All Lyrics © Colin Farish
The Myth of Progress

Intro (not sung)

The myth of progress has given us:
Excessive stress and the dispossessed
Acid rain in hurricanes
Nuclear waste, humans disgrace
Toxins in our tissues, environmental issues
Lengthy commutes, hapless recruits
Exorbitant service fees, an opulent bourgeoisie
Astronomically high interest rates, bought off and paid for candidates
Disproportionately high salaries and gobs of clog arteries
Revolving doors and banks offshore
Polluted water and smoggy air
Brutal slaughter by trillionaires
Accountants that shred as the masses are bled
Priests that molest while the police are obsessed
With beer guts, clear cuts, longer lines and parking fines
Glass ceilings, double-dealings, headless clones and first strike drones
401k’s that will never repay
Isolationists that want everything imported
Inflationists that make everything distorted
Moronic foreign policies
Insidious social hierarchies
Stiff upper lips, shoulders with chips
Ineffective activists, complacent narcissists
Media monopolists misinform the metropolis
With insane assumptions of unbidden consumption
Malicious nationalism with compulsive alcoholism
Pathetic laziness, frenetic craziness
Suicide bombers and illicit commerce
All this, we call progress!

(song begins)

Please hold and the next available machine will jerk you around
The changes in the social order that I am proposing
Must start with a fundamental economic restructuring
A technological dividend is what a strongly recommend
To be paid out to every one, from taxes taken back from the pentagon
For work done on our behalf by machines
Since otherwise there would not be the means
For manufacturers to move their goods off the shelf
We’d all get paid vacations thanks to our mechanized elves
Every corporation must make their workers all shareholders
Or else will shut them all down and revoke all their charters
This way no one will be treated like expendable slaves
Who work in factories and mines from their youth to their graves
There will not be a class of just mere hands
Callused and ready for some to command
A social guild is what this could be, champions of justice and equality
White-collar crime is usually one of scale
And when there’s grossly, bloated greed they’ll automatically go to jail
Three legs is what it takes to support a sturdy table
And the best government money can buy is clearly unstable
Each region should elect a political assembly
Each guild or union should elect an economic assembly
The universities, arts groups and learned societies should elect a cultural assembly. These will all be regulated and guided by a senate appointed by the various assemblies.  Each group will be allocated, on the public airwaves, a fair share of prime time and skillfully contrived propaganda and lies will be made a punishable crime.  This will eliminate problems at the beginning when they are weak by taking them out of the hands of the bureaucracy freaks
Now we can have a democracy, not an oligarchy or a mobocracy
The tantamount quality must be mutual respect
For participatory governance with balances and checks
Local autonomy, decentralized authority, states rights unequivocally and a scaled back military.  Abolish everything nuclear: bombs, plants, rods, fuel and power and quit digging for energy when the solution is solar!
If you must make war, make war on oil dependence
Intolerance, ignorance, arrogance and dominance
We need Green taxation that hammers all polluters
And make our energy policy one of solar converters
Disbar the Supreme Court justices for partisan pandering and conflict of interest
In the coo of 2000 when there was hardly a protest
And the government was highjacked by the corporate elitists
Release non-violent offenders and legalize weed
And incarcerate those that refuse to concede
We could have bioregions of dialogical collaborators
That would not cater to the lowest common denominators
Why live in boredom and die in fear
When we can take back our future from the racketeers

Y.B. Dup’d  (repeat)

The shadow band for the shadow government
Challengers of oblivion with creative luminescence



You Men


The tyranny of greed that slowly passes
Can cut the head from the singer
But not the voice from the masses

You men are so stupid when:
You hate your enemy more than you love your children
You can’t figure out that it’s cheaper to feed people than to kill them
You take necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes
Even with the seat up you miss the bowl

You men are so stupid when:
You’d rather drive around, lost
Each new women you’re involved with keeps getting younger and blonder

The tyranny of greed that slowly passes
Can cut the head from the singer
But not the voice from the masses

