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Drain Dream
Something To Be click here to scroll down
Long Time click here to scroll down
Nature boy (Instrumental)
Coup de Ska
Die a Little
Peace
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Time ain't Money click here to scroll down
Message to Zion click here to scroll down
Conspiracy of Purpose
Little Monsters click here to scroll down

 

Bad Head click here to scroll down
My Pleasure
The King is Dead
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Taxi
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Being There
Miriam Your Toast is Burning
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Wayo click here to scroll down
The Fifty Seven
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Every Day
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Fly off the Handle click here to scroll down
Smoke
Licking Stick
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Modern Super Hero click here to scroll down
What a Man Doeth
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Two Eyes Too Much click here to scroll down
Reasonable Man
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Platinum Valium
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Art School Chick
The Factory
World of People

Different Language
Wrong Way Home
Traci

Wayo
© 1997 Healey/Sewell
My girl shouts she’s had it up to here, she’s screaming at me
I hear her scream
So I lie and say I understand her
Exactly what she means

My boss doesn’t even know my name, no wonder I
Don’t like my job
So I tried to tell her my name’s Tom and she said fine;
Fine thank you Bob

(Woke up talking in my sleep last night, and the words I said
They made no sense
Started talking ‘bout some Island somewhere
Well you know what I meant
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Modern Super Hero
© 2000 T. Healey
I’m a modern Super-hero
But I’m living in the same old-fashioned world
With a tolerance of zero
For the villains in the uptight underworld
And they know who they are

The modern Super hero
Doesn’t bother with the silk shoes, mask, and cape
He’s not afraid to let his fear show
The outer hero needs to let the inner coward escape
Every now and then

I’m a modern super

I’m a hero for the new age
Fighting to protect the new morality
And you oughta see my web page
I’m living virtual immortality
And it’s all for free

I’m a modern super hero
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Two Eyes Too Much
© 2000 T. Healey
Two eyes too much
Two hands to block our vision
But no such luck
We see with such precision
A world gone mad
Before our eyes

Are we designed
To seek a better fate or
Are we resigned
To hang around and wait for
The final act
The last goodbye

And I don’t wanna see where we’re going to be
If we keep moving at this pace
Our talking made us tired
The starting pistol fired
But we’re still wasting time we’re standing at the starting line

Is it my eyes
Addition by subtraction
We’re standing by
For someone’s gut reaction
To choose our brand
Of daily bread

Goodbye
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Taxi
© 1994 T. Healey
Taxi!
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What a Man Doeth 
© Morris
What a man doeth this day; stands in his way
What a man doeth this day will stand in his way
What he sows, that’s what he will reap
What he reaps, that’s what he shall eat
What a man soweth this day, so shall he reap

It’s a lesson for everyone to learn
It’s a lesson for everyone to learn
If he’s right, then he’ll be inside
If he’s wrong, he better hear well
What a man doeth this day, stands in his way

What a man doeth this day; stands in his way
What a man doeth this day will stand in his way
What he sows, that’s what he will reap
What he reaps, that’s what he shall eat
What a man soweth this day, so shall he reap
What a man soweth this day, so shall he reap
What a man soweth this day, so shall he reap (fade)
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Lickin’ Stick
© Dekker
Mama Mama Mama me say come here quick
Papa Papa lick me with the lickin’ stick
I got the flippy hiccups
I got the flippy hiccups

Mama Mama Mama I am feeling sick
Papa papa lick me with the lickin’ stick
I got the flippy hiccups
I got the flippy hiccups

Ice water –to put out the fire
Ice water
Ice water – to put out the fire
Ice water

Mama Mama Mama me say come here quick
Papa Papa lick me with the lickin’ stick
I got the flippy hiccups
I got the flippy hiccups

Ice water –to put out the fire
Ice water
Ice water – to put out the fire
Ice water

Mama Mama Mama me say come here quick
Papa Papa lick me with the lickin’ stick
Mama Mama Mama me say come here quick
Papa Papa lick me with the lickin’ stick
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Fly off the Handle
© 2000 K. Schneider

Saturday morning still in bed
Late last night was rough on my head
Looking around I feel real bad
thinking about the dreams I had
I try to sit up but I fall back down
I try to think but thoughts just spin around

