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Logos
03:11
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You know, Yes got a beautiful logo
Do you have a beautiful logo?
I want a beautiful one.
I want a beautiful one!
Logo my life!
Logo my heart!
Logo me!
(Do it do it do it do it)
Never gonna do it again...
Figure your most valuable trait
Crystallize it!
Emphasize it!
Popularize it!
Logo!!
Powerful!
Energizing!
Transformational!
Dramatic.
You can be a part of this. Times four.
Call now to order! Call now!
We put the word 'eve' in evening
We put the word 'cow' in cows
We are WordPut™
We are the world's largest putter of words into larger words
You know, Ford's got a beautiful logo
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2. |
Both Sides of the Street
02:40
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Take note
Of a homesick drunken sailor
On the road to a sunken trailer
He’s walking in time
Sidling down the right side
Calamity has befallen
A botanist who has missed her calling
And this is a crime
“At the end of my life
When I’m running too short of hours
I’ll hide away and miss the flowers
And no one’ll know”
“Basically my mind’s made
A life-long vow to stay low
Been so long since I owned a halo
In this reality show”
Shall they meet?
Will they meet?
Or are they moving on, on both sides of the street?
Opposite sides of the road
With a code they cannot unravel
And a lifetime left to travel
Before it’s resolved
Comin’ out the fog,
It’s a dog ‘bout to roam right into traffic
On the road things can get graphic
But now she’s involved
Running to the pup,
Pick it up,
And she hauls that hound to safety
While he walks on down to 8th Street
And we pull back and dissolve
Shall they meet?
Will they meet?
Or are they moving on, on both sides of the street?
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3. |
Mercury in Second Grade
04:41
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Red flowers on your wallpaper wall
Don't make sense, you don't like 'em at all
Hit “record,” leave it on all day
Huge stack of tape gonna get in your way
Ease on out, come on outta there
I won't be a traitor, I will only play fair
I'll only play fair
And life gets cold when fools get bold
I understand it hurts your heart
All the fools are throwing shade
Mercury in second grade
We gotta wear life lightly
We gotta stay cool
Stand and survive the cowardly cruel
Aim a quick kick at the barricade
Understand it hurts your heart
When the fiery plot is played
Mercury in second grade
Phone addicts
Settling scores
Y'all oughta keep your phone in your drawers
Raw emotion
Muddling truth
Hooked on trash they were fed in their youth
I thought I should be trying
To understand the minds
Of those who feel so differently
From me
Let's give the booze a miss
My brain can't take a drug
Much later for a kiss
I think I need a hug
I seemed like a guy
Ready to leap from the shadows and cry
In full armor
Clamoring for megaphones
In hoarse stirring tones
In loud passion moans
I think we should be trying
To understand the minds
Of those who feel so differently...
I left my fresh O’s in the pen
My I’s for dotting
I left them rotting
Let's hear it for your heart
All the squabbly talk'll fade
Mercury in second grade
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5. |
Spigot (Draw the Pirate)
05:10
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Charles Schulz wished that he was Andrew Wyeth
You wrote: “I stand to fall before Goliath”
You’ve got so much soul
Oh don’t go quiet
Mooney, roam our town with me
Undo the down
Can you feel yourself?
Ten types of sadness in your eyes
I snap, you blink the pain away, away, away, away
You’ve got so much soul
So draw the pirate
You could be sad to be,
Or you could love
Ten types of sadness in your eyes
I snap, you blink the pain away
Ten types of sadness hypnotize
I snap, you blink the pain away, away, away, away
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6. |
Ack
03:32
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7. |
Lana
04:34
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Stars blazing freely
Praying on a moonbeam
Help me get my thieves out
Growing as I breathe out
(Playing on
Playing on)
I call them, I am them
Spinning, we go on in tandem
I spot the plot and seize it
It’s growing as I breathe it
(Those are the thoughts of Lana
Smooth, meditating prawn, a
Crustacean
Breathing on)
Walk, and vote for none irate
Who stalk and coat the hearts that hate
Beseech the soul of this organic prawn
She lives in one kind of hue
But when she gets there
It’s static tinted blue
Just seconds away from the burst
It’s the thirst of this small, tannic prawn
So, wave! Shrimp, wave at the stars prone to blazing!
