Mushroom Cloud
There’s a mushroom cloud growing inside of my head. With so much stress that’s in the day,
I’m trying to land on my feet again.
So many things in this world seem out of control and most of the people out there have sold
out for gold.
All the saints and the sages, where have they gone? Will we ever listen to them or just watch
as things keep going wrong?
And the right wing fanatics that love Armageddon, they think we’ll all go up in smoke, with
Jesus and then off to heaven.
I think that they’re all out of their heads many of you out there do too. American family values,
money for missiles not for health or schools and being played for fools.
But things are very different now you may need to pee in a cup. Big brother is always watching
while the common man gets deeper and deeper cuts and the government’s up your butt.
I’m thinking back on better days when the youth thought they could change the world but now
can’t see through the purple haze. Thanks to prescription drugs we can all relax in a daze.
But we forgot history. It has always been the same. Push the people too far and comes
revolution so who can you blame now?
Greed and anger and foolishness bring down the world upon you and me here.
Don’t be seduced by promises that can’t be kept. There’ll be nothing left.
Why can’t we see the reality? Can you and me bring back sanity?
There’s a mushroom cloud growing inside of my head. With so
much stress that’s in the day, I’m trying to land on my feet again.
All the saints and the sages, where have they gone? Will we ever listen to them or just watch
as things keep going wrong?
Where have all the Hippies gone?
TV commercials looking like the news and the news is looking like a commercial.
I’ve got a question, what the hell are you trying to sell me? Now tell the truth. What in the
world are we going to do with this attitude. Inverted and distorted. It’s a perversion too.
Oh my.
Blinding our minds with the imposition of exaggerations. Inverted and distorted.
It’s a perversion too. Oh my.
In the name of God. In the name of liberty. Doesn’t matter what the cost, just as long as you
feel free. Can you really believe what you read and what’s on your TV? They say you gotta to
pay to play. That’s how we’ll write history. That’s history. My God’s better than your God. Don’t you know? My God’s better than your God. Don’t you
know it?
Where have all the hippies gone? The summer of love. The Berkeley students, they knew what
was going on. All the news that’s fit to print. Free speech will soon be gone. Democracy and
the Capitalists, now who’d you think has won. Looks like Exxon.
My God’s better than your God. Don’t you know? My God’s better than your God. Don’t you
know it?
Wanted to give peace a chance not live in a world of hate. But they sold the American dream.
China owns the United States.
My God’s better than your God. Don’t you know? My God’s better than your God. Don’t you
know it?
My God My God My God My God My God My God My God My God My God My God.
Oh My God!
America the beautiful, supermodel of the world, is falling asleep to reality TV. Seduced by
itself, by the aphrodisiac of power, bringing the whole wide world it’s liberty. Now freedom is
here to make you over. Freedom is here with it’s bullets and blunders spreading out like oil
upon the sea. And everyone wants a piece of the action. Deception, greed, insincerity. These
problems are too big to solve upon our knees. Now, where there’s smoke there’ll soon be fire.
You can’t smell it? This i can’t believe. Rome is burning down right in front of me. America the
beautiful, terror, fear and insanity; can you cure it all with cosmetic surgery?
We Believe
Try as we might, we are swimming against the tide. Can’t seem to release, let the illusion slip
away. And as the strength, feel it fade away. It would be better to let go. They say less is more
and you know it you’ve seen before. Can’t let the struggle, clouding our minds in the way. You
know in your heart there is a way. If we could let go things will fall in place.
Tangled up in the web of our fear. Tear through the doubt and fear disappears.
This precious life and its potential, there is a choice to see. There comes a time in the light or in
the darkness we can find a way to be free.
Tear through the doubt and fear disappears.
It’s in the heart of our confusion that we find clarity. We suffer loss and then rejuvenation and
we feel our life begin again.
Try as we might, we are swimming against the tide. Can’t seem to release, let the illusion slip
away. You know in your heart there is a way. If we could let go things will fall in place.
There is love all around the world. When will we believe? In the cage of our hearts it lives.
When will it be free? Open up show what love can do, relieving the weak. Raising the hopes
of all we can then we will believe. We believe, yes we believe. We believe, yes we believe
Sweet Dreams
Memories still fill up my head, all the good times that I used to have. Felt safe and secure. Had a good
career. Never thought there’d be trouble here. Funny, how things can change over
night. Just some
box cutters, all those poor people on the flights. Now at the station, random check my bag but the
police say it’s all right.
What we didn’t know. What we didn’t know. We wanted cheaper clothes. And where they
came from we really didn’t want to know. Brown and yellow people sweat and toil while we
make demands forever less expensive oil. Living in the past. We can’t go back. What we did
not know. How governments were over thrown.
Just go to sleep and dream. While things fall apart at the seams.
Sweet summer breeze, sunlight streams through the leaves. While things fall apart at the
seams, come and talk with me. In the distance we could hear a bomb. We may be gone before
too long. There should always be a chance for peace. Just let go. You can believe it. Sweet
dreams. They are so, so sweet. Dreams of peace.