Saturday night was rough on my head
Can't get down with this he says, she said,
Whoa - don't fly off the handle
Whoa - If you do they'll be scandal
Whoa - give it to me and I'll leave it to chance
Whoa - shut up and dance

G'day my sweet It's me once more
You're the one today that I adore
Come with me you won't regret it
I can promise you that you won't forget it
How can you live if you never take the chance?
How can love if you never shut up and dance
shut up and dance
Shut up and dance

You come out late to look for a fight
Everbody knows that the boy ain't right
Nothing has changed for so long
Talking so tough but your not so strong
One by one your losing your respect
you take what you can but give what you get
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Bad Head
© 2000 D. Cuetara
She was an English girl
Or so somebody said
A victim of entropy
And bullets in the head
She worked an English day
From 9 to 17
Captains of Industry
Were ghosts in her machine
She had a bad head, a bad head, a bad head

She had a part to play
She played it very well
No one would ever know her private living hell
One night the lights went out
Her mind just blew a fuse
I read it all today on the early evening news
She had a bad head, a bad head, a bad head

Some people dream at night
They wake up -  they get old
Some people scream at night
Some people explode
You heard that hollow sound
You smoke the cigarette of doubt
You have to swallow it down
She just blew it out

Silhoutte the letter, the note on the night stand
Picking up the pieces that had never been one
I can recollect the note she left in her right hand
The note she wrote that she signed with a gun.
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Miriam Your Toast is Burning
© 2000 Healey/Cuetara
In an existential quandry - in an existential quandry
Airing dirty mental laundry - airing dirty mental laundry
I don't know what, but I'm learning - but he is learning
And I don't give a damn what the bastards want
Miriam your toast is burning

Turn away from the blurry picture - turn away from the blurry picture
While you wrestle with TV scripture - while you wrestle with TV scripture,
right!
Right, if you're not too discerning - not too discerning
And you don't give a damn what the little girls want
Miriam your toast is burning

Stop staring I can read the lines
And don't flash back at me like a one way warning sign
You reach your passion on the second look
You've got a life like the title of a drugstore dirtybook that says

I can seperate fact from fiction - he can seperate fact from fiction
I believe in contradiction - no you don't - yes I do
and if you're not too discerning - not too discerning
And you don't give a damn what anybody wants
Miriam your toast is burning
Miriam your toast's on fire

I can seperate fact from fiction - he can seperate fact from fiction
I remember Richard Nixon - he remembers who?
Like him if you're not too discerning - not too discerning
And you don't give a damn what the bastards want
Miriam your toast is burning
Miriam your toast is done.
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The Fifty Seven
© 2000 D. Cuetara
She took the Bus, The Fifty Seven from Brighton
He saw his name in the book she was writing
It was The Myth of Private Property God and Man
He didn't need to understand

The Fifty Seven turns left into Allston
Like waking up from a dream ythat you were lost in
With some old aging lunatic by your side
Swimming with you against the tide

I never had no direction
That's why I spread myself around
It don't bother me I've got connections
All over this town

I'm on the Bus
I'm on the Bus
I'm on the Bus, The Fifty Seven from Brighton
I'm on the Bus
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Reasonable Man
© 2000 Cuetara/Healey)
All around the world people are saying something
Lips move, the joint is jumping
I know that love is only seasonable
I know, cause I'm a reasonable man
I'm a reasonable man

All around the world, people will tell you that
They'll lie at the drop of a hat
But I know that love is only seasonable
I know, cause I'm a reasonable man

Theres's time to tell you the time's not ready for love
Beneath or above, the object of
Affectation is so much easier than, the boys in the band, let's give 'em a hand
And let the people know that

All around the world
People will tell you that
They'll lie, they'll lie through their hat
But I know that love is only seasonable,
I know, I'm a reasonable man

Drink, drink, drink, drink
Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight
All day and all night, alright
Summer's over and Baby's been wanting to fly
She expects me to cry, and wave bye bye

But You people know...
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Every Day
© Holly
Every day, It's a getting closer
Going faster than a roller coaster
Love like yours will surely come my way

Every day It's a getting faster
Everyone says go ahead and ask her
Love like yours will surely come my way

Every day seems a little longer
Every day love's a little stronger
Come what may do you ever long for
True love from me?

