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

   

Get Free

We’ve been backstabbed betrayed, butchered and splayed

On the altar of “the way it’s always been done.”
It’s American, man, watch the funerals span
The bulk of the calendar year

And you can shake your head say it’s not right
Spend all your nights in electronic fights
But you know in the end, there’s no way to defend
The way we do nothing at all

When waking up is a trauma and hellos turns to drama
You disassociate from every nuclear thought
Total lack of conviction with a bullshit addiction
It’s enough to forget all we’ve got

And all we’ve got could someday be enough
A spiritual world where we lean into love
Well hey I get it man, you’re not sure of the plan
As you harangue me holding a beer

What if the best in us was on the cusp
Of true manifestation?
Could we take the leap into the deep
And find that the softest landing?

And besides  
What have we got to lose?
If we could stay like this or get better,
What would you choose?

I just want my friends to get free
I just want my love to get free
I just want the pained to get free
I just want you to get free
I just wanna get free  
Come on let’s all get free

 

The more I love

VERSE

(Singer 1)

G

I was "get me mine"

C

I was "each for his own"

G 

I was out for myself

D

I was all alone

I was self-absorbed

Self-obsessed

Self-contained

In a selfish net

BRIDGE

C D

Until one fine day, I believed

CHORUS

G

That the more I love

C

The more I live

G

The more I give

D

The more I grow

VERSE

(Singer 2)

Well it's one big picture

And there's one pot of paint

And we're all these little brushes

And we're making something great

Everyones' their part

And they're part of the whole

Step back and look

At one big beautiful soul

BRIDGE + CHORUS

Cos one fine day I believed

VERSE

(Singer 1)

Em

My goal in life

Am

Was to satisfy my needs

Em

Only then I could be happy

D

Or so I believed

For years I did everything

My little heart desired

But the more I fed the flames

The bigger grew the fires

BRIDGE

Til' one fine day I believed

CHORUS (Instrumental)

VERSE (Strummed)

(Singer 3)

Only when the hungry get fed

Will I feel full

When the sick get better 

Will I be well

(Singer 4)

My country's at war

so I can't be at peace

Once they cut up all the weapons

I will feel release

BRIDGE

One fine day I believe

MIDDLE

(Singer 3)

Em

Service is love

Am

Put in action

Em

Enough is enough

F D

Paint your way to paradise

CHORUS

Cos the more I love

The more I live

The more I give

The more I get

The more I serve

The more I grow

The more I sow

The more I reap

Cos the more I love

The more I live

The more I give

The more I get

VERSE (Strummed/Spoken)

(Singer 2)

I've painted moonlit panoramas

And a heavenly sunrise

But the light I've yet to capture

Is in a child's eyes

When they see they can do something

And they start to dream

And the world's a better place

With self-esteem

EXTRA

VERSE

BRIDGE + CHORUS

I used to play for myself

Now I'm the drummer in a band

I bring everyone together

With the rhythm in my hands

And I've got a purpose

A place in the world

And it's the greatest feeling

That I ever had

Your Energy

Walking all through the night
As though in a dream
Up till early light
Sweet sunbeam

Good for me you’re good for me
We play like a team
Your energy in front of me
It’s what I need

Open your eyes
See the chemistry rise
We promise to be there for each other
Be there for each other

Under the stars
This is who we are
We promise to be there for each other
Be there for each other

Now there’s no turning back
We play for keeps

Flowers in the field
Oh, they bloom for me
They bloom for you, they do

Open your eyes
See the chemistry rise
We promise to be there for each other
Be there for each other

Under the stars
This is who we are
We promise to be there for each other
Be there for each other

We open up the gates
And walk a while, walk a mile
Through overgrown ferns and wistful trees
Pines in the breeze
And lush green vines
And a river that flows by

In front of me
Your energy

In front of me 

Borderline

On the borderline
Ordinary people
Are intertwined

On the borderline
If you think it’s equal  
Then you’re colorblind

Can’t you see it’ll never be the same
Even if you’re from the same place
Disproportionate, longevity
Based on things you wouldn’t believe…

Who’s complicit in creating (generating) lies
A never-ending staircase
With freedom at the top in disguise
Protected by
Countries with money
And no sense of pain
The pain, of dropping everything
And moving away

At the borderline Hope is used
To build the lie//
That it's a better life
It takes a criminal mind
For death and sacrifice
To find a compromise
To find a compromise

But can’t u see it’ll never be the same
Even if you’re from the same place
People seek refuge
But don’t you go calling them refugees…

Who’s complicit in creating (generating) lies
A never-ending staircase
With freedom at the top in disguise
Protected by
Countries with money
And no sense of pain
The pain, of dropping everything

