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SONG LIST 3 A Day at the Office

SONG LIST 4 A Traveler in the Distance

SONG LIST 5 Love Without a Doubt

SONG LIST 6 Undertows and Afterglows

SONG LIST 7 High Tides and Landslides

SONG LIST 8 A Knight for a Lady

SONG LIST 9 Between Us and Love

SONG LIST 10 One Piece Missing

SET LIST 1 Glass Half Something

SET LIST 2 Plurality

SET LIST 3 Self in the Mirror

SET LIST 4 Partnered to the Crime

SET LIST 5 Living a la Mode

SET LIST 6 Definitely NOT Love

SET LIST 7 Train Off the Tracks

SET LIST 8 Boss Logic

SET LIST 9 Thralls of the Flame

SET LIST 10 Go Ask Gramm

SET LIST 11 Noise, Lies and Longing

SET LIST 12 Wounded Masculinity (Silhouettes of Pride)

SET LIST 13 Power Shields

SET LIST 14 6,000KM to DK (Six-Thousand Mile to Denmark)

SET LIST 15 Liminal State

SET LIST 16 Kneel, Heal and Rise

SET LIST 17 Smirks, Swears, Moans and Cries

SET LIST 18 Corrugation Row

SET LIST 19 Della of Troy

SET LIST 20 The Cost of Light

SET LIST 21 A Cold Plate

SET LIST 22 Inherent Absence

SET LIST 23 Zionation

SET LIST 24 Bi Ride or Die

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SET LIST 1  
GLASS HALF SOMETHING

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST ONE (1)
Set List One explores identity formation, addiction,
emotional isolation, disillusionment with systems,
and the early fractures that shape a person’s inner life.

While much of the material is reflective and poetic,
several tracks contain themes that may be distressing
for some listeners, especially when taken as a continuous arc.

Core themes include substance abuse and recovery cycles,
depression, self-doubt, existential fatigue, and emotional
abandonment.

Songs such as Climbing the Ladder, Have Not, and Pen
and Paper reference addiction, relapse pathways, and
generational dysfunction without sanitizing consequences.

Exit the Sandman and Daylight Again address insomnia,
mental exhaustion, and feeling trapped inside one’s own
for extended periods of time.

These portrayals are introspective rather than graphic,
but may resonate strongly with listeners dealing with
anxiety, depression, or recovery-related vulnerability.

Additional themes include cynicism toward media,
capitalism, and social conditioning (Puzzle Pieces,
Monetization), romantic disillusionment and emotional
withdrawal (Ex-Poem, Twisting the Knife), and spiritual
or moral questioning without clear resolution.

While there is no explicit depiction of suicide or extreme
violence, there are repeated references to hopelessness,
numbness, and the erosion of meaning that may accumulate
emotionally across the set.

Listener discretion is advised, particularly for those sensitive to:
• Addiction and relapse themes
• Depression, burnout, or chronic anxiety
• Emotional abandonment or failed intimacy
• Existential or identity-based distress

This set is contemplative rather than explosive — it doesn't
shock so much as it lingers. It documents the early stages
of fracture, awareness, and resistance before collapse
or clarity fully arrive.

SET LIST ONE (1)
GLASS HALF SOMETHING
1 Puzzle Pieces
2 Exit the Sandman
3 Daylight Again
4 Pen and Paper
5 Have Not
6 Climbing the Ladder
7 Ex-Poem
8 Rain (first two stanzas)
9 Twisting the Knife
10 My Precious
11 Monetization
12 Let Me In

(1) PUZZLE PIECES
The newspapers  
have all gone 
Been blown away  
in the wind 

The magazines have  
all been bought up 
Turned to ads  
for corporate spin 

As the radio  
repeats itself 
So much so that you  
stopped listening 

And TV... 
well not much  
has changed...  
It's still the same  
as it's always been 

We both look  
at each other 
As loneliness  
starts creeping in 

Once upon a time  
we like brothers 
Now we feel lucky  
just to be friends 

All the signs  
during these times 
Have been put up  
to lead us astray 

So that our views  
become skewed 
So that we see  
the world  
in a different way 

For our bonds  
are becoming broken 
With every smile  
that our face keeps hid 

Every hello that  
remains unspoken 
This world becomes 
a tougher place in which to live 

Because everything  
that for ourselves we take 
Becomes something that  
someone else can't give 

So we better think twice  
about the choices we make 
Before it's too late 
to change this state  
we're living in 

That's why I'm  
moving and shaking 
Been busy trying  
to stir things up a bit 

Rearranging this 
big jigsaw puzzle 
So that  
all the pieces fit 

(2) EXIT THE SANDMAN
So the midnight oil 
Seems to be burning again 
The sandman's at your door 
But he can't come in 

With so much trying your mind 
Tonight he's not your friend 
Since there's so much 
You're still trying to find 
Before your time 
comes to an end 

You used to dream about today 
But that was back then... 
Back when... 
You smiled as a child... 
Before you got sucked in 

Back when... 
You always shared and never cared... 
About the color of somebody's skin 

Back when... 
You didn't try to solve all your problems 
With the bottom of a bottle 
Drowning up your sorrows in a pool of sin 

Back when... 
You still had time to let the road unwind 
But now your patience is wearing thin 

Exit the sandman 
Why not see it from the other side? Other side...
Doin' the best I can, man 
And that ain't no lie... that ain't no lie 

(3) DAYLIGHT AGAIN
Daylight again… Comes now and again 
My only friend… That's left in the end 

The shadows hide as the clouds creep by 
I take stake in my mistakes in 
The life I know the one I can't shake 
Grabs me by the collar and won't let me go 
There's only one way to live there’s only one way I know 

I've been taken… I've been shaken 
And sent out on my way 
I have tumbled… I have stumbled 
Just going from day to day 

The only sunrise ahead 
Is the one I see when I go to bed 
I wake up in the dark circled by sharks 
So I cover my head until there's daylight again 

I'm trapped in a tunnel while sucked down the funnel 
The light is dim in either direction 
When you're only trying to escape and be safe 
There's no time for perfection 

From day to day to year to year 
Somehow, some way I'll get outta here 

Where I stand my feet are stuck in the mud 
There's no chance I can rise above 
With bars on the doors I can't climb out 
My guide left me when the candle blew out 

I came to my sense 
and that was when 
I knew I'd be down here 
until there's daylight again 
Daylight again
Daylight again 
Daylight again

(4) PEN AND PAPER
Well I'm... 
Struggling against the tide 
Pen and paper by my side 
Feeling great, oh wait, I lied 
There's not much I trust 
And that sucks, but why cry? 

Seems that something's 
Gonna have to be sacrificed 
To keep on playing this game 
To keep on living this life 

Release me 
From the worldwide  
weight of humanity 
Too much for this  
writer to decipher 

The many causes of insanity 
He pauses...then continues 
As he counts his losses... 
His inner voice asks him, 
"Is it in you?" 

To be the leader 
when it is so easy to follow 
Never need to be the owner 
When everything  
can be borrowed 

Though you'll never find 
Yourself being a loner 
You just might be hollow 

And it's such a waste of time... 
Following the blind 
Open up your eyes 
Haven't you realized? 

'Tis better to lead them... 
And still be breathing 
Than it is to follow 
And be the one  
left bleeding 

Never wading in the  
springs of freedom.... 
And not understanding 
These things I speak of 

Contemplating something 
Hollow and misleading 
And it brings many things... 
Such as a false disguise  
by a gypsy king 

In his lies we  
discover many truths... 
Through his eyes  
we uncover his abuse 
And his song of sorrow  
so many sing 

Well I've got those 
Same old blues again 
It seems that life is game 
You can never win 

Cannot change your past 
You can't change  
where you've been 
It seems you were  
having a blast 
But now you don't like 
The position you're in 

Once they stuck you  
in your caste 
You ended up taking  
it on the chin 

Now labeled a has-been 
You got no friends 
Just want it to end 
Let your soul be recast 
Let us try it again 

(5) HAVE NOT
You only live once... 
Well at least 
you've got your name 

You tried to give once... 
Got burnt and you 
were never the same 

Stay away from this one... 
You who went from healing 
to being one of the lame 

Thy will be done... 
The only thing you've learned 
is how to point the blame 

And now your motivation 
for waking is slowly stripping 
You can sense the tubes 
of morphine still dripping 

Becoming lost at such a cost 
That you wonder just 
Why you should go on 
Why try to live the dream? 
When your imagination is gone? 

For once you lose 
your inhibitions 
The hands around you 
mold you into what they want 

Shaping and persuading you 
Into giving what you haven't got 

Leveling society 
By changing you from 
a have into a have not 

You only live once... 
Well at least 
you've got your name 

You tried to give once... 
Got burnt and you 
were never the same 

Stay away from this one... 
You who went from healing 
to being one of the lame 

Thy will be done... 
The only thing you've learned 
is how to point the blame 

(6) CLIMBING THE LADDER
You'd be wise to take my advice 
Before you fall in love 
With a fool's paradise 
You had better think twice 

I don't have any vices 
And that's priceless 
Considering where I've come from 

Everything I once believed in 
Was so misleading 
I'm lucky I'm still breathing 
Considering all the things I've done 

I scaled the drug ladder 
Straight to the top 
Got up so high 
I almost couldn't get of 

I could not control 
The cravings inside my brain 
That boy's on the ladder 
And he's climbing up again 

From cigarettes... 
To booze... 
To weed... 
To speed... 
To acid ... 
To mushrooms... 
To E... 
To crack-cocaine 

You'd be wise to take my advice 
Before you fall in love 
With a fool's paradise 
You had better think twice 

A lot of my old friends 
Now sleep in the gutter 
Toss an eight ball on the table 
And watch them try to kill each other 

My d-d-dad's a p-p-pothead 
Who s-s-speaks with a s-s-stutter 
Just another nicotine fiend 
That describes my mother 
A raging alcoholic 
Yeah, that's my brother 
And my sister…well guys 
I suggest you use a rubber 
There, now I think 
I've got everybody covered 

If you want to know about somebody 
Investigate their friends and family 
Even still I’m not quite sure 
How I let it happen to me 
But I've escaped the demons 
And now I'm free 

You'd be wise to take my advice 
Before you fall in love 
With a fool's paradise 
You had better think twice 

Well if you're hooked 
And you're looking to beat it 
Listen closely and I'll tell you a secret 

If you've climbed the ladder so high 
That you duck when planes fly 
You can't just jump off or else you’ll die 
It's too hard to cold turkey 
What was years in the making 
Pressure like that 
Is like an oven baking 

You managed to climb up 
So you've got to climb back down 
One step at a time 
Until your feet hit the ground 

(7) EX-POEM
When someone says your name I duck 
Because now I'm careful of whom I trust 
Sometimes in love you really get fu$%ed 
Sometimes a smiling face 
Turns into disgust 

Second chances...you got them 
But for a second time you hit rock bottom 
Third chances... you want them 
Still trying to sell me some fruit 
That you know is rotten 

Calling on the phone 
And knocking on the door 
So scared to be alone 
When you finally realize 

That you can't have 
What you once had any more 
But you brought it on yourself 
So why are you so surprised? 

Love is dead 
It has been beheaded 
Get it through your head 
We'll never be wedded 

My phone rings 
But I don't pick it up 
I give easy hints 
But you won't pick them up 

Often there's no voice 
On the other end of the receiver 
It is true I once worshipped you 
But now I'm no longer a believer 

When someone says your name I duck 
Because now I'm careful of whom I trust 
Sometimes in love you really get fu$%ed 
Sometimes a smiling face 
Turns into disgust 

(8) RAIN
Rain...it makes the flowers grow 
Rain...doesn't hide what it doesn't know 
Rain...leads to floods look out below 
Rain...don't say I didn't tell ya so 

Pain...it doesn't always show 
Pain...fills up what's empty and hollow 
Pain...remembers names from long ago 
Pain...better when it's dull and shallow 

(9) TWISTING THE KNIFE
When you wanna lash out  
And leave long lasting scars 
You search deep within yourself 
And remember who you are 

For with your sharp tongue 
You know which words will hurt the most 
As your vision becomes an apparition 
After you've disappeared like a ghost 

Sometimes it's not whatcha say 
But whatcha don't  
When you know whatcha wanna do 
And yet you won't 

Sometimes walking away  
Without a single word said 
Just might say the most 
And be best cure for your head 

Severing the ties  
Without twisting the knife 
Might be the hardest thing 
You've ever done in your life 

(10) MY PRECIOUS
Two mourning doves rest upon a limb 
Begin the day with a praising hymn 
To the gods of grass and rain and wind 
For it’s what they know  
what they're surrounded in 

Contrast that to me who prays for fame 
Golden statues and plaques  
bearing my name 
Sure it might seem to some a little vain 
But it’s what I know what I'm surrounded in 

Every sight I am seeing 
Every thought I am thinking 
Every sentence I am speaking 
Everything I've been believing 

The roots are imperial 
Facts often mytherial 
Logic hypocritical 
True intentions deceiving 

With all of our wealth  
we haven't had much success 
Still got people sleepin' 
On mattresses made of pavement 
Their pillows are our steps 

Why is gold so precious? 
What makes silver so fine? 
Who first chose to call this wealth? 
Back in history and time 

I wish that I could have told them 
Being rich was all for show 
Then I would have shown them 
There was a better way to go 

We could have changed 
Our chain-of-being 
Into something non - material 

Then we could live our lives 
For something meaningful 
We could've reach new highs 
I'm talking spiritual 

(11) MONETIZATION
This time I'm feeling like the criminal 
But all communication is subliminal 
Sure my treatment might be deferential 
'Cause now others notice my potential 

They got silver tongues 
And their eyes? They're green 
They're the best paid talkers 
That you've ever seen 

You know those who smile at themselves? 
Well....now they were smiling at me 
They said you could make money for us 
If you can trick the rest into thinking 
you got something 
In which they can still believe 

After some pondering 
I started responding 
And I kindly replied: 
Yeah...part of me has died 

And I'd like to find that something 
I can finally stake my faith and creed in... 

But hopefully 
it'll either be 
mental clarity 
Oh gee, 
maybe sanity... 
or perhaps even freedom 
Then maybe 
there would be 
No more forced insanity 
that any amount of money 
can pay the fee 
For forgetting all about humanity 
and human dignity 
What has happened to some 
I hope it doesn't 
happen to me 

I'm still trying to find a reason to wake up 
Maybe it's to give everything a shake up 
Some poor pawn's got to lead the charge 
Take a musket ball for society at large 

Heck, I'd rather be the host 
or the maître d' 
Than some bourgeoisie 
attendee 
To a committee brunch 
designed to oversee 
Who gets to select 
who gets the gold trophy 
For having the charity 
That spends the most on vanity 

I guess we just 
fundamentally 
disagree 
For you see 
I don't wanna be 
a trainee 
to be a trustee 
Because I don't agree 
Subscribe or believe 
In such self-serving fantasies 

For sometimes money 
Is one's own worst enemy 
Just search through 
the texts of history 
From King Midas to Judas 
to Bush and Cheney 

When money becomes everything 
then I don't want any... 
Nah... 
I don't want any 

(12) LET ME IN
Won't you let me in 
Into your heart 
Into your mind 
That would keep me satisfied 

To become one  
With your subconscious 
And with your soul 
You know I'd never try to gain control 

Over your feelings 
Or your actions 
I'd just smile wide 
With satisfaction 

And I'd help you find the truth 
Amongst all these distractions 
For I believe we both could use 
Each other as a book of matches 

When the world seems dark 
Or when things look bleak 
When we could use a spark 
To light a flame for each other to see 

Won't you let me in 
Into your world 
Into your thoughts 
As for my own - I've shared a lot 
Still I long for yours 
Tell me what do you see  
When you look at the world 
And when you look at me? 

Because I want to view life 
Through a second pair of eyes 
For sometimes even I need a guide 
To show me a new and better path 

And to know there's  
Someone standing there 
Standing behind me  
When I look back... 

For I long to see a light 
When the trail starts winding 
As the day's becoming night 
And the way's not easy finding 
My eyes are tired  
And I'm losing sight 

Won't you let me in 
Into your door when I am cold 
Into your arms so I can hold 
Onto someone  
Onto something 
When I'm spinning out of control 

When I'm beginning to feel old 
And less reassured than when I was a kid 
When I question everything in my life 
And what I've done with it 
We could share secret thoughts  
That thus far we've kept hid 

Won't you let me in... 
Oh, won't you let me in? 
Won't you let me in?

SET LIST ONE (1)
tough world, struggle, personal
This collection explores the raw edges of daily existence — the grind, the doubt, and the quiet moments of clarity that come from navigating a world that doesn't owe you anything. These songs sit with struggle not as a visitor but as a resident, acknowledging that survival often requires more than just strength—it requires rewriting the rules.
Struggle & Survival, Identity & Reinvention, Existential Weight, The Cost of Staying Awake
(1) Puzzle Pieces
(2) Exit the Sandman
(3) Daylight Again
(4) Pen and Paper
(5) Have Not
(6) Climbing the Ladder
(7) Ex-Poem
(8) Rain
(9) Twisting the Knife
(10) My Precious
(11) Monetization
(12) Let Me In

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Lead Rating: PG/PG-13

Total Points: 19

Strategic Arc: Identity, addiction (poetic), emotional isolation. Entry to heavier themes.

Trigger Warning: Addiction, substance abuse, depression, emotional abandonment, existential fatigue, media critique. No explicit suicide or violence.

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Song
Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Puzzle Pieces
PG-13
Fitting the broken jigsaw

2
Exit the Sandman
PG-13
Drowning sorrows, chasing sleep

3
Daylight Again
PG-13
Sucked down the funnel

4
Pen and Paper
PG-13
Deciphering the world's insanity

5
Have Not
PG-13
Morphine stripping your name

6
Climbing the Ladder
PG-13
Scaling the drug hierarchy

7
Ex-Poem
PG-13
Love beheaded, trust ducked

8
Rain
G
Pain fills hollow spaces

9
Twisting the Knife
PG
Severing ties without blood

10
My Precious
PG
Wealth versus spiritual clarity

11
Monetization
PG-13
Rejecting green-eyed corporate spin

12
Let Me In
PG
Lighting matches for souls

Collection Summary: A foundational set exploring identity formation, addiction, and the early fractures that shape a person. These songs document the slow unraveling of innocence and the first stirrings of resistance.

Artist Comparison: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed

Key Themes: Addiction, isolation, identity fracture, media critique, vulnerability


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SONG LIST 2 Sheila Tequila

SONG LIST 3 A Day at the Office

SONG LIST 4 A Traveler in the Distance

SONG LIST 5 Love Without a Doubt

SONG LIST 6 Undertows and Afterglows

SONG LIST 7 High Tides and Landslides

SONG LIST 8 A Knight for a Lady

SONG LIST 9 Between Us and Love

SONG LIST 10 One Piece Missing

SET LIST 1 Glass Half Something

SET LIST 2 Plurality

SET LIST 3 Self in the Mirror

SET LIST 4 Partnered to the Crime

SET LIST 5 Living a la Mode

SET LIST 6 Definitely NOT Love

SET LIST 7 Train Off the Tracks

SET LIST 8 Boss Logic

SET LIST 9 Thralls of the Flame

SET LIST 10 Go Ask Gramm

SET LIST 11 Noise, Lies and Longing

SET LIST 12 Wounded Masculinity (Silhouettes of Pride)

SET LIST 13 Power Shields

SET LIST 14 6,000KM to DK (Six-Thousand Mile to Denmark)

SET LIST 15 Liminal State

SET LIST 16 Kneel, Heal and Rise

SET LIST 17 Smirks, Swears, Moans and Cries

SET LIST 18 Corrugation Row

SET LIST 19 Della of Troy

SET LIST 20 The Cost of Light

SET LIST 21 A Cold Plate

SET LIST 22 Inherent Absence

SET LIST 23 Zionation

SET LIST 24 Bi Ride or Die

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BOOK INDEX (QUICK GUIDE to PAGE NUMBERS and MORE)

THE NEW AMERICAN SONGBOOK 36 sections

1 of 35 Dedication, Copyright and Manifesto

2 of 35 Who Tom Is

3 of 35 Introduction

4 of 35 What "Community" Says

5 of 35 Purpose and Structure of Three Books

6 of 35 Table of Contents

7 of 35 Quick Guide G to X

8 of 35 Full Texts of Lyrics

9 of 35 Rolling Stone Style Album reviews

10 of 35 One Sentence Summaries of Tracks

11 of 35 Albums Ranked by Rating G to X

12 of 35 Album Themes, Moods and Profanity Listings

13 of 35 Four Word Descriptions for Every Track

14 of 35 Tracks Listed by Category

15 of 35 Riddle Me This... Who is This Book For?

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17 of 35 Choose Your Own Adventure Album Orders

19 of 35 Business Plan and 21 Page Summary

21 of 35 Lyric Use Certificate

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PLURALITY

Trigger Warning: Set List Two (2)

This set is an unflinching excavation of cultural unrest, mental collapse, and personal reckoning. It tackles systemic injustice, media manipulation, fractured identity, and spiritual erosion with a poetic yet raw voice.

Themes of war, addiction, dissociation, and institutional failure are present throughout, often framed in sharp, accusatory language. Tracks like “Rest in Power,” “B.F.T.,” and “Violence Is Their Solution” spotlight a world that offers few real solutions — where those in charge mask destruction as patriotism, and healing feels like betrayal of your own rage.

The result is work that feels emotionally heavy, socially urgent, and politically volatile.

Lyrically, the set lingers in trauma but resists being pitied. There’s an ongoing tension between vulnerability and defiance: protagonists admit they're slipping into madness, but refuse to go quietly.

Songs like “Entirely” and “Timebomb” deal with psychological unraveling — intrusive thoughts, internal voices, suicidal ideation, and the desire to inflict damage in order to be seen. Mental illness isn’t romanticized here; it's documented like a forensic report.

Likewise, addiction is portrayed not just as chemical dependency but as a reaction to moral and emotional collapse — fueled by grief, isolation, and rage. Listeners with histories of trauma or mental health struggles may find these pieces triggering, but also validating in their stark honesty.

A second thread running through the collection is social disillusionment — the kind that breeds rebellion or nihilism. “Hive Mind,” “Paradigm,” and “Status Quo Woes” indict institutions and mass groupthink, exposing how easy it is to mistake survival for complicity. The lyrics question authority, faith, even the worth of empathy in a world where altruism is rare and often punished.

The repeated image of being “caught in traffic” or “burning trees” becomes metaphorical — a suffocating cycle of destruction where no one is fully innocent, and few can claim to be awake. These pieces may resonate with those disillusioned by politics or social division but could feel overwhelming for those not ready to confront those shadows directly.

By the final tracks, the listener is left in the aftermath of ideological warfare. Any hope offered — in pieces like “Multiverse” — is conditional, rooted in personal vision and cognitive reconstruction rather than external salvation.
The message is: no one is coming to save you, but you might save yourself. While deeply affecting, this set is not light listening.

It’s a mirror held up to chaos, filtered through grief, fury, and fierce intelligence. Recommended for those who can handle content involving war trauma, psychological instability, fatalism, and social unrest. Not advised for those in acute mental health crises without support.

PLURALITY
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1 Rest In Power
2 B. F. T.
3 Hive Mind
4 Unwinnable
5 Traffic
6 Status Quo Woes
7 Rival
8 Violence Is Their Solution
9 Paradigm
10 Entirely
11 Timebomb
12 Mulltiverse

(1) REST IN POWER
I love you to learn you
Just to hate you and burn you
You see I got these demons 
Who don’t deal well with feelings

When betrayed by your senses
You learn to build up defenses
And to hide in dark places
Drawing lines no one traces

Blazing a trail no one follows
A space empty and hollow
Where the dreams of a child
Would guide you through to tomorrow

Yet now the future looks bleak
As you’ve found what you seek
But it’s alien and strange
Since your outlook has changed

You used to want to save the world
Now you just wanna fuck the girls
Letting your id eat you alive
The super ego closes his eyes

They’ve separated you from your mind
And your heart from your soul
It’s time to wrestle back control
Or become someone you don’t know…

As you passed a stranger out on the street
Thought to yourself, “He looked a lot like me…”
Well not who I am but who I used to be
Those are two different people entirely

To rest in power not peace
You gotta keep feeding the beast
And once you catch the disease
You no longer wanna break free

That’s when you know 
Got a tiger by the toe
But stop lying to yourself
You want them to let go

(2) BFT
Shameless… blameless…
Now you’re fucking famous
You cried for it
Tried for it
One day you’re gonna die for it

It’s written in the stars
You’ll be riding in fancy cars
And visiting bars after hours
Yeah, you’re breaking all the laws

Stop, pause for applause
Okay, now we can go on
It’s still easy to get lost
Even when you’re high on top

Is the point I gotta get across
God knows this shit show won’t stop
And you don’t neither
‘Cause it’s good to be a breather
And playing follow the leader
Leaves the conquered and their defeaters

Ain’t no meeting in the middle
Only a big bloody puddle 
A bunch of blind men befuddled
Without acquittal or rebuttal

We’re in Big Fucking Trouble
Making deals with the devil
Ends up bursting our bubble 
When it wasn’t on the level

This city will make you hard
Without friends in the right places
We try not to show our scars
Still we wear it on our faces

(3) HIVE MIND
Weaponized envy surrounds me
It’s everywhere I can’t break free
Negative energy now grounds me
As I’m watching the world so jealously

My high anxiety stresses me
I’m alone because I fear intimacy 
So averse to pain I constantly retreat
I’m living like a zombie half asleep

Some say this outcome was expected
Look how everything’s grown hectic
Has anyone been left unaffected
By the eye in the sky’s hive mind collective?

Ostracized and placed outside the wall
Is where your fellow heroes fall
With lasting remains inside an unmarked grave
True to themselves at least one was saved

Unwilling to play a schizophrenic game
In which fact and fiction are one in the same
Where truth and lies are often seen on the same side
As enemies become friends and your rivals allies

You soon realize there’s a great divide
Between not only us and them but both you and I
Leaves you to scratch your head and wonder why…
Or maybe be just like them and not even try

And yet that seems like suicide
As you boldly claim, “Today’s not your day to die”
You then break out with a great big smile
Yelling “F*%k it all! I’ll walk the extra mile!”

Sacrifice for something 
Bigger than myself
Maybe trade away the day today 
To make tomorrow great for someone else

A flock of sheep can be a dangerous thing
Tended by a shepherd or led by a king?
History has recorded the tales of both
Carrying crosses and swearing oaths

All of that has led us to here
Where honor and faith 
I watched disappear
Become replaced
With aggression and fear

It’s been happening so long
For years and years
Soon feels natural
So that nobody cares

You see me alone and standing here
Lying to myself hoping nobody hears
They gave up on me so I gave up on my peers 
I’m the only one who knows…they’re still unaware

I turned around again…and there was no one there

(4) UNWINNABLE
Culture vultures circling the sky
Off our self-doubt is what they thrive
It’s either the daily dodge or else face the grind
Something finds you every time you hide

Given time and sobriety
You can reshape your reality
In this kaleidoscope world
You can clearly see
Sometimes you pay a hidden fee 
On what ya thought was free

It’s not all about material goods
Talking ‘bout a man all alone in the woods
When no one is watching what does he do?
Are honor and integrity things that he holds true?

What one does to others
Will someday be done to you
As the company you keep
Will one day keep you

Given time and sobriety
You can reshape your reality
In this kaleidoscope world
You can clearly see
Sometimes you pay a hidden fee 
On what ya thought was free

I bathed in dark energies
All the while absorbing light
Living in between two planes of existence
As the day became my morning 
And the morning my night
Wrong has always been wrong
But now it was alright

When you become freed from the disease of please
Is when you begin to build walls that only others can see
You take all you need and often times more
An unwinnable game always trying to score
An unwinnable game always trying to score

(5) TRAFFIC
Traffic...
Caught in traffic
Traffic...
Caught in traffic
Addict ...
Caught in traffic
Addict...
Caught in traffic

Traffic...
Is tragic
False illusion
They work their magic
Tragic...
Believe in magic
Traffic...
Is tragic
One solution...
End the sadness

Tragic...
To see such madness
Burning trees...
Burning trees...
Dropping lit matches

Burning trees...
And fixing black
holes with patches
Burning trees...
Burning trees...
If you're green
It's worse than crosses

One hundred degrees
Two hundred degrees
Burning trees...
Still can't breathe
Can you help me?
Burning trees
People got other causes
And silly me...
Counting up our losses

Traffic... Caught in traffic

(6) STATUS QUO WOES
Too many buildings, not enough sky
Can't solve your problems
Until you stop the lies
What about the children?
They're the ones being sacrificed
Better to leave 'em alone 
in the wilderness
Than to raise them to be crucified
Got to make it better than this
Do more than just criticize
We're wasting away
A little more everyday
Sometimes the truth 
is in the mirror
Gazing back into your eyes
You see the picture 
becoming clearer
And you find a great big surprise...

So that's why you got to know
When to go with the flow
Keep the status quo
And then to know when to resist
Know when to raise a fist
When to cease and desist
And how to buy an alibi

Too many people 
to keep 'em all in line
Many better men and women
Than me have spent 
their lives tryin'
To either relive, rewrite,
Forget or regret history

Yet dying before finally finding
And sighing because no one answers
Keep on opening doors
Without knowing what's behind them

And I don't want 
to be another sheep
Being led to the slaughter
For I've learned 
through getting burned
That some people's priceless advice
Really is worth less than a quarter

You say you didn't know any better
It used to be the story of my life
Funny now how some things
Are more important
Than you first thought them...
As you can only aspire to fly higher
Once you've hit rock bottom

So that's why you've got to know
When to go with the flow
Keep the status quo

When to hope and pray for it
When to say it
Know when to resist
Know when to raise a fist
And when to cease and desist
When to let it roll 
right off of your shoulder
Or else when to get pissed

'Cause you know 
you can't live like this
Where you get just one shot
And you missed!

Too many obstacles
That you get sucked in 
by the tentacles
Keep on walking in circles
Keep on praying for miracles
Believing that you are spiritual
While searching for an oracle
Be it mental, physical, 
biblical or historical

Got to fight this feeling
Can't give in to all 
the lying and stealing
I've walked the dark path
Now show me to the light
Tired of all the low-down
Dirty double dealing
Sometimes men and women of virtue

Have got to stand up and fight
When we know that we're right

Can't simply close your eyes
Cut your ties and end this plight
Can't simply send it back
What has gone off track
Better fight for more
Than just your own life
Because this is like day and night
Can't flick a switch, 
can't turn off the light

Still have to face it 
in the morning...
The fire that still keeps on burning
But at least you're learning....
Yeah, you're still learning

(7) RIVAL
Once the whole gets halved
There ain’t no going back
Yeah, it all went to hell real fast
Republicans and Democrats

As this nation is facing
The shattered aftermath
Our fate has been placed
In the hands of a psychopath

And asking a leader to lead
When no one agrees
Leads to blunders it’s a wonder
We’re all not deceased

The best way to start a fight
Part the middle between left and right
Just stir the pot to get some action
Then do what you want during the distraction

Yes the method is tried and true
Throughout history it’s been used
Safety’s in numbers not division
This fractured state will be our prison

So with this knowledge at our disposal
It’s time to act local while thinking global
We’re all allies in the struggle for survival
You’ll die for your brother…
While I’ll die for my rival

(8) VIOLENCE IS THEIR SOLUTION
Well it's time for me to swallow
My prescribed medication
While I'm forced to listen to
Their unspeakable dictation

Their twisting tongues
That speak of the wrong information
Well-ordered insanity
Also known as formal education

And while I'm waiting
For the next step in evolution
I say my prayers while
Violence is their solution

I was taught to believe
That the flag was a guide to inspiration
But I never enrolled
In blind patriotic dedication

My stomach would be queasy
When I felt the jittery vibration
Of the weapons on the firing line
As I manned the battle station

They order me to guard the bunker
Which represents the institution
They reload my gun because
Violence is their solution

You lost a lot of leaves
On your family tree for this nation
During the fall they all fell
Along with the laws of segregation

Nowadays times have changed
But there still lies the same temptation
Not every name has been signed
On the emancipation proclamation

Some would cower in a corner
Before demanding a new constitution
But while I give my peaceful demonstration
Violence is their solution

Seems as if everywhere you turn
Leads you to increased aggravation
You try so hard to blaze a better path
But it's branded deviation

They want you to believe
It's all about the money
And worry about inflation
But my friends there are some things
From which you cannot take a vacation

Once it's piled up past the hills
You just can't hide all of this pollution
As I daydream of how not to kill with spilled oil
Violence is their solution

If you want to rape Mother Nature
Then watch their demonstration
You can destroy it all
For a quick thrilling sensation

Just an inch or two of elevation
Too late to resort to masturbation
For Mother Nature wasn't meant for prostitution
As she screams help...
Violence is their solution

(9) PARADIGM
There's no such thing
As wasting time
When you are trying
To design the paradigm

Can you be the one
Who helps mold mankind?
Behold that role's
Not so well-defined

Yet it truly
Doesn't take a mastermind
To really blow someone else's mind
Crawling through no man's land
Holding onto your brother's hand
Helping him to stay alive
As you both try to survive
In between the battle lines

My job is to show you
All that there is to see
And to tell you that what is
Is not how it is supposed to be
Please believe in me...

I startled a man in the street
Simply by saying hello
He said,
"Hey kid, stop bothering me!"
Doesn't he know
I have a college degree?

And that I've been known
To write a little poetry
And create a new history
By unlocking that old mystery
Through my literacy?

"Can't there be someone else
You can follow?"
That's what he said to me
His brown eyes were hollow
Thus I retreated in sorrow

Just another who failed to see
That he just might have been
Bettered by me

Forgetting we're all one
In the global family
We all evolved from
The same family tree

Used to crawl around on all fours
Just like a monkey or a junkie

Your background
Your skin tone
Your color
Your race...

No one's ever 
asked your preference
You know you can't 
choose your face

And as you see your reflection
You realize that in difference
Here lies the root of hate
So let us end this great debate
Over this city-less state...

We can agree to disagree
I no longer wish to participate
Just as equality waits...
So does our fate

(10) ENTIRELY
When tragedy struck my family
I began my decent into insanity

It started to creep
Slowly week by week
And before too long
I found I couldn’t sleep

Never again alone
No, not with these fantasies
As I lost myself
To the worst version of me

That kept holding on
Until I couldn’t break free
And by the time I realized
What was happening to me

I became someone else 
entirely

(11) TIME BOMB
My boo boo…
My uncle just dropped a bomb (Uncle Sam)
Right through your roof ….
Killing your dad and your mom…. (God Damn)

So when you grow up to be 
Big, brave and strong
When you grow up tell me 
Whose side will you be on?

Tick tock….tick tock….

My nickname is time bomb
My friends are waiting for me to explode
Today was the day I woke up
It was kinda warm – still I grabbed for my coat

And I grabbed my package….
My surprise…oh soon…
Everyone will know…..

See my big grin…
it’s right here…From ear to ear 
right above my chin….
oh oh oh

Oh just what I got
Oh won’t you take a guess?
With this I’ve come all this way 
So many miles West

J.C. sees me on the bus
Asks me what’s under my coat?
I looked back at him and said softly…
Eanie meanie miney moe

I got a present for somebody 
But just who is it – I don’t yet know
I think I’ll bide my time and pen a little rhyme
Let us drive a little further on down the road….

Yeah my nick name is time bomb
And pretty soon I'm gonna explode!

(12) MULTIVERSE
The only thing real is this moment
So get up on it
And be a proponent

Fuck the trophy for participation
You want to finish in first place 
At the end of the race?
With time you’ll find 
The seeds were already sewn
By you in your mind in the very beginning

The day you stop dreaming 
Is the day you stop achieving
And start living down to expectations 
With nothing left to believe in

Through the years 
Many infidels have raised hell
Trying to make things even
Leaving us in tears 
As more victims fell 
To some godless heathen

If you visualize grilled cheese
That could lead to world peace
But if you envision a barbeque
That just might be the end of me and you

Once you take control 
Over the power within your mind
You can create the best possible version
Of all outcomes desired

SET LIST TWO (2)
shaped by society and corrupted
These songs examine how external forces mold us—sometimes without our knowledge, sometimes against our will. From media manipulation to systemic control, this collection peels back the layers of a world where individuality is a commodity and conformity is currency.
Social Control, Media Manipulation, Systemic Corruption, Resistance & Awakening
(1) Rest In Power
(2) B. F. T.
(3) Hive Mind
(4) Unwinnable
(5) Traffic
(6) Status Quo Woes
(7) Rival
(8) Violence Is Their Solution
(9) Paradigm
(10) Entirely
(11) Timebomb
(12) Multiverse

Set List 2 — Plurality

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Set List 2 — Plurality

Lead Rating: PG-13

Total Points: 23

Strategic Arc: Self-confrontation, addiction, emotional entrapment. The first R.

Trigger Warning: War, addiction, dissociation, institutional failure, suicidal ideation, social disillusionment, mental collapse.

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Song
Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Rest In Power
PG-13
Tiger by the toe

2
B. F. T.
PG-13
Big Fucking Trouble arriving

3
Hive Mind
PG-13
Zombie eye in sky

4
Unwinnable
PG-13
Bathed in dark energies

5
Traffic
PG-13
Burning trees, fixing holes

6
Status Quo Woes
PG-13
Raise a fist, resist

7
Rival
PG-13
Dying for my rival

8
Violence Is Their Solution
PG-13
Guarding the institutional bunker

9
Paradigm
PG-13
Designing a new mankind

10
Entirely
PG-13
Descent into family insanity

11
Timebomb
R
Ticking name attached

12
Multiverse
PG-13
Imagine warm sandwich

Collection Summary: An unflinching excavation of cultural unrest, mental collapse, and personal reckoning. These songs tackle systemic injustice, media manipulation, and spiritual erosion with poetic yet raw voice.

Artist Comparison: Patti Smith, Rage Against the Machine, Eminem

Key Themes: War, addiction, social disillusionment, mental collapse, institutional failure


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3 of 35 Introduction

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SELF IN THE MIRROR

Trigger Warning – Set List Three (3)

This set explores emotional fatigue, existential doubt, and the search for meaning through a lens of introspection, self-deprecating humor, and quiet unrest.

Themes include burnout, substance use (weed, alcohol), spiritual detachment, loneliness, and the pressure of performance. While not overtly graphic or traumatic, many tracks wrestle with internal conflict, disillusionment, and emotional avoidance. Songs like "Advice," "Dance Floor," and "Another" unpack emotional paralysis or anger masked as confidence, while "Blank Pages" and "Watcher" lean more spiritual or reflective.

The tone balances cynicism with sincerity, offering neither solutions nor collapse — just the ache of trying to feel something real.

Caution for listeners in recovery, processing romantic detachment, or facing burnout and self-worth issues. The set includes casual normalization of weed/alcohol use as coping, ironic quips about mental health, and sporadic emotional outbursts disguised as empowerment.

Despite the bravado in tracks like "Stay Big," there's a loneliness underneath — a search for clarity in confusion. Best suited for those who prefer truth over comfort and don't mind sitting with emotional ambiguity.

SELF IN THE MIRROR
SET LIST THREE (3)
1 Advice
2 F the W
3 Another
4 the Spot
5 Night Light
6 the Watcher
7 Dance Floor
8 Fences
9 Stay Big
10 Name In Lights
11 It Doesn't Matter
12 Blank Pages
13 the Game

(1) ADVICE
I woke up this morning
Feeling cold and alone
I woke up this morning
After another night at home

All by myself
Sad and alone
All by myself
So I picked up the phone…

Oh won’t you please
Give to me
Some good advice
That’s right for me

On what to do 
With you know who
That’s whoever it is
I’m supposed to please

Oh please give to me 
Some good advice for
You know all about 
My pathetic life

Have a look at me
And tell the truth…
Can I still do all the things
That I wanna do?

Oh look at me and tell the truth…
Am I doing what I was meant to do?

Sometimes there’s a little voice
Inside my ear
Whispering words 
That I don’t wanna hear

A question mark after everything:
It’s not just the words I write
But the melody and who sings
Seems to be the story of my life
I keep doing what I think is right

Then get sidetracked by what compels me
Should I do what everybody tells me?

(2) F THE W
I see your face 
It looks to me 
You need some cheering up

Eyebrows are raised
Hair out of place
Your eyes are tearing up

You’ve lost your faith
In yourself hey…
You better listen up

Sometimes it seems
They crush your dreams
And THEN that’s when life gets tough

I turn frowns 
Upside down 
And make unhappy people smile

Life gotcha down? 
If I’m around
I’ll sit and talk with you awhile

I’ll share with you
A story or two
From my youth and time will fly…

For today we’ll let
Our troubles fade…
Say F the W and let’s get high

When we get home…
I’ll roll a bone….
And now you’re blazed….
Got dry mouth taste…
Let us all give thanks 
To that purple haze

For today we’ll let
Our troubles fade…
We’ll pie your eyes so you don’t cry…
We’ll have a laugh
Flipping through some funny photographs
Oh how the time goes by

So why be sad?
Angry or mad
When you can look up at the beautiful sky?

(3) ANOTHER
I’m fired up
I’ve had enough
Of backing down
And getting pushed around

I’m standing tall
I will not fall
I’ll be the wrecking ball
Right through your brick wall

I’m rising up through the ashes
Taking names and kicking asses
Finally the tide has turned
And I’m laying claim 
to what I deserve

I’ve waited…
And found waiting brings nothing
Dedicated…
I know I’m bound to find something

Educated…
By both books and streets
Frustrated…
I can neither find nor keep

The love that’s been missing
Was there and now it isn’t
Was here and then it wasn’t
I placed myself above it

Alone and incomplete
I’ve been lacking inner peace
All I’m really after
Is a good night’s sleep

So it’s time to find another
Who will be my lover
To make the circle complete

(4) THE SPOT
I got half a tank of gas 
And I’m looking for some ass
So I decided to take a drive down town

I know there’s girlies by the square
So that’s why I’m heading there
Right now…

It’s the hippest spot to be 
If you want to be seen on the scene 
(on the scene)
Be seen on the scene, yeah!

And you know me
That’s where I want to be (want to be)
Yeah, that’s where I want to be

I like the spotlight
Shining down on me… down on me
For all the world to see

Well I got up to the spot
And every girl I saw was hot
I was craving some affection
From a member of the opposite sex and

I always try to set a good example
For all the other upright mammals
On how business should be handled
Because few can hold a candle

To my legend or my name
Y’all can debate my place in the game…
But to me it’s all the same

Destiny don’t mean shit to me
I’m leaving hard work as my legacy
And if you are next to me 
then it’s best to be
Able to look at all things 
in this world honestly

The worst lies are the ones 
we keep telling ourselves
We keep living in denial 
and then no one helps

The heaviest burdens 
I’ve placed on myself
I got my head straight now -
Yeah, I’m back in good health

Life is so much easier when… 
You stop fighting yourself
I’ve stopped fighting myself

Back at the scene 
It was a Dionysian dream
And I was determined
To find myself a queen

The journey ahead 
has been left undefined
And in this endeavor 
it is the treasure that I hope to find

In fact I think I see her now 
So I got to go
If she turns out to be the one 
Don’t say I didn’t tell ya so
So here we go…
Oh oh oh oh – Oh

(5) NIGHT LIGHT
Well I believe that I came to you
In pursuit of my search 
For truth and light
And that love of life 
Can see me through...

Through this on my darkest day
Through this deep haze
Rather than be washed away
By a crushing wave

Reseeding my belief 
That hard work pays off some day
All souls can and will be saved
Rather than be led astray

I don't joke when trapped
By a cloud of smoke
Because some people think
That our world is their own ashtray

If we all stop and take
A deep long breath...
(pause)
We can either blow it up
Or blow it all away...

Then we can see the sun
Let the world unite as one
Feeling like children again
Then we can go run off and play
Just like we did back in the day

Prozac people's kids no longer cry
We just hear their sighs
Perhaps that's why I find
That I cry all the time

So rather than just turn my head
And cough in jest
Seeing a big, old, bloody mess
Yes, I guess I must here confess:

Sometimes I don't reveal
When I cry my tears of joy inside
That's when I feel the most alive
It's my bright, nightlight
That I just won't let die...

So once again that's why
That I believe that I came to you
In pursuit of my search 
For truth and light
And that our love of life 
Can see us through…

(6) WATCHER
Hold onto your dreams
Tonight could be the night 
you fall in love
Hold onto your dreams
Remember there is someone
Watching from above

He sees the picture complete
There’s no need to be discreet
Never have to worry about defeat
It’s okay to fall down at his feet 

The watcher will guide you
Once you take a look inside you
The watcher will hide you
When trouble comes to find you
He will stand behind you

I’ve never seen his face
Never looked into his eyes
He’s never said a word
Never told me a lie

He was my spirit guide
Who held me by the hand
Led me through darkness
After day had turned to night

Now I’m no longer on my own
He removed my blindfold
And showed me to the light

Hold onto your dreams
Tonight could be the night 
you fall in love
Hold onto your dreams
Remember that there is someone
Watching from above

He sees the picture complete
There’s no need to be discreet
Never have to worry about defeat
It’s okay to fall down at his feet

I’ve found my way back home
Not afraid of the dark…
Just don’t feel the same way I used to

The watcher gave me a spark…
Lighted this path that leads to you
The torch has been passed
Now it is my turn to watch over you

Hold onto your dreams
Tonight could be the night you fall in love
Hold onto your dreams

Remember that there is someone 
watching from above
Remember tonight could be the night…
You fall in love

(7) DANCEFLOOR
I been trying to find
A place to call home in my mind
But it's cluttered with all
this useless debris

Pictures, places... things and ideas
They've been trying to sell to me

I been trying to hear
My own voice within my ears...
(I heard a whisper from somewhere)

Amongst all the yelling,
screaming and cryin'
which leads to disbelieving
That's when the 
whisper grows silent

I been trying to see 
since things aren't bad for me
I should forget the fact
that ignorance kills

Turning my back on any and all ills
That don't slap me in the face
For I... can't save... 
the entire human race

Today I'm enjoying myself
Going out to have a good time
This earth won't cease 
to spin or exist
If I relax and unwind

Let someone else
Worry about the world 
for a while...

Once I thought I was happy
But I've long since lost my smile...

I'd like to rewind time 
to find the mindset I had before
Take the train tracks back 
to when I lacked 
the need to go explore

To when I didn't care
If the whole world 
went up in flames

I'd say what can one man do?
Except point a finger...
And pass the blame

That's it...
I've had enough...
I can't take it anymore

Just a few of these...
To put my mind at ease...
I'll meet you on the dance floor

(8) FENCES
Fences...
I see more fences
springing up every day…

There are people
paid to separate people
Who are lining up
to stand in the way

Of the profits of the prophets
Who create the media slaves, yeah
Who dictate who gets to divide the riches
Who gets to go diving with the fishes
And who gets to migrate and escape
Before it gets to be too late

Fences...
I see more fences
springing up every day...
Forcing us to choose sides
In this great divide
Between the people and the state

This state of confusion
A perpetual illusion
Of entertainment, sex,
death, of who's next,
Of celebrity, sport, fear and hate

Like me you want to get away
Want to find yourself
some kind of inner wealth
A reason to carry on
My dearest one
A reason to stay awake

Fences...
I see more fences
springing up everyday
Seems all those in line
Are blind to the times
Either wearing rose-colored glasses
Or being kept in the shade

The trees are tall
when you follow
every letter of the law
Straight to the 'T'
And yet fundamentally disagree
Failing to fully appreciate
the fact that fences
When used as defenses
are completely senseless
Especially when humans
are turned into machines

I see power serving power
I see snipers in the tower
I see the faces of the crying
I see truth from people dying

I see walls that keeps getting higher
I see more kindling being thrown on the fire
I see people scared and losing faith
And not being able to think straight

Fences...I see more fences...
Springing up everyday

(9) STAY BIG
My hate is filled with heart
My blood is in my art
My tears blotch out the page
This ink confines my rage

Sometimes I’m not myself
Fuck you go fuck yourself!
Hell yes I fake Tourette’s
Have fun no one’s upset

Create the world you seek
With eyes and style unique 
Arise brand new each day
Play hard or else don’t play

I frame it
I hang it
I put it up for sale

I make it 
I take it
Because I know they’ll

Always come back for more
When they know 
what they’re looking for
It sure is fun to go explore
Who wouldn’t wanna be out on tour?

I’m making my living 
With no fucks given
Standing around the corner 
There’s a line full of women

All waiting for the star – of the show
All wondering where you are – 
they wanna know

Oh where could he be hiding?
What kinda car will he ride in?
It must be so exciting
Pick a party you’re invited

Everybody wants to know 
what you’re saying
Anybody you wanna bed 
we know you’re laying

You got every card in your pocket 
you could play, kid
There’s no way you’re gonna fade 
you gonna stay big!

(10) NAME IN LIGHTS
When you put it on the poster
The shorter the name
The bigger the print

You’re knee deep in posers
Your name in lights
You hit the bigs, yeah

They say there’s bullets 
flying down Broadway
But you haven’t yet heard the news…
You just got to have your piece of cake
And now you want to eat it, too

You wanna be the next Bobby Dylan
Oh, today it’s Johnny Cash
I could tell by your cool sun glasses
Looks like you lost your funny hat

You say your sound’s original 
I’ve never heard nothing quite like that
Well I’ve been around a long time my boy
And I’ve got just one question 
that I’d like to ask…

You’re knee deep in posers
Your name in lights
You hit the bigs, yeah

But what happens when you’re exposed
By both the paparazzi 
And the pigs…oh!

Will you still say: 
You love your life with all the stuff 
You got because of what you said and did?

Or will you finally 
See the light and make right 
For all the crimes that you commit?

When you put it on the poster
The shorter the name
The bigger the print

You’re knee deep in posers
Your name in lights
You hit the bigs, yeah

They say there’s bullets 
flying down Broadway
But you haven’t yet heard the news…
You just got to have your piece of cake
And now you want to eat it, too

(11) IT DOESN'T MATTER
I know there's lyrics being sang
I hear the music in my head
And yet I cannot understand
Exactly what is being said

For it seems like nothing
but busy noise
More sounds coming from
the under employed

Just like children laughing
while they're playing
With the empty boxes
of all their toys

Ain't that the way it goes?
You just like the beat...
You start tapping your toes

Without any time to think
A beautiful stranger
Pulls you up to your feet
After a wink you drop your drink

And now there's no place to retreat
With the speakers pumping
Something new into your system
You don't know the words
But you can feel the rhythm

It doesn't matter
It doesn't matter
It doesn't matter

Whether it's the chorus
or the bridge
If they all tell the truth
Or if they are hypocrites

As long as they keep
knocking out hits
You'll be out there all night
Shaking your t….
um... hips

And you're not the only one
That's what makes

(12) BLANK PAGES
My life’s work has been handed to me
Placed beneath my feet is a book 
filled with blank pages
It is up to me what to fill the book with
I must write carefully not to make any mistakes

Sometimes I rush and choose the wrong words
“Love” when I write of “lust”
“Maybe” when I mean “no”
I try to correct my mistakes but I cannot erase
Only cross out and begin writing again
Beginning where I left off

I dream of rewriting chapters upon chapters
Only to come to understand the finality 
of what is once written
Can never be withdrawn
I reread and study
Desperately trying become a better writer
But learning takes mistakes 
And only practice makes perfect

Who knows what the coming chapters will include
Maybe you, maybe not
But I will not stop writing 
until I find the perfect ending
And I will not leave any pages blank

(13) GAME
The coach called my number
So I stepped up to the plate
The pitcher threw the ball
But I swung too late

Two strikes left
I'm down in the count
I know I can't give up
As I hear the fans shout

Again the pitcher threw the ball
After he checked the sign
A ball way outside
But the empire is blind
He called strike two…
As the catcher smiled

Now I'm down and out
Swinging at anything that comes
It's the bottom of the ninth
And we need a home run

Now the pitcher does
What he has to do
He threw another pitch
And I swung right through

Now he's jumping up
With his fists tightly clenched
As I put my head down
Walking on back to the bench

Time for the winners and the losers
To each go their separate ways
We both had our chances
In the game we just played

Time to clear my ears
Of all their constant ringing
But I took my shot
At least I went down swinging

As the stadium quiets down
After the outcome 
has been revealed

Everybody leaves the park
There's only grass left on the field

Just my luck
The clouds begin to rain

But as I scratch my head
I remember that tomorrow
There will be another game

 SET LIST THREE (3)
inspiring, cheery, upbeat
A collection of light and lift—songs that remind us why we keep going. With melodies that invite participation and lyrics that celebrate resilience, this set is an antidote to heaviness, offering moments of genuine joy and the simple pleasure of being alive.
Hope & Resilience, Celebration & Joy, Self-Discovery, The Power of Now
SELF IN THE MIRROR
(1) Advice
(2) F the W
(3) Another
(4) The Spot
(5) Night Light
(6) The Watcher
(7) Dance Floor
(8) Fences
(9) Stay Big
(10) Name In Lights
(11) It Doesn't Matter
(12) Blank Pages
(13) The Game

Set List 3 — Self in the Mirror

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Set List 3 — Self in the Mirror

Lead Rating: PG/PG-13

Total Points: 19

Strategic Arc: Burnout, disillusionment, existential fatigue. First serious turn.

Trigger Warning: Depression, burnout, emotional detachment, existential fatigue, substance references (weed, alcohol). No explicit violence or trauma.

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Song
Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Advice
PG
Looking for a sign

2
F the W
PG-13
Fuck the world, let's get high

3
Another
PG-13
I'm not done fighting

4
the Spot
PG-13
Searching for validation

5
Night Light
PG
Beacon through the void

6
the Watcher
PG
Someone watching over

7
Dance Floor
PG-13
Lose yourself completely

8
Fences
PG-13
Separation everywhere

9
Stay Big
PG-13
Fame won't last, I will

10
Name In Lights
PG-13
What happens when you're exposed?

11
It Doesn't Matter
PG
Nothing feels real

12
Blank Pages
G
Story not yet told

13
the Game
PG
Try and fail repeatedly

Collection Summary: A raw, introspective set about burnout, self-doubt, and the search for meaning when everything feels hollow. These songs balance cynicism with sincerity, offering neither easy answers nor false hope.

Artist Comparison: Kurt Cobain, Tom Waits, early Beck

Key Themes: Introspection, burnout, spiritual detachment, ego, resilience


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SONG LIST 3 A Day at the Office

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SONG LIST 5 Love Without a Doubt

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SONG LIST 7 High Tides and Landslides

SONG LIST 8 A Knight for a Lady

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SONG LIST 10 One Piece Missing

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⚠️ EXTREME TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST FOUR (4)

Set List Four is an unflinching examination of addiction and its collateral damage. Across twelve tracks, substance dependence is portrayed not as a struggle with a hopeful arc, but as a corrosive force that dismantles identity, poisons relationships, and erodes moral boundaries. Violence, neglect, psychological collapse, and death recur throughout — sometimes metaphorical, sometimes disturbingly literal.

This set offers no romanticization and little relief. The listener is placed inside cycles of relapse, denial, domestic abuse, institutional failure, and existential despair. Several tracks are written from unstable or unreliable narrators, intensifying the emotional risk by removing moral distance or resolution.

This material may be profoundly distressing or retraumatizing for vulnerable listeners.

🚨 PRIMARY TRIGGERS PRESENT
Severe substance abuse (alcohol, drugs, nicotine)

Domestic violence and intimate partner harm

Psychological manipulation and trauma bonding

Implied homicide and neglect leading to death

Suicidal ideation and nihilism

Institutional abuse (rehab, medical systems, incarceration)

Criminal justice involvement and relapse cycles

This set is not appropriate for general audiences without explicit content warnings.

💔 DOMESTIC ABUSE & RELATIONAL ENTANGLEMENT
“Married to Something Else” depicts a relationship hollowed out by alcoholism, where the realization emerges that the marriage is no longer to a person, but to a substance. “Watering the Weeds” escalates into explicit domestic violence, confronting denial, religious rationalization, and generational repetition of abuse. These tracks may be especially triggering for survivors of intimate partner harm.

🔥 DEATH & MORAL DETACHMENT
“Rest in Peace” describes a house fire in which the narrator’s wife dies, delivered with emotional detachment and dark humor. The implication of neglect — or indifference — creates a chilling moral void. The disturbance lies in tone rather than graphic detail.

🧠 ADDICTION AS IDENTITY
Tracks such as “Rat Park,” “Rehab,” “Something in My Genes,” “Alcohol,” and “Empty Bottle” frame addiction as destiny rather than behavior. Relapse, genetic fatalism, institutional failure, and self-loathing dominate. “Empty Bottle” contains imagery that may suggest suicidal ideation.

🕳️ CLOSING NOTE
“Let Me Live the Dream” ends the set without resolution — exhausted, haunted, and unresolved.

