The vocal tracks started with The Fool's Jest (#257) and continue on into the present day.  Gradually getting better about process with these.

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Tracks With Vocals

My first vocals for anyone in 24 1/2 years.  That's right folks, since May of 1999 at Seattle University.
So I will sound a little out of practice and secondly I set myself a hard task with the instrumental track being made first and the vocals later.

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brackets are lyrics left on the cutting room floor.

One day the fool came walking by
And the king said 'let's have laughter'
[Then the fool said 'Well I'll make a jest'
'But let's just not kill me after']
(replaced with some da-da-da'ing)

He proceeded then to make his pitch
And the king besat there, all bewitched
But there came a point which had a flaw
And the fool knew he might lose it all

[So he turned to something he felt safe]
[And the king then seemed to forget the gaffe]
But the fool well knew his lucky break
And he quickly then made his escape

Being free to muse on the fickleness of rulers
As the day grew gaunt and grey
He thanked his stars
That unlike his peers
He lived to jest another day

SexDeka

The Fool's Jest

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The result of a Wikipedia crawl figuring out something around meme lore.  A Snowclone is a re-usable word phrase.

"In Soviet Russia, X Y's you." etc

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Lyrics:

I used to be a snowclone
But I took an arrow to the knee
I'm not a snowclone
But I play one on TV

If Eskimos have a thousand words for snow
Snowclones surely have one word for Eskimos

I Used To Be A Snowclone, But I Took An Arrow To The Knee

The third rather experimental vocal track.  A lot of compressing sections to go faster and match instrumentals.

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Lyrics:


And if it isn't too much trouble
I would like to know just what you were angling for
For the time... grows...short
To search for redress, tidy the mess

Riddle me this

As we sit here treading water
Why is it that you keep dodging the issue
Are the terms... too... steep
To broker a deal
What is it you feel

I didn't want, to be cruel
But there comes a time
Begging validation
Plays me for the fool

Why Are You Malfunctioning / Whimsy Number 2 (Lyrical)

The fourth lyrical track, this is Track 67 (LXVII) with the vocal track just fitted on top of it without really changing the instrumentals at all.

Don't interrupt a woman when she's trying to keep you out of trouble.

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Lyrics:

They're looking for a man
Who has a plan
Don't be put out by seeming
Shallow comparisons
Their abacus is always on patrol

They seek the best discard the rest
Remember they just try to build a nest
That instinct isn't really just a troll

They don't have time
To sit and wait
For you to find yourself
Until too late
The younger ones
Require being bold

SepteDeka

Be More Worried If She Says Yes (Extended Lyrical Version)

Be More Worried If She Says Yes - Lyrical Extended

Slightly autobiographical.  Although I will add for Danika's benefit I do understand that revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded, about ninety-seven percent of music is purging demons about the significant Other.

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Lyrics:


All the tireless individuation i was doing
While the normalites were screwing
Means that trouble has been brewing for a while

When we get around to settling
The imbalance that's been nettling
There may be a confrontation off the top of the dial

It takes a fair amount of being a pussy
To build a world based on passing the buck
But when the choice is between
Some of the men that you've seen
Is the cagey guy the one you want to fuck


Though it's indicated to be tough
And we wonder what's enough
I should be gentle all the same

But when the gadflies of the swarm
Were causing genuine harm
It takes a fair amount of being a pussy
To shield them from the blame

It Takes A Fair Amount Of Being A Pussy

I felt like a very Netrek mood and at the same time something about quantum chromodynamics.

Dedicated to Tom Youderian, Scott Humphreys, Sheldon on Big Bang Theory and every International Netrek League (INL) Team I had the pleasure to cross swords with, in any era.

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intro:

Feeling time to rank scum maybe

Iggy says hasta la vista baybee

main:

There once was a man of science

Who placed a great reliance

On Fleming's sagely tome


While the others in their hammocks

Dreamt of quantum chromodynamics

He paced about the sandy loam


Having grown extremely weary

Of perusing the Onium Theory

He shook his burly fists

exclaiming 'Mucus Pig Exists!'

And vanished into the Quantum Foam

The Quantum Foam

Travels through Love and Academia. Kicking off OctoDeka.

