Character songs and musical drama in conjunction with Book 01 of the Lovecraftian Superhero novel trilogy.

Novel series now available now at:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVFWY7H5 (Amazon)
https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=bq9fHAAAABAwsM (Google Books)

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In those mornings I went to school
A class clown, not feeling to cool
“I’m fine,” I lie, on phone I type
Pass the gates, look up, see stars and stripes

“We’re shining city on a hill,”
“Got rich through skill and the pockets we fill,”
I thought, if that’s all truly real
What’s with the reds like me they need to kill?

[Chorus]
They want my dreams to soar the sky
But to ground, my trail of tears go down
Climb gold stairs and claim throne up high
Push my kin to river and leave them to drown

Ever since, I have my reservation
More so, than when on reservation
“Exceptional, this great nation,”
For whom? The many or the fraction?

They call me and my kin skin red
But not just for my kin that I am mad
For all chocolate and vanilla that bled
Through soil our blood weaves their thread

[Chorus]

Want me to manifest destiny,
Ha! All when DC see me like flea
Speak for the poor, say things that be
They flinch, growl, cringe like McCarthy

“We’re shining city on a hill,”
“Got rich through skill and the pockets we fill,”
I thought, if that’s all truly real
What’s with the reds like me they need to kill?

[Chorus]


Shining City on a Kill

Character songs and musical drama in conjunction with Book 02 of the Lovecraftian Superhero novel trilogy.

Novel series now available now at:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVFWY7H5 (Amazon)
https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=bq9fHAAAABAwsM (Google Books)

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____

Standing there, waiting, nervous
He’s anxious, that much, obvious
I’m not here, as someone famous
Today, our phases advances

He thought I’m far, as the star
But I’m here, wondering, where you are
Wearing different face, that is so
But I’m here, just so you know

[Chorus]
Strolling, Ginza to Skytree
With boy I like, just you and me
Flushing cheek, and nervous spree
Living peak, from life we flee

From up high, the city we view
With no lie, our heart we threw
So tell me, how much you enjoy
Coz with me, no need to be coy

I do love, the heartbeat
When you smile, it’s still so sweet
But I don’t need, perfect hero
We’ll start from seed, from ground zero

[Chorus]

I know, I know we’ve not much time
But this date, there’s a beat and rhyme
And when our bell eventually chime
This thread of ours won’t be a mime

[Chorus]

Ginza to Skytree

A character song from my upcoming dystopian novel: THE POSITIVITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Check out the album for more character songs.

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Every day, pressing thumb, on our phone
Color code, matching blocks, like a drone
Then we meet, another, just to maim
Coz’ we treat, another, like a game

It’s called growing, maturing
Kill your heart
Just accept it, enduring,
Numb your heart

[Chorus]
Rapid fire chattering, tapping the screen
Rabid liar flattering, making the scene
I need more, than blocks matching, shattering
Give me more, grand strategy, framing

I’m nucleus, you’re all electron
Just by myself, my own reflection
Swipe candy, tile matching with your crush
Serve brandy, while cashing in the rush 

Therapy for self, for our sole
Atomize our self, own our soul
And we are lonely together
Tap our phone only forever

[Chorus]

I don’t need life that’s premium
Just one that don’t act freemium
Where we’re more than just medium
Something real, not just tedium

[Chorus]

Grand Strategy Framing

A character song from my upcoming dystopian novel: THE POSITIVITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

Check out the album for more character songs.

*PROLOGUE ACT I*: Positivity-Industrial Complex

*INTERMISSION ACT I* The Imaginary Order

*EPILOGUE ACT I*: Desert of the Real

A character song from my upcoming dystopian novel: THE POSITIVITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Check out the album for more character songs.

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Young man, who do you think you are?
Mere mortal, dreaming so up afar,
Struggle, crawl through grounds full of tar,
Mere peasant, reaching thrones meant for a tsar,

Show your hand, what can you provide?
A round whole, with no more to hide.
Now listen, for once, will I be your guide,
To Olympus so high, even if you tried

[Chorus]
Look at your, Value Proposition
The hierarchy, of your low position
There is a reason for Romeo and Juliet
Instead of mere servant and Capulet

Self-care, self-love, Self-actualize
What worth you supply can help them realize?
Personal happiness, life just once lived
And with no worth, a good life you will thieve

Utilities are all pure relative
None wishes merger with a net negative
For all their sake, look down
So at least none will see your frown

[Chorus]

Be grateful and look at the ground
Remain in your station, and look around
If even janitors can find a partner
Your solitude has no reason further

[Chorus]


Servant and Capulet

A character song from my upcoming dystopian novel: THE POSITIVITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Check out the album for more character songs.