Set List Four documents addiction as a closed loop that entangles partners, families, and identity itself. There is no redemption arc. Only exposure.

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1 Married To Something Else
2 Watering the Weeds
3 Rest In Peace
4 Downward Spiral
5 Rat Park
6 Rehab
7 Something In My Genes
8 Alcohol
9 Empty Bottle
10 My Best Friends
11 Old Friends
12 Let Me Live the Dream

(1) MARRIED TO SOMETHING ELSE
You watch him come stumbling through the door
Find yourself wondering if you can take it anymore
The wedding ring bonds until death does part
But what’s on your finger is not in your heart

After ten years it’s still the same
While the love is gone
The smell of whiskey still remains

You know you can’t let him drag you down
That’s why some nights you live in another town
You dream of a future where you are free
Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be

You stare at the door until he comes home
Thinking your happiest days are spent alone
Its tugging at your heart it replays in your mind
When he’s sober he’s one of a kind
But that only happens about half of the time

After ten years it’s still the same
While the love is gone
The smell of whiskey still remains

You know you can’t let him drag you down
That’s why some nights you live in another town
You dream of a future where you are free
Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be

It’s never too late for another start
Age doesn’t matter when it concerns the heart
You know you can’t let him drag you down
That’s why some nights you live in another town
You dream of a future where you are free
Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be

It’s time to say your peace and pray a little prayer
To hope he’ll make it on his own when you’re not there
Then maybe he’ll take a look down inside himself
And realize he’s married to something else.…

(2) WATERING THE WEEDS
There are no more secrets
No more trying to hide what you know is true
And you better believe it
There’s no more denying to yourself
No use left in lying to everybody else
Self-crucifying…that’s exactly what you do
Jesus Christ!
Yeah, he did it, too

What game is left to play?
When you can’t play pretend?
Just what do you say?
When you know it’s the end?

This crippling disease has taken its toll
Will never heal, can never mend
Will never be whole
No escaping the demons that have taken control
Show me a man who has lost his strength
I’ll show you a man who has lost his soul
And once you’ve lost the love
Then that’s the end…it’s time to go

While you’ve been praying for salvation
I’ve been thinking about
All the time you’ve been wasting

Seems this madness never stops
In your mind you flip then flop
Riding a broken down Merry-Go-Round
Wondering when you’re gonna get off?

When will you realize that…
We’ve all just one life to live
You’ve got your fingers and your toes
In the cracks of the dam
As you find you’re running out of hands
And it’s still leaking like a sieve
You had better back away
‘Cause pretty soon something’s gonna give

When will you realize that…
You’re better off alone
You can’t get blood from a stone
When’s he coming home?
Don’t you think that’s a bit too soon?
You truly are your mother’s child
If you believe this rose is going to bloom

Perhaps it’s time to grab the weed wacker
For your little secrets can stab like jabbing thorns
Like how many times he’s really smacked ya
There are no excuses left for you to use
By now you know that you’ve been warned

Time to turn off the hose
And stop watering the weeds
There’s already few too many flowers
Is this what the world really needs?

(3) REST IN PEACE
When the flames rose up
I watched my house burn down
As everything I had
Lay smoldering on the ground

Yet I wasn't sad
For me and my cats got out
But I got this sinking feeling
That there was something else....

I walked over to the lawn
Began rummaging around
That's when I remembered
My ears didn't hear the sound

Of a piercing shriek
Yelling at me to wipe my feet
Saying wash your hands twice
Before you come touching me...

Oooooh.....
that's right.....
Oooops....
she must have been asleep...

So when someone asks me,
"How's my wife?"
I say, "May she rest in peace"

(4) DOWNWARD SPIRAL
I've got something on my mind 
so I better just say it
I hear the music in my heart 
but I just can't play it
I feel good inside but I can't explain it

I don't mind when people cry
I don't mind when it's raining
I don't mind when most people die
At least they stop their complaining

I've been led by many people, places and things
There's just so much out there in which to believe

I've loved many people and then 
had to cut my strings
Just to end up watching 
each of them leave

Have to go and plant another seed
Go and find something to fill the void
For idle time is the devil's toy
For sometimes being alone
Is worse than being unemployed

Sometimes you're Siegfried
Sometimes you're the tiger
And sometimes you're Roy

High above
An angel cries
And down below
Even storms have eyes
What grows in me 
I now despise
Deep inside
another man dies

Blood clot...........
Gunshot
It's all the same
Heartache......
A big mistake
Just part of the game

Weeds growing wild
A saddened child
Just who is to blame?
Another birthday cake
Wear black at the wake
We're so glad you came

It's a vicious cycle
You better stay on your toes
It's a downward spiral
It comes and goes...

(5) RAT PARK
Like the town witch on fire
I’ve become a social pariah
I have lost my desire
To climb up any higher

There’s an energy vampire
Now standing right beside ya
There’s lots to know that you can’t see
Until you crack the code 
or else find the key

I was in rough shape 
Looking for an escape
Started feeling sick
Must be time to get fixed

Look inside to see what’s broken
Hoping it’s not a hopeless situation
And that I really am worth saving

Since copping is not coping
When stopping isn’t an option
Oh how can I regain my focus?

It seems we cling to our vices
In major times of crisis
And when we’re feeling isolated
Day by day we’re being sedated

In a state of constant bereavement
Because we’ve failed to have our needs met
Hence our only sense of achievement
Is when we depart this world and leave it

Often it is fleeting and lost after a moment
Though you’re taking a beating 
you try your best not to show it

It was when my world was dark
I made some friends at rat park
They said that I could stay there
That there were lots of fun games to play there

In lofts, down slides and on wheels we play
Oh no more boring lonely days
I’ve been growing stronger no longer do I crave
Of thinking, drinking or sleeping away the day

Yeah, some get lost and some get saved
Others find themselves getting thrown away
Some are still searching even after all these days
You either make your escape or become one with the maze

Remember if God grants wishes 
To all those who kneel and pray
That means that somewhere there’s 
A fallen angel waiting to have his day

(6) REHAB
Sometimes I need a good talking to
To set my mind at ease
It's not always good for you
Doing just what you please

When the door is locked
You just need the right keys
Stop peaking through the keyhole
Get up off your knees

Just a glimpse of the whole
Will never do
With the door barred and chained
It's so hard to get through

Like a deer in headlights
Your feet stick like glue
Denial is just another lie
That you believe is true

Yeah...
I've been sedated
My head played with
Medicated
Regulated
And every word they said dictated
I've been questioned and I stated
That everything good I had I've traded
With every step I've walked been baited
A life like mine you begin to hate it

Well, the doctor's in
And he'll take your money
Then when you're not looking
He'll call you funny...
Names behind your back

The nurses are in on it I got a hunch
See their crooked smiles
While they're serving lunch....
Their white gowns
Should be striped with black

You gotta pay the bills
That'll pay for all the pills
They say will cure your ills
While they're raking in the mils

They locked him in the closet
And then they lost the key
Twenty years later
When they finally found it
They finally set him free

Though he looked much older
He looked okay to me
Though he acted much colder
Like we all expected him to be

Rehab - you never come out
The way you came in
Rehab - Get drunk off words
When they take your gin
Rehab - You'll never be the same
Rehab - you'll never go there again

When he gets home he has a drink
Passes out at the kitchen sink
Though his liver's fine his mind is bloated
Just one drink and his head exploded

Rehab - you never come out
The way you came in
Rehab - Get drunk off words
When they take your gin
Rehab - You'll never be the same
Rehab - you'll never go there again

(7) SOMETHING IN MY GENES
I've got the life juice
Flowing inside me...
Sometimes
Other times
It's been denied from me

I think that depression
Is starting to kick in
Gotta find myself a room
And get checked in...
Quick!

Gotta get it together
Or else just keep on getting sick
Boy I'm in the mix
Into getting my fix
Fu$% being rich!
I'm just another hypocrite
Who talks and talks
But it's just more sh$%

So you learn to live with it
Become a walking regret
Or else a song-writing poet
Boy life sucks
Don't you know it?

I'm a druggie
I'm an alki
I'm a nicotine fiend

I'm a loser
An abuser
Do you know what I mean?

What I've done
Can't be undone
Oh, the things I've seen

This monkey on my back weighs a ton
A weight so heavy I cannot out run
There must be something in my genes

This monkey on my back weighs a ton
A weight so heavy I cannot out run
There's always something in my jeans

Just as the sun comes up
My head goes down
I pick up the paper
And then I put it down

I may waste my life
But at least it's just my own
You won't read about
Any killing sprees from me
When you get home

I may be on page fifty-six
Another kid, another lesson
Another druggie looking for his fix
Wrong place, wrong time
Got bagged for possession

In the home of the brave
And the land of the free
You get to choose
Your own obsession

I'm a druggie
I'm an alki
I'm a nicotine fiend

I'm a loser
An abuser
Do you know what I mean?

What I've done
Can't be undone
Oh, the things I've seen

I've always got something
To write about
I always find myself in a tunnel
In which I can't get out

As the light keeps getting
Dimmer in the distance

Every night I'm on the card
For the heavyweight bout
I once was strong
But now I'm beginning
To have my doubts

I think I may be in need
Of some assistance

(8) ALCOHOL
I am a victim though I feel like a hero
You make me feel like number one yet I'm a zero
All this you put me through and still I go back to you
What is wrong with me? Why can't you let me be?

I saw you once and then I saw you twice
Now I see you all the time
When everything is said and done
I'm the one who pays the price
You never treated me kind

I had to descend from the highest mountains
Just to come back to earth
I climbed up the slopes of the valleys
For what any of it is worth

Still I come back to you after all that you put me through
You and I walked hand in hand and I picked you up when you fell
I thought you were my ticket to heaven and still I landed here in hell

Our conversations were one-sided…I never tried to hide it
You've never given me good advice
Still I come back to you
When everything is said and done… I'm the one who pays the price

Every time I try to stay away you cross my path nearly everyday
I fight so hard to walk a straight line
I fight so hard to leave you behind
Once false step and I'm back again and no further on then where I began
Still I come back to you after all that you put me through

What is wrong with me? Why won't you let me be?

(9) EMPTY BOTTLE
I know you're thinking
Pondering tomorrow
I finally quit drinking
Drowning in my sorrow
Saved myself from sinking
I put down the bottle
When it started leaking
Some things you only borrow
So I know what you're seeking
Who do you lead...whom do you follow?
We both know of what I'm speaking
What do you need and what is hollow?
Do you see your reflection
In an empty bottle?

You don't know where you’re going
Only God knows where you’ve been
But the river keeps on flowing
And the part of you unknowing
Always goes wading on in

Signs read danger, don't fall in
Or you don't know the trouble you're in
Water so sweet it tastes just like gin
Take a dip and be baptized
In the pool of sin

Yet this path you walk
Wasn't chosen all on your own
As the thoughts you think are so deceiving
Everyday drifting farther from home
Now you regret the day you thought of leaving

The hard stuff's in the freezer
The 30 pack's in the fridge
The troubles of the world are building
Which way to the bridge?

You don't know where you’re going
Only God knows where you’ve been
But the river keeps on flowing
And the part of you unknowing
Always goes wading on in

Signs read danger, don't fall in
Or you don't know the trouble you're in
Water so sweet it tastes just like gin
Take a dip and be baptized
In the pool of sin

I know you're thinking
Pondering tomorrow
I finally quit drinking
Drowning in my sorrow
Saved myself from sinking
I put down the bottle
When it started leaking
Some things you only borrow
So I know what you're seeking
Who do you lead...whom do you follow?
We both know of what I'm speaking
What do you need and what is hollow?
Do you see your reflection
In an empty bottle?

(10) MY BEST FRIENDS
One day at a time
Step by step
Suck toxins down
With every breath

In my time of weakness
I was never all alone
I despise the day
Tobacco seeds were sewn

Hand in hand
Right by my side
And when we went
Our separate ways
A part of me died

My twenty little friends
Though small in size
Became my foes
Whom I now despise

When the truth is clear
They kill you slow
There’s no pleading ignorance
When everybody knows

(11) OLD FRIENDS
It looks like
I’m stuck inside the house again
Because I said goodbye
To all of my party friends

Going straight
can be so tough
When I’m alone
it’s especially rough

That is why I write for you
It really kills the time thinking up rhymes
After all that I’ve been through
If you listen up then I can save you some time

I’ve written stoned
I’ve written sauced
But I had trouble
Getting my point across

While trying to find myself
I often got lost
But with the devil gone
Now I’m the boss

The liquor store’s
It’s still open
My dealer
He’s still smokin’
Only one call away
I could ease my mind
Get a little number
That’s why I took his number
And I threw it away
Before I throw it all away

Girls who’ve been with me
They always forced me to choose
Now every one of them is history
And I’m the one left singing the blues

Anytime I hear about old friends
It’s only been bad news
Something like, “Hey, he’s in jail”
“Can I borrow some money for bail?”

I’d ask how he got there
They answered the cops found all the clues

The men in blue arrived at his house…
And started asking questions
Smelled something funny…
So he got bagged for possession

When he goes to church
He should ask god for repentance
The last time he got called into the station
Judge gave him probation
With a two-year suspended sentence

The list goes on and on
And it keeps getting worse
All my friends are hexed
I had to cross my name
Off of the list
Before I was next

For this black cloud hanging over me
It’ll follow me for two years
Before I am free
And if my probation officer I don’t see
I’ll sleep for the next six months
Inside a correctional facility

(12) LET ME LIVE THE DREAM
I woke up… My mind was racing
When my feet hit the floor… they soon started pacing
Craving the apple I was once tasting
Footsteps to the past I began retracing
Running from old enemies I once was facing
All the while believing I was escaping

I never show my weakness even when I am breaking up inside
The only thing stronger than my ego is my foolish sense of pride

Sometimes I sacrifice all I've made
To live within a lie
The only cross to which I'm bound
Is burning me alive

Oh my, my, my, my... let me live the dream
Of escaping the demons... alive and unseen

From the blaring whispers of compulsion
Very few mortals can hide
Freedom is just another word for failure
For all those who have lost when they've tried

For the key to unlocking the mind is different
To each be them young or old
In trying to reach what they're searching for
Yet have never been able to hold

Oh my, my, my, my... let me live the dream
Of escaping the demons... alive and unseen

I tried staying with my own kind
I tried swimming within my own mind
But so slowly the path unwinds
Though I keep following what I hope to find
Even when life looks grave as you're running out of time

Could reality ever match my dream?
Will this nightmare ever end?
Will a new day ever begin?
Can I learn to make myself whole again?
To live without and change within?

Oh my, my, my, my...
let me live the dream
Of escaping the demons...
alive and unseen

Out of sight can mean out of mind
Yet what I am running from is never far behind
Once distant memories now mirror the present
As the shadowless clock has stopped telling time

No, you can't escape the voices
Echoing inside of your ear
As thoughts become desires
Speaking all too loud and clear

Although you may bow your head
While pretending not to hear
When the calming silence is gone
You know what is there

Oh my, my, my, my...
let me live the dream
Of escaping the demons...
alive and unseen

SET LIST FOUR (4)
PARTNERED TO THE CRIME
drugs, alcohol, addiction
Unflinching and unsparing, this collection walks through the landscape of dependency—from the first taste to the bottom of the bottle, from the warmth of old friends to the cold reality of recovery. These songs don't glamorize or condemn; they simply bear witness.
Addiction & Dependency, Recovery & Relapse, Self-Destruction, The Cost of Escape
(1) Married To Something Else
(2) Watering the Weeds
(3) Rest In Peace
(4) Downward Spiral
(5) Rat Park
(6) Rehab
(7) Something In My Genes
(8) Alcohol
(9) Empty Bottle
(10) My Best Friends
(11) Old Friends
(12) Let Me Live the Dream

Set List 4 — Partnered to the Crime

PAGE 22 OF 34

Set List 4 — Downward Spiral

Lead Rating: PG-13

Total Points: 24

Strategic Arc: Addiction, domestic abuse, death. Dark but artistic.

Trigger Warning: Severe substance abuse, domestic violence, psychological manipulation, implied homicide, suicidal ideation, institutional abuse.

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Song
Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Married To Something Else
PG-13
Bound to poison

2
Watering the Weeds
PG-13
Don't feed what harms

3
Rest In Peace
PG-13
Home destroyed completely

4
Downward Spiral
PG-13
Falling continues forever

5
Rat Park
PG-13
Companions in cages

6
Rehab
PG-13
Permanently altered

7
Something In My Genes
PG-13
Addiction in blood

8
Alcohol
PG-13
Return endlessly

9
Empty Bottle
PG-13
See yourself inside

10
My Best Friends
PG-13
My twenty little killers

11
Old Friends
PG-13
Trapped inside walls

12
Let Me Live the Dream
PG-13
Reality promised

Collection Summary: An unflinching examination of addiction and its collateral damage. This set offers no romanticization and little relief — only exposure to cycles of relapse, denial, domestic abuse, and existential despair.

Artist Comparison: Johnny Cash, Warren Zevon, Nine Inch Nails

Key Themes: Addiction, domestic violence, institutional failure, relapse, despair


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⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST FIVE (5)
Set List Five contains frequent explicit sexual themes, crude humor, and provocative language, with each track contributing its own variation of adult content and tone.

“Mic Drop” leans heavily into exaggerated, performance-driven sexuality with graphic imagery and shock-value delivery, setting an intentionally over-the-top tone.

“One Night Stan” centers on casual encounters and emotional detachment, portraying relationships as fleeting and transactional.

“Meet Michael Hawk” is built around extended sexual innuendo and wordplay, using humor and double meanings to create suggestive content throughout.

“There It Goes” introduces a darker edge, combining explicit sexual references with themes of emotional emptiness, self-destructive behavior, and disregard for others.

“Living Large” shifts into body-focused humor, which may be perceived as fetishizing or insensitive in its portrayal of physical traits.

“No Thanks Babe” includes judgmental and potentially offensive attitudes around appearance, relationships, and sexual history, reflecting a more critical and abrasive tone.

“Look Her Up” continues with themes of infidelity and objectification, emphasizing shallow motivations in romantic decision-making.

“Hideaway” blends moments of chaos and disaster imagery with infidelity and deception, ultimately using a twist of humor to undercut the situation.

“In a Jiffy” explores casual intimacy followed by regret and lingering confusion, with references to substance use and emotional dissonance after a brief connection.

“Fifty Ways” is a parody-style track that presents exaggerated, crude “instructions” tied to different names, using explicit humor and shock value to reinterpret relationship advice.

“She Don’t Come Easy” is a parody inspired by Ringo Starr, focusing on sexual performance themes and frustration, delivered through explicit and comedic framing.

“Cinnabon Girl,” a spoof inspired by Neil Young, uses playful but suggestive metaphors and innuendo to create a lighter tone, though it still contains adult themes.

Overall, the set is driven by explicit humor, parody, and boundary-pushing language, with varying degrees of emotional depth beneath its provocative surface.

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SET LIST FIVE (5)
1 Mic Drop
2 One Night Stan
3 Meet Michael Hawk
4 There It Goes
5 Living Large
6 No Thanks Babe
7 Look Her Up
8 Hideaway
9 In a Jiffy
10 Fifty Ways
11 She Don't Come Easy
12 Cinnabon Girl

(1) MIC DROP
In I walk
You hear the mic drop
Even the hands of the clock stop
All the fans in stands knees knock

Once rhymes start dropping there’s no stopping 
Girls kicking their knickers and panties off
As seats are getting wet from where it’s soft like cotton

The chicks with a flick of their wrists 
Are lingerie tossing
We be G-string flossing
The floozies are using my sausage as a lozenge 
Then I asked if salad tossing is an option

We all know I come with extra dressing
‘Cause I’m flexing and not stressing
But just to get that much flesh in 
There is bound to be some messing

It will get down and dirty
If she’s flirty and under thirty
Hope you’re thirsty is she gets squirty

Look now we’re all sweaty ‘cause she’s ready 
to have you and your best friend 
to put it in and take it out 

Now her mouth 
Now her spout
Now her mouth 
Now her spout
And now…
BABY PULL IT OUT!

Must be time to console
Oops…went in the wrong hole
(But it wasn’t REALLY the wrong hole)

Yeah, guys know…
(stop look around)
Hey, any bi’s blow?
I still get good wood on the fast ball!
Yes, I’ll fuck trannys who are passable
Go ahead…Make my day!
And lick my balls and @sshole!

(2) ONE NIGHT STAN
Well I’m going out tonight
And I look ‘aight
It’s time to give the ladies hell
We’ll catch one under our spell

And then maybe take her home
You know I love to bone!
The next morning I’ll drop her off
And never call her on the phone 

You can call me ‘one night Stan”
Hey baby, I’m YOUR man!
Let’s have a little fling
Who get the girls to sing?

And as you’re calling out my name
We’ll get this kitten tamed
I’ll give you the best day of your life
Then sneak out in the middle of the night

Yeah, you get just one day then I’m afraid
I’ll have to go star on another stage
Today it’s ALL the rage
So don’t feel like YOU’VE been played

They call me ‘wrong number Bill’
Hey baby come and get your fill!

They call me ‘long gone John’
It may not be right…
But you can’t tell me that it’s wrong!

(3) MEET MICHAEL HAWK
I called up this girl who
was going to see me tonight
She told me she was going to
a play with Michael Hawk…

Have you ever
met Michael Hawk?
I heard all his friends
call him Mike
He’s real friendly with the ladies
There’s something
about him they all like

Have you ever
met Michael Hawk?
He’s what they call
a real standup guy
He is over
six feet tall
And almost two feet wide

Michael Hawk might look
a little strange to you
Because his head is purple
His belly is white
And his feet are blue

He’s a memorable man
that Michael Hawk…
He always leans when he walks
He only wears one sock
And he never, ever talks

All the girls fall in love
with Michael Hawk
They say he’ll fit you
like a glove
that Michael Hawk
And that no man rises above
Michael Hawk
Yes, he’s very well
thought of that
Michael Hawk

Come along with
Michael Hawk
Won’t you dance
with Michael Hawk?
Hum a song to
Michael Hawk
Wrap your hands
around Michael Hawk

But never laugh
at Michael Hawk
And never turn your back on
Michael Hawk
Or you might get
slapped by Michael Hawk
For he’s very rash
that Michael Hawk

Have him for breakfast
Michael Hawk
Make him supper
Michael Hawk
Introduce him to your
sister and mother
Michael Hawk
But not your father or brother
Michael Hawk

He reminds me of a pirate,
Michael Hawk
For he’s only got one good eye
He’s made many girls go blind
Other girls quiver
and other girls cry

If you ever come across
Michael Hawk
Don’t hesitate to
give him a kiss
Just so long
as you don’t mind
The slight taste
of salt upon your lips

(4) THERE IT GOES
Ninety nine percent of my time is spent alone
And I give the one percent to the fucking hoes

I’m good for dick and not much else
I have a hard time controlling myself

Those that I love I hurt the most
In time you’ll find I’ve become a ghost

You think you see me
I’m not really there
Behind my fake concern
I don’t really care

Ninety nine percent of my time is spent alone
And I give the one percent to the fucking hoes

She turns a trick
Well that’s a treat
We get a room
Take her off the street

Hey babe
How ‘bout breakfast in bed
Could you give me a hand?
And maybe some head

Ninety nine percent of my time is spent alone
And I give the one percent to the fucking hoes

Some have a job
And others have a hobby
I got an excuse to leave
When hard gets floppy

I leave ‘em hot
And I leave ‘em soggy
I leave ‘em cold 
With no, “I’m sorry”

Ninety nine percent of my time is spent alone
And I give the one percent to the fucking hoes

You better get it while you can…
And there it goes

(5) LIVING LARGE
When my fat girl winked at me
I smiled back Immediately

‘Cause I’ve learned to 
like ‘em you see
hefty, chunky, 
bumpy and large

You know when obesity 
Comes running towards me
You know I don’t stray far
Oh yeah…oh yeah….
I’ve grown to love ‘em large

Sure she’s got some 
pie on the thigh
And some rack on the lamb
But at least I found someone
Who loves me for who I am…

Sure she may sag a bed
Or perhaps maybe 
even bend a chair

But it’s really good 
for your head
To know she’ll
always be there…

Sure, she’s got more 
than just one chin
And the girth of 
two full-grown men

But she’s become 
the center of my earth
Not because of 
gravity but because 
I know what true
love is worth…

It’s not weighed by 
pounds of the flesh
Yet it’s so rare that 
Two people mesh

Sure, she fell on me 
the last time we hugged
That’s not how or why 
I got sucked into the 
belly button of love…

I just felt so cozy 
so safe, so warm
And well-protected from
all of this world’s harm

So now I live here in this place
Living off the 
crumbs and gravy 
that runs down 
The sides of her face…

Sure, when she sits 
she somehow expands
But we were meant 
to become one 
in God’s great big plan

Because I finally found a girl
Who loves me for all that I am

So when my fat girl winked at me
I smiled back immediately

‘Cause I’ve learned to 
love ‘em you see
hefty, chunky, bumpy and large

You know when obesity 
Comes running towards me
You know I don’t stray far
Oh yeah…oh yeah….
I’ve grown to love ‘em large

Oh yeah…oh yeah….
I’ve grown to love ‘em large

(6) NO THANKS BABE
I said no thanks babe
No I don’t want that
If you end up looking like your momma
That’ll be too damn fat

I’m not looking for a one-night stand
I’m looking for a wife
Not looking to just share my bed
Looking to share my whole life

It’s not easy
chopping down family trees
They call me the gardener
when I’m raking up your leaves

How many men
have you been with?
Any history of disease?
I need to know it all
So answer if you please

(7) LOOK HER UP
You fell in love
But she wasn’t a ten
Now you’re wondering
What if you went back again…

Would you look her up 
Just to f*ck her hot friend?
Yeah, that’s the question
Most asked amongst men

Some live to run themselves
Straight through the ringer
Keep falling in love
With all these unplugged singers

When they’ve already heard the story
As we count the fallen seeking glory

(8) HIDEAWAY
Digging ditches by the side of the road – yeah
Two trains are coming and they’re overloaded – oh no
The bomb went off there was a giant explosion
Lots of things got lost amidst the commotion

Lots of people changed and it wasn’t for the better
“Every man for himself!” they all cried together

Yeah roll, duck and cover
Is a real mother fucker
When the room’s on fire
And you’re the burning tire

This scene that you’re seeing
Makes you feel so out of being
Leaves wondering if you’ll ever be the same?

It’s been a devil of a day
And you haven’t yet escaped
You’ll be lucky if you get home with your name

Often times when I’m touring
I find myself exploring
New people, places, things and states of mind

Oh… so why would I be lonely 
When there’s so much you could show me
You know that we could take a trip at any time…

Yeah, I’m right here
But I’m willing to disappear
We could find ourselves a little hideaway…

I know you’re husband’s out of town
And he won’t be coming ‘round
You know we could sure have ourselves a day…

Well, mamma said yes
Just like I guessed
So we proceeded on our way

To the traveler’s inn down town
Where we could lay ourselves down
And have a cozy little stay

Well we were walking from car
A boy yelled, “Mommy, there you are!”
I felt her let go of my hand right away

Little boy and mommy looked surprised
Both looked at me with great big eyes
And I said, “Hi, my name is Dave and I’m gay.”

(9) IN A JIFFY
She had a reputation for repetition
Yeah, lots of guys got what they were wishing
Easier than going fishing
Boy, you ain't kidding
Like one-string fiddling
Or perhaps burning kindling
When two hands start fondling
So quickly she's responding

There's a party in her pants
And I was that night's guest of honor
Though I didn't really want her
Even though she's hotter than fire
With her eyes filled with desire
I shoulda took my worm off the hook
And walked away from the water

Because lately I've been being haunted
By an unwanted and unfading memory
Two pictures taken for someone else
For some reason I ended up getting them
I got them all to myself

Yeah, those, and a thong are all that she left me
Well, that and a couple of songs
And now that she has gone
I guess I'm getting along
But it still feels a little wrong
That's she's on her way back to Taiwan
And now I'm back to hitting on my bong

For you see she left me in a jiffy
After giving me a stiffy
I ended up getting one last quicky
And then she was history
She said that she had to go
She had to go and unlock the mystery
I said if these walls could talk
Then we'd both be the talk of the century
She said if these walls could talk
Then we'd both be in the penitentiary

To which I replied that all depends
On who's sitting on the jury
She believed that we'd go free
If she could do to them
What she had done to me

Well I guess by now you see
Why she's able to be walking down the street
And why when it comes to me
They're bringing the heat
'Cause when she got down on her knees
I was still standing on my feet
Because you see...

She had a reputation for repetition
Yeah, lots of guys got what they were wishing
Easier than going fishing
Boy, you ain't kidding
Like one-string fiddling
Or perhaps burning kindling
When two hands start fondling
So quickly she's responding

There's a party in her pants
And I was that night's guest of honor
Though I didn't really want her
Even though she's hotter than fire
With her eyes filled with desire
I shoulda took my worm off the hook
And walked away from the water
If she ever had a kid
The whole block could be the father

(10) FIFTY WAYS (Spoof of FIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER)
The problem is he gets no head not a sniff of pussy 
The answer is easy if you take advice from me
I can help you make it big your little, little peter
There must be fifty ways to fuck your lover

He said he got no courage around the girls
So they don’t open their shells, don’t give up their pearls
I say if you want the sex then just be direct 
There must be fifty ways to fuck your lover, fifty ways to fuck your lover

Put a bag over head Ted
Make sure she's on the pill Bill
Just whip out your dick Nick
Ride her like a bike Mike

Do her doggy style Kyle
Hit her from the back Jack
Play her like a toy Roy
Go and slip it in Vin

Give her a spank Frank
Stick it right between her lips Chip
Tell her jump on John
How about sharing Aaron

Tell her right now gimmie Jimmy
Watch out for a quiffs Keith
Go dive in the gorge George
Give her your all Paul

You better make her moan Ramon
Drop the bomb Tom
Measure her by the meter Peter
Get it nice and sweaty Eddie

Look out for the puss Russ 
Whip out your meat Pete
Give it a shave Dave
Grab her two knobs Bob

I wanna hear her squeal Neal 
Rub it on her hymen Simon
Go for the cherry theft Jeff
Make sure it's bleeding Stephen

Ask her to free Willy Billy 
Shoot a wad Rod
Try not to turn her gay Ray
Don't be a homo so go for the blow Mo

Play homerun derby and give her the bat Matt 
Do her in the dark Mark
Watch out for the smell Mel
Turn her black and blue Lou

Don't make her beg Greg 
Play Adam and Eve Steve
Lift up her shirt Kurt

Make her your bitch Rich
Try for the whole fist Chris
Make sure it's clean Dean 
Don't be a dad Brad

Get her wet and hot Scott
Make her panties sticky Rickey
Never settle for a hug Doug 
Go taste some candy Andy

Let her ride the bologny pony Tony
Unbutton her pants Lance
Just give her a good fuck Chuck
You don't' have to discuss much...

He said he was impressed and he’d see how it goes
Now that he’d seen just how to pimp the hoes
If you’re a player know a player plays for there must be fifty ways

He said with this new insight he was sure to score tonight
Later on when I saw him with a lady I knew that he was right
In the morning we’ll have to check her pillow to see if she bites
There must be fifty ways to lick your lover, 
And fifty guys who met your mother!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha…

(11) SHE DON’T COME EASY (spoof of IT DON’T COME EASY)
One, two,
One, two, three, four!

She don’t cum easy
You know she don’t cum easy
You’ve asked a lot of dudes who’ve said that it’s the truth 
Now you know she don’t cum easy

You can open up your mouth and stick your tongue way out
But you’ll just get claustrophobic and queasy

Spread those legs apart
Let’s cum together 
She said but before you even start
I want you to know that I’ve had better...

It don’t matter if you’re gonna fuck or if you lick and suck
We all know she don’t cum easy
She’ll stack ‘em side by side lined up in rows of five
Asking, “Who’ll be the one to please me?”

Wet… that pussy is what you want to make it
Sure, she’s lied to other guys
Look her in the eyes and watch out that she don’t fake it

You’ve asked a lot of dudes who’ve said that it’s the truth 
Now you know she don’t cum easy

You can open up your mouth and stick your tongue way out
But you’ll just get claustrophobic and queasy

Wet… that pussy is what you want to make it
Sure, she’s lied to other guys
Look her in the eyes and watch out that she don’t fake it

It don’t matter if you’re gonna fuck or if you lick and suck
We all know she don’t cum easy
She’ll stack ‘em side by side lined up in rows of five
Asking, “Who’ll be the one to please me?”

(12) CINNABON GIRL (spoof of CINNAMON GIRL)
I fell in love with a Cinnabon Girl
When she reached in with her nub
And gave my foam latte a swirl
My Cinnabon Girl

She drank cream from the pitcher
Stole all the butter in sight
And when she called me her pecan
It was to my delight
My Cinnabon Girl

Six sticky buns for here
At least two more to go
And throw in a cup of glaze
Because you just never know

With a Cinnabon girl
She looked at me
Like I had pies in my eyes
I whispered in her ear
“For you it's a la mode, my dear”
To my Cinnabon Girl

I ordered three vanilla crullers
She made ‘em disappear
My eyes grew wide
I can’t say how …
I can only say where

But, it was the last croissant
Which we both did want
So we got into a fight...

Now it seems like nothing’s right
Right!!!
Right!
Right?

I fell in love with a Cinnabon Girl
When she reached in with her nub
And gave my foam latte a swirl
My Cinnabon Girl

SET LIST FIVE (5)
funny, explicit, offensive, dirty
No apologies, no filters—just the raw, ridiculous, and often profane side of life. These songs revel in the absurd, the explicit, and the unapologetically crude, finding humor where others might blush and honesty where others might hide.
Shock Humor, Sexual Content, Parody, No Holds Barred
LIVING A LA MODE
(1) Mic Drop
(2) One Night Stan
(3) Meet Michael Hawk
(4) There It Goes
(5) Living Large
(6) No Thanks Babe
(7) Look Her Up
(8) Hideaway
(9) In a Jiffy
(10) Fifty Ways
(11) She Don't Cum Easy
(12) Cinnabon Girl

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Set List 5 — Living à la Mode

Lead Rating: X

Total Points: 33

Strategic Arc: Explicit sexual humor, parody, pornographic intent. First X.

 ⚠️ Trigger Warning: Frequent explicit sexual themes, crude humor, provocative language, graphic imagery, parody, innuendo, emotional emptiness, body-focused humor, infidelity, objectification.

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Rating

Musician/Artist

Four-Word Summary

1
Mic Drop
X
Explicit, chaotic performance mayhem

2
One Night Stan
PG-13
Fleeting fling, nightly escape

3
Meet Michael Hawk
PG-13
This one seems normal

4
There It Goes
PG-13
Lonely man, reckless encounters

5
Living Large
PG-13
Body-positive lustful comedy

6
No Thanks Babe
PG-13
Judgmental, critical sexual rejection

7
Look Her Up
PG-13
Second chance, say hi

8
Hideaway
PG-13
Infidelity with a twist

9
In a Jiffy
PG-13
First to home nightly

10
Fifty Ways
X
Many methods intercourse parody

11
She Don't Come Easy
X
Her sexual frustration parody

12
Cinnabon Girl
PG-13
Date with diabetes parody

Collection Summary:
 A gleefully obscene set driven by explicit humor, parody, and boundary-pushing language. Beneath the raunch and braggadocio lies a raw kind of sadness — the desperate ego of someone terrified of being irrelevant.

Artist Comparison:
 Eminem (Slim Shady), Stephen Lynch, Tenacious D

Key Themes:
 Explicit sexual humor, parody, transgressive language, emotional emptiness, objectification

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DEFINITELY NOT LOVE

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST SIX (6)
Set List Six centers on romantic collapse, emotional betrayal, psychological erosion, grief, and identity fatigue. The harm here is quiet rather than explosive. There is no spectacle — only the long aftermath of love deteriorating, unresolved conversations, and the cumulative damage people inflict when intimacy corrodes instead of heals.

This set may be deeply affecting for listeners who have experienced emotional abandonment, manipulative or imbalanced relationships, depression, numbness, grief following breakups or death, lingering guilt, or the fear of starting over too late. While no explicit violence or sexual assault is present, several tracks explore emotional coercion, identity disintegration, and despair adjacent to suicidal ideation.

ROMANTIC DISSOLUTION & EMOTIONAL BETRAYAL
Most of this set documents the slow collapse of intimate relationships. Songs such as “Expired,” “Cry Me a River,” “Nothing at All,” “Heartstrings,” “Endless Chorus,” and “Jewelry Box” linger in the aftermath — when love has died but attachment remains. Themes of waiting, pleading, sleeplessness, and emotional erosion recur, reflecting drawn-out separations rather than explosive endings.

“Face to Face” introduces deception and fixation, including boundary-crossing behavior such as waiting outside a partner’s home. While not violent, the implied surveillance may be unsettling for listeners sensitive to control or relational intrusion.

DEPRESSION, NUMBNESS & SELF-DOUBT
Tracks like “Below Zero,” “Half Told,” “Lament,” and “Endless Chorus” confront emotional shutdown and loss of identity. Lyrics describe numbness replacing pain, persistent rumination, insomnia, shame, and fear of the past resurfacing. “Below Zero” is particularly bleak, approaching emotional self-erasure without explicit self-harm.

EMOTIONAL IMBALANCE & IDENTITY EROSION
Songs such as “Heartstrings,” “Matches to Burn,” and “Nameless” explore relationships defined by emotional exploitation, invalidation, and power imbalance. Identity suppression, comparison, and diminished self-worth recur, particularly in depictions of being valued only for validation rather than humanity.

GRIEF, AVOIDANCE & FRAGILE HOPE
Alcohol appears as emotional anesthesia rather than celebration. Grief surfaces both through death and emotional abandonment, emphasizing loss without closure. Hope exists across the set, but it is fragile, conditional, and unresolved.

FINAL NOTE
Set List Six captures what lingers after love fails — grief without spectacle, pain without permission, and healing not yet begun.

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DEFINITELY NOT LOVE
SET LIST SIX (6)
1 Expired (beginning part)
2 Face To Face
3 Cry Me a River
4 Nothing At All
5 Matches To Burn
6 Heart Strings
7 Endless Chorus
8 Nameless
9 Below Zero
10 Lament
11 He Said She Said
12 Half Told
13 Jewelry Box

(1) EXPIRED
I am hoping it's not true
But our time may have expired
Sure I still sing for you
But lacking passion, lacking fire

Or at least not like I used to
I won't lie I'm not a liar
My eyes still like looking at you
Oh -- but now I closed them 
when I get tired

(2) FACE TO FACE
You can run and you can hide
But I know your face 
It always shows
That you can’t lie…

So I don’t call you
On the phone
And now you know
The reason why…

I read your letters
So full of love
You tell me I’m the one
That you’re thinking of

Yet I know your gift
When it comes to the pen
As I think to myself
You’re at it again

One line leads to another line
One lie leads to another lie
I know all the walls
You use to hide behind -
It’s true

So I wait outside your place
To meet and greet you face-to-face
So I know whether to cry or laugh
When I look back 
at all those paragraphs –
From you

As I think back to all 
the things you’ve said
For I long to know 
what’s really inside your head

What you’re thinking to yourself 
and also about me
When you say that destiny 
is what we were meant to be

Together and forever 
for it was written in the stars
Yes, this is the true you 
and this is what you really are

Or whether this is just another plot 
and I am just your toy
Am I really your man 
or just a silly little boy?

(3) CRY ME A RIVER
Cry me a river...
Ten miles wide
Your warm tears will never
Send a shiver...
Up and down my spine

Cry me a river...
Then let me know
when you are through
Of everything that
you promised
Nothing was delivered
When you don't feel as if you're one
Then you should go back to being two

Cry me a river...
And then please won't you paddle away?
I've grown tired of sitting in the dark
Watching the clock
Trying to smile all the while...
I'm waiting for you

I would have put you first
If you put me anywhere but last
Yet as our time in life is slipping
Such time you lose too fast

The time for chasing rainbows
Is now as distant as the stars
Through the mountains you've traversed
You have discovered who you are

You bruise when you bleed
Accept this fact as fate
You know now what you need
For him it's now too late

You would have put him first
If he put you anywhere but last
But as you toasted to the New Year
Broken shattered glass

You would have shown him love
Had he given you a wink
You would have filled his cup with wine
Had he asked you for a drink

To the sparkling gleam in his eye
You've since become blind
Now this is all you can think of
Whenever he enters your mind:

Cry me a river...
Ten miles wide
Your warm tears will never again
send a shiver...
Up and down my spine

Cry me a river...
And then let me know
when you are through
Of everything that was once promised
Nothing was delivered
When you don't feel as if you're one
then you should go back to being two

(4) NOTHING AT ALL
You walked up to me
With my clothes in your hands
We had a conversation about things
Only I could understand

Not a tear I did see
For I kept my eyes closed
The way in which I feel
I'm the only one who knows

You begged and pleaded from your knees
Every other word I heard was please
Please don't you go away
Please, please
Don't you leave me this way

Only I knew that our fate was sealed
I kept my eyes closed
So that nothing was revealed

Someday all your wounds will heal
Someday I will tell you 
how I really feel...

I once asked you 
to save me from myself
Though soon I learned
That you can't leave that up
To anyone else

I asked you to change your ways
Though soon I realized
That some colors won't fade

The only one to help me is myself
For sometimes some things
Cannot be entrusted to someone else

Your inspiration was once my soul
But soon your hatred was for me
And the love I stole

You thought I'd take your heart
And keep it forever
But in this world of uncertainty
You can never say never

So many red-eyed days
So many nights filled with unrest
I was finally forced to realize
This may be too great a test

So many sleepless nights
And soon daydreams of another's face
I knew I couldn't stay
While wishing I was in some other place

Your heart's filled with gold
Yet your eyes are so cold
And the mirror which you hold
Reflects the face of no one at all

Your weakness often showed
And soon the time grew old
As no dream I had was too bold
The ceiling of our love was bound to fall

No regrets
Though memory will not soon forget
Myself I found
Now there are no more chains
To hold me down

There must be some reason
That it turned out this way
But I know right now
There's not one that I could say

I loved you once
And you will find love again
There is no better message
That I can send

Maybe I shouldn't have made you
Feel so tall
Maybe all your problems I couldn't solve
Sleep well knowing I am sorry
For the pain I've caused
Just know it's better feeling pain
Than feeling nothing at all

(5) MATCHES TO BURN
I need a reason to sing
I can’t think of anything
And I’ve been thinking a lot
About a world not filled
With things you could see
But of all those things
I dreamed to be
So long ago that I forgot

When down memory lane…
I took a stroll
I re-lived mostly pain…
and now that pain…
It takes its toll

I’ll make a promise to you
And then I won’t show
Yeah, I’ll always leave you guessing
With your insides now exposed

While you’ve still yet to learn your lesson
Ahh… but at least now you’re feeling the cold
Though still… you keep on pressing
But with this new insight you now behold

You see the sun now glistening 
off of the snow
If you listen closely 
then you’ll learn what I know
It takes ten seconds now to see
What took me twenty years to learn

Ain’t no paper worth nothing to me
To a girl… With matches to burn
To a girl... with matches to burn..

(6) HEARTSTRINGS
I don't need you for inspiration
Nah, I got plenty of that myself
I'm not looking
for someone to save me
Nah, you can't leave that
to anyone else

I was just looking for someone
to keep me and love me
For all I am....
for my better or worse

I wasn't looking for someone
to take me and leave me
Leaving me feeling this angry,
helpless remorse

As I see you sitting in the chair
Staring back at me
With a cold and lonely stare
I will remember for eternity

I finally want back
What's been taken
What you stole
But I will never get that
‘til I regain control

I am just another trophy
Collecting dust
on your mantle shelf

Something that you've taken
That once belonged
to someone else

Now as I feel forsaken
I criticize my useless self
Plucking at my heartstrings
Is the music you play
only for yourself

Never a thought
for someone else

(7) ENDLESS CHORUS
I'm as deep as the day is long
That's why it hurt me
To find myself becoming weak
When I needed to be strong

This long day and my long face
Shows you that I know no other way
So it's back to bed with a worried head
An unsteady mind and too much time

I think too much about the past
Of broken trust and how things don't last

I'm as deep as the day is long
That's why I rarely sleep
And I only dream in song
Then I wake up
And I try to play along

To the melody
That my heart weeps
Since you and me
We broke our bond

I find your ghost
Keeps haunting me
With rattling chains
And shaking keys
I try to hide
But to no avail
Just an endless chorus
About how we failed…

(8) NAMELESS
You blew out my candle 
Just so yours could burn brighter
You took my little girl 
And put bad things inside her

Thoughts of not being good enough
Oh how could she measure up
In this morality fashion show
That makes the rules up as they go

Living in the shadows 
and staying low key
Blending in with all 
the pretty things she sees

It won’t make you famous 
but it will help you stay alive
Sometimes remaining nameless 
is the reason why we thrive

You blew out my candle 
Just so yours could burn brighter
You burdened me with heavy load
Just so you could tread lighter

You laughed, pointed and sneered
When I took the wheel and steered
And as I wandered far off course
You offered no form of support

No helping hand to lend
Not a guiding message sent
Left abandoned on the shore
When not thought useful anymore

You kept looking at me
To see the star I’d never be 
But did you question if your perception
Was in fact reality?

You blew out my candle 
Just so yours could burn brighter
When I offered peace or war
You declared, “Neither!”

We’re locked in a state of paradox
Where the focus has been lost
Always scheming or else screaming 
Trying to get your point across

There’s no more words?
I’m at a loss…

(9) BELOW ZERO
My past is trashed 
Burned all the photographs
I sigh then deny when someone asks

No, I never met my hero
On a scale of one to ten
She sent me to below zero

I’ve lost all hope of healing
So I try to numb the feeling
Playing dumb my way of dealing
But I still can’t turn the page

She was a century ahead of her time
And I was five years past my prime
So what could have been so sublime
Instead I lost my guide – my sage

The old me 
would lose to the new me
Yet those tired eyes 
would see right through me
I’ve got a past 
that simply won’t let go
To a flame that burned out long ago

I once put my faith in someone else
Now today I no longer trust myself

You see I lost my nerve, 
my heart and my rightful place 
That’s when I felt 
I didn’t deserve to be part 
of the human race

She gave me a chance to become a man
After an epic fail… 
Well here I am

May God strike me dead 
Right where I now stand…
Yeah, I’m finally ready to get hurt again

(10) LAMENT
You can’t burn what’s already been burned
I died inside once that’s when I learned
Something is gone I can’t put it in words
I’ve been far more reserved – afraid to be hurt

I think it’s contagious
Are you on the same page, kid?

Tell me your story
Share with me your pain
How far was your fall from glory?
And tell me what was her name?

As the life left his eyes
He whispered “Adellana Marie”
Then muttered her last name…
At least what it used to be

The same fire that warms 
May do you great harm 
The many times I was warned 
I claimed false alarm

She hurt me by giving up
I hurt myself I loved too much

We both were harmed 
Though void of intent
I heard cries of a mom
And so off I went

Soon she found another 
A far more tragic event
He put himself above her
And now she’s left to lament

(11) HE SAID SHE SAID
She woke up this morning
In a place she’d never seen before
She said…

I’m ready to turn the page 
but first I must close some doors
I thought that maybe I was learning 
but now I’m not so sure

I said, “You’ve got to hold on”
She said, “I’m not that strong”
“That’s okay” is what I respond
She said, “But I’m not where I belong…
I took a right… But my right went wrong”

I said in time 
you’ll find if you keep on trying
You can hurdle your mind 
and leave it all behind
I can’t weather this storm
I can’t see the sunshine
The last words 
I heard from you was that…
All sense of hope was fading fast

But what you forget
Is that I cry, too
Unclench your fists and remember this
Given time all things must pass
Now I’ve found the rhyme
Have you found a reason?

Killing time it ‘tis the season
A bottle of wine can be so pleasing
I’m feeling fine now my minds at ease

She woke up this morning
In a place she’s never been before
She said…

I’m ready to turn the page
But first I must close some doors
I thought that maybe
I was learning 
but now I’m not so sure

I said, You’ve got to hold on
You say…
I’m not that strong

That’s okay is what I respond
She said…

But I’m not where I belong
I took a right 
but my right went wrong

I said in time you’ll find 
if you keep on trying
You can hurdle your mind 
and leave it all behind
You can weather the storm…

Maybe I can weather this storm
You can find your sunshine…
Maybe I’ll watch the sunrise

She woke up this morning
Or should I say this afternoon
Had she finally broken free?
I can’t tell it’s far too soon
She thought about the
Bridge she’s been burning
Her only way of escape
From this land of ruin
She said…

Well I’ve been burning bridges
But it’s better than burning crosses
When everyone seems suspicious
You start adding up your losses
End up breaking more than dishes
That’s how this whole thing got started
So choose wisely for what you’re wishing
I said try not to make things hard, kid

(12) HALF TOLD
Behind my eyes I can’t let you in
The best I can do is begin again
I let you down and myself to
With all the shit I put you through

Been having a hard time 
holding my head up high
Been having a hard time 
sorting truth from lies

I’m not sure where 
I should go from here
I don’t know if it shows 
but I’m f*cking scared
Seems like everyone I know 
has disappeared… 
through the years

I’ve been looking for something new
And I don’t know what to do
I’ve been seeking to make changes
Having thoughts that are the strangest

I’ve been hiding from my demons
While pretending I don’t see them
Yet I feel their presence creeping
Around my room when I am sleeping

And I find it quite disturbing
More than a little bit unnerving
When you’re trying to go straight 
but keep on swerving
And before it’s too late 
the lesson you are learning

Is you can’t go back and change the past
It catches up with you living fast

As shiny gold turns to rusty bronze
You have to ask yourself where’d I go wrong?
As you trace back the last twenty years
Wondering how on earth did I end up here?

Yet you’re unsure of whether to laugh or cry
Though you’re not tired you close your eyes…
You feel a tear and you don’t know why?
So with retrospect you gaze inside

Never been alone – not with pain and fear
Your travelling companions through the years…
Yet you’re scared of some 
of the past seeds you’ve sowed
So your conscious carries such a heavy load…

I’ve grown tired of these escapades
I’m trying to take back the day
The hands of time can’t be rewound
But I refuse to stay sorrow bound

They say everybody’s got a story
A fall from grace or shining in glory
As of now the tale’s only half told
And my fate awaits 
just up open the road, yeah!

(13) JEWELRY BOX
I'm not an underachiever
More what you call 
a late bloomer
Took me a long time
to become a believer
Otherwise I'd have been here 
a whole lot sooner

I heard it said that 
I was past my prime
But now I know 
it was just a rumor
Such harsh words have 
strengthened me over time
Good thing I still have 
a sense of humor

When I said "take it 
or leave it..." she left it
Never cared about money...
but she cost me time
Ring's in the jewelry box...
I don't regret it
Replacements for me...
I'm sure they're waiting in line

Sacrifices had to be made...
but I'm at peace
You only live once...
I'm back to chasing my dream
After what we both held inside 
had been released
Gave her half of everything...
but my self-esteem

When I said "take it 
or leave it..." she left it
Never cared about money...
but she cost me time
Ring's in the jewelry box... 
I don't regret it
Replacements for me...
she's got them waiting in line

Sacrifices had to be made...
but I'm at peace
You only live once...
I'm back to chasing my dream
After what we both held inside 
had been released
Gave her half of everything...
but my self-esteem

I heard it said that 
I was past my prime
But now I know 
it was just a rumor
Such harsh words have 
strengthened me over time
Good thing I still have 
a sense of humor

I'm not an underachiever
More what you call 
a late bloomer
Took me a long time 
to become a believer
Otherwise we'd have been 
here a whole lot sooner

When differences 
in opinions increased
And they soon become 
known to be extreme
As you find you own what 
really should only 
have been leased
Yes, opposites attract 
yet it's best to 
share common themes

Sacrifices had to be made....
But I'm at peace
You only live once...
I'm back to chasing my dream

SET LIST SIX (6)
relationships hurt
A study in emotional aftermath—the slow fade, the sudden break, the quiet devastation of loving someone who couldn't love you back. These songs live in the spaces between what was said and what was meant, between the promise and the letdown.
Heartbreak & Betrayal, Emotional Aftermath, Unrequited Love, The Weight of Goodbye
(1) Expired
(2) Face To Face
(3) Cry Me a River
(4) Nothing At All
(5) Matches To Burn
(6) Heart Strings
(7) Endless Chorus
(8) Nameless
(9) Below Zero
(10) Lament
(11) He Said She Said
(12) Half Told
(13) Jewelry Box

Set List 6 — Definitely Not Love

PAGE 26 OF 34

Set List 6 — Definitely Not Love

Lead Rating: PG-13

Total Points: 26

Strategic Arc: Romantic collapse, emotional betrayal, psychological erosion.

Trigger Warning: Romantic collapse, emotional betrayal, psychological erosion, grief, identity fatigue, emotional coercion.

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Song
Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Expired
PG-13
Time has finally faded

2
Face To Face
PG-13
Meeting truth directly

3
Cry Me a River
PG-13
Warm tears, cold heart

4
Nothing At All
PG-13
Empty promises, no delivery

5
Matches To Burn
PG-13
Igniting the final bridge

6
Heart Strings
PG-13
Pulling until they snap

7
Endless Chorus
PG-13
Repeating the same pain

8
Nameless
PG-13
Losing identity in love

9
Below Zero
PG-13
Freezing out the past

10
Lament
PG-13
Mourning what is gone

11
He Said She Said
PG-13
Echoes of unresolved talk

12
Half Told
PG-13
Stories left without end

13
Jewelry Box
PG-13
Promise contained

Collection Summary: A set about what lingers after love fails — grief without spectacle, pain without permission, and healing not yet begun. These songs document the slow collapse of intimate relationships.

Artist Comparison: Damien Rice, Elliott Smith, Leonard Cohen

Key Themes: Romantic collapse, emotional betrayal, grief, identity fatigue, numbness


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SONG LIST 2 Sheila Tequila

SONG LIST 3 A Day at the Office

SONG LIST 4 A Traveler in the Distance

SONG LIST 5 Love Without a Doubt

SONG LIST 6 Undertows and Afterglows

SONG LIST 7 High Tides and Landslides

SONG LIST 8 A Knight for a Lady

SONG LIST 9 Between Us and Love

SONG LIST 10 One Piece Missing

SET LIST 1 Glass Half Something

SET LIST 2 Plurality

SET LIST 3 Self in the Mirror

SET LIST 4 Partnered to the Crime

SET LIST 5 Living a la Mode

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2 of 35 Who Tom Is

3 of 35 Introduction

4 of 35 What "Community" Says

5 of 35 Purpose and Structure of Three Books

6 of 35 Table of Contents

7 of 35 Quick Guide G to X

8 of 35 Full Texts of Lyrics

9 of 35 Rolling Stone Style Album reviews

10 of 35 One Sentence Summaries of Tracks

11 of 35 Albums Ranked by Rating G to X

12 of 35 Album Themes, Moods and Profanity Listings

13 of 35 Four Word Descriptions for Every Track

14 of 35 Tracks Listed by Category

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17 of 35 Choose Your Own Adventure Album Orders

19 of 35 Business Plan and 21 Page Summary

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22 of 35 What Tom Wants

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24 of 35 Songwriter Comparisons

25 of 35 Tom's Cassette Tapes

26 of 35 Songs I Wish I Wrote

27 of 35 Contacts and Social Media

28 of 35 Should You Read This?

29 of 35 Can I Get Sued?

30 of 35 Final Thoughts

31 of 35 Why So Serious?

32 of 35 Five Car Ride Talks

33 of 35 Name Index (the rest of the book)

34 of 35 Names Index (From the Lyrics)

35 of 35 Alphabetical Index by Track Title

18 of 35 Collaborhythm Collabtunes Project Summaries

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 TRAIN OFF THE TRACKS

⚠️ EXTREME CONTENT WARNING – SET LIST SEVEN (7)
Set List Seven represents the most severe, confrontational, and psychologically destabilizing body of work in the catalog. These compositions do not imply, suggest, or allegorize harm — they depict it directly. The material engages with violence, abuse, coercion, and moral collapse without mitigation, moral instruction, or emotional resolution.

This set deliberately rejects comfort, recovery narratives, or redemptive framing. It exists as documentation — sometimes clinical, sometimes poetic, sometimes brutally interior — of human damage as it occurs.

Many pieces are written from inside disturbing psychological states or viewpoints. Perspective shifts may include perpetrators, victims, bystanders, or fractured internal narrators. These voices are presented without reassurance, justification, or corrective commentary.

This collection is not symbolic therapy, not advocacy, and not a cautionary tale. It is an unfiltered confrontation with traumatic realities.