The Expansion Equation
What are your civil rights and Paul McCartney says, “You’ve got the right to fight.” When all
you needed once was love, now an iron fist is inside that kid glove. Can’t believe what I’m
seeing, ex-hippie freaks retreating, holding on to their millions. And I see on all the TV
stations, they’re saluting the military of our nation. But this is the time of misinformation and the
ever-expanding American dominion. Just sit back, wait and see what’s gonna happen to you
and me. Waiting here for that dirty bomb, but there’s no solution to retaliation. I’m getting
real nervous, it’s so complicated. I really feel like being self-medicated. Multinational
globalization, the “maulification” of the United Nations. And white Anglo-Saxon preservation
of colonial racist domination. The hidden reasons and ramifications are keeping the people
from the realization that the endless, needless expansion equation leads to nothing less than
global devastation.
Do you know the difference between good and evil? Can you tell what is real? Look in the
mirror now, how does it make you feel and who are you and what can you do? Read in
papers and magazines when the President speaks on the TV screen. Does it make you want to
want to scream? Go right ahead and scream.
Dare yah, dare yah to be, be the light. Come on, dare yah, all right. Dare yah. Come on, I
dare yah, dare yah to be, be the light, come on. Dare yah, come on, I dare yah all right.
So many people fighting each other because of a politician’s sick twisted dream. All for the
power. Gonna make you think what is wrong is right and right is wrong. That’s not right. And
things are not what they seem. You can be the one and you can make a difference. You can
be the light and know what’s right. We gotta learn how to fight, yeah. Now that the time has
come to get off of our ass and get on with it.
Dare yah, dare yah to be, be the light. Come on, dare yah all right. Dare yah. Come on, I
dare yah, dare yah to be, be the light, come on. Dare yah, come on, I dare yah all right.
Part of the solution or part of the problem, ask yourself the question how we gonna stop them
from doin’ what they’re doin’, they just keep on polutin’.
Our minds and our bodies and souls.
It’s plain to see it’s you and me to do the troubleshootin’ fighting hip-hopocrisies and casting
our votes to change the policies.
In our minds and our bodies and souls.
‘Cause they’re doin’ what they’re doin’, they’re doin’ what they’re doin’ they just keep on d d d
d d d doin’ it to yah. So ask yourself a question.
In your mind and your body and soul.
Am I part of the solution or just a part of the problem? Yeah, come on now, be the light.
Dare yah, dare yah to be, be the light, come on, dare yah all right. Dare yah, come on, I
dare yah, dare yah to be the light, come on, dare yah, come on I dare yah all right.
Moon Dust
The things that remind me of who I am keep me going on and on like the moon and stars
radiation from the sun and Tokyo. Where will we all go when it all becomes too much. When
the earth and sea we love so much refuse to nourish us. Will there be clean air and water,
shelter in the aftermath of what we have done for so very long. On and on nature tells us what
is right and what is wrong with us we can not seem to hear the voice of reason as it sings this
song. Maybe I’ve said too much. All things must pass. I hope you know the song and I’m not
boring you or being preachy I hate it just like you. So many things we’ve got to change as the
piper waits to be paid so future generations will have something of their own. The things that
remind me of who I am keep me going on and on like the moon and stars radiation from the
sun and Tokyo. Where will we all go when it all becomes too much. When the earth and sea
we love so much refuse to nourish us.
Moon dust, when the earth she becomes just like the moon. The sea, sea of tranquility can you
remember me? One step for man, one giant leap for mankind. It seems to me we’re cracking
up and don’t have a spine. Lost our minds. Moon dust, when the earth becomes just like the
moon. No news is good news. Is no news really good? With misinformation and
sensationalism. Slant the stories. Make up heroes and their glories. As long as we’re winnin’
the world keeps on spinnin’.
BP spills and doesn’t have to care. So beware. Eat the fish it’s still so good for you and tasty
too yum yum. How can you believe this shit? Be so dumb. Are you numb, dumb dumb! The
aliens wouldn’t land here if you paid, paid them to oh no! Smoke and mirrors can’t hide the
truth from some. ‘Cause they see clearly.
Thank The Daily Show and Steven Colbert ‘cause they care.
The things that remind me of who I am keep me going on and on like the moon and stars
radiation from the sun and Tokyo. Where will all we go when it all becomes too much. When
the earth and sea we love so much refuse to nourish us. Will there be clean air and water,
shelter in the aftermath of what we have done for so very long. On and on nature tells us what
is right and what is wrong with us we can not seem to hear the voice of reason as it sings this
song. Maybe I’ve said too much. All things must pass. I hope you know the song and I’m not
boring you or being preachy I hate it just like you. So many things we’ve got to change as the
piper waits to be paid so future generations will have something of their own. The things that
remind me of who I am keep me going on and on like the moon and stars radiation from the
sun and Tokyo. Where will we all go when it all becomes too much. When the earth and sea
we love so much refuse to nourish us.