We exist before an atom does!
Om!
Rinse and repeat as needed
All oughta do as she did
A truth you can believe in
Secluded as we breathe in
Star-child free...
This fertile sky is home to all
This fertile sky is home to all
This fertile sky is home to all
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8. |
Big Hit Song
05:08
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Little Big Billy found a big hit song, they said:
"That's a little hunk of stone magic."
It been hiding but it been inside 'em all along
Billy found it and held it
They held it up in the air
Little Big Billy found a song
Gonna tell the world about the big hit song
They said "It's got me feeling something like I never did.
And I'm feeling like I shouldn't keep the feeling hid."
They said "Maybe, just maybe, in a week or so
If I work on it all the time,
Then it would speak to someone's soul and bring an afterglow.
This wonderful song sublime'll have a band playin'
Some little sounds like a spring mist
Some bigger sounds like a storm"
And soon they gonna tell the world about the big hit song
An' there'll be captivation curled around the big hit song
People, boys and girls'll know the big hit song
Fascination twirls around the big hit song
(BILLY'S BIG HIT SONG:
Everybody clap hands clap hands
Everybody clap hands
Clap 'em
Everybody run around run around
Find a store and go inside and run around
Run around clap hands clap hands
Run around
Everybody clap hands
Clap 'em
Everybody ride a goat, ride a goat
Find a store and clap hands
Go inside and ride a goat and clap hands)
“The world'll need my big hit song…”
Little Big Billy made a big hit song
Everybody’s singin', dancin', all night long
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9. |
The Carousel of Progress
07:23
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Philosophical words
Though I’ve logged quite a few
Ain’t hardly no sager and wiser than you
Time tells us to,
To stay strong
But all the weeks take too long
Four years of this builds you a tougher shell
Tougher shell
Four years of this builds you a shell
I thought I’d stay smart
And then the day shards my heart
Eaten away, cloaks played a part
For years the bliss filled you, a lovers’ spell
Snubbing hell
You’re here, your ducks live free, carousel
On this stage now
Chemical change inflames our plow
I disarrange, dismiss and disavow all fear
and this twisted one-sidedness
Lightning bless me
Frontiers we missed, reveal thyselves now
Haze clouding down the mind, no!
No malaise, drop the shiver.
Wise, that crow playing guitar and
Creaking all over the song
Arm in arm...
Inviting the hate to only dwell
In its correct and true home, hell
Then locking the gate we live to tell
And ride right home on the carousel
Arm in arm
Arm in arm
I gave a deer a lot of corn
(Oh dear, I didn’t know!)
And it took me by surprise
How swiftly and how brutally these
deep lost feelings did arise
(The ground swelled up
The sky closed in
I must not feel this way again)
(Whoa
I felt real lost
I guess I had never felt so all alone
Oh, no!)
So I got mindful with the musk
No hay, no corn, no pies
(We wouldn’t need that statue gone
If that statue being here was wise)
(No fear, no fear, oh dear, no fear)
Being a shame for fun...
It’s not the way to get things done
It’s past time for gliding right into the hum
For years the bliss filled you, a lovers’ spell
Snubbing hell
You’re here, your ducks live free, carousel
Inviting the hate to only dwell
In its correct and true home, hell
Then locking the gate we live to tell
And ride right home on the carousel
Arm in arm
Arm in arm
Yielbongura
We’re standing at a very small door
It’s small and takes time to get through
And just over there, right over there,
the most breathtaking numinous elegant beautiful view
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Mike Keneally San Diego, California
Mike Keneally has been a lot of things in his 35 year career: stunt guitarist/keyboardist, singer/songwriter, orchestral
composer, producer, music director, painter, and more. After getting his start in Frank Zappa’s legendary 1988 big band, Keneally released his first solo album hat. in 1992. Since then he has released dozens more and is working on a new double album.
Learn more at keneally.com
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