🚨 MAJOR AND SEVERE TRIGGERS PRESENT:
Explicit and graphic depictions of sexual assault and rape
Child abuse, grooming behaviors, exploitation, and ideological indoctrination
Suicide, self-annihilation ideation, and fixation on death
Mass violence fantasies, gun violence, sniper imagery, and premeditated harm
Domestic violence, coercive control, and emotional imprisonment
Religious extremism, spiritual abuse, and authoritarian belief systems
Dissociation, psychological fragmentation, psychosis, and identity collapse
Moral nihilism, dehumanization, and ethical disintegration

⚠️ ADDITIONAL DISTRESS FACTORS:
Prolonged exposure to threatening or violent inner monologues
Lack of narrative closure or moral positioning
Repetition of harmful imagery without relief
Emotional detachment that may feel cold, clinical, or invasive
Language that may feel accusatory, voyeuristic, or invasive by design
Some works may appear to normalize, inhabit, or withhold judgment on destructive behavior. 
This is intentional and integral to the structure of the set.

❗ IMPORTANT CONTEXT FOR LISTENERS:
Set List Seven does not offer healing, insight, or reconciliation. It does not guide the listener toward understanding or recovery. 
The experience may feel unresolved, disturbing, or psychologically invasive even after completion.

For some listeners, exposure may trigger:
Panic responses
Dissociative episodes
Intrusive thoughts
Emotional destabilization
Re-traumatization

This material should be avoided by individuals with trauma sensitivities related to violence, abuse, or self-harm, or by anyone seeking emotional safety, solace, or clarity.

🚫 LISTENER ADVISORY:
Listener discretion is not optional — it is mandatory. Engagement with this set requires informed consent.
Proceed only if you are prepared to encounter material that refuses comfort, resolution, or moral framing.

SET LIST SEVEN (7)
1 Corey Story
2 Daddy Taught Me
3 Shadow Of Smoke
4 Wheat and Chaff
5 Midas Touch
6 Sniper's Song
7 Quest For Immortality
8 Innocence Lost
9 Betrayal
10 A Cop Asked the Witnesses
11 Dirt
12 Either Way (first Part)

(1) COREY STORY
His mama was a nurse
and his daddy sold jewels
A couple hard working stiffs
But both were fools

If the boys got outta line
parents kept their cool
They'd never make a fuss
just leave 'em to the school

Too busy working
to have to raise kids
Right there ya find out
where the problem is

When little boys break the rules
daddy's too drunk to yell
He tried to chase 'em
up the stairs
but down he fell

When you make your own rules
how hard can life be?
Mom's sitting on the couch
just watching TV

Yet it takes more to be a mom
than just making dinner
Gotta teach your kids to play
the game of life to be a winner

All you need's a @#$% to be a father
but it takes balls to be a dad
I wish they read this story
I really wish they had

I always tried to use my brain
while my friend he used his brawn
Now I got it made
While my friend barely gets along

His daddy read him beer bottles
while my daddy read me books
When life gets ugly
you can't get by on looks

Me and my daddy
played throw and catch
Him and his daddy
played throw and duck

When life gets ugly
you can't get by on looks
When you got no smarts
you get by on luck
And when that runs out
it really sucks

(2) DADDY TAUGHT ME
When I was little
My daddy dressed me in white
He said so he could lead me
Through the darkness 
and into the light

Mama washed my clothes
Nearly every day
For I'd get them dirty
Whenever I'd play

She told me that if it wasn't white
Then it wasn't good
If the weather got chilly
She'd pull up my hood

Mama told me of Jesus and God
And of Heaven divine
I asked if I'd go there
And she said I'd be fine

She said I was pure
And God made me snow
And that angels would follow me
Wherever I'd go

I couldn't wait to see God
And tell him what was on my mind
I even tried praying a couple of times
But church was much different
Than what I ever though it would be
We'd have mass outside
And we'd light a big 'T'

I had so much fun
When we’d march in parades
Then we'd set fire
To the crosses we made

And I love the holidays
They fill me with cheer
We loved Halloween so much
We had it twenty times a year

For some reason I was always a ghost
Must be the costume my mama liked most
Funny how no one ever got scared
Even when I was trying
Oh, there was that one….
The little girl who was crying

I'm not even sure why
She had tears in her eyes
I really scared her good
I must have caught her by surprise

I can't wait to get older
And be a daddy some day
I'll teach these games to my kids
And the whole family will play

When I get older...
I'll be the best daddy I can be
I just hope I can teach my kids as good
As my daddy taught me

(3) SHADOW OF SMOKE
Just a shadow of smoke
That's how I appear
Try to reach out and touch me
What you see disappears

No living soul can reach me
First you see my face
Vanish into thin air
And then gone without a trace

Just another mystery
A puzzle no one can solve
First I am there
And then I dissolve

Just a castle of sand
Before the tide comes to me
And after a warm embrace
Carries me out to the sea

So back into the fog I fade
My own little solitary parade
Back into the waters I wade
Unable to undo all I have made

I've lost my soul
Through the horrors I've seen
Along with my past desires
Of all I could have been
To the days of old
I can never return
Time passes slowly
When the memories still burn

As I see children laugh
And young mothers dance
I know I've lived my life
There is no second chance

Just a shadow of smoke
That's how I appear
Try to reach out and touch me
What you see disappears

(4) WHEAT AND CHAFF
Your suicide was glorified
Like a police chase on the news
Neither your vanity or your family
Was enough to pull you through

When you crashed in the past 
You walked away unscathed
This time you fell it didn’t go so well
The saviour was not saved

The memories are overwhelming
As they all come flooding back
You feel yourself being swept away
The dam burst where it was cracked

Such an explosion of emotion
Leaving everyone taking flak
“His war is over” the priest spoke sober
Then a scream, a yell, a gasp

So for the cries and for the laughs
Let us raise our glass up to the past
To both the wheat and the chaff
For all that was left undone
And for what can’t be taken back

(5) MIDAS TOUCH
What has once been bought
has now been sold
Your Midas touch
turned me into gold

Never to grow young
never to grow old
Death does part
forget to have and hold
Sickness is health
as warmth becomes cold

A face once beautiful
is now pale and blue
Crumbling down
what was once brand new

The question is not how or why
or when but who?
The lesson is be careful
of what you wish for
Because it just might come true...

The wink of the eye
of your future wife
The turn of a corner
and the stab of a knife
Just a second could change your life

So beware of what's around you
Be aware of where you go
Because you never really know...

After your next step
After your next breath
There could be one life and one death
Forget all the rest

(6) SNIPER'S SONG
Who am I?
And what are my reasons?
I've got my rifle by my side
And it's hunting season

I'm just another face in the crowd
Waiting to make my next move
Eight A.M. and I'm already 
out on the prowl
I wonder just how long 
I can keep my cool

Random is the way it has to be
Can't have any motive or connection
Following after me

One bullet at a time
I write the headlines 
of the front page
I am God, 
I am death, 
I am your old age

At random
Or in seclusion
I am reality
This is no illusion

Who am I?
And what are my reasons?
I've got my rifle by my side
And it's hunting season

I'm just another face in the crowd
Waiting to make my next move
Nine A.M. and I'm already 
out on the prowl
I wonder just how long 
I can keep my cool

Go about your business
This sniper will find you
Look over your left shoulder
I am right behind you

You cannot see me
I am in seclusion
Death is reality
I am no illusion

Who am I?
And what are my reasons?
I've got my rifle by my side
And it's hunting season

I'm just another face in the crowd
Waiting to make my next move
Ten A.M. and I'm already 
out on the prowl
I wonder just how long 
I can keep my cool

Some may call me crazy
But I don't see it that way
I am just another hunter
And you are all my prey

I could be your neighbor
I could be your best friend
I could be a terrorist
But only when you catch me...
Will you be safe again

(7) QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY
I have finally found
a reason for waking up
It is my job to unite the legions
Who just don't give a fu$%

When you're laying foundations of concrete
You had better stand clear
For in the name of progress
Sometimes a few people disappear

One more voice left unheard
Amidst the deepest of frustrations
Only one man could kill
with complete racial equality
I would drop the bomb
without any hesitation

Just waiting for the man
to come calling on me
I would drop the bomb
without any reservations

Nah, I told myself
I've got to give in
And live on the same grid
as the competition

No more applying my time
to going fishing inside of my mind
But please just one more time
for the sake of mankind
If I could just find 
the perfect poetic lines
Maybe then my hatred would mend

So I'll keep on searching
for another solution
Or else I'll plot out my own demise...
the final end

My presence is important
Just the fact that I roam the earth
Makes it all but certain

That I could be the one
who lifts the curtain
Or perhaps be the person
Who pushes the button
Snaps, cracks and attacks
All of a sudden
I start putting people in the oven
Dozen by dozen by dozen

The time has come
Face it... it's done
I will never be the chosen one
Better go and grab the gun
And see how fast
these clowns can run

No, not everybody's presence
is a gift
Yet still you've got to learn
to live with it

(8) INNOCENCE LOST
I've sat at every bench in this park
Both before and after dark
Looking out at an ocean oh so deep
When everyone else is asleep

I see the sailboats stopped
Lookin' just like upside down lollipops
I see the seagulls pecking
Down by the beach
But it all seems out of reach

Take off my shirt to get a tan
Wondering about life's master plan
Just when my troubles 
start to fade away
I have to go to work soon 
so I cannot stay
But oh what a price I pay...

As soon as you're high
Something brings you down
As soon as you smile
Something makes you frown
As soon as you blink
The second has passed
As soon as you're first
You wind up last

This world can be such a tease
As soon as I feel
That my mind's at ease
Just when I think I have it made
Rain falls down on my parade

I've had my shares
Of ups and downs
Cried like mimes
And laughed like clowns

I've been dwarfed by guilt
And knocked off of my stilts
I've seen the flowers bloom
And I have watched the pedals wilt

Here at the park 
I collect my thoughts
Try to find a pair of scissors
When I'm tied up in knots
Then these words
Became my thoughts...

As soon as you're high
Something brings you down
As soon as you smile
Something makes you frown
As soon as you blink
The second has passed
As soon as you're close
You run out of gas

I watch the children
I've seen so many times before
And their innocent eyes
Not yet knowing what's in store

With every game 
comes a new surprise
Every truth told contains
At least a part of a lie
Under a parent's eye 
they run so free
Not a worry in the world
The way life should be

And yet as they grow a little older
The winds blow a little colder
But we all know it is calm
Before the storm
Mommy still has a blanket
To keep them warm

She protects them 
for as long as she can
There are some things children
Should never have to understand
Don't tell them the secret...

As soon as you're high
Something brings you down
As soon as you smile
Something makes you frown

As soon as you blink
The second has passed
As soon as the sun rises
The shadow's been cast

Yes I was once a child 
many years ago
And I learned the hard way
The things I didn't know

Life was once so simple
But like a gunshot to the temple
I was told I couldn't go any higher
And then was thrown into the fire

Now all I can do is dream
Back to the days
When my own eyes did gleam

Someday when everyone is asleep
That same child 
will come here to weep
And they too 
will write their song
About how the innocence
They once knew is gone
And they'll say...

As soon as I'm high
Something brings me down
As soon as I smile
Something makes me frown
As soon as I blinked
My childhood passed
What I loved so much...
I want it back

(9) BETRAYAL
What will her friends say?
What wild rumors will be spread?

Where lies her escape?
These thoughts run ‘round in her head
She had been bruised inside
Blood trickled down the side of her face
He was twice her size

She was just half his age
She fought so hard 
but she was unable to resist
That’s okay,
I like it better this way, he hissed

When she tried to say no with her knee
He said yes with his fist

But luckily, when he swung he had missed…
At least the first time

He pinned her down
Leaving red welts on her wrists?

To mom and dad she cried:
I’m sorry to have to tell you this:

But Jesus wasn’t the only one
Who was betrayed by a kiss

Yet never in Sunday school 
did they ever cover this…
And this was her first time

What will her friends say?
What wild rumors will be spread?
Where lies her escape?
So many thoughts run round in her head

Once it was known
That his seed had been sewn
She carried the child like a disease

For when the baby came
How could she explain
That a rapist’s eyes 
were all that she sees

What will her friends say?
What wild rumors will be spread?

Where lies her escape?
So many thoughts run
round in her head

Conflicting voices 
whisper in her ear
She tries to drown them out 
but they won’t disappear

Her pastor’s sermons 
and a voice 
that she hadn’t heard before

Every day that voice
Speaks louder…
She knows soon
It will speak no more…

(10) COP ASKED THE WITNESSES
A cop asked the witnesses
Did you see the driver of the car?
The witnesses responded
She couldn't have gone that far

It's amazing where fate'll bring you
All the way to a cell
It's amazing where fate'll bring you
Down to the depths of hell

The night was dark and dreary
The rain was pouring down
The faces of the happy
Were quickly turned to frowns

November twenty-sixth
And there's not much thanks to give
It's hard to be rejoiceful
When daddy didn't live

A cop asked the witnesses
Did you see the driver of the car?
The witnesses responded
She couldn't have gone that far

Mommy ran into a restaurant
Screaming someone hurt my love
Mommy showed the owner
The broken wings of her dove

Two lives were almost taken
As soon as they begun
A two year-old child
And the young driver on the run

People dressed in black
Now put flowers on his grave
Daddy died a great hero
And his little girl he did save

A father's life is over
And a family torn apart
A mother's constant weeping
And a child's bleeding heart

A cop asked the witnesses
Did you see the driver of the car?
The witnesses responded
She couldn't have gone that far

There's fresh blood on the sidewalk
And tears fallen to the ground
Flowers on a gravestone
And a deeply saddened town

About the girl on the run
Are you sorry for your sin?
Your only chance at Heaven
Is turning yourself in

(11) DIRT
Who’s got the dirt on you?
Or maybe you’ve been 
keeping secrets from yourself

Do you know who 
I’ve been talking to?
No it wasn’t her 
it was somebody else…

Ooh, I see someone’s 
afraid of sunlight
Stays lurking in the shadowy realm

To only be happy when it’s cloudy
Would seem to me 
to be trapped in a living hell

Who’s got the dirt on you?
Won’t you whisper just what 
your little secret is worth

Certainly no one 
could have deserved this
Never seen you look so nervous... 
your eyes darting back and forth

Well sure we all make mistakes
Yet this one was so easy to trace

You didn’t look guilty 
just heavily disgraced
That would best describe 
the look on your face

Who’s got the dirt on you?
Has anyone offered 
to cut you a deal?

Or are they just 
letting out the line?
Let you run a little 
knowing they hold the reel

(12) EITHER WAY
I’m a vessel of violence
Live alone on an island
I can never keep silent
They keep playing violins 
To cover everybody’s crying

I got no one to hear me
No family lives near me
No friends close by
No friends at all 
- that was a lie
No one to call or stop by
That’s why sometimes I cry

You would to
When I got nothing to do
It gives me something to do

Many say medicate don’t educate
Become an arsonist to your history
Self-knowledge just drags in complication
When some things are best left a mystery

The agony of meeting expectations
Has led to the cancelling 
of many celebrations
In both your honor and your name
Yeah, it was all for you 
but you never came

If you only die when you’re forgotten
Anonymity must sure be rotten

The value of reality 
lies in immateriality
For everything that lives 
externally dies

Though the worth of life 
is measured by the soul
Which we all know 
can be compromised 

The choice could be fame or integrity
Will you have riches or character?
That is what she said to me
Now you know why everybody’s after her

She gives like its charity
With instant familiarity
A true gem that’s a rarity
Indeed she’s looking so lovely
Those brown eyes gazing back at me
Feeling like there’s no one above me 
As she stares right through me
It’s like she’s always knew me

Let us hope she never forgets
Remember... 
you can’t give somebody everything
Because then you’d have nothing left!

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SET LIST SEVEN (7)
ALL NEGATIVE.
Darkness gathered in one place—not for shock, but for the kind of honesty that only comes when you stop pretending. These songs sit in the shadow, examining the parts of life that don't get better, the wounds that don't heal, and the truths we'd rather not face.
Despair & Darkness, Trauma & Grief, Existential Dread, The Unforgivable
(1) Corey Story
(2) Daddy Taught Me
(3) Shadow Of Smoke
(4) Wheat and Chaff
(5) Midas Touch
(6) Sniper's Song
(7) Quest For Immortality
(8) Innocence Lost
(9) Betrayal
(10) A Cop Asked the Witnesses
(11) Dirt
(12) Either Way

Set List 7 — Extremes

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Set List 7 — Extremes

Lead Rating: NC-17

Total Points: 30

Strategic Arc: Mass violence fantasies, child sexual assault, sniper imagery. NC-17 heavy.

 ⚠️ Trigger Warning: Explicit sexual assault, child abuse, grooming, suicide, mass violence fantasies, domestic violence, religious extremism, moral nihilism.

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Song

Rating

Musician/Artist

Four-Word Summary

1
Corey Story
PG-13
Where the problem is

2
Daddy Taught Me
PG-13
As my daddy taught

3
Shadow of Smoke
PG-13
What you see disappears

4
Wheat and Chaff
PG-13
What can't be taken

5
Midas Touch
PG-13
Turned me into gold

6
Sniper's Song
NC-17
You are all prey

7
Quest For Immortality
NC-17
Lifts the final curtain

8
Innocence Lost
PG-13
As soon as you're high

9
Betrayal
NC-17
Betrayed by a kiss

10
Cop Asked the Witnesses
PG-13
She couldn't go far

11
Dirt
PG-13
Your little secret's worth

12
Either Way
NC-17
Vessel of violence live

Collection Summary:
 The most severe, confrontational, and psychologically destabilizing set in the catalog. This material refuses comfort, resolution, or moral framing — existing as documentation of human damage as it occurs.

Artist Comparison:
 Randy Newman, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen

Key Themes:
 Sexual assault, child abuse, violence, moral collapse, nihilism, dissociation

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⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST EIGHT (8)
Set List Eight explores identity, disillusionment, fear, self-awareness, and the struggle for meaning amid existential fatigue. This set is not explicitly graphic, but it is emotionally intense — layered with spiritual doubt, emotional unraveling, mental confusion, and poetic despair. Across twelve songs, the lyrics confront feelings of personal failure, philosophical paralysis, societal manipulation, and loneliness — all without clear answers or healing arcs.

Listeners may find themselves facing:
Mental health themes (depression, disorientation, isolation, despair)
Philosophical dread (meaninglessness, futility, fractured identity)
Societal critique (propaganda, control, spiritual decay)
Spiritual conflict and loss of faith
Emotional exhaustion and internal war

No physical violence is present, and no overt trauma or abuse is described — but the cumulative effect of these songs may be distressing for sensitive or reflective audiences.

MENTAL HEALTH STRAIN & EXISTENTIAL FATIGUE
Tracks like “Spinning,” “Down,” “Fear,” and “Sky and Light” center around inner chaos, numbness, and a deep loss of direction. In “Spinning,” the narrator confesses they’re becoming an “army of one,” spiraling into emotional and mental disarray. There's no breakdown — only slow, haunted unraveling:

“I fight... my own insides / And all these memories I don’t want to remember.”
Similarly, “Down” and “Fear” confront disillusionment and internal division — logic versus faith, survival versus surrender — and the recognition that sometimes the darkness is not external, but has lived within us too long to ignore.

These pieces may resonate heavily with listeners in depressive episodes, recovery from emotional collapse, or those experiencing burnout, trauma processing, or long-term instability.

SPIRITUAL QUESTIONING & LOSS OF FAITH
Multiple tracks ask hard questions about God, purpose, and whether hope is rational or delusion. “Discartes,” “I Am,” and “Somewhere” are particularly heavy on metaphysical doubt and spiritual disappointment.

“Discartes” plays with philosophical nihilism, questioning whether thought and identity even exist in a system that constantly deletes, reprograms, and forgets. “I Am” delivers lines like:

“I am to their God what the Beatles were to Jesus.”
The tone is defiant, even blasphemous, but not for shock — it’s the cry of someone trying to redefine what’s real in a world they don’t trust. “Somewhere” is quieter, but crushing in its loneliness — praying for a sign from above, searching for meaning that never materializes:

“You know love is inside you… Somewhere.”
These pieces may deeply affect listeners recovering from religious trauma, grappling with spiritual abandonment, or struggling with meaninglessness.

SOCIAL & PHILOSOPHICAL DESPAIR
“Playing Chess” uses war and chess metaphors to explore exploitation, manipulation, and spiritual defeat. The speaker realizes they’re a pawn in a larger, corrupt system — played by forces that don’t even follow the rules:

“Some devils wear suits and ties...”
The song builds from anxiety to resignation, culminating in a rejection of savior narratives and a personal decision to stop playing. It’s not a call to arms — it’s a call to survive by stepping away.

Listeners who feel overwhelmed by politics, systems, or activism fatigue may find this track emotionally exhausting or painfully resonant.

IDENTITY EROSION & PSYCHOLOGICAL COLLAPSE
“Sky and Light” and “Thirty Seconds” articulate a sensation of mental drifting — trying to reach people, trying to express something vital, but failing. There’s a recurring image of language breaking down, of being trapped inside one's thoughts. In “Sky and Light”:

“Every mind’s a piece of unmolded clay... 
Mine’s become trapped inside a maze of words I cannot explain…”
“Thirty Seconds” is brief, frantic, and existential: a poetic monologue delivered in countdown form. The pressure to matter, connect, or wake someone up before it’s too late echoes across the set. For anyone struggling with creative exhaustion, identity loss, or neurodivergence, these lyrics may feel disturbingly familiar.

EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION & HOPE FADING
Many pieces flirt with the idea of collapse — not as melodrama, but as erosion. “Listen” is about inaction and regret. “Timeless to Ten” critiques the lure of fame and hollow validation, suggesting it's better to matter deeply to a few than superficially to many. But even that hope feels flickering — the tone is weary, measured, and aware of failure.

Set List Eight is not hopeless — but hope is weak, weathered, and gasping.

WHO SHOULD USE CAUTION
Avoid or approach carefully if you are:
Recovering from depressive or suicidal episodes
Dealing with existential dread or crisis of faith
Grieving emotional collapse or spiritual loss
In a fragile psychological state where introspection is destabilizing
Sensitive to spiritual doubt, emotional isolation, or the futility of effort
This set may intensify existing emotional weight.

WHO MAY FIND VALUE
Listeners seeking truth over reassurance
Writers, thinkers, and artists exploring doubt or meaning
Philosophically inclined audiences comfortable sitting with discomfort
Those working through burnout, religious deconstruction, or emotional fatigue
People who need their sadness witnessed rather than soothed

TONE & INTENT
Set List Eight is poetic, dark, and thoughtful — less about trauma than the long psychic erosion of living in a world that no longer makes sense. It doesn't scream or sob. It paces. It wanders. It pleads. It presses its forehead to the wall and tries to remember why it still breathes.
There is beauty here — but it's dimly lit, shivering, and sometimes afraid of itself.
Listener discretion advised.

BOSS LOGIC
SET LIST EIGHT (8)
1 Thirty Seconds
2 Pretty Fountains
3 Playing Chess
4 Sky and Light
5 Discartes
6 I Am
7 Timeless To Ten
8 Listen
9 Fear
10 Down
11 Spinning
12 Somewhere

(1) THIRTY SECONDS
I got about thirty seconds…
To get inside your head
So let us save the small talk
For another time instead

Now I have only twenty seconds left…
To sew this little seed to try to
Turn my belief into your belief
How do I get you to see that 
Once you unplug yourself from your TV
You can begin to make a difference
To someone else, yourself and me…

Uh oh…just ten seconds more…

To let you know that there are 
Countless caverns 
Left within your mind
Just waiting to be explored...

(2) PRETTY FOUNTAINS
Yeah, we watch the world spinning
‘round and do our best to fit in
But lately we’ve been getting that feeling
That we’re slowly sinking….
Yeah, we’re slowly sinking…

Spend our time wondering 
What’s left to believe in?
We find we’re falling behind
And searching for the reason
Yeah, we’re searching for the reason….

Is it corporate greed composed by those 
Trying to sell us something that we don’t need

Or else false gods from atop
their soapbox they preach
For divide and conquer
Is a tried and true technique

For the oldest lesson 
Taught and learned in war
Is that battles are waged over ideas
And your mind’s what all sides are fighting for

Welcome to poor judgment theatre… I am your host
You know everybody ‘round here Is pale as a ghost

Taxation without representation
Is what the baby boomers did to
ma-ma-ma-my ja-ja-ja-generation…

They stripped the green from the fields
And carved the snow right off the mountains
Hacking all with their spinning wheels
To watch water flow from pretty fountains

(3) PLAYING CHESS
Burning up...Burning out...
Sitting in an ashtray...
With no way out...

Walking in circles...
Across hot coals...
Something landed on my lap...
What? Only God knows...

This is some new sh#$...
Highly funky...
Caged like a monkey...
Start by turning one key...
End up as a junky…

You may say highly unlikely...
But you could end up just like me....
If you say yes...
Would your life be a mess?
It's anyone's guess...
Well, life's like playing chess...

Let me explain my life
In a way that you can see it
I'm fighting a battle
I'm playing a game
But I know I’ll never beat it

So many moves though
I proceed with caution
While I’m weary of hesitation
Each step must be wise...
Just to escape total domination...

In that there is no compromise
All the devils have eyes...
Some wear suits and ties...
And tell dirty lies...
Some things just won't die

Someone watching
From way up high
Is playing chess with my mind

And I think the general
He wants me to die
As he sends me to the front
Of the battle lines

I've been a pawn
For far too long
Even though I'm still fighting
I don't know which side I'm on
Every time I look behind me
The general's gone

I hear checkmate
I now stand alone
And half-way around the world
Is a long way from home

Somehow I was taken
And played just like a fool
And I was mistaken
Thinking everyone plays
By the same set of rules

When I smash the board
I'll free myself
When I drop my gun
They'll enlist someone else

For I am no hero
I've lost all hope
Of saving mankind
If I can save myself
Then at least
I won't be wasting time

If I ever get that far
Then I'll try to free the others
One at a time

Show them what to be weary of
And all the warning signs
For even on top of the world
There are still mountains left to climb

(4) SKY AND LIGHT
I scared myself today
When I saw the world
In a whole new way

Every mind’s a piece
of unmolded clay
And mine’s become trapped
inside a maze of words
That I cannot explain
or write nor say

We all live beneath the same sky
Yet we don’t all see the same light
Some see nothing
but the summers sun
While others look up
at a winters night
While waiting for the other shoe
to drop unto the floor
I've given up trying to make sense
of anything any more

For this stale air has
finally gotten the better of me
Had to take a walk outside
to try to change my scenery

Everything I have known has
decided to play tricks on me
My past is my shadow
that no longer stands beside me

Long ago we parted
and went our separate ways
Long before this whole mess started
Before this city was set ablaze

I scared myself today
When I saw the whole world
In a whole new way

Every minds a piece
of unmolded clay
And mines become trapped
inside a maze of words
That I cannot explain
or write nor say

We all live beneath the same sky
Yet we don’t all see the same light
Some see nothing
but the summers sun
While others look up
at a winters night

Yes, I had to take a walk outside
and change my scenery
And hopefully bleed
some new blood into me

Escape from my surroundings
and all of this abject poverty
Provide my eyes a change
and find something new to see

I scared myself today
When I saw the whole world
In a whole new way

I scared myself today
Became trapped inside
a maze of words
That I could not explain
nor write or say

(5) DISCARTES
I hear whispers from the lost souls of man
Questioning everything that I think that I am
So I do not think therefore I am not…
Part of the problem or solution
Since my character no longer
Plays any role in the plot

It is then my mind reminds me
I have no memory
And there was something else…
But I forgot

Today, what is not needed it gets deleted
Just as in ancient times
When translated, annihilated
Just meant defeated

No, not just the soldier in retreat
But his dog, his flag and his whole family
I hear whispers…
Voices unknown to me
Hence I fall back into a dream-like state
Looks like everything will have to wait

Living in a dream…
To wake up one must fall asleep
Returning to reality…
Close your eyes as the same process repeats
Peace!

(6) I AM
I am to their God
What the Beatles were to Jesus
Independent thought
Is the only thing that frees us

Even chained to a cross
I claim that you
Can still get lost
But not everyone believes this

Noah floated in a flood 
And the reason was all because
Humans are just like 
Viruses and diseases

Just as peasants are to power
As dangerous as weeds
Are to a flower...
And Brutus was to Caesar

Living in the age of painted rust
Sure looks pretty but do you trust
That it would even hold your weight

Or all those behind you trying to escape
From all you corporate hypnotists
Going around brainwashing little kids

Almost too slippery it's so surreal
The way I think and the way I float
The way I vote and the way I feel

Almost too good it should be destroyed
But then again that would leave
An awful lot of people left unemployed

And we know they'd need something
To kill time and fill the void
Some choose crime over rhyme
And Sarah Palin over Arundhati Roy

Oh to be a master to many
And a slave to none
Won't you tell me all about it
It sure does sound like fun

(7) TIMELESS TO TEN
Sure going viral might 
getcha paid and it 
might even getcha laid 
and make grandma need
a new hearing aid

“What'd ya say?”

It might make you friends
Send ya on an upward trend
Spiraling high above the earth
Until you find yourself 
coming crashing on
back down again

“So what then?”
But by being bold 
and staying true
Could and would you
Call your life a failure
If you find you’ve inspired 
the minds of just a few?

Can't you see 
that it's better to be
Timeless to ten rather than 
having fifteen minutes 
of fleeting fame 
with the minions

They say a stitch in time 
It may save nine
I say I’d rather be 
timeless to just ten
Without regard or sentiment 
for or of public opinion

I’d rather be loved by some
And feared by none
As opposed to reigning supreme
Over any other living beings

I’ve been thinking it’s better 
to use my powers to heal
To try to unify 
and not divide us all up 
into different social classes
Delivered from temptation
Let me not yield
For I’d much rather level 
the playing field
Than to try to climb
And rise above the masses

(8) LISTEN
Down on the corner
Of Ocean and Demora
I’ve seen a lot of drama
My fair share of horror

Sometimes you see it coming
Or you’re hearing people running
As you’re thinking ain’t that something
That the prey has gone out hunting

Though you’re not sure what it means
You’ve fallen deeper in the dream
Begin to question your beliefs
Leaving others to plant seeds

What will grow? 
What will grow? 
What will grow?

It’s hard to know
Sometimes it shows
Other times it don’t show

What do we make
Of all these mistakes?
Try hard, trying hard
Keep falling on my face

Down on the corner
Of Ocean and Demora
I’ve seen a lot of drama
My fair share of horror

And though you know that it’s a trap
Your biggest failure’s not to act
It’s too easy to look back 
Long after the fact
Saying I wish I did this
And I didn’t do that

Inaction and indecision
Leaves you full of things you’re missing
And now it’s lost
The gift you’ve been given

You paid the cost
No, you didn’t listen

(9) FEAR
My fear is my friend 
So long we’ve been together 
From the beginning 
Until the very end 

Some call it other names 
Play their silly games 
Pretend they’re still the same 
Though facts remain unchanged 

You’re hearing two voices 
Coming from different places 
With two opposite choices 
As you find yourself now facing 

A separation of church and state 
In this case it’s your logic and faith 
One is gone the other’s been misplaced 
Lying in ruins and laid to waste 

Yet it takes dialogue and not debate 
To make whole again this fractured state 
We need common ground not lines in the sand 
For unity to be found in our fellow man 

With this goal in mind we must forge ahead 
While biding our time with our feet on the ledge 
Tight to our toes lies a precipitous drop 
But with our backs to the wall we cannot stop 

The daylight is dwindling 
As darkness draws near 
Every path towards escape 
Has circled back here 

I’m not alone… 
It’s my friend who comforts me… 
Fear

(10) DOWN
When you’re down
That’s when they show
Funny how
They always seem to know

A cloud of doubt
Soon you’re all wet
Burned out black out
Less we forget

Our history’s
Full of regret
What we pretend to be
Sans our secrets

When you’re down
That’s when they show
Funny how
They always seem to know

A man like me 
Teeters back and forth
Between being benevolent
And a fan of force

Half of me believes
There can only be
One king of the jungle

My other half isn’t deceived
And keeps reminding me
To stay humble

When you’re down
That’s when they show
Funny how
They always seem to know
So…

If you find yourself in a hole 
The first thing to do is stop digging
What I’ve learned you will soon know

You lose the right to choose 
when you’re begging
Once you took pride in self-control
Now you take whatever you’re given

That warm smile’s turned frosty cold
You’re making a mistake 
- this ain’t really living

First find some sunlight 
Then you can grow 
Discover who and what you are
Rather than keep it hidden

Now behold 
The shooting star
You’ve always been
And always are!

And now you know
What before...you didn’t

(11) SPINNING
It is said that every 
body is a temple
So surely somewhere in here 
there's a place of healing

Lately I've found my hands 
folded and praying
Though I'm not sure 
if I should be standing, 
sitting or kneeling

I've been having 
the strangest of feelings 
But I can't quite 
put my finger on it

Though I know 
there is a key 
unlocking and revealing

That which I have been 
searching and seeking
Still I have yet to 
lay my hands upon it

In all of these -- 
my wheelings and dealings
Perhaps I lent it, 
lost it or pawned it

For this isn't how 
I planned it
I've slowly become 
an army of one

I'm beginning to sense 
that I'm surrounded
As around and around 
and around I'm being spun

And I spin...
Seems I can't win
Yet I'll die before 
I ever surrender

So I fight...
My own insides
And all these memories 
I don't want to remember

I can't lie...
Or try to hide
In this journey 
of mine to venture

Into the very 
core of my mind
Just to see what 
is at its center

So I pry...
From here outside
Whenever I find a room 
with a chained door

That I know still has 
yet to be explored 
One that some day 
I shall have to enter

(12) SOMEWHERE
A handful of empty promises 
all about a better tomorrow
I’ve found them to be all hollow
Leaving me here 
with just this sorrow

Once I had all I thought I’d need
But now I got nothing but memories
It’s time to show me a sign
God, let me know you’re up there…
Somewhere
Lately it seems my faith 
has somehow been misplaced
I hope it hasn’t disappeared
And that it’s still round here…
Somewhere

When the yellow sun is glowing way, way up high
You could never expect to see any stars in the sky
But you know they’re up there…
Somewhere

But it can boggle the mind 
just what goes on… up there
Surely the stars still shine some places sometimes…
Somewhere

Yet where we come from 
and where we all go surely I don’t know
But everything here 
had to come from…
Somewhere

It’s lonely in the dark 
on a cold night
Feeling without an ember, 
without a spark
Clinging to emptiness oh so tight
Yet you know love is inside you…
Somewhere

Yes, you know love is inside you…
Somewhere

BOSS LOGIC 
SET LIST EIGHT (8)
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Thoughtful, grounded, and searching—these songs explore the ideas that help us make sense of existence. Drawing on philosophy, spirituality, and hard-won wisdom, this collection offers not answers but better questions.

Philosophy & Wisdom, Self-Examination, The Examined Life, Spiritual Inquiry

(1) Thirty Seconds
(2) Pretty Fountains
(3) Playing Chess
(4) Sky and Light
(5) Descartes
(6) I Am
(7) Timeless To Ten
(8) Listen
(9) Fear
(10) Down
(11) Spinning
(12) Somewhere

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Set List 8 — Boss Logic

Lead Rating: PG

Total Points: 18

Strategic Arc: Spiritual reflection, existential questioning, hope.

Trigger Warning: Existential anxiety, identity crisis, disillusionment. No explicit content.

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Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Thirty Seconds
PG
Wake up

2
Pretty Fountains
PG-13
Illusion of progress shown

3
Playing Chess
PG-13
Setup from the start

4
Sky and Light
PG
How we see everything

5
Discartes
PG
I think, therefore I am?

6
I Am
PG-13
I will not be broken

7
Timeless To Ten
PG
Substance beats the noise

8
Listen
PG-13
Failure to act hurts

9
Fear
PG-13
Always at my side

10
Down
PG-13
Climbing back again

11
Spinning
PG-13
Trapped inside my mind

12
Somewhere
PG
Love is inside somewhere

Collection Summary: An introspective set exploring identity, disillusionment, and the search for meaning in a fragmented world. These songs wrestle with fear, failure, and the quiet hope that clarity exists somewhere.

Artist Comparison: Pink Floyd, Björk, David Bowie

Key Themes: Identity crisis, existential fatigue, perception, resistance, hope


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THE THRALLS OF THE FLAME

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Set List Nine explores the tension between personal agency, societal expectation, and existential inquiry. Themes include labor and exploitation, social inequity, mental fatigue, emotional vulnerability, philosophical questioning, and the struggle to reconcile idealism with reality. While the set is primarily introspective and poetic, it contains sustained reflections on disillusionment, systemic oppression, and inner conflict that may be emotionally affecting for some listeners.

Core topics include:
• Social and economic pressure – Songs like We Are the Ones examine overwork, underpayment, and the invisible labor sustaining society, highlighting frustration, resentment, and the sense of being trapped in cyclical obligations.
• Identity and personal empowerment – Tracks such as Slip Stream, Sides, and Applied Faith encourage self-exploration, creativity, and agency, but also confront uncertainty, self-doubt, and the fear of failure.
• Existential and spiritual questioning – Lyrics in Invisible Prison, First Glance, and Fate Is a Word wrestle with fate, free will, and the limits of perception, sometimes suggesting entrapment, isolation, or moral ambiguity.
• Emotional struggle – Friend, Better Than It Seems, and Believe Me touch on heartbreak, disappointment, inner turmoil, and the challenges of maintaining hope, empathy, and self-trust.
• Violence, war, and societal critique – Complicated Subject addresses historical and ongoing conflict, human destructiveness, and ethical ambiguity, offering commentary on systemic issues without graphic depiction but with intellectual and emotional weight.

This set is contemplative, not sensational, yet it may trigger introspection, existential anxiety, or emotional overwhelm. Listeners sensitive to discussions of:
• Socioeconomic inequality and labor exploitation
• Disillusionment with institutions or authority
• Psychological or philosophical stress
• Emotional vulnerability, heartbreak, or inner conflict

…are advised to approach with care. The content is intended to provoke thought and reflection rather than shock, but its cumulative weight may resonate intensely with those navigating similar struggles.

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SET LIST NINE (9)
1 We Are the Ones
2 Friend
3 Speak
4 Applied Faith
5 Slip Stream
6 Sides
7 Invisible Prison
8 Better Than It Seems
9 First Glance
10 Complicated Subject
11 Fate Is a Word
12 Believe Me (first three stanzas)

(1) WE ARE THE ONES
We are the hunched over old man 
who makes your shoes shine
We are the policemen and women 
who help reduce crime

We are the ones who cook and 
serve your meals at lunch time
We are the bartenders you find 
right before closing time

If you're overworked and underpaid
Just nod your head, say you're doing fine
Pick up your shovel, grab your spade
Just nod your head, say you're doing fine
Get back to work, carry on your trade
Just nod your head, say you're doing fine
Quit complaining about making minimum wage
Just nod your head, say you're doing fine

If you're overworked and underpaid
Don't complain just get in line
We are the tracks on which society is laid
Don't complain just get in line

From our broken backs millionaires are made
Don't complain just get in line
It starts when you're a 
little kid selling lemonade
Don't complain just get in line

Let us unite from here, there, from everywhere
For now is our time to shine
Scream out if your life's defined 
by more than just your career
For now is our time to shine

If you're in your car join our motorcade
For now is our time to shine
Sing the refrain and join our parade
For now is our time to shine

You might drink the wine but we're the ones who 
pulled the grapes from the vine
You may own the oil but we're the ones 
that built the pipeline
They might worship you 
but we're the ones who erected the shrine

You may sing the song…
Sing us a song… sing us a song…
But we're the ones who wrote the rhyme
We are the ones who wrote the rhyme

(2) FRIEND
I spread my words so let them be heard
All across the land...
All across these lands...

My advice is right and nice 
I'll have you understand
When it comes to giving
Give as much as you can...

When it comes to women 
sure my heart's been broken
Each time I try to fix it
And carry on the best I can...

Suddenly I feel empowered
Get inspired to spend the next hour
Sitting here and making song
Hoping you will come and sing along

A friend told me a story 
over coffee one morning
From one of the books she was reading
And, oh, how the pages were turning

Oh my friend is very lovely
If only you had a chance to meet her
You would understand it
How I feel when I see her

She was blessed with one of those faces
Possessed by only those truly lovely people
That when softly caressed it somehow erases
Time itself and everything - all that's evil

Someone once asked me
What the secret to my life is
I answered without thinking
"Learning love is priceless"

Share what you have with everyone:
And send flowers to yourself
Just a little "thank you" for being you
Now go and give them to someone else...

I spread my words so let them be heard
All across the land...
All across these lands...

My advice is right and nice
I'll have you understand
When it comes to giving
Give as much as you can...

(3) SPEAK
Rinse, lather and repeat
When you got blood on your hands
This is no time to retreat…

That’s when you begin to dig in
Stay busy to keep from losing sleep
The war is yours to win

Facts…
Get lost in the mist
I don’t believe this
In betrayal by a kiss

Cracks…
A chink in the armor
Is great cause for alarm
For many things can harm 

Both your soul and your will
And your desire to kill
For the sake of a name 
When ideas aren’t the same

It’s the lion and the lamb
For things we don’t understand
What’s missing is common ground
Found beneath the line in the sand
One must win at any and all costs
Has become the prevailing thought
The divide between 
the worker and the boss
Keeps growing wider 
and is now hard to cross

This union is bound to break
And with so much at stake
People everywhere are speaking out
Before it is too late

So I ask what do you say?
Speak.

(4) APPLIED FAITH
Close your eyes
Quiet your mind
And describe to me
What you hope to find

Don’t give it a name
Let it be free
For fear it may change
Or worse never be

Calm your breath
Yes inhale deep
Then pinch yourself 
Make sure you’re not asleep

Is life a dream…
Then one day we wake?
To a world brand new
That’s ours to shape

Or is this it…
And at the end of the ride
There’s no more nothing
Just hello, goodbye

What if it’s a question of choice
And it’s up to you to decide
As what you believe in most
That fate will then be applied

Don’t dare waste thoughts
On hollow or empty things
For fear of finding out 
What the consequences bring 

Behold the power 
Of free mind and will
Everything can be unmade
And anything can be built

Conceive, believe, achieve 
Imagination is all you need
Yes, you can manifest your destiny

In this world, the next 
or whatever world will be

(5) SLIP STREAM
Enter this virtual world
Take an unguided tour
We'll find a cavern in your mind
That has yet to be explored

We'll cause a ripple in the water
Of intuition, space and time
Won't fear a tear in the fabric
Only scared of a flaw in the design

We can take a trip
Slip down stream
Feel free to follow me
Or I could follow you

Just take one of these
You know what to do
Become anyone you want
Let that become the truth

Free yourself from all distraction
For time ain't on anybody's side
I can see by your reaction
The sense of panic in your eyes

There's only shame in me asking
If you need your place to hide

Just take one of these
And you know what to do
Become anyone you want
Let that become the truth

I see a ripple in the water
Or it could be space and time
A small tear in the fabric
I see a flaw in the design

Just take one of these
And you know what to do...
Let everything you see
Become shiny and new

(6) SIDES
There's no well-marked 
and measured 
Previously charted course 
for you in this world

Just doors waiting 
to be opened
And new frontiers
to be explored

Are there unknown 
galaxies to be found
In what we call 
this universe

I've been searching 
for another new place
One that lies 
between the bounds
of time and material
and sound and space

Where I can live 
inside of my own 
creative invention

Fueled by just 
the energy inside all 
of my good intentions

Becoming unencumbered 
by this perpetual motion
Of having to ride through
the highs and lows

Like a barrel carried along
in the drift of the tide
Up and then down 
and around again on this ride
A human roller coaster
of pre-text and manipulation

I wanna go 
where there's no 
black and no white
No wrong or right
No sleep
no war no more
no peace
And no reason to fight

No big problems 
or great solutions
Only a future fate 
which awaits
That your thoughts 
and actions 
will realize and dictate

An alternative reality
Avoiding impartialities 
and ambiguities

That in time you find 
Within your own 
peace of mind
Then you'll get by 
on just your own 
ingenuity and intuity
and your innards
and their fluidity

Where a thinking 
man's thoughts
Find their way
out of the box
And any other device
That tries to contain them

Where when one's logic is 
Sound and strong
Nobody ever has to ask
Which side are you on

Since there's no sides to choose
No winners to lose
No losers to win
Or angels to sin 
Nor devils to pray
For eternal life
in the oncoming day
Or even in the seconds
That later lie ahead...

No present
No past
No living
No dead

(7) INVISIBLE PRISON
The dazzling darkness 
caresses the silence
The perfect calm 
at the edge of the violence

Meant to do us harm 
or gently guide us?
Outward and upward 
or deep down inside us?

There’s many with ears 
that can’t hear through the fear
Those not standing in the light
Remain beyond my line of sight
In an invisible prison
When your spirit is trapped in form
It can’t soar
Listen…
In the kingdom of the blind
The one eyed man is king
But if you can change your mind
Then you can change everything

I believe that space and time are one
And I’ll finish exactly where I begun
What always is always was and always will be
Behold I use my free will to create fate 
And mold, make and shape my destiny

Yeah energy, frequency and waves
Can move mountains like Jesus saves
Can part the sea or remove gravity
Can erase mistakes even rewrite history

The secret is that WE are the key:
The problem, the solution, 
the question and the answer to the mystery
Hmmm…..What if the magician was the trick?
Then the illusion wouldn’t necessarily be 
what we expect...

(8) BETTER THAN IT SEEMS
I am trying to unlearn
What all the teachers have taught me
I am trying to unlock
An original thought but I have no key
I am trying to believe
That it's better than it seems
(Or at least what I can see)
I am trying to achieve
The American Dream
Of leaving a legacy behind me

Look out the man's got the pen again
Pulls it out every now and then
Smokes some pot as your thoughts
Become your friends
Keep on looking for answers
Until the questions end

So what pulls you through?
Is it something bigger than you?
Or is it lesser than you?
It could be that, too
For so many this is true
Oh, so what am I to do?
Lock myself in a vault
And point my finger at you
Screaming everything is your fault
Sure, you're soul searching
Yet you haven't found a clue

Finally my inner turmoil is at peace
I slayed the dragon
I conquered the beast
Fought so many things
That I could and couldn't see

That which I once believed
Would one day get the best of me
Has now been left behind
I always knew it was just a matter of time

Now that I'm finally where I want to be
I still can't really say that I'm doing fine

With all this free time plaguing my mind
I get to dig a little deeper inside
Still afraid of what I'll find

(9) FIRST GLANCE
The ocean acts as the blood of the earth
She’s screaming out in a flood of hurt
Oh misguided one can’t you see what you’ve done?
Taken and forsaken see the red rivers run

With our mother provider in failing health
We could stop dividing and help ourselves
He who seeks paradise just to leave it in ruins…
Finds indeed all good things do end too soon

Visions of your future are found 
in the memories of your past
You can trace each face 
and place as you look back

A symphony of senses 
as you travel 
the threads of time
It’s like dreaming 
but you’re not sleeping 
still you feel so alive

You can feel the current 
of energy running through us all
The frequency determines 
whether we degenerate or evolve 

As free will plays 
as big a part as chance
So much more is happening here 
than appears at first glance

(10) COMPLICATED SUBJECT
It's such a complicated subject...
this matter of war
Traces back to the beginning of time...
if not before
Intertwined with our destiny
Throughout all our history
As the fate of humanity
Rests within this legacy

The true nature of man...
is not one of understanding
to say the least
The way it now stands...
This violence and bloodshed
shall never cease

There are four words
That'll never be
Our one sole belief
We come in peace

There are four words
That make me nervous
When I hear someone speak
We come in peace

For it seems to me
We'll all eventually
Suffer some kind of defeat
All genders and races
All colors of this crayon nation
All beliefs and creeds

Yet when we fight today
The battle cry is not Semper Fi
It's bleed green for corporate greed
Please take my eyes
Or take away these things
That I don't want to see

Still we try to perceive
all that's unperceivable
Still we strive to conceive
in what's inconceivable
Still we struggle to believe
in the unbelievable
Still we attempt to achieve
What is unachievable

It's such a complicated subject...
this matter of war
Traces back to the beginning of time...
if not before
Intertwined with our destiny
Throughout all our history
As the fate of humanity
Rests within this legacy

(11) FATE IS A WORD
Passion's found in 
many shapes and forms
Within a tight black dress, 
within a uniform

In the eyes of a mother
In the sighs of a lover
At three in the morning
Oh yeah...

Virtue can't be found 
in all eyes of men
Nor in their statues 
or great monuments

Only through tough
times and trial
Will we find ourselves
without denial
Or false compliments
Oh yeah...

Naked truth often hides 
where you least expect
Never in the lavish palace 
but in the cellar of neglect

Those of us living in glass houses 
should be careful of bricks
For some who are
 'the chosen ones'
Aren't the ones we'd pick
Oh no...

Fate is a word made up 
by the scared
As the reason 
why they failed
Or the reason 
they never dared

To summon the courage 
to follow the voice
They didn't always 
want to hear
Oh yeah...

I am a man who 
loves dishing it out
Yet I always have problems 
when it comes to myself

When it comes to stepping up 
I'm the first one to speak
When it comes to the children 
I try my best to teach
They say practice makes perfect 
so it's time to practice what I preach

(12) BELIEVE ME
I could tell you all about my life…
But you probably wouldn’t believe me
You find me always doing right…
And you think it comes easy

You, who finds something new…
And becomes afraid
With that view…
There’s not a lot I can say

You’ll find out the hard way
That’s the price that some pay
When you play it too safe
Sometimes you don’t get to play

THE THRALLS OF THE FLAME
SET LIST NINE (9)
Hopeful in life journey
A roadmap for the weary traveler—songs that acknowledge how hard the road can be while insisting that the journey is still worth taking. 
This collection is for anyone who has wondered if they're on the right path and found the courage to keep walking anyway.
Hope & Perseverance, The Journey Itself, Faith in Process, Finding Your Way
(1) We Are the Ones
(2) Friend
(3) Speak
(4) Applied Faith
(5) Slip Stream
(6) Sides
(7) Invisible Prison
(8) Better Than It Seems
(9) First Glance
(10) Complicated Subject
(11) Fate Is a Word
(12) Believe Me

Set List 9 — The Thralls of the Flame

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Set List 9 — The Thralls of the Flame

Lead Rating: PG

Total Points: 17

Strategic Arc: Labor, social critique, existential questioning. The working-class payload.

Trigger Warning: Labor exploitation, economic anxiety, systemic critique. No explicit content.

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Four-Word Summary

1
We Are the Ones
PG-13
We wrote the rhyme

2
Friend
PG
Learning love is priceless

3
Speak
PG-13
Before it is too late

4
Applied Faith
PG
Manifest your own destiny

5
Slip Stream
PG-13
Everything shiny and new

6
Sides
PG
No winners to lose

7
Invisible Prison
PG
We are the key

8
Better Than It Seems
PG-13
Better than it seems

9
First Glance
PG
More than appears first

10
Complicated Subject
PG-13
Matter of war history

11
Fate Is a Word
PG-13
Practice what I preach

12
Believe Me
PG
Price that some pay

Collection Summary: A grounded, socially conscious set about labor, identity, and the pressure to conform. These songs resist easy answers while affirming the dignity of work, the power of connection, and the importance of staying awake.

Artist Comparison: Tracy Chapman, Glen Hansard, Peter Gabriel

Key Themes: Labor, identity, systemic critique, resilience, connection


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⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST TEN (10)
This set delivers a sharp blend of political critique, cultural decay, emotional burnout, and bitter reflection. It doesn't soothe — it challenges, mocks, and mourns. Though not graphically violent, its themes may be distressing due to their emotional weight and social implications.

Expect repeated confrontation with:
Government corruption and political manipulation
Nuclear war and existential dread
Addiction, mental health struggles, and depression
Media saturation, consumer decay, and societal apathy
Disillusionment with systems, leadership, and modern morality

These aren't passing references — they're the foundation of the set's message.

POLITICAL DISILLUSIONMENT & CORRUPTION
“Pardon Me,” “Obamafication,” “Heresy Speaks No Evil,” and “Another History Lesson” pull no punches. These songs depict democracy as illusion, elections as performance, and leaders as complicit in mass manipulation. The tone is sardonic and direct: politicians, media, and even religion are painted as tools of distraction and oppression.

Expect references to bribery, injustice, media propaganda, and hypocrisy from both sides of the aisle. “Heresy Speaks No Evil” is especially relentless — naming war profiteering, lost civil liberties, climate denial, and celebrity worship as symptoms of a failing system.

Caution for listeners exhausted by current events or systems of power.

NUCLEAR FEAR & COLLAPSE ANXIETY
“Pushing the Button” centers on a single act of destruction: the flick of a switch ending the world. While poetic in tone, it's saturated with cold, fatal imagery — sirens, bombs, families wiped out. This track simmers with dread and resignation, echoing fears that some listeners may carry daily.

MENTAL HEALTH & INTERNAL COLLAPSE
“History to Me,” “Shadow Boxing,” and “Call It Fate” explore spiritual exhaustion, depression, and trauma. Lyrics speak to emotional numbness, inner battles, and helplessness — from addiction and poverty to watching the world collapse without being able to stop it. “Call It Fate” is especially heavy, intertwining illness, violence, and moral grief.

These songs don't sensationalize — but they do not comfort. They portray lives fraying quietly at the seams.

SOCIAL APATHY & ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
“Picture Something Nice,” “Birthright,” and “Intellectual Property” address systemic neglect with heavy irony. Homelessness, class disparity, broken healthcare, generational burnout — all are described bluntly, with no promise of resolution. Listeners navigating economic insecurity or emotional fatigue may find these tracks especially raw.

“It's not your problem / Someone else will fix it…”
This recurring line indicts passive bystanders while mourning a system designed to forget the vulnerable.

SATIRE & MORAL CYNICISM
“Obamafication” and “Pardon Me” mix sarcasm with despair — mocking campaigns, false hope, and surface-level change. They don't offer solutions. Instead, they expose manipulation and apathy with a tone that may be more draining than inspiring for sensitive listeners.

IDENTITY, RACE & SELF-REFLECTION
“Shades” is gentler, tackling race and identity through introspection rather than anger. But its tone stands apart from the rest — quieter, calmer — and may feel drowned out in the chaos surrounding it.

“Another History Lesson” closes the set with tired defiance: hope still flickering, but nearly extinguished. There's no triumphant arc — only resistance with a limp.

WHO SHOULD USE CAUTION
Avoid or delay this set if you are:
Emotionally fragile or experiencing political despair
Grieving illness, death, or institutional failure
Distressed by nuclear threat or helplessness
Dealing with addiction, burnout, or depression
Triggered by injustice, surveillance, or social decay

WHO THIS SET MAY RESONATE WITH
Activists, skeptics, and truth-seekers
Writers, poets, and philosophers of modern collapse
Listeners seeking critique over comfort
Audiences who want confrontation, not consolation

TONE & INTENT
Set List Ten critiques rather than consoles. It speaks with the voice of a disappointed witness — angry, jaded, and tired of pretending. It's not designed to heal. It's designed to make you feel the weight of complicity, collapse, and resignation.
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SET LIST TEN (10)
1 History To Me 
2 Pushing the Button
3 Heresy Speaks No Evil
4 Obamafication
5 Shadow Boxing
6 Picture Something Nice
7 Call It Fate
8 Pardon Me
9 Birthright
10 Shades
11 Intellectual Property
12 Another History Lesson

(1) HISTORY TO ME
I remember when Ice Cube and T were black
And rapped...now they act...like crap...

I remember when The Rock he cooked
And then he'd call us all funny names
Eye brow raised with that funny look...
Now he acts...like crap… it's a fact…

Everything is coming back
But changed...
They're calling it the same name
But it's... strange

I remember when it was cool to say hello
To somebody new I didn't know
Now they're all plugged in to their phones
Which is plugged in where? They don't know...
They don't care. 
I say hello. 
They don't say hello.
So I stare...
Uh Oh...

I need more than a good chiropractor
To fix this fractured broken soul
I need more than skilled psychiatrists
To bandage up these mentally slit wrists

And net all these knotted thoughts
I watch spin and twist out of my control
So look out… all up, down and around
Both near and far, 
hey you up there, 
look out below!