You men are so stupid when:
You think you can make rational decisions after you’ve been
Traumatized, circumcised, institutionalized, dehumanized and commodified

You think the United States constitution is a rag to mop up your gluttony
With balderdash and folderol you steal and hoard the capitol
And drink a lot of alcohol and want me as your baby doll

You men are so stupid when:
You chew your ice cubes why glued to the boob tube
After getting stewed on too much brew in your shorts watching sports
You let your moronic macho ego prevent you from listening
You become warmongers with erectile dysfunction and missile envy
You’re an emotional and cultural nincompoop ‘cause you never even heard of
Y.B. Dupe’d



Oil Man

He’s an oil man
He’s just so supreme
He’s got the bigger, bigger picture
He’s just so supreme
We be goin’ down
He’s got the bigger, bigger picture
We be goin’ down
He’s an oil man
God Bless America



Rapronym

IN THE USA OUR IRS TAKES FROM SNL’S & IPO’S
TO GET OUR GNP SO THAT THE CIA CAN BUY
SDI AND SST’S WITH LOTS OF RPM’S SO THAT THE
USN & THE ATF & THE FBI JUST LIKE THE KGB CAN
TKO ANY MBA OR PHD WHO USES LSD OR THC OR
XTC AND BECOMES A POW IN THE USA

POW IN THE USA   POW IN THE USA

OR ‘N MIA WHO GETS A DUI AND NEEDS AN
MRI BY AT&T AND IBM HOOKED UP TO
DSL SO THEY CAN DOWNLOAD:
NBC & CBS & ABC & TNT & THE RNC & THE
DNC UNTIL THEY GET REM AND DREAM THAT
LBJ APPROVED DDT FROM UCD FOR ALL OUR
GMO’S THAT PDQ GOT IN OUR DNA

GMO’S IN OUR DNA   GMO’S IN OUR DNA

WITH PCB’S & MTB(E) IN PVC BROUGHT TO US BY
PG&E AND THE IMF AND THE WTO THANKS TO
GATT WITH GST OH MY GOD! CAN WE SAVE OUR
NPS & THE LTA & THE BIA & HUD FROM THE GOP? 

SAVE THE NPS FROM THE GOP  SAVE THE NPS FROM THE GOP

DID JFK AND MLK GET BLOWN AWAY BY THE KKK?
SAVE THE NGO’S FROM THE GOP
SAVE THE NEA FROM THE GOP
CEO’S IN SUV’S MAKING CO2 RELEASING CFC’S

THERE’S TOO MANY CEO’S IN SUV’S
MAKING CO2 RELEASING CFC’S

SO OUR CPA’S AND CFO’S TAKE FROM THE NBA &
NFL & THE AFC & THE NHL WHO ARE ALL
BMF’S WHO DRIVE SUV’S AND EAT KFC WITH
MSG AND DON’T CARE ABOUT THEIR MPG’S
BECAUSE THEY NEVER LEARNED THEIR
ABC’S AND FAILED ON THEIR SAT’S AND ALL HAVE
TMJ AND ADD THANKS TO

GMO’S IN OUR DNA,  GMO’S IN OUR DNA

CHP’S WATCH OUT MPH WHILE THEY EAT BLT’S WITH
BHT AND PUT OUT APB’S TO BE MVP’S SO THAT THE
DMV WILL QED MAKE OUR ATM PRINT OUT AN SOS AND ASK FOR
CPR OR ELSE IT WILL RIP AND NO EKG BY MCI AT USC OR
NYU WILL SAVE US FROM THE QNA OF CNN ABOUT THIS BFD