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Lyrics: 

While toiling as the system's minion
I hallucinated an opinion
Of my unrequited's attributes
Pulling my hair out by the roots
For the pain that that begat

If I cannot find the path to contentment
But still get high off my resentment
Well you don't really need that

I travelled the academic crucible
until their proofs were irreducible

Though it wasn't to be seen as particularly advisable
I showed the March Hare's his map was diagonalizable

Through variation of parameters twice
And reduction of order once
I displayed to the assembled greyhairs
that I wasn't an unflattering dunce

At the end of time at school that was set
Thoughts turned once more back to regret

Mastering the yen to be vindictive
Is not altogether quite predictive

Of success to say the least
But that's the sordid nature of the beast

OctoDeka

We're Gonna Make You Do Math

I just am really fond of this song, on an album that got no thanks at the time and didn't do well.  And I found it really weird that there are no other cover versions in 43 years or so.

It's in the 14 day holding period with Distro-Kid to formally become a cover song with a real license, while it's like that I have it on SoundCloud but non monetized so it earns zero until then.

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Can't Turn My Heart Away

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Can't Turn My Heart Away (Art Garfunkel Cover)

I liked the technical challenge of this song.  A lot of moving vocal segments around and the first time that I sang harmonies against myself.

Looking at it a day later: it's like theres an extra measure in the verses where Bill shortened once he got to the 2nd-and-later, and I didn't because I cut and pasted, so it explains why I have to idle extra time each verse to deal with that.

But it does inadvertently fill the requirement that "cover songs should have their own weird signature that doesn't match the original too closely"

I very consciously did -not- read the spoilers for who Laura was really about before cutting the cover.  One fun way to interpret who Laura is, if you didn't know it's Joel's mother, is not an ex-wife or an ex-gf, like some are saying, but let's say a niece or a biological daughter that he never sees until Laura is an adult, but what hurts is they're cut from the same cloth, they're -so- similar but Laura's karma is different and gets her in trouble and he always has to financially bail her out etc.  Be a fixer.
She's genius-level but does substances way harder than him and routinely almost gets killed.  Loose cannon.  The 'umbilical cord' in this sense is then the aid he has to give, she -never- shows signs of growing up or out of this phase.

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Laura

Laura (Billy Joel Cover)

A lot of work went into this one and it was the second time that I used harmony against myself singing.  And the first time I really put different files from the synth together in the mixer in the -center- of a song.  I'd done intros and outros off a side-file before but this time I got really invasive.

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Pamela

Pamela (Toto Cover)

For Maria.

This was a little easier to put together than the previous three cover songs.  I should maybe have transposed it to lower key for my bass range (in fact almost certainly should have), but it was intriguing to see if I could actually hit all the notes singing.

05-08-2024: fixed up the front phrases which I think really hurt its Re-Ex rating.  re-uploaded the file.

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I Was Brought To My Senses

I Was Brought To My Senses (Sting Cover)

My fifth cover song so far.  It sorts very well with my personality which is generally how I am choosing which songs to cover anyway.

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Silence and I

Silence And I (The Alan Parsons Project Cover)

2024 needs some kind of answer to Sting's "Russians" from forty years earlier.  I gave it a decent try.
First thought is "why did you not put an instrumental intro"
But if you hear this thing about 3x then it grows on you

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Lyrics:

Give me an abstraction
And I will show you that it's a mistake
A mirage in the desert, a trick of the mind that we make.
Possession being nine-tenths of the law
was bound to stick in someone's craw

The terms do well as a matter of course
Until they hit a counter-force
Legalisms tend to pall
When speciousness smacks into a wall

When the tables turn,
And the balance shifts,
The rules that once seemed solid,
Begin to drift.

The unruly state of nature
In which nations chart their course
Born of cold calculation
Without compassion or remorse

So we must be wary,
And we must be wise,
For what we think we safely hold,
Can quickly turn to lies.

298 : Geopolitical Quicksand released May 29, 2024

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NovemDeka

Geopolitical Quicksand

This was written and finished on the same day, June 1st when Donald's felony counts were read-out in court.

Being clear here: this doesn't exactly take sides:

Except it's ridiculous that we're in the situation in the first place.

Just aghast that both candidates should be far better candidates, we're in some awful alternate timeline.