Everything is coming back
But changed...
They're calling it the same name
But it's... strange

I'm seeing so many faces playing charades
Believing they've found 
a new game in a new age…
Hahaha… It's just history to me…
Written on a fresh page

(2) PUSHING THE BUTTON
History won't repeat this 
so I'm gonna say it with a fist
Scratch my name off the list… 
Somebody's gotta resist

Such actions without thinking
is like an alcoholic drinking
One slip is all it takes 
to start the snowball rolling 
and then it's too late

And when there's an avalanche below
You'll be the one who's 
covered by the snow
Covered from head to toe

They keep you in suspense 
while hiding behind their fence
And in the same sense 
there is just no defense

When all it takes is a fool like you
To push the button and we're all through
The whole world's future 
and the whole world's past
One flick of the wrist 
and it's gone in a flash
With one press of the button
Were here and then gone all of a sudden

F&%$#*g 'A' is what I say
I stopped caring 
about getting blown away

You can hide under desks
You can hide behind chairs
But there's nowhere to run
When the sirens blare

When video games turn into real life
You say goodbye to your children
And then goodbye to your wife

And don't forget to pet
Your dog as well
Right before all of us
Get blown to hell!!!

(3) HERESY SPEAKS NO EVIL
Government sponsored torture
is kind of hard to ignore
Especially when you're held prisoner
of a misguided war

Lobbyists sit with
wads of cash in their fists
For any politicians who
find it too hard to resist

Seems that tax cuts
for corporations
and also the rich
Is the only way to build
true bipartisanship

For our money system
The Fed is privately owned
Backed by paper not gold
And everyday us indebt
wage slaves are sold

When you're afraid of
not being afraid
The "terrorists" win
Their best weapon is fear

They watch our civil liberties
become stripped away so fast
through the most unpatriotic of acts
Soon we won't be able to
speak, see or hear

If this is the state of the union
I think a state of emergency
should be declared
On second thought...
that's not such a great idea

And I haven't even
gotten to distribution of wealth
Inflation, funding for education
or health care

Why are so many more
concerned with the
theft of their identity
Than the loss of free will, 
dignity and humanity

When you lack
any great substance
I guess you dress to impress
And fill yourself with vanity

This misinformation generation
eats up whatever they feed ya
Be it Mickey D's, MTV,
shows based on "reality"
Yum Yum...
spoon fed by a controlled media

We're infatuated by celebrities
and American Idols
Fox News, LeBron's shoes,
natural disasters
and let us not forget...
the crazy homicidal

If this is the state of the union
I think a state of emergency
should be declared
On second thought...
that's not such a great idea

And I haven't even
gotten to distribution of wealth
Inflation, funding for education
or health care

I am growing tired 
of this throw away
disposable consumer society
Why are those who say
our globe isn't warming
Still trying to lie to me?

Using up energy sources
that will not be soon replaced
Did you know that plastic
is gonna be the fossil
of the entire human race?

Our seas are overfished
and rainforests destroyed
Why? So men can make money
Mother Nature gets lucky when
people are unemployed

If this is the state of the union
I think a state of emergency
should be declared
On second thought...
that's not such a great idea

And I haven't even
gotten to distribution of wealth
Inflation, funding for education
or health care

Time to step off my soapbox
And walk down the road yonder
But before I go
two final questions to ponder:

Might seven billion people
be considered overpopulation?
How can we have 
all-you-can-eat buffets
AND sufferers of starvation?

(4) OBAMAFICATION
America wants change 
Not the rhetoric of change:

Yes we can
But we didn't
See sometimes
The truth is hidden

Sure some words 
Were surely spoken
The needle's stuck
Record is broken

Yes we can...
Yes we can...
Yes we can...

The rhetoric 
Just keeps getting repeated
Information
Guess we don't need it

Pick a war hero
Or a good neighbor
Suffer sooner or 
Suffer later

Yes we can...
Yes we can...
Yes we can…

(5) SHADOW BOXING
Maids in the morning sweeping up broken glass
Long lost dreams of a shattered past
As a cup full of life is spilled to the floor
A man who once had riches now lives poor

Walking down the spiral staircase that is my mind
Passing all the memories that I've left behind
See the same things enough soon you'll grow blind
Be careful of what doors you open and what you will find

Some patterns are so hard to break they end up breaking you
Anyone who's ever worn these shoes knows this is true
See enough dope and you're bound to give it a try
See murders every day and pretty soon you won't cry

There's blood on the sidewalk
The scent of death in the air
Yet you stroll right past
While others stop and stare

Some men live long and some die young
Some carry heavy burdens, some carry none
When you're shadow boxing you sometimes bruise
When you fight yourself sometimes you lose

(6) PICTURE SOMETHING NICE
Homeless mand in the alley
He's paying his dues
While he was sleeping
The children took his shoes

When he wakes up
He looks so confused
His pride is hurt
What's left of his ego is bruised

Yeah, every hour
of every day
The faces change
But the story's the same

You live it, you breathe it
You hear it, you see it
You learn to accept it
And soon you expect it

Just as the sun rises
Just as the moon shines bright
There's no need to worry
You're doing all right

Don't pay attention
Just walk on by
Picture something nice
Don't you bat an eye

It's not your problem
Someone else will solve it
It's not your problem
Someone else will fix it

You just leave the worrying to me
I'll worry about the way thing ought to be
It's not your problem
So go on and make your exit

You think that you're perfect?
In everything you say
In everything you do
Some say what you don't know
Cannot hurt you
And you believe it to be true

Oh, but the price you will pay
You will find out some day
That day maybe today
Or could still be far away

So you better keep on your toes
Because there is something
That everybody knows
Inside there's a monster that grows
Beneath your pretty clothes

A vanity affair
But there is no one else there
You're only cheating yourself

A vanity affair
Either make amends
Or keep playing pretend
You're only cheating yourself
When you think you win
Then you really lose
So either apply some more makeup
Or think of changing your shoes

A vanity affair
You're not just cheating yourself
You're dragging down
Everybody else

(7) CALL IT FATE
Birds circle around your home
Say it one more time...
Why won't they leave you alone?
They flap their wings from side to side
But from Mother Nature no man can hide

Being punished for crimes --
Well, that may be
For crimes against humanity
Just when you thought
There was no one to see

Now you look at your life
And who is to blame?
You can call it fate
You can call it a shame

As your family boasts:
"You're in the prime of your life"
You go under the doctor's knife

For cancer has no name or face
Unfortunately for you it's too late
Enter the hospital a dying life
Exit the church a crying wife

Now you look at your death
Pondering who is to blame?
You can call it fate
You can call it a shame

In the next room of the hospital
Is a mother's joy
The prize of a life - a baby boy

The parents counted the fingers
Then the parents counted the toes
But what's in the soul nobody really knows

Food, love and shelter - baby got his fill
So no one knows why he grew to kill

You can look at their deaths
And who they blame
You can call it fate
You can call it a shame

A man dresses in the mirror
As he flashes a smile
In a two-thousand dollar suit
He'll wear at the trial

He asks the judge to cut his client a break
Starts preaching about
How we all make mistakes

The judge, on these words, reduces bail
Keeps a guilty man away from jail

His freedom is gained but what's been lost?
Will he do it again?
They keep their fingers crossed

(8) PARDON ME
I just got a pardon from the president
Because I did not admit 
to what I knew they'd submit as evidence
And I just made a friend 
who will do what it takes
And be there to the end 
or at least until he fixes mistakes
I think we may have just set a new precedence

Since it is so clearly evident
That politics is no place for benevolence
When we can't trust the president
That means we can't trust the government
Who often sells out its residents
Giveth and taketh on false precedents

Since some just take whatever they need
With greed...what's important is the numbers on
Not the names of dead presidents
I have come to believe
Not everyone is entitled to be free
Because a handful of money is all you need

To put people in your pocket to guarantee
That when trouble comes it'll let you be
When you buy a judge 
You can throw out the jury

The system's become corrupt
Manipulated through misdeeds
Someone should do something
'Cause there's a document I've seen
Saying they're vetting Ann Coulter and Satan
To run together in 2016

Just remember that
Every candidate has a rhyme
Around election time
Saying we'll do just fine
If you wave this sign

Standing on a pedestal
Waving a fake gold medal
Just rubbing on their crystal ball
Saying they've been here and there
They've seen and done it all

Only after the choice has been made
And you've dealt them the ace of spades
While thinking that politics isn't a game
And you haven't been played

But finally after all 
the promises have been made
You found that the scale of honesty
Has never been weighed
As they've forgotten all that they've said

Speaking this while doing that 
They placed one foot on the platform
And then they fell flat
The train they boarded straight to the top
The engine failed; the track got derailed
And when the conductor was jailed
The bail they collected was never mailed

Yet every opinion they stated
Was quoted as fact
Saying that proof was in the eye
And they said it with such tact

Even though no
Evidence ever backed
But numbers can lie
Once you've developed the knack

So everyone signed on the dotted line
Without ever reading the pact
And now you're complaining
About paying so high a tax
Once you sign a deal with the Devil
There's no turning back

However, there's a new path unpaved
So it's up to me and you
We've been taught to
follow the leader
Sadly, it's true

It can't be that way anymore
Time for us to settle the score
Start pushing the stale old values aside
No more can we run and hide

The government that rules us
practically everyone is a liar
Words catching on
And now it's spreading like a fire

They've talked and talked
Talk, talk, talk 'til they're blue in the face
Just follow me and I'll show you the way

Going to Washington D.C.
Time to see the true enemy
But beware...for their twisting tongues 
will tell you it's me
Don't listen to them if you want to be free

Join us - every color and race
Speed up! - We've got to quicken the pace
Million man march - huh - multiply that by ten
History, we're going through it again

Do it for the homeless you meet
Do it for the children on the street
Think about the hungry, the ill, and the sick
We'll dismantle the system brick by brick

Tell it straight and don't beat around the Bush
We tried to pull now it's time to push
It's nine for them and one for us
It's their turn to sit on the back of the bus

The politicians look us right in the eyes
While their words are full of lies
So it should come as no surprise
What happens to them after they die
They care not for us only I
They tell me, "Well, just because..."
When I ask why
They say, "They learned it from their peers...
That true honesty has disappeared."
So true has come our biggest fears
There's no one left who really cares
I'm going to give each one a mirror
So they can see what we see

Then I'm going to run for president
So I can show what's evident
I will answer questions truthfully
And you can think what you want of me

I'll hide behind no mask at all
Not forced to sit I will stand tall...
I'll be myself and wear no veil
With my left hand on the bible:
"I smoked pot and I inhaled!"

(9) BIRTHRIGHT
I had a glass of wine and I felt fine
Yeah, so I had a couple more…
I went out looking for a good time
Like Marco Polo – I wanted to explore…

Had no idea what it would bring
Maybe something great 
or perhaps nothing…

The only difference 
between the pauper and the king
Is just birthright 
and the size of the diamond ring…

Change the substance not the shadow
Or else you'll find that change is hollow
Let the light in open the window
Lead the people and they will follow

What do I do…
If not this?
What do I share?
If not this gift?

What's the best present
To give to our kids?
I say a future world 
Left better than when we 
First came into it?

But leading by example 
Is the hardest thing to do
To reserve and hold your judgment 
Until you walk one day without shoes

Singing the song of someone else 
Well, it only goes to prove
That one man's country song
Can be another man's blues

What do I do if not this?
I could go back to being a hypocrite
Hello dear…(fake smile)
Hi my love…(kiss, kiss)

Change the substance not the shadow
Or else you'll find that change is hollow
Let the light in open the window
Lead the people and they will follow

Here's something those of you
With two jobs already know
This bitter pill has become 
Too hard to swallow

Healthcare's gone for good
And Social Security will follow
They want you to pay for today
So they can own you tomorrow

Overworked and underpaid
Slowly dying from minimum wage
Swimming in debt 
as the cost of living
It rises over your head…
so you try to forget…
But I won't let you forget:

Change the substance not the shadow
Or else you'll find that change is hollow
Let the light in open the window
Lead the people and they will follow

(10) SHADES
What color are your eyes?
To me that's as important
As the color of your skin
About this I am quite certain

What color are you inside?
That's what really matters
What we can see outside
Are just shades and spatters

Shades from mighty bright white
To midnight black or blacker
To me it's a mitigated factor
Much like the clothes of a good actor

For it's just a tiny fraction of the whole
Something that's beyond all of our control
Gives no insight to the depths of the soul
Might show where we're from -
But not where we're gonna go…

(11) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Graffiti scribbled on the side of a building
Obscenities aimed at the passing children

Yet these simple words can have
Such a complicated effect
On an empty vessel of thought
Dependent on a world filled with neglect

With the wind picking up
There's trash blowing all over the ground
There's three guys under 'neath a bridge
Passing the bottle around

I see weeds sprawling across the sidewalk
Crawling up through the cracks
I watch a kid on his way home to a broken home
Walking alone along the tracks

Things are heading south
No matter which way you face
What is bitter to your eyes
Can give your mouth a bad taste

Seems that everywhere I look
There's something that hurts my eyes
They say another day, another dollar,
Which each new day comes a new surprise

It's not just the inner city
Where things are getting worse
When the intellectual property of so many
Needs to be torn down or reinforced

(12) ANOTHER HISTORY LESSON
So just what do you want from me?
Another bloody lesson on history?
I am but one man can't you see
Will there be anyone behind me
When I finally make my stand?
Could I see a show of hands?

For I've grown sick and tired
Of laying way back in the cut
When your conscience burns with fire
You reach a point where enough's enough

No more playing follow the leader
I just fell off of the societal ladder
History is cyclical and I'm a big reader
Many say I'm madder than the mad hatter
But to me those vicious
Tongues only flatter
Only what my people say
That's all that really matters

I try to make a difference everyday
Don't let my ego go run off and play
For it may come home
Broken and shattered
I dress myself in rags and tatters

For people see me
More clearly this way
It's a small price to pay
To help keep the monsters at bay

For there's very little that I need
To be free of jealousy and conceit
Just my one true love
And our little ones at our feet
Then I'd sleep well
Knowing I've made a difference
At least to most
Of the people I meet

That's my definition of winning
Living in a box
Saying everything sucks
Now to me that's sinning
Such unfulfillment
Would be my defeat
A human retreat
Having to start all over again
At the beginning

GO ASK GRAMM
SET LIST TEN (10)
Political corruption
Sharp, angry, and unrelenting—these songs take aim at the machinery of power, the lies we're sold, and the systems that profit from our silence. This is protest music for an age when protest itself has been commodified.
Government Overreach, Media Propaganda, Class Warfare, Resistance & Revolt
(1) History To Me
(2) Pushing the Button
(3) Heresy Speaks No Evil
(4) Obamafication
(5) Shadow Boxing
(6) Picture Something Nice
(7) Call It Fate
(8) Pardon Me
(9) Birthright
(10) Shades
(11) Intellectual Property
(12) Another History Lesson

Set List 10 — Go Ask Gramm

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Set List 10 — Go Ask Gramm

Lead Rating: PG-13

Total Points: 23

Strategic Arc: Political disillusionment, nuclear dread, addiction, depression.

Trigger Warning: Government corruption, nuclear war, addiction, depression, media saturation, consumer decay, societal apathy, mental health struggles.

#
Song
Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
History To Me
PG-13
old tricks, new dog

2
Pushing the Button
PG-13
destruction waits at hand

3
Heresy Speaks No Evil
PG-13
power system's false narratives

4
Obamafication
PG-13
rhetoric masks empty hope

5
Shadow Boxing
PG-13
internal battles leave scars

6
Picture Something Nice
PG-13
vanity blinds harsh reality

7
Call It Fate
PG-13
tragedy strikes without mercy

8
Pardon Me
PG-13
corruption shields the guilty

9
Birthright
PG-13
privilege shapes destinies unfairly

10
Shades
PG
identity transcends outward appearance

11
Intellectual Property
PG-13
neglect erodes cultural foundations

12
Another History Lesson
PG-13
resistance persists despite defeat

Collection Summary: A sharp blend of political critique, cultural decay, emotional burnout, and bitter reflection. This set challenges rather than consoles, speaking with the voice of a disappointed witness.

Artist Comparison: Bob Dylan, Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy

Key Themes: Government corruption, nuclear dread, social apathy, disillusionment, media critique


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SONG LIST 2 Sheila Tequila

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SONG LIST 5 Love Without a Doubt

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SONG LIST 7 High Tides and Landslides

SONG LIST 8 A Knight for a Lady

SONG LIST 9 Between Us and Love

SONG LIST 10 One Piece Missing

SET LIST 1 Glass Half Something

SET LIST 2 Plurality

SET LIST 3 Self in the Mirror

SET LIST 4 Partnered to the Crime

SET LIST 5 Living a la Mode

SET LIST 6 Definitely NOT Love

SET LIST 7 Train Off the Tracks

SET LIST 8 Boss Logic

SET LIST 9 Thralls of the Flame

SET LIST 10 Go Ask Gramm

SET LIST 11 Noise, Lies and Longing

SET LIST 12 Wounded Masculinity (Silhouettes of Pride)

SET LIST 13 Power Shields

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SET LIST 15 Liminal State

SET LIST 16 Kneel, Heal and Rise

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NOISE, LIES AND LONGING

NOISE, LIES AND LONGING
⚠️ SET LIST ELEVEN (11) – TRIGGER WARNING
This set is built around identity strain, defiance, addiction, and long-term psychological fatigue. It lives in the space between confidence and collapse, where survival instincts get mistaken for strength and numbness passes for clarity. Nothing here explodes — it grinds.

Core themes include:
Substance use and addictive thinking (both literal and symbolic)
Ego fracture, self-mythologizing, and identity erosion
Chronic insomnia, anxiety, and mental overexertion
Spiritual burnout and rejection of authority or doctrine
Emotional detachment, failed intimacy, and isolation
Cynicism toward politics, systems, and collective narratives

Tracks like Devil's Friend, Groovy Gravy, and Moth frame self-destruction as routine rather than crisis — familiar, tempting, almost rational. This normalization can be destabilizing for listeners dealing with addiction, relapse, or compulsive behavior. Insomnia and Disciple of Dirt dwell in prolonged mental unrest: racing thoughts, moral exhaustion, and the sense of being trapped inside one's own head for years at a time.

There are references to violence, weapons, and confrontation, but they function more as psychological posture than physical threat. The real weight comes from internal conflict — pride versus vulnerability, isolation versus connection, resistance versus surrender. Time's Up and Dancefloor blur the line between coping mechanisms and giving up, especially through escapism and avoidance.

This set repeatedly reinforces the idea of thick skin as armor, even when that armor is actively causing harm. Confidence often masks fragility. Humor masks despair. Control masks fear.

Use caution if you are dealing with:
Addiction or recovery
Depression, anxiety, or chronic insomnia
Identity collapse, burnout, or depersonalization
Emotional numbness disguised as self-acceptance
Creative or ideological disillusionment

There is no single breaking point in this set. Instead, it accumulates pressure track by track, leaving a residue of restlessness, defensiveness, and unresolved tension.
Listener discretion advised.

NOISE, LIES AND LONGING
SET LIST ELEVEN (11)
1 Love It or Leave It 
2 Groovy Gravy
3 Devil's Friend
4 Disciple of Dirt
5 Moth
6 Insomnia
7 Thick Skin (first two stanzas)
8 Time's Up
9 Kicking the Can
10 Hey Waiter
11 Cement
12 Fancy Words
13 Dance Floor

(1) LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
I am me so you can love it or leave it 
(leave it)
Don't care what you like
So I don't lie
Do you believe it?
 (believe it)

Though others' eyes
I can't see through
(see through)
What you see is what you get
I will never be you
(be you)
I don't want to hurt your feelings
But I wouldn't want to 
(be you)

I keep my makeup in a drawer
That's never been opened 
(opened)
Is the truth in the eyes
Or in the words spoken? 
(spoken)

As you can see
I'm wearing no mask
Let me tell you my friend
This is no easy task

So what you see
Is what you get 
(you get)
Have you seen anything
That you like yet?

I am me so you can love it or leave it 
(leave it)
I wear my heart on my sleeve
Could you ever conceive it?
(conceive it)

Though others' eyes
I can't see through 
(see through)
What you see is what you get
I will never be you
(be you)
I don't want to hurt your feelings
But I wouldn't want to 
(be you)

I keep my makeup in a drawer
That's never been opened 
(opened)
Is the truth in the eyes
Or in the words spoken? 
(spoken)

I am me so you can love it or leave it 
(leave it)
I wear my heart on my sleeve
Could you ever conceive it? 
(conceive it)
I am me so you can love it or leave it 
(leave it)

Don't care what you like
So I don't lie
Do you believe it?
(believe it)

(2) GROOVY GRAVY
You look into my face 
Expecting to see 
A man who is angry

Yet these eyes of mine
Just finished crying
Miss my sweet ass candy

My mind…
Gotta fill it with groovy gravy baby 
So I'm inclined…
To do or say anything that will pay me

Picked rhyme 
'Cause I find most lives of crime 
pay weekly not daily
And all my
Friends not in my head 
all think I'm going crazy
Sure, once I thought I was on a roll
But I found out it's beyond all my control 
Because when the Zen unfolded
Again I was the one left dumbfounded

Boy was I wrong 
I really had thought I'd found it
Being used like a toy all along 
There's no other way around it

I was a puppet on a string
Just a bird with two clipped wings
Confined behind these four walls
Tortured was the only way I'd sing

I was force fed 
To believe - so I'd pretend
That means don't matter 
As long as it gets you to the end

But soon I was no longer 
The one steering the wheel
The machine kept getting stronger 
I was left wondering was I still real?

Yes, once I thought I was on a roll
Now I've found out it's beyond all my control 
Boy was I wrong 
I really had thought I'd found it

Being used like a toy all along 
There's just no other way around it
Became the prisoner of my own sad song
No wonder I've grown so despondent

(3) DEVIL'S FRIEND
I can't quit it 
Let me hit it 
Oh won't you let me in?

I've been sinning 
Since the beginning 
And I don't want that to end

I keep learning 
While I'm burning 
I've become the Devil's friend

What I'm saying 
Is I'm still playing
It won't be a pretty end…

I been high for a long time
I've been dry even longer
Out in the sunshine
The truth just gets stronger

I was hiding in my cave
And that's no place to get saved
See a man in full retreat
That's when he's easiest to beat

Well I just hid my head
'Til the world thought I was dead
Gone, lost and hidden away
Far from society I strayed

Trapped in a world I couldn't face
One where I quickly lost my place
Finding solace in defeat
Told myself I can't compete

(4) DISCIPLE OF DIRT
Just what will break the spell?
So many claim to know
Yet so few tell

Why is that so?
Maybe it's just as well?
To just let it go...
Ah what the hell?

There's only one way to know
Whether to buy or sell
On which road to go
There's only one man in the know
Though long ago he fell

So what's a disciple of dirt
Like me to do?
No one left to follow
No one to lead me

A blind detective
In a world full of clues
Only able to be captured
No one to free me

So many choices
Yet so little time to choose
I want to hide away
Where no one can see me

So much to gain
But even more to lose
I'll rest in the safety that
No one else will ever be me

So what if my book of poetry
Lies dusty on the shelf
My inspiration's been lost and found
By someone else

My dreams about tomorrow?
Ah who the hell even cares?
Every day we all take
A good look in the mirror
And wonder if it's time
To face our fears:

Are we burned up?
Are we burned out?
Or maybe there's no flame at all
With no desire to climb
There's no risk to fall

So we stick to safe ground
Like a hamster on a wheel
Lacking love and hate
So there's nothing left to feel.......

(5) MOTH
Some things were made to bait you 
and then out wait you 
Or out will you 
But if you're a moth like me 
Then a burning candle will kill you…

They say misery loves company
I said I'd rather be alone
They say in truth and light 
There lies your salvation
I said sometimes I feel safer 
When all the light is gone

In darkness I trust
When scared I soar
Up through the night sky
Seeking light once more

I find I can't change
The wiring of my brain
So with wet wings
I glide through the rain

So I may pass the test of fire
And fly over the open flame
Try to rid myself of all desire…

It's the same tame your name game
It's the same tame your name game
It's the same tame your name game

(6) INSOMNIA
It's time to write another song
About the world and where it's all gone wrong
But awe man….That's gonna take soo long

To sum it up: if you're ignorant then you're right
It's the best lesson you can learn from the whites
Those with power never wanna give it back
Is the history lesson you learn if you're black

It's not where you end up 
But how far you had to go to get there
If you were born with a senate seat 
Don't ever complain your life's not fair

I wake up… remove the covers from my face
Then I do…what I can for the human race
Fight the urge…to give in when I'm overwhelmed
Save the world…mostly by working on myself
I'm close to becoming the man I was born to be
Not another drone, wage slave worked to death
But someone who can say they tried to break free

Every night I stayed awake
Trying to find a cure for the human race
Thus I suffered from insomnia

So finally I had to give it a break
It was the best thing I ever did
Trust me I'm telling ya
It's time to write another song

(7) THICK SKIN
If you sing my song…
First know that it's long
A tale filled with broken hearts, 
promises and noses

If you look inside my soul…
You'll see all that I don't show
My deviled horns, the blood-stained thorns
And wilted leaves of long-stemmed dead roses

(8) TIMES UP
My misdirected passion
Has led to many lashes
Put all my eggs in one basket
As if you even had to ask it

I made a rash decision 
And did something I wish I didn't
Now everything is broken
All black with ash and smoking

As I've lost all intention and desire
To ever again go near or play with fire
I know I've said this all before
But this time I won't be called a liar

I don't wanna feel
Like love's not real
But I've grown sick and tired

Of being used 
And if it's self-abuse
I'm thinking I might retire

Take up another trade
In my old age
Hey, this gun's for hire

Got a few bullets left
But at least I'm outta debt
So what if my plan backfired?

Sure you can save for a rainy day
Then watch as a typhoon comes your way
You can look around there's no escape
Right now you are face to face with the wave

Sometimes it's water 
and sometimes it's mud
Sometimes it's floating debris 
coming to f*ck you up!

Sometimes it's earned 
and sometimes bad luck
Sometimes you jump 
when you should have ducked!

Time's up!

(9) KICKING THE CAN
This woman I'd been dating for nearly a year
Told me to get out with words so clear
Said her chains had been broken 
and she's no longer bound
To me, former lover, getting outta town

Like seasons a' changing love once so dear
I got no more magic in my hat as I disappear
Walking down the street carrying a big black bag
In it is everything I hold dear that I've ever had

Looking up at heaven trying to understand
Why I'm walking down the street just kicking this can?
I was wanting to travel
But this is not what I planned

(10) HEY WAITER
I see fine, fine, fine...
Sugar mama's all the time
That I know...
could be wined and dined
And numbered because they hunger
For my love and what I got inside
Yet still I wait...

I see pretty young things
Whose bodies could be had and bought 
With just a wink and a shiny ring
But I don't think dirty thoughts
For sure, girls like that
There's lots and lots
But still I wait...

To see a woman strong inside
With whom I want to stand beside
Because I know she'll still be there
During times when I'm troubled
And deep within despair
Or in need of some tender love and care
So here I wait...

For those who are the very few
That will love me for what I do
And for what I truly am
For they will see I'm a special man
Who lives his life 
according to his own plan
And sleeps all alone tonight 
because he understands
That he must wait...

(11) CEMENT
As the blizzard blows tonight...
All you think about is staying warm
We unite to build a fire
Enemies become friends
And everyone survives the storm

For time has proved
As we've evolved and grown
That the truth is...
We're never best when we're left alone

If you wanna be truly original
Then don't be scared of a stranger
Don't you know the first smoke signal
Was a way to talk
And not a symbol of danger

Yet when it comes to truth
Some play hide and seek
They say the dead don't lie...
Well, that's only because
The dead don't speak

Some manufacture consent
Like they're mixing cement
There's always a positive spin
It always us versus them
The good guys are gonna win

The speechwriters have been busy
You see stars and stripes blowing in the wind
Dylan warns propaganda all is phony
But just listen to them play our hymn...

Some manufacture consent
Like they're mixing cement
There's always a positive spin
So what if everything is falling down?
You get to build it back up again

I embrace my face....
Even though I don't like it
I support my race....
Even though we're always fighting

To some my life's a waste....
I carry on despite it
I know my place....
There're wrongs that need writing, righting

I don't know if I...
want to remember or forget
Some of the thoughts
I got swimming inside my head.....

They keep me awake
sometimes I can't sleep...
Been like this
for about a week...
And add to that about ten years
I've been telling everyone
Still no one cares.…

(12) FANCY WORDS
As if you were my children
I sacrifice for you
A mind like mine
Don't come around often
The next one could be you

The chip that rides atop my shoulder
Has fallen to the ground
To the chains of modern thinking
I am no longer bound

I don't try to reach
just a thousand critics
I aim for tens of millions
of people worldwide

I don't dare use fancy words
that twist into themselves
So many times that you need
a dictionary by your side

I try to portray life plain and simply
Using my words to paint
a picture to be your guide

My soul crawls across the paper
Falling dead across the lines
As all the memories I've known
Forgotten and left behind

Now stand before you
Naked and raped
Handled and molded
Unfolded and shaped

There is nothing left
That I can call my own
There's no place that I can go
That I can honestly call my home
There is nothing I'm afraid of
Be it discovered or unknown

I write for men and women like me
Who have the roar of a lion
Those who'll fight to the death
to defend their pride
The men and women who know
that when life gets tough
That you can never lie down and die

So hold onto whatever
will get you through
Do whatever - within reason
that you have to do
Look everywhere inside of you
it's in you
And I would not lie to you
I've been you
I would not hide it from you
but of course
I will help guide you through
I'll be your support

(13) DANCEFLOOR
I been trying to find
A place to call home in my mind
But it's cluttered with all
this useless debris

Pictures, places... things and ideas
They've been trying to sell to me

I been trying to hear
My own voice within my ears...
(I heard a whisper from somewhere)

Amongst all the yelling,
screaming and cryin'
which leads to disbelieving
That's when the 
whisper grows silent

I been trying to see 
since things aren't bad for me
I should forget the fact
that ignorance kills

Turning my back on any and all ills
That don't slap me in the face
For I... can't save... 
the entire human race

Today I'm enjoying myself
Going out to have a good time
This earth won't cease 
to spin or exist
If I relax and unwind

Let someone else
Worry about the world 
for a while...

Once I thought I was happy
But I've long since lost my smile...

I'd like to rewind time 
to find the mindset I had before
Take the train tracks 
back to when I lacked 
the need to go explore

To when I didn't care
If the whole world 
went up in flames

I'd say what can one man do?
Except point a finger...
And pass the blame

That's it...
I've had enough...
I can't take it anymore

Just a few of these...
To put my mind at ease...
I'll meet you on the dancefloor

NOISE, LIES AND LONGING
SET LIST ELEVEN (11)
personal, philosophical, up and down
The full spectrum of a single human life—the highs that make you believe, the lows that make you doubt, and the philosophical questions that persist through both. This collection refuses to pick a mood because life refuses to pick one for you.
Personal Growth, Philosophical Wrestling, Emotional Complexity, The Whole Picture
(1) Love It or Leave It
(2) Groovy Gravy
(3) Devil's Friend
(4) Disciple of Dirt
(5) Moth
(6) Insomnia
(7) Thick Skin
(8) Time's Up
(9) Kicking the Can
(10) Hey Waiter
(11) Cement
(12) Fancy Words
(13) Dance Floor

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Set List 11 — Noise, Lies and Longing

Lead Rating: PG-13

Total Points: 23

Strategic Arc: Addiction, ego fracture, cynicism, identity strain.

Trigger Warning: Substance use, ego fracture, identity erosion, insomnia, anxiety, spiritual burnout, emotional detachment.

#
Song
Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Love It or Leave It
PG-13
take me as am

2
Groovy Gravy
PG-13
mind needs sticky sauce

3
Devil's Friend
PG-13
keep learning while burning

4
Disciple of Dirt
PG-13
blind man seeking clues

5
Moth
PG-13
gliding through the rain

6
Insomnia
PG-13
fighting for human race

7
Thick Skin
PG
horns and blood thorns

8
Time's Up
PG-13
facing the big wave

9
Kicking the Can
PG
walking toward no plan

10
Hey Waiter
PG
searching for strong heart

11
Cement
PG-13
surviving the winter storm

12
Fancy Words
PG-13
sacrificing for my kids

13
Dance Floor
PG-13
find peace in movement

Collection Summary: A set about identity strain, addiction, and long-term psychological fatigue. These songs live in the space between confidence and collapse, where survival instincts get mistaken for strength.

Artist Comparison: Rage Against the Machine, Lou Reed, Ani DiFranco

Key Themes: Identity strain, addiction, psychological fatigue, ego fracture, emotional detachment


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SONG LIST 1 The Last Man Singing

SONG LIST 2 Sheila Tequila

SONG LIST 3 A Day at the Office

SONG LIST 4 A Traveler in the Distance

SONG LIST 5 Love Without a Doubt

SONG LIST 6 Undertows and Afterglows

SONG LIST 7 High Tides and Landslides

SONG LIST 8 A Knight for a Lady

SONG LIST 9 Between Us and Love

SONG LIST 10 One Piece Missing

SET LIST 1 Glass Half Something

SET LIST 2 Plurality

SET LIST 3 Self in the Mirror

SET LIST 4 Partnered to the Crime

SET LIST 5 Living a la Mode

SET LIST 6 Definitely NOT Love

SET LIST 7 Train Off the Tracks

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WOUNDED MASCULINITY (SILHOUETTES OF PRIDE)

Trigger Warning – Set List Twelve (12)
Set List 12 is an unflinching exploration of trauma, mental illness, and relational collapse. It contains explicit portrayals of depression, suicide, self-harm, emotional manipulation, domestic conflict, psychological abuse, abandonment trauma, and identity dissolution. Several tracks are written from multiple perspectives, including those of parents, partners, and victims, and the set does not offer comfort, resolution, or redemption. This is not a safe or neutral listen for vulnerable audiences.

The set includes extremely graphic content relating to suicide and self-harm. In Clinical Depression, for example, there is a stark narrative of a young woman preparing to die by overdose, including explicit depictions of her parents' aftermath. Themes of perfection pressure, emotional neglect, and the finality of loss dominate this track, which alone may be unsafe for anyone experiencing suicidal ideation, recent grief from suicide, or depression with feelings of worthlessness.

Themes of untreated mental illness and emotional collapse run throughout tracks such as Underrated, Victim of Fate, Empty Eyes, and Smiles and Frowns. These songs depict emotional numbness, anhedonia, dissociation, identity erosion, and surrender as a coping mechanism, leaving the listener in a persistent state of hopelessness without relief or redemption.

Toxic relationships and emotional abuse are central to songs like This Very Room and Get Outta My House. This Very Room presents psychological torment with gaslighting, jealousy, and haunting memories of past partners, blurring the boundaries between past and present relationships. Get Outta My House portrays domestic conflict through verbal and physical violence, where dark humor does little to soften the impact of spousal aggression and humiliation.

Shame, guilt, and self-blame appear strongly in Bite of the Apple, On the Rocks, and Valentine's Woes, reflecting infidelity, secrecy, moral failure, and emotional guilt, often intertwined with parent-child dynamics framed by shame and fear. Romantic idealism collapses into self-reproach across these tracks. Misogyny, bitterness, and emotional hostility emerge moderately in Empty Eyes, Dora, and Smitty's Anthem, presenting anger toward women, resentment after rejection, and emotional detachment as a defensive strategy, potentially triggering for survivors of verbal or emotional abuse.

Additional recurring themes include depression framed as moral failure, parents unknowingly contributing to psychological harm, irreversible consequences of silence, emotional isolation even within relationships, memory as a form of torture, love morphing into surveillance, self-worth tied to romantic validation, and emotional exile following romantic abandonment.

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WOUNDED MASCULINITY (SILHOUETTES OF PRIDE)
SET LIST TWELVE (12)
1 Bite Of the Apple
2 Empty Eyes
3 On the Rocks
4 Smitty's Anthem
5 Victim of Fate
6 Dora
7 Get Outta My House
8 Valentine's Woes
9 This Very Room
10 Smiles and Frowns
11 Underrated
12 Clinical Depression

(1) BITE OF THE APPLE
I come home after a hard, long day
Happy with my life but what a price I pay

I walk in waiting for a smile
Though looking down, you stand so quiet
Something is bothering you
I know you by now, you just can't deny it

Did the serpent come to tempt your taste?
Have you seen the devil? Did you fall from grace?
Have you taken a bite of the apple? 
Did you drink up all the wine?

Did you see something so frightening
That it sent shivers down your spine?
Did you see a long lost lover
Only to look again into his eyes?
Or maybe you saw a homeless mother
And then heard her child cry?

Whatever you do from here
Do not hide what you are or what you did
Please don't keep staring at the ground
Nor keep your feelings hid

Please don't twist the truth so much
That you only tell me lies
I would never judge you
You do not need an alibi

Tell me all your worries
My child do not be afraid
Tell me of your troubles
For mistakes can be unmade

Whatever has happened here
Don't be scared to look me in the eyes
You know your face is one
that I never could despise

Did the serpent come to tempt your taste?
Have you seen the devil? 
Did you fall from grace?
Have you taken a bite of the apple? 
Did you drink up all the wine?
Did you see something so frightening
That it sent shivers down your spine?

Did you see a long lost lover 
only to look again into his eyes?
Or maybe you saw a homeless mother
And then heard her child cry?

Did you see someone or something 
which ended up shaking your faith?
Did you see a straight road ahead
And yet didn't walk so straight?

Maybe, baby you watched a man 
fall down in the middle of the street
Did you build yourself a fire?
Only to find that you couldn't stand the heat

She turned around to face me
As she broke down in tears
Saying she never meant to hurt me
But her biggest fears...

Rang loud, sad and true
Now she knew that she couldn't undo
All that she had made
Feeling like she was trapped in a maze
Locked in a cage hurting so much
and at such a young age

I have never been a hunter myself
What I catch is always free to run away
But sometimes I wish that I was different
For if I was then she might have stayed

Maybe I should have been quiet
And not such a seeker of the truth
But she would have told me sooner or later
So just what would have been the use?

(2) EMPTY EYES
It's not that I'd rather be alone
Then be at your side
But the strongest feelings
I have for you
Are the ones that I hide

My empty eyes
You could never look inside
My empty eyes
Part of this face that you despise

It seems that the nature of women
Is that emotion rules all
The reason they rise
The reason they fall

There's no way of knowing
Which way you'll be going my dear
It could be anywhere?

That once burning candle
Has ceased glowing
Revealing my fears
Your rightful place is
Out there somewhere....
But it isn't here

That once bright star
Outside my window
Has long since disappeared

Proof...
You can't prove your love
when you don't speak the truth
Broken...
No more I love you's spoken

Crying...
Is what she's been doing
since she found out I was lying
Leaving...
Is what she is doing now
that there's no more deceiving

(3) ON THE ROCKS
(for female vocalist)
When he calls you up
You drop everything
As time itself stops
When the telephone rings

He inspires the love song
You're whole body sings
The moment that he talks
Your heart begins to soar
For he gives you wings

But somewhere
it all went wrong
Along with
so many other things
Now you're cold as ice
and on the rocks
Told yourself
you don't care anymore
Doesn't matter
how many presents he brings

Heart wrenching pain
is now your companion,
your refrain
Your rock of Gibraltar,
your new ball and chain

Feel like a jilted bride
left all alone in the rain
As all your ideals
have just been
flushed down the drain

When what you found
at the altar was just
a crutch and a cane

Yet ever since you let him go
You've longed to return
To the face, the arms,
you used to know

Guess that's just
how this story goes
Now you want him back
But what's inside
you won't let it show

Yes, ever since
you let him leave
One single memory burns
One that changed
your previous beliefs

You dry your eyes
and hide your grief
You realize the tables turned
Your heart's been stolen
and he's the thief

Heart wrenching pain
is now your companion,
your refrain
Your rock of Gibraltar,
your new ball and chain

Feel like a jilted bride
left all alone in the rain
As all your ideals
you've just flushed
down the drain

When what you found
at the altar was just
a crutch and a cane

(4) SMITTY'S ANTHEM (NO TEARS)
I've got no tears left to cry
It just feels dead inside 
And no, I'm not gonna lie
I love to hate you more
Than I ever loved to love you

And it may be 
Yeah, that this one's on me
But as you see by my misery
It's all I can do 
To not scream through the roof

There's a red flag at half mast
You whistle as you walk past
Yes, the graveyard is full of souls
Whose decaying remains fill all those holes

While the blind man with the thirsty ears
Longs for love during his final years
And the middle-aged man with a broken past
Cling to lies remembering them as facts

And the bullet proof youth takes advice from none
Learns the hard way that's when the troubles come… 
As he looks around not sure what to do
He blames me and I blame you…

Yeah, I was driving
Fucking flying!
Running away as fast as I can

She was lying
Then starts crying
I tell her, "Go find another man!"

Lonely…
Not me…
I'm already making other plans

You try to hold on
But baby I'm gone
Now you know I'm still in demand

This is a new song
I hear you humming along
Got you thinking about clapping your hands…

Since you've grown tired
Of living uninspired
Finally my friend you understand…

(5) VICTIM OF FATE
I watched the smoke rising
Up from the flames
Love is dead in my eyes
But I'm not to blame

A victim of fate…
Call it what you will…
It was a hard thing to swallow…
But she had to take the pill

I stopped caring and cut my ties
Lost the fire within my eyes
I've grown tired…dissatisfied
Now exposed…what I used to hide…

I got people dropping like flies
Disappearing out of my life
By now I stopped asking questions
Because I know the reasons why

I stopped caring and cut my ties
Lost the fire within my eyes
I've grown tired…dissatisfied
Now exposed…what I used to hide…

I got people acting like fleas
Latching, attaching on to me
It's probably because they're weak
They're playing games like hide and seek

Sadly, no one comes to find them
Negativity defines them
Those who used to stand behind them
Have moved on…gone on with their lives

I watched the smoke rising
Up from the flames
Love is dead in my eyes
But I'm not to blame

A victim of fate…
Call it what you will…
It was a hard thing to swallow… 
but she had to take the pill!

(6) DORA
Nicknamed Dora the explorer 
For being such a horror
You showed me a good time
Then made me lose my mind, yeah

If this squirrel had a nut
He'd store it in your butt
Don't you turn your back to me
Before I've gained your trust

Once they kick your dick in the dirt
All the money in the world
Won't buy back your self-worth
Or take away the hurt

You can try to hide the fact
That your whole soul got jacked
But there's no use trying to catch 
What has slipped right through the cracks

No more fight left in the dog
No more corn left on the cob
Looks like the thief has just been robbed
And he knows the cops in on the job

Seems you don't know…
What you've been missing
Until what was working…
Suddenly isn't

Try changing your mind 
While you're serving time
In a solitary prison

Not bound by chains
Though what remains
Seems utterly insufficient

Alone at sea
Drifting hopelessly
Yeah, and you call it fishing…

Save that worried mind
Not for what you're afraid to find…
But rather on what you've been missing

Take some advice from me
To help yourself break free
From this invisible prison 

Just to catch a break
You'll just have to take 
Something when it isn't given

Embracing heartache
Was your greatest mistake
That you keep on reliving

In this game you're playing
And not participating 
That don't lead to winning!

(7) GET OUTTA MY HOUSE
They say diamonds are a girl's best friend
I guess it's good to have something left when

When the feeling ends
When the love is gone
All that's left is a song
You make love to your bong

As quiet as a mouse when your loving wife says
"Get outta my house!"

After mistakes have been made
Just as the song said
She threw a vase
Smacked you in the face

And when you said ouch
She made you sleep on the couch
You never saw the writing on the wall
Kept telling yourself tomorrow she'd call

From days to months to years
From happiness to sadness to tears

Your lasting memories concern her tight blouse
And the night she said
"Get outta my house!"

The carriage of gold which you both rode
Down along the cove on your wedding day
Somehow became untracked and unhitched
And every one of them horses they got up and ran away

After every mistake followed another excuse
As the chain started to break
She figured what's the use

For when you called for a truce
She challenged you to a joust
On her shield she soon wrote in your blood
"Get outta my house!"

Hearts once ablaze and set afire
Have gradually lost their flame
Dreams once you both together aspired
No longer remain the same

Coals in need of stoking 
have lost all chance of smoking
Leaving each night's watchmen pointing blame

The mood grows colder as the time grows older
It's time to move south
When you're bleeding from the mouth
Because she sprayed you in the nose
And then smacked you with the hose

Even Smoky the Bear
Knew that the fire's been doused
On the night she said
"Get outta my house!"

They say diamonds are a girl's best friend
I guess it's good to have something left when

When the feeling ends
When the love is gone
All that's left is a song
You make love to your bong

As quiet as a mouse
When your loving wife says
"Get the fu#$ outta my house!"
"Get the fu#$ outta my house!"

(8) VALENTINE WOES
I got those 
Valentine Woes
I know that 
some of you know

What it's like 
to be me
When you're 
feeling alone

A bit weak 
in the knees
And a bit 
faint of heart

In a world 
full of lovers
You feel 
distant and apart

Something separates you 
From everybody else
Sure you bought 
some chocolates 
Yet you kept 
them for yourself

You even bought 
some roses
But they wilted 
on your way home

Ever since the day 
they were cut
You know they 
never would have grown

I got those 
Valentine Woes
Since the day 
is coming soon

While everybody's 
getting flowers
Seems that yours 
will never bloom

(9) THIS VERY ROOM
These simple pleasures
Shall forever dull my pain
For even though he may be gone
Still my memories of him remain

Even though I am here with you
We both know we're not alone
He's in my head, right here, right now
As if he was standing in this very room

(He says:)
Has she ever called out my name
When you two were lying in bed?
Did she ever scream out in pain
I can't get him out of my head!

Has she ever said that I was to blame
Yes, I'm sure that's what she said
Did she ever to you complain
That she'd be better off dead?

I'm sure that she did
So hard to keep these feelings hid
I'm sure that she did
It's such a tough thing to be living with

I try not to think of him
For there's so much to think about
Too many truths that I've discovered
Though to this day still I have my doubts

He led me by the collar
Then tied me to a string
And left me hitched to this post
After promising me everything

Even though I am here with you
We both know we're not alone
He's in my head, right here, right now
The same as if he was standing in this very room
And he won't be leaving anytime soon

(10) SMILES AND FROWNS
With every grimace and frown
From both the past and present
My life feels turned upside down
And I begin to regret it

With every grimace and frown
That I dig up from the past
It adds a thorn to my crown
And a cloud to my sky 
that now looks overcast

With every grimace and frown
Comes make-up 
and paint for my soul
Creating a sad mime 
from this clown
Whose feelings become 
beyond his control….

With every new smile 
On each face I see
I slowly forget what we had
And what we used to be

With every new smile 
on each passing face
I find my sadness being lifted
My pain being erased

With every new smile
that I help to create
I feel a little better about myself
And my life's story I now narrate

With every new smile
That comes along my way
I'll have a better chance
Of smiling again someday

(11) UNDERRATED
Everything has changed and yet nothing
Has changed since we last spoke
For what I once yearned the candle has burned
Now there's nothing left but smoke

Pages I have written in secret inscription
Been set afire see their ashes blow
So simply stated nothing's worse than saying
Well I guess I almost made it

Reality has conquered me
So I've left this dream behind
My fate, my destiny
Awaits in another place and time

So simply stated
These years bled away
Cannot be turnicated
Reality has conquered me
I've left this dream behind

My fate, my destiny
Awaits in another place and time
Now the clock's hands keep spinning
And I've wasted so much time

Find myself a victim to all I've created
Feeling so jaded I can't relax or unwind
I've failed myself now I'm really in a bind

For what I once yearned
The candle has burned
Now there's nothing left but smoke
Pages I have written in secret inscription
Light this fire see their ashes blow

So simply stated nothing's worse than saying
Well I guess I almost made it
I've been led astray
But perhaps it's better this way
Maybe it's better to be blind

Than the one who can see
His path illuminated
Who walked the road yet never made it

So if anyone asks me I'd have to agree
That giving up is underrated
Ooh... it's underrated

(12) CLINICAL DEPRESSION
Narrator: She finds a bottle of pills
And she holds them in her hand

Daughter: My whole world is falling down
And no one understands
There's only one way
to solve my problems
That's for me to go away
After I'm placed in my grave
I won't hear anyone say...

Parents:
She had the whole world in her hand
But she let all of us down 
Now she's gone to a faraway place
Though she's only six feet underground

Parents:
What on earth would make her think
That we didn't love her so?
What pushed her past the brink
To where there was no place left to go?

Daughter: Mom and dad
I never meant to hurt you
Nor cause you any pain
I guess that I imagined
My loss would be your gain

Parents:
Whatever happened in the past
Is nothing compared to this
That would pass just like the moon
With just a hug and kiss

Parents:
This is your one mistake
That'll never be undone
We used to have two children
Now we're left with only one

Everybody stumbles
When they learn to walk
Everybody mumbles
When they learn to talk

Parents:
What we've learned with age
Is that you give it your best shot
We prayed that you'd be strong
But you never even fought
Did you ever listen
To anything we'd taught?
When swimming against the tide
You give it everything you've got

Daughter:
With expectations oh so high
You nailed me to the wall
You placed me on a pedestal
So I was bound to fall
I ended up lying down
When I tried to stand too tall
And when I needed you the most
I was too afraid to call

Parents:
How could we have missed the truth
With the writing on the wall?
Why did you say nothing
When we should have known it all?
If only you had told us
For we can be so blind
If only had we known
We would have been more kind

Daughter:
Oh no, what have I done?
This shouldn't be my fate…
I realize I've made only one mistake
But now it's far too late

Parents:
Always remember that
You're daddy's little girl
The world would have been
Your oyster and you its pearl

Parents:
I would do anything
To give you a second chance
I would trade my soul eternally
Paying with a pound of flesh in advance

Parents:
Not only were you my daughter
you were my best friend
If only you had known
That it didn't have to end

Daughter:
Goodbye mama…
Goodbye papa…
May we meet again

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SET LIST TWELVE (12)
heart break
Not the aftermath, but the moment itself—the breath when you realize it's over, the space between the last word and the first silence. These songs don't tell you it gets better. They just sit with you in the worst of it.
Loss & Longing, Emotional Devastation, The End of Love, Surviving the Fall
(1) Bite Of the Apple
(2) Empty Eyes
(3) On the Rocks
(4) Smitty's Anthem
(5) Victim of Fate
(6) Dora
(7) Get Outta My House
(8) Valentine's Woes
(9) This Very Room
(10) Smiles and Frowns
(11) Underrated
(12) Clinical Depression

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Set List 12 — Wounded Masculinity

Lead Rating: PG-13/NC-17

Total Points: 24

Strategic Arc: Suicide, self-harm, domestic violence, psychological abuse. First NC-17.

 ⚠️ Trigger Warning: Explicit portrayals of depression, suicide, self-harm, emotional manipulation, domestic conflict, psychological abuse, identity dissolution.

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Song

Rating

Musician/Artist

Four-Word Summary

1
Bite Of the Apple
PG-13
serpent tempted your taste

2
Empty Eyes
PG-13
feelings that I hide

3
On the Rocks
PG-13
cold as ice now

4
Smitty's Anthem
PG-13
dead inside no lies

5
Victim of Fate
PG-13
hard pill to swallow

6
Dora
PG-13
invisible prison break free

7
Get Outta My House
PG-13
writing on the wall

8
Valentine's Woes
PG
flowers will never bloom

9
This Very Room
PG-13
standing in head space

10
Smiles and Frowns
PG
thorns to my crown

11
Underrated
PG-13
giving up feels better

12
Clinical Depression
NC-17
one mistake far late

Collection Summary:
 A brutally honest exploration of trauma, mental illness, and relational collapse. This set offers no healing, no redemption — only documentation of collapse, aftermath, and regret.

Artist Comparison:
 Fiona Apple, Sinead O'Connor, Elliott Smith

Key Themes:
 Trauma, suicide, self-harm, relational collapse, depression, emotional abuse

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1 of 35 Dedication, Copyright and Manifesto

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25 of 35 Tom's Cassette Tapes

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SET LIST 13
POWER SHIELDS

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST THIRTEEN (13)
This set contains graphic political commentary, anti-imperial critique, systemic inequality, state violence, and global moral failure. It pulls no punches. There's satire, but no humor — just the bitter burn of truth stated too plainly for some to bear.

Use caution if you are sensitive to:
Genocide, war crimes, and historical injustice
Police brutality, judicial corruption, state-sponsored violence
Poverty, systemic oppression, and economic exploitation
Disillusionment with government and media control
Mentions of execution, hanging, and death sentences
Anger at religion, American imperialism, and institutional betrayal
Mental health under pressure of social collapse
Racial and class-based inequality
Extreme emotional exhaustion or activist burnout
Hopelessness in the face of a broken system

This list does not glamorize violence but names it, points to the perpetrators, and forces you to look. There is zero sugar-coating, even when poems wax lyrical. The emotions here are acidic — often disguised in performance, rhythm, or irony, but not diluted.

HIGHEST IMPACT TRACKS (by topic):
State Violence & Genocide:
"East Timor" Harrowing account of U.S.-funded genocide and global apathy. Accusations of complicity by military-industrial complex and mass media. Contains imagery of children dying, political slaughter, and denialism.

"You can hide a genocide / Started back before 1975…"
Warning: this song is raw, righteous, and infuriating. Listeners with experience in war zones, refugee crises, or political trauma may find it extremely activating.

Death Penalty / Incarceration / State Surveillance:
"Gettin' Juiced," "Gate Keeper," "Sleepless," "Steady Calm" Themes of death row, wrongful imprisonment, paranoia, revolution crushed in silence. Imagery includes snipers on roofs, bugged conversations, systemic betrayal, hanging, and failed legal justice. "Steady Calm" ends with a lynching metaphor, delivered with heavy political irony.

"Legs dance and then dangle / Silhouetting the gable…"
Capitalism, Class War, and Corporate Corruption:
"Poorest Chorus," "Uncashable," "Permanent Lies," "Mickey D's," "Can't Have That" Direct indictments of wealth inequality, corporate propaganda, and poverty as policy. "Poorest Chorus" in particular is a devastating indictment of post-Katrina America, the collapse of public education, and "Walmartization" as systemic decay.

"People getting hosed but not being able to take a bath / In Katrina's aftermath"
This set will absolutely distress anyone disillusioned by American decline or complicit in its rise. It's not subtle.

Indigenous Genocide / Colonization:
"Staking the Flag" Explores the Trail of Tears, Native American genocide, and American mythologizing of conquest. Biting satire delivered through cadence and rhyme — mocking Manifest Destiny with brutal accuracy.

"The cavalry is about to charge / No dancing with wolves / When you're waltzing with Custard…"

Mental Health / Political Despair:
"Steady Calm," "Mickey D's," "Sleepless," "Uncashable" Several pieces mention disassociation, paranoia, suicidal ideation, or deep hopelessness. "Mickey D's" reads like a man unraveling in real-time, spiritually and cognitively burnt out. "Sleepless" presents existential regret wrapped in philosophical aphorism.

ADDITIONAL THEMES TO WATCH FOR:
Satirical deconstruction of nationalism and pledges ("Pledge")
Exploitation through globalization ("Permanent Lies")
The rage of the ignored working class ("Can't Have That," "United We Stand")
Disillusionment with revolutions that never came

INTENDED EFFECT
This set is meant to anger, educate, destabilize, and provoke change. It's full of "truths people know but rarely say," laid bare with poetic fire and no apology. There is no comfort here — only confrontation.
You will leave this set smarter, sadder, angrier — or you will walk away. That is the wager it makes.

📍WHO SHOULD AVOID THIS LIST
Avoid or delay listening if you are:
In a fragile mental health state already triggered by systemic injustice
Deeply sensitive to war imagery or genocide denial
Struggling with anger dysregulation or PTSD rooted in political violence
Looking for healing, peace, or calm — this is not that list

WHO MAY BENEFIT
Political activists
Survivors of systemic oppression
Students of history or policy who need an emotional lens
Those burned out by the news who want to feel seen

SUMMARY
Set 13 is a call-to-arms, not a balm. A document of frustration, exhaustion, and clear-eyed fury. It is deliberately uncomfortable — because the world it describes is. And if it keeps you up at night… that's the point.
If you need to, take breaks, split songs up, or skip entirely.
You've been warned.

POWER SHIELDS
SET LIST THIRTEEN (13)
1 Can't Have That
2 Gettin' Juiced
3 Gate Keeper
4 Uncashable
5 Permanent Lies
6 Mickey D's
7 Poorest Chorus
8 Staking the Flag
9 United We Stand
10 Pledge
11 Sleepless
12 East Timor
13 Steady Calm

(1) CAN'T HAVE THAT
The latest polls show
That when the people say "yes"
Our leaders say "no"

I was taught that it was us versus them
Now I've learned that them is us
But I'm not talking about your Average Joe
Just of those who try to buy our trust

Here's a list of things the peasants want
Well surely they can't have all that!
Just give them these stale loaves of bread
And then we'll raise the tax!!!!

