning in the strife

The unhealthy pace of life

VERSE

For an assertion of self

We compile our poetry

Like the ageing fading star

Thinking more about who we are

For an assertion of self

On recovery from success

Adjusting to the valley

Oh God how I miss them

glimpses of magic realism

On recovery from success

CHORUS

The Ghost of Paul Nelson

VERSE

Dm

It started as a rumour

A whisper went around

G

Then sightings started happening

All over town

In his favourite haunts

Objects were there to find

Ash of Sherman Cigarillos

And some post-its left behind

And---

CHORUS

A7

Two cokes to toast

                              Dm

The ghost of Paul Nelson

VERSE

It was seen wandering on Fenchaw

And the record store on Vine

It ran the New York Marathon

In record-breaking time

At Jackson Hole his table

There was a burger floating there

CHORUS

In the old video store

It was unpacking DVDs

Except now the shop sells lingerie

The manager was peeved

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...

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And spilt---

VERSE

It was caught smoking in the Brazen Head

And an old lady screamed

And now it's stopping traffic

So the mayor has intervened

Friends gathered for the seance

It's exorcising time

Clint he took a whisky

Bobby wanted wine

And---

CHORUS

New convention

VERSE

Democratised - homogonised

An open source asylum

Our self-curated comedy

Just filters to apply

Harmony through discord

Despondently you stare

Comfortably curled up inside

An avocado chair

Digital dystopia

The mind of a machine

A curator or an artist

Or somewhere inbetween

A journey into landscapes

A journey out of mind

A journey through the possible

Unpicked and untied

Telescopic netherworlds

Portals out through space

Hyperplexic terrace wheels

Cut up and replaced

CHORUS

Welcome to the new convention

Where everyone's an artist—don't you dare to disagree

It's dark inside the great convention

Exhibitors are reminded—to be uniformly bold

Journey through the grey convention

Modelled on the best of us—completed by the worst

Play on what they say's convention

Prompted with paranthesis—outsourced imagination

VERSE

See the world as Art Deco

Reinterpret as Picasso

Darth Vader as a Pharoah

Warhol as an Escher

See the world as psychedillic

Or stick to pen and ink

It takes some getting used to

But won't bad as you think

WAITING FOR PROMPT EXAMPLES FROM DAVE

Share our human rights

VERSE

G

Everyone's rapacious 

         C                  G

and everywhere's greed

                                             D

All wanting more than we need

G

People are praying on each other

          C           G

It's a terrible sight

C                        D             G

Then start on non-human rights

VERSE

I can't soar above this

Or migrate away

Stuck on this world here we stay

It's time to think about the others

Take on their fight

What about non-human rights?

BRIDGE

C                          D

I don't want to hog all the freedom

C                      D

Other animals I need them

C                       

Don't give up the fight, look far for long sight

                      D                       G

We need to share our human rights

VERSE

Money does the talking

But what sense does it make

When the only thing it says is take

Its ego is rampant

It's false and contrite

Can you buy non-human rights?

BRIDGE

CHORUS/OUTRO

                            G             Em

Cos we need to share the world

              C                                        D

And ask permission from the others here

We need to share the world

We're not the only creatures here

We need to share the world

Take a philosophical step

We need to share the world

And not all the others forget