____

Caught you peeping, through the crack
But what you see, is all-void black,
As I said, in my last laugh track,
You are purely defined, by all your lack

They want brightness! Pure white heroes,
Pure happiness, good night bozos!
But like puppets, in my shadow play,
It’s darkness not light, that defines your sway

[Chorus]
Hear, hear, I teach you some magical trick
Here, here, ex nihilo logical shtick
Idealist humor, par excellence
Manifesting boomer, poisoning the young

The art of getting things out of nothing,
“Don’t think just feel!” said them judging,
Want me to tell you, the real secret?
It’s just rich folks’ propaganda leaflet

Hard work ain’t some fairy tale magic chant,
It’s walk one step, to next, to next, to next
Yeah! You gotta walk to buy a lottery,
But walking ain’t one that decides victory

[Chorus]

If you want change, pal, you gotta be pissed
Those trickle-down golds are literal piss
Don’t be trapped by their utopian ideal
Coz’ change is dialectic material

[Chorus]

Ex Nihilo

A character song from my upcoming dystopian novel: THE POSITIVITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Check out the album for more character songs.

____

I’ve heard quote, about insanity, man
Doing the same thing, again and again
Though I’m sure, that’s some stupid misquoting
Them platitudes man, wisdom corrupting

So that’s what you mean by signifiers
Snake eating its tail, like tangled wires
Posting quotes on social stories
Acting like wisdom repositories

[Chorus]
I’m just your average Joe, John Carpenter
Through the looking glass, I’m a billboard hunter
“Consume”, "obey", “conform”, “don’t think, mister”
Frame them as wellness, hide the messenger

If only they’re dead, living as aliens
But they live! They all live as real humans
When life sucks, and truth serves no purpose
Can’t blame folks for wanting bread and circus

Maybe that’s why, I wanna be a gadfly
Be grounded when all aspires to fly
Asking those in meditation: “The fuck?”
Let them see that our life does really suck

[Chorus]

I’m just your average Joe, pal
Ain’t smart enough to do philosophy
But your wisdom ain’t got a point
If it’s just ‘bout heaven and not the earth

[Chorus]
I’m just your average Joe, John Carpenter
Through the looking glass, I’m a billboard hunter
“Obey”, “consume”, “conform”, “don’t think, mister”
Frame them as wellness, hide the messenger

Average Joe

A character song from my upcoming dystopian novel: THE POSITIVITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Check out the album for more character songs.

____

I have seen myself, the dark five rivers
Streams, currents, to death they all deliver
And so, I took the titan’s own burden
To build a boat, a comforting curtain

Benevolence! No such illusory matter!
Not the butcher, the brewer, nor the baker!
In Tartarus, there’s no free lunch nor dinner
But I can make you endure famine better

[Chorus]
Our fate is woven, by the three sisters,
Invisible hands, threading in whispers,
Growth, Merit, Compliance, what makes your worth!
Else, death is mercy compared to mere life

I’ve never seen a genuine kindness,
The kind given free in true blindness,
A world of only goods and services,
And every soul merely trade, purchasers

None owns their homes, but decades’ credit!
Growth accumulators, judge your merit!
These principles, our world’s only tenet
But no flesh hands can snap what’s threaded

[Chorus]

Were it up to me, I’d carve new rivers
So my wife’s fate could have differed
But I’ve no power of the Potamoi
So as ferryman, I’ll comfort your sail

[Chorus]

Invisible Hands of the Sisters

A character song from my upcoming dystopian novel: THE POSITIVITY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Check out the album for more character songs.

____

Have you ever tried, to catch some water?
Refusing to shape, slipping through fingers?
It’s why we forge glass, cup, mug container
So we can study it, when it’s tamer

But we make mistake, glass is not water
It’s the form we give, not its true nature
This glass is what we call signifier
Flatland dimension, an order lower

[Chorus]
Oh, noumena, beyond what we’re made for
Phenomena, we’re trapped in a stupor
As judge, I present the final order
The Real, the heart where real love, we harbor

With ease I treat lower disposition
Present affirmation, validation
With the orders, they have little frictions
So it’s enough with little injection

But you, my Jupiter, cannot be tamed,
The therapy needed, won’t be the same,
You kept leaning towards the Real order,
Can’t chain you without me being smothered

[Chorus]

You are the great red spot of Macaria
The largest storm! The order’s ever seen
Though my decree was to keep you contained
I release you, my love, let slip the dogs of war

[Chorus]


The Final Order

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Ex Nihilo

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