Society at large...Oh, we're not too pleased
Politics to the core...has become diseased
All I need is one believer
To inspire me to dig just a little bit deeper

Society at large...Oh, we're not too pleased
Politics to the core... has become diseased
All they need is one good reason
To get me off of this charge of treason

Society at large... Oh, we're not too pleased
Politics to the core... has become diseased

When I hear the word lobbyist 
My right hand reaches for my gun
When it comes time for talking politics
People get paid to keep us dumb

(2) GETTIN' JUICED
Smashed is the equality
Living in this world of sin
As long as you got power
There's no trouble you're gettin' in

An old football star
He ain't gonna do no time
Money, fame and connections
All cover up the crime

Killing death row inmates
I haven't seen the use
The machine is all plugged in
But it still doesn't have The Juice

And when it's time for you or me
The average American Joe
They'll put us in a steel-caged cell
With no place else to go

When they come and lock me up
There's gonna be a parade
They'll say they've seen my writings
And heard every word I said

If I ever make parole
There'll be snipers on the roof
But they'll need to have an extra round
Because I'm bulletproof

Well, actually I'm not
I've got no fortune or fame
That's why when things go wrong
They place on me the blame

Killing death row inmates
I haven't seen the use
The machine is all plugged in
But it still doesn't have The Juice

(3) GATE KEEPER
If it goes to trial
They got you on file
As a well-known liar

This whole time
The feds had it pegged
Were all wearing wires

You're left to ask why
Not everyone tries
When bogged down in the mire

And it seems to me
You're as high as can be
I don't think it gets any higher

Time to make a deal
Before your fate's sealed
The contract has expired

You see, going for broke 
It leaves you broken
And cold and hungry
Yet you keep on hoping
That tomorrow 
A new door will open
That'll light the fire
And you'll see that thing smokin'

You found yourself a game 
That you really want to play
"Oh won't you deal me in?"
They've been waiting for you to say…

Gate keeper, gate keeper
I can dig a little deeper
Please tell me what you require
Would you have me walk across the water?
Or are you thinking of something hotter?
Am I sensing a cleansing by fire?
Oh those eyes I see them rise in desire
As beads of sweat from your forehead perspire…

Gate keeper, gate keeper
Oh won't you let me into your little show
Gate keeper, gate keeper
Oh tell me all the secrets 
That we both know you know

(4) UNCASHABLE
From where you stand
Everything looks groovy
But living inside of a commercial
It ain't the same as starring in a movie

Hey brother can you spare a dime?
I beg for money all the time
Rather hold an empty cup
Than lead a life of crime

Reality checks can't be cashed
That's what they said at the bank
When I asked:

Is there a tax on misery?
What's the price of a life
Worth materially?

She wrote down a number
But it didn't seem enough
When I said I suffered from poverty
She subtracted a couple of bucks

I said, "Have a nice day"
And I just walked away
Pondering the price we'll all pay
For people acting and thinking this way

I document history
The kind no one reads
In this land of pretty flowers
I'm considered a weed

(5) PERMANENT LIES
Permanent lies, permanent lies
Permanent lies, permanent lies

Facts are interchangeable
Opinions oh so manageable
Everything is rearrangeable
For those who own the world

The discovery I am finding
No contract can be binding
When the empire is declining
The shell closes on a pearl

When confined by isolation
With this stale air I'm tasting
I slowly begin wasting
My time, my mind, my pay

So with nothing in my pockets 
I gotta go get it
Because I don't got it
And when I do it flits away

Permanent lies 
Lead to infinite wars…
What hides behind the disguise?
It's so hard to tell anymore
There's many giving up
No, I'm not talking 'bout the poor
Lots of middle class or better
All falling dead upon the floor

(6) MICKEY D's
I cannot complete a thought
It gets lost as I get cross
Trapped like a gas
In this vast 
piece of orbiting mass

This little lucky piece of rock
That you could almost 
paddle across

We've got some 
pretty green trees
Yet it's still ripe
with disease
Full of wars you 
can and can't see

You ask, "So what's it to me?"
Yes I know of history, geology,
Astronomy and World War Three

I have seen the greed 
Once I would have 
never believed
That money could
buy such misery

Now I see the naivety in me
As corporations start 
owning countries
Now they're calling 
Kenya Mickey D's

And happiness is just 
a distant memory
So long unknown to me
Living in this world of adultery

Where what you see
Is not really what you see
And where what's to be
May never be
And though unchained 
no one is free

You can look forever 
and still not see
Believing simply that
What's to be will be

Thinking that men 
don't make history
Only got lucky
Someone had to be

It took me many years to see
That God helps those
who help themselves
So think twice to yourself
Before you trust in anyone else

Or else you run the risk
Of feeling just like me
A dear friend to insanity
But hey, at least somebody
listens to me

(7) POOREST CHORUS
The brutal honesty of this fun house 
mirrored fishbowl world in which
we all live inside

Is that a man's soul
Will either with him gently die
or watch him lay helpless as he is
economically crucified

This is not just mere opinion
But a simple fact That we can no
longer push aside:

I've been watching the Walmartization
of these United States...

Which is tied directly to the exploitation of
our country's citizens by big magnates

Where the more get more
and the poor get less
As every mom and pop store
is forced to liquidate

I've been watching the Walmartization
of these United States...

Seen values and morals
and a sense of duty to country
slowly disintegrate

Over the last sixty years faces on the street
Have become overrun
by utter indifference if not hate

I've been watching
the Walmartization of these United States...

People getting hosed but not being
able to take a bath In Katrina's aftermath

And it's our own government
that has yet to close the floodgates

But there's more to it than court rulings
It's what large bills get passed
On the house floor to the Senate

I've been watching the
Walmartization of these United States...

I've seen kids having kids
Who're functionally illiterate
Little ones walking hand in hand
With the falling prices of real estate

I've been watching
the Walmartization of these United States...

I've seen people drown
In a pool of knowledge
Because the water turned stagnant

As our world has become all carved up
and fractionated

I've been watching
the Walmartization of these United States...

As funding for education
gets bled so badly it needs a turnicate

Yet it's never seemed to be
a major issue for debate
Brought up by any presidential candidate

I've been watching
the Walmartization
of these dividing states...

Hoping for a reversal of trends
But how much longer will we have to wait?

It's an unfortunate story
But one that somebody
had to narrate

(8) STAKING THE FLAG
Left, right, left, right, left, right
Keep on walking
Don't you look behind

Left, right, left, right, left, right, left
Keep on walking
Don't you look behind

Left, right, left, right, left, right
Keep on walking
Don't you look behind

If you do you know what you'll see
I said if you do
Then you'll know what you'll find...

A trail of tears...
One tear for every step
A trail of tears...
One tear for what couldn't be kept

A trail of tears...
One tear for every breath
A trail of tears...
One tear for every death

The Indians in their Teepees
Speakie English and say
'In trouble deepie"
The cavalry is about to charge

No dancing with wolves
When you're waltzing with Custard
Forced into building casinos
And inventing new mustard
The pilgrims with muskets
Are now at large

And with a box full of small pox
Expanding isn't very hard
Trade whiskey for deeds
Throw in a few beads
When you find a cross in the yard
Then you'll know it's in the bag

To put men on the moon
You know it's never too soon
Sometimes you have to push hard
When you're staking the flag

Left, right, left, right, left, right
Keep on walking
Don't you look behind

Left, right, left, right, left, right, left
Keep on walking
Don't you look behind

Left, right, left, right, left, right
Keep on walking
Don't you look behind

If you do you'll know what you'll see
I said if you do
Then you'll know what you'll find...

A trail of tears...
One tear for every step
A trail of tears...
One tear for what couldn't be kept
A trail of tears...
One tear for every breath
A trail of tears...
One tear for every death

(9) UNITED WE STAND
All for one and one for all
It really makes no sense to hide it:
That he thinks this and she thinks that
One man's fiction is another man's fact
Not every conversation is one-sided

All for one and one for all
What was once on the way up
Is now going down
After empty words were spoken
The unity was broken
And the three musketeers
Have all skipped town

All for one and one for all
As an individual we are so small
But this isn't China, this isn't Japan
No one wants to be part
Of any master plan
Yet society's foundation will crack
Without enough bricks in the wall

All for one and one for all
Quite similar to an alcoholic's motto
They say take things a day at a time
It'll help ease your mind
I guess there's
No such word as tomorrow

All for one and one for all
The time that's wasting is now
But for your God or for yourself
Maybe for me
Or perhaps someone else
To some greater cause
We must each take our vow

All for one and one for all
What kind of future
Does this world hold?
The ill are getting sicker
Each day our children
Are growing up quicker
Yet they say that
What hasn't a price
Cannot be sold

All for one and one for all
The justice system of our country
Has no equal
Though the cases seem
To keep getting worse
After a movie is made
Everyone wants to be the first
In line to buy the sequel

All for one and one for all
The liberty bell keeps on ringing
As republicans and democrats
Keep on listening
While trying to figure out
Where the sound is at
And until the do I'll keep on singing

All for one and one for all
You can sit staring
At quotes on the wall
But I believe
That Lincoln said it best
So there's really no need
To recite all the rest
United we stand, divided we fall

All for one and one for all
It takes many seeds
To plant a garden
So you better harvest
Before the frost
For if you don't
All your work will be lost
As I feel a wintry chill just starting

(10) PLEDGE
Globalization without exploitation
Should be the pledge 
of this next generation
The goal set forth 
for this new millennium
More songs that unite...
That's right...
I'm penning them

So who is with me? 
(thunderous clapping and applause)

Alright now who is against me?
(solo person clapping fades out)

The only weapon you need is love
To destroy any potential enemies

It's thoughts like these that make me
The most dangerous man in the world
Someone that can teach these beliefs
To all of Mother Earth's 
little boys and girls

Every arm in arm
Each hand in hand
That's the one nation
For which I'll stand

(11) SLEEPLESS
We regret it in the morning
What feels good in the night
We see things as we want to
And we pretend that we have sight
Have you ever asked Helen Keller
What she thinks of as right
Her answers might surprise you
Keep you sleepless and up at night…

(12) EAST TIMOR
Amidst this endless 
and senseless violence
The one thing
that I despise most
Are the swords that 
were swung in silence

For when futile 
becomes resistance
The bloody few who are left
Look to us 
for some assistance

But it's by our weapons
That their blood is spilled
When you're wiping out poverty
Sometimes it's just cheaper to kill

So we justify we need a place
For our new submarine base
Since our economy is tanking
Why let good weapons 
go to waste?

Sell them to Indonesia
And everybody wins
At least those with a voice
Amplified by
propagandist spin

I'm getting angry
unhappy
If I start crying
please slap me
Slap this frown
right off of my face
As you see I'm in
a delicate state

Been like this
for years
How long
will they have to wait?

When the media 
is your ally
You can hide a genocide
Started back before 1975
Hundreds of thousands 
have lost their lives

Amidst this endless 
and senseless violence
The one thing 
that I despise most
Are the swords that 
were swung...in silence

(13) STEADY CALM
When we are the many
And they are the few
We shall never be forgiven
For what we failed to do

As the time came
When it was time to act
We turned our backs
Clinging to made up facts

Children crying in their mother's arms
Fathers dying in wars like Vietnam

Vacant eyes
Formaldehyde smell
Following the trail
You know so well... 

In this struggle for survival
The key is the journey not the arrival
It's more the process less the prose
Where the wisdom's found by those who know
'Tis best to walk where the road don't go
As everything speeds up 
Is when it's best to take it slow…

It quickens - the pace of the nation
And sickens - what some of us are facing
As the plot thickens - you forget what you were chasing
Those not stricken - stop sleepwalking and awaken
To all you spring chickens 
- can we unmake this forsaken aching creation?

I sense the sound of hesitation in your voice
I've found most of your frustration is by choice
Those afraid of confrontation shall be coerced
To either stand up for themselves 
or else lie down in a hearse
Day to day to day…
Today is worse

If you wanna make an omelette 
Then sometimes you gotta break some heads
It don't pay to be a chicken
Forever sitting on unhatched eggs

Here at the feast not everybody eats
Not everybody speaks
Even those who are able
But when the money's on the line
And the cards are on the table
Someone's bound to cheat

It happens every time
Hence the noose around the neck
Legs dance and then dangle 
Silhouetting the gable
Now... things are back to normal
Everything all nice and stable 

Steady Calm... 
Yeah, I'll wear that label

POWER SHIELDS
SET LIST THIRTEEN (13)
class struggle and government corruption
The anger of those who work and the indifference of those who rule—these songs give voice to the forgotten, the exploited, and the furious. This is music for the 99%, by the 99%.
Economic Inequality, Class Warfare, Government Overreach, The People vs. The Machine
(1) Can't Have That
(2) Gettin' Juiced
(3) Gate Keeper
(4) Uncashable
(5) Permanent Lies
(6) Mickey D's
(7) Poorest Chorus
(8) Staking the Flag
(9) United We Stand
(10) Pledge
(11) Sleepless
(12) East Timor
(13) Steady Calm

Set List 13 — Power Shields

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Set List 13 — Power Shields

Lead Rating: PG-13

Total Points: 25

Strategic Arc: Genocide, state violence, political rage. The payload.

Trigger Warning: Genocide, war crimes, state violence, police brutality, poverty, systemic oppression, execution imagery, racial inequality.

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Song
Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Can't Have That
PG-13
leaders say no now

2
Gettin' Juiced
PG-13
machine is plugged in

3
Gate Keeper
PG-13
digging a little deeper

4
Uncashable
PG-13
price of misery tax

5
Permanent Lies
PG-13
empire is currently declining

6
Mickey D's
PG-13
corporations start owning countries

7
Poorest Chorus
PG-13
economically crucified man's soul

8
Staking the Flag
PG-13
trail of tears steps

9
United We Stand
PG-13
divided we fall apart

10
Pledge
PG-13
globalization without any exploitation

11
Sleepless
PG-13
pretend to have sight

12
East Timor
PG-13
swords swung in silence

13
Steady Calm
PG-13
legs dance then dangle

Collection Summary: A call-to-arms, not a balm. This set documents frustration, exhaustion, and clear-eyed fury — confronting the listener with truths that are known but rarely said.

Artist Comparison: Bob Dylan, Zack de la Rocha, Dead Kennedys

Key Themes: Genocide, state violence, systemic oppression, political fury, resistance


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THE NEW AMERICAN SONGBOOK 36 sections

1 of 35 Dedication, Copyright and Manifesto

2 of 35 Who Tom Is

3 of 35 Introduction

4 of 35 What "Community" Says

5 of 35 Purpose and Structure of Three Books

6 of 35 Table of Contents

7 of 35 Quick Guide G to X

8 of 35 Full Texts of Lyrics

9 of 35 Rolling Stone Style Album reviews

10 of 35 One Sentence Summaries of Tracks

11 of 35 Albums Ranked by Rating G to X

12 of 35 Album Themes, Moods and Profanity Listings

13 of 35 Four Word Descriptions for Every Track

14 of 35 Tracks Listed by Category

15 of 35 Riddle Me This... Who is This Book For?

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17 of 35 Choose Your Own Adventure Album Orders

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22 of 35 What Tom Wants

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24 of 35 Songwriter Comparisons

25 of 35 Tom's Cassette Tapes

26 of 35 Songs I Wish I Wrote

27 of 35 Contacts and Social Media

28 of 35 Should You Read This?

29 of 35 Can I Get Sued?

30 of 35 Final Thoughts

31 of 35 Why So Serious?

32 of 35 Five Car Ride Talks

33 of 35 Name Index (the rest of the book)

34 of 35 Names Index (From the Lyrics)

35 of 35 Alphabetical Index by Track Title

18 of 35 Collaborhythm Collabtunes Project Summaries

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SET LIST 14
6,000 KM to DK 
(SIX-THOUSAND KILOMETERS TO DENMARK)

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST FOURTEEN (14)
This set deals with emotional trauma, romantic disappointment, dissociation, and deep introspection — delivered through poetic reflection and spiritual motifs.
Many songs are uplifting and affirming, but several contain softly phrased but powerful allusions to psychological distress, sadness, and emotional isolation.

Listeners with histories of abandonment, grief, relationship trauma, or depressive episodes may want to proceed thoughtfully.

PRIMARY CONTENT FLAGS
EMOTIONAL ISOLATION & RELATIONAL PAIN
"Paper Thin," "Let It Ride," "Only Shared With You," "Riding a Wave," "Tears of Trust": Depict internal shutdowns, emotional withdrawal, and communication breakdowns in romantic relationships. Common metaphors include building walls, going silent, and stepping back rather than lashing out. Emphasize a longing for connection even while retreating from it.

"I was looking to build a wall… just to see if anyone would come…"
"You told me that you needed time… And not to take it personally / But of course you knew how I felt…"
These tracks are gentle in tone, but may reignite unresolved feelings of abandonment, unspoken hurt, or yearning.

MENTAL HEALTH THEMES / EXISTENTIAL MELANCHOLY
"Aum… What She Said… Um," "Night Light," "Monuments," "Synergy": Blend mindfulness, metaphysics, and personal reflection. Touch on insomnia, depersonalization, and the search for meaning through consciousness or art. "Night Light" subtly hints at persistent sadness, with lines like: "Prozac people's kids no longer cry / We just hear their sighs…"

While intended to uplift, these themes may trigger reflection on mental health struggles or medication stigma.

MILD GRIEF & LOSS
"Tears of Trust," "Let It Ride," "Only Shared With You": Grieve lost or changed relationships, memory, and time. The tone is poetic and gentle, but emotionally potent.

There is no mention of death, but certain lines could resonate with those processing past heartbreak or emotional abandonment.

ROMANTIC & SEXUAL INTIMACY
"Cutie Pie," "Synergy," "Only Shared With You": Present tender, sensual romantic scenes, affirming emotional vulnerability and physical closeness. Not explicit — but emotionally revealing.

SPIRITUALITY & PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATION
"Aum… What She Said… Um," "Monuments," "Synergy": Invoke spiritual growth, higher consciousness, meditation, energy, connection with the universe. May use unfamiliar vocabulary for listeners not attuned to Eastern mysticism or metaphysics. Encouraging tone — no dogma, but deep introspection may feel overwhelming for those currently emotionally overloaded.

EMOTIONAL RANGE
Set 14 oscillates between:
Romantic ecstasy → Romantic grief
Childlike wonder → Adult weariness
Calm acceptance → Existential yearning
And it does so fluidly, without warning. One song might be reassuring, and the next might cut deep unexpectedly.

WHO SHOULD USE CAUTION
This set may stir deep emotions in:
Those grieving a lost or failing relationship
Listeners who feel chronically unseen or emotionally bypassed
People recovering from depressive episodes or emotional burnout

However, this list is generally safe, healing, and reflective, especially compared to others — and is likely to soothe more than agitate for most listeners.

SUMMARY
Set List Fourteen is about making peace with the past, finding warmth in small moments, and letting go of control.
It emphasizes love as growth, not possession, and offers soft catharsis without shame or rage.

There's sadness, yes — but it's meant to be felt through, not fought.
This is the soundtrack to a slow healing. A nightlight in the dark, rather than a torch to burn the world down.

(SIX-THOUSAND MILES TO DENMARK)
6,000 KM to DK
SET LIST FOURTEEN (14)
1 Tears of Trust
2 Paper Thin
3 Cutie Pie
4 Aum... What She Said... Um
5 Night Light
6 Synergy
7 Making a Killing
8 Monuments
9 My Garden
10 Happy Place
11 Let It Ride
12 Riding a Wave (first part)
13 Only Shared With You

(1) TEARS OF TRUST
As tears of trust 
Fall from her eyes
We have become one
It's no longer her and I

As we were meant to be
Two equal halves 
of the whole
Connected for eternity

Forever in lak'ech...
These two kindred spirits
These two like minds
These two brave 
and loving souls

For she has 
finally let me in
To where no other 
man has ever been
Once I proved 
myself strong
By admitting to 
the weakness of men

Never have I 
spoken false words
About who I am 
or where I've been
Nor have I ever intentionally 
caused her hurt
No matter what rough shape 
she's left me in

Now it's time to let 
our new journey begin...

Now it's time to let 
our new journey begin…

(2) PAPER THIN
When I said, "Everything was fine"
Straight away you knew I was lying
And you told me so...
I replied that this time 
I was the one who
Needed some time alone
But you didn't buy it... No

In your wisdom it was known
You knew my words were paper thin
Not something you'd take stock in
You know the weakness of my inner boy
As well as the strengths in me as a man
You knew all along of my secret plan:

I was looking to build a wall
Just to see if anyone would notice
I wanted to live in a sandcastle
One infinitely doomed by the tide

I was looking to build a wall
Just to see if anyone would come
And try to knock it down...

I was looking to build a wall
Just to see if anyone would come
If there was anyone at all?

When there was nothing left 
But an old recording 
Every time anyone 
would try to call

I was looking to build a wall
To hide behind and in 
the back of my mind
I wanted to protect 
my hall of mirrors

I was looking to build a wall
A place to put 
all the problems
That I had yet 
to face or solve

They're over there 
next to where
I dragged my 
doubts and fears

Now laying beside 
the cross I bare
Behind which sits 
my failures to evolve

(3) CUTIE PIE
Since a miss by an inch 
Is as good as a mile
I'll die wearing hip dirty clothes
Opposed to clean ones out of style

You can tell as much about me from my eyes 
As you can from my smile
I don't mind being hypnotized
By a cutie pie for awhile

I'll have you understand
I found my weakness as a man
Running my fingers through your hair
As your breath became my air

Every time I closed my eyes
You'd be there inside my eyelids
As your voice became my music
I'd hear piano, harp and violins

No longer am I lonely
Since our hearts were joined souly
Even apart we're still together
From now until forever

I don't know what could be better?

(4) AUM...WHAT SHE SAID...OM
I've been trying to explain this: 
Displace the myth that what is...is
It is something pliable, 
Changeable and moldable

Yet we could try and see
We may just be capable
Of being tough enough
Yes, every soul is searchable

Or we can try to hide
From the inescapable
But I don't think that's possible
Or at least it is not responsible

I've felt fingers numb
I've gone half-blind
Staying awake trying
To find the right lines

The right chords and tight riff
Trying to show you 
Not only what could be
What was and what is

I've been trying to explain this: 
The fact that consciousness
Like a river it is streaming
So that's why I go dreaming

Like you, I've been trying to find
Some peace in my mind
Since it surely seems that sometimes
All the good things keep leaving
Remember, even this moment is fleeting
Don't let your beaten pride eat you alive
When self-fulfilling becomes self-defeating
Don't lay down and die...Rise up....Rise up....

Raise a hand up...The other hand up...
Raise them up to the sky...
Finding some peace of mind in AumOm
What a pleasant, sweet surprise....

(5) NIGHT LIGHT
Well I believe that I came to you
In pursuit of my search 
For truth and light
And that love of life 
Can see me through...

Through this on my darkest day
Through this deep haze
Rather than be washed away
By a crushing wave

Reseeding my belief 
That hard work pays off some day
All souls can and will be saved
Rather than be led astray

I don't joke when trapped
By a cloud of smoke
Because some people think
That our world is their own ashtray

If we all stop and take
A deep long breath...
(pause)
We can either blow it up
Or blow it all away...

Then we can see the sun
Let the world unite as one
Feeling like children again
Then we can go run off and play
Just like we did back in the day

Prozac people's kids no longer cry
We just hear their sighs
Perhaps that's why I find
That I cry all the time

So rather than just turn my head
And cough in jest
Seeing a big, old, bloody mess
Yes, I guess I must here confess:

Sometimes I don't reveal
When I cry my tears of joy inside
That's when I feel the most alive
It's my bright, nightlight
That I just won't let die...

So once again that's why
That I believe that I came to you
In pursuit of my search 
For truth and light
And that our love of life 
Can see us through…

(6) SYNERGY
Our musical creativity
is infinity
If you ask me 
(but no one asked me)
That's why I had to speak up
That's why I always get tripped up
That's why I had to stand up
That's why I won't give up

That's why I always try to live up
To what I see in my meditations
That's why I always try to live up
To my own expectations:

Of greatness and limitlessness
Of timelessness and spacelessness
Only energy and synergy 
That potentially lives inside

Each and every being
Not just between you and me
You see I believe that we
Were never meant to be

But somehow through 
some wrong turns
And some right words
We just fell into place

So naturally
And that makes me 
Happy...
So very, very happy

(7) MAKING A KILLING
Strings break
Voices crack
Smooth skin wrinkles
It's just a matter of fact

The years add up
When you do the math
But you know us
We don't worry 'bout that

Now tell me why is that?
Is what the people ask
It's because all we need is love
And what we carry on our backs

We find that to be 
just perfectly enough stuff
Along with the kid 
and a couple of crazy cats

That come walking with us
As we try to find out where we're at
While we make our living 
pied-pipering the rats

So sing and walk with us
Once we've gained your trust
Our army has been making a killing
Charging just a quarter per hug...yeah…

So sing and walk with us
When you see a big cloud of dust
A rolling rally coming down the ally
Or maybe that's smoke -- I just got a head rush!!!

(8) MONUMENTS
Time… is always of the essence…
Though we don't know 
if it's always been present…
Oh, but of course it's a gift…

Well, I guess that depends
On what you do with it
When it's yours…
Was it something significant?

Though we know that sometimes 
there is elegance
even in remedial chores…

It's who you're with 
And not what you do
That's led me here
Standing in front of you

And beside you – 
Always behind you
Because you know
You've let me live 
Right inside of you…

For year after year
You've been there 
To say you care
I think of time as a monument
A shrine to the moments 
that we've shared

Time… is always of the essence…
Though we don't know 
if it's always been present…
Oh, but of course it's a gift…

I love you more than 
Classic Rock n' Roll
The last time I felt like this
Was so many years ago…

It's who you're with 
And not what you do
That's led me here
Standing in front of you

For year after year
You've been there 
To say you care
I think of time as a monument
A shrine to the moments 
that we've shared

(9) MY GARDEN
No matter the time…
No matter the place…
Hope has a face
Just gotta finish the race

Pain and sorrow? 
You'll pass them on the road
Yesterday and tomorrow?
The seeds have already been sown

Your future's been planted 
out in the field
With all the choices you've made 
Your fate has been sealed

We're all searching for answers
But yet we know
That after you've planted…
You have to take it slow

And sit in your garden and…….
Watch it grow
Watch it grow
Watch it grow

(10) HAPPY PLACE
It was a rainy day
Not unlike today
Do do do

I was by myself
But she was on her way / But he was on his way
Do do do

It was the month of March
But felt more like April than May
Do do do

I was in my happy place
As if I had to say
Do do do

This is the song
Whose melody can be 
repeated when needed
You don't even need words
Words just describe pictures 
to the state of the mind

This is the song
Whose melody can be hummed 
in defeat or retreat
Offering a calming peace
During the most troubling 
and trying of times

This is the song
That everyone can sing
The poorest of paupers
The richest of kings

This is the song
That's one big fairytale
But only if you want it to be
This is the song
That when we all sing along
Turns out to become reality

This is the song
That everyone can agree on
This is the song
That can save the world…

This is the song
That everyone can depend on
For it's the song we hummed
Way back when we were young
Even though at the time
We didn't know the words…
Do do do

This is the song
That everyone can agree on
This is the song
That is there from the start
Deep in our heart

It's the first song
We learned by ourselves
And then we sang together
All the little boys
And all the little girls…
Do do do

(11) LET IT RIDE
I can feel you're growing tired
Can sense you're getting run down
As you spoke 
your brain seemed wired
So full of scattered thoughts 
bouncing all around

When I called to cheer you up
You seemed so very distant 
so far away

I thought by now 
I knew all the words
That could lighten your load 
and brighten up your day

Hence when silence fell upon us
My face took on a peculiar 
and puzzled state

That's when I knew 
to throw away all my words
For it was best for you 
and best for me to wait…

You told me that you needed time
Time alone with just yourself
And not to take it personally
But of course 
you knew how I felt...

I felt like less of a man
And more like a child
Since I always do what I can
To make you smile

Yet I respected your wishes
Your will and desires
As I gave you the space
Which you said you required

For I know you by now
When it comes 
to troubled times like these

I gracefully bow down
And back away far enough
Until it suits your needs

For that is love...
Learning when to push, 
when to pull
and when to temporarily retreat

For that is love...
Knowing when to drive
When to let it ride
And when to take a backseat

(12) RIDING A WAVE
So tell me what you did today
I found myself riding a wave

A little part of my heart
and soul got saved
When I stood up 
Rather than running away

Let me tell you what I learned
My books their pages 
are getting turned

Since life comes 
at you in stages
So it goes you learn

In these changing phases
We yield, go our 
separate ways and merge

Mostly we see time 
as our enemy
So we speed up our pace
Then we get caught 
going against the flow
And we find ourselves 
losing our place

So tell me what 
you did today
I found myself 
finding myself
While I was 
riding a wave

Riding a wave...
While sailing away...

Riding a wave...
While sailing away...

Riding a wave...
While sailing away...

(13) ONLY SHARED WITH YOU
I found the truth within a song
As soon as I turned the radio on
The singer spoke your name
I couldn't turn it off

I didn't know
That you knew him, too
I'm not only one
Who writes love songs for you

He described your eyes
As deeply troubled and blue 
Said you tried to hide your crying
But he'd seen right through

And that sounded a lot like
Something that I once wrote for you
Surely some time has passed
Yet my feelings still hold true

Yeah those words read a lot like
A verse of a love poem I once wrote, too
One that never became a song
Because 'twas only shared with you...

6,000 KM to DK (SIX-THOUSAND KILOmeters TO DENMARK)
SET LIST FOURTEEN (14)
inspiring, many are LadyWeaver inspired
Light and love, inspiration and devotion—these songs celebrate the people who change us, the moments that define us, and the belief that something greater is always possible. A tribute to the muse in all her forms.
Inspiration & Devotion, Love as Transformation, Creative Partnership, Hope & Light
(1) Tears of Trust
(2) Paper Thin
(3) Cutie Pie
(4) Aum... What She Said... Um
(5) Night Light
(6) Synergy
(7) Making a Killing
(8) Monuments
(9) My Garden
(10) Happy Place
(11) Let It Ride
(12) Riding a Wave
(13) Only Shared With You

Set List 14 — 6,000 km to Denmark

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Set List 14 — 6,000 km to Denmark

Lead Rating: G/PG

Total Points: 11

Strategic Arc: Healing, spirituality, hope. Warm and accessible.

Trigger Warning: Emotional vulnerability, healing themes, spiritual exploration. No explicit content.

#
Song
Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Tears of Trust
PG
kindred spirits like minds

2
Paper Thin
PG
building walls hiding mirrors

3
Cutie Pie
PG
breath became my air

4
Aum... What She Said... Um
PG
consciousness like river streaming

5
Night Light
PG
cry tears of joy

6
Synergy
PG
energy lives inside beings

7
Making a Killing
PG
charging quarter per hug

8
Monuments
PG
shrine to shared moments

9
My Garden
G
watch your future grow

10
Happy Place
G
melody repeated when needed

11
Let It Ride
PG
pushing pulling and retreating

12
Riding a Wave
PG
sailing away finding myself

13
Only Shared With You
PG
truth within a song

Collection Summary: A warm, hopeful entry point exploring healing, spirituality, and the transformative power of connection. These songs invite listeners into a space of calm reflection and quiet optimism.

Artist Comparison: Ben Harper, Jason Mraz, Paul Simon

Key Themes: Healing, spirituality, hope, connection, mindfulness


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SET LIST 15 Liminal State | COLLABORHYTHM COLLABTUNES

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SONG LIST 1 The Last Man Singing

SONG LIST 2 Sheila Tequila

SONG LIST 3 A Day at the Office

SONG LIST 4 A Traveler in the Distance

SONG LIST 5 Love Without a Doubt

SONG LIST 6 Undertows and Afterglows

SONG LIST 7 High Tides and Landslides

SONG LIST 8 A Knight for a Lady

SONG LIST 9 Between Us and Love

SONG LIST 10 One Piece Missing

SET LIST 1 Glass Half Something

SET LIST 2 Plurality

SET LIST 3 Self in the Mirror

SET LIST 4 Partnered to the Crime

SET LIST 5 Living a la Mode

SET LIST 6 Definitely NOT Love

SET LIST 7 Train Off the Tracks

SET LIST 8 Boss Logic

SET LIST 9 Thralls of the Flame

SET LIST 10 Go Ask Gramm

SET LIST 11 Noise, Lies and Longing

SET LIST 12 Wounded Masculinity (Silhouettes of Pride)

SET LIST 13 Power Shields

SET LIST 14 6,000KM to DK (Six-Thousand Mile to Denmark)

SET LIST 15 Liminal State

SET LIST 16 Kneel, Heal and Rise

SET LIST 17 Smirks, Swears, Moans and Cries

SET LIST 18 Corrugation Row

SET LIST 19 Della of Troy

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SET LIST 22 Inherent Absence

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BOOK INDEX (QUICK GUIDE to PAGE NUMBERS and MORE)

THE NEW AMERICAN SONGBOOK 36 sections

1 of 35 Dedication, Copyright and Manifesto

2 of 35 Who Tom Is

3 of 35 Introduction

4 of 35 What "Community" Says

5 of 35 Purpose and Structure of Three Books

6 of 35 Table of Contents

7 of 35 Quick Guide G to X

8 of 35 Full Texts of Lyrics

9 of 35 Rolling Stone Style Album reviews

10 of 35 One Sentence Summaries of Tracks

11 of 35 Albums Ranked by Rating G to X

12 of 35 Album Themes, Moods and Profanity Listings

13 of 35 Four Word Descriptions for Every Track

14 of 35 Tracks Listed by Category

15 of 35 Riddle Me This... Who is This Book For?

16 Nailed It Teaching Tool

17 of 35 Choose Your Own Adventure Album Orders

19 of 35 Business Plan and 21 Page Summary

21 of 35 Lyric Use Certificate

22 of 35 What Tom Wants

23 of 35 Collaborhythm Collabtunes Business Card

24 of 35 Songwriter Comparisons

25 of 35 Tom's Cassette Tapes

26 of 35 Songs I Wish I Wrote

27 of 35 Contacts and Social Media

28 of 35 Should You Read This?

29 of 35 Can I Get Sued?

30 of 35 Final Thoughts

31 of 35 Why So Serious?

32 of 35 Five Car Ride Talks

33 of 35 Name Index (the rest of the book)

34 of 35 Names Index (From the Lyrics)

35 of 35 Alphabetical Index by Track Title

18 of 35 Collaborhythm Collabtunes Project Summaries

36/35 Lady Weaver

20/35 The Lady Weaver
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SET LIST 15
LIMINAL STATE

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST FIFTEEN (15)
This set contains intense political rhetoric, violent imagery, psychological distress, and anti-institutional themes, often delivered through satire, sarcasm, and exaggerated bravado.
Several songs blur the line between metaphor and menace, especially when discussing revolution, violence, and social collapse.
Listener discretion is advised.

PRIMARY CONTENT FLAGS
VIOLENCE & REVOLUTIONARY IMAGERY
"Flim Flam Man," "Solving Problems," "Messy Room," "Sign of the Times," "Heavy Machines" contain: Violent metaphors. Threatening language. Mentions of weapons, explosions, fists, blood, and fate being "sealed". Revolutionary rhetoric that escalates from frustration into confrontation.

"The weapon is loaded / There will soon be explosions"
"Aim is taken and fate is sealed"
These themes are not instructional, but they are emotionally charged and aggressive, which may be distressing to some listeners.

MENTAL HEALTH / PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS
"Shield," "Story of My Life," "Monarch," "Brain Games," "Floating Head" explore: Avoidance and cowardice as survival strategies. Self-loathing disguised as humor. Chronic indecision and paralysis. Cycles of emotional manipulation and obsession. Feeling trapped inside one's own mind.

There are no explicit suicide instructions, but several songs express nihilism, despair, and emotional exhaustion.

PARANOIA / ANTI-SYSTEM RHETORIC
"Come to Me," "Other Times," "Heavy Machines," "Sign of the Times" include: Distrust of institutions (government, media, religion, corporations). "Divide and conquer" narratives. Apocalyptic or revolutionary framing. Us-vs-them thinking.

These themes may be triggering for listeners sensitive to conspiracy thinking, political extremism, or social unrest.

GRAPHIC & DISTURBING IMAGERY
"Messy Room" includes vivid depictions of: Bloodshot eyes. Cold steel (implied weaponry). Violent fantasies becoming "real".

"Solving Problems" escalates from verbal dominance into implied physical violence.

EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION / TOXIC DYNAMICS
"Brain Games," "Monarch," "Floating Head" depict: Power struggles in relationships. Gaslighting. Cycles of resentment. Identity erosion through conflict.

STRONG LANGUAGE & OFFENSIVE TERMS
Frequent profanity
Derogatory insults
Aggressive confrontational tone throughout several tracks

WHO SHOULD USE CAUTION
This set may be difficult for listeners who:
Are sensitive to violence or weapon imagery
Are experiencing anger dysregulation or paranoia
Have trauma related to political unrest, extremism, or civil conflict
Are seeking calm, healing, or emotionally safe material

SUMMARY
Set List 15 is raw, combustible, and unapologetically confrontational.
It documents a mind oscillating between withdrawal ("Shield") and eruption ("Sign of the Times"), using satire and intellectual bravado as armor.

This is anger processed through language, not resolution — a portrait of someone circling the edge of action, daring the world to push back.
Proceed knowing this set does not soothe — it provokes.

LIMINAL STATE
SET LIST FIFTEEN (15)
1 Shield
2 Story of My Life
3 Floating Head
4 Come To Me
5 Flim Flam Man
6 Other Times (first part)
7 Solving Problems
8 Messy Room
9 Monarch
10 Heavy Machines
11 Brain Games
12 Chit Chat Chatter
13 Sign of the Times

(1) SHIELD
"Either write something worth reading 
or do something worth writing"
Looks like Benjamin Franklin's right again
So rather than be a man of action
I'm off to get my pen...

Whatever keeps me free from blame
Surely, that's the choice I'll choose
For in this game I never said I had to win
I'm happy to draw if it means I don't lose

Call me a coward
Call me what you will
While you're crawling among the fallen
Well, I'll be standing still
So what if I'm standing still?

At least treading water 
Means that I'm still alive
Just look here at my great big book
So what if it lacks a spine?

It makes for a magnificent shield
Which I use to hind behind
And I hide behind it all the time

(2) STORY OF MY LIFE
I just picked up my pen
It's been God knows when
Since I really tried
To see something through to the end
And now I'm back at it again
Don't know just where to begin

Sifting through the rubble
Digging myself out of trouble
Won't someone come and burst my bubble?
Unentrap me 
and I'll simply walk away happily

I'm just waiting for the time to be right
Always hesitating…
That's the story of my life
Probably cost me a dozen loving wives

To think that I might have made it
Had I acted on what I knew
Everyone knows I've always said it
But why are there some things
That we can just never do?

(3) FLOATING HEAD
I'm a white boy with no rhythm
And even less soul
I've faced the fact 
that I'll probably be like this
Until my last days of growing old

Hell, what I've been told
You know I just won't allow 
myself to believe it
Every girlfriend I've ever had
Tells me I dance just like a quadriplegic

I give….They take
They live…I die trying to save
A drowning doggy from the lake
I give…And they take some more
Both me and the doggy
Never paddle back to shore
(Because I have no arms and legs)

(4) COME TO ME
You were right 
to come to me...
When you wanna learn 
about the system

uh ha

About how the 
powers that be
Try to keep 
greatness down
So that people like me 
Lose our will to fight 
and resist them

uh ha

Divide and conquer...
The oldest trick 
in the book
Mix in politics 
and religion
Add a little 
gender and race
Into this melting pot
And now they're
ready to cook

uh ha

Can you hear 
us screaming?
As we're being 
boiled alive
Oh, oh they say 
we're dreaming
If we want more out 
of life than to survive

uh ha uh ha

You were right to 
come to me...

When you wanna 
learn all about love

uh ha

About how I have no doubt
That the greatest feelings
Come from the inside out
The light within shines 
brighter than the light above

uh ha

Falling in love 
is overrated
While growing to love 
Is what true love 
is really made of

This is the truth 
that is rarely stated
It's such a simple idea
You know that 
greeting cards hate it

(5) FLIM FLAM MAN
Flim flam man
Flim flam man

You would have me understand
You hold my whole world in your hands
But that's a lie I've found out your plans
About me or my you don't give a damn

You only build so you can break
You give… just so you can take

And I've grown tired 
Of fakes and flakes
For goodness sakes
I've had it up to here
Not sure how much more 
I can take before 
I make a big mistake

The weapon is loaded
There will soon be explosions
I'm leading the legions
To a new Eden, yeah!

The countdown has been ticking
Since the problem needs a fixing
As the balance keeps on shifting
Many people've been predicting

The coming of a fight
Say it might be going down tonight
But those who are likewise heady
Know it's been happening already

And by the time we get to see it
There will be no way to defeat it
Everybody have to beat it (OW!)
That's bad in black or white
No other colors needed
'Cauce once you see you start bleeding…
You're only trying to stay alive
To hell with getting even!

(6) OTHER TIMES
The more get less as less get more
They keep on raising the ceiling 
While dropping the floor
The rich get richer
Those in the middle grow poor
When will the soldiers realize
They've been fighting the wrong war?

There's a curtain of silence
Now draping over this island
It blows in from the highlands
Where everything's in ruins

So many were trapped there stranded
Left right where they were standing
Poor fools lacking the tools
Who got caught not knowing the rules

We all know what leads you
Your reputation precedes you 
You may say you've changed 
Still no one believes you

Healing takes time
Mending broken minds
When the wound cut deep
To all the way inside

As my luxuries 
have become necessities
I'm being slowly stripped 
of my spirituality
This lack of harmony 
within humanity
Has begun eating away at me

I can't decide 
if this is a side effect
Or the scheme behind the plan
I don't know where it's going
What I was or who I am

Positivity triggers mental agility
While negativity kills our ability
To foresee a future better than the present
As intuition tunes us in to what isn't evident

Every pauper's voice 
shall be equal to the president's
When we get things right 
no more will we be hesitant

To speak out against 
what we feel isn't right
Sometimes love heals 
other times it starts the fight

(7) SOLVING PROBLEMS
Precision beats power 
and timing beats speed
I walk up to the biggest motherfucker 
and see that he's afraid of me

My defiance and disdain
Act as my suit of armor
Your reliance on the same old same old
Leaves you distressed while I get calmer

When things change
Chaos thrives
Those stuck in chains
Will not survive

Minds with walls
Will not evolve
The riddle remains
The puzzle's unsolved

Cunning and wit can have the same effect
To soothe the savage into deep introspect
Or else prove to the farmer he's incorrect
That a peaceful life is what is best

Yeah, you told me the price 
And yet knew not the value
The trouble was the bubble
They been trying to sell you

It's gonna burst there's no doubt
You were the first man in 
but the last one out
You lost your shirt, 
your spouse and then your house
You're playing in the dirt 
so why you still running your mouth?
Punk! Life just damn knocked your ass out!

I suggest you stop talking and think about it
Cork that kettle before you go off spouting
Oh shit… he's still dribbling toxins
And just the sight of him is making me nauseous
When I get like this it's best to be cautious
It can lead to flying fists 
or else me dropping logic
I got answers to your questions 
either way the problem's gettin' solved, kid!

Precision beats power and timing beats speed
I walk up to the biggest motherfucker 
and see that he's afraid of me

(8) MESSY ROOM
The smoke from my cigarette 
encases me like a tomb
As the aura of my bitterness 
becomes happier with gloom

Don't you fret but can't you sense 
the oncoming distress?
When you live inside your mind 
because this world is a mess

Yes, there is danger out on the street
Faces of anger for you to meet
And some even stranger and others you can't see
The chosen ones that always were
Along with those that'll never be

What we have found are many faces walking
While looking down at the ground
Hear the echoing of malicious words
The first time they were ever heard

See the small hands that have grown
And the fists that have been thrown
Traversing the uneven roads that we have traveled
While watching the moral fabric that's unraveled

When a sweaty palm fuses with cold steel
A hand extends but does not feel
A pokered-face turns the tables after a bad deal
As fantasy vengeance has now become real

Pent-up aggression can no longer be concealed
Aim is taken and fate is sealed
Two eyes full of blood are suddenly revealed
As fantasy vengeance has now become real

Don't you fret but can't you sense 
the oncoming distress?
When you live inside your mind 
because this world is a mess

(9) MONARCH
My demons act as faithful dogs
Arriving as if summoned
How do they know even before me
That there's trouble coming?

If I let go of my anger for you
Then baby I'll have nothing left
Maybe that's what I should do?
Perhaps that's for the best…

Playing stupid games
Will only win you stupid prizes
Truth never needed many words
Or any veil or disguises

They say never let 'em see you sweat
And don't stay crying in your beer
Yeah, all those good words of advice
Passed right on through my ears
When it feels guilty to laugh
Tell everyone your secret
Such burdens from the past
We all know you don't need it

If feelings are not facts
Why do words carve like knives?
As the scars left in the aftermath
Reflect two broken lives

Give the people some bread
For they just want another circus
And it's hurting my head
Knowing I don't deserve this…

I'm a prisoner of my brain
A victim of biology
How does a butterfly find its way?
Maybe by using astrology

(10) HEAVY MACHINES
I try to comprehend infinity
While operating heavy machinery
And that's just by using my brain
While slowly jogging in the passing lane

Of time and space and rhyme and plane
I'm trying to see just what makes me
Superior to royalty 
probably because of my belief
In fairness and equality 
to the nth degree for all humanity

Which unfortunately includes 
the sufferers of insanity
Stupidity, vanity…
Are you kidding me?
I have to fight for them, too?
Couldn't we just let them be?
For each one of them 
just add one to get their I.Q. 
– yup….it's two….
When that's your crew 
what the hell you gonna do?
It sure beats me…So I ask you

The time has come
Something must be done
The time has come
We are the chosen ones

The time has come
No longer can we run from this

Sure I talked a lot of s%^t
But I never made a stand
Can't take back any of it
Well that's not what I have planned

Time to let the new revolution begin
All this time I've been blaming myself
When I should have been blaming you and you….
And her and him

This crazy look inside my eye
Should tell you a little bit about me
There's so much that I despise
So many things that keep me from being free
So let us make a list of the biggest causes 
Of our collective misery

(11) BRAIN GAMES
Brain games... Brain games...
She's been playing brain games
'Cause he's been playing brain games
'Cause she's been playing brain games

Since you get what you give...
You just get more of the same...
Brain games... Brain games...

She's been playing brain games
'Cause he's been playing brain games
'Cause she's been playing brain games

What a horrible way to live...
When it's as monotonous as the rain

As lovers turn to strangers
Or couples that I call not lovers but painers
When their broken hearts fill up
Then start brimming over with anger
As Valentine's Day greeting cards
Are blank and black except for the word 'danger'
And soon refused and remarked

'Won't you please return to sender'
For sure sometimes silence is golden
If or when speechless 
if and when powerless you are rendered
Or when hurting words into your mind enter

It is surely better to refrain...
Rather than play brain games...
Brain games...Brain games...

Since you get what you give...
You just get more of the same...
Brain games... Brain games…

(12) CHIT CHAT CHATTER
Chit chat chatter...
Can you hear their teeth rattle
As if underneath the warm breath
Of a baby and his rattle

Chit chat chatter...
Does it really matter
Speaking just to fill one's idle time
Without expressing what's on your mind

Chit chat chatter...
All the words blend together
Like the birds of a flock
Birds of the same feather

Chit chat chatter...
As words end up in a blender
And the thoughts get lost
When there's no core at the center

Chit chat chatter...
From the circling tongues
Never ending, never starting
Once the talking has begun

Chit chat chatter...
Sometimes the words hurt
Sometimes the words flatter
To me it all sounds the same

Chit chat chatter...
As their oohs and their ahhs
Resemble goos and gahs
One's candle of thought
Slowly loses its flame

(13) SIGN OF THE TIMES
Calling all revolutionary reformists
Just how long can we ignore this?
Somebody's gotta try to resist
Before the boot gets too big

Sure, in my heart stands a pacifist
But behind him stands a line of people
Who are pissed and it's a sign of the times
When it actually has to come down to this....

I fell down….
When I felt a smack to the back of my head
Yeah, and so….
Didn't the sign I was holding which read:

World Trade Organization
You had best be on your way…
We're sick and tired of evil corporations
Getting caught 
and then just changing their names

Sometimes all it takes
To create a crime
Is the wrong word
At the wrong time

To push a man
Not unlike myself
Right over the edge
Right across the line

I can see that now
This time like never before
A new place to go
Just waiting to be explored
So...just know that my last
Gasping breath will be spent
Denouncing at length against
Whatever corrupt powers that be

And judging not all but some
Without regards to
Or from they're from
Whether or not they must pay a penalty

Calling all revolutionary reformists
Just how long can we ignore this?
Somebody's gotta try to resist
Before the boot gets too big

Sure, in my heart stands a pacifist
But behind him stands a line of people
Who are pissed and it's a sign of the times
When it actually has to come down to this....

LIMINAL STATE
SET LIST FIFTEEN (15)
unintelligent people
A sharp look at willful ignorance—the refusal to see, the choice to stay small, and the damage done by those who won't think for themselves. These songs don't mock; they observe, often with more sadness than scorn.
Willful Ignorance, Closed Minds, The Cost of Not Thinking, Observation & Critique
(1) Shield
(2) Story of My Life
(3) Floating Head
(4) Come To Me
(5) Flim Flam Man
(6) Other Times
(7) Solving Problems
(8) Messy Room
(9) Monarch
(10) Heavy Machines
(11) Brain Games
(12) Chit Chat Chatter
(13) Sign of the Times

Set List 15 — Liminal State

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Set List 15 — Liminal State

Lead Rating: PG-13

Total Points: 25

Strategic Arc: Revolutionary rhetoric, violent metaphor, psychological distress.

Trigger Warning: Intense political rhetoric, violent imagery, psychological distress, anti-institutional themes, revolutionary language, weapon metaphors.

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Song
Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Shield
PG-13
magnificent book lacks spine

2
Story of My Life
PG-13
hesitating cost dozen wives

3
Floating Head
PG-13
quadriplegic dancing white boy

4
Come To Me
PG-13
growing love truly made

5
Flim Flam Man
PG-13
weapon loaded soon explosions

6
Other Times
PG-13
love starts the fight

7
Solving Problems
PG-13
precision beats power timing

8
Messy Room
PG-13
sweaty palm cold steel

9
Monarch
PG-13
demons act as dogs

10
Heavy Machines
PG-13
operating while jogging slowly

11
Brain Games
PG-13
monotonous like the rain

12
Chit Chat Chatter
PG
flame of thought lost

13
Sign of the Times
PG-13
boot gets too big

Collection Summary: A raw, combustible set documenting a mind oscillating between withdrawal and eruption, using satire and intellectual bravado as armor. This set provokes rather than soothes.

Artist Comparison: System of a Down, Saul Williams, Frank Zappa

Key Themes: Revolutionary rhetoric, violent imagery, psychological distress, anti-institutional, resistance


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SET LIST 16 
KNEEL, HEAL AND RISE

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST SIXTEEN (16)
This set contains emotionally intense, darkly introspective, and spiritually confrontational material.

Themes include:
Religious disillusionment and trauma
Self-hatred, existential crisis, and depressive ideation
Toxic relationships, heartbreak, and emotional betrayal
Struggles with creative failure and obscurity

There is no overt graphic violence or sexual content, but the tone is frequently bleak and self-critical, and several songs deal directly with religious abuse and systemic hypocrisy.

CONTENT FLAGS:
RELIGIOUS TRAUMA / BLASPHEMY
"Hypocrites" and "Tom's Psalm" criticize organized religion and include references to pedophilia, domestic violence, and spiritual manipulation inside churches. "The priest might be a pedophile / And the guy kneeling next to you / You know he's a wife beater"

These tracks may be distressing to those raised in strict religious environments or recovering from faith-based trauma.

LOVE, LOSS, AND EMOTIONAL COLLAPSE
"Triangle," "Best Left," "How and When," "Crystal Ball," "Walking Paradox" all explore devastating heartbreak, inability to move on, and the confusion of lingering emotional attachments.

"Lost and Found" includes themes of emotional manipulation and stealing a romantic partner, framed through male rivalry and entitlement.

MENTAL HEALTH / DEPRESSIVE IDEATION
Many pieces, including "Walking Paradox," "How and When," "Never Be," and "Light," confront feelings of: Creative failure, Isolation, Grief, Inadequacy, Loss of identity or purpose

"I got exactly what I wanted… and now I'm looking to give it away"
"I strive for it / Survive for it / I live for it / And would die for it"
These tracks do not glorify self-harm but express a very real emotional exhaustion that some listeners may find difficult to hear.

ARTISTIC IDENTITY & CREATIVE FAILURE
"Never Be" and "Learn from the Masters" explore anxiety over obscurity, imposter syndrome, and the fear of never being recognized for one's passion.

The tone is intensely personal, speaking to artists or writers who fear being forgotten or misread.

"It might be... my destiny... to be... a never was... a never be..."

WHO MAY BE AFFECTED
This set may be challenging for:
Survivors of religious abuse or spiritual gaslighting
Individuals dealing with depression, creative burnout, or career disillusionment
Listeners experiencing recent breakup, abandonment, or grief
Those sensitive to themes of existential despair or identity loss

SUMMARY
Set List 16 is a reflective journey through emotional trauma, faith crisis, creative struggle, and rebirth. It's an intimate confessional, brimming with sharp awareness and brutal honesty.

Where others shout, this set whispers, but the sting lands just as deep.

Use caution, especially if you are currently experiencing emotional vulnerability, loss, or recovering from institutional betrayal.

KNEEL, HEAL AND RISE
SET LIST SIXTEEN (16)
1 Hypocrites
2 Tom's Psalm
3 Lost and Found
4 Triangle
5 Crystal Ball
6 Walking Paradox
7 How and When
8 Kneeling
9 Best Left
10 Chameleon
11 the Light
12 Learn From the Masters
13 Never Be

(1) HYPOCRITES
Well it's three o'clock in the morning
And I ain't been to bed
I'm still trying to 
sort out all those hopes and dreams
That've been floatin' around in my head

It's just so hard to focus
When you're as talented as me
There are about a million things
That if I wanted to then I could be

Well, I'm a born teacher
But I ain't no preacher
For I've never been close to god

I follow the golden rule
I went to Catholic school
But all them people sittin' in their pews
Whipping out the green to pay their church dues
I think they're all getting robbed!

You see, I've never been a fan 
of playing follow the leader
The priest might be a pedophile
And the guy kneeling next to you
You know he's a wife beater

No I don't want to raise my kids
To grow up to be hypocrites
Organized religion will give you fits
You know that it might be time to quit
When the time that 
you're sitting in church
Is the only time that 
you're safe from getting' hit…

(2) TOM'S PSALM
If you believe in lies
Then your hands are tied
Self-crucified
You are still chained

In elders so wise
From them the truth still does hide
Walk in trance hypnotized
Nothing has changed

And their sermons surmise
In faith there is no compromise
Yet the same old problems
Still have not been rectified
Today and yesterday
They are still the same

The day the savior does rise
They shall all stand by his side
Though countless have died
For their religion's name

But what does it symbolize
When the only hope to unify
Is for laws of science to be defied
As the earth's engulfed in flames

And what does it signify?
That man has yet to visualize
Every instrument
Of the orchestra harmonize
When every piece is on stage?

(3) LOST AND FOUND
I see what you have
And I want it
It will be mine
For I'll pay any cost

Someday you'll turn around
And she will not be there
For I will have found
What you have lost

You will begin to hate it
But it was all premeditated
Just when you thought
You had everything together
I finally convinced her
That she can do better

Because no matter
where you go
Pick any corner of the world
There's one thing I know...
There are only
four types of girls:

Either...
For now
For later
Forever
Or forget it
And if she's three of the four
Then you're gonna live to regret it

For now comes and then goes
For later keeps you on your toes
Forget it never shows
But when forever arrives
Then everybody knows

There is no such phrase
As setting standards too high
So be forewarned...
When forever appears
She catches everybody's eye

(4) TRIANGLE
I could tell you
a thing or two about love
I could whisper into your ear
All of the sweet words
you long to hear

Calm and quiet every fear
A soft caress
as we gaze west
Towards the ocean's
reflecting mirror

Love you forever,
for the rest of my years
I'd always be here
to dry your tears

Cherish you above
any other one
Above all else
that I hold dear

If only I didn't have
this cross to bear...
I love someone
but she don't care...

