1. |
Breadsticks
04:29
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Grab your plate and grab it fast
Why?
Because breadstick day is here at last
Ooooh
Where did the woe and all the headaches go?
Well seems to have gone right with the snow
Walking down the street I see,
Frantics everywhere,
People don’t know what to eat,
They’re so unaware
They’re running themselves aground,
And drowning in their own sound,
The breadsticks have let them down
Sailing on the sea I hear,
A whisper tell me “son,
You better watch your back to know,
When it’s time to run”
Flying through the air I catch,
A glimpse of something more
Something bigger than us all,
Some thing worth fighting for
Haphazard ambition with unhinged beliefs
A danger to all and yet so hard to see
Staggering rambler asleep at the wheel
The void of your mirrors blocks clairvoyant view
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2. |
Nick the Rat
05:25
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Rescued from a blizzard,
From a lady scared of snow
He climbs into his new home,
Behind the bars he goes
Turn the page, left his cage, lost under the sink
Sweet custard temptation, and a hole punched made him rethink
Drawn out alive, he would survive
Eyes as red as ruby, fleece of brilliant white,
He never bit the hand that fed,
Though they thought he might
Oooohhh
That hole punched made him rethink
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3. |
Kemet's Song
05:07
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Cutting out, getting loose,
I just want to drink my juice
Someone’s there, oh I don’t care,
If you really wanna see me just come upstairs
You’re a working man and it’s a big deal,
Playing the game for a nice warm meal
Walking the path on down your life,
Gotta make damn sure it’s not thin ice
Time is ticking faster,
Too fast for people to see,
The time that really matters,
Just trying to make ends meet,
Told that living is to fight,
Let’s hope we don’t get beat
But when we get the right idea,
You know just where we’ll be
Just living out a dream, all to forget about it when you awake,
It’s all gone,
Giving just enough and, just enough to give it away
All away
Working more and more just to find that there is another way
Oh, ah well
Resting from the day just to get back to
Work at last
No don’t cut it now that’s way too much life to erase
Choosing wrong and wrong will lead us to a better way
The best way
‘Cause you know after all that a-at home you have the time and a song
To get to
We’ll all give it a shot
To make our hearts stop?
Change the world for us?
Oh how hard can it really be?
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4. |
Sahara Burst
10:01
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Behold, a sight of corporate splendor,
A magnificent scene, defying description,
See the glinting steel columns line the concrete fortress,
A palace of lapis and pearl glam,
One of many sprawled out across vast paved plains,
Perched on the rocky lakefront,
Within each structure, a stage of most grand display,
Loudspeakers call you forth:
Come watch the children play
Come watch the children play
From across the state,
Children come in ragtag bands,
Vying to be, the next big thing
Mighty magistrates,
Casting gazes over the land,
Deliberating, the calm before the storm
There behind the stage,
A gathering of kids stand stall,
Awaiting their call, to open up the show
Arriving by the flock,
People taking seats and stands,
For the scene most grand, on a searing summer day
The grounds spring to life,
Vendors offer many of anything,
And any of many things, to all the passersby
The clock strikes noon,
Thus the band is brought forward, soon to be heard,
By the audience’s ear
At last it won’t be long,
Letting loose with song and dance, received by claps of hands,
The culmination’s here
Finished now,
And satisfied,
So they break down swiftly,
Melting, in the hot summer sun
Criticism,
Just and fair,
With lightning efficiency,
Jack slips, nearly losing control
Group by group, the kids do play,
Enough such that it takes two days,
As the final hours slowly tick away,
One by one, they fall astray,
Two remain, the prize they claim,
Two remain, two remain
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5. |
Wild Mountain Thyme
05:23
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O the summer time is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And wild mountain thyme
Grows around the purple heather
Will you go, lassie, go?
And we'll all go together,
To pluck wild mountain thyme,
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?
I will build my love a tower,
Near yon pure crystal fountain,
And on it I will pile,
All the flowers of the mountain
Will you go, lassie, go?
And we'll all go together,
To pluck wild mountain thyme,
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?
If my true love shall not come,
Then I'll surely find another,
To pluck wild mountain thyme,
All around the purple heather
Will you go, lassie, go?
And we'll all go together,
To pluck wild mountain thyme,
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?
O the summer time is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And wild mountain thyme
Grows around the purple heather
Will you go, lassie, go?
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6. |
Molten Moonlight
05:02
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Picture a man, waking from his sleep
Having dreamt of a world, troubles deep
But sadly, as he leaves his bed
He know it was not just (in) his head
Then the man decides to leave home
Unsure of why, or where, to go
It’s all burned up, and washed away
He cannot take another day
He packs his bag, goes on his way
Feeling sad, and quite betrayed
Knowing he was promised more
He says goodbye and shuts the door
He recalls, good times and bad
Of all the things, that he once had
Of all the things, that could have been
Had his people learned to mend
As he finds the mountain pines
A pristine, shining paradigm
Untouched by the dogs of war
He lays himself to rest once more
To sail the cosmos all alone
Across the void of blackened sky
On molten moonlit wings he flies
Away
He won’t return again
To home, to family, or his friends,
Oooh, ooh, ooh
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Fightin' Bob Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI Frog Rock (Funk + Prog Rock) band!
-Cover CD of Prog Magazine Issue
#99!
-2018/19 Rockonsin Finalists!
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