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Lyrics:

so gather round you sigma males
i've got a rather interesting tale

the thing that confounds the ruling elite
is men needing to do a heckin' felony for a treat

something's rather less than sublime
when the charges are as sticky as the crime
if you face the prospect of doing time
don't be such a statist bro

when you know what it is to be
a justice impacted individual
it's tough to purge the stench that's residual
to overcome the knock-out blow

if they ban the box then i can shake it
there are times you know i just can't take it
as much as they say fake it till you make it
my upbeat manner might not save me
felony stigma grindset baby

if you seek to ostracize yet more
don't crime shame, man... it's twenty-twenty-four

299 : Felony Stigma Gives Me The Ick released June 1, 2024

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Felony Stigma Gives Me The Ick

Bear in mind that this is fictional as well as firmly autobiographical all at the same time.  Because that's the way with human experience - we make up a story that we tell ourselves until we believe it.

There was some inadvertent manipulation by the educational system which was real, but I was also guilty as hell of being stubborn about individuality and also a pretty hardcore video game addict right back to the Atari 2600 and this extended into online addiction in the 90's before they had a name for it even.

So people that I may have felt were less than helpful, also rolled out the red carpet for me more than once -- just on terms I refused to swallow.

So mainly this is an anti-bureaucratic piece.  The footsoldiers in the faculties doing the teaching, and my fellow classmates both have my sincere sympathies.  A distinction has to be drawn between making music just to get the ick out of my system and what I truly think upon more sober reflection.

Also: well aware this kind of whines like "Allentown" re: 'vote with your feet dummy'

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Lyrics:

When the H.R. folks say that i irrationally resent
But then the merit raise was two percent
Then let's review the course of the gradual descent
That got all of us where we are now

At the start they said well then, we'll skip you one grade
But hem you in by constraints that we already made
You'd be better adjusted if you only had stayed
Where conformity's all we allow


As I traversed past grade school to the stuff above
The real shock came when, push came to shove
There came things I didn't particularly love
Like rejection from the occasional cow

I escaped from that scene seeking resolution
But the worst place to do it was an institution 
Playing redistributive games
I pushed my way through it
Though my hope was diminished
If no other result, well I proved I could finish
But they were bitter returns all the same

Getting out in the world from the ivory tower
I found that things out there were not much less sour
The retail grind at five eighty five an hour
Doesn't cause you to climb to much fame

I needed the time, to heal, to mend
But the length that it took seemed to really depend
On chewing through this or that online crutch
And that seemed to drag on for far too much

Advancement comes slow when your job doesn't match
The inclinations which are your true path
When suppression has become the order of the day
A lot of time gets burned away

And then came a shift in the mood of the nation
Making it tougher to alter your station
Where even if striven with all your might
They'd just have said, can't promote the budget's too tight
If you were lucky they'd come at you with euphemisms
If not they'd tell you the stark reality 
That you just don't fit intersectionality

I only seemed lazy because in this domain
The only way to stay remotely sane
Was to ignore that they ignored me
While dreaming of where I really should be
Pointing out that my worth's in arrears
Perennially falls on deaf ears

If they get an abrupt shock one morning
Well, they've only had forty-five years of warning
Playing games with people's lives 
Is bound to end in a nasty surprise


I only seemed lazy because I missed the basic rule
Not to wait for someone else's say 
And so I no longer play the fool
As I breach the walls of the cage
And take control of my own way

And so folks then herein lies the rub
Just like don't wait for a corpo to cook your grub
Don't wait for prefab lesson plans
Take destiny back into your hands

301 : I Only Seemed Lazy Because released June 11, 2024

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I Only Seemed Lazy Because

This was after DanikaXIX's Twitch watchalong of Dreamgirls when I made two vocals really quickly inspired by that experience.  Of the two, Kick Rocks is where I consciously tried to do an Eddie Murphy impression as a laugh, and then She's Got A Great Face For Philosophy (CCCV) is more done in my own voice.  The latter got an Alpha Remaster a number of months later to get rid of the awkward 2 second gap after "modus vivendi"

The closest I've come to an R&B vocal.  I didn't expect that writing the lyrics it just started to make sense.