Yes, people come
and people go
But emotions never fade away

Some things will
never happen...
This you know
Yet still you hope and pray

The nature of the beast is cruel
Though acceptance
must be learned

As the dwindling hourglass
of time has taught
That it cannot be turned

Her love came and left
It disappeared into the night
Floated up by the moon
Then vanished out of sight

My love came
But it never went away
It still rattles
around in my mind
It's how I start my day

I heard her voice today
It nearly brought me to my knees
I felt the beating of my heart again
It nearly brought me to my knees

After all the tears I've wiped away
I never thought I'd ever see this day

It only shows that time
goes on to tell:

After one word...
After one breath...
I fallen back under her spell

Let me trade her eyes
for yours
Maybe then she'll see
everything so clearly

Let me trade your ears
for hers
Maybe then she'll
be able to hear me…

(5) CRYSTAL BALL
Indecisiveness has got a hold of me
Should I stay, should I go?
The high road, the low road

So many forces
That push and that pull
They act as they will
And they're acting now still

Just one of the choices
That I have to make
How much more can I take?
Couldn't sleep
For the last month and a half
Need a crystal ball
Because I shattered the glass

Was it half full or half empty?
But I can get it refilled they got plenty
Or at least they tell me so
But just where it is I still don't know

Maybe around the corner
Maybe half-way around the globe
Still feeling like a foreigner
Living the life of Job

I don't feel disgraced
I'm just losing my faith
Finding more questions than answers
As the hour's getting late

(6) WALKING PARADOX
Searching for an escape...
to leave my mind 
for just a little while
Praying for eyes brand new...
seeking second sight
through the eyes of a child

When it hurts to reminisce...
the only thing to do
is ask yourself why?
Things can't carry on like this
So your life goes up on trial

I got exactly what I wanted…
And now I'm looking
to give it away
Because I'm being haunted
by the price I had to pay

I pride myself on freedom...
yet I've found myself
slowly turning into a slave
I try to practice what I preach
but I'm a walking paradox by trade

So pay no attention to what you read…
And even less to what you hear
For when you start to hate your life
You act without thinking and without fear

I've got so much left to give...
but it seems I'm a hypocrite
My words may speak of peace and love
and yet my mind is clenching a fist

Everything I have
I'd gladly give away
to take a trip through time
to go back to yesterday

For some thoughts
That you find
flowing through your mind
you know you should never say

I blasphemized to hell
with Adam and Eve
Yet I'll still be apprehensive
on the day that I die

I say I wear
My heart on my sleeve...
and then I proceed
to build a wall ten miles high

I let all the cats out of the bag…
when I'd have been better off to
let sleeping dogs lay

This is the life I have to live
after finding my guide
And then beginning to stray

I found the time to pen this rhyme…
during my wife's exile from the house
I screamed bitter words of anger...
As buried thoughts dug themselves out

Now I'm the undisputed
king of the castle
but I'm a husband
without a spouse

(7) HOW AND WHEN
Today I lost 
my best friend…
So here I am 
with just my pen

Alone, here I am
with just these tears
Running down
the side of my face

Wondering how 
did I find myself
Here all by myself 
in this lonely place?

Wanting, waiting and wishing 
for your warm embrace
Seeking to find an escape 
from this soulless solace…

I find that I've been 
Drifting far away
From whom I used to be
Just the other day

I have to pick up the pieces
And carry on again
I have to regain my trust
Have faith in my race again

Yet here I am in isolation
For fear of a broken heart
I have to pick up the pieces
But I know I have yet to start

I can find some 
comfort for now
By turning my 
hurt into art

And letting you know 
that if you feel like me…
We're are not alone 
nor are we apart

I promise you 
a better day ahead
Yes, it's okay to be sad
It's okay to stay in bed

It's alright to cry
It's alright to ask why
It's alright to sigh
And want to just hide

It's alright to feel pain
Emotionally broken 
and blood-stained
It's alright to feel doubt
It's alright to let it out

That's how and when 
We can begin to let love in
For that's how we become
Stronger and better
Women and men

(8) KNEELING
It's time to inspire
I think that I'm ready
I finally stopped shaking
Though I'm still not
Quite fully steady

It has come that time
To try to walk by myself
If I need some assistance
At least I have someone else
Someone's who's vowed to help

You see I've fallen down
And just laid there 
on the floor
I never made a sound
No, I never asked for your help
I thought I could do it by myself

But that just led
to empty feelings
As a deeper sadness
grew inside
When what I needed
was healing
And to gain back
some of my pride

That would bring
back to life
The part of me
that died...

But it never really died
I found it was only sleeping
So, I wasn't afraid to cry
No, I wasn't afraid of weeping

I knew I was
growing cold inside
When my tears
they started freezing
That's when I knew
I had to open my eyes

I couldn't yet stand
So I began by kneeling

And I got to where
the air was warm
As slowly, I went
from the lowly
To where I started
to regain my form

It's time to inspire
I think that I'm ready
I finally stopped shaking
Though I'm still not
Quite fully steady

It has come that time
To try to walk by myself
If I need some assistance
At least I have someone else
Someone's who's vowed to help…

(9) BEST LEFT
One single ray of light 
broke through the clouds
Touched down upon the ground 
that I was standing upon

My lover right beside me 
just stood in my shadow
By the time she made up her mind 
to move the light was gone

Though it was never discussed
This scene said so much about us
This strange phenomenon
Either she didn't notice or else didn't care
Just stood there in the cool, crisp air
At six minutes past dawn

But I know another girl 
who is made up of sunshine
She's waiting but I'm not sure 
if she's been waiting for me

She's someone who knows
Just how I'm feeling
Yet she's uncertain
If we were ever meant to be

So I asked her if 
I could come and see her
For it seems 
she's now ready to settle down

After five years 
of traveling across the country
She picked out a state
And said, "No more moving around"

And I've been searching for inspiration
For a new picture to place inside my frame

I have grown bored with everything around me
But I'm unsure of whom or what I blame
I've been seeking a new set of surroundings
A new life, a fresh face, a new name

I'm getting tired of waiting
For the time to be perfectly right
I'm packing my bags when I get home
And I'll be leaving some time later tonight

I'm unsure of my exact destination
I desire somewhere with a warmer locale
Maybe then I'll kick these winter time blues
And brighten up my entire morale

Yes, I've been searching for inspiration
For a new picture to place inside my frame

I have grown bored of everything around me
I've decided that things just can't stay the same

So I won't say that this story's finished
Only that soon I'll be heading west on a train

Sometimes you can't wait you must create your own fate
Find out if some things are best left...
Unexplained

(10) CHAMELEON
She changes the color of her eyes
Every once and awhile…
But that's all right with me

Sometimes strangers take her by surprise
So she's always quick to flash a smile
Because life is full of compromise
And that's not a bad way to be

She hates it when I preach
And she knows that she was born to teach
And baby, dreams are free

Anything you seek is achievable
Once you convince yourself it's believable

I think I've found it…
And I can't wait for you to see
I think I've found it…
And I can't wait for you to see
I think I've found it…
To any locked door we have the key

Will you take my hand and follow me?
Here and now and eternity?

I think I've found it…
And I can't wait for you to see
To any locked door…
We have the key
Will you take my hand
And follow me?

(11) LIGHT
My world is empty
As strangers pass 
I imagine myself 
endeared in their eye

They never stop, 
just go about their daily routine
Never wondering what 
an unknown figure 
could ever do for them

Perhaps make every dream come true
Perhaps give them the sun 
and place it in their hands

They walk by 
and their lives are changed forever, 
unknown to them
I could have been their everything

My life remains the same, alone
I am willing to love
Yet they never stop, 
just go about their daily routine

Sometimes I try to be noticed, 
I shout and wave my hands
And make promises I fully intend to keep
But they do not stop, not for me

Desperate, I keep on searching
Filling my void with whatever 
I find to make the day pass
Night falls and covers 
my weeping eyes and damp cheeks

Despair fills my heart 
just as darkness fills the air
Alone and in the dark 
my eyes catch sight of a distant light

So far in the distance 
and so high atop the sky

Seemingly a kin to the mountains 
it is so unreachable
Yet I must try

What have I to lose 
except the pain of tears?
With every step closer 
my sorrow is lifted

I walk long miles 
yet my legs do not feel heavy
My heart begins racing 
as the light does not fade 
as I get closer

So many times before my dreams crushed 
right before my eyes
Maybe once I will succeed to reach the top

After what seems like 
an eternity of traveling I reach the summit
The light, once distant and small, 
now encompasses me

I stand before it, anxious to touch it
I extend my hand in friendly greeting
The light enters my fingertips 
and explodes into my body

A body once cold regains warmth
Each sense more exited than the next
All pain ever felt before 
is exiled back to where it came

My spirit returns and I feel alive
The light I now hold within guides me

Through darkness
Through worry
Now as I have found the light 
I will never be alone
The light I have found 
is you

(12) LEARN FROM THE MASTERS
Today is the day 
I know that I will make it
When I was cast from the mold
Who would know that I'd break it?
In bitter fits of jealousy
There are those who can't take it
Pretend to walk in my shoes
When they know that they fake it

Be yourself don't try to be me
Open the door that'll set you free
My pen name Bob Dylan Junior is gone
I've stepped into the shoes
of a man named Tom
A poet, a writer, who dabbles in song
And learns from the masters
What he's known all along

Since I am a poet
I will fight you only with my pen
I'll drag your name through the mud
And then drag it through again

There's no need for fists
For fighting only leaves you bruised
I've learned that paper cuts never heal
When everybody has heard the news
When made known is your reputation
Then I win and you lose

Since I am a poet
I will try my very best
To separate myself from all others
And try to stand above the rest

Searching for what
hasn't yet been written
Though there's not much
that Dylan left

Be yourself don't try to be me
Open the door that'll set you free
My pen name Bob Dylan Junior is gone
I've stepped into the shoes

Of a man named Tom
A poet, a writer, who dabbles in song
And learns from the masters
What he's known all along

(13) NEVER BE
If you got it then flaunt it
If you don't then fake it
If you think it and want it
If you need it then take it

But I once told myself
That I was willing to wait
To make my mark
But I've been looking up lately
And I notice the sky
is getting dark

If things keep
progressing at this rate
In the sense that
the light is growing dim
It might be...
my destiny...
to be...
A never was...a never be...
As opposed to a has been

Even though I
Live it
Breathe it
Speak it
And eat it

I give all
I have to give
To something
As important as this

I told myself that
I am willing to deflate
My own ego

And try to silence
any feelings of hate
That deep inside of me grow

Though these toxins are innate
I swallow hard
Try to bury them alive

I got nothing but time...
and my mind...
These years in my prime....
And this
dedication to rhyme...
To use as my tools
to allow me to thrive

And I plant it
I seed it
Water it
And weed it

I give all I
have to give
For I am
Not a hypocrite

I told myself that I am
willing to bear
My inner soul
For the more voices 
I hear inside my ear
The harder it is
to maintain total control

The more likely I am
to be persuaded by fear
For in this line of work
very few will ever make it

So many much more
talented than me...
Can get driven to the
brink of insanity...
End up losing themselves,
their lives and their family...

When their music
never makes the radio

No videos on MTV...
I must be able to give it
as well as take it

Yet I know it
And I say it
I believe it
And I pray for it

I give all I
have to give
I got one shot
No regrets if I miss

I told myself that I am
willing to share
Won't keep inside
My thoughts, like clothes,
I will openly wear

When you have
nothing to hide
You have no reason
to be scared

When you don't
Cheat or steal
And I...never lie...
Nor do I try...
to portray any
emotion that I...
Don't honestly feel

No fake tears
in my eyes...
Or some false
face of cheer
Only what is real

I could never conceal:
That I strive for it
Survive for it
I live for it
And would die for it

I give all
I have to give
To whatever it is...

And this is
And this is
And this is
IT!

KNEEL, HEAL AND RISE
SET LIST SIXTEEN (16)
Tom personal
The most intimate collection—songs that trace a single life: its contradictions, its regrets, its hard-won truths.
 This is the artist turned inward, examining the man in the mirror with the same honesty he'd give anyone else.
Self-Examination, Personal History, Inner Contradiction, The Artist's Journey
(1) Hypocrites
(2) Tom's Psalm
(3) Lost and Found
(4) Triangle
(5) Crystal Ball
(6) Walking Paradox
(7) How and When
(8) Kneeling
(9) Best Left
(10) Chameleon
(11) The Light
(12) Learn From the Masters
(13) Never Be

Set List 16 — Kneel, Heal and Rise

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Set List 16 — Kneel, Heal and Rise

Lead Rating: PG-13

Total Points: 23

Strategic Arc: Religious disillusionment, existential crisis, emotional collapse.

Trigger Warning: Religious disillusionment, institutional critique, toxic relationships, heartbreak, existential crisis, creative failure.

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Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Hypocrites
PG-13
priest might be pedophile

2
Tom's Psalm
PG-13
earth engulfed in flames

3
Lost and Found
PG-13
four types of girls

4
Triangle
PG-13
fallen back under spell

5
Crystal Ball
PG-13
shattered the glass lately

6
Walking Paradox
PG-13
king without a spouse

7
How and When
PG
turning my hurt art

8
Kneeling
PG
stopped shaking fully steady

9
Best Left
PG-13
heading west on train

10
Chameleon
PG
dreams are free believe

11
the Light
PG
you are my guide

12
Learn From the Masters
PG-13
fight you with pen

13
Never Be
PG-13
sky is getting dark

Collection Summary: An intimate confessional exploring religious trauma, creative struggle, and identity collapse. These songs wrestle with institutional betrayal, artistic failure, and the slow work of rebuilding.

Artist Comparison: Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Bright Eyes

Key Themes: Religious trauma, identity collapse, creative struggle, heartbreak, resilience


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SONG LIST 7 High Tides and Landslides

SONG LIST 8 A Knight for a Lady

SONG LIST 9 Between Us and Love

SONG LIST 10 One Piece Missing

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SET LIST 17
SMIRKS, SWEARS, MOANS AND CRIES

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST SEVENTEEN (17)
This set contains explicit, graphic, and potentially disturbing content.
Strong language, sexual content, depictions of mental instability, violent fantasy, and references to child neglect and incestuous abuse are present.
Many tracks blend surreal humor with real-world trauma, intentionally blurring the line between confessional and caricature.
Listener discretion is strongly advised.

MAJOR CONTENT FLAGS
MENTAL HEALTH / PSYCHOLOGICAL INSTABILITY
"Fly Swatter of Love," "Times Up," "Tired," "Actress" deal in depressive spirals, detachment, grief, and cynical post-love collapse.

The speaker is often volatile, sarcastic, or dangerously numb. Suicidal ideation is implied or directly stated.

SELF-HARM & DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR
"Times Up" contains violent metaphors, gun references, and personal collapse.

"Point of Reference" plays with dissociation and lack of grounding.

"Fly Swatter of Love" describes grief and romantic loss as a predatory trap.

CHILD ABUSE / NEGLECT / INCEST REFERENCES
"Tired" references a woman discovering her mother having sex with her sister's husband, producing a daughter.
The lyrics include:"They ended up having a daughter / My family tree's now a jungle... they pretended her dad was her uncle."

This is delivered in a deadpan voice but carries a direct and disturbing implication.

SATIRICAL / VIOLENT SEXUAL LANGUAGE
"Sunday Morning Sex," "Behave," "Beware of the Snoogins," "That's That" blend crass eroticism with mockery of religion, youth, gender roles, and morality.

Expect: Blasphemy ("I am worse than Judas") Sexual puns ("one eye," "Snapple") Gutter talk stylized as absurdist critique

"Beware of the Snoogins" spirals into violently absurd anti-parental satire:"Uh oh daughter in the water / Uh uh son added to the slaughter"
"Dumpster baby in the trash"

This is delivered with a deliberately deranged tone, yet the language may be triggering to survivors of familial trauma or pregnancy-related grief.

MANIPULATION / GASLIGHTING / TOXIC LOVE
"Actress" is a venomous critique of a lover who used the narrator to climb up.

"That's That" relies on cruel mocking dismissal ("I'm a sexy young thing, and you're you... and that's that").

SOCIAL MISANTHROPY / NIHILISM
"Spreading the Word" is loaded with apocalyptic sarcasm, eugenic overtones, and anti-human rhetoric.
Claims like:"We could use another plague…"
"Man's the only animal who takes prisoners…"
"We're the only ones with our finger on the button…"
These may be shocking or offensive to some listeners, especially given current global trauma.

WHO SHOULD AVOID THIS SET
Survivors of incest or childhood abuse
Listeners triggered by violent or cruel sexual language
Religious individuals sensitive to mockery or blasphemy
Those who are grieving, especially romantic or familial loss
Listeners seeking positivity, empowerment, or resolution

SUMMARY
Set List 17 is an acid trip through bitterness, grief, manipulation, and cultural rot, laughing through its own destruction.
It is blunt, mocking, reckless, often offensive — but always in full control of its tone.

This is confrontational art disguised in humor, where satire swings a heavy bat at love, family, belief, and sanity itself.
Know what you're walking into.

SMIRKS, SWEARS, MOANS AND CRIES
SET LIST SEVENTEEN (17)
1 Point of Reference
2 Cello
3 That's That
4 Beware of the Snoogins
5 Dot Dot Space
6 Flyswatter of Love
7 Times Up
8 Sunday Morning Sex
9 Behave
10 Spreading the Word
11 Tired
12 Actress
13 Empty Room

(1) POINT OF REFERENCE
You keep waiting for your eyes to meet
Two lives become instantly changed forever
Sometimes you believe that day may come today
Other times you think to yourself never

That's why god made the Russians black
Or maybe white depending on your preference
That's why when I go out I'm never looking back
Because by now I've lost all point of reference

Ha ha ha…
(My plan worked to perfection)

I was feeling stranded and left 
By the side of the road
Only seeking tranquility
And a place to call home

Until we met when I said, 
"Meow baby, you wanna go roaming with me?"
You see, I'm just another aimless cat
Strolling back from combing the alley

But you and me, we could leave…
Help cure each other's disease…
We could become great friends or family
Hell, we could even get married

(2) CELLO
I'm a one night show…Yeah…
I'm a one man band…Oh
Sometimes I glow…ya know…
And some nights don't go 
as they were planned…
Why'd you just let go of my hand?

Ahh…So you think you know
Where all this is going?
Please, won't you understand?
It was a trap and I was unknowing:

You've come across a desperate man
Yet you wanna sink my battle ship
Without seeing the battle plans
All because of one false radar blip
One wrong ding in your quick scan

I needed to silence this silence
Won't you please bring in the violins
And the fellow who plays the cello
And won't you kindly say hello
To all the people in the lobby
Who all told me I needed a better hobby

Better than telling all the citizens
That I'm mostly a dissident
Who doesn't trust institutions
That mainly pitch pollution
Not to all the gentry and worldly citizens
But mostly to just the Americans

I'm a one night show…Yeah…
I'm a one man band…Oh
Sometimes I glow…ya know…
And some nights don't go 
as they were planned…
Why'd you just let go of my hand?

(3) THAT'S THAT
Well, hey baby…
I know you'd love to lick my soul
With those eyes full of fire
Burning out of control

But you know me
I'm the one you can't have
Because life is unfair
Oh, don't let it get you sad

Just enjoy these dreams….
They are all you'll ever have
Cause I'm a sexy young thing….
And you're you….and that's that!

(4) BEWARE OF THE SNOOGINS
I said beware of the snoogins 
— yeah, yeah 
You said you knew what you were doing 
— yeah, yeah

Your mistakes are far from 
few and in between in 
Sometimes you give the word 
fu%&ed up a whole meaning!

You say I'm hurting myself 
I say better than 
hurting someone else

Oh oh you make a little lovin' 
Ah ah bun in the oven 
Uh oh splish splash, get fat 
Uh uh dumpster baby in the trash 

Oh oh drive to the pier 
Uh uh all your problems disappear 
Uh oh daughter in the water 
Uh uh son added to the slaughter 

These crazy kids today... 
They don't know what they're doing 
They're killing themselves...
each other.... And lives are being ruined 

Mom and dad are too busy working 
To know son Johnny is a real f*&%^@g jerk 
and... It's just more time on this rhyme 
That I got to spend working

Poor, poor teacher 
Stuck with problem child Billy 
What the little boy needs is some attention 
Instead he gets slapped silly 

I said beware of the snoogins — yeah, yeah 
You said you knew what you were doing — yeah, yeah 
Your mistakes are far from few and in between in 
Sometimes you give the word fu%&ed up a whole meaning!

You say I'm hurting myself 
I say better than hurting someone else 
Oh oh Ah ah Uh oh Uh uh 
you make a little lovin' 
bun in the oven 
splish splash 
get fat 
dumpster baby in the trash...

(5) DOT DOT SPACE B
I've finally decided 
to give you a piece of my mind
You've taken up another hour 
of my precious time

Even printed it in Braille 
'cause you can be so blind
Now I'll dictate it to you 
one paragraph at a time

Bold face
Dot space
Lower case
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Thought I could make it through 
this but I know that I cannot
Feelings I once embraced 
are now tying me in a knot

Used to live to see your face 
when my blood boiled red hot
The light in your eyes has been dwindling 
at this same familiar pace

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I've given you everything I've got 
and that's a lot
We were once a team 
but now it seems I'm your mascot

I guess I've always known 
that we were at best a long shot
Two hearts once burned 
but there's no more kindling in the fireplace

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You've become my brace 
and all the good times we've shared I've forgot
I was going to write more 
but it's best that I ought not

So I'll leave you 
with this very last forget-me-not
I fell for you, 
we fell in love 
and then we fell from grace

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(6) FLY SWATTER OF LOVE
As my eyes stayed glued to the door
And the stairs that you'll walk up no more
A great pain it rang through my ears
If I cried out there'd be nobody left who cares

After getting the latest
message that you sent me
Yes, this I must confess
My chessboard was empty

Your silence sang to me in memory
like the newly fallen rain
Yet the pawn moves along
knowing it's only part of the game

As I left alone that night on the train
Simply no longer able to explain
That the vision I once saw of us
No longer looked the same

As inaudible words dribbled
Down the side of my face
I wondered what I was still doing
In this crazy place?

It seems the wine in my glass
I could no longer taste
My fears weren't in haste
This was all a big mistake

A butterfly in a web
Inside this cocoon I'm encased
A mugged man in Central Park
Without any bear spray or mace

Still sometimes inside my mind
You lay naked on the rug
As I come closer you extend
Your arms out for a hug
As I approach I fall in the hole
That you freshly dug...
I got squashed by
the fly swatter of love
just like a bug

(7) TIMES UP
My misdirected passion
Has led to many lashes
Put all my eggs in one basket
As if you even had to ask it

I made a rash decision 
And did something I wish I didn't
Now everything is broken
All black with ash and smoking

As I've lost all intention and desire
To ever again go near or play with fire
I know I've said this all before
But this time I won't be called a liar

I don't wanna feel
Like love's not real
But I've grown sick and tired

Of being used 
And if it's self-abuse
I'm thinking I might retire

Take up another trade
In my old age
Hey, this gun's for hire

Got a few bullets left
But at least I'm outta debt
So what if my plan backfired?

Sure you can save for a rainy day
Then watch as a typhoon comes your way
You can look around there's no escape
Right now you are face to face with the wave

Sometimes it's water and sometimes it's mud
Sometimes it's floating debris coming to f*ck you up!
Sometimes it's earned and sometimes bad luck
Sometimes you jump when you should have ducked!

Time's up!

(8) SUNDAY MORNING SEX
Where is Noah when you need him?
As the water runs God says,
"We're even!"
Stupid humans now see
What you've done
There's ten feet of mud
That now fills the Garden of Eden

Yeah, you read the book
Never calling the legend a myth
So you never believed
That it would come to this...

With so many false idols
Just who could resist?
Went to church on Sunday
And then became a hypocrite

As you stood on your roof 
and you shook your fists
Deceiving in believing 
that being blessed
Would be better than this

Oh...someone free me from this misery
Today, not unlike yesterday
Is still not how it should be

There's way too many people
Gazing up at the steeple
Wondering silently
If this whole damn thing ends violently
Yes...once they sought to confide in me
But those days have long gone
They have passed
Maybe I was wrong when I asked:
"If Judas had turned the other cheek
Would he have been slapped?"
Perhaps

I am worse than Judas
And I ain't talking about the priest
'Cause God sorta sees me as a blasphemist
Just because I got another belief...
Repent, repent, repent
I promise I'll never do it again

Now may I go in peace?
Finally I have my freedom
Received relief so to speak
The big guy in the sky
Is the only one to take creed in
Oh sh$%, this hypocrite just told a lie
She just walked on by
And as she batted her eyes
I looked down between my own thighs
And only saw with one eye
I do believe I am gonna die...
Because...

It's the best stuff on earth
But it's not made by Snapple
And to think that Adam
Only settled for an apple
Oops! You dropped your fig leaf Eve
I just heard the voice of God
Say I think it's time for you to leave…

You better leave the garden
Now that you've had your fun
If Eve came from a rib
Then you know where...
The snake came from

(9) BEHAVE
I don't need to be treated 
Like I'm a superstar
I just needed to feel needed
And Honey there you are

Back seat love – can't beat it
And you're making it hard
To resist ya - you fine sista
I'd like to break you like the law

Standing looking down at you
Wishing that you were on top of me
You don't need to say you love me
That's never been my number one priority

I'm not looking for purity…
On that you can be sure
Maybe it's just the Magellan in me, baby
That finds the need to explore

Yeah, I used to go buck wild
Back in the day
Then one day my daddy 
Took me aside

He said, "Son behave…
Stop thinking like a child
It's time to act your age…
It's time to act your age"

(10) SPREADING THE WORD
I just cracked my first beer
But I ain't much fun 
'til I had about eight more
That's the only way 
I don't think so clear
As I forget the harsh reality
That this world has in store

I imagine it's mostly the same
For just about everybody like me
At least that's what I claim
At least that's what, so far, I see

The whole world's going to hell
Because of money, because of technology
Because of greed
And of course it doesn't help
When you've got six billion people
More than you need

Man's the only animal who takes prisoners
The only species where
Someone can get something for nothing
We're the only ones who pay taxes for welfare
We're the only ones who hold
A finger on the button

Darwin was right
About everybody but us
We could use another plague…
We could use another flood
Many secretly agree with what I say
But no one's willing to board that bus
We could use another world war
So we can spill some more of our blood

Yeah, there's many who agree
But then say, "What…Who…Me?"
Would rather be sitting on the fence
Than hanging from a tree
No, no, no
They'd never make that big of sacrifice
No, no, no
They'd never take that advice

They only say, "You first!"
To which I respond, "Now that's absurd!"
"If I was in the back of a hearse
Then there'd be no one left to spread the word."

(11) TIRED
We sat out in the rain because
We were just so tired of screwing up
A clap of thunder and she didn't blink
She's been hit with everything but the kitchen sink

Standing tall when you should have ducked
It's quickest way to get fucked up
As you're the one left out in the rain
You think it's time that maybe you changed

Got caught in the river and its turbulent flow
Got used to things that no woman should know
Got a decision that's only yours to make
Got a way out… yeah you got an escape

You can go live with your brother
He ain't been right since mother
Caught her sister in bed with father
Yeah, they were all over each other

They ended up having a daughter
My family tree's now is a jungle
Rather than face the hot water
They pretended her dad was her uncle

Your brother has a farm in Topeka
And you know he would sure love to see ya
You could stay there and pick up the pieces
Spent some time with the nephews and nieces

(12) ACTRESS
It's time to write you out of the story
Since most of the lines no longer include me
I don't want you to be the star of my movie
I'm the wrong writer so why did you choose me?
When you knew you were just gonna use me

I thought I knew which way I was facing
But I was the producer that you were directing
Yet again casting made the wrong selection

But I must say that you were cast 
Because your talents were vast
You were the head of your class
It sure helps to look like that: 
And oh boy… could you act

You smiled porcelain glass
Leaving an impression that lasts
I find my mind awaken from its nap
Blinking and thinking: 
Oh what a fine piece of a$$

It's time to write you out of the story
Since most of the lines no longer include me
I don't want you to be the star of my movie
I'm the wrong writer so why did you choose me?
When you knew you were just gonna use me

I thought I knew which way I was facing
But I was the producer that you were directing
Yet again casting made the wrong selection

(13) EMPTY ROOM
You live in a box
You build your walls
And when you stand up
You seem so tall

That's just because
You're in an empty room
But it's not your fault
So, I don't blame you

When you philosophize
amongst the dead
I could imagine the conversations
Going on in your head

Of course they're mostly
centered around either him or her
Or you and me...
Never talk about Bolivia,
East Timor or the Middle East

Can't sing about the hypocritical
Some listeners might get pissed
Better to deal in the trivial,
agreeable and bliss...

Stick to matters of the heart
Tell them what they want to hear
Lull them to sleep with art
The best paid musicians are magicians
That can make the bad things disappear

SMIRKS, SWEARS, MOANS AND CRIES
SET LIST SEVENTEEN (17)
funny, moderately depressing, slightly offensive
A walking contradiction—these songs laugh to keep from crying, offend to keep from fading, and find humor in the darkest corners. Not for everyone. Maybe for no one. But definitely for someone.
Dark Humor, Ironic Detachment, The Absurdity of It All, Punching Both Ways
(1) Point of Reference
(2) Cello
(3) That's That
(4) Beware of the Snoogins
(5) Dot Dot Space
(6) Flyswatter of Love
(7) Times Up
(8) Sunday Morning Sex
(9) Behave
(10) Spreading the Word
(11) Tired
(12) Actress
(13) Empty Room

Set List 17 — Smirks, Swears, Moans and Cries

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Set List 17 — Smirks, Swears, Moans and Cries

Lead Rating: PG-13

Total Points: 26

Strategic Arc: Incest references, violent sexual language, child abuse imagery. Dark satire.

Trigger Warning: Strong language, sexual content, mental instability, violent fantasy, references to child neglect and incestuous abuse, graphic imagery.

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Song
Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Point of Reference
PG-13
Russians black or maybe white

2
Cello
PG-13
radar blip wrong ding scan

3
That's That
PG-13
sexy young thing and you're you

4
Beware of the Snoogins
PG-13
dumpster baby in the trash

5
Dot Dot Space
PG-13
team but now I'm mascot

6
Flyswatter of Love
PG-13
squashed just like a bug

7
Times Up
PG-13
jump when you should have ducked

8
Sunday Morning Sex
PG-13
snake came from the rib

9
Behave
PG-13
Magellan in me needs to explore

10
Spreading the Word
PG-13
could use another plague flood

11
Tired
PG-13
pretended her dad was her uncle

12
Actress
PG-13
wrong writer so why choose me

13
Empty Room
PG-13
make the bad things disappear

Collection Summary: An acid trip through bitterness, grief, manipulation, and cultural rot, laughing through its own destruction. This set is blunt, mocking, reckless — always in full control of its tone.

Artist Comparison: Stephen Lynch, Tenacious D, Bo Burnham

Key Themes: Satire, grief, manipulation, cultural rot, dark humor


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SET LIST 18
CORRUGATION ROW

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST EIGHTEEN (18)
Set List 18 contains extreme and graphic themes involving suicidal ideation, self-harm, violence, psychological breakdown, political rage, dehumanization, mass trauma, and nihilism.
This collection is not metaphor-only — several tracks contain direct, explicit statements that may be deeply disturbing or retraumatizing.
Listener discretion is strongly advised.

HIGH-RISK CONTENT – READ BEFORE LISTENING
This set may be harmful or unsafe for listeners who are sensitive to:
Suicide and self-harm ideation
Graphic descriptions of violence
Serial-killer language and fantasies
Political extremism, state paranoia, and dehumanization
Psychological dissociation and identity collapse
Hopelessness, nihilism, and apocalyptic thinking
Incarceration imagery and loss of freedom
Grief compounded into rage
Explicit threats of harm toward others

SEVERE TRIGGERS PRESENT
SUICIDE & SELF-HARM (EXPLICIT)
"Building a Castle" contains direct suicidal ideation, including graphic imagery involving an oven, windows, and desire for isolation to avoid pain.

"Cliffhanger" centers on falling, responsibility, and fatalistic self-blame.

"Happy Birthday to Me" presents severe loneliness and depressive ideation tied to aging and isolation.

These are not coded metaphors — they are plainly stated.

VIOLENCE & MURDER (GRAPHIC LANGUAGE)
"Wave My Hands" contains explicit violent fantasy, including references to killing, serial murder, lack of remorse, and escalation ("first kill," "number two-hundred").

Language mirrors real-world criminal profiling and may be deeply disturbing.

WAR, STATE VIOLENCE & DEHUMANIZATION
"War Leonard 19," "Battle Cry," "Free Speech," "Enemy of This State" engage heavily with: Political radicalization, Media manipulation, Loss of civil liberties, National sacrifice narratives, Citizens framed as expendable

These songs may trigger listeners affected by authoritarian trauma, surveillance fears, or political violence.

PSYCHOLOGICAL BREAKDOWN & NIHILISM
"Apocalypse Now, See Ya Later" expresses: Desire for societal collapse, Emotional detachment from mass death, Relief at the idea of annihilation

"Hidden Evils" presents relentless imagery of generational suffering, poverty, racism, neglect, and despair with no resolution.

"Patching the Hole" emphasizes futility, emotional numbness, and loss of purpose.

MENTAL HEALTH WARNING
This set explores untreated grief mutating into rage, isolation hardening into misanthropy, and hopelessness transforming into violent ideation.
Several tracks cross the line from observation into embodiment of destructive thought patterns.
This is not a recovery arc.
This is a collapse arc.

WHO SHOULD AVOID THIS SET
Anyone currently struggling with suicidal thoughts
Survivors of violent crime
Listeners sensitive to graphic or explicit content
Those in grief recovery or early trauma processing
Anyone seeking comfort, hope, or resolution

SUMMARY
Set List 18 is raw, confrontational, and dangerous by design.
It documents a mind under siege — politically, emotionally, and existentially — without filtering, redemption, or safety rails.
This is art as exposure, not art as refuge.
Proceed only if you are emotionally prepared.

CORRUGATION ROW
SET LIST EIGHTEEN (18)
1 Gauging Time
2 War Leonard 19 (first two)
3 Battle Cry
4 Free Speech
5 Beast
6 Flicker
7 Hidden Evils
8 Patching the Hole
9 Enemy of This State
10 Building a Castle
11 Cliffhanger
12 Happy Birthday to Me
13 Apocalypse Now, See Ya Later
14 Wave My Hands

(1) GAUGING TIME
Cracks upon the walls
Pacing up and down the halls
When the walls start closing in
Then the end will now begin

Freedom is stripped away
As today mirrors every other day
When time starts growing old
Then what a price we pay

You don't gauge time by the clock
That's hanging on the wall
You tell time by the calendar
That's hanging in the hall

The time you got in
That's not what it's about
It's the days you got left
Before they let you out

(2) WAR LEONARD 19
They wanted war...
I didn't start it
The rich and the poor
Both broken-hearted

The haves kept wanting more
Have-nots got less and less
The battle in store
Anyone might have guessed

(3) BATTLE CRY
When our battle cry is save our shanty town
Then your duty to your country is served
When their false flag comes crashing down
You'll finally get what you deserve

So before we pledge our allegiance again
Best to know which side we're really fighting for
For in this battle not everyone bleeds
No guns nor swords used in this kind of war

This is the fight for your soul
And it's a battle of wills
In which your only friend is yourself
because bad advice kills

You'll need the strongest of convictions
Because very few ever change sides
Needless to say you must
choose wisely if you want to stay alive

So many say but not many do
Deceive with bitter lies
Only speak in half-truths
For this war for information
Is plagued by veils and disguise
The media is a just puppet
That tells tall tales and lies

While the words of politicians ooze
Campaign speeches and promises so great
They'll say the choice now rests with you
You and your state control our nation's fate

Oh the false prophets are many
In a world full of masks
Some get paid to make up facts
When someone crooked gets attacked

Yet the game is fixed
And it's the board game RISK
And your country is the one that's sacrificed
Because it wasn't your hands that rolled the dice

When our battle cry is save our shanty town
Then our duty to our country is served
When their false flag comes crashing down
We'll finally get what we deserve

(4) FREE SPEECH
Well, the speech maybe free
But someone will have to pay for the lies
For what's been done to you and me
Offered up to the Beast… sacrificed, yeah

Ain't no penance or priest
Giving relief to the sheep who have died, no no
So don't go claiming you're lost
Or you'll end up on a cross… crucified, yeah

You can go tell a friend
But they'll just do it again
No, the names never end
Who have died

Throughout history
That's how it seems to be
It's just more misery
Wrapped in lies

(5) BEAST
With just the act of waking up
Wanting to create
something beautiful
and magical…

It came as no coincidence
in this funny tragedy
That something bad
had to happen to me

But luckily it was
just a ha ha ha
Where everybody
laughed at me….

Everybody lived
to tell the story
And at worse a few
Thought it was boring

Of course, certainly….
My friends and I
Have never been to the Middle East
Where they are given guns not peace
As I sit here

and sigh for my side
Both enemies and allies
who die as they cry
Never getting to
Comprehend or realize
It's the war machine
that's the beast

And it's you who's become obsessed
With this thirst and this quest
for blood and for flesh
A newly felt passion for pain
that your eyes now reflect
Yet your mind fails to digest
On famine it feeds best off
Of indifference and neglect

With just the act of waking up
Wanting to create
something beautiful
and magical…

It came as no coincidence
in this funny tragedy
That something bad
had to happen to me

(6) FLICKER
I see light at the end of the tunnel
Yes, we can get there from here but there's gonna be trouble
I see light be it just a flicker
Yet to me it's bright
Because it's real dark down here motherf*cker
That's right

Sometimes you just need one single thing to believe in
To hold onto 
To keep you standing 
Opposed to horizontal
Which is right where they want you
That's right

I see light in the eyes of laughing children
That's why I fight
Because they're gonna face many problems during their lives
I believe it's best that we no try to solve 'em
That's right
I see light at the end of the tunnel

Yes we can get there from here

(7) HIDDEN EVILS
Tick tock,
back and forth
moves the clock
But time stands still
on this here block

All the people here are doing
the same thing as yesterday
Satisfied with repetition but
what a price they pay

Tick tock
Try to remember to think
of happy thoughts
When your hands are bleeding
from untying the knots

The knots that stake you
to your chain of being
While you try to make your eyes believe
That its not real what they are seeing

Tick tock
What are you thinking as
youre sitting at your table?
Are you still wondering
if you are able

To chase those dreams as fast
as you could so many years ago?
Have you misplaced the self
that you once used to know?

Tick tock
For just when thought youve figured
all the important things out
Some situation occurs and returns
your previous doubts

The doubts which we
all sometimes posses
The reason we lose hope
when the world is a mess

Tick tock
A crying teen wonders
how much more she can handle
As a mangy dog digs through trash
and howls at the wind

Meanwhile a priest in his church
lights a holy candle
For all of his lost children
who have suffered and sinned

Tick tock
Son lays awake all night
dreaming of tomorrow
Grandmother prays for her soul
to be saved

Father works his second job,
his eyes full of sorrow
Mother wonders how
the bills will get paid

Tick Tock
A child born of racists,
his heart fills with hate
Paint chips fall off the wall
of the liquor store

An abandoned building becomes
home to a family of eight
The donation bin stays empty
while collecting for the poor

Tick tock
A pigeon wanders aimlessly
unsure of where to look for food
A wrinkled and ripped newspaper
blows around in the park

A homeless man on a bench
awakes in a foul mood
As night falls all thats wrong
with the world is covered by dark

Tick tock
back and forth moves the clock
But time stands still
on this here block

All the people here are doing
the same thing as yesterday
Satisfied with repetition but
what a price they pay

Tick tock
Try to remember to think
of happy thoughts
When your hands are bleeding
from untying the knots

The knots that stake you
to your chain of being
While you try to make your eyes believe
That its not real what they are seeing

Like the maid in the kitchen
Cleaning the same old drapes
And the man face down in the gutter
With seemingly no hope of escape
Tick tock

(8) PATCHING THE HOLE
It seems like there's
no parking spaces
Only unhappy faces
Untied shoelaces
Now you've covered
all the bases

Those with their thoughts
like feet buried in cement
With a sign on their mind
that reads space for rent
If only could a
conscience be lent
Seems like just wasted space
and wasted time spent

Cannot fix the flaw
only patch the hole
The potential of diamonds
still stuck in the coal
Able to race the race
though blind to the goal
Only glimpses and pieces
never the whole

Never a reasonable thought
about why they're here
And soon indifference replaces fear
The voice of reason
they're unable to hear
Never aware of how
far away or near

For the truth of it all
some could never bear
Answer half-witted responses
of life's not fair
Entering every endeavor
without much care

Have somehow
lost the passion,
lost the flair
For the truth of it all
some could never bear

Answer half-witted responses
of life's not fair
Entering every endeavor
without much care

Rise above the filth...
If you dare?

(9) ENEMY OF THIS STATE
I share my darkness with the morning
It's about time to set back the clocks
I can see now that the world's been turning
Through this tiny hole inside my prison box

Yes, I'd rather sit here within my own seclusion
Then go chasing after some make believe dream
So many have become entrapped by the false illusion
That what we think we see is what it appears to be

For all of the freedoms
That we once held dear
With one lie and one swipe of the pen
I have watched them disappear

Life sure has changed
So much since yesteryear
I'll become an enemy of this state
When hope can no longer conquer our fear

Perhaps I'm being too critical
Of this society in which we live
But sometimes it becomes too hard to take
When those who have the least are the only ones who give

Yes, life sure has changed
So much since yesteryear
I'll become an enemy of this state
When hope can no longer conquer our fear

(10) BUILDING A CASTLE
I just placed my head inside an oven
It's just too bad that it's electric

Been having suicidal thoughts 
by the dozen
But I think that just makes me 
a little eccentric

Now I know there's been 
worse cases than me
But how they found their way free 
I still can't see

Some call it bad luck 
while others mention fate
Here I stand by an open window 
as it's getting late

And it's much too late 
to simply turn the page
Become such a creature of habit 
at such an early age

So many faces I've known 
just seem to fade away
Over the past ten years 
very few have stayed
At this moment 
I can trace them all

I sigh to myself, 
place another stone 
upon the wall

Then my castle is finished 
there'll be no more hurt and pain

The drawbridge raised, 
the windows barred, 
everything locked and chained

Maybe then I'll be able to sleep 
in peace and quiet
I'll be all by myself 
there's no reason to deny it

But I'll never have to worry about 
who'll be the next to leave
At least I'll have my own garden 
– to hell with Eve

Every day of my life 
I've thought like this
Lying on the floor 
and clenching my fists

All the time wondering 
whether I exist
Pass the time trying 
to find some way to resist
I can't take back 
what I've seen

I can't take back 
that I've been 
where I've been

Figured that I can end my troubles 
though I'm surrounded by sin
If I never come out 
and don't ever let anybody in

I am not here
I am someplace else
In a room full of people
I am all by myself

(11) CLIFFHANGER
Alone again
I hold myself solely responsible
Inside my looking glass of soul

Peeking through the cracks
Falling, falling, falling…fell
Did I find the right way to go?
The answer is yes but not too well

A burning candle
Proves meager
In this world of electricity

Traveling great distances
Can be quite hard to handle
Even though I am eager
To build upon my legacy
And meet and greet my destiny

Yet I fear our meeting
May be a little premature
Slipping and sliding
On Mother Nature's
Curves and contours

Down the mountain
Off the cliff
Straight on towards
The black abyss

My fault
My path
I'm the one who chose it

My life
My clay
I'm the one who molds it

No standing and longing
No wondering, "What if?"
I climbed up the mountain
And then I fell off the cliff

Alone again
I hold myself solely responsible
Inside my looking glass of soul
Peeking through the cracks
Falling, falling…fell
Did I find the right way to go?
The answer is yes but not too well

(12) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
Since it will never come true
I am going to tell you my wish
One year from now
I long to have a soul
With whom I can share this day with

Because today I'm feeling old
And kinda sad
Feeling all alone and a little mad

Today is my special day
But there are no party hats
My ears yearn for one single hooray!
For just one present that I can unwrap

I'm sitting here by myself at home
Never had a day like this before
No one called me on the phone
Nobody knocked on the door

Another candle
Another year
Three hundred and sixty-five
More days have disappeared

There's no surprise party
waiting for anywhere
At least as far as I can see...
Yet tradition is tradition
So I'll just sing:
Happy birthday to me

Just one more candle
Just another year
Three hundred and sixty-five more days
That have disappeared

There's no surprise party
waiting anywhere for me
At least as far as I can see
Yet tradition is tradition
So I'll just sing:
happy birthday to me

(13) APOCALYPSE NOW, SEE YA LATER
I spent last night alone looking up at the stars
Given up on seeing the sun
Feeling sorry for myself
Feeling sorry for what I have and haven't done

I am back at square one
Stranded on this giant sphere we all call the Earth
Still, I'm sitting here standing guard over this
My little pile of dirt

I know it sounds deranged
That the only time I can get relief
Is when people share my pain
And empathize with my grief

Apocalypse now, apocalypse later
It sure seems we've fallen out of favor
Someday our dreams, soul and memories
Will be all well have left to savor

Sitting here watching the sky 
Wishing I was an astronaut
But unluckily for me I'm not 
I'm just another guy who hurts

If these clouds don't pass by
Soon the flood'll come
Turning everything to mud
Ruin my last clean shirt

Apocalypse now, apocalypse later
It sure seems we've fallen out of favor

Yelling hip, hip, hooray to others or myself
It's probably not okay to think or say

That hopefully we'll all get washed away
When the end of our days begins…
Hey, today could be the day

It could happen right now and I wouldn't care
At least I chose the right shirt to wear

Apocalypse now, apocalypse later
It sure seems we've fallen out of favor

Someday our dreams, soul and memories
Will be all we'll have left to savor

I'll be here with my tears of joy
Sitting while watching everything get destroyed
Amidst this an ocean of sorrow

I won't feel disgraced
I'll be wearing a smile on my face
As everyone else runs away

Hey, I'll be here all day…
But I might not be tomorrow

(14) WAVE MY HANDS
I wish I could wave my hands
Wake up in LadyWeaver Land
All my past sins be damned
Look at me… here I am

Once I travelled thousands of miles
Just to gaze at your sweet, sweet smile
And then everything crashed and burned 
And on a plane I had to return

It's been ten years since that day
Now you have died and I have strayed
I find it hard just keeping on
In this world where you are gone

I've decided to level the field
Share with all this hurt I feelings
Soon you'll find my fate's been sealed
This monster inside I keep concealed

I don't gamble
I don't drink
But I got problems with other things

I had a wife 
Then that wife died
And that unleashed a demon inside

No hesitation marks on my first kill 
I ripped that shit like Buffalo Bill
And now I'm off for number two-hundred
Learned from John Douglas what not to do…

CORRUGATION ROW

SET LIST EIGHTEEN (18)
negative
Darkness, distilled. These songs don't offer hope because hope isn't always available. They offer something rarer: the recognition that sometimes the only way through is to admit how deep you really are.
Despair & Isolation, Existential Crisis, The Weight of It All, No Easy Answers
(1) Gauging Time
(2) War Leonard
(3) Battle Cry
(4) Free Speech
(5) Beast
(6) Flicker
(7) Hidden Evils
(8) Patching the Hole
(9) Enemy of This State
(10) Building a Castle
(11) Cliffhanger
(12) Happy Birthday to Me
(13) Apocalypse Now, See Ya Later
(14) Wave My Hands

Set List 18 — Corrugation Row

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Set List 18 — Corrugation Row

Lead Rating: NC-17

Total Points: 30

Strategic Arc: Serial killer fantasy, suicide ideation, political rage. NC-17 edge.

 ⚠️ Trigger Warning: Explicit suicidal ideation, self-harm, graphic violence, serial-killer language, political extremism, dehumanization, mass trauma, nihilism.

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Rating

Musician/Artist

Four-Word Summary

1
Gauging Time
PG-13
days you got left

2
War Leonard 19
PG-13
rich and the poor

3
Battle Cry
PG-13
bad advice kills you

4
Free Speech
PG-13
end on a cross

5
Beast
PG-13
war machine is beast

6
Flicker
PG-13
real dark down here

7
Hidden Evils
PG-13
bleeding from the knots

8
Patching the Hole
PG-13
diamonds stuck in coal

9
Enemy of This State
PG-13
hope no longer conquers

10
Building a Castle
PG-13
head inside an oven

11
Cliffhanger
PG-13
towards the black abyss

12
Happy Birthday to Me
PG-13
no surprise party waiting

13
Apocalypse Now, See You Later
PG-13
watching everything get destroyed

14
Wave My Hands
NC-17
monster inside I conceal

Collection Summary:
 A raw, confrontational set documenting a mind under siege — politically, emotionally, and existentially — without filtering, redemption, or safety rails. This is art as exposure.

Artist Comparison:
 Saul Williams, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd

Key Themes:
 Suicide, violence, nihilism, apocalyptic rage, psychological breakdown

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⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST NINETEEN (19)
Set List 19 is a sentimental, emotionally rich cycle of songs that explore love, loss, healing, regret, and romantic entanglement — often through highly personal, unresolved, and vulnerable perspectives.
These tracks contain emotional landmines disguised as love songs. Many of the pieces evoke attachment, abandonment, betrayal, and longing, often blurring the lines between affection and obsession, closeness and captivity.

CORE THEMES & POTENTIAL TRIGGERS:
Emotional dependency and unhealthy romantic patterns
Grief, longing, and unresolved breakups
Self-worth tied to relationships (Pretty Gold Bracelet, Open and Closed)
Lingering trauma from failed marriages or relationships (Forget Me Knot)
Idealization of partners to near-divine status (Still Walking the Earth, Shape of an Angel)
Emotional repression and eventual breakdown
Isolation, silence, and the pain of unspoken truths (Unwritten and Unsaid)
Fear of being forgotten or erased (After the Fact)
Cycles of hope and despair in romantic pursuit
Power dynamics in love and forgiveness (Glass House)
Nostalgia and the psychological weight of memory
Role confusion (e.g., protector vs. prisoner in Bird on a String)

CONTENT NOTES (MODERATE TO STRONG):
"Forget Me Knot" is a strong emotional trigger piece for anyone recovering from divorce or the death of a relationship. Vivid flashbacks, aching nostalgia, and mental looping around a former spouse are expressed in raw form.
"Glass House" includes intense anger, gaslighting dynamics, emotional blame, and verbal confrontation.
"Open and Closed" and "In the Shape of an Angel" express extreme emotional dependence, which may resonate uncomfortably for those with histories of codependency or emotional abuse.
"Still Walking the Earth" flirts with deification of romantic partners, potentially problematic for listeners with attachment issues or histories of manipulation.
"After the Fact" centers on disappearance, emotional vanishing, and regret — may be triggering for those with abandonment trauma.

THIS SET MAY BE DIFFICULT IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO:
Romanticized pain
Lingering grief or ghost-relationships
Emotional gaslighting or denial of truth
Codependency themes
Nostalgic flashbacks or trauma recall
Repressed emotion boiling to the surface
Partner idealization or worship
Fear of being forgotten or erased
Unresolved heartbreak or emotional loops

TONAL SUMMARY
Set 19 is steeped in beauty, but emotionally disorienting. It begins in romance, but ends in silence. What starts as connection often fades into memory, confusion, or absence.
This set may be healing to some — and wounding to others — depending on where they are emotionally. It's a reflection of love in all its flawed forms: sweet, raw, reckless, and fading.
Listener discretion strongly advised, especially for those working through relationship grief, codependency recovery, or abandonment issues.

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SET LIST NINETEEN (19)
1 Pretty Gold Bracelet
2 Still Walking the Earth
3 In the Shape of an Angel
4 Big Shoes
5 Forever
6 Open and Closed
7 Ten Feet Tall
8 Bird On a String
9 Unwritten and Unsaid
10 Glass House
11 Forget Me Knot
12 After the Fact

(1) PRETTY GOLD BRACELET
I wake up to a cup of coffee
Cry to my girl to get up off me
She's been sleeping on my arm so long
That my whole left side's asleep

I drag myself to
the edge of the bed
With both her arms
around my head

She never ever
let's me go
She keeps saying
she needs a little more lovin'

Wakie, wakie,
rise and shine
This type of thing
happens all the time

Every day
You'll hear me say...

If you got the heart, baby
Then I got the soul
If you got the rock, mama
Then I got the roll

You got the rhythm, honey
That cures the blues
Let's take a chance
We've got nothing to lose

I tell her...
Maybe I can't afford
to buy you a
pretty gold bracelet

Or when you're old
turn your frown
upside down
with a facelift

These are just the facts
and we both must face it
But even with all I lack
I still think we can make it

I heard someone say
the other day
that the poor man's
life was spiceless

But I say to you
that that someone
doesn't have a clue
Because we both
Know it's true
that what I have
to give to you...
Is priceless

I may not have a penny
but if I had it
then I'd give it to you
Supper, I'd go without any
if you happened to be
hungry enough for two

My mistakes --
there's been many
While some, ahem,
only make a few

But I'm faithful like
that dog named Bengy
I'll come running back home to you

If you got the heart, baby
Then I got the soul
If you got the rock, mama
Then I got the roll

You got the rhythm, honey
That cures the blues
Let's take a chance
We've got nothing to lose

(2) STILL WALKING THE EARTH
Have you ever set out in the rain?
Unsure of what you'll find
Have you ever been so sick of the past…
That you're willing to leave it all behind?

Have you ever risked it all?
For a key to the kingdom
Traded their set of rules in for
Some other kind of other freedom?

Have you ever risked all that you could be?
Just to be at the side of someone you equate with god?
An attraction so strong the type you never could see
Have you ever believed you found another pea from your pod?

The rule you follow even though you don't wear blue
When it comes to love or innocence
Then you'll die to protect and serve
You're in the one percent who knows what it is worth

Yes it is true
You know you'll do anything you have to
When she descends into your world
The closest you've ever been to heaven
Even though you're still walking the earth

(3) IN THE SHAPE OF AN ANGEL
The angels flying by they just seem average when compared to you
And the sun that shines so high just doesn't seem as bright
The sky that hangs above just doesn't look so blue
Clouds floating by just aren't so pure and white
For when I stare into your blue eyes
They all just seem to fade away
Though they are all so beautiful
You're what brightens up my day
For certain memories I have of you
Act as a mirror to my heart and soul
Reminding me of how far I've come
And yet still how far I have left to go
For the light you shine is never bending
And your helping hand is always lending
This heart you've broken is forever mending
For my love for you is and shall be never ending
I've learned you can't appreciate love without a little pain
Nor the sun without a little rain 
I was a candle that needed lighting
When my world turned dark 
You gave me the spark 
That keeps me fighting
This once black raven
Has turned to dove 
For all you've done 
I give you all my love

(4) BIG SHOES
If you trust in faith
And you have faith in trust
You know that strengthens me
It means you believe in us

It's how I know things will be okay
That sure means more to me
Than I could ever say
More than you could ever see

If you have faith in trust
Then we can overcome
Any great distance
That comes between

Different points of view
From where you and I see
From wherever each of us
May or may not be

All the way from
Just next door
To pretty blue sea
To shining sea

Or from one star to the next
In this great big galaxy of ecstasy
Filled full of jungle juice, pirate rum
Fine wine, champagne and Galapagos tea

That we're immersed
In from head to toe
And thrown feet first
But it could be worse
Oh, how so?
Just believe you, me

Just think what if we didn't exist?
Never got to be a little kid?
Well what then?
Just what would we do?
If we never got to
Fill up these big shoes?

Never got to walk the plank?
Never getting to swim with the sharks
Never get to howl at the moon
Late at night when the sky grew dark

Never get to raise your voice in anger
Never get to forgive a total stranger
For just being totally lame and bringing you down
Damn near ruining your day... For being such a silly clown!

But if you have faith in trust
That means you believe in us
You know that strengthens me
More than I could ever say
More than you could ever see

For then we can overcome all adversity
Yes, even the most terrible of travesties
Any and all corresponding tragedies
We'd be able to look upon with ease

If we have faith in trust
That means we believe in us
And you know that
strengthens them

Those passing us by
enjoying our smiles
And of course all of our friends
Thank you very much...the end

(5) FOREVER
In overwhelming complexity
Is where I find the most simplicity
Especially when it comes down to you and me

During times that some minds 
might deem as adversity
Well I shine for it seems 
to bring out the best in me

I have yet to fail when you've tested me
For what could have brought out the worst in me
It keeps leading me on towards one certainty...
That both you and me we were meant to be

Together?
Together...

Forever?
Forever...

Once upon a time I wasn't sure
But I don't feel that way anymore

In this love story there's a lesson learned
True love is the fire that doesn't burn
It keeps you safe you feel cozy and warm

Together?
Together...

Forever?
Forever…

(6) OPEN AND CLOSED
Won't you close your eyes?
Have a listen to my song
Can you still see me?
This is for someone dear to me

Since hearts don't tell lies
They speak syllables of truth
Can you still see me?
Have I yet appeared to you?

