Lyrics

it will come back

(b. tilford)

we sit starin, not even carin if we find, there’s nothin to do
later on if we still can’t find it, then babe, we’ll do that too

we make some love and set it free, it will come back to me
it will come back to you, just what we thought it would do

we don’t count the days, we see forever in each one as they go by
you’ re the rainbow of spices in the seasons of my life

all the money’s gone, too bad that love won’t pay the rent, they both come so fast
all we have is each other and all we want is what we have

we make some love and set it free, it will come back to me
it will come back to you, just what we thought it would do
just what we thought it would do, it will come back to you

Ceviche

(db, J. Campbell)

Flowing wind
on salty bay
water is warm today

Upon lime trees
our clothes do hang
While we wash our cuts away

The Island smolders close to the impact
of our former plane

La la la la la*

Coconuts feed our face
found a fishing net today

Quenching thirst
sweet water rain
Found our suitcase

At sunset I found the matches
we made a fire place

Fishing net
Ocean breaks
sip the coconut awake
Picking limes at midday
Catching fish to soak away
Clean fillets and marinate till
Galactic stars shine through

Ceviche for you!

It rains every day
but the fires are easy to make
Fish come by the net full
In no hurry to pass this away
An accidental paradise
we never signal planes

(*tip of the hat to Bersuit Vergarabat)

Hey you

(J. Campbell, b. tilford)

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warning! warning! warning!
this song’s got a disclaimer
we’re gonna talk about you
maybe talk ’bout you mama
so suck it up and take it

but this song’s not about that
this song’s about this!

going, going, gone!

{tip of the hat to P.E.)

Cheeseburger cheeseburger

(J. Campbell)

Cheeseburger cheeseburger
washed down with corn syrup
Made up for the masses
In factories of doom

E. coli in Cookies
and beefy beef patties
Salmonella in dairy
and peanutty treats

Illegal fence jumpers
are doing the dirty
work of the committee
and the chairman is pleased

They are illegal
and they’ll go to jail
So they keep their mouths shut
to keep family

One for the money
and two for the power
and three for the party
it’s going to be fun
The plates are all filled
for the men of the hour
So raise up your glasses in awe
Three cheers for the leaders
who allow this to happen
Monsanto employees in charge
The plates are all filled
for the men of the hour
So raise up your glasses in awe

Send the beef to boarding school
where they wade in fecal matter
gorging on a ton of corn
till the meat marbles

Party on the killing floor
everyone is wanting more
eviscerating bovines
smashing in their skulls

Send the beef to finishing school
E. coli goes everywhere
Where they wade for weeks in poo
E. coli goes everywhere
When they tear their intestines
E. coli goes everywhere
When you chew the uncooked food
E. coli goes ev-ery-where

spec

(b. tilford)

i feel like a spec like a drop of water
floating in a stream down on a river
rollin to the sea up thru the clouds
right off the earth and on my way out

to be a universe together, span the distance
stick together, make the rhythm

since it’s always in the timing
a sense of time is always
in motion cleverly winding up away

i feel just like a spec…
is it just a matter of time and space
keeps us all in this place
walking thru a human race always

i feel like a spec like a drop of water
floating in the stream down on a river
rollin to the sea up and thru the clouds
right off the earth and on my way out

now i feel like a spec like a universe
floating in the heavens on the outskirts
of infinity knowing all the while
that it started just a spark on the map of my mind

sparks together
span the distance
sparks together
make the rhythm


KavaSutra

God didn’t do it

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(b. tilford)

God didn’t do it – didn’t make wars cars planes and killing in god’s name
God didn’t do it – there’s lots of will for free no refunds no exchange
love’s left lying around in the strangest faces
sometimes it blows in just like the wind through your hair
but sometimes nowhere does it say anywhere
that everything or even anything has to be fair

God didn’t do it – didn’t make the car check the time and get us to get in it
God didn’t do it – write a big black book for our perfect day hour minute
he doesn’t control everything although sometimes it seems
we all make payments to fate though our will is always free

God did the wind and the water mind and the matter God did

God didn’t do it – make wars cars planes or killing in God’s name
there’s lots of will for free no refunds no exchange
here’s your share of fear and hate and blues and blame
but at least and after all it’s not like we did these things
what if you and me did these things
what if it’s just you and me?

