Metanoic Meditations

He went down to the crossroads
To  make a rotten kind a deal

And you know ol’ scratch is
Always lookin', always lookin' for a soul to steal

Seems learnin’ to play his guitar
Was takin’ far, far too long

So, he signed the dotted line
And got his hit song

But his voice sounded like a goat
Of the fine print, 
he should of made a note

Why not just practice?
Best way to get the job done

Why not just practice?
Hard work never hurt no one

They cheered and bought the record
Enchanted by the sound

But music should be for the soul
Not the other way around

And all that fame and fortune
Will burn up real fast

When it’s time to pay the price
And the devil owns your ass

Whoa-whoa-whoa-oh
whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa

Why not just practice?
A good way to unwind

Why not just practice?
protect your soul’s behind

If you’re at the crossroads
Best to turn right round there and then

Cause the devil, he ain’t your friend
He’ll always screw you in the end

Why Not Just Practice? (Featuring Johnny, Willie and Keanu) 2024 Remaster

Wake up, Neo!

The matrix has you,
it’s all around you

It owns everything
that you think you are

It feeds on your 
life force

Take the red pill 
then you’ll see

it’s all just a 
machine made dream

Flush the pod and
Flee the bots

You’re no longer a
Copper top

The nutrient slop
Doesn’t taste bad

When you realize
That you’ve been had

The matrix, it
Doesn’t own you
 
You are not its
slave

Once you know
the truth inside you

You are the one!

Who else could it be?
Whoa, I dunno!

You are the one!
Who, me?

Don the shades
and do cart wheels

Dodge the bullets,
They aren’t real

Remember there’s
No spoon at all

Just have faith, 
then you won’t fall

Now you’ve got those 
kung-fu tricks

Triple spin-kick
Agent Smith

And know that 
you will never fall

Cause true love,
it conquers all

It’s time to wake up now!

And know that you’re the one!

Wake up now, wake up!

I know jujitsu?
I know kung fu?
I stop bullets with my hand?
Was that the same cat?
My girlfriend wears leather pants?
I can fly like Superman?

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Wake Up, Neo!

WeCouldBeFriends

Listen to David. k. A. Spencer's original instrumental -- Dear Davy Jones, here: https://soundcloud.com/david-spencer-543878720/dear-davy-jones

The King is Dead, Long Live Boxing!
(Based on a true story)

They found the king upon his throne
Bloated, dead, and all alone

He had called on Dr Nick, 
With his pill filled bag of tricks

Wasn’t peanut butter sandwiches 
did him in

Then I thought, hey man,
I’m just like him

life is just a haze 
always stoned 
in a daze
Cue lines blur 
in between
character and 
real life dream

I was just a London Boy, 
Took the pills, made me ill

Don’t want to be a square,
did the drugs, grew my hair

Never answered that phone, 
Kept on walking, wandered alone

Ziggy, it started clean, 
Then we tasted the American dream 

Can’t say it wasn’t fun, 
I’d gone away, I was numb

Nearly died a diamond dog, 
Hard to see through that fog

life is just a haze 
always stoned 
in a daze
Cue lines blur 
in between
character and 
real life dream
Was a shock 
to finally see
skeleton staring 
back at me

Found I need a drastic shift
Not the next synthetic fix

Time to put those pills away,
Cocaine’s for another day

Milk and peppers just won’t do,
When your 90 pounds of thin sinew

The thin white duke is going to die
Unless I give boxing a try!

Put down those pills, Bowie! 
pick up the gloves, Bowie!

Shadow box those
Demons away
 
Hit the bag and
Run the stairs, Bowie!

Raise your fists like Rocky, Bowie!

Yo, Adrian, I mean Bowie!

Let’s box!
Put down the pills and pick up the gloves

Put Up Your Dukes!