Worship Me
When there are no more idylls when all the statues of so-called heroes have fallen the common
man rises to see all are one and equal no difference between us, all rejoice and dance. Yes
dance!
Maybe it’s time, now that the time is right for the people to rise up and become their own
rulers. All of the talk of a Democracy that has been in the past, let’s make freedom ring out
and equality turnin’ it into a real thing. As so many prophets said. Now the many only
interested in power schemes.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always
bad men.
Worship me. I told you how to be in testimonials on your TV. Now worship me. I am on TV that
makes me more important than you can ever see. I tell you how to live and all the things to
buy, how to dress express yourself and you don’t reason why. I am here to lead you so you
will never try. If you ever wake up you will prefer to die. I am your government controller of
your life, all the advertising propagating in your mind. You really have no choices but you
think you do and it’s my job to make all these dreams come true.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Free your self and see that the principles and moral standards of the world are not what they
appear to be. These stereotypes are but shackles upon your mind. Be free, you can if you want
to be. The price is high illusions are the cost. You will feel more pain but you will never be lost.
Seeing a matrix of fallacies and its control over people like you and me. Taking your first steps
as a free man, life as you knew it will never be the same but with this new awareness comes an
inner transformation so joyful and so very strong. You will know divinity and defend it. We are
all the same. Yes, we are all the same.
When all here is done and the supernova engulfs all around nothing but the near invisible
particles of dust from which all has come will then remain. Then the cycle will begin again as it
has always done from the infinite past and into the infinite future.
The Ostrich Effect
You got to be rich to save the world and it helps to be a famous rock star or nobody will listen
to you. Either that or a film star or a television personality, that gives credibility. Sometimes it
helps to be funny.
Andy’s 15 minutes of fame is now available to anybody, anybody at all for doing nothing,
absolutely nothing at all. Better to be a star or nobody will listen to you if you want to save the
world from itself. But then again you’re already a part of the problem. Stardom.
Frank Zappa was right the universe is not made out of matter it’s stupidity there’s so much of it.
But don’t listen me because I’m not famous or rich or beautiful and posing for playboy magazine.
George Carlin’s seven dirty words got him into trouble but it’s not the words that are dirty it’s
your mind it’s so very small. People like us scare the shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker
motherfucker and tits out of you!!!
It’s a disaster isn’t it? You just can’t take it, the truth that is. If you could you might try to do
something about it even if you weren’t blessed with stardom. Key syllable dom if only stardom
were spelled properly s t a r d u m b. Dumb!
Oh yeah, speaking of dumb, eminent domain, colonization, deep sea drilling, dispersants and
other man made marvels. Mother nature burps and Japan slides over 8-12 feet. Now who was
the genius who built a nuclear power plant on fault line? Well that progress for you. What’s a
few hundred million lives, the food chain and the natural order of things worth anyway?
Man has just got to play. Discover America destroy the world what’s the difference. Just put your
head in the sand you’re going nowhere. All is in flux and sometimes we’re just fucked. It’s in
the history books and repeats itself. You want Disney where we all live happily ever after. But
that ain’t the way it is kids. If you just look the other way the whole fucking show goes right
down the toilet. So many heads in the sand. The ostrich effect.
The Real Thing
Now let’s take it easy. Ooh it’s sunny and breezy. Everyone’s pretty and you. But don’t look
in the mirror. You won’t see any clearer. No, not if you don’t want to see the real thing. This
world is full of hate. Think maybe God’s made a mistake but with a little faith there’s a way
out. Still I think there is hope but you’d rather just smoke some dope. There’s no way around
reality.
The melting polar icecaps the world will be sinking fast. Maybe we should buy a boat. I sure
hope that boat will float. We better learn how to fish though we know they’re toxic. Think
there’s nothing to this? Watch the news they’re full of it.
Now you’re feeling sleepy. So sorry the story ain’t dreamy but just take a look around at the
world. Man can change his fate but will it be too late. Things set in motion can they be
changed?
Power, the lights are turning off. Here comes the mass hysteria that it will cause. No one will be
safe, except the ones who, who dug our graves. The owners of politicians who put them in
positions puppets with out a conscience. And we put up with all of it. We bailed out the global
banks and corporations that ran into ruin most of the world’s great nations. John Lennon sang
power to the people and revolution. It’s time to set the wheels in motion. Do you see any other
solution? Guillotine these power mad off with their corporate heads or would you just like to
try to sleep it off just go to bed?
The melting polar icecaps the world will be sinking fast. Maybe we should buy a boat. I sure
hope that boat will float. We better learn how to fish though we know they’re toxic. Think
there’s nothing to this? Watch the news they’re full of it.
Now let’s take it easy. Ooh it’s sunny and breezy. Everyone’s pretty and you. But don’t look
in the mirror. You won’t see any clearer. No, not if you don’t want to see the real thing.