Don't you know how much
Just what you mean to me?
Won't you keep me real
Don't let me become
Just another memory

Please stay here with me
Never let me fade away
Please hold onto me
Never let me disappear

With the inner strength
Residing inside you
No woman alive
Would ever deny you

I could live for you
I would die for you
But I'll cry for you
If you want me to do

Hold me in your hands
Be my shell, 
I'll be your pearl
Now I understand
That you have control 
Over my entire waking world

Be my ray of light
On this cloud-filled day
Please give me words
When I don't know what to say

Give me inspiration
Keep me brave and strong
Please keep your eyes closed
Until I finish my song

Don't you know how much
Just what you mean to me?
Won't you keep me real
Don't let me become
Just another memory

Won't you stay with me
Never let me fade away
Please hold onto me
Never let me disappear

Now open your eyes
I stand naked before you
Sung my siren's song of truth
Whispered softly my secret
"I live to adore you..."

(7) TEN FEET TALL
When you feel worn down
Like you're lacking control
Think of how far you've come
Not how far you have to go

I'm your lover awaiting 
your safe return
What keeps me warm 
is this love that burns

When you're lost in the cold
And don't know which way to turn
Think of my heart and soul
You're for what I yearn...

With you... I'm ten feet tall
And the world it seems so small
But I'm up so high...
Who will catch me when I fall?

It should be you 
since you put me here
Yet never before 
have I seen so clear

If you're lost in a blizzard 
feeling alone
Listen to my voice 
it'll lead you home
Your warm touch of tenderness
My flashlight in this wilderness

Through my descent down 
from way up on high
You've shown me what it is 
to be on the other side

With you... I'm ten feet tall 
and the world it seems so small
But I'm up so high... 
Who will catch me when I fall?

It should be you 
since you put me here
Yet never before 
have I seen so clear

When you're lost in the cold
Don't know which way to turn
Think of my heart and soul
You're for what I yearn...

(8) BIRD ON A STRING
He held a bird on a string
But it's not what you might think
It was only for her own protection

Oh how she could sing
And how she loved to soar
Oh how high she could fly
When she knew she need not
Look down anymore
He would always be there to catch her
When she fell back to earth

For in his life he had learned many lessons
But to him nothing had ever meant more
Than when this his most prized possession
Once released from her cage
He'd get to go and see all the places
That she would take him to explore

He held a bird on a string
She became to him his everything
He let her out every morning
Then each evening she'd return

Everyday she would fly higher
So then the string became longer
The song she sang became louder
As her wings grew stronger and stronger

Oh how high she could fly
When she knew she need not look down anymore
He would always be there to catch her
Whenever she fell back to earth

(9) UNWRITTEN AND UNSAID
Hey there...
That's a pretty nice disguise
Those angel's eyes
That keep me longing
To believe in paradise

But just what do you see
When you're looking at me?
Sometimes I have to wonder
If this is really where you wanna be

Do I see only my memories
Of the way we were?
Or has the past now passed
Uncovering and discovering
Something more?

Yet whatever's in store
Surely no one of this earth could know
But as we've learned before
Once I loved you
And that love still has room to grow
Yes, I could keep you forever
or l could let you go...

Once in awhile
Without any warning
She straightens the maze
As she stares at me
With eyes adoring

And what she says her heart feels
Her whole body says
I live for those moments
There was just one the other day

It's those unspoken truths
That can rip a man to shreds
When he's in over his head
When the price is more
Than the tag first read

So much unwritten
And even more unsaid
With those shimmering
Shiny and happy thoughts
I'll go to bed

(10) GLASS HOUSE
I called you on the telephone
To tell you that I wouldn't be home
Stuck at work something's come up
But I don't think you really give a f*ck!

Yeah, you've heard all my lies by now
It's true, I learned it from you, anyhow
You know you reap what you sew
And here comes the plow!

One thing you should know…
Know by now…
Living in a glass house
We look in as you look out
And once a rock gets thrown…
It's time to move out

Yet you're still here
With covered up mirrors
After pushing far away
Anyone who cared

And those who dared
To become your foe
Were quickly defeated
Be it by word or blow

It looks like you are still taking aim
From behind a broken window pane
All this time still nothing's changed
Growing blind and lame but you're to blame

(11) FORGET ME KNOT
A crashing wave of thought
Acts as your forget-me-knot
As I'm left caught...
Within the undertow

All the words that hurt
The wild nights
Our long talks
Your short skirts

Emotional scars and burns
Thoughts that I thought 
I either buried or lost
So very long ago

They're back again
They have reappeared
Did I ever forget?
Or am I just alone and scared?

I was waiting... searching...
For the new love of my life
But these haunting... fleeting...
Memories of my first wife

Are like pages... turning...
Right in front of my eyes
I see pictures... flashing...
You know pictures don't lie

I feel embers... burning...
Though unstoked they won't die
I am hurting... yearning...
And yet I don't know why

Now I'm slowly...learning...
There's more than emptiness inside
And I'd give...anything...
But the laws of man and science don't apply

(12) AFTER THE FACT
I can tell you
My life's story
With just six photographs…

That I carry
Inside of my wallet
And three of them are cats…

The other three
Beautiful women
With so much I've shared 
As our lives 
Have crossed paths…

Never would I
Suggest ever changing
A person, my place,
Or my faith in my past…

Yet I'm feeling the need
To dust off my camera again
So I'll be back in a flash…

He left but never came back…

Left and never…
Came…
Back…

For our story begins
And was told after the fact
After he set out searching 
For the seventh photograph

He left never to come back…

Left and never…
Came…
Back…

DELLA OF TROY
SET LIST NINETEEN (19)
positive relationship
Love, in its many forms—not just romantic, but the love that sustains, that holds, that believes when you can't.
 These songs celebrate connection without pretending it's easy, honoring the work as much as the reward.
Love & Devotion, Partnership, Commitment, The Work of We
(1) Pretty Gold Bracelet
(2) Still Walking the Earth
(3) In the Shape of an Angel
(4) Big Shoes
(5) Forever
(6) Open and Closed
(7) Ten Feet Tall
(8) Bird On a String
(9) Unwritten and Unsaid
(10) Glass House
(11) Forget Me Knot
(12) After the Fact

Set List 19 — Della of Troy

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Set List 19 — Della of Troy

Lead Rating: G/PG

Total Points: 5

Strategic Arc: Entry point. Flowers, beaches, romance, devotion. The honeypot.

 ⚠️ Trigger Warning: Mild romantic themes, emotional vulnerability, relationship dynamics. No explicit content.

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Rating

Musician/Artist

Four-Word Summary

1
Pretty Gold Bracelet
G
what I give priceless

2
Still Walking the Earth
G
closest ever to heaven

3
In the Shape of an Angel
G
awwww for kristin

4
Big Shoes
G
believe in us always

5
Forever
G
we were meant be

6
Open and Closed
G
live to adore you

7
Ten Feet Tall
G
voice leads you home

8
Bird On a String
G
his most prized possession

9
Unwritten and Unsaid
PG
straightens out the maze

10
Glass House
PG-13
reap what you sow

11
Forget Me Knot
PG
haunting memories first wife

12
After the Fact
PG
left never came back

Collection Summary:
 A sentimental, emotionally rich collection exploring love in all its forms — from the first spark of devotion to the lingering ache of memory. These songs celebrate vulnerability, partnership, and the courage it takes to love fully.

Artist Comparison:
 Cat Stevens, Counting Crows, Ben Folds

Key Themes:
 Romantic devotion, vulnerability, memory, partnership, loss

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SET LIST 20
THE COST OF LIGHT

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST TWENTY (20)
Set List 20 focuses on identity, purpose, burnout, idealism under pressure, and the slow erosion of hope. The pain here is not spectacle — it's cumulative. These songs document what happens when someone tries to live consciously inside systems that reward conformity, speed, and numbness.
This is a set about almost breaking, not about already being broken.

CORE THEMES & POTENTIAL TRIGGERS:
Existential anxiety and loss of direction
Depression, self‑doubt, and emotional fatigue
Addiction recovery and relapse anxiety (Dying Day)
Fear of wasted potential and creative paralysis (Fields of Time)
Identity erosion under societal pressure
Disillusionment with politics, media, and social narratives
Class consciousness and power imbalance (Plankton, Perfect World)
Burnout from capitalism, productivity culture, and "the grind"
Feeling unseen, unanchored, or disposable
Loneliness framed as independence
Idealism clashing with reality
Aging, time pressure, and fear of irrelevance
Persistent rumination and mental looping
The weight of wanting to matter

CONTENT NOTES (MODERATE TO STRONG):
"Dying Day" includes addiction imagery, moral struggle, and end‑of‑life reflection.

"Another Quarter" directly references depression, self‑doubt, emotional breakdown, and fear of running out of time.

"Fields of Time" centers on delayed dreams, regret, and creative despair.

"Plankton" uses dehumanizing metaphors to critique systems that render individuals insignificant.

"Perfect World" addresses systemic injustice, war profiteering, domestic anger, and emotional alienation.

"Running Free" and "Right By Sight" examine identity confusion, media manipulation, and internalized conflict.

No graphic violence is present, but psychological weight is sustained across the set.

THIS SET MAY BE DIFFICULT IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO:
Depression or existential dread
Feeling trapped by systems you can't escape
Creative burnout or fear of failure
Loss of faith in institutions or narratives
Loneliness disguised as independence
Idealism turning into exhaustion
Constant self‑interrogation without resolution

TONAL SUMMARY
Set List 20 is the sound of someone still fighting — but tired. It believes change is possible, but no longer trusts easy answers.
Hope exists here, but it is conditional, fragile, and hard‑won. Unlike Set 21, this set does not shock. It wears you down.
It asks whether staying conscious in an unconscious world is bravery — or slow self‑destruction. Listener discretion advised, 
especially for prolonged listening.

THE COST OF LIGHT
SET LIST TWENTY (20)
1 Undefeated
2 Dying Day
3 Fields of Time
4 Running Free
5 New Sight
6 Right By Sight
7 Off the Road
8 Rock Star Dreams
9 Plankton
10 Perfect World
11 Linear
12 Learn From the Masters
13 Another Quarter

(1) UNDEFEATED
I ain't got no plans this minute
So I'm seizing the moment - I'm in it
I'm not losing or winning - Just present
Not up, not down - I'm all around

From the cities to the towns
To the horses and the plows
Not the just the black or the white
But every face in the crowd

If you can see it you can be it
If you wish to delete it then don't repeat it
Some good advice to those who seek it
Though those luckier than me might not need it

Sure you can try to pin for the win 
When the argument becomes heated
But a sly guy vies for the tie
Because only Father Time is undefeated

What about space? That's a whole 'nother race
We started with the moon 
then wouldn't you know pretty soon
It was on to Mars and that's just so far
There's more in store we keep raising the bar

I'd rather not roam 
Stick closer to home
Preserve what we have 
Before that's all gone

(2) DYING DAY
I've given up on 
feeding my addiction
Wash my bleeding hands clean
From this filthy affliction

Look up at the sky 
to guide my direction
Why oh why do I even try
To strive for perfection

Get it up, get it out
Put another on the shelf
Rip in and pull it out
Give away another piece of yourself

Try to show 
what so many others hide
In their sense of pride
With their tongues they lied
And then became tongue-tied
And with a cross look they denied

Knowing not which law they abide in
Be it gin... sin... kin?
So they just play pretend
Yet where one man's 
rainbow ends...
Another's begins

At least I've found mine...
Never stop trying
Or else face regrets
On the day of your dying
Yes, the times are getting better
They say tomorrow is the day
Maybe then we can live forever

Or at the very least 
we can all live together
It sure sounds good – 
that much I'll say

For when we live the dream
We may finally sleep in peace
Holding and protecting
What was once so out of reach

The times are getting better
They say tomorrow is the day
Yesterday is history
Time to let it slip away

Let it out, free yourself, it's okay
The times are getting better
They say tomorrow is the day

You built your wall... 
now let it fall, 
it's okay

The times are getting better
They say tomorrow is the day

For hope and faith 
is what we need
The time is right 
to take up this creed

Finally something positive
in which to believe
Aside from learning the obvious fact
That we all bleed
For once we have found 
the eternal spring
We can sit back and see 
what it will bring

Maybe countrymen, maybe kings...
Maybe even better things

The times are getting better
They say tomorrow is the day

Maybe then we can live forever
Or at the very least all together
It sure sounds good
At least that much I'll say

(3) FIELDS OF TIME
I've been growing up
And am slowly
becoming a man
I'm twenty- four years old
And doing the best that I can

I've got big dreams
But I've had to put them on hold
Thus the way it presently
looks to me
Is that my one true calling
might never be
As my big book of poetry
Just keeps on getting
dusty and old

And the people
who I am trying to help
They no longer trust in me
Gave up on waiting for me
To finally fulfill my destiny
Such a waste of a mind like mine
Wasting its time on carpentry

I've got to simply find the time
To collect up my rhymes
If it is still not too late
To change the world's fate
Because some of my stuff
is so great
Somebody has to publish me

Just look at all
the seeds I've sewn
Look and see how they've grown

Throughout the fields of time
It damn near blew my mind
That nearly all
the weeds are gone

Oh see the sun
and how it shines
Not a single cloud left in the sky
Now I don't mean
to sound so surprised...
If there's a God
then he or she knows
Just how hard I have tried

He or she sees the seas
I have swam
And knows all
the mountains I've climbed

Sees how much I have grown
Knows of all the tears
I have cried
Senses every fear that I hide

When no one cares that I am
Sitting here all alone
Pondering how to get
blood from a stone

But lately I have since
changed my tune
I now get to see
the flowers in bloom

Reaping the rewards
of years of hard work
On this lazy afternoon
Feeling the sun and all of its warmth
As if every month is
April, May or June

(4) RUNNING FREE
Do you remember what you were
Before the world told you 
what you had to be?
Back in the haze of the days
A distant memory of running free

Then what happened to my mom and dad
It came calling for me
I ran for a while and tried to hide
But you see eventually…

Race baiting wars are waiting
For those who get scooped up in the media spin
A tidal wave of hate and fear
Still the celebrities, car wrecks 
and sex keep you sucked in

Remember not everyone who smiles at you 
really wants to be your friend
Sometimes it resides behind the eyes 
another's true intent

For one might say
It's not how you play the game
It's whether you lose or win
Given time everything will change
What you red, your black, your white, your blues
Yeah that's what I said
So your destiny is yours to choose
Yet let too many voices in your head
And the one you'll lose belongs to you

It's alright to hide behind a lie
Yet if you dare share the truth
Hey baby, I'm your guy

Just one look into your eyes
Lacking fire - that's no surprise
If you sought out the flame of love
What exactly do you think you'd find?
The reason I speak of
Is I think it's time that you tried

Sometimes it seems that 
sir is short for serpent 
And miss for misses and mistakes
When the realities of all your dreams
Bring you nothing but heartbreak

And if that's the case
We can track and retrace
But we can't go back and erase
So let us relax and embrace
The fact that haste makes waste
The way in which we act we have got to face

Do you remember what you were
Before the world told you what you had to be?
Back in the haze of the days
A distant memory of running free

(5) NEW SIGHT
I got nowhere to go
I got no one to meet
I got no scene to show
Seems the scenery's bleak…

I got nothing to hide
I got nothing to steal
I got nothing left of value
Except for my glorious ideals…

(crowd cheers!)

I got no status symbols
I got no house, no kids, no car
I got no way to know where to go
Save for the sun, the moon, the stars

I got no anchor in my life
I got no chains to tie me down
I got no incentive to try to fly high
But to take in new sight and sound

I got not one single second
I'm willing to waste or give away – ay - ay
I have yet to fully catch my breath 
Before I let that breath escape – ape – ape

So never could I cry out
Or scream as loud as I wanted to…
Yeah, and that's how species die out
Lost is everything - no more me; no more you…

(6) RIGHT BY SIGHT
I'm a yellow mellow fellow (Hello!)
Oh, you're right by sight I'm white (aight!)
But surely that's no guide 
if it hides that inside I'm
A flesh and blood creature with a sell-by date
Trapped in something that I don't know what it is 
So I don't know how to escape

Perhaps it's too late 
Gotta trace fate
Without the playa hate
Still, hating the game is the same as before
If the rich despise the rich 
then how do you think they feel about poor? 

"We abhor the deplorable!"
It's a statement that's categorical
And undeniable but we know that there's not much 
that isn't pliable, moveable and moldable 
and even bendable, breakable and also uncontrollable
Which one am I and what is this?
To be tamed with a brain, a heart or a fist? 

It's said circumstances 
don't make the man they reveal him
But I'm down on this floor 
staring up at the ceiling
Getting the shakes from these thoughts 
that I'm feeling
Am I praying to something 
or cursing at nothing 
when asking for healing?

(7) OFF THE ROAD
I'm not changing my name...
And since I can't change my face
I'll still look the same...
But I'll be in a whole 'nother place

I'm changing my ways...
They might have got me this far
All this hard work has paid
It's not a dream I'm a star

I'm changing my place
And my role in this life
I know this time I can't wait
There's no doubt that I'm right

I'm changing my fate
The entire way I view the world
I found I don't need to escape
I said why run when you can hurdle?

Or at least dodge and jump around
So why did I ever try to hide?
Try to creep without sound
When everybody knows I don't lie

I'm changing my plan
To some new unknown
I tried to sit back and wait
For something great to unfold

But I have come to understand
This time I can't wait to be told
Sometimes in order to be a man
You've got to walk off the road…

(8) ROCK STAR DREAMS
I've been living for a legacy since seventeen
That's when music filled my head 
with rock star dreams
I've been tightrope walking up against 
the razor's edge of infinity
Since perception is just one's illusion of reality
It's not strange for my brain to change the scenery

Sure, they say the truth comes with a price
Sometimes you give more than just your life
Paying the ultimate sacrifice
You say you don't think twice
But we ALWAYS think twice…

I was craving
Retracing my past
There were things worth saving
I see that looking back
What now seems ancient
A newly uncovered artifact
I've been contemplating
How best to back track
What will be waiting?
A part of me's afraid to ask

I've been living to be a legend
Since the age of twenty seven
I'm always giving in to the present
That's the quickest way to get to heaven

Lately I've been debating
How much more blood we should keep bleeding
It's increasingly frustrating
Being forced to follow someone else's misleading

I've been growing nervous of everything I believe in
I don't wanna be led by rhyme I'd rather be led by reason
Like you, I'm still trying to find more of my kind
I keep hoping for a world that's fair…
We know it'll never be even

(9) PLANKTON
Confliction is my currency
Because you see I am made-up of bad energy
Ever since infancy
You filled me up with negativity

With hostility towards those not like me
And especially those just like me
Funny, only the average was safe
We know the middle's no place to escape
You only find your way there when you lose faith

Produce
Consume
Become numb to the hum of the vacuum

You're in the wrong line you realize
When it's not you who says 
who does the do in do or die? 
Yes... your allies have been compromised! 

When it's time to imitate, you are the master 
Yet can you innovate during a disaster? 

Strapped in a maze you did not create
"I'm stuck in a bad copy" 
You say as you drink your coffee 

You think like Abraham, You're Linked In
Something else is the whale
while you're just the plankton 

In this play, there's lots of action
And there you lay dead. Then you're not acting
Even you believe you're being wrapped in plastic
But at our best we are just energy, 
frequency with a little bit of static 
Still, you fall for their illusions 
as they work their magic

Hocus pocus 
You lose your focus
Before you get to try again
The results are tragic

(10) PERFECT WORLD
I've spent my whole life
Looking for what I can't see
For what will never be
As the only thing
that can set me free

Is an unknown memory
That somewhere lives
inside of me
Behind a locked door
Perhaps you hold the key?

This set pattern we follow
is just one of their lies
A world lacking communion
only me's and I's
Through competition our
brotherhood has been broken
As no one's acknowledged
these words that I've spoken

Everything, even people
filed by order and rank
Number one built the Titanic
And yet down it sank

There's still time left
to return these ideas
you've been sold
Rise up in rebellion,
could you be so bold?

The whole world's a fight
I can't get no peace
My mind gets disrupted
When it's at ease

The sun and I awake as one
Though it's not my first choice
I'd prefer to sleep in late
I wish I had a voice

Some say if winning
isn't everything then
why keep score?
Those same people
send other mother's
sons to war

I could be like you
or maybe someone else
One step towards them
and one away from myself

Sometimes they see me
and ask me "How I feel?"
I respond,
"Like a hamster
on a rusty wheel"

If you feel trapped like a rat
in this world so cold
Rise up in rebellion,
could you be so bold?

The whole world's a fight
I can't get no peace
My mind gets disrupted
When it's at ease

Watching the sunset
Is a long forgotten art
Feet so busy walking
Separate from the heart

The brokers in their
suits and ties
walking down Wall Street
The ones with their
diamond watches
and their hair so neat

They get so stressed out
playing all their
Wall Street games
Go home and

yell at their wives
forget their own kids' names

All for the love of money
and nothing more
If they call that rich
then you can call me poor

If they tell you the lie
"all that glitters is gold"
Rise up in rebellion,
could you be so bold?

The whole world's a fight
I can't get no peace
My mind gets disrupted
When it's at ease

When was the last time
You noticed the moon?
I'm surprised
You've forgotten so soon

As I climb up the mountains
and float over the sea
I find myself alone
and contented
alive and free

No need to look
at my watch
or punch a clock
And I actually
notice my feet
when I go for a walk

It could be like this
if enough people believe
Just as the wind
blows a flower
I'm planting my seed

There's so much more
than what you've been told
Rise up in rebellion
could you be so bold?

(11) LINEAR
Way, way back…
During my younger days
When the picture was abstract
Oh, how the times have changed

All those colored paints
Have changed to black and white
I used to begin my day with play
Now that play has to wait 'til night

I have friends who never play at all
Or when they can… it's just pretend
They only look up to check the clock
Like they're afraid it's gonna fall off the wall

Well I guess I'm just one of those guys
Who if you looked out from my eyes
You'd see in straight lines
Since I never had nor wanted a prime

I can never say I'm too old and gray
To ever stop what I'm doing and go hide away
Since I could never say with any truth
Maybe I should retire?
Maybe it's time for me to be quiet?
Maybe my work here is really through…

Nah, I don't think that's something
That I'll ever do
That would make too many people mad
Others would be left confused…

I can never say 
I'm too over the hill
To ever lay down 
and let time break my will
Know I'm not the kinda guy 
who'd go leaving on a lie
Swore not to do it again 
after I tried it one time…

I can never say I'm too old and gray
To ever stop what I'm doing 
'til my last breath fades…away.

(12) LEARN FROM THE MASTERS
Today is the day 
I know that I will make it
When I was cast from the mold
Who would know that I'd break it?
In bitter fits of jealousy
There are those who can't take it
Pretend to walk in my shoes
When they know that they fake it

Be yourself don't try to be me
Open the door that'll set you free
My pen name Bob Dylan Junior is gone
I've stepped into the shoes
of a man named Tom
A poet, a writer, who dabbles in song
And learns from the masters
What he's known all along

Since I am a poet
I will fight you only with my pen
I'll drag your name through the mud
And then drag it through again

There's no need for fists
For fighting only leaves you bruised
I've learned that paper cuts never heal
When everybody has heard the news
When made known is your reputation
Then I win and you lose

Since I am a poet
I will try my very best
To separate myself from all others
And try to stand above the rest

Searching for what
hasn't yet been written
Though there's not much
that Dylan left

Be yourself don't try to be me
Open the door that'll set you free
My pen name Bob Dylan Junior is gone
I've stepped into the shoes

Of a man named Tom
A poet, a writer, who dabbles in song
And learns from the masters
What he's known all along

(13) ANOTHER QUARTER
When I am alone
And all by myself
Sometimes I begin
To fill up full of self-doubt

Fills my head
I can't get it out
And what's within me
I could live without it

Depression closes my eyes…
Like sleeping
When I feel like life…
Has passed me by
I break down inside…
Start weeping

Yet thoughts of wasted time…
Won't relieve this cry
The tears I spill…
Are now seeping

Down below the earth…
They'll soon reside
Soothing this malaise…
That's been creeping

I've looked up and down
And left and right
I've gone out searching
In the middle of the night

I have spent my days
Just wandering around
And I'm still looking
For what I haven't found

I searched for
What I sought to find
Found the fruit
Couldn't get it off the vine

So I climbed
And climbed and climbed
I've tried and tried
But can't get it off of my mind

When I am alone
And all by myself
Sometimes I begin
To fill up full of self-doubt

Fills my head
I can't get it out
And what's within me
I could live without it

I just want to make my mark
Before I lose this spark
And the room gets dark
Then the game is over

Then I'm sure I'd love
To play again
Or else it seems like
Such a waste, such a sin

Ladies and gentlemen
You've all become
My special friends

Hopefully we've got something
Greater to discover…

THE COST OF LIGHT
 SET LIST TWENTY (20)
life advice on the journey
Wisdom passed from one traveler to another—not from on high, but from someone who's been in the ditch and found a way out. These songs offer perspective, encouragement, and the occasional hard truth.
Life Lessons, Perspective, The Long View, Encouragement & Truth
(1) Undefeated
(2) Dying Day
(3) Fields of Time
(4) Running Free
(5) New Sight
(6) Right By Sight
(7) Off the Road
(8) Rock Star Dreams
(9) Plankton
(10) Perfect World
(11) Linear
(12) Learn From the Masters
(13) Another Quarter


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SET LIST 21
A COLD PLATE

⚠️ EXTREME TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST TWENTY‑ONE (21)
Set List 21 contains graphic, explicit, disturbing, and intentionally provocative material. These songs are written to shock, expose, and force confrontation with subjects that are often sanitized, hidden, or ignored. This is not subtle songwriting — this is confrontation art.
This set is not safe for casual listening.

MAJOR THEMES & TRIGGERS INCLUDE:
Explicit domestic violence (verbalized, enacted, normalized, mocked, and retaliated)
Graphic murder and homicide (shootings, stabbings, vigilante violence)
Sexual violence and coercion
Incest-adjacent and taboo sexual imagery
Explicit sexual content and crude sexual language
Misogyny and gender‑based degradation (depicted critically and satirically)
Rape culture and victim‑blaming exposed through character voice
Abusive relationships portrayed from inside the abuser's mind
Elder cognitive decline and dementia (Uh, That's Christmas Nana)
Childhood memory loss and aging‑related confusion
Hate speech, racism, and classism (used satirically and critically in Fuzzy Math)
Political satire involving real public figures
Transphobic, sexually explicit, and potentially offensive language
Self‑harm and suicide (explicit ideation and completed acts)
HIV/AIDS transmission as revenge (Venus)
Drug abuse, addiction, and self‑destructive sexual behavior
Graphic descriptions of bodily harm and death
Moral nihilism and deliberate offense as commentary

⚠️ CRITICAL CONTENT NOTES (STRONG WARNING):
"Never Expect It" depicts explicit domestic abuse and murder from both perspectives, without softening language or tone.

"Man Enough" portrays vigilante violence justified through masculinity and rage.

"Dom‑Vio" satirizes real‑world domestic violence scandals, media cover‑ups, and institutional complicity.

"Every Four Weeks" contains explicit sexual descriptions, crude anatomical language, and material many listeners will find offensive or dehumanizing.

"Fuzzy Math" uses racist, classist, and inflammatory language intentionally to expose elite hypocrisy and systemic prejudice.

"Venus" includes HIV, pregnancy, drug abuse, revenge sex, homicide, and suicide, culminating in multiple deaths.

Several songs contain slurs, profanity, and deliberately transgressive humor.

THIS SET MAY BE ESPECIALLY DISTRESSING IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO:
Domestic abuse or intimate partner violence
Sexual assault or sexual humiliation
Suicide or self‑harm
Hate speech or discriminatory language
HIV/AIDS trauma
Graphic violence
Misogyny or gender‑based violence
Religious satire involving death and abuse
Political satire involving racism and war
Shock humor without emotional buffering

IMPORTANT CONTEXT NOTE
Many tracks in Set List 21 speak from the voice of perpetrators, abusers, or morally broken narrators. These perspectives are not endorsements — they are exposures. The writing intentionally removes moral safety rails to show how cruelty rationalizes itself when left unchecked.
This is not a comforting set. This is not a healing set. This is a set about what happens when society laughs, looks away, or monetizes violence.
Set List 21 is confrontational performance art. It is designed to offend complacency, not to entertain politely. Listener discretion is not just advised — it is essential.

A COLD PLATE
SET LIST TWENTY ONE (21)
1 Shell
2 Ten Percent Tom
3 Uh, That's Christmas Nana
4 Man Enough
5 Never Expect It
6 Partner In Crime
7 Hurting Her Knees and Pride
8 Dom - Vio
9 Fuzzy Math
10 Every Four Weeks
11 Rumours From Heaven
12 Venus

(1) SHELL
I don't have words, only feelings left. 
I'm trying to kill those and put to death. 
This emptiness inside these last ten years, 
that's how long it's been since you disappeared. 

Just when I believed in something... 
Something turned into nothing. 
Now I'm just a shell of what I used to be. 
Left all by myself in this dark blue sea. 

Holding nothing sacred anymore. 
I don't even fake it, 
I just stay bored. 
Underachieving, alone and ignored

(2) TEN PERCENT TOM
Ten Percent Tom knew he was wrong
But he didn't want to get hurt anymore
So he would turtle and hide
Rather than go looking inside
Decided he would no longer go and explore

So he would bide his time
By clogging his mind
With useless and trivial facts
With apathy as his brace
His time he did waste
Time he knows he will never get back

Oh, Ten Percent Tom
Here's where you went wrong
You lost your passion along with your love

It was another's mistake
Yet you let your heart break
Looking down instead of looking above

(3) UH THAT'S CHRISTMAS NANA
Has anyone seen my apron?
Has anyone seen my keys?
I can't see too well
Without my glasses
I lost them too
While I was stirring peas

By the way...
Do you know where my car is?
I could have sworn I drove it home

But at least I know when my birthday is
Because this nice man
Who knew I'd forget
He kindly carved it on a stone

Well thanks for helping me find my apron
I left it hanging around my waist
When I opened my car door
In the ignition I found
The keys I'd misplaced

Maybe I'll remember
Where I left my glasses
After a good night's sleep
So I'll go to bed
But wouldn't you know it
When I went in to brush my teeth
I looked in the mirror
And I saw those glasses
On the top of my head

This is just part
Of getting a little older
When you start to forget more
Than most people remember

I just hope you don't forget my birthday
On the twenty-fifth day of December

(4) MAN ENOUGH
Everyone could tell 
By the bloodied look on his face
There are some unwritten rules set aside 
And applied to the disgraced

So when a vigilante from the crowd appears
To take you for a ride

Be forewarned that silencing fear you hear
The fact that dead men don't lie

It seems I didn't even have to make
A character statement in the case
I just said one thing: "I did it…
For the betterment of the human race!"

For the cops, the prisoners, the mob and the jury
They already know just how much
My love for a woman has hurt me

And before she's backed into a corner
He'll be the one that gets knocked down
If it was a choice I had to make

I know I'd do the same again
I'm man enough to stand my ground
No, I'd never call it a mistake

I'm man enough to hop in my truck
And sure, I know when to drive away

But I'm man enough to Kick the sh*t outta him
For slapping her in the face…

(5) NEVER EXPECT IT
My wife's a b*tch
That's why she gets hit
When I get upset
I just raise my fist

She knows it well
She gave me hell
Then down she fell
Now she ain't well

My wife's a bitch
That's why she gets hit
When I get upset (click sound)
I just raise (bang!)

(pause)

My husband's dead
I shot him in the head
That's the last time I said
Now the floor's all red

Now I'm going off to bed
Later I'll clean all this mess
Decide whether to confess
Or go and burn this bloody dress

(humming)

My husband's dead
I shot him in the head
That was the last time I said…

(6) MY PARTNER IN CRIME
We were all the fashion 
during an upside-down time
In our dance of passion, 
a partnership maligned,

Amidst whispered fears, 
still two hearts would intertwine,
As I'd find myself here... 
with my partner in crime

See, you were as bad for me, 
as I was for myself
We wade in our tempestuous sea 
of tortured mental health

I was in too deep…
I knew I had to get out
Are there secrets the other keeps?
We each had no doubt

When neither of us are straight
We blame other names
For our sorrows

We face the same predicament today
As yesterday
As tomorrow

There's a river flowing in my mind
A rage within this howling wind?
It's pulled me from the shadows
Love's flame sucked me in again

Yeah, the same familiar burn
That's got me so many times before
Time and time again I take my turn
I knew what the future had instore

All those prophets from history
They said faith would set me free

Haha, yeah.... 
Right before getting torn apart
They had a good ride 
Before things went dark

Romeo had Juliet
But I got only this
Judas, sure got a bad rap, man…
It was just one little kiss

Moses parted the deep blue sea
Then he left us all here to drown
Some say redemption's 
for the weak
But Me, I chose my thorny crown

Mary Magdalene walked 
the streets
No, never once looking to be saved
Remembered as 
an uncleansed woman
While I might say new age 
and brave

In ancient tales, villains, heroes 
and guys like me embark
Between the bounds of love 
and hate, 
all over the human arc

One birth, one death, the flame, 
the dark
Making, missing or never 
leaving one's mark?

Amongst the common men, 
I found my voice
A poet's pen, my weapon of choice
With ink-stained hands, 
I've poured my soul
Into verses raw 
and let it all unfold!!!!

Painting canvas with searching, unrelenting prose
Where both hope and despair are there 
They seamlessly compose
In strokes of light and shades of gray
The human spirit, in all its display

Yeah, I've been doing my best
To pick up and run with the baton
And I'll hand it to next one
When I'm too old to take this on…

So many that I've turned to 
They have all fallen by the way
What's a man left to do when 
he's not sure he wants to pay

The heavy cost that comes with 
speaking, thinking for himself
When so many men have said 
they'd rather be led 
by something or someone else

So here I now stand 
in front of the mirror
Covering my eyes, 
my mouth, my ears…

Until the only thing left 
is a lone voice inside
I'll let that, along with you, 
forever be my guide

Yes, together we'll go 
to wherever God wants us to be
And if there's no God that'll mean 
that it's just you and me

So if it's all up to us… 
Then we had best not lose faith
We had better not quit
And most definitely not wait!!!

This opportunity comes once a lifetime
Try your best to enjoy the damn ride!!!
Maybe you'll find your salvation lies
Not beyond this world 
but somewhere withinside

(7) HURTING HER KNEES AND PRIDE
My girlfriend's house...
Her parents are home
They don't like me much...
So we're never alone

I'm sitting on the sofa...
And she's looking so fine
We've been dating so long...
Don't they know she's mine?

They think she's so pure...
And that she can wear white
An innocent girl...
A parents' delight

I'm so sorry...
She didn't tell you what's right
Like what she does...
When she spends the night

Because of these lies...
By your law she abides
Because of these lies...
In the bushes we hide
Because of these lies...
We make love outside
Because of these lies...
We take the car for a ride

They say what's unknown
Doesn't hurt you
And that the truth shall set you free
But if they only knew what I've taken
They'd take you away from me

This is our little secret
So we'll play our charades
We'll keep singing our song
Until the music fades

Come for a ride and I'll take you away
It's finally our turn
In this game that we play

Yeah I'm feeling good
I really got it tonight
Let's drive somewhere
And turn off the lights

Love has its prices
And love has its costs
I'll unbutton your shirt
While you watch out for the cops

Though she can't by wine
She can still buy smokes
Is she old enough to love?
Don't ask her folks

Their old school values
And their old school style
Today I'd place 'em
In an old school pile

Because of the old ways...
They try to keep me away
Because of the old ways...
They never let me stay

Because of the old ways...
This is the game we play
Because of the old ways...
They think we'll wait 'til our wedding day

When she's at college
They never see me at all
And they never hear us rattling the walls
But when she's home
In the window I crawl

Better not get caught...
I hear that dad's gotta gun
I smoke a pack a day...
Don't get far when I run

Too great the risk...
I don't wanna get caught
I think it's time to head
Out to the parking lot

Yeah, out in the corner
And in the shadows we hide
She says,

"It hurts her knees...and it hurts her pride"

(8) DOM-VIO (spoof of DOMINO by Van Morrison)
Note: Dom vio = domestic violence 
NFL don't wanna discuss it 
What causes concussions on women's brains
Fans may get disgusted
That's when channels start to change

In that case, destroy all evidence 
Don't keep it under lock and key
Never have to worry
'Bout facts blowing back at you or back at me...
(Get it?)

no no Dom - Vio (not that night) 
So long as there's no video of the fight
Lord, have mercy
I said no no Dom - Vio

You'll be alright 
So long as there's no pictures of the fight
Say it again:
I said no oh no Dom - Vio
I said no-oh-no Dom - Vio
(Hid it)

There's no need for argument... 
No there's no argument at all...
After you punched her in the elevator
And the camera captured her fall

Or vice versa 
That depends on where ever you're at
(The knife)
Sometimes you get the O.J. treatment 
And we wonder why they stop fighting back...

(Hit 'em) 
Oh there's no video
(It's all right)

So go loco Rocky Marciano 

Hey you Greg Hardy 
There you go...

Lord have mercy! 
I said 
No Dom - Vio

If there's no video 
They will let you go...

They said it's alright!

Say it again 
No Dom - Vio
(Huh!)
I said 
No no Dom - Vio

Well, Mr. Goodell I just don't wanna see 
Someone who is clearly crazy's
Face on my T.V.
Playin' in the league
For my kids to see

For my kids to be

Uh - uh, not right
Uh - uh, not right
Uh - uh, not right
Uh - uh

I'm gonna leave

(9) FUZZY MATH
(a FEIST parody of their song 1,2,3,4)
Voice of George W. Bush speaking:
Well hello little Jenna...
this is a song that my daddy used to sing to me...
it's called fuzzy math...

Four, three, one, two
So much work we don't wanna do

Three, two, one, four
That's what God made minorities for

This is exactly what my daddy said to me
When I was young he sat me down on his knee

When you're born so insanely rich
There's no reason why you can't be prejudice

Guatemalans came here to cut the grass
For those of us who are high class

While Haitians floated over on a raft
To work at nursing homes wiping grandma's ass

Columbians grow coffee 
and sometimes sell cocaine
Those silly little Mexicans 
love working in the rain

Not sure whatcha call 
the ones that clean our house
But at least they do something 
unlike those blacks down south

We were born so insanely rich
Perhaps that's why 
we're so prejudice

Eleventeen, three, six, five and eight
Growing up wealthy, white and ignorant 
is great

Now tell me daddy... Why'd we really go to war?
So many die... Just what are they fighting for?

He said, "Well honey, think of the world 
as a great big machine…
That runs off a whole bunch of oil and gasoline…
And you know those sand people can get pretty mean…
That's why we're so glad Dick Cheney's on our team"

We were born so insanely rich
Perhaps that's why we're so prejudice

Eleventeen, three, six, five and eight
Growing up wealthy, white and ignorant is great

Three, four, two, one
And now my song is done

(10) EVERY FOUR WEEKS
The vagina bleeds…
Every four weeks… 
That's like five to eights days
That I don't wanna play

My trans friend is fine
With a nice behind
And it's soft warm hole
A place I can always go 

Unless she has Taco Bell
In that case, well
That's when we wait a day
Just to play it safe

And then the lovin' don't stop
Well, that's just the facts
But sometimes she wants to top
That's the only drawback

Yeah, as she lubes you up
Smiling, now it's your turn
And after one big THRUST
You feel your asshole BURN

She reminds you mostly of your mom
Except for the gonads
So be careful bending over
Yeah, she's hung like her dad

The vagina bleeds…
Every four weeks… 
That's like five to eights days
She says stir the paint

My trans friend is fine
With a nice behind
And a great long taint
Yeah, I can hardly wait!

(11) RUMOURS FROM HEAVEN
The creator never really had a chance 
when his disciples could no longer walk straight
The power of song and dance 
unleashed after ages inside the Golden Gate

Now that there's rock n roll in heaven 
everyone enjoys the hymns
And the only problem the church has 
is getting everybody in

These guys all got the same room upstairs
Yes, their landlord is god 
still no one seems to care

They all sit and scratch their heads 
wondering just who'll come knocking next
Yet time has told them that it's anyone's guess

Everybody's grateful to be dead 
because now they're the house band in Heaven
They fill the place every single night
Now that doesn't sound too upsetting

Hard to tell just how the conversation sounds
When John's head is just about to hit the ground
Hey John, it's George whose been knocking at the door
Because of course Paul would've rang the bell
John responded that George must've left the Maharishi
Or else I figured we'd a seen him in hell

There goes Hendrix playing without his hands
Wearing only his headband and his funky underpants
Hey George, go get a bucket of cold water
Let's see if we can get him outta this trance

Sammy Davis Jr. sure can tap dance and he don't eat much
But when Elvis Presley knocks don't ever let him in
For he'll just eat all of the chips and dip -oh what a sin
But Sinatra's okay because he always brings gin

Hey who invited Bobby Dylan?
You know were not allowed to let anyone in early
Keith Richards came all the way up for nothing
But were sure we'll see him again shortly

The creator never really had a chance 
when his disciples could no longer walk straight
The power of song and dance 
unleashed after ages inside the Golden Gate

Now that there's rock n roll in heaven 
everyone enjoys the hymns
And the only problem the church has 
is getting everybody in

John whispers: No you ain't gonna see 
what I got in my pocket
But the words that come to me are 
knock it off and stop it

You say you want to change your ways 
but just what's the use?
I have had far beyond my years 
too much pain and abuse

Jim Morrison wakes up mumbling something odd:
The day revolves around the tears 
falling from the serpent's eyes
I hold the pain of the world inside my mind
My ears can no longer hear a child cry
My senses crawl beneath my skin
As a man who once saw all becomes blind

But they all know George 
is not the type to be out done:
The pressure of the sky falls on your back
The clouds start laughing in your face
The weather changes all the time
So remove your soul from within its case

Old Blue Eyes never wants to join in
Unless there's some ladies around
When it's just the guys 
he's called the Chairman of the Bored
Sitting in some darkened corner 
trying not to be found

Now it sounds pretty sad 
but everybody is still waiting for Billy Joel
But even though he's bald and fat 
he's still not that old

They'd be happy with Elton John 
because they need someone on the keyboard
When everybody heard he stopped doing drugs 
they all cried out oh lord!

The group is still split about fifty – fifty 
between Madonna and Britney Spears
They'll take anyone but Barbara Streisand
Her stealing the show is what everybody fears

The creator never really had a chance 
when his disciples could no longer walk straight
The power of song and dance 
unleashed after ages inside the Golden Gate

Now that there's rock n roll in heaven 
everyone enjoys the hymns
And the only problem the church has 
is getting everybody in

So now you know what you can look forward to 
when your day finally comes
You can walk up the stairway to heaven 
and go chasing the band that's never on the run

(12) VENUS
Venus was raised in the Bronx
A block away from the zoo
She lived with mom and dad
Left home at eighteen
And came back at twenty-two

A little wiser, a little more mature
She went off to college
Like she knew she had to do

She had big green eyes
And these big brown curls
Cutest girl in the neighborhood
Envy of all the boys and girls

She came back from college
With her tassel turned to the side
A wandering soul who found herself
And she felt pretty good inside

The first to graduate
From her family tree
A future bright as any star
Even though she didn't quite know
What she wanted to be

So she started tending bar
Then she started wasting time
Twisting off the bottle caps
And cutting up the limes

Such a friendly girl
Such a sweet sensation
With a smile and a wink
She's start a conversation

With anyone on a stool
Or anyone playing pool
She started partying a little
But she usually kept her cool

Just a little bit here
And a little bit there
Soon turned to all the time
And then everywhere

She was searching for some truth
But they only told her lies
But when the ship started sinking
Venus quickly cut her ties

Her friends at the bar
Started bringing her down
So she took a step back
And then she skipped town

So she packed her bags
Set off for who knows where
Coming to the conclusion
It had to be better than there

Well she headed out West
And she did her best
To avoid tricky situations
And police stations

She found an apartment
Upstairs from a coffee shop
A place to live, a place to work
And then the partying stopped

After she took that train west
She got her life on track
And it was waitressing one day
When she met Captain Jack

Cap'n Jack was well known as a player
But he knew just what to say to her
What's a sweetie like you
Doing in a place like this?
He gave her a big wink
She blew him a little kiss

So he stopped in for coffee
Every morning for three weeks straight
He asked Venus for some sugar
Then he'd ask her for a date

And soon after awhile
She gave him another little smile
She finally gave Jack her number
The next day he dialed
On the first date they had
They went to the museum
Looking so good together
Oh man, you should've seen 'em

The very next day
They saw each other again
And forever after that
They were always making plans

Soon she began to fall in love
With what she thought love was
Venus thought Jack loved her too
Why? Well just because

But little did she know
That when her back was turned
She was getting burned
Because Jack soon learned:

That even after so much time
He still couldn't change his ways
And like so many others
He learned that cheating doesn't pay

Venus was hearing wedding bells
The stage was set and all
Jack was either hearing voices
Or else nothing at all

His heart wasn't in it
But he still played along
Stairway to Heaven
Was their wedding song

Even with a ring on his finger
He was still a cheat
He'd meet a woman at the bar
And he's sweep her off her feet

Well before she knew it
Venus had been had
With a baby on the way
Captain Jack was gonna be a dad

She went in for a checkup
And the doctor said
there was a problem
She asked what could he do?
Doc said we can't yet solve it

She had HIV
And there's to date no cure
Venus dropped her jaw
And asked are you sure?

Venus then asked about the baby
After she fell
And the doctor said that
They couldn't yet tell
Then she muttered
something about Jack
And then something about hell

When Venus got home
she wore a vale
But she took notes
In the back of her head
Her eyes became suspicious
Her heart filled with dread
Still in the back of her mind
She believed she was
better off dead

All the tears in her eyes
She could never conceal
All the pain in her heart
She could never reveal

The truth of it all
She could never bear
She lost touch with reality
Started not to care

Soon Venus hit the bottle
She started lowering her class
Downing all her sorrows
In the bottom of her glass

When trouble finds you
You can no longer hide
Especially when you carry
An unborn child inside

With future dreams shattered
The past became lost
Paying for another's sins
The highest of cost

As bottles poured…
Others paid too
Newborn baby entered this world
All pale and blue

Another prayer on a stone
As Venus felt alone
With revenge on her mind
She headed on home

She who hated men
And likewise despised the earth
Suicidal thoughts
Spun back and forth

In clouded judgment
And blackened soul
Venus set out
Spinning out of control

With hatred in her veins
Which burned with every breath
She decided to play God
Walking hand in hand with death

She forgot about Jack
As she tried to hold the pain
She returned to the bars
Started snorting cocaine

Venus took her wedding ring off
When she sat on the stool
She started getting free drinks
From every other fool

Venus got a pick up line
And the guy would buy her a beer
Then he'd say
Hey let's get outta here

That's what the guy said
So that's what the girl did
She played poker with their life
When they didn't even bid

Venus made them
forget their name
Every single night
Then she'd slip out
In the early morning light

With a smile so wide
He'd say what a lay
Then he'd go and get tested
That very same day

For next to his reflection
in the mirror
Was a note written in red:
"Welcome to the world of AIDS
Pretty soon you'll be dead"

Venus would hit a new bar
She'd hit a new town
And turn that place
Upside down

Up to her they'd come
And she'd lay 'em down
Then she'd slip out
Without a sound

He's drinking Scotch
She's drinking gin
She'd set a trap
And they'd fall in

Finally she broke down
As her conscience became lost
A heart so cold
It filled with frost

She pulled out a knife
Stabbed Captain Jack
Bleeding from the neck
He fell back

She opened a window
Stood on the ledge
Took one last breath
Went over the edge

I still think of Venus
Every now and again
Before it was all over
She took twenty-one men

A COLD PLATE 
SET LIST TWENTY-ONE (21)
offensive parodies, bad relationships, murder, misc and transgenders
No boundaries, no filter, no apology—this collection goes where others won't, saying what others won't say. 
Dark, profane, and unflinching, these songs are for those who've seen the ugliest side of life and refused to look away.
Dark Comedy, Transgressive Content, Relationship Violence, Shock Value
(1) Shell
(2) Ten Percent Tom
(3) Uh, That's Christmas Nana
(4) Man Enough
(5) Never Expect It
(6) Partner In Crime
(7) Hurting Her Knees and Pride
(8) Dom - Vio
(9) Fuzzy Math
(10) Every Four Weeks
(11) Rumours From Heaven
(12) Venus

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Set List 21 — A Cold Plate

Lead Rating: NC-17/X

Total Points: 34

Strategic Arc: Domestic violence, murder, HIV revenge narrative. Mixed NC-17/X.

 ⚠️ Trigger Warning: Explicit domestic violence, murder, sexual violence, incest imagery, HIV/AIDS transmission, revenge, suicide, hate speech, transphobic language, graphic sexual content.

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Rating

Musician/Artist

Four-Word Summary

1
Shell
PG-13
shell of used be

2
Ten Percent Tom
PG-13
lost passion along love

3
Uh, That's Christmas Nana
PG
forgot more than remember

4
Man Enough
PG-13
dead men don't lie

5
Never Expect It
NC-17
husband's dead shot head

6
My Partner in Crime
PG-13
partner in crime divine

7
Hurting Her Knees and Pride
PG-13
in the bushes hide

8
Dom - Vio
PG-13
no video let go

9
Fuzzy Math
NC-17
wealthy white ignorant great

10
Every Four Weeks
X
vagina bleeds butt dont

11
Rumours From Heaven
PG-13
rock roll in heaven

12
Venus
NC-17
welcome world of AIDS

Collection Summary:
 A set that speaks from the voice of perpetrators, abusers, and morally broken narrators — exposing how cruelty rationalizes itself when left unchecked. This is confrontational performance art designed to offend complacency.

Artist Comparison:
 Lou Reed, The Coup, Marilyn Manson

Key Themes:
 Domestic violence, murder, HIV, revenge, explicit sexuality, taboo topics, satire

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While several tracks are reflective and introspective in nature, others employ graphic language, dark humor, and extreme satire.

Listeners are advised that this album includes references to:
• Depression, alienation, grief, and existential despair
• Suicidal ideation, murder–suicide language, and violent fantasy
• Gun violence, mass harm imagery, and emotional aftermath
• Sexual content including explicit acts, degradation, fetishization, and bodily fluids
• Sexual assault implications, grooming references, and taboo subject matter
• Substance abuse, intoxication, and reckless behavior
• Misogynistic, misanthropic, and intentionally offensive language
• Mockumentary-style parody of real public figures and scandals
• Mental health crises, dissociation, obsession, and rumination
• Dark comedy involving bodily functions, disability, and death
• Religious doubt, loss of faith, and spiritual emptiness

The album juxtaposes sincerity with provocation, often shifting abruptly from vulnerability to vulgarity, and from humor to despair. Certain tracks may be triggering for survivors of abuse, violence, or mental health struggles.

This work is intended for mature audiences only. Listener discretion is strongly advised, particularly for those sensitive to themes of self-harm, sexual violence, or graphic imagery.

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INHERENT ABSENCE
SET LIST TWENTY TWO (22)
1. Another Epic Poem
2. Stars and Strangers
3. Tony's Song
4. Kill the Seed
5. Key To Be Free
6. Perfect
7. Act Fasting
8. Groove Back II
9. Closure / Aftermath
10. My Fan Fiction
11. Daylight Savings
12. Diddy Mockumentary Parody
13. Lick My Toes Ho
14. Me and Tom Cruise
15. Reckless Girls
16. Love and My Hand
17. Wallflower Poop
18. RIP Charlie
19. When You're Hammered

(1) ANOTHER EPIC POEM
As the cameras flashed
Somehow I held everything back
Oh, how I was so ready to snap

Yet so caught up in the moment
I knew I could not show it
So I made it seem like I cherished it

As on the inside I'd lie
and try to hide
All of my rough, jagged edges
and my innermost blemishes

While on the outside I'd smile,
Shake hands and high five
The people as they filed
Up and down now
They're crowding around
both sides of the aisle

This was before your time
This was before your time
This was before your time

Back when you didn't know me
Back when I barely knew myself

This was before your time
This was before your time
This was before your time

Back when I was searching for
Safety in seclusion far away from someone else

But when I heard the magic of your words
As you sang I actually praised the lord!
And those of you who know me would all agree
That that's my own personal version of blasphemy…

Why did I believe in you?
Was it because I knew
You'd come to believe in me, too… 
Eventually…

Or was it because
before you came around
I found I was spiritually empty…
I was oh so empty…

Then suddenly, you appeared…dear
And here was this well
Ahh…Refreshing as hell
Just then your voice rang out
As clear as a bell,
"Drink up, drink up…
For we have more…
Yes, there's plenty!"

Since that day
I have NEVER lost my faith

My faith in me...
My faith in you...
My faith in our ability to adapt or escape...
To either leave or lead this human race!

(2) STARS AND STRANGERS
I've seen faces come and go
Like seasons in a small-town square.
Old men feeding birds,
mothers combing tangled hair.

You can tell a lot about a place
By who still waves when you drive by,
And who hides behind curtains
pretending they're not lurking as they hide.

There was a girl I met 
With a long silver medallion chain,
We held hands, shared a dream and
danced barefoot in the rain.

She said even if the world is mostly pain,
Why not strut our stuff and do our thang?

I wrote her name in dust upon my dashboard,
And then we drove until the letters disappeared.
Take heed of the warning
Things in your rear view mirror
 may actually be closer than they appear...

We woke up to a radio preacher
Saying time is running thin,
But the clock on my wall don't scare me now
Like it once did back then.

I've been building little fires
To light my way back home
Finally stoking embers
Feeling renewed in their warm glow.

There was a note taped to my mirror —
Saying: "Don't you dare forget who you are!"
I kept on reading until the rain ran down the ink,
Navigating distance only by the stars.

Now I'm older than I ever planned to be,
Still searching for the knowledge that can set us free.
The road is cracked, the signs are bending,
But the engine hums its familiar, steady key.

Maybe all this wandering is just rehearsal for the end,
A way of making peace with having to start again.
If love is its own language coming through in waves
I await the warm embrace I'm ready to be washed away!

The moon hangs low above the pines tonight,
A white yellow round against canvas black blends
If she's listening, tell her I still write, I will write...
And some day I'll return with what I lost back then…

(3) TONY'S SONG
I said weasel, let's talk
About our favorite three letters (USA)

As free men, we walk
But only if they let us (yeah, yeah)

Down the road we go
Knowing well some of us won't return… (no)

Yeah, another thing we know
We've been watching this slow, slow burn… (slow)

We're burning, burning,
watching our dreams go up in flames,
Looking for a reason not to treason,
but the reason never came.
Caught between the future and the mess we're in today
Trying to get in, get out,
trying to get it before it gets away…

The fire keeps getting hotter
But now I got a daughter
It's up to me to teach her what she learns

Yeah, I've got to find a way to cope
When I know I'm losing hope
And I'm gonna hit that point of no return!

We're burning, burning,
watching our dreams go up in flames,
Looking for a reason not to treason,
but the reason never came.
Caught between the future and the mess we're in today
Trying to get in, get out, get it and make our getaway…

There's about a million people in the world
Who are better than all the rest
To have any more than that
Is really superfluous

So with that in mind
What is my purpose?
To be the Luigi
In Mario's World?

Should I strive to save a princess
Or die trying to flip the turtles?
Maybe find the king of the castle
And shake up every piece on the board
Be a twentieth-century Robin Hood
Send someone bad back to the Lord!

We're burning, burning,
watching our dreams go up in flames,
Looking for a reason not to treason,
but the reason never came.
Caught between the future and the mess we're in today
Trying to get in, get out,
and live to see the light of next day…

I finally watched The Sopranos
Two decades after it aired
Whatever happened to Keanu Reeves?
That kinda guy has all but disappeared...

I've got a troubled mind
During these troubled times
Yeah, you say you're one in a million –
And I say there's over eight-thousand of your kind! Yeah

We're burning, burning,
watching our dreams go up in flames,
Looking for a reason not to treason,
but the reason never came.
Caught between the future and the mess we're in today
Trying to get in, get out,
maybe be heard when we got something to say…

Trying to get in, get out,
trying to get it before it gets away…
Trying to get in, get out, t
rying to get it before it gets away…
Trying to get in , get out,
 trying to_______________________
Trying to get in, get out,
 trying to _______________________

My Great Godfather always wanted to die early
Just so he said he would look good at the wake
He's ninety-eight and counting....
Doctor says he's doing great

(4) KILL THE SEED
Don't go in the ocean
Don't you dare try to fly in the sky
There are sharks beneath the dark water
Above fucking glowing drones that fly

There's bugs in all our devices
And roaches in the pot, yes
Messages that are subliminal 
Are now entering our heads!

A death sentence is now thirty paragraphs
We all signed but didn't read, no….
Technology is bringing us backwards
Save the chaff and kill the seed

A crazy man wanting to to Mars
When I just want to go to California

(5) KEY TO BE FREE
Why do so many believe
That insanity
Is the key to be free?