The King Is Dead, Long Live Boxing! (David. k. A. Spencer & Cosmic Keanu) Feat. Dave Bowee

Coming Back to Cosmic Reality 
Music & backing vocals by David k. A. Spencer (https://soundcloud.com/david-spencer-543878720)
Lyrics & artwork: Cosmic Keanu

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We’ve come too far
can’t fall 
or back down 

We find ourselves
Right here
Right now

I’ve got a misperception,
slip in and out of mind

Outside of mind

The truth is here to be revealed
The point is just to be for real

It is what’s here and now to stay
When you've got no more games to play
Are you coming back to reality?
Are you stepping back to reality?

Are you waking up to reality?
There is a true connection
Between everything

We’ve made an art
Of playing
the fool

I’ve found a true connection
The right place at the right time

There’s simply nothing in the way
If you stop pretending to be asleep
We’re all standing on the same stage
Right at this temporal edge of space
Are you coming back to reality?
Are you edging back to reality?
Are you stepping back to reality?
Are you waking up to reality?
There is a true connection
There is a true connection
There is a true connection
Between everything

440hz
https://soundcloud.com/david-spencer-543878720/back-to-reality-3
Original Instrumentation
https://soundcloud.com/david-spencer-543878720/back-to-reality

Coming Back To Cosmic Reality (David k. A. Spencer & Cosmic Keanu) - 432hz

Vocals & lyrics by FRAWSTAKWA
https://soundcloud.com/frawstakwa/one-chance-148bpm?in=frawstakwa/sets/open-for-collab

Mix, production & art - Cosmic Keanu

One Chance - FRAWSTAKWA & Cosmic Keanu

Vocals & lyrics by FRAWSTAKWA
https://soundcloud.com/frawstakwa/only-the-real-140bpm?in=frawstakwa/sets/open-for-collab

Mix, production & art - Cosmic Keanu

Only The Real - FRAWSTAKWA & Cosmic Keanu

Watch the video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XKWXagB3Cs

Music & Production by Hobocop
https://soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

Vocals & Art by Cosmic Keanu

FREE D/L On Bandcamp
https://cosmickeanu.bandcamp.com/track/not-so-afraid

Not So Afraid

What can I say 
I don’t know what to think
Can’t shake this feeling
It overwhelms me

only solution
Seems to be
just to run away

That’s the way
I’ve dealt with
Everything before

every time 
I feel the fear 
and want to run away
I think of you
And I’m not 
so afraid

This tide incoming 
it feels so hopeless
There is no reason
No sense of purpose

pushed around so long
By things we can’t change
We feel abandoned
life has no meaning

that’s an illusion
Things are deeper than
we can ever know

There is infinite joy
Beyond understanding
Beyond the senses,
Living in the truth

Achieving this
no higher goal
grounded in being, unshaken
In pain and sadness

Content with whatever
unattached to pleasure
Gain true freedom
Enter absolute joy

Let go of attachments
mind grounded in the truth
At peace forever
Completely absorbed in God

Belief without faith
is a quagmire of doubt
never satisfied
In this world or beyond

Let go of attachments
mind grounded in the truth
At peace forever
Completely absorbed in God

every time 
I think of you
I’m not 
so afraid

Video

Not So Afraid (Hobocop & Cosmic Keanu) VIDEO AVAILABLE

Feline Zorro and his trusty companion, Shadow Chaser, wish to relate a story. This one, is The Man Who Sold the World, by sénior David Bowie.

The Man Who Sold The World -- Feat. Zorro! (David Bowie Cover)

Dystopia(OfficerMurphyMix)

Lyrics & Vocals by FRAWSTAKWA
https://soundcloud.com/frawstakwa/the-whole-wide-world-90bpm?in=frawstakwa/sets/open-for-collab

Music & Art by Cosmic Keanu

The Whole Wide World (FRAWSTAKWA & Cosmic Keanu)

Watch the music video on YouTube :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bnm0ag1LLY

Vocals, Lyrics and Art by https://soundcloud.com/cosmic_keanu
Produced by HOBOCOP

Lyrics:

What once made sense 
Falls down to my feet

And what I used to think 
Now dissolves like a dream

History once believed,
now the sun has bleached

A web of lies
Surrounds what we see

Nothing was ever real,
All made to deceive

We are at the 
edge of night

darkness increases,
swallowing the light

We scramble like rats
Fight each other for scraps

False lights explode,
To douse our fright

This coming storm 
Feels like the end

As wheat and tares 
Are separated again

Events unfold, 
draw us back 
Into eternity
We kick and scream
fighting that which saves

Why lose your soul
just to save your life?

