LYRICS

I can’t eat I can’t drink
I can’t satisfy my gluttony lust
I was King of a thousand peasants
Now I am King of the unjust

Give me a hammer give me a nail
Building a feast-hall near the wooded trail
But we need wood so we need trees
To the sacred forest if you please

I can’t eat I can’t drink
I can’t satisfy my gluttony lust
I was King of a thousand peasants
Now I am King of the unjust

In this grove abundance with pine
Elm and Pear and plenty of sunshine
Beautiful, lush land and green blades of grass
With a snake who needs to pass

I can’t eat I can’t drink
I can’t satisfy my gluttony lust
I was King of a thousand peasants
Now I am King of the unjust
 
We chop the trees under my reign
Until the popular poplar cried out in pain
Now come the gods and come the nymphs
Who condemned me for my sins 

So with the lightning and the thunder
They forever make me hunger
The more I eat the hungrier I become
Nothing can satisfy my insatiable outcome

I can’t eat I can’t drink
I can’t satisfy my gluttony lust
I was King of a thousand peasants
Now I am King of the unjust

I beg on the streets, I beg for scraps
My only friends are the rats
I ran out of food I am so pitiful to see
I ate my own arm I am an amputee
So with a heavy sigh upon my last breath
I consumed my own flesh to death

Recorded at: Looking Glass Phoenix, Surprise, AZ
Produced, Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by: Christopher Rippel
Photography: 
Irina Alexandrova
Davide Versaci
Bilibin Maksym
Christopher Rippel

Artwork:
Sarah Holmlund

Christopher Rippel:
Vocals
Guitar
Bass Guitar
Keyboards
Drums

Rio Rippel:
Vocals

Mark Pasquale:
Lead Guitar (Calypso)

Special Thanks to:
Jing

Words & Music by: 
Christopher Rippel
© 2021 Music By Ripsongs (BMI)
℗ 2021 Redparis Records
Management: Surprise Management LLC
WWW.ChristopherRippel.com

Can't Eat Can't Drink (Radio Edit)

LYRICS

Whoa, dream girl
She is a slippery slide
You give her attention
And then she gives you a ride

Long legs, along the long coast
With the crashing waves
You can’t hold on to her
I like how she misbehaves

She is a bajada girl
Chicky-cha-room-ba
You can’t pin her down
Chicky-cha-room-ba

Her dancing’s preoccupied
She belongs to the wind
A wave of hello is the same as good-bye
Off to Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin

She is a bajada girl
Chicky-cha-room-ba
You can’t pin her down
Chicky-cha-room-ba
Oh yeah

She is a bajada girl
Chicky-cha-room-ba
You can’t pin her down
Chicky-cha-room-ba
Fox of mystery special delivery
She is the talk of the town
Chicky-cha-room-ba

Says she’s a model in L.A.
Flying to New York
Lives in Malibu on Bayberry Lane
Tomorrow she’s to Paris, LaPorte

Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, yeah

Recorded at: Looking Glass Phoenix, Surprise, AZ
Produced, Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by: Christopher Rippel
Photography: 
Irina Alexandrova
Davide Versaci
Bilibin Maksym
Christopher Rippel

Artwork:
Sarah Holmlund

Christopher Rippel:
Vocals
Guitar
Bass Guitar
Keyboards
Drums

Rio Rippel:
Vocals

Mark Pasquale:
Lead Guitar (Calypso)

Special Thanks to:
Jing

Words & Music by: 
Christopher Rippel
© 2021 Music By Ripsongs (BMI)
℗ 2021 Redparis Records
Management: Surprise Management LLC
WWW.ChristopherRippel.com

Bajada Girl (Radio Edit)

LYRICS

The wind blows and nobody knows
Where it comes from
Water flows but nobody goes
To get some

She was a beautiful child
Until she went off to the wild
To be alone with her lover

Then into the dark
You could hear the wolves howl
Her hair turned into snakes like no other

Medusa you were happy as you were
Your transformation you brought upon yourself
Go fly away oh on your winged horse
For your evil heart you need look deep on thyself

The wind blows and nobody knows
Where it goes to
Water flows it’s spell nobody knows
How to undo

Two sisters she did have
One evil, one sad
But one got cut by the sword

Her blood spilled all around
Spawning a son from the ground
Who grew up being loved and adored

Medusa you were happy as you were
Your transformation you brought upon yourself
Go fly away oh on your winged horse
For your evil heart you need look deep on thyself

A King was made of him
But no one knew his sin
For his father caused the serpent to be her own

For all the town’s dread
They cut off Medusa’s head
And used it to turn the King to stone

Medusa you were happy as you were
Your transformation you brought upon yourself
Go fly away oh on your winged horse
For your evil heart you need look deep on thyself

