Debut demo track self-produced August 25, 2015 at Soundcheck Studios in Hollywood. Andrew Williams on lead vocals and bass guitar. Charles Giarratano on Washburn lead guitar and rhythm. Sam Mosco on the kit. Written by Russell Cornwell, who is on piano, organ, effects and backing vocals.

Calypso

Some art rock, indie rock and pop demos I made in GarageBand or Cakewalk (hehe). All tracks copyright 2016 or earlier by Russell Cornwell. There's so much more. Interested in joining forces? Send a message or an email to russman DOT cornwell AT gmail DOT com.

The Path Of Least Resistance

Here Today

You Think You Know Me

You're My Little Penguin, My Little Penguin
You're My Little Penguin, yes you are
Oh, you're breaking my heart! Oh! Oh yes

I lumbered miles through the jagged icy peaks to watch you slide
The tippy top was where I made my freezing throne
But then I saw the thawing caps and grabbed ahold of what I could
But it just melted as I fell onto the stones
Oh, they've broken my bones! Oh! Oh yes

I was caught in a dream world where the people all stopped to scream at me
And flying things flew past so fast I almost had a heart attack
But then you spoke, and the mean things shuddered and died at once
You had them running off at once

Half the buzzards buzz buzz buzzed off toward the ground
And they were all dried and piled up and buzzing in a heap
Newspapers, magazines and things all coincided with the fact that
Kings were jacks and knaves and raving mad at me
You might break me free! Oh! Oh yes

You're My Little Penguin, My Little Penguin
You're My Little Penguin, yes you are

Illustrated carbon paper changes day to day in swelled heads
Thinking and dreaming reams of ribbon-laden scenes, and we all know
The present fades into the past like last night's near-forgotten dreams
And yet we think it really remains to be seen that we're alone
Your hand's letting go! Oh! Oh yes

All Rights Reserved by Russell Cornwell. Written 2004. Recorded 2016.

You're My Little Penguin

Yeah yeah yeah
Whoo!

I love men, but I love women too, now
I love men, but I don't know what to do with you now
I love men, but I love women too, now
And I don't think I remember what to do with you so

Count me out if I am wasting my time
Count me in if loving you is all right
Count me out if I am losing my mind
Count me in if everything's looking fine

I love men, but I love women too, now
I love men, but I don't know what to do with you now
I love men, but I love women too, now
I love my friends but I don't know if I can trust them anymore

Count me out if I am wasting my time
Count me in if loving you is all right
Count me out if I am losing my mind
Count me in if everything's looking fine

Count me out, count me out, count me out, count me count me out

Count Me Out

If you have something really cool that you wanna do
And there are fifty-nine obstacles right in front of you
Don't you freeze up at all, man, if you don't like 'em a bit
Life's too short, too short, too short not to be a hypocrite

Up on the bridge, you sidle up to a pigeon
"Can you carry me, birdie, 'cause I don't wanna walk"
Oh, you gotta be jokin', oh you gotta be smokin'
Beggin' "baby, baby, baby, baby, please," oh yeah

If you have something really cool that you wanna do
And there are fifty-nine obstacles right in front of you
Don't you freeze up at all, man, if you don't like 'em a bit
Life's too short, too short, too short not to be a hypocrite

Oh, when you sleep in the surf, sluggin' tonic and gin
Lose your caution, waves are barrelin' in
And then you open your eyes as the crests all rise
Close your eyes, but you can't hide

Down in the drink, you can finally blink
'Cause when you're starting to sink is when you're starting to swim
Oh, the blood hits your limbs, the outlook isn't as grim
Life's too short, too short, too short, not to dive in
Oh, baby, baby, oh yeah

Life's Too Short Not To Be A Hypocrite

Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop-dee-Pop

Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, you really love that
Japan Pop-dee-Pop

You there, in your little car
Come on and get some more Japan Pop
You there on the tiny star
Come on and get some more Japan Pop
You there on the little tr-train
Come on and get some more Japan Pop
You there on the tiny airplane
Come on and get some more Japan Pop, ooh!

Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, you really love that
Japan Pop-dee-Pop

Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop-dee-Pow!

You there, cleaning up your house
Come on and get some more Japan Pop
You there, riding on a mouse
Come on and get some more Japan Pop
You there, licking at the sweets
Come on and get some more Japan Pop
You p-p-p-p-picking up treats
Come on and get some more Japan Pop, ooh!

Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, you really love that
Japan Pop-dee-Pop

Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, you really love that
Japan Pop-dee-Pow!

You've been popping boys and girls and things
Come on and have a cola!
You'd better have that cola!
Yeah!

Whoa!

Whoa, Japan Pop-dee-Pop

You there, drowning in your tears
Come on and get some more Japan Pop
You there, counting off the years
Come on and get some more Japan Pop
You there, dying at your desk
Come on and get some more Japan Pop
You there, under arrest!
Come on and get some more Japan Pop, oh!

Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, you really love that
Japan Pop-dee-Pop

Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, come on and get some more
Japan Pop, you really love that
Japan Pop-dee-Pop

You've been popping boys and girls and things
Come on and have a cola!
You'd better have that cola!

