Wave after wave, and we’re falling apart
Paid every gain with a hope in my heart
The erupting
Never never force into nothing

On and on we save and we save
Save and we save
Sail in a cave
We sail where the wind is just taking
Us in circles of our own making

Wave after wave, and we’re falling apart
Paid every gain with a hope in my heart
The erupting
Never never force into nothing

Now I see the truest life
Is when I hold you near me
Dearly, you
Everything comes clear, it’s true
Embrace the lot that you
Done grew with dew from a catalyst

Wave after wave, and we’re falling apart
Paid every gain with a hope in my heart
The erupting
Never never force into nothing

On and on we save and we save
Save and we save
Sail in a cave
We sail where the wind is just taking
Us in circles of our own making

Listen to the song in your head
It’s the only thing you’ll have
When you are dead

Wave after wave, and we’re falling apart
Paid every gain with a hope in my heart
The erupting
Never never force into nothing

Never forced into
No one forced you
No one forced you
credits

Not Ants

SAIL IN A CAVE

This song was written as part of my #100songs project and is available for free download on my website www.faergolzia.com

Rubbing It In – © ⓟ 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Human in a bottle and I’m rubbin’ it up to pour a cup
I wanna take a pull and drink myself up, I pour a cup
Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in!

When I put a joke in, into the mental ether
I yolk the folk up and they giggle with their dental teeth
Rental cars for miles and miles
Emptying the pockets of the souls defiled
I’m ripping up the money
I’m ripping up the money
I’m ripping up the money even though my joke was funny
It made your eyes all runny and it tightened up your tummy
But I just can’t keep running like this
This isn’t bliss;  it’s like I missed the point when I rolled into the joint
To cover up the pain I could never seem to tame
But this is the time when my mind isn’t blind
And I’m finding out the kind of man I can be when I shine
I’m fine, and I’m an artist of the utmost
I roast all my past selves in an oven made of love
They cook to perfection, warm and tender, no need to defend ‘em
I gobble ‘em up and wash ‘em down with a goblet of my blood
This is self love of the highest order
This ain’t no ordinary sorb, sorb
Absorb all my past selves
Absorb all my past selves
Rubbin’ it in

Human in a bottle and I’m rubbin’ it up to pour a cup
I wanna take a pull and drink myself up, I pour a cup
Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in!

Listen to this:
you might have missed out so open up your ears and take the words out of your mouth
Aw yeah, rubbin’ it in
When I was a little kid of 7 found a gun in an abandoned building, just out to have some fun
Were things any different them or have they stayed the same
Gobble up my past selves, then I change the name and I said
Aw yeah I’m rubbin’ it in, aw yeah I’m rubbin’ it in.

If I take a picture of the who I was then
And then again take picture of the me at age 10
Aw yeah, I gobbled it up
Look a couple years into the future and then
Compare to the picture of the me that was 10, and you can tell
Aw yeah, I gobbled it up
 
Human in a bottle and I’m rubbin’ it up to pour a cup
I wanna take a pull and drink myself up, I pour a cup
Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in!

Think about it:
Think about this:
Won’t say it loud, that’d be annoying
Somehow made this song that I sing and that’s a thing
Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in
Every memory, every thought you think
Can get lost or put into the mental sink and I said
Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in
I’m gazing down from up above
Etherally looking at my brain with love and I said
Aw yeah, I’m rubbin it in
I reach inside with memory
Valuable, each and every piece and I said
Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in
Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in.

Rubbing It In


Hey pretty girl you've been driving me crazy
There's a sun and it's showing in your eyes
Me, I'm making up a story with the hope to tell it
In the hope, in the hopes that you'll smile

Once upon a moment in time under the bottles
Toddler bobbled to and fro bumping into events
Body made of rubber, mental full of love
Mental full of love I am not wearing gloves

Push a pin into a bottle cork and stop it up
They held the market up, they stopped the market up
Push a pin into a city on a map and prop it up
A city isn't very much

Hey pretty girl you've been driving me crazy
There's a sun and it's showing in your eyes
Me, I'm making up a story with the hope to tell it
In the hope, in the hopes that you'll smile

Hey pretty girl you've been driving me crazy
There's a hope, there's a hope in your eye
Me and you ought to be having a baby,
Just waiting for the time that's right

Hey pretty girl you've been driving me crazy
There's a hope, there's a hope in your eye
You and me have a story, we have yet to tell it
But I hope in the hopes that you'll smile

Push a pin into a bottle cork and stop it up
They held the market up, they stopped the market up
Push a pin into a city on a map and prop it up
A city isn't very much

With a pin in hole, make a dice roll
Sometimes you feel whole, sometimes you feel old
Not finding any gold, 
That's when you have to take a hold and declare it as your own!