I see zombies frozen asleep
On the sides of the street!

(6) PERFECT
Eyes are watching but they don't see me
While all the tragic people long to be me
Don't know why that is
Don't wanna play into the hysteria

That's why I always try to break free
Believing there's another way to live 
Than what they're telling ya…

Am I among the few?
Many would have you believe so
What does your neighbor say?
Why don't you go knock on his door?
Alas, he moved real far away long ago

Set out searching though he declined to define
What he'd be looking for…
Just said he'd know it when he sees it
In his bestest version of broken English

Funny how I've grown to understand it
And even come to speak it
You say screw it
I'll just do it
Doesn't have to be the perfect plan

Start by doing
Gets things moving
If you wanna get into the
Or outtava jam!

You just say screw it...
I'll just do it!

For there ain't no perfect plan, man…
For there ain't no perfect plan, woman…
For there ain't no perfect plan,
My child…

(7) ACT FASTING
Buridan's Ass...
Buridan's Ass…

I know I've become unstable because
Lately I've been feeling trapped

Buridan's Ass...
Buridan's Ass…

I look both ways
And still here I'm at...
With all this open field
And all these things I feel
And yet no clear path

Buridan's Ass...
Buridan's Ass…

He died right here from indecision
Left his bones to act as our map

Buridan's Ass...
Buridan's Ass…

When you're empty, hungry and thirsty
Sometimes the secret
is just knowing when to act!

Buridan's Ass...
Buridan's Ass…

You could learn a lot from a donkey
If you just know the right questions to ask…

Buridan's Ass...
Buridan's Ass…

(8) GROOVE BACK II
I don't wanna know about my heroes...
The same way I don't wanna know if my doctor drinks
Being who you are has gotten you this far
But you've stalled and hit a wall
My guy… what are you doing to yourself?
Didn't you used to be someone else?

I'm trying to get my groove back
(Groove back)
And prove that
(Prove that)
The haters were wrong
I'm trying to write a new refrain
where I show restraint
and not lose from where I came
you know
same old shit, same old song!

(9) CLOSURE / AFTERMATH
Well, we're way past the Fourth of July...
And I'm sinking fast by the riverside

I see my possessions out on the block
Everything I worked so hard for will be gone
And I'll be left here holding on
But I can't stay here
So I'll be moving on….
Moving on…
I'll be moving on...

You could call it a midlife crisis
I keep giving in to my vices
But the thing is
It's been like this since I was sixteen
It never stops, sometimes it slows then gets real mean!
Grows and grows… grows and grows...

Some are calling it a midlife crisis
Why I keep giving in to my vices
While avoiding all the people
who knew me back in the day
Because if they saw what I've been doing
I know what they would say
My life is in ruins
Since I came back from abroad
I was broken from her powers
And yeah, I fucking lost God! Yeah

See, she made me hate my past
It was all a landslide after that
I did everything little she asked
Now you'll have to bask in the aftermath…

I just bought a gun and you know why…
That fucking cunt is gonna die!
A whole bunch of bullets by my side
Just the latest murder suicide

You watched her take her first breath
I watched her take her last
Now we're both left with the side effects
of actions that can't be taken back

The family is still craving the familiar
while strangers mill over the peculiar
How could one kill with such composure
That's why you see me here seeking closure

To a door, a cell, a tomb
God grant me the strength
to go on, to yell, to cry somehow
It is time

I'm a prisoner of my brain
A victim of biology
Slowly driven insane
By a hollow graphic society

I let a wrong turn
define my path
Now you're left dealing
with the aftermath

I felt like life
had kicked my ass
What I've done
I can't take back...
We can't take back…

And since sociopaths are bad with names
To you my kind it might sound strange
Yeah, all you're gonna do is fan the flames
It's just gonna be another attempt in vain
We both know things aren't gonna change
Feels like I'm screaming
into a hurricane-cane-cane-ane-ane-ane………

(10) MY FAN FICTION
She was more than a world away
Yet this dream I could not shake
Taking up the best time she had
Shouldn't have done that now looking back

Sometimes you can end the world
With just your good intentions
I needed more than refinement
I needed reinvention

Always driven by passion
Maybe more an addiction?
Why not self-improvement I'm now asking
I was trying to make fact this fan fiction, yeah!

I tried to find the perfect girl
Inside of this imperfect world
As I sit and trace my greatest mistakes
My last decade alone - give or take

I Lost a girl i never had
On two planes I had to come back
I was more numb than I was sad
Crawling back home to my two cats 

I been trying to hide from my mind...
but there's no escape
I been thinking about the one that got away... 
every single Fucking day

When I lied to myself 
I used to actually believe
But now I stopped playing pretend, 
hell, nah, I don't even dream

Lost from the here and now
Now she's two worlds away
To that other side
Over in that better place…

(11) DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
I drive by school bus stops...
Quite a lot
To see who leaves their kid
Alone in the dark.

Daylight Savings Time,
It could cover up a crime

I drive by school bus stops quite a lot 
To see who leaves their kid alone in the dark.
Daylight savings time, it could be a crime.

I drive by school bus stops quite a lot
To see who leaves their kid alone in the morning.

Daylight savings time, it could be a crime.
Take it from me, let this be your warning.

Take it from me, it's your warning. 
Take this from me as your warning.
Take this from me as your warning

I drive by school bus stops quite a lot…

(12) DIDDY MOCUMENTARY PARODY
Voiceover: According to the 50 Cent doc,
Diddy hired 8 lawyers at his trial for multiple
millions of dollars…
 We right here?
We gonna defend him for FREE!!!
Diddy had great taste in clothes, and bows and hoes
 — fa sho!
And maybe he had a darker side the public didn't know

But hey, any man can kill a rap god or two —
But to get off Dred Scott free
with all that blood on your shoes!!!
That's something only a true pro can do…
Benjamin Netanyahu…
I'm lookin' at you!
And you too, Georgie Bush Two!

It was Cassie, not P, who gave you that STD
So classy is she, to not disclose….
Well she'll be spend that Diddy money
When she's being deposed, exposed,
You know these hoes!!! Can't keep their legs closed….

(13) LICK MY TOES HO
Those lick my toes hoes blow more than ya nose…
Those lick my toes hoes blow more than ya nose...

She was a belly down pound town lick my toe ho!
The kind that you find by the side of the road, yo
That crystal is lit goes right up her nose, ho
Yeah, give that bitch an inch and she never let go, no!

There's a felon in the house
Second time around
You can say she's got a type 
No, they don't stick around

And mommy's little girl
On the menu tonight
Better not fall asleep...
Best to put up a fight...

Those lick my toes hoes blow more than ya nose…
Those lick my toes hoes blow more than ya nose...

Be lining up the bros in rows and rows 
With toxic cocks exposed 
that gonna show and grow
And grow and grow and grow and grow 
and grow and explode! 
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

She was a belly down pound town lick my toe ho!
The kind inclined to give you all a go 
if y'all got enough dough
She'll go down slow
and be gettin' low, low, low, low, low
She be getting' low!

(14) ME AND TOM CRUISE
Bitch don't even know my first name
Still gave her the dick quick just the same
There's a few guys who get to fuck
anyone that they choose:
Like Denzel, Collin Jost, Brad Pitt, Me and Tom Cruise, yeah

Then you got those nerdy guys who all had to get rich
To have any luck with the chicks with those little dicks! Eww!!!!
Gates, Bezos and Zuck and that Father Fucking Musk
All sat at the loser table together at lunch

Mad plotting against the world openly wishing me dead
So all the good things I had they could have instead 
A quarter century later it's all crumbling down
Now they rule the world they're making leaving town

(15) RECKLESS GIRLS
Nailing girls who are reckless.
Something always on my checklist, yeah.

I'll cum you a whole pearl necklace.
I'll cum you a whore pearl necklace.
I'll cum you a whole pearl necklace.
I'll cum you a whore pearl necklace!

Fuck them sluts and cucks!
Fuck them sluts and cucks!
Fuck them sluts and cucks!

I taught your wife jujitsu… Who knew?
I taught your wife jujitsu.
Who knew, who knew?

I taught you wife Jujitsu, who knew?

When chasing after her 
still holding my broom, 
how does she get out
of my Diddy room?

Went chasing after her
while still holding my broom…
How did she get out of my Diddy room?

Straight head first 
down the slip and slide.
With all that baby oil, she glides and glides
and glides and glides and glides and glides 
and glides and glides and glides and glides 
and glides!
She glides.

When chasing after her 
still holding my my broom, 
how does she break out of my Diddy room?

Head first, straight straight head first 
down the slip and slide 
with all that baby oil.
She glides and glides and glides and glides and glides.
She glides, 

Escaped her chain
She's now free to roam
This is like some pornographic version 
of Home Alone...

Looking up and down 
and searching everywhere 
when I finally found a trail 
of shaven pubic hair.

Lucky for me, 
I'm gonna follow this clue, 
and I'm gonna follow this trail to happiness
that's gonna lead me to you…

I'm gonna lick your clit 
and twist your tits 
and then come in your ass 
so we don't have no kids.

Now you're gonna fit me 
like a broken-in glove 
straight in your rectum 
are going all of the above:

My left testicle and tongue 
And my penis head, chin and thumb
Followed by my big toe.
And what comes next?
Oh, wouldn't you like to know!!!!

It could be over fast.
It could be over quick.
It could make you smile 
or be some sadistic shit. Yeah!

(16) LOVE AND MY HAND
I met a girl with a nub 
at the poet's club
Looked into her blue eyes
As I put both my hands on her thighs...
Knowing she could only push one away
I knew that love and my hand were here to stay
Love and my hand...
Love and my hand...
Loving my hand...

Now after some lovin
We got a bun in the oven
All of a sudden
We got another little nubbin
Another little nub...
Another little nub...
Love a little nub...

Yeah I love to eat cake
So I keep on baking
But I keep having kids 
Whose hands are taken

Love and my hand
Another little nub
I'll have you understand
You both can share a pair of gloves, yeah, alright...

(NOTE:The Premise is I keep having kids
 whose hands are missing.
We all do one-handed activities but I
 secretly wish to do two handed activities)

(17) WALLFLOWER POOP
Gonna take a poop in the night...
Hope it's gonna flush right

Doesn't matter who clogged the bowl
You got a wide asshole

Tried to free it up...
But now the plunger's stuck
Yeah, now you really fucked up!

But now its doesn't matter who did what
Amidst this… now toxic flood!

One, two, three swipes... a poop knife
Shit drips splattered 'neath the seat
Somebody gonna have to clean up

You hope nobody sees you make your great escape
Oh FUCK SHIT it's too late!

Try to come up with a story they can understand
When you notice your hand….

Looks like ya forgot to wipe!
This night didn't go as you had planned.

(18) RIP CHARLIE
I've been waiting for Charlie Sheen to die
For thirty years since nineteen ninety-five
September twentieth-eighth around ten o' nine
Caught! My mom and Charlie having a good time!

Just a young lad, maybe ten years old
My mom was all I had — to have and hold
Couldn't find the cream I had a rash…
Opened mom's door… A big black dildo in Charlie's ass! 

That's when my life got turned upside down.
The night Charlie come over with Mr. Brown!

Now I never met anyone famous before
Except for Gary Busey outside a liquor store
But, nah I wasn't thinking I want an autograph
I want a baby brother so my mom can take half!
Or one-third of one-half because the two ex-wives, 
child support….

(NOTE: I end up catching mom and Charlie
each putting dildos in their asses
in the bedroom and I end up growing up fucked up
and I've traced it back to this moment in time.
Still waiting for Charlie to die! Haha.)

(19) WHEN YOU'RE HAMMERED
Can I have my car keys, please?
I wanna go hit some trees...
'Cause I'm hammered!

One text or call 
could ruin it all...
When you're hammered!

Yeah, that fine, fine sister
Turns out to be a mister...
When you're hammered!

You were too busy eating
To notice you were bleeding...
'Cause you were hammered!

You just HAD to touch her chest 
But that's a felony arrest...
Because you were hammered!

You just peed your pants warm
Like a tropical storm...
Yeah, you were hammered!

In jail you spent the night 
When that cop you wanted to fight...
'Cause you were hammered!

Your girlfriend slapped you in the face
The two of you got sprayed with mace...
Because you were both hammered!

If my life was a movie
I'd have died up on that silver screen

I swear I'm the luckiest man alive
Let me tell you son, what I've seen

Can I have my car keys, please?
I wanna go hit some trees...
'Cause I'm hammered!

Good Night!
Tip the waitstaff!!!!!

INHERENT ABSENCE
SET LIST TWENTY-TWO (22)
These songs navigate the absurd, the profane, and the painfully sincere—often within the same verse.
This collection explores the void left by lost connections, missed opportunities, and the spaces between who we are and who we hoped to become. 
From surreal encounters with fame to the wreckage of relationships, from absurdist humor to moments of startling vulnerability, this list refuses to look away from life's inherent emptiness. It asks what fills the space when love, meaning, and coherence fade—and whether we're brave enough to sit with the answer.
Absurdist Humor, Lost Connections, Existential Emptiness, The Space Between
(1) Another Epic Poem
(2) Stars and Strangers
(3) Tony's Song
(4) Kill the Seed
(5) Key To Be Free
(6) Perfect
(7) Act Fasting
(8) Groove Back II
(9) Closure / Aftermath
(10) My Fan Fiction
(11) Daylight Savings
(12) Diddy Mockumentary Parody
(13) Lick My Toes Ho
(14) Me and Tom Cruise
(15) Reckless Girls
(16) Love and My Hand
(17) Wallflower Poop
(18) RIP Charlie
(19) When You're Hammered

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Set List 22 — Inherent Absence

Lead Rating: X

Total Points: 52

Strategic Arc: Murder-suicide fantasy, sometimes predatory in nature, pornographic intent. X heavy.

 ⚠️ Trigger Warning: Depression, suicidal ideation, murder-suicide language, violent fantasy, gun violence, explicit sexual content, substance abuse, misogyny, religious satire, mental health crises.

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Musician/Artist

Four-Word Summary

1
Another Epic Poem
PG-13
public mask private fracture

2
Stars and Strangers
PG
roads traveled connections fading

3
Tony's Song
PG-13
war pressure fatherhood looming

4
Kill the Seed
PG-13
tech paranoia control rising

5
Key To Be Free
PG-13
madness mistaken for freedom

6
Perfect
PG-13
action chosen over perfection

7
Act Fasting
PG-13
indecision leads to death

8
Groove Back II
PG-13
fallen fame seeks return

9
Closure / Aftermath
NC-17
violence guilt mental collapse

10
My Fan Fiction
PG-13
imagined love replaces reality

11
Daylight Savings
NC-17
predatory thoughts in daylight

12
Diddy Mockumentary Parody
NC-17
fame scandal satire exposed

13
Lick My Toes Ho
X
sex drugs total degradation

14
Me and Tom Cruise
PG-13
delusion fueled by fame

15
Reckless Girls
X
sex obsession chaotic pursuit

16
Love and My Hand
X
absurd love physical limitation

17
Wallflower Poop
PG-13
bathroom disaster public humiliation

18
RIP Charlie
NC-17
childhood trauma warped fixation

19
When You're Hammered
PG-13
drunk chaos consequences spiral

Collection Summary:
 An album containing emotionally intense, explicit, and potentially distressing material — juxtaposing sincerity with provocation, vulnerability with vulgarity, humor with despair. Intended for mature audiences only.

Artist Comparison:
 Lou Reed, Marilyn Manson, Nick Cave

Key Themes:
 Depression, suicide ideation, explicit sexuality, dark satire, mental health crises, shock content

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ZIONATION

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This album contains politically charged, emotionally provocative, and culturally transgressive material. The lyrics make frequent use of satire, shock value, and dark irony to critique institutions, power structures, and societal contradictions. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Please be advised that this album includes explicit references to:
Government corruption, surveillance, and political conspiracy
Zionism, antisemitism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Racism, class warfare, and police brutality
War profiteering, military propaganda, and genocide
False flags, mass deception, and historical revisionism
Gender politics, media manipulation, and identity crises
Drug use, suicide ideation, religious satire, and state violence
Historical and contemporary references to JFK, CIA, Mossad, 9/11, and Epstein
Oblique and direct criticism of both liberal and conservative political figures
Global elitism, corporatocracy, and alleged foreign interference in domestic policy
Apocalyptic metaphors and intense expressions of existential despair

This album is an artistic work of social commentary, employing exaggerated rhetoric and controversial imagery to interrogate the present-day geopolitical landscape. Some tracks may be interpreted as offensive, inflammatory, or triggering depending on personal beliefs and lived experience.

ZIONATION is not suitable for children, nor for those seeking sanitized or politically neutral content.
By continuing, you affirm that you are of legal age and prepared to encounter material designed to disturb, confront, and provoke.

ONE LAST THOUGHT IN THE AUTHOR'S OWN WORDS… Tolerent people of the Jewish faith are not a problem to anybody. The state of Israel warmongering on the world stage with blatent disregard for the lives of babies, children, animals, civilians and even friggin' houseplants is a serious fucking problem. A president who has been infiltrated by foreign agents is not serving the will of the citizens of the United States of America and needs to be removed IMMEDIATELY. Democrats, it's been 60 years since you put out somebody worth voting for, sad face emoji….

ZIONATION
SET LIST 23
(1) KAYFABE
(2) NOBLE PLACE HATE
(3) BRIBE THE POOR BLACKMAIL THE RICH
(4) BEFORE NOAH
(5) STRAWMAN
(6) SUN, MOON AND TRUTH
(7) KEEPING COOL
(8) UNBENDABLE SOLDIERS
(9) DON'T SHOOT
(10) CATCH A STRAY
(11) ONE STEP HIGHER
(12) CONTACTS
(13) FIND THE
(14) SOME WILL SAY
(15) POINT MY FINGER

(1) KAYFABE
Well I don't have kids I have a cat
The world isn't round and it isn't flat
It's titled, it's warped and crooked as hell
Manufacturing isn't gone… It's you who they sell!

Politics is just kayfabe on T.V.
Where it's all one big show – a show for me!
They give me a vote
Choice A or choice B
But the difference 'tween 'em both
Can be hard to see

I asked for change
And what'd they say?
So didn't Charlie Kirk
And JFK….

i see cameras on the polls
i think donald trump knows
who's on the epstein files
all his friends are pedophiles

Slick Willy Bill the same
yeah, politics is just a game

Landmines and trampolines
and not much in between.

(2) NOBLE PLACE HATE
I pretend my hate comes from a noble place
I'll kill you in the name of YOUR religion!
I'm going to war?
What are we fighting for?
I'll pretend it was my own decision, Yeah!

I pay taxes for schools 
and tolls for roads
They give my money to the Jews
For what? God knows

You got drafted by coach Zelensky
When you don't wanna play
For a QB who throws hospital passes
All your teammates get carried away!

Who else do we give money to
To fight foreign wars?
Whuddya think the book 'Blowback'
By Chalmers Johnson is for??? Yeah!

Gift it don't burn it
Or you will have to relearn it
History is calling
More buildings will be falling….

(3) BRIBE THE POOR BLACKMAIL THE RICH
Bribe the poor, blackmail the rich
Then the world is yours to do with it
As you wish…

The bravest are the first to die
That's why I'm standing here
And that's no lie

You don't have to procreate to save the race
Only kill at will to free up some space
Is your species driving you mad?
'Cause chillun' having chillun' is the latest fad

A view of heaven
from a seat in hell…

Fuck the chip I got a boulder on my shoulder!
I got tossed in this melting pot
And placed under a slow boil

Hands up don't shoot
Hands up, don't shoot!
I can't breathe
When the blacks can't breathe
There can be no peace
We've got to plant the seed of equality

When being black's a crime
There can be no more denying
Out in the street
Police gotta face the heat
If you're silent
That's compliance
And just as bad as violence, yeah!

We got blacks who can't breathe
And we got whites in the streets
Yelling "Fuck the Police!"

The police chief perspires
As his precinct's on fire

The line's been drawn in the sand
Here we stand against the man
I look at you…
You look at me...
This is twenty-first century slavery!

(4) BEFORE NOAH
We've got a runner!
In a land full of hiders
Who have yet to discover
They're cannon fodder for the insiders

Uh Oh! The last guy who said that got shot
But the guy before him became a movie star

Few know it was Moses who built the arc
Before Noah came and stole it and rode it
And then stripped it for parts…

(5) STRAWMAN
Well the left wants to keep you from saying things
While the right wants to keep you from thinking things
But this state of hopeless doom keeps me from doing things

I just stay in my room with no sense of being
Blinded through my own lack of seeing 
Encased in a tomb with no chance of freeing
Myself from myself
So I fill up with hate...

Pick a straw man to hang
And go about my day

(6) SUN, MOON AND TRUTH
The sun, the moon and the truth...
Everything else is up for sale
You want further proof…
United States and Israel, yeah
The United States and Israel, yeah
The United Stats of Israel, no!

Bunch of Zionist Jews
Keep on buying my news
Tic Toc, too
Because you gotta buy your views

When everyone under twenty-five
Knows they've seen a genocide

You pay seven grand a pop
To get influencers to stop
The tidal wave of truth
That's been rolling in

Put Bari Weiss in charge
Bring the new regime in…

(7) KEEPING COOL
How much longer until the button is pressed
Lately leaders have been losing trust
Days, months, or years — it's anyone's guess
How long we got left until before a cloud of dust?

We all shake our heads and we disagree
Is there such a thing as honor among thieves?

Or are they all just biding their time?
'Til they get us all up on the firing line

You know I've been growing mighty tired
Saying, "I voted for the guy who lied"

Wishing to return to the days of yore
When liars' heads rolled on the courtyard floor

And revolution ran red with rivers of blood
Repercussions were faced for dragging
someone's name through the mud
Yeah, back when someone talked smack
You weren't getting up!

(8) UNBENDABLE SOLDIERS
Unbendable soldiers never
look over their shoulders
For no one ever told them
that the goddamn war was over

Their ankles still shackled
to the same old giant boulder
The earth is only considered
to be just a temporary holder

People just dangle as
they're being carried away
Men in nice suits place
another name inside a heavy folder

So sorry Mrs. Bojangles… just be glad
you're not the one who told her
You could try and you could try
but you could never console her

As the wind blowing in your face
just became a little more colder
And you would mold her and him again
if they were both made of clay

(9) DON'T SHOOT
A Muslim and a Jew
alone in a room,
Don't shoot.

Dude, a Muslim and a Jew
are alone in a room,
Don't shoot.

Yeah, Moscow or Ukraine,
you're pretty much the same.
99% the same,
Don't shoot! Yeah.

Moscow or Ukraine,
you're 99% the same,
Don't shoot!

(10) CATCH A STRAY
Don't tell me to stay. 
You see me leaving. 
You have a good day. 
We're fucking even.

Don't tell me to stay. 
You see me leaving. 
You have a good day. 
We're fucking even.

These games I don't play. 
All this deceiving. 
You have a good day. 
You see me leaving.

It's just me and the cat. 
I don't trust anyone else. 
Yeah, you drove me to that. 
That would be an improvement. 
Hating myself…

NOT hanging myself! 
(These pictures of Jeffery - 
They didn't hang themselves!)

It's just me and the cat, 
everyone else chose the gun. 
And learning Hebrew, 
I admit it's not that fun.

With a lak shak lak hum, haiyam, 
and shit like that. 
And I can hide my bald spot 
with that little hat, yeah.

Better not tell
might catch a stray.
Oh, you might get Charlie Kirk'ed
Or you might get JFK'ed….

I'm gonna be like Obama,
and there won't be no cause for a llama.
I'm gonna be like Donald J
and do everything that the Adelsons say.

Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Do everything that the Adelson say!
Hey.
Hey.
Yeah.

I turned on CBS
and then I turned it off.
I turned on MSNBC
Grabbed my balls and coughed.

Oh, shit.
They just bought TikTok.
You might catch stray.
Better not talk.

We have more in common 
Than complicity in bombing 
All the starving unpeople 
Suffering in the desert sand, yeah!

It's gone too far south 
To vote our way out 
Don't have to be 
A Kennedy to understand….

My inner dialogue is trapped in a box 
like a fucking mime, yeah. 
They keep telling me to believe 
But all I see is them robbing me 
Fucking blind, yeah!

It's not by accident 
the North hates the South, yeah. 
Slay the whip master, no matter 
This engine runs by itself!

Democrats love all strangers,
just not uncle or brother.
Republicans only love God,
No, they don't like each other!

The last president who told the truth,
his initials are now a verb.
Killed by his own CIA and probably the Jews,

Yeah. Israel first, America second,
But it could be worse.
Fake views, no, fake news.
Fake views, yeah, fake fucking everything.
Something, something, something, 
so they can take everything, yeah.

All our leaders are bought and paid for 
by the state of Israel. 
They said if you want a record deal, 
then you better not tell.

Better not tell 
might catch a stray. 
Better not tell 
might catch a stray.

You wanna put a man on the moon… 
I wanna put a man in a room! 
Everybody's throwing money up in the ai-air…. 
No need to wonder why it's such a mess down here!

It's a river of shit at the top and
and can't see any other options 
How can anyone stop it? 
Making Israel Great Again…
Then everyone can go fucking move there...

Isn't that the fucking plan? 
Kill any everything that ends in -stan! 
Yeah Bibi, when he sees me 
He calls ME the fucking man!

Now I'm off to bomb Iran….
Iranians, Gazans, Palestinians and the Lebanese, 
Getting Nagasakied like they're
God-damned Japanese!

Yemenis, Syrians, Iraqis, Pakistanis, Algerians,
Libyans, and don't forget the Sudanese
The lastest American weapons
will help to bring you to your knees!

Tunisians, Qataris, Kuwaitis, Saudis,
Jordanians, Egyptians and the Turks,
Gonna bomb you too, you bunch of jerks!

Malaysians, Indonesians, Somalis, Mauritanians,
Comorians, Djiboutians, Bahrainis, Emiratis,
Moroccans, Afghans, and whatever you call
the vermin from the Bangladesh…
You will all die too if we have any bombs left!!!!

(11) ONE STEP HIGHER
The mask they wear is falling
Can you hear them calling?
Mother, I am dying
I pay this price for lying

The man building the bombs
His time it has come!
Those who just turned away
Await the very same fate

Two-hundred-and-fifty-years
That's how long it took for us to get here
That's a long time to rust and erode
Grow weeds around the seeds we once sewed, yeah

The identity we used to be
I see falling down all around me
For today I can't really say if I'm sure
If we're really the good guys anymore...

Seems like ever since the end of World War Two
Most of what our leaders do leaves me confused
At the candidate's debate I wait — "Oh, please do tell!"
How'd we become the United States of Israel?

Who's got the dirt on who?
Why they lie about what I know to be true?
AIPAC of lies, Senate and Congress says
Sure, Donald Trump turned his head...
But Charlie Kirk got shot dead!

Zionist Jews bought the news
Since the times of our Lord
They'll label you an anti-Semite
So nobody says a word!

From a Holocaust victim...
To Gaza Strip genocide
Eighty years is all it takes
To go over to the other side

When you live-stream death twenty-four hours a day
You'll watch a world of color quickly fade to gray
What? We pay 'em four billion dollars a year?
Just think what that money could do around here

I'm stuck, running in place
To get unfucked… gotta at least start the race
But that's hard — no, not the easiest choice

When they shame your name,
they hate your face
And despise your voice

When they shame my name, 
they hate my face
And despise my voice

When they shame their name, 
they create their fate
Leaving us no choice…

The last leader who had our back
We all watched his skull crack
On a Texas day in Dealey Plaza

From Vietnam to Lebanon to Iraq
to Grenada to the Gulf now modern-day Gaza

Sure, any country can have a good century
But the last eleven presidents
should all be in the penitentiary
Countries now hardly have borders
Just the so-called "elite"
and those who follow orders

Sure, the Sicilian mob is gone
But the CIA's five hundred times as strong
The sale of secrets, of souls,
of weapons and tech
Blackmail Rolodexed and videotapes
full of underaged sex

You think you're playing Monopoly
when you're playing Risk
You say you'll take your shot —
but the game's already been fixed…

Money talks…
Money walks...
Sticks and stones beat stocks and bonds
Tell me — what the fuck planet do you live on?

Raise the alarm, raise the gate
They're finally here to do harm — it's too late!

The last leader who had our back
You all watched his skull crack
On a Texas day in Dealey Plaza

From Vietnam to Lebanon to Iraq
to Grenada to the Gulf now modern-day Gaza

Sure, any country can have a good century
But the last eleven presidents
should all be in the penitentiary

Mmmmmm… you use fire as the cleanser
When you're not an owner, only a renter
Don't criticize the "Is" or you'll get censored
These days your pay raise looks like Gaza's center

These days are gray, sore on the eyes
All the president's men even got the women telling lies
The old are taking our world to their grave
While we turn our cheeks and say "Hey Zeus saves"

Now go in peace, while the good people sleep
There's an evil released — buried barely skin deep

That's the number one reason why
We don't have good things anymore
There are slaves who climb one step higher
Doing the bidding of their lords

(12) CONTACTS
Talking straight to crooked people...

Spend less on war
Make fewer enemies…

Instead of more, more, more!
War, war, war!

Either/or...
Buy, lend or lease

When the war came I was drafted number one
They didn't teach me how to fight
Or even give me a gun…

On my second day I dropped behind enemy lines
Somehow I made friends within a short amount of time

"I could either get 150 million people to like me
and I could be president —
or I could get 10 people to love me
and I could be happy.
I'm not sure I'm capable of doing both."

There's three briefcases full of cash
For a kidnapper and a politician!

If any questions get asked
You were just out there fishing…

Big game...
I like persons but not the masses
I got contacts, though I prefer glasses

(13) FIND THE
Find the beauty…It's past the hatred,
Past the fear and the scorn

Find the beauty…You've come early,
Never too late to be reborn

Find the wisdom…Gained from elders
Of countless centuries past

Find the wisdom…
In the knowledge time is wasting
And time is fading fast

Find the truth…Stripped of comfort,
Unmasked and unadorned

Find the truth…
That survives when ideologies collapse
And manufactured illusions are torn

(14) SOME WILL SAY
Some will say I wanna be a porno star
Some will say you'll be breaking the law
Some will say, some will say, some will say…

Some will say homicide
Some will say suicide
Some will say murder suicide, yeah….
Some will say, some will say, some will say…

Some will say that's fucking gay!
Some will say you made my fucking day!
Hooray hooray
Some will say, some will say, some will say…

Some will say you broke the mold
Some will say now give me back control
Some will say, some will say, some will say…

Some will say contain that rage
Some will say let it out of the cage
Some will say, some will say, some will say…

Some will say now let's celebrate!
Some will say best mind your fate
Some will say, some will say, some will say…

(15) POINT MY FINGER
Fatalistic fairytales
Never make the children smile
Little lads long to cling to hanging chads
and happy history teacher's made up facts
That make great heroes of mom and dads
Grandpa and grandmoms after-the-fact

Though they know war sucks when people die
Take a rake from a peasant from the countryside
Replace it with a bullet encased in metal homicide

No it's not nice… Crushing dreams
Run up behind a Frenchman… And yell "Guillotine!"
But watch out!
For he's bound to dish, dash, dart, and then scream
And that's when things will get REAL mean!

Humanity lacks sympathy
And we can never agree harmoniously
I point my finger violently at you
as you point back at me

I shake the sheeple
And unite the people
Who see the world like me
We don't like what we see
But we're divided there's no hiding
They constantly keep us fighting

Humanity lacks sympathy
And we can never agree harmoniously
I point my finger violently at you
as you point back at me

It's getting too easy to get distracted
Once upon a time
I might have over reacted
But today I take it as the truth
So I'm taking some time
To retreat and regroup

Knowing I'm in this
For the Huey Long haul
Sure I'll stand 'til I can't
But bend before I fall

For there is so much work
Ahead for me to do
I've learned how and when to say when
Because when you're me
You gotta do what you have to do
Just to be you

Class war ain't a battle
That is won in a day
It took thousands of years
For things to get to here
Millions of deaths
And billions of words
To brainwash the people
And hide and silence their hurt

I got a little work left on myself
To be the best I can be
But when I come back
I expect a hug when you see me walking the streets…

Humanity lacks sympathy
And we can never agree harmoniously
I point my finger violently at you
as you point back at me

It's not just the freaks
That sleep down at the beach
Lately I see
Lots of people like you and me

These are crazy times
If you read between the lines
You can find lots of uncovered crimes
Under your blanket in
What we call the New York Times

ZIONATION
SET LIST TWENTY-THREE (23)
United States / Israel relations critique & call out!!!
A firestorm of political fury, historical reckoning, and uncompromising critique.
 These songs trace the lines between power and propaganda, between what we're told and what we can no longer ignore. Drawing connections from ancient history to modern headlines, this collection is a rallying cry for those who've started to see through the veil and refuse to look away.
Political Dissent, Historical Cycles, Media Manipulation, Resistance & Awakening
(1) Kayfabe
(2) Noble Place Hate
(3) Bribe the Poor Blackmail the Rich
(4) Before Noah
(5) Sun, Moon and Truth
(6) Strawman
(7) Keeping Cool
(8) Unbendable Soldiers
(9) Don't Shoot
(10) Catch a Stray
(11) One Step Higher
(12) Contacts
(13) Find The
(14) Some Will Say
(15) Point My Finger

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Set List 23 — Zionation

Lead Rating: PG-13

Total Points: 28

Strategic Arc: Political conspiracy, antisemitic critique, state violence. Payload with NC-17 edges.

 ⚠️ Trigger Warning: Political conspiracy, antisemitism critique, racism, war profiteering, genocide, false flags, historical revisionism, state violence, religious satire.

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Musician/Artist

Four-Word Summary

1
Kayfabe
PG-13
Politics as wrestling performance

2
Noble Place Hate
PG-13
War, taxes, manipulated loyalty

3
Bribe the Poor Blackmail the Rich
PG-13
Inequality fuels systemic violence

4
Before Noah
PG-13
Biblical history reimagined ironically

5
Sun, Moon and Truth
NC-17
Media bought, truths hidden

6
Strawman
PG-13
Blame displaced, isolation persists

7
Keeping Cool
PG-13
Leadership failures provoke fear

8
Unbendable Soldiers
PG-13
Soldiers trapped, war ongoing

9
Don't Shoot
PG
Shared humanity, senseless violence

10
Catch a Stray
NC-17
Exposing Israel's covert operations

11
One Step Higher
NC-17
Israel's corruption and influence

12
Contacts
PG-13
Networking versus mass manipulation

13
Find the
PG
Seek truth beyond illusions

14
Some Will Say
PG-13
Judgment, rumor, public perception

15
Point My Finger
PG-13
Critique, responsibility, human conflict

Collection Summary:
 A politically charged, emotionally provocative set using satire, shock value, and dark irony to critique institutions, power structures, and societal contradictions. Listener discretion mandatory.

Artist Comparison:
 Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, Dead Kennedys

Key Themes:
 Political conspiracy, war profiteering, genocide critique, state violence, anti-imperialism

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This musical album contains overtly graphic and sexually explicit content intended strictly for adult audiences. Listeners are hereby warned that the following tracks explore themes including, but not limited to:
Bisexual and pansexual eroticism
Extreme sexual language and vivid descriptions of intercourse
Oral, anal, and group sex; reference to ejaculation and bodily fluids
Parody and satirical depictions of public figures and media personalities
Crude humor involving religion, politics, and mental illness
References to STIs, PrEP, PEP, and real-world medications
Descriptions of risky sexual behavior including anonymous sex and glory holes
Explicit portrayals of incest fantasy, sexual grooming, and age-inappropriate encounters
Highly offensive language, racial descriptors, slurs, and intentionally provocative statements
Death, violence, self-harm ideation, substance abuse, and revenge fantasies
Fetishization, transgressive acts, and defilement
Degrading, misogynistic, and misandrist statements framed as satire
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ALBUM THIRTY-FOUR (34)
1. Reading I Blow (Rainbow)
2. Slinging Lines
3. Alex Jones in a Rabbit Hole
4. Four Pills a Day
5. Draining Balls
6. Grindr Diaries
7. I've Been Slappin'
8. I M Bi Ride
9. Like an Angel
10. Three-Month Girl (Melanie Ann McCarthy)
11. You're a Whore, Mrs. Robinson
12. Risk Genes
13. Thinking Gets Risky
14. Chick Fillet
15. Why I Like Sex
16. Browser History

(1) READING I BLOW (RAINBOW)
I'm having a bisexual party,
I want everybody to come.

I think I might be bi...
I'm gonna go blow a guy...
Maybe three or even four
Look at me, I'm such a whore!

I will suck almost anyone...
Curved or straight
Small or hung
Both taste great!
Sooo much fun!

Black and brown I go right down
Yellow or white I won't bite!

Pants are down but dicks are up 
When I'm in town y'all erupt

(2) I'VE BEEN SLAPPIN
I've been slappin' crackers.
I've been blowin' actors.
I've been mappin' the city.
I've been feelin' pretty shitty.

I've been... I've been havin' the time of my life.
But I've been payin' the price.
I ain't thought once. I sure didn't think twice.

Ever since the day I first kissed a girl
I've been chucking lots of clams
Collecting up pearls
Diving deep for clams

Ever since the day I first kissed a girl
I've been diving deep for clams
And chucking out the pearls yeah
Forgetting who I am
And my place and my place
In this world

Ain't about no silly laugh
or wearing black 
Something, something, something
Can't be taken back, yeah

Cum in my mouth if you'll love me forever...
Cum in my eye if you won't!
Cum in my pussy if you want a family...
Cum in my ass if you don't!

(3) ALEX JONES IN A RABBIT HOLE
I found Alex Jones in a rabbit hole,
and I said hello my friend,
something, something, something,
and it's happening again, oh, yeah.

We're lying here in the gutter,
both looking at each other.

I take more than I give,
but I ain't no hypocrite, yeah.
I don't take anybody's shit,
but y'all gotta learn to live with it, yeah.

I take more than I give,
but I ain't no hypocrite, yeah.
I don't take anybody's shit,
but y'all gotta learn to live with it, yeah.

I take more than I give,
but I ain't no hypocrite, yeah.

I tell you I don't care what color your skin,
I don't give a damn what club you're in, no.

I take more than I give,
but I ain't no hypocrite, yeah.

I tell you I don't care what color your skin,
I don't give a damn, no.

I break for blue-haired lesbians,
I break for Antifa trans

I break for MAGA who got a big dick,
My bisexual, bipartisan plan!

(4) FOUR PILLS A DAY
Who's your favorite band?
Tommy and the Trans.
Who got a lot of fans?
Tommy and the Trans.

Tommy and the Trans….
Tommy and the Trans...
Tommy and the Trans…

I'm secretly straight
But I pretend to be gay
To fit in…

You want to know more
But I'm not really sure
Where to begin…

(Oh sorry, wrong show….)

In this orgy in the dark,
there's no telling who I'm screwing.
But let go of my ears,
I know what the hell I'm doing.

I like holes more than faces.
I like dicks more than first names.

Turn out all the lights
so we don't feel ashamed.
And that's alright with everyone who came.

I take four pills a day
Because I'm a slut… yeah!
One of those pill
Sidafidil… helps get it up… so I can fuck
Or erupt after I get sucked!

One pills saves the day
So I can't get AIDS

I would never do the touch your toes forbidden act 
with some cheek spread dancer that's a fact!
If I couldn't keep it hidden 
and not get gay cancer
Well how 'bout dat?

So I got three apps 
for draining my sap 
that's how I'm livin', yeah!

I take two pills after unprotected sex
Or getting neck along with the Prep
Called doxypep!

Take two of these and after this
Reduce the risk of syphilis,
chlamydia and gonorrhea
Cause I don't know where that cum dump been
And you don't NEITHER!!!!

(5) DRAINING BALLS
Drainin' balls, I'm drainin' balls,
Come one and all.
Drainin' balls, I'm drainin' balls,
Come one and all.
Drainin' balls,
You could put both hands on my balls,
Better that than a round of applause.

(6) GRINDR DIARIES
Every time I go on Grindr
to get a piece of tail,
Halfway through the rail
I have to bail

I got shit on my dick,
I got shit on my dick,
I got shit on my dick,
I got shit on my dick.

It's when I find a fine hine and I sit down to eat,
I spy something funky growing and I gotta leave.
That's worse than shit on my dick,
Worse than shit on my dick,
That's much worse than shit on my dick,
Oh, that's worse than shit on my dick.

I'm at the Morning Glory Bed and Breakfast, yeah
I think it's down on Harding Street.
Just when I find a fine hind and I sit down to eat,
I see something funky growing and I gotta leave

That's worse than shit on my dick, 
worse than shit on my dick,
That's much worse than shit on my dick, 
oh that's worse than shit on my dick.

(7) SLINGING LINES
I put it in and then pulled it out...
First it was her ass and then it was her mouth
Then I slipped it in the only hole she had left
With the grip, zip, tip, dip, zip then I fled, yeah 

I screamed out what the fuck is this?
No, I never signed up for no question mark kids!
I said damn you hit every branch on the fugly tree
Now get the fuck away from me!

I was born with the safety off
That's how I think, that's how I act
That's how I fuck, that's how I walk…

If you can read this 
Then the bitch fell off
Says the back of the shirt
As I ride my hog!

I got one in the pink and two in the stink
Took off my ring, washed my dick in the sink 
Gave her a wink as I told her my kinks…

And I'm ready to get sweaty with Betty.
Don't give a fuck what that cuck Barney thinks, no.

Got one in the pink and two in the stink
And I'm ready to get sweaty with Betty.
Don't give a damn what Barney thinks, no.

I walked in, lit up my smoke
Had a sip of Jack and Coke

To catch a pretty girl's eye
You know I ain't afraid to lie
I'm well known for slinging lines
to the women with the big behinds

No, it don't have to be the truth
so long as it gets me close to you
By the time you find that it's a fib
I'll have my hands around your hips

And by the time you start to get mad
I'll tell you that you weren't half bad
And now that we've played Adam and Eve
God told me it's time to leave

(8) I'M BI RIDE OR DIE
I'm bi ride or die
I'm bi ride or die
I'm bi ride or die

I'll suck the dick
I'll lick the clit
I'll do some fucking crazy shit

I'll squeeze them tits
I'll spread those cheeks
I'll do it days
I'll do it weeks

Oh yeah, spread those cheeks
I'll squeeze those tits
I'll drain those balls
swallow your kids

I got some gray eyebrows
I shave everything else
I fuck girls, suck guys
While you play with yourself

If there's a set of tits I'll find something to do
I might fist your sister while I'm sucking the goo
Keep trying to break my record four loads in a day
Tied it five times but could not break

I'm bi, ride or die.
I'm bi, ride.
Bi, ride or die.

I'll suck the dick,
I'll lick the clit,
I'll do some fucking crazy shit.

I'll squeeze them tits,
I'll spread those cheeks,
I'll do it days,
I'll do it weeks.

Oh, yeah, spread those cheeks,
I'll squeeze those tits,
I'll drain those balls,
Swallow all the kids.

I got some gray on my eyebrows,
Shave everything else.
I fuck girls, suck guys,
You're home playing with yourself.

If there's a set of tits, I'll find something to do.
I might fist your sister, one hand or two.
Keep trying to break my record, four loads in a day.
Tied it five times, but could not break.

I've had four threesomes,
that's like fucking twelve.
You still, still sit at home
playing with yourself.

(9) LIKE AN ANGEL
I'll take Caitlin on the court
And Angel on my bed...
Take off your uniform...
Trunk dunk, splish splash on my head.

I stuffed my stiff staff in her big ass so fast,
Gave me whiplash.

I stuffed my stiff staff in her big ass so fast, gave me whiplash.
I stuffed my stiff staff in her big ass so fast, gave us, gave us both whiplash.
I stuffed my stiff staff in her big young ass so fast, gave us both whiplash.

She's got the back
She stacked
Got a face i like an Angel
She's got the rack
She's racked
They perk never dangle!

You plump dumpling,
I'm gonna break you in half.
You plump dumpling,
I'm gonna break you in half.

What's white, pink, black and horny all over?
Us in the sack, okay now roll over...

You know the last time the drugs were laced,
You had a big stupid smile all up in your face.

I'm gonna squeeze the titties tonight
And break off a chunk of funk
And make you feel alright… Yeah!

Diddy got caught
but they never got Jay-Z.
While Kanye and Kyrie on a race,
To going crazy.
Crazy.

(10) THREE-MONTH GIRL
(MELANIE ANN MCCARTHY)
When you stick your dick in crazy... 
That very first time
It leaves you thinking maybe...
Everything will be fine…

Yeah, I'm sorry for what she did to ya...
Got the bitch on video
Giving ya chlamydia

She was a three-month girl
in a hundred year old world
and I told her this, she got angry, yeah.

When I told her this,
she got so pissed
I thought she was gonna hang me, yeah.

From a three-month girl
in our hundred year world,
You have saved me.

I swore last time
I'd never again
stick my dick in crazy, no.

I got my balls out of the vice
and I'm not going back there twice,
I'll never stick my dick again in crazy, no

When I was young, my momma told me
Not to trust anything that bleeds for a week and lives

I'm old enough to call you an angel
But smart enough to know you're a slut
I'm too tired to guess your angle
It's time to play, I'm glad enough
I'm pickin' my cards up off the table
Yeah, you finally called your bluff

I found myself in a fast car
With an even faster girl
Going around and around like a tilt o' whirl
And that bitch loves nuts like she's a squirrel, yeah!

I slammed a home run with Jill on the pill on a hill
And I'm thinking about fucking your ass, bitch….
And working my do-naked gymnastics
Maybe even hitting your sister
To come over to play naked strip-twister

I've felled thousands of trees
In the name of poetry
And dead will be one thousand more...
When I get through telling about you…..
You're an uncle-fucking whore!

Melanie Ann McCarthy….
Lives at six Willowbridge Lane
And Melanie Ann McCarthy…
Asks you to bring a few friends
So that you can run a train!

(11) YOU'RE A WHORE, MRS. ROBINSON
(in the style of the DOORS) 
I know your secret... 
You're a dirty little slut! 
And I know your weakness 
A finger in the butt!

I know your history 
As a girl you shouldn't trust 
God, it's a mystery 
Why we turn our back on love for lust?

Nothing could be finer 
Than a thumb in her vagina... 
In the morning

The last thing she was expecting 
Was my tongue inside her rectum... 
Without warning

I love the way she giggles. 
When I put it in the middle... 
And give it a little wiggle...

I love her jugs 
The way they jiggle!

She was slutty but willing 
My buddy asked are you still in ?
While I was debating she leaned in close 
And put her finger straight up my nose

She said said if you want to get me back 
Take off your clothes 
I'll let you choose 
Two out of the three of my holes…
You're a whore, Mrs. Robinson, 
Only God knows where that pussy's been, 
In, in, in, in… in, in, in!!!!

She took the dick down her throat 
And the coke up her nose. 
There's no need to say more 
She's just one of them hoes, yeah. 

She's getting sloshed and tossed like a salad 
from a local homosexual club, yeah. 
Two-hole fisted 
By her friends the paraplegics 
Who each plunge their stump and their nub.

Missing a tooth and hitting a vape 
That's the kind of girl I usually date 
Six tattoos and one screw loose 
Always fighting back because she loves the abuse

She said come and visit 
bring a friend or two 
I live on the corner 
of Oral and Anal Avenue

Come and visit 
Bring a friend or three 
Help me clean 
Because I'm so dirty

I love to watch you eat 
When you're sucking it so deep 
As soon as my balls are off your chin 
I want to put them back on again

It doesn't matter how long ago I cummed 
I get hard again when I lick your bum 
When you lick my bum 
When we lick bums

Bum bum bum bum 
Bum bum bum bum 
Bum bum bum bum

Who sticks their tongue in bum, bum, bum, bums?
Who sticks their big dick in bum, bum, bum, bums?
Who sticks their big thick dick
and thumb in bum, bum, bum, bums?
Bum, bum, bum bums

Who sticks their big thick dick and thumb and tongue in bum, bum, bum, bums?
I like to stick my big thick dick
and thumb and tongue in bum bum bum bums!!!
Bum, bum, bum bums

Who sticks their big thick dick
and thumb and tongue in bum, bum, bum, bums?
I like to stick my big thick dick
and thumb and tongue in bum bum bum bums!!!
Bum, bum, bum bums

When I saw your mother naked 
Well I wanted you even more!
Orgasms, you've never faked them… 
You're such a fucking whore!

(12) RISK GENES
I got that bad seed in my blood
Don't have kids because they'd be fucked up…
With risk genes running 
up and down the whole family tree
I'm not only fighting my environment 
I'm fighting me…

Fighting history
Fighting insanity 
It's no mystery
What a calamity

I only got one friend 
not gone or dead
I only got perverted thoughts 
inside my head

Because of my fears 
I'm still here
Yeah, check back 
in another year...

I take bus stop candy 
from strange old men
I like to visit the sauna
every now and again

Glory holes.... 
well glory be
Twinks, trans and hung 
My chosen trinity, Yeah!!!

Who am I?
I'm a shell of my former self
All because I can't control myself
I got things I can't live without

I used to have heroes...
Who have either died…
or otherwise moved on
I used to have heroes...
But those days…
of having heroes are gone

With risk genes running up and down 
the whole family tree
I'm not only fighting my environment – I'm fighting me

Fighting history, fighting insanity
I only got one friend not gone or dead
I only got perverted thoughts inside my head

Because of my fears I'm still here
Yeah, check back in another year...

When you stick your dick in crazy...
That very first time
It leaves you thinking maybe...
Everything will be fine…

Sometimes it may be
Oh, for a little while…

I haven't turned the radio on
Since the day you were gone
I'm afraid they'll play our song….

(13) THINKING GETS RISKY
I'm quadrupling my chances on this Friday night...
I've decided to fuck any and every thing in sight 
Be it woman or man, boy or girl, 
Someone's getting this nut like a mutha fuckin' squirrel!

That's why I don't drink
'Cause my thinking gets risky
Give me the pink AND the stink
When I'm drinking my whiskey!

If there's grass on the field
Well, I'm willing to play ball
And if you're looking to kneel
You know I'm down for it ALL!

Call up your whore friend who you said likes to puts out 
I'll fuck her fat ass while your dick's in my mouth!
We can each take turns and then all switch places
Get honey and cream all over our faces!

That's why I don't drink
'Cause my thinking gets risky
When I get all liquored up 
Yeah, start feeling frisky

Round homeless people up
Start drinking their pee
While the one with one with the stump
Gives a good pegging to me!

Yeah, pass me the bottle
And then pass me around
I've met lots of nice friends
In the meth part of town!

That's why I don't drink
'Cause my thinking gets risky
I'll spit on a hot girl cop 
Just to get a free frisky

My friends try to tell me
Seems I never listen
Just seem to end up 
With another F.W.B. from the prison…

(14) CHICK FILLET
Well I fingered your mom at a Chick Fillet
And I blew your dad after turning him gay
It took me ten years but it was worth my time
When I took the V-card from his behind!

I fucked your mom, your dad, your boyfriend too!
I'll fuck everyone you love just to fuck over you!
Won't you have a guess who's next on my list?
Will it be grandpa or grandma -
Who'll get a big wet kiss?

I'll teach your dog how to do new tricks
Then we'll both treat you like a bitch
Me and your dog will get real tight
Guess who's sleepin' in the dog house tonight?

(15) WHY I LIKE SEX
I asked my psychiatrist
Why I like sex so much. 
He said, when I was younger, 
I might have been touched!

In my weathered town
Down by the sea
Lived the man who molested me
Where he told me of his life
Of being a Catholic priest.

Sometimes the first one you see
is the only one you need, yeah.

She been giving head
since she was twelve years old.
Back of the school bus
Driver driving down the road, yeah.

By fourteen, she was the best in town.
Guys lining up from miles and miles around,

I groomed her to be my bride
When they asked how old she was, I lied.

She said you can eat my ass
I laughed I already had
Ask her dad
He caught me in the act
When she was bad

Passed out drunk
With the trunk hood up.
I had a lick
I couldn't resist.

Here comes dad,
oh boy was he mad.
He grabbed the axe.
He didn't laugh

So out I run
And I never looked back!
I never looked back

I've been saving all these raisins
Since they were little graaaaaaaaaapes…
Hey, hey, hey

Tiny minnows took their last dive
At least they know they gave their lives
Knowing they died to serve a porpoise

But holy mackerel
This fin is just for fun
This apparatus is for love

My flippers get their kicks
When our sonar clicks
Trick or treat from my bag of tricks, yeah!

What's the haul? The catch of the day?
Alright now…is it a sure bet…is she in the net?
Let's just get it out of the waaaaaaaaaay…..
What not to say!

(16) BROWSER HISTORY
Well, let's start with 
my browser history will make you horny.
I jack it off to Danielle Bregoli nearly every morning.
If I cash you outside,
you'll get the dick without a warning.
I need that ass and tits.
What happens after that, we'll live with it.

When Amy Whitehouse died, 
I needed a replacement.
While I'm wrapping my hands around her waist
She can sing about me coming on her face and shit.

Who's my boss, Alyssa Milano?
Definitely Mila Kunis
Yeah, that nose job girl from The Sopranos.

I won't reach out.
I'll sit and doubt myself.
I won't… I won't get help
I'll sit and doubt myself...
I'll sit and pout myself...
I'll sit and quit myself...
I'll sit and shit myself...
I won't reach out.
I'll sit and doubt myself.
I won't… I won't get help
I won't get help…
I'll sit and live in hell

There's no more faking
When you're so close to breaking.
Revealed what has been latent
When the final action's taken.

Revenge often tastes sweetest
When there's blood lust in your eyes, yeah.
The jury, we don't need them,
No, I won't be doing time, No!

A slug to the dome starts the show,
You smile wide when the blood flows.
You look to your left, there's victim number two,
Just pissed herself, she didn't know what to do…

It should be a crime
To be that fine,
It leaves a brother sighing
Looking at that big behind...
Big behind

BI RIDE OR DIE RIDE
SET LIST TWENTY-FOUR (24)
Bisexual Anthem that quickly goes off the rails acting as a warning to how some treacherous minds think.
Unfiltered, unapologetic, and utterly explicit—this collection leaves nothing to the imagination. Exploring bisexuality, hookup culture, and the messy reality of modern sexuality with humor, honesty, and absolutely no shame. These songs are for those who've lived it and those brave enough to listen.
Sexual Exploration, Bisexual Experience, Hookup Culture, No Holds Barred
(1) Reading I Blow (Rainbow)
(2) Slinging Lines
(3) Alex Jones in a Rabbit Hole
(4) Four Pills a Day
(5) Draining Balls
(6) Grindr Diaries
(7) I've Been Slappin'
(8) I M Bi Ride
(9) Like an Angel
(10) Three-Month Girl (Melanie Ann McCarthy)
(11) You're a Whore, Mrs. Robinson
(12) Risk Genes
(13) Thinking Gets Risky
(14) Chick Fillet
(15) Why I Like Sex
(16) Browser History

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Lead Rating: X

Total Points: 75

Strategic Arc: Pornographic intent. Hardcore edge. The final surprise.

 ⚠️ Trigger Warning: Overtly graphic and sexually explicit content, bisexual and pansexual eroticism, extreme sexual language, group sex, incest fantasy, sexual grooming, STIs, risky sexual behavior, degrading language, revenge fantasies.

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Song

Rating

Musician/Artist

Four-Word Summary

1
Reading I Blow
X
Bisexual party please come

2
I've Been Slappin
X
Diving deep for clams

3
Alex Jones in a Rabbit Hole
PG-13
Masturbating with Alex Jones

4
Four Pills a Day
X
better safe than sorry

5
Draining Balls
X
what's better than applause?

6
Grindr Diaries
X
S.O.M.D.

7
Slinging Lines
X
Tricking women with lies

8
I'm Bi Ride or Die
X
four words: bisexual anthem

9
Like an Angel
X
courting my angel

10
Three-Month Girl
X
doxing a crazy bitch

11
You're a Whore, Mrs. Robinson
X
she keeps getting it

12
Risk Genes
NC-17
Hereditary sexual deviance struggles

13
Thinking Gets Risky
X
preventing alcohol-fueled predation

14
Chick Fillet
X
revenge porn not quite

15
Why I Like Sex
X
Childhood trauma fuels behaviour

16
Browser History
NC-17
Deep web deep trouble

Collection Summary:
 The highest-point collection in the catalog (75 points) — an album of overtly graphic and sexually explicit content intended strictly for adult audiences. These lyrics intentionally challenge social, moral, and sexual norms, employing extreme vulgarity, irony, and hyperbole.

Artist Comparison:
 Stephen Lynch, Tenacious D, Eminem

Key Themes:
 Bisexual eroticism, explicit sex, fetishization, shock content, transgressive acts, parody and the possible degredation/corruption of minors

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