Recorded at: Looking Glass Phoenix, Surprise, AZ
Produced, Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by: Christopher Rippel
Photography: 
Irina Alexandrova
Davide Versaci
Bilibin Maksym
Christopher Rippel

Artwork:
Sarah Holmlund

Christopher Rippel:
Vocals
Guitar
Bass Guitar
Keyboards
Drums

Rio Rippel:
Vocals

Mark Pasquale:
Lead Guitar (Calypso)

Special Thanks to:
Jing

Words & Music by: 
Christopher Rippel
© 2021 Music By Ripsongs (BMI)
℗ 2021 Redparis Records
Management: Surprise Management LLC
WWW.ChristopherRippel.com

Medusa (Radio Edit)

LYRICS

Drenched from the sea
She came walking toward me
Half naked like a nymph 
From the forest and ash trees

She said sacrifice
And I will wash you twice
With edelweiss 
In the Baltic Sea

She is the daughter of the Ocean
Beauty as far as a stone could throw
Her love is always in slow motion
Whoa oh sorceress Calypso

She has playful magical power
That she harnessed from the white flower
It was now the witching hour
She claimed me as her own

She took me to her father’s palace
I was presented with a golden challis
And told not to spill a drop 
For seven years

She is the daughter of the Ocean
Beauty as far as a stone could throw
Her love is always in slow motion
Whoa oh sorceress Calypso

The town’s people stood at the portal
At such a union of nymph and mortal
As we danced around the circle
For the celebration

Seventh year came to an end
The pollen was meant for lesser men
As I drank the challis content
The shoe became untied

The seven-year-old spell
That ripped us apart to say farewell
No longer we could walk parallel
We had to endure and abide

She is the daughter of the Ocean
Beauty as far as a stone could throw 
I know
Her love is always in slow motion
Whoa oh sorceress Calypso

Calypso

Recorded at: Looking Glass Phoenix, Surprise, AZ
Produced, Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by: Christopher Rippel
Photography: 
Irina Alexandrova
Davide Versaci
Bilibin Maksym
Christopher Rippel

Artwork:
Sarah Holmlund

Christopher Rippel:
Vocals
Guitar
Bass Guitar
Keyboards
Drums

Rio Rippel:
Vocals

Mark Pasquale:
Lead Guitar (Calypso)

Special Thanks to:
Jing

Words & Music by: 
Christopher Rippel
© 2021 Music By Ripsongs (BMI)
℗ 2021 Redparis Records
Management: Surprise Management LLC
WWW.ChristopherRippel.com

Calypso (Radio Edit)

LYRICS

A black cat crossed my path
I went chasing it under a ladder
The chase broke the lick of salt
Indoor the umbrella opened 
What does it matter?

He rides a horse but he’s not a cowboy
He rides up, high in the sky
He is a slayer of evil so stay on the righteous path
Or you will surely die 

Pegasus was born out of Medusa
Out of her neck as her head hit the ground
He was wild and free and did not belong to thee
Until Bellerophon came around

A black cat ate a rat
It’s guts spilled under the ladder
A black dog licked its paw
And stole the rat and licked up all of the splatter

He tamed the horse but it had wings
So soon he learned to fly
Until a creature with scales and a cat-o'-nine-tails
Was terrorizing you and I

So the fight began fire versus steel
Making super eights in the sky
Around and round until the creature fell down
There was blood and fire and a hook in his eye
Let's fight

After battle he had a broken wing
So Calypso came and started to sing
The song she sang healed him right up
And they bathed in the thermal spring

The black dog laid a turd
The flies landed and then did scatter
They flew in to the house
Licking the meat on your platter

On their way to Mount Olympus
A stingfly took a bite out of Pegasus thigh
Throwing his rider into the sea
Caught by a whale who ate him alive

Now at Olympus Zeus became his Master
And together they did ride
But not in the sky or for desire
But chained to his chariot of fire

Black dog
Black dog

Recorded at: Looking Glass Phoenix, Surprise, AZ
Produced, Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by: Christopher Rippel
Photography: 
Irina Alexandrova
Davide Versaci
Bilibin Maksym
Christopher Rippel

Artwork:
Sarah Holmlund

Christopher Rippel:
Vocals
Guitar
Bass Guitar
Keyboards
Drums

Rio Rippel:
Vocals

Mark Pasquale:
Lead Guitar (Calypso)

Special Thanks to:
Jing

Words & Music by: 
Christopher Rippel
© 2021 Music By Ripsongs (BMI)
℗ 2021 Redparis Records
Management: Surprise Management LLC
WWW.ChristopherRippel.com