Hey pretty girl you've been driving me crazy
There is hope and hope never dies
You and me, together we stand, the strength of we
And we take it to a distant land
Raise your rifle up and play the song of the glad

Push a pin into a bottle cork and stop it up
Push a pin into a city on a map and prop it up
A city isn't very much

Hey pretty girl you've been driving me crazy
There's a hope, there's a hope in your eye
Me, I'm making up a story with the hope to tell it
In the hope, in the hopes that you'll smile

Hey pretty girl you've been driving me crazy
There's a sun in your eyes
Me, I'm making up a story with the hope to tell it
In the hope, in the hopes that you'll smile

With a pin in hole,
Make a dice roll
Not finding any gold, 
That's when you have to take a hold and declare it as your own!

Rucubrious Bundle

Running blood, across generations
How our love crosses generations
Transcends time, pass from life to life
Family line, bloods entwine 

Bloods entwine, mix from race to race
Bloods combine, blend from face to face
Every line is a joy to trace
Back over time, Bloods entwine

Combine with every race
Combine with every face
form from every face into one

If we can keep it in our heads
Then we can keep it in our hearts
And our mind will combine to one
We will return back to one

Don't hurt your brother
He may one day help you out
Don't harm your sister
She knows what your life's about
Treat him kind, treat her kind
Treat them well, they're your blood
Running blood

RUNNING BLOOD

HIGH DIVER - © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia,  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
LYRICS BY LAURA LEE JONES

first perched and stretched:

long arcs of the limbs extended

the the sudden jump


body folds into itself

into the shape


of an arrow head

into a fetal pose

toes pointed


spiraling        plunging        replacing air	      water


body eliminated

from its first version


somehow lost in a moment of weightless

space --- released

becomes a polished stone


armed with the substance

of speed or the moving waves


somehow the proclivity of a dive

the long plummet somehow a bird and fish at once

HIGH DIVER

A Monster On the Radio – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

An elephant and a clown
Silly Billy monkeying not wearing a frown

And as they set off on it
They knew each carried each

A pickle on the radio
And a buck for a dozen
Gonna make it yo
Give a shout out to my cousin
On the radio
On the radio
On the radio 

Yo Cuz!  Here I come
Jump in the sun
I be making a run
We'll be having some fun
Here in the sun
I feel at one
With my future and past
What I am and what I've not done yet

A pickle on the radio
And a buck for a dozen
Gonna make it yo
Give a shout out to my cousin
On the radio
A monster on the radio

Everyone is helpless 
All falling and subject to it
Draw a perfect circle
Somehow you would say it too
Everything is perfect
Everyone is helpful
Anything is possible
Any ice is popsicle 

An elephant and a clown
Silly Billy monkeying not wearing a frown

Everything is perfect
Anything is possible
At least the fact
That nothing isn't probable

A monster on the radio
I made it, yo
I put my mind to it
And I'm in the throes of an awesome blow
Goes nice and slow
The rhythm, we somehow already know
No practice, nothing to know
Just go and go
A determined man, I'm a determined man
A determined man, I'm a determined man
I have a plan
Spreading kindness 'cross the land
I'm like the bearded oaf 
In the wizard movie you can't help but vote for
Because his soft-hearted nature 
Is somehow naive yet endearing for sure
I really believe
I really believe in it, really believe in it.

