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Worker Bee Morning
02:49
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WORKER BEE MORNING
Worker bees begin to hum
Cars and trucks start in the dark
Coffee by the gallon drum
To shake the hive and scratch a mark
Worker bee morning
Worker bee morning
Clouds of carbon fill the air
A damaged land turns to the sun
Whoever said that life was fair
Another worker day begun
Worker bee morning
Worker bee morning
If you need a way to live
Live it with love
If you got a lot to give
Give it with love
If you need to get things done
Do it with love
If you want to be someone
Gather up love
If you need a change of season
Change it with love
If you need a better reason
Just because love
If you want to travel far
Go further with love
If you want to reach the stars
Give them all love
Just love
Worker bee
In orbit over mother earth
There is a junk yard in the sky
Nothing stops the techno birth
The endless itch for one more try
Worker bee morning worker bee warning
Do you see daylight soon to be twilight
Stop this greed that governs all
Or this could be nightfall
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ATTRACTION LOVE (STRANGE TURN)
He’s a player in a nightclub band
Workin’ New York City in the Fall
She’s just arrived from London
Singin’ loud right across the hall
So wake up make up and shake up
Just across the hall
And she’s the best of all
He’s drinkin’ in a SoHo bar
She’s still waitin’ for that call
Finally he breaks down and presses up
Much in common no surprise at all
So wake up take up and shake up
Now it won’t be long just like the song
Love a strange attraction
Love when they kiss
Contact a celebration comes
Love there’s no resisting this
So you could call it love
Later over dinner they’re so quiet
He watches her eyes
So expressive in the candlelight
Wake up make up and shake up
Now it won’t be long just like the song
Love a strange attraction
Love when they kiss
Contact a celebration comes
Love there’s no resisting this
Love it starts so easy
Closer when they come down
When the lights go out
Contact a celebration comes
So you could call it love
For lack of a better word
Let’s call this love
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Yearly Gone Song
03:40
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YEARLY GONE SONG
Riding high over a city skyline
Rough shapes that never seem to change
Waking up to greet the new kind
Every last thing is rearranged
Goodbye now this year is ending
Goodbye now this year is gone
Swept away and lost defending
Goodbye now this is a new dawn
Sing sang sung ring rang rung
Over and done
Way across town to see the night lark
Knocking knocking at the door
Where there once was a light
The place has gone dark
She won’t be coming back no more
Goodbye now this year is ending
Goodbye now this year is gone
Brave new world was in the future
Done and pawned this is a new dawn
Sing sang sung
Ring rang rung over and done
Goodbye now this year is ending
Long goodbye to laughter and bitter tears
Swept away and lost defending
Goodbye to the year that disappeared
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Surf The Tidal Bore
01:02
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A One Cent Song
01:38
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A ONE CENT SONG
So you won’t have to worry about
what you spent
I wrote it for an hour spelled out the words
Real tough going then it started to work
Now today I’ll give it to you
So you can take it home and won’t feel blue
So here’s a song for just one cent
I can guarantee that it’s a coin well spent
Could be a song to make you laugh or cry
Not a lament or just an old lullaby
You could even say this song is free
That’s the way I really would prefer it to be
Words and music not just on loan
Save it if you want
And you could bring it home
Binary code was used to make this song
Digital or not you can still sing along
If you got a penny in your pocket or purse
I promise that emotions will be reimbursed
So play it for a start
Then keep it in your heart
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Equator Beach Gig
05:44
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EQUATOR BEACH GIG
You with your toes in the sand
The waves kissing the land
A spiral shell in your hand
Me under a shady palm
The azure sea grows calm
A breeze ripples the fronds
Salt water washes away
The rock hard rules of the everyday
I say hey sunrise over the sea
Picture you and me
Equator beach is the key
Why did we wait so long
Now that we’re here the hesitation is gone
For a song
See the birds float on the air
Waves tipping white everywhere
Swim with the fins if we dare
Feel so much better today
Raising a sail in a sunlit bay I say hey
Sunrise over the sea
Picture you and me
Equator beach is the key
Now when the trade winds call
Travelers make landfall
As long as love comes with all
I like your big straw hat