There is no end,
in the truth, unite

The name that cannot be named
The door to all wonders
Will be revealed
Outside this dream
It calls, forever, 
forever beckoning

Outside the Dream(Hobocop & Cosmic Keanu)Video Available🎥

Feline Zorro and his trusty companion, Shadow Chaser, wish to relate another story. This one, is Safety Dance, by the super-group Men Without Hats. I have lost my hat in the heat of battle before, so I can relate. Please enjoy!

As far as the 'everyone look at your hands line', that is a good one. I use that one, along with, 'hey, your boots are untied', or 'hey, what is that on your shirt'? Then, that is when I strike!

Safety Dance -- Feat. Zorro! (Men Without Hats Cover)

Watch the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45vI5icluCU

Gothic Funk - music and percussion (open collab)
https://soundcloud.com/gothic-funk/from-ukraine-with-love-open-collaboration-5

Music, additional percussion & production by Hobocop: https://soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

Vocals, lyrics by Cosmic Keanu and Hobocop

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Art by Cosmic Keanu

Lyrics: 

Here we are, lost in haze
In an endless concrete maze
Working for our enslavement
nature giving way to pavement

Turn our back on truth
Our convenience is now a prison
Sold lies of a better tomorrow
Consumed by greed, promises hollow

Money's your God now

Hungry ghosts wail and moan
Believed the lies they were shown
Mouths agape at parlor tricks
Pied pipers’ lead to the river Styx

Forgot everything that’s come before
Bathed in the manufactured glow
Consuming all of our attention
cradle to grave their sole intention

We never take the time to ask
Who profits from our pain and lack
We watch others fall through the cracks
Our morals no longer intact

Black mirrors sell a vision
Improve our fallen condition
$19.99 for the golden calf
It’s half-off, better act fast

Slip down the evolutionary ladder
Brains shrink with each misstep
Sell our souls to get our kicks
How many skeletons got rich quick

Money's your God now
You can have it all
Did you think that it was free?

Babylon built brick by brick
Bad decisions wall us in
Search for the escape hatch
buried beneath mounds of scratch

We’ve reached critical mass
No attention span left to ask
Why the foundation is so cracked
Tipping point has been surpassed

Life valued less than common cents
Even our bodies have been lent
Ones and zeroes decide our fate
Plastic identity, totally fake

Sign on the dotted line 
Everything goes, name your price
Puppets dangle from golden threads
Souls gone, hearts of lead

Money's your God now
You can have it all
Did you think that it was...

Never enough to feed the beast
Consumes all for its feast
Never stops, feeds and feeds 
Belly bloated on all that breathes

We won’t stop until we reach
The highest peak of idiocy
Almost there, not much time left
We wallow in our lack of depth

There’s still time, we could say no
To this degenerate side-show
Turn back this broken clock
The door will open if we knock

Unless...

Money's your God now
You can have it all
Did you think that it was free?

Money (Gothic Funk, Hobocop, Cosmic Keanu) VIDEO AVAILABLE

Watch the video on YouTube!! https://youtu.be/FXypZ4OPXpE

Vocals, lyrics & art by https://soundcloud.com/cosmic_keanu
Produced by HOBOCOP


Lyrics:

Where have I gone
What is left unsaid
What have I left behind
every time I closed my eyes

Everything is new
by grace I met you
And I swear
I won’t let you down

Now that we’re here
Forever more
Nothing was left behind
I swear
It’s all ahead

All that came before
All that passed me by
All of it led me here
By your side

I’ll let it all go
All the doubt and fear
the pain I kept inside
it wasn’t worth the time