An elephant and a clown
Silly Billy monkeying not wearing a frown

A monster on the radio
I made it, yo
I put my mind to it
And I'm in the throes of an awesome blow
Goes nice and slow
The rhythm, we somehow already know
No practice, nothing to know
Just go and go
A determined man, I'm a determined man
A determined man, I'm a determined man
I have a plan
Spreading kindness 'cross the land
I'm like the bearded oaf 
In the wizard movie you can't help but vote for
Because his soft-hearted nature 
Is somehow naive yet endearing for sure
I really believe
I really believe in it, really believe in it.

Everyone is helpless 
All falling and subject to it
Draw a perfect circle
Somehow you would say it too
Everything is perfect
Everyone is helpful
Anything is possible
Any ice is popsicle 

An elephant and a clown
Silly Billy monkeying not wearing a frown

Everything is perfect
Anything is possible
At least the fact
That nothing isn't probable

An elephant and a clown
Silly Billy monkeying not wearing a frown

A MONSTER ON THE RADIO

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Truest Blood – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Die, and my heart will ache
ain't no curing that awful ache
please don't ever, please don't go away
don't think I could handle the pain

here is my healthy heart
coupled with a frantic mind
if you don't mind the way I spend my days
I'll gladly, though weirdly
I'll gladly spend my days with you
I'll gladly, though weirdly
I'll gladly spend my days with you

clear as a crystal pond
where you go fishing with a magic wand
the game you catch try to create a bond
with you they're melding your mind

here is my healthy heart
coupled with a frantic mind
if you don't mind the way I spend my days
I'll gladly, though weirdly
I'll gladly spend my days with you
I'll gladly, though weirdly
I'll gladly spend my days with you

in here you are
in my heart where doth flow truest blood
cannot go further in
this is all I know

in here you are
in my heart where doth flow truest blood
cannot go further in
this is all I know

This, this is all I know
I hope you see that I'm a simple man
please don't expect me to have complex thought
I'm a simple man, it's true

Please don't ever go away
I don't wanna have to live a day
without the love you give 
don't take it away
I see your eyes of blue

I'll gladly, though weirdly
I'll gladly spend my days with you
I'll gladly, though weirdly
I'll gladly spend my days with you

Clear as a crystal pond
where you go fishing with a magic wand
here is my healthy heart
coupled with a frantic mind
if you don't mind the way I spend my days
I'll gladly, though weirdly
I'll gladly spend my days with you
I'll gladly, though weirdly
I'll gladly spend my days with you

in here you are
in my heart that doth flow truest blood
cannot go further in
this is all I know
this is all I know
this is all I know.

TRUEST BLOOD

VIDEO GAMES WITH REAL GUNS
© ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

When the wrecking ball makes all come down
When you're standing in your destroyed town
You take picture on your phone
Send it to the drones
Send it to the clones

Perhaps the pic will end up viral
Thousands will pretend they care
Your pain and grief will make you famous
But you're still standing there, dust collecting in your hair

Till you finally start to walk away
Everywhere you go they think you're homeless
That's not exactly what you are though
Your home was destroyed, and now you've nowhere to go

Into the mountains where you're looking down
See it's happening to every town
People doing it are playing games
Video games with real guns, and don't say it ain't a shame

So you attempt to bring them back
To reality through desperation
They cannot see the lives they take
Sat at a desk with numbers spilling out of their hands

Your vision grows across the world
Finding its way to all the boys and girls
They spill into the streets in numbers too large to contain
But are they desperate as you?

It's not the numbers but the drive inside
You've got to show them that the fight is alive
Got break the shell of protected ignorance
Expose the innocence and teach the clone how to cry.

Video Games With Real Guns

Hand Up Its Butt - © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Worry 'bout the past tomorrow
Nothing can you do today
When you're looking down in sorrow
You will miss the point, they say

As they say, a puppet runs the world
Only has the power to wave a hand
With a hand up its butt
Better make a stand

You are on a mission of the utmostestest importance
Me, well, I'm the same, on the same mission

Oh....

All nations in the world resolving
To giving all they have to give
One by one all problems solving
Having all the space to live

UH!!  Yeah!!  UH!!  YEAH!!!!!!!