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bug in my car

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(b. tilford)

you are the bug in my car
you try to fly out through the rear window
you bang your head on the glass
can’t get out the way you came in

i’d probably crash in a panic reaching back to try and crush you smash you squash you splash you on the glass and the fact is i own your life span and it was just reduced to a mile and a half

you are the bug in my car
you try to fly out through the rear window
you bang your head on the glass
can’t get out the way you came in
you want to fly to the front
you’d like to sting me on the back of my head
i keep my window rolled down
wind coming in keeps you trapped on the rear dash

where you’re banging your head on the window again and again
you should just chill out
maybe later you can save yourself if you have any brains left

when i drove by you took a wrong turn for the rest of your life you’re stuck inside and you cannot recognize my thickly veiled concern to set you free ’cause i know you’ll just return

you are the bug in my car
you try to fly out through the rear window
you bang your head on the glass
can’t get out the way you came in
you are the bug in my car
too bad you shoulda chose a cadillac
you found my dashboard graveyard
if you could get out you wouldn’t even know where
you are the bug in my car you are the bug in my car
why are you the bug in my car?

don’t feel too bad.  i’m just a guy in car with a bug driving back and forth
it’s just the grace of god that keeps me from flying straight into a windshield called earth

(*tip of the hat to SOAD)

Prayers and lies

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(J. Campbell)

She’s got some faces in her leatherette purse
Ones she shows to a friend that’s not there
All the heads have neatly combed hair
And all the faces show smiles that hurt

One of her socks is down at her shoe
As she hungrily drinks the flask
All her woman’s mind was left far behind
And she was left without a clue

Then she smiles and whispers so softly
Sighing bitterly with her brow crinkling
In her twilight she whispers prayers and lies

Two little boys play outside
The dog drags 7 cousins
Stepfather is at the shop
With a gun at the managers head

Come back kitty Come on back
Through the fence there goes Sam!
Goodbye cat down the road
In a van to Reno
Where he can hide on stage
Maybe that was no fact?
Winter fell upon our souls
And my brother fell back

He remembers before he went alone
Ivan Lloyd with his songs about Jerome
Grasshopper’s head is gone
And Aaron is Drowning

Cockroach spray

(J. Campbell)

Do what you’ve always done
And you’ll get what you’ve always gotten
It’s such a shame to live in this world
When you can’t see your problem

Visualize a happier you
Realize that it could be true
Formalize this process and you’re alive

But you won’t do it
You’re far too lazy
Comfortable? You must be crazy
Lies don’t work you always know truth
And in the end hides the proof

Die! That’s all in your head
Don’t buy your gravestone before you’re dead
You love to take from many just for one
And I can tell that because you’re human

Visualize a happier you
Realize that it could be true
Formalize this process and you’re alive

But you won’t do it
You’re far too lazy
Comfortable? You must be crazy
Lies don’t work you always know truth
And in the end hides the proof


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James Nachtwey

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(J. Campbell)

Guatemala in 83
Helicopters for military
Flying righteous with sunglasses on
to get to the mass

A world away in 84
Butchers with bullets, El Salvador
The generals evacuated the soldiers
While children cried

Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia
Militiamen of Serbia
Weeping people bring the dead to life
In between the fights

Iraqi families in rubble and stone
Angry for reasons I’ll never know
Al Jazeer can’t get their message to send
and we’re all in the dark

Wars for resources
Wars for trillion$
Wars for the children
We let the bombs fall

Famine victims “living” in the Sudan
Prosthetic limbs Afghanistan
Hutu death camps in Africa stand
in the scars on the man

Heavy metals in the factory air
Half a beggar washing children’s hair
Untouchables unload a boatload of sand
Building bricks they can’t have

We are the witness
of his testimony
And we will never forget
And let it never repeat

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