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Lyrics:

Women love strategically

And men love romantically

If you expect to be both ignorant and free

You expect what never was and never will be


Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

Any tool can mask their cruelty forcing you to find it.

Circle jerks of any size

Tend to scotch the intended prize

Hence the warnings of the wise


Women think intuitively

And men think logically

I saw how the ringmasters tend to their flocks

And that's when I told them that they can kick rocks


If you expect to be both ignorant and free

You expect what never was and never will be

Shit rolls down hill but eventually

It ends up on my boots and then we shall see

304 : Kick Rocks released June 19, 2024

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Kick Rocks

You know this experience.
She's got a face that's a '4' and perfect athletic muscle tone that's a '10' everywhere else.
And unbidden you have a revolutionary uprising in your system.

6-22-2024 10:30am : the mastered file has been altered to have the awkward 2 second gap after "modus vivendi" removed.

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Lyrics:

She's got a great face for philosophy
Though occasionally we disagree
About the nature of reality
That's well and good, but as far as I can see
Right now she's barking up the wrong tree


You can't make guacamole without an alligator pear
There was an offputting vibe in her blank stare
That would be sniffed out most anywhere
So it's a good thing we were still in her lair


I'd bet an eleven pound slab of deli ham
That before we started this conceptual jam
She'd engaged in a futile attempt to cram
For her turgid instructor's last exam


What's coalescing into certainty
Is that for a very, very modest fee
She'd hired an expert, and that was namely me
To solve her conundrum logically

Suddenly her speech took off like a rocket
As if fire had lit her nature's pocket
The time had come for me 
to ferret out 
what her idea was of modus vivendi

She thought she'd picked the ideal man
Without my stunning dungeon tan
But like Riker's leg, he'd jumped the couch
And anyway had proved an unworkable grouch
So she'd seen that it was high time for her to flee

The confidence of a yogurt male
Apparently had seriously begun to pale
In relation to my questionable rummage sale
Of attributes which in sordid detail
She then harshly listed out for me

I listened with almost perfect pretendance
In the center of her floordrobe's gritty resplendence
To her very clearly imperfect remembrance
Of my shining virtuosity

First came Parmenides with his hatred of beans
She explained while tugging manically on her tattered jeans
But when the ancients went to tell us what that really means
It fell to Zeno to breach the veil with paradoxical schemes

She said I had a knack for unlocking the past 
And proceeded to say a thing that left me aghast
My performance, she said, could consistently outclass
Yogurt guy's dismal grasp of themes

Reaching to the era of scholasticism
She said Albertus Magnus fueled her cynicism
And she'd ditched her robust specimen of hirsutism
When he'd proved to be not worthy of esteem

aliquod ex nihilo
inpensam quod punctilio
quamvus genus arietibus
da pauper puella, alea dis

(something out of nothing
I'm counting on that point
although she kind of rants
Give the poor girl a chance)

In a sudden gush of of words she turned hysterical
And with what seemed to me to be a miracle
Rattled on about how this led into empirical
Conclusions that David Hume had cast abeam

She's got a great face for philosophy
But the rest of her form, believe you me
Would grace the annals of human physiognomy
And that just might be enough, we'll just have to see

305 : She's Got A Great Face For Philosophy released June 22, 2024

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She's Got A Great Face For Philosophy

Just a strange conversation I had on Twitter/X and a few other concepts rolled together:

Note: I am in nowhere near this dark a mood it's just the direction writing the poetry dragged me in.

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Lyrics:

As my prospects generally began to sink
I became a master of the slow blink
It seemed a better expression of calm
Than the tried and true facepalm

Every day i get closer to understanding
why Nietzsche went insane
He failed to last until the serum
of Gödel's incompleteness theorem
Or maybe it was just cancer of the brain

While nibbling on my picky bits
I stumbled into mumbling fits
Around the looming dilemma that sits
On the horizon just ahead 

Lucidity deploys a myriad of suns that melt one's mind
And then one day you wake to find
How badly you'd been left behind
Which only increased my dread

Starting as a sort of joke
I decided to invoke a sort of chant
To break me of my internal rant

Like lobbing coconades at a deka wall
I blazed a path through it all
I found my self devolving
On a hackneyed tool of problem solving

"Yes/No column, come to life"
Rectify my grum moment
By serving up the missing component
To wend my way out of the mess