We who we are, we are the young and free
We who we are, we are the young and free

Worry 'bout the past tomorrow
Nothing can you do today
When you're looking down in sorrow
You will miss the point, they say

As they say, a puppet runs the world
Only has the power to wave a hand
With a hand up its butt
Better make a stand

You are on a mission of the utmostestest importance
Me, well, I'm the same, on the same mission

oh....

We who we are, we are the young and free
We who we are, we are the young and free.

Hand Up Its Butt

Devil, Devil – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
I really hate it when we're tied together
I really hate it when we're tied together
I really hate it when we're tied together
Wonder if we're stuck forever

Hitching down the road of passion
I'm hitching down the road to passion
Hitching down the road of passion
Even when its out of fashion

They say that nothing last forever
They say that nothing last forever
They say that nothing last forever
It's also said that fate is clever

Devil get out of my action
Devil stay out of my passion
Devil get out of my action
Devilry is out of fashion

Devil, devil keep a poppin' up and try to hand me a bottle
But I keep on refusing his gift
Cuz there's a mental shift when I bring the spirits to my lips

Devil, devil try to own me, but no one owns me
I've got a mind of my own
Devil, devil try to own me, but no one owns me
I've got a mind of my own
Devil, devil try to own me, but no one owns me

There's a fate that ties this world together
There's a fate that ties this world together
There's a fate that ties this world together
Wonder if we're stuck forever

Tired of the mean and pointless
I'm sick of all the pain and sorrow
Pissed about a cursed tomorrow
No one knows the way to go

Devil, devil keep a poppin' up and try to hand me a bottle
But I keep on refusing his gift
Cuz there's a mental shift when I bring the spirits to my lips

Devil, devil try to own me, but no one owns me
I've got a mind of my own
Devil, devil try to own me, but no one owns me
I've got a mind of my own
Devil, devil try to own me, but no one owns me
I'm going home
Devil, devil try to own me, but no one owns me
I'm going home
Devil, devil try to own me, but no one owns me
I'm going home


33.  Devil, Devil

Holy Mother – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Moss that creeps, growing slowly 'cross a stone
Creepy moss, draping over everywhere it can
The moss is draping over everything it can
It can because its nature says it can

Long ago in distant lands across galaxies
Flew a stone, came to rest on lonely planet
Soon made home and grew from nearly nothing into life
A home to possibility 

A place called Earth, like no other
A place where endless beauty shifts and shapes with life
Some call it our Holy Mother
She holds and guides her children into endless light
Ah

Take a peek, a look inside a history
Heaven speaks when one has open ears to nature
Moss will creep and crawl across the face of Mother
How she laughs as life will tickle her

She is kind and grants the gifts up from her bosom
Peace of mind when one dwells within her garden
What you'll find inside her mystic thinking there is moss
A moss that's creeping over everything

A place called Earth, like no other
A place where endless beauty shifts and shapes with life
Some call it our Holy Mother
She holds and guides her children into endless light
Ah

Holy Mother

Ever since his days as the mastermind behind critically-acclaimed avant-boho outfit DUFUS, Seth Faergolzia has blazed colorful trails into modes of expression one couldn't have foreseen even as Dufus were being hailed as "freak folk" innovators.

When Faergolzia first emerged out of lower Manhattan at the turn of the millennium, he cut quite the figure as a trailblazing artist committed to pursuing his vision on the fringe of the fringes, quickly distinguishing himself as a visionary with an entertainer's flair and a penchant for bending minds. Naturally, the surface absurdism of his output drew comparisons to likeminded iconoclasts like Captain Beefheart, Zappa, Ween, and Mr. Bungle. But, Faergolzia has come to represent a genre unto himself, the labyrinthine pathways of his inspiration delighting audiences and collaborators alike.

The new album, "Doubting Won't Do" includes solo acoustic songs and new loop material, both personal and complex in production and includes artwork by friend and collaborator, Adam Green of the Moldy Peaches.

In the new live show, taking the stage as a one-man tornado of sound, Faergolzia will draw from new material, electronic samples, loops, improvisations, and choice selections from the Dufus vault with his backing band, Heck Yup (which includes tuba, electric guitar, percussion, glockenspiel and keyboards).  -- a full and varied cross-section of the matchless oddball muse that has delighted audiences, collaborators, and critics alike for over a decade.

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