SO THE NRA RIDES ATV’S AND AIMS AKG’S AT UFO’S

NRA RIDES ATV’S AND AIMS AKG’S AT UFO’S

SO THE FDA & THE AMA SCREW THE TNA OF THE
PTA & THE NOW WHO HAS PMS AND IS SOL ‘CAUSE
RU-486 IS OFF THE SHELVES

SOL ‘CAUSE IT’S OFF THE SHELVES  SOL ‘CAUSE IT’S OFF THE SHELVES

SO THE DOD HAS GPS & GIS AND ARE SOB’S WHO CONTROL THE
DOE AND KNOW OUR URL’S & HOW TO SELL US DVD’S BY RCA AND
VH1 WITH ISP AND CDR’S BY BMG AND MTV WITH STP AND IT DOESN’T TAKE ESP TO KNOW THE SPIN ON API AND NPR

TRUTH IS DOA IN THE USA
DOA IN THE USA
DOA IN THE USA
DOA IN THE USA

SO GWB WAS WATCHING THE PGA IN HIS BVD’S WHEN THE
EMF’S FROM HIS DTV GAVE HIM AN STD FROM THE
BSA SO HE BOMBED THE SLA AND THE PLO AND THE
AFL-CIO AND GOT THE IRA TO SHOOT ELF’S THROUGH
HBO THANKS TO THE NSF AND THE FCC AND THE NAB AND
GTE AT MTT! AND THE USO AND THE NIH BUT THEY WERE ON
KLM AND THEIR ETA WAS AT GMT AND NOT PST OR EST AND
THEY COULDN’T MAKE IT BEFORE COB SO THEY LANDED IN A
DMZ AND GROVE BMW’S AND GTI’S TO OUR MFN WHERE
BSE AND TSE ARE COD THANKS TO GWB!



Life

Find a way
So why am I running?
Is there a reason?
That everyone’s stressful?
And why am I frightened?
Or are these worries just inside my mind?

Life is just waiting here for you
There’s really nothing else to do
But to enjoy what you are living
Now if we can live just for today
Then we will always find a way
Just to enjoy what we are living

So what are we doing?
We’re racing and climbing
We’re reaching and grabbing
And is there a reason for us to take more than we need?

Life is waiting just for you
Now we can live
Find a way

Life is just waiting here for you
There’s really nothing else to do
But to enjoy what you are living
Now if we can live just for today
Then we will always find a way
Just to enjoy what we are living

Life is waiting just for you
Now we can live
Find a way



WAR NEVERMORE (Rap)

One can’t ignore the gore galore
In every war more does pour

WAR IS HORROR, HORROR IS WAR

You senators & governors & men of wars
Are dinosaurs like matadors at death’s door
You keep score from the top floors
You think you’re so superior
Like an emperor who will send the poor
To be your murderers and janitors

WAR IS HORROR, HORROR IS WAR

You’re the progenitors & guarantors &
Proprietors of all the wars
You’re the commodores & chancellors &
Ambassadors of all the wars
You’re the solicitors & creditors &
Executors of all the wars
You’re the mortgagor & the competitor &
Inheritor of what we abhor
We deplore all conquerors
You’re lesser inferiors

We need more monitors &
conspirators & orators &
troubadours without editors
We need auditors & inspectors to be
Visitors & inquisitors in the
Corridors of your interiors
Before more meteors roar and soar ashore
We implore you to explore & restore
The power of the councilor
Quit being greed’s whore
And we’ll have war nevermore

When they called and said you had to go
I tried to be strong and understand
Now that you’re there
I wait everyday for some news
I just want you safe and by my side

No it’s not O.K.
That someone can send you away
To fight for the greed of just a few
It’s time for all of us
To change the way we are
It’s time to put an end to war
Oh please put and end to war
Please put and end to war
Please put and end to war


War Nevermore

When they called and said you had to go
I tried to be strong and understand
Now that you’re there
I wait everyday for some news
I just want you safe and by my side

No it’s not O.K.
That some one can send you away
To fight for the greed
Of just a few
It’s time for all of us to
Change the way we are
It’s time to put an end to war