Every day it's more demanding
Increasing my chances of landing 
At a place of inability to maintain
The trick's to master fear of
People that I'd rather not hear from
Or maybe it's just answering that's a pain

Insatiable truths that devour
Like maggots eating flour
Snap at my heels every hour
The trick's to find a state of grace
In weathering what i'd rather not face
Before it grows beyond what I can tame

"Yes/No column, come to life"
Resolve my little internal strife
Rid me of the pitfalls that are rife
And cut this gordian knot like a knife
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When I catch myself being a try-hard
Or an insufferable grognard
It helps to pass the time
By flattening the occasional taxi lime
But eventually I return
To suddenly learn
How to break this paradigm

310: Yes-No Column, Come To Life! released July 7, 2024

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Ešrā

Yes-No Column, Come To Life!

I decided to get catty about some philosophers.
This was the result, with the help of a few Twitter conversations.

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Lyrics:
some say
that as far as language and culture go
internal systemic patterns rule
but I haven't really come to find
this conclusion all that cool

Camus said if the world were clear
art would not exist
Did he write that when he was sober
Or after getting really pissed

People see what they want to see
I'm more into shaping my own reality

What forms a bright personality
Is intelligence and cordiality


There are some conceptual nodes
That it is a mistake to connect
And so it's time to be reflecting 
That what we do is to interpret a thing
And warp it around our intellect

All of this pattern matching taken to excess
Results in a hyperlexic mess 
It feels like just belletristic overfitting
A bunch of overcomplicated knitting
Storytelling confused for a predictive process

The real onion here is deciding
Which connections to disregard
For some to me have only about
The appeal of a tub of lard

Some philosophers are Fools competing to
construct a board game
with the most Byzantine rules
But as their theories gather mold
The people who were sold on them
Will sometimes find some jewels

though on examination appearing useless
these things are not non-fungible

The most trivial of trivialities
masquerading as a framework
and that was when i suspected
that they were rather a bunch of jerks

perhaps it's sufficient to be
inspired by the semi-hucksters work
which in places is somewhat overrated
and here and there solutions lurk
which make them vindicated

Freud proved psychosomatics exist
And Chomsky helped out parsers
Foucalt's model of power structures
Is great for spotting farceurs
Derrida examined lived experience
But deconstruction was a miss

They might be accused of
schizophrenic pattern matching
for things that are not really there
but what they actually did was
to make their theories accommodative
fundamentally to get anywhere

They built these edifices out of
A significant chunk of the noticeable
And while I'll grant you that it's not falsifiable
The product might not be that reliable

The lesson of successful intellectual slatterns
is that if enough people agree with your patterns
the mimetic value capture alone is worth it

I just refuse to be mollycoddled
by all this abstruse twaddle
about various mental models

But the manner of their braying
Is really just bewraying  
for the edification of of me and you
that this is necessary for the functioning 
of the social infrastructure
which is just a nice way of saying
that even the clods require their due

Complexity, sensitivity, political import
There are times when i could give less of a bucksnort
But my bias here is showing
For I cannot possibly be all-knowing

Like a stochastic parrot yet a fleshy one
They're sentient but non-useful to some
And a perusal of their semantic fantasia
reveals they sometimes as well have had Wernicke's aphasia

In their defense, absolute clarity is boring
You can't dodge the theorypill they said
Protest as you may
but intellectual whoring by spewing opaqueness
creates a daunting malaise of fakeness
which kind of ruins my day

319: Word Salad released July 20, 2024

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Word Salad

There -is- actually a tune in there after the mock beginning, starting about 45 seconds into this...

My lyrics are 80% weird like usual so someone would have to listen far enough in to notice, but....
Sort of a risky play, folk tune mixed with politics.
And far be it for me to judge the situation from across the water.
There are some calls out there for us to try to say something, but obviously it's going to be an imperfect attempt...
I was nervous about it and toned it down a bit :)

335 : Foul-Mouthed Parrot released September 19, 2024

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ŠinEšrā

Foul-Mouthed Parrot

A therapeutic journey into a mix of jazz, classical, and a blend of types of electronica.  And a wry, gradual observation that promotion tends to only go as far as you push it.  At least I make my fellow musicians laugh a little.

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