Japan Pop

All we are’re
Sequins in the diamonds in our eyes
All we are’re
Secrets in the liners of our lives

And when you cry before you crawl
Well that’s just hard
And when you slip and start to fall
Well that’s just part

And when you dream about a dream
Well that’s a start
And when you know before you learn
Well that’s your heart

All we are’re
Pigments on the surface of our skin
All we are’re
Figments of our imagination

[instrumental]

And when you take before you give
Well that’s untoward
And when you die before you live
Well that’s the cards

And when you fake and really break
You break your heart
And when you ache each breath you take
It’s all the shards

All we are’re
Secrets in the stories of our lives
All we are’re
Fables in the secrets we tell twice
All we are’re
Silhouettes of fables that seem right
All we are’re
Movies with the silhouettes inside
All we are’re
Captives to these movies of our lies
All we are’re
Masters of the captives in our minds

All We Are

No one ever ever gets away
No, no one ever ever gets away
No, no one can ever ever get away
Your back is tracked, your back is tracked, your back is tracked

No one ever ever gets away
No, no one ever ever gets away
No, no one can ever ever get away
Your back is tracked, your back is tracked, your back is tracked

Step on a crack, break your mother's back
She's never coming back and it's all on you
You better get away but you can't get away
Your back is tracked, your back is tracked, your back is tracked

You don't know what to do, your family spit on you
Then they threw you in the zoo, boohoo
They haven't got a clue, the world ain't got a friggin' clue
Your back is tracked, your back is tracked, your back is tracked

So you turned 'em into glue, woohoo, that's good on you
But now you don't know what to do
You're deep in number two so you crawled all back up in the zoo
Your back is tracked, your back is tracked, your back is tracked

Woohoo
Woohoohoo

No one ever ever gets away
No, no one ever ever gets away
No, no one can ever ever get away
Your back is tracked, your back is tracked, your back is tracked

No one ever ever gets away
No, no one ever ever gets away
No, no one can ever ever get away
Your back is tracked, your back is tracked, your back is tracked

No one ever ever gets away
No, no one ever ever gets away
No, no one can ever ever get away

Russell Cornwell

Tandy

Fast before you lie
Before you start to die
Remember what it takes
Before you start to break

REPEAT

I heard a crash, pow, up in the sky
It was a big old alien thing
It made a gosh-damn racket
I didn't know how my ears could ring

You look around boy, up in the clouds
What do you see but rain?
You stand in water long enough
You'll nigh be circling the drain, well

You better move your feet while you're alive baby
Stay dry, get out of your head
In the gosh-damn racket
You'll soon be wet and dead

Airs

I'll always think about Elvis
And the way you laughed when I played his songs
I'll always think about Alice
And your quest for truth in this world gone wrong
I'll always think about Judas
And your open arms when your heart was gone

I've been wanting to die and I think I know why
I could run in these loops until I take off and fly
What good is running in circles when they're all on the inside?

I feel tired and I feel regret
I feel fire rising to my head
I feel stuck in a fucking pointless loop
It's these lies that I swallowed up
And these tears that I cannot stop
I feel lost on my way to something new
Here's a clue: It isn't you

I've been wanting to die

I feel tired and I feel regret
I feel fire rising to my head

Elvis

Lately you’ve been talking to the man in the woods
Lately you’ve been listening to the stream by the lake
Lately you’ve been peering through the hole in the trees
Lately you’ve been glancing over both shoulders

Lately you’ve been twisting, turning, tuning into
Something hidden, tones forbidden

Do you want—do you want to see the truth?
Do you want—do you want to see the truth?
Do you want—do you want to—

Oh! Aha!

Lately you’ve been nibbling wildflowers by the road
Lately you’ve laid kindling neath the boards in the floor
Lately I find matches billowing by the bed

Lately you’ve been leaving me heaving, grieving for
No one, nothing, here’s the car, take back the ring

Do you want—do you want to see the truth?
Do you want—do you want to see the truth?
Do you want—do you want it to bury you? Aha!

You say you want to give everything to the man in the woods
You say you want to give everything to the man in the woods
You say you’re gonna give everything to the man in the woods
But don’t you go and give anything to the man in the woods

(Ah ah)
(Ah ah)
(Ah ah)

Take away all the thangs that you ever had
Take away all the clothes off yo’ back
Stand out naked and cold waiting on peace that you never had
Shake and shiver in the wind till a sucker like me comes asking’ for the madman
And when he does you’ll be sayin’ “That’s me man
“Yeah I’m the man in the woods
“Be free man, go wild and shiver and shake
“With me man, ‘cause I’m the man in the woods
“Come see man, how I’m the man in the woods
“Come be man, come be the man in the woods
All right man, now you’re the man in the woods
You’re sane man, ‘cause you’re the man in the woods
Just listen, ah ah ah, ah ah ah
Just hear, ah ah ah, ah ah ah
Be free
Free

You say that when you peel back everything, you find a man in the woods
You say that when you release everything, the ugly bad and the good
You say that when you destroy everything, your friends your kids and your moods
There’s only one thing beneath everything, and that’s the man in the woods

(Ah ah) We’re all the man in the woods
(Ah ah) We’re all the man in the woods
(Ah ah) We’re all the man in the woods
(Ah ah) We’re all the man in the woods

OUTRO
The man in the woods
The man in the woods
The man in the woods

The Man in the Woods

The eye in the sky in a sky in the ground
It's spinning around and around
People say you can never get away

The fire is high and the water is low
And there's nowhere to go
People say it's a very very very strange day

There's an eye in the sky in a sky in the ground
Don't make a sound, don't wanna get yourself found
(Strange day) Keep on policing!
(Strange day) Keep on releasing!
(Strange day) Keep on policing!
(Strange day) Keep on releasing!

(Strange day) It's a very very very strange day [repeat]

Strange day, strange day

Very Strange Day

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