The Taming Of Pegasus (Radio Edit)

LYRICS

I was looking for some water
Hunting for some food
I stumbled upon this medieval fortress
That was benevolent and shrewd

It was made of gray stone and mortar
With a river of water
With a river of water
There was nothing there for me to do
Whoo Hoo

I was about to knock on the old wood 
and copper door
I saw claw marks scratched on the patina
And the wood was still smoldering

The door was cracked open ajar as if to say
Come on in
Perhaps this was some kind of warning
But I, I walked in

Not now, not ever
The black dog with the glowing red eyes
I’ll fight to the death or whatever
I fight until my torch solidifies

The story of old as the story was told
On a dark rainy thundering night
Of a candle lit church
Parishioners knelt at prayer
The black dog appeared at the crack of light
That’s right

Not now, not ever
The black dog with the glowing red eyes
I’ll fight to the death or whatever
I fight until my torch solidifies

Immersed in a fog people ran from the dog
But two parishioners prayers came true
The black dog ripped open their throats 
Then left them soaking in their bloody trench coats
You know it’s all from a certain point of view, I do

Now I kept that in mind as I opened up the door
The full moon shined through the windowpane
I pulled out my large cross going around my neck
And carry coffin nails to protect the mundane such shame

Come out' come out El Cadejo I know you are here
No food or drink or black dog
This time I am safe for I am not his target
But safe you may be not at your synagogue 

Not now, not ever 
The black dog with the glowing red eyes
I'll fight to the death or whatever
I fight until my torch solidifies

Recorded at: Looking Glass Phoenix, Surprise, AZ
Produced, Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by: Christopher Rippel
Photography: 
Irina Alexandrova
Davide Versaci
Bilibin Maksym
Christopher Rippel

Artwork:
Sarah Holmlund

Christopher Rippel:
Vocals
Guitar
Bass Guitar
Keyboards
Drums

Rio Rippel:
Vocals

Mark Pasquale:
Lead Guitar (Calypso)

Special Thanks to:
Jing

Words & Music by: 
Christopher Rippel
© 2021 Music By Ripsongs (BMI)
℗ 2021 Redparis Records
Management: Surprise Management LLC
WWW.ChristopherRippel.com

Black Dog (Radio Edit)

LYRICS

He is the keeper of the gate
He guards the entrance of the underworld
He lives near the bottomless lake
Where the boats cross with their jewels and pearls

In the land of ten thousand snakes
Deep in a cave between the mountain and the sea
Lived the nine headed serpent the hydra
Who came out who came out

So when the ships sank with their gold
They are never to be found
So when the pirates with their ropes lowered down hooks from their boats
They got pulled down deep until they drown

In the land of ten thousand snakes
Deep in a cave between the mountain and the sea
Lived the nine headed serpent the hydra
Who came out he came out yeah

The call was put out for Hercules
To rid this harrowing foul pest
Which no one could beat and no one wanted to greet
Hercules so became obsessed 

Now in the past others have tried
To cut off it’s head
But when it got cut off it would start to cough
And two more grew in its place instead

As the two sparred off with fight
He cut its head off with a sword
Then with his burning club he stuck it in it’s hemorrhaging stub
And cauterized it’s neck that he had gored

After eight times of this bloody terror
The Hydra screamed and breathed his last deadly breath
But the mask Hercules wore kept him safe and with his valor
The ninth was the hydra’s sudden death.

In the land of ten thousand snakes
Deep in a cave between the mountain and the sea
Lived the nine headed serpent the hydra
Who came out come and see

In the land of ten thousand snakes
Deep in a cave between the mountain and the sea
Lived the nine headed serpent the hydra
Who came out

Recorded at: Looking Glass Phoenix, Surprise, AZ
Produced, Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by: Christopher Rippel
Photography: 
Irina Alexandrova
Davide Versaci
Bilibin Maksym
Christopher Rippel

Artwork:
Sarah Holmlund

Christopher Rippel:
Vocals
Guitar
Bass Guitar
Keyboards
Drums

Rio Rippel:
Vocals

Mark Pasquale:
Lead Guitar (Calypso)

Special Thanks to:
Jing

Words & Music by: 
Christopher Rippel
© 2021 Music By Ripsongs (BMI)
℗ 2021 Redparis Records
Management: Surprise Management LLC
WWW.ChristopherRippel.com

Hydra (Radio Edit)

Today everything is going wrong and you think you need cocaine to fix it. 

Christopher Rippel - Vocals, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums
From the album "Duritanium Heart"

Cocaine

Cover of Jefferson Airplane

Christopher Rippel - Vocals, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Drums

Somebody To Love

Cocaine (Riplified Dance Mix)

Original Recording Artist
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