And moving away 

Don't Forget How Far You've Come

DON’T FORGET HOW FAR YOU’VE COME

Say you’re down
And say your stuck
Can’t get out of bed

Laugh it off
But it’s not a joke
What’s messing with your head

You say it’s hard
To be living out
In the way you wished you could

But I know it’s not
How you think it is
When you think you’re really screwed

You’ve got things
you’re convinced you need
The things you’ve got to be

I’ll lend a hand
And I’ll lend my eyes
I wanna help you heal

Cause all we need
Is all you are
I want you to run free

You were always beautiful
And one day
I hope you’ll see

Don’t forget how far you’ve come
And I’ll - write the love upon your arms
I’ll lend my hand, I want to help you heal
You’re all we need, I want you to run free
You’re all we need, I want you to run free
You’re all we need, I want you to run free

You’re all we need, I want you to run free

I want you to run

NOTES:

You don’t need a degree to be a friend

Never forget how far you’ve come

Lyrics add to vocabulary

No fear of shame

I am enough

I will hold on to hope for you

I need your presence, not your perfection



CHORDS


Verse


Bmaj  Emaj7 x2

Abmin  Emaj            or  Abmin Ebmin/F# Emaj7 Bmaj x2

Bmaj Emaj Bmaj


Pre Chorus

Ebmin/F#


Chorus


Abmin Bmaj Emaj x2

Gb Abmin Emaj

Gb Bmaj Emaj

 

Break The Spell

They’re coming again

They’re coming for my own heart
Just follow the trend
Everyone plays their part

Need a reset
Spirits in the mind are breaking through
New consciousness
Visions of something I can’t prove

We’re changing slowly
But still falling onto ourselves
Can’t stop the controlling
Could melodies break the spell?

Illegal truth
Covered up like it’s suicide
Forbidden fruit
How can you tell me what is mine?

We’re changing slowly
But still falling onto ourselves
Can’t stop the controlling
Could melodies break the spell?

We’re changing slowly
But still falling onto ourselves
Can’t stop the controlling
Could melodies break the spell?

Time to grow up
'Cause it’s no rights if they control us
My whole life all I heard was “no drugs”
Coming from the motherfuckers that don’t even know drugs
And as I
Get to get a little closer
I can identify the propaganda like “hold up”
Then we can recognize that the lies never hold up
Whether you do a line, or wine, or you roll up
High Times couldn’t cover my mind by the byline
The news never spill the truth on a timeline
The boys in blue are the brutes in my lifetime
I been on sidelines and now it’s high time
Look at the country deposit
Locking my people for profit
How can you look in the mirror?
I cannot honor "Your Honor"
Chasing our happiness and I’m knowing the courage will cause it
What do we need? To get out the closet
Wassup?

We’re changing slowly
But still falling onto ourselves
Can’t stop the controlling
Could melodies break the spell?

We’re changing slowly
But still falling onto ourselves
Can’t stop the controlling
Could melodies break the spell?
Could melodies break the spell?
Could melodies break the spell?

Nothing’s By Design

We didn’t ask for this
Hot heads cold hands and feet
Something switched on the light
We woke up and stirred to life
Why

I didn’t plan for this
The death of the life we shared
Two candles lit in a single flame
My light dimmed when yours pulled away
Why

I wonder how I’ll get up
I wonder how I’ll breathe
I wonder what you’re doing
I wonder if you grieve

Oh, You never used to need much
And now you’ve got no need for me

But nothing’s by design
And at least we get to try

My father bringing up
His children in the light
We’d throw the ball around
Before church single’s night

He hid his son from us
And gave us all his shame
And when we’d ask too much
He’d toss the ball away

I wonder how I’ll get up
I wonder how I’ll breathe
I wonder what you’re doing
I wonder if you grieve

Oh, you never used to need much
And now you’ve got no need for me

But nothing’s by design
And I will let it go in time

Drug use

VERSE

Em            G

The narrative

D                                  A

We've heard our whole lives

About how to live

We've been told a lie

The true divider

Public enemy number one

Em       G          D

Don't question it....

RAP (Same chords as verse)

VERSE

Society's ills

Are caused by the drugs

Not that the jobs, have gone to China

Keep your eye on.... the drugs

Anecdotal evidence

The science

Look it up...

RAP

CHORUS/OUTRO

G                 D                 C

Now there's no need to search

                                Em          D

For the causes of crime and poverty

People's own behaviour is at fault

It's not government policy

Not the end, or effect, the beginning

Of all the crime and poverty

No need to change or invest

Or change our government policy

Spend on the cure, not the cause

Transhuman Dreams

Young bodies burn in the heat of the sun
A river wraps into a snake
The scales fall away  
And a generation
Turns with the tides with the wind

With the wind, with the wind

In my transhuman dreams
Forever is tempting
Human meet machine
Forever is tempting  

A natural death and a life well lived
From baby steps, your spreading wings  
Why  do we fear the final destination  
The journey age disease, my legacy  

Legacy, what legacy

In my transhuman dreams
Forever is tempting  
Human meet machine
Forever is tempting

The future looms and blooms
Mechanical bodies
And digital heavens
Uploading our memories  
And natural essence  
Original sin left
Us humans in need of
Some human improvement
Some human improvement
Some human improvement

In my transhuman dreams
Forever is tempting  
Human meet machine
Forever is tempting