One can’t ignore the gore galore
In every war more does pour
War is horror, horror is war
You senators & governors & men of wars
Are dinosaurs like matadors at deaths door
You keep score from the top floors.
You think you’re so superior
Like an emperor who will send
The poor to be your murders & janitors
You’re the progenitors & guarantors & proprietors
Of all the wars
You’re the commodores & chancellors & ambassadors
Of all the wars
You’re the solicitors & creditors & executors
Of all the wars
You’re the mortgager, the competitor & inheritor
Of what we abhor
We deplore all conquerors
You’re lesser inferiors.  We need more
Monitors & conspirators & orators & troubadours
Without editors.  We need auditors and inspectors
To be visitors and inquisitors in
The corridors of your interiors
Before more meteors roar & soar
Ashore we implore you to
Explore and restore the power of the councilor.
Quit being greed’s whore and will have
War nevermore

Peace in This World

When all the wars finally cease &
All the prisoners are released
We won’t need any police
‘cause finally there will be peace

Our fathers will all return
With the brutal lessons they’ve learned
And finally shift their concern
To what our hearts have always yearned for

Peace in this world with love
Peace in this world with love
Peace in this world
Peace in this world with love

If you want to turn me on
Just don’t let the pentagon
Order you dead and gone
Just another wasted pawn

If you want to make me cry
Say you love me the goodbye
Without ever asking why
You have to fight
And maybe die

The problem with most regimes
Is they don’t let themselves dream
Their hatred is so extreme
Preventing a love supreme

Peace in this world with love
Peace in this world with love
Peace in this world
Peace in this world with love

We Do

Come on and grab a few things
There’s no time to lose
We are going to get married today
To any one we chose

San Francisco
We are coming to you
The city of love
I do I do I do

I am crying tears of joy
For this beautiful day
When all people will love all love
And love will be here to stay

San Francisco
We are coming to you
The city of love
We do we do we do

Come on we’ve got to hurry now
Before they close the door
But they can never change our valentines vow
about loving more and more

San Francisco
We are coming to you
The city of love
We do we do we do

How can people continue to hate
Can’t they understand
That a union of joy is not only
Between a woman and a man

San Francisco
We are coming to you
The city of love
We do we do we do
Cheers

Here’s to those of you that I love
And here’s to those of you who love me
And here’s to those who love those that I love
And here’s to those who love those who love me

With a sense of humor
We can all have fun
Laughter slays the green-eyed monster
And send the blues on the run

Here’s to those of you that I love
If I only dared
And here’s to those of you who love me
If I only cared

You’re so bad at being good
And so good at being bad
I can’t wait to get you home
Give you the best you’ve ever had

With a sense of humor
We can all have fun
Laughter slays the green-eyed monster
And send the blues on the run

Here’s to those of you that I love
If I only dared
And here’s to those of you who love me
If I only cared

Here’s champagne for our real friends
And here’s real pain
For our sham friends



Be My Love


You don’t need to be on guard
Even though your life’s been so hard
Come and rest yourself inside my arms
Let me hold you far away from any harm

Be my love
Be my love
Let us play away our days unafraid
Stay my love
You have nothing to prove to me
You see,  I love you
For just who you really are

Why my love
Do you want to be a hero?
For what?
You may die blowing our chance we’re left with zero
That door’s shut
Why leave now
When everything there is such a mess
And leave me here all alone
If you do, I may just not wait for you

Don’t you know there’s so many trying to get out right now and back home?
Did you know there’s so many dying at there own hands right now
Their minds blown from this war, the poor guys are sick from all the blood
There calling out to be understood
But no one hears their left to battle with their own demons
And in war the demons



Now Is The Time For Love

Now is the time for love
Remember that when push comes to shove
Why die and get shot as a hawk
When you can live as a dove
Now, now is the time for love

Leave and if you come back you’ll be changed
From me and your friends you’ll be estranged
Please don’t choose a lifetime of pain
Don’t sacrifice yourself in vain

For the waste of money
Perverted power, the techy toys
The gory glory, it’s corny story
Of a soldier and his fury that prematurely
Gets himself killed!