Every day It's a getting faster
Everyone says go ahead and ask her
Love like yours will surely come my way

Every day seems a little longer
Every day love's a little stronger
Come what may do you ever long for
True love from me?

Every day, It's a getting closer
Going faster than a roller coaster
Love like yours will surely come my way
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The King is Dead
© 2000 D. Cuetara

I was born an American, 35 years in a week, next Sunday
Baptised by the Vatican, all the pretty people of the world say hey
Right now what I'm thinking of, is natural attraction in High School halls
Allah what I dream about the words of profits on subway walls
Land of the free of thee I sing
The King is dead, Long Live the King

OK now I'm serious, the people of the people are the people I love
Maybe I'm delerious, It fits together like a fist in a glove
Allah, what I dream about the action of subtraction of a right from wrong
Allah what I fear the most, The King is Dead I'm all alone
And that's the best I've ever seen
The King is dead, long live the Queen

Self inflicting Benediction by your bedside
So you can narrate your attrition like a tourguide
And fall so short in love you'll never know a landslide
To to you it's only justifiable homocide
But you are the best I've ever seen
The King is dead long live the Queen

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Smoke
© 1996 D. Cuetara

Don’t wanna see no smoke come rising
Don’t wanna live in such a hell of a town
You saw it coming and it’s not surprising
You blow the trumpet and the walls come down, walls come down

You running backwards well to each his own
Hosanna sitting on a velvet throne
If you’re finished with the record dial up on the phone
Someone come and get me come and drive me home, drive me home

Nothing I’ve seen could ever come in between us
And the walls keep crumbling down
No one named Nina could have possibly seen us
But somebody was selling the sound

Answer the question; a fact is a fact
You got the wrong information but you’re on the right track
If you wait you’ll be too late you’ve got an hour to pack
‘Cuz when the Ice Man comes he’s gonna take it back, he’s gonna take it back

Romance and reason never come into season
And the walls come tumbling down
Down on your knees so they can try you for treason
And somebody will sell you the sound

Mode observation; observable clues
Multiplication in two by twos
Save your pontification for your turn at the screws
Hold an electric election for your right to choose, and lose

That’s why I don’t wanna see no smoke come rising
Don’t wanna live in such a hell of a town
You saw it coming and it’s not surprising
You blow the trumpet and the walls come down, walls come down
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Platinum Valium
© 2000 D. Cuetara

You didn’t ask for the Album
You didn’t ask for the car
You didn’t ask for the platinum valium
That doesn’t make you a star

You headed out for the west coast
I stayed alone on the east
You telephoned from the worst to the best coast
That doesn’t get you released, that doesn’t get you released

They say I’m crazy for the system
I’m crazy for the plan
I’m the cause but I’m not the symptom
I’m twentieth century man

They say that too much education
Can leave a man with no room to move
Between this rock and the edge of creation
There’s a lot to learn and little to lose
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Message to Zion
© 1995 T. Healey and D. Cuetara
Gonna to send a message to Zion
A message to Zion
I sent a letter to Zion
Address unknown.
Long distance phone call to Zion
No one home.
A letter to Zion
A letter to Zion

I don't want to go
It's not my life, I won't put on a show
Rasta machine, I know the words, I don't know what they mean.

There is a circus in Zion
I'm a clown.
They won't desert us in Zion
Don't let me down.
I am a soldier of Zion
I need a shoulder to cry on.
A message to Zion
A message to Zion

I don't want to go
It's not my life I won't put on a show
Rasta machine I know enough not to know what they mean.
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Who Knows?
© 1997 D. Cuetara
Writing a book that will shed new light
On the final five years of his half-brother's life
He takes the fifteen minutes that Andy gave him
Turns the volume up and hopes that the TV can save him.

But I don't read the papers and I don't write books
I don't subscribe to the issues or take second looks
I believe half of what I see and everything I'm told
Who knows, who cares?