Fuchsia bikini and your dark blue tat
Where it’s at
So can we stay here forever
No matter what kind of weather
Just so we do this together
Trade winds call
As long as love comes with all
Trade winds call
Love comes with all
Hear them call ‘quator beach Lo-lo-love
We can reach ’quator beach
This is equator beach gig
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7. |
Holly Mountain Life
03:12
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HOLLY MOUNTAIN LIFE
I’ve had enough of New York’s
Millionaire blight
On to the far beyond start living right
No plan to chase a dollar until I drop
I got a date with nature way up on top
Holly mountain life is the best
Holly mountain life for a rest
What a perfect place to build a nest
Watch the sunset light up the West
Now I feel the closeness just you and me
Uncover secret things what will we see
And is it fate that leads us to this place
Will we stay a long time make it home base
Holly mountain life is the best
Holly mountain life for a rest
What a perfect place to build a nest
Watch the sunset light up the West
And with love
In the mirrored twilight sky tinted red
The evening echoes back
The things we said
But when the end is calling
We must say goodbye
To ripples rings and birds that sing
Of holly mountain time
Holly mountain life without end
There is another life around the bend
A better way to write press and send
Holly mountain life once again
And with love
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On Lighthouse Key
04:08
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ON LIGHTHOUSE KEY
A blithe spirit appeared
Dark island belle
Under Southern skies
That’s where I fell
Do you remember when it was you and me
How we slipped our chains
Down on lighthouse key
Next she appeared
Diplomas all in a row
We climbed the ivory tower so high
Fell back down with nothing to show
Do you remember when it was you and me
How we slipped our chains
Down on lighthouse key
Lighthouse key when it was you and me
Finally she appeared
And took the stage like a queen
She called the steps to the dance but
At curtain call
She was nowhere to be seen
Do you remember when it was you and me
How we slipped our chains
Down on lighthouse key
Always remember when it was you and me
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THE BURRS MAD STRIKE AGAIN
Beach island footprints in the sand
Two brothers ganja glow in hand
Red sunset they’re tuning up the band
That’s when the burrs mad strike again
Lights on the highway
The brothers hit New York
Parisian riding shotgun
Champagne pop the cork
Club pilgrims searching for the stork
That’s when the burrs mad strike again
Jumbo crushes Brooklyn
Studying to pass street science
Brothers to the top of the class
Next stop on the subway
And the movie has a cast
That’s when the burrs mad strike again
Gone missing off to parts unknown
One got married the other far from home
But still a live connection
Wherever they may roam
So now you can guess when
The burrs mad strike again
With new life to defend
The burrs mad strike again
Yeah tonight around 10:00
The burrs mad strike again one more time
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Hourglass Dolphin Dive
02:26
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Faster Go Faster
04:54
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FASTER GO FASTER
Pounce cheetah quicker
You move in double time
I can keep your secret
Just say it once and you’ll be mine
Get your led out the carburetor
All the lights are turning green
Detonate it yeah
You’re the fastest one I’ve seen
Now let’s go faster
Faster faster let’s go
Roadrunner honey
Did I take you once around
Now don’t smack the feeling
Say it again right out loud
Tuesday was the first time
And Friday was the last
Saturday was lonely
Don’t you let Monday go past
Detonate it yeah
You’re the fastest one I’ve seen
Detonate it yeah
You’re the fastest one I’ve seen
Now let’s go faster
Faster faster let’s go
No slave no master just so
We could go faster let’s go
Now we’re riding aah huh
No more hiding from love
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Crosshatch Affair
02:44
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CROSSHATCH AFFAIR
The blur from last night
Changes slowly to dawn
Crashing fast I’m on the lawn
Red tail light trails where she has gone
Let this one go the change is on
How many nights at the same hotel
Our favorite rooms we know so well
Bodies entwined with a midnight sheen
No one speaks no listening
A mirror on the ceiling glasses of wine
Don’t know what else we expected to find
Love you sleeping love you awake
Sadness grows and hearts could break
Always remember this crosshatched affair
This can’t go on even though we still care
One last time wanting so much more
But the passion is gone
Like the sheen we wore
Always remember this crosshatched affair
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