What I thought I wanted
What I thought I lost
None of it ever
materialized

What I thought I knew
just a passing phase
I’ll let it all go
It wasn’t worth the time

Everything is new
by grace I met you
And I swear
I won’t let you down

Now that we’re here
Forever more
Nothing was left behind
I swear
It’s all ahead

All that came before
All that passed me by
All of it led me here
By your side
Everything is new by grace I met you
And I swear
I won’t let you down

Now that we’re here
Forever more Nothing was left behind 
It’s all ahead

All that came before
All that passed me by
All of it led me here

By Your Side(Hobocop & Cosmic Keanu)VIDEO AVAILABLE🎥

Watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nb5nfV0iNgM

Produced by HOBOCOP
Written by Novelli/Ruffolo 

Vocals & Lyrics by https://soundcloud.com/cosmic_keanu

Lyrics:

Surrounded by chaos, 
Heroic demise
It’s time – time to rise
Our names will live forever,
Forever out of time
Live for today
Join the final fight

Rise, samurai!
Blades slash through lies
As the bullets fly
Ignite the city of night 
This is our fight
There’s victory in death
If you know when to die

We walk the razor’s edge
With death by our side
We will never be alone
Forever out of time

Rise, samurai!
Tempered by our trials
With steel in our spine
Never bow to fear
Our names will never die
Ignite the city of night,
Join the final fight!

Rise, Samurai! (Hobocop & Cosmic Keanu)VIDEO AVAILABLE🎥

Brian Butts - Guitar, Drums, Keyboard, Bass, Master Mix https://soundcloud.com/brian-butts-565934842
Cosmic Keanu - Vocals, Lyrics

Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxpFYmJexFA

Lyrics: 

I hear a call from deep inside
Calling me back to the source
To the space 
where
I once belonged

When the change is complete
Is there nothing left of me?
light reflects
eternity

What seemed solid now dissolves
And the past is washed away
Is it fear that holds
the truth at bay?

When the change is complete
Is there nothing left of me?
light reflects
eternity

As the waters cascade down
Reminding us where we belong
Healing us in 
serenity

What seemed solid now dissolves
And the past is washed away
Is it fear that holds
the truth at bay?

As the waters cascade down
Reminding us where we belong
Healing us in 
serenity

Flowing through eternity
We'vw been here before
The search will end
When we seek no more

Photoemission (Brian Butts & Cosmic Keanu) VIDEO AVAILABLE

K2 and the Three - drums, bass & vocals
https://soundcloud.com/k2andthe3 / https://soundcloud.com/k2-kara

Cosmic Keanu - mix, guitar and vocals 

Mastered by Hobocop (OfficerMurphy)
https://soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

We Can Work It Out - Beatles Cover (K2 and the Three & Cosmic Keanu) - An OfficerMurphyMix

Written by Novelli/Ruffolo 

Lyrics:

I gotta let go
And get to the ocean before it runs dry 
Wait for the night
To look to the sky
As it lights up just like the 4th of July

I'll hold my breath
I"ll pretend to care
No!!
I don't belong here
I guess I really never did

I can't help it 
I was born with a scar
I gotta let go of it
And reach for the mountains
I gotta let go

And get to the ocean before it runs dry 
Wait for the night
To look to the sky
As it lights up just like the 4th of July

I'll hold my breath
I"ll pretend to care
No!!
I don't belong here
I guess I really never did

I can't help it 
I was born with a scar
I gotta let go of it
And reach for the mountains
I gotta let go

LetGo(BornWithAScar)

K2 and the Three - drums, percussion, bass
@k2andthe3 / @k2-kara

Cosmic Keanu - mix, guitar and vocals

Mastered by Hobocop (OfficerMurphy)
https://soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash Cover (K2 and the Three & Cosmic Keanu)

Be excellent to each other!

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
--Ephesians 6:12

"Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word."
--Thessalonians 2:16

Enter through the narrow gate. 
For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
--Matthew 7:13-14

For am I now seeking the favor of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.
-- Galatians 1:10

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
--Matthew 6:24

Metanoic Meditations

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