You feel around for something moving in the dark
It's the specific application of the question mark
We all know what they say when you go too far
We all know what they say we just don't know who they are

I won't sell my soul for another sordid page in your bible
Living on the edge get's you another cheap shot at survival

That was the situation, long time ago
We were strung out on expectations, that's a long row to hoe
Now I'm a member incorporated, I've signed my name
And I know that I've cooperated, I feel the same.
But Who knows?
Who knows, who cares? I'm not a hipocryte
Who knows, who cares? I've made my peace with it.
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Time ain't Money
© 1995 D. Cuetara
Time ain't money, time ain't money no
And war is not peace and the west is not the east
And a famine's not a feast and you've got me on my knees thinking
Time is money, yeah.

My brother joined the army cause he wants to be a man
And he wants to see the world and be all that he can
But that's no consolation on the day we got the wire
That your Uncle Sam is sorry but at least it was friendly fire

Time ain't money, time ain't money no
And war is not peace and the west is not the east
And a famine's not a feast and you've got me on my knees thinking
Time is money, yeah.

No consolation you got no way to say goodbye
No consolation it's just word assassination
It's only what they need to get by
It's just a little white lie, just a little white lie
It's just a little white lie, just a little white lie
When the tell you...

"Ensuing obligations are forthrighteously defined..."
Read this paper on my car now I've got to pay a parking fine
The judge the legal system and a jury of my peers
All agreed that twenty dollars now would save me twenty years

Time ain't money, time ain't money no
And war is not peace and the west is not the east
And a famine's not a feast and you've got me on my knees thinking that
Time is money yeah.

Energy is matter times the speed of light squared
And they tell me that's important but me? I never really cared
Cause I'm no rocket scientist and I don't understand
But if you've got a second I'll sell it to you second hand that

Time ain't money, time ain't money no
And war is not peace and the west is not the east
And a famine's not a feast and you've got me on my knees thinking that
Time is money yeah.
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Something To Be
© 1997 D. Cuetara
Something to be: a man
Something to feel: sorrow
The plan is beg, borrow, lead or follow
And give the monkey a peanut
He has learned to write his name

Something to be: the rock
Something to be: the roller
I've got the frequency
Maybe I'll just hack the controller
And give the monkey a peanut
He has learned to sign a check

Don't drown yourself by the riverside
Its such a drab, unemotional enterprise
You might be stricken with tradition
But those dogs don't bite
Its a pretty sad condition
But its only ever something to be

Something to see: the light
Something to fight: the addiction
It's black and white
But I can contain contradiction
And give the monkey a peanut
He has learned to take a chance
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Little Monsters
© 1996 D. Cuetara and E. Kaye
I'm an ugly man
Face and teeth and hair
I'm a little monster, don't be scared
By the sins of our fathers
And their fathers before
The night is young, let's sin some more

All men are monsters and they do just what they please
They like to have you there for their monstrocities

They're all little monsters, creatures of the night
Little monsters, don't know wrong from right
Little Monsters, don't know who is who
Little monsters in your beds with you.

I'm Quasimodo
I've got a hunch,
Meet me in my belltower, we'll do lunch.
With Bela Lugosi and Lon Cheney two,
Full moon, hot night, cold blood and you.

All men are cavemen and they do just what they please
hit woman on the head, drag home by hair for tea

We're all little monsters, creatures of the night
Little monsters, don't know wrong from right
Little Monsters, don't know who is who
Little monsters in your beds with you.

I'm Elvis Presley
Long live the king
I'm Jesus Christ
Same thing
As long as there's power
As long as there's wealth
Some man will grab it for himself

Cause all men are babies and they never act their age
All men are actors, girl, and all the world's a stage to play

Little monsters, creatures of the night
Little monsters, don't know wrong from right
Little Monsters, don't know who is who
Little monsters in your beds with you.
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Long Time
© 1997 D. Cuetara

I spent a long time with you
And a long time holding the door
God, I missed you
Now it seems that you want me some more
But I finally changed the name on the mailbox
And on the answering machine
I need the space and the reason to grow up
And you always agreed, with me.

I spent a long time watching
And a long time looking for more.
I spent a long time drifting
And just as I'm swimming to shore
You come back and turn the sea into sunlight
Land, in the look in your eyes
Two into one and one into one night
Truth into unbearable lies, you cry.
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