No don’t go! No don’t go!

Now is the time for love
It’s all around us below and above
Stay and I’ll be your little turtledove
Now, now is the time for love

Do you really want to throw this all away?
Is it love your sure you want to betray?
Why kill and be killed and trained to always obey?
The harm to your spirit will always outweigh

The waste of money
Perverted power, the techy toys
The gory glory, it’s a corny story
Of a soldier and his fury that prematurely
Gets himself killed!

Now is the time for love



This Christmas

Dear, please don’t fear for me
Even though we know I’m so far away
I will always be there for you
When you need me the most
This Christmas night

So listen for my voice
Singing so sweetly just for you
Our love will bring us together tonight
This Christmas night

Yes there is danger around here
When there’s a call I volunteer
I try to steer clear and stay in good cheer
But we never know what may appear

And so I need you to know dear
As soon as I can go I’ll be home with you
Until then dream of kissing me
Under the mistletoe
This Christmas night
This Christmas night
Goodnight



How Are You?

How are you?
So what’s new?
Is it true?

You are my everything
You make me laugh and sing
I love you

Now is the time
The time for us to find
A love sublime
And leave the rest behind
Now it’s time
For us to find

Now it’s up to us to give
‘cause each of us just longs to share our heart



I'll Do Anything

I’ll do anything at all
To hold you in my arms
I’ll do anything at all
To keep you safe from harm

If you must go
I want you to know
I’ll always love and care for you
And be there for you

And when you return
I’ll be waiting for a glimpse
Of your smile

And I promise you this
A slow, sweet kiss

I’ll do anything at all
If you come back home to me
I’ll do anything at all
You know where I keep the key

You don’t need an excuse
If you’ve been seduced
I want to understand you
And not blame you

And when you return
I’ll be waiting for a glimpse
Of your smile

And I’ll laugh
And I’ll cry
And I’ll hope
And I’ll try
To love you as you are



Peace in this World

When all the wars finally cease
And all the prisoners are released
There won’t be any police
B’cause finally there will be peace

Our fathers will all return
With the brutal lessons they’ve learned
And finally shift they’re concern
To what our hearts have always yearned for

Peace in this world with Love
Peace in this world with Love
Peace in this world
Peace in this world with Love

If you want to turn me on
Just don’t let the pentagon
Order you dead and gone
Just another wasted pawn

If you want to make me cry
Say you love me, then goodbye
Without ever asking why
You have to fight and maybe die

The problem with most regimes
Is they don’t let themselves dream
They’re hatred is so extreme
Preventing a Love Supreme



You Are My Love

You are my love
My dear friend
My inspiration
You have the smile
That I want smiling at me

Somewhere in my heart
I hear the start
Of a new love song
And I will sing along
For you everyday
Come what may

Oooooooohhhhhhhh

When you’re near
My mind becomes clear
I see our love
Expanding every year
I’m so grateful
For days that are filled with delights
Our long and precious nights
Our deepening insights

You give me your heart
I give you mine now they grow together
As long as we live
And maybe forever

The moon rises high in the sky
Casting shadows
And a moon glow for us to see

Now come to me….



Smile in the Dark

Whenever you go away
I’ll be close to you
No matter how long you stay
My heart is there with you
If ever you feel real blue
Just look up in the night sky
And try to see my smile in the dark
Even in the dark there’s starlight

If ever you need a friend
I’m never far away
Just imagine and pretend
I’m with you everyday
No matter how hard it is
When you’re missing me
Try to see my smile in the dark
Even in the dark there’s starlight

Whenever you’re all alone
I’ll be there with you
No matter how all alone
I’ll be loving you
If ever you feel real blue
Just look up in the night sky
And try to see my smile in the dark
Even in the dark there’s starlight



Give Love


Give love live love
Find your voice and rejoice
In your heart there’s a shining star
Living in love is who we are