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Guitar Great Harvey Mandel takes a break from Canned Heat to record "Projectiles" with the Neomythics!

(The Neomythics are:  Gregory Howe, Matt Montgomery, and Jimmy Fontana.)

Lyrics by Gregory Howe:

Lost in thought looking up at the screen
Turn away when the illusion is seen
Though it seems strange and so hard to believe
That in a twist of fate I joined in the machine

Turn off and tune in to basic orders
Step in line with all the other soldiers
Follow down into its deep rabbit hole
Crawl around and find out how to disassemble it

Going this fast there's no letting go
So I keep on feeling for the path to follow
Hold on tight to the bent handlebars
And follow that light until I've gone way to far

Because the only way of breaking it down
Is from the inside where its weakness is found
And so we're stealing plans and sharpening files
Hurling through life as projectiles

And we march into the mainframe station
Projector heads and fresh screen faces
Walk straight into my terminal
Turn on the monitor and start watching myself

Going this fast in the digital stream
Coasting on bits that I'm jumping between
When a clear moment strikes and I notice something
Cogs are essential to the overall scheme

And in the protocol of information
We're recognizing lines of repetition
Yeah we're decrypting code and corrupting files
Hurling through life as projectiles

Projectiles - Neomythics

Neomythics is: Gregory Howe, Matt Montgomery, JImmy Fontana and Harvey Mandel on guitar.

Lyrics by Gregory Howe:

On the automated battlefield
Bots straight from DARPA agency
Gaming skills training up to real
Controlled remotely and wirelessly

Drone strikes raining down from the sky
As signals bouncing of satellites
Emotionally detached, vicariously instilled
Finger on the mouse point, click, and kill

Point, Click, and Kill
Cover ground at 35 an hour
Survey the damage and report to tower
Cameras streaming, all weapons engaged

Where push button icons light up on displays with
Night Strikes and Day Raids
Targets on everything trying to evade
Day Strikes and Night Raids

Killing unarmed people running away
Point, Click and Kill

In the cyber era of combat
With all command on remote control
Conflict landscape no longer flat
Where man retreats into caves and holes

Point, Click, and Kill - Neomythics

The Neomythics are: Gregory Howe, Matt Montgomery, Jimmy Fontana 

Lyrics by Gregory Howe

She sits with her big brown bad at the airport lobby gate
Make up disguises her heavy eyes hide the hard choices she's made
Like a deep dark sea she's got secrets buried underneath 
and it's complicated
It's separated, feels unrelated, so she's casting off

All made up but leaving early; late for fate, she's feeling dirty
Pushed and falling off she's moving on

Reclines with a glass of wine in the airplane's business class
Keeps thinking, she's through repeating the habits she's formed in the past

All dressed up, she's leaving early, posing as the times all vary
Trying not to seem ordinary; consequences are all scary
Cast illusions out and bury, slightly used and feeling wary
Pushed and falling off she's moving on

She lands in the Austin sun where it's 105 in the standing shade
Throws her guitar into an empty car, thinking in this heat that nothing saves
With no hesitation, without reservation, it's self-preservation she's carrying now
Given all that's happened, she'll never go back

Moving On - Neomythics

Vocals: Gregory Howe
Background Vocals: Nathalie Sanchez and Lisa Rein

Lyrics by Gregory Howe:

It doesn’t happen all that often 
The signs are hard to recognize
But slowly everything starts moving
Much to their anger and surprise

I wish that I could just fast forward
To better times that wait ahead
While I’m here mired in this resistance
Of tearing out this broken fence, 
Post, bracket, and barbed wire ‘cause

One too many times
We’ve relied on prevailing patterns 
Yeah they hold the cards right now
It’s not the way it’s going to be
Na na na na, na na na na, na na na na na not the way it's gonna happen 
Na na na na, na na na na, na na na na na gonna end up.

Nelson, Havel, Fela , and Ghandi                        	
All incarcerated for their beliefs 			
Went on to be leaders in their countries		
Brought the aggressors to their knees	     
Broke brackets and barbed wire cause

One too many times
We’ve relied on this failing fulcrum 
Yeah they make the laws right now
It’s not the way it’s going to be
Na na na na, na na na na, na na na na na not the way it’s happen 
Na na na na, na na na na, na na na na na not the way it’s gonna end up

To those falsely incarcerated
You will be in time be vindicated           

To those falsely incarcerated
You will be in time be vindicated

Leah - Neomythics - New Corporate Resistance

Lyrics by Gregory Howe

Growing up on Camano Island
Must have resembled an asylum
When you take into account 
All the things that he saw as a child
How can they blame him being all messed up
Scared and wild

And want to fly away from everything that’s bringing him down
And when he’s in the air he’s sure, 
The problems always coming down

Barefoot Backwoods Backpack Survivalist 
Never having anyone to trust makes everyone else seem suspect
So he bounced, tent living in the Forest
But by winter he’d Break and Enter
Vacation homes For food the shelter
(Bear bace and night vision glasses)

And learn to fly away from everything that’s bringing him down in
And when he’s in the air, he’s sure the problem’s always coming down
Landing on the ground

Learned to fly on a flight simulator 
Read manuals and masqueraded, started breaking into airports
Flip the switch looked over all the gages
Start the engine, Push the toggle
On the runway hit the throttle), 

And learn to fly away from everything that’s boxing him in
And when he makes a million dollars he just gives it back to them
Gives it all away 
All that was stolen

Finally downed in the Bay of Harbor Island 
On a stolen speedboat with no shoes on, extradited back to trial 
Flew all the way to the Bahamas 
and never landed in the process

39 foot prints through a hundred houses

We’ll C’ya C’ya later 
So we’re gonna C’ya   C’ya  Later
We’ll C’ya C’ya later!


Barefoot Bandit - Neomythics - New Corporate Resistance

Neomythics is: Gregory Howe, Matt Montgomery, Jimmy Fontana and Harvey Mandel on guitar!

Lyrics by Gregory Howe:

She can't go home again
couch surfing with some friends
she's using, choosing to fill the empty place within
She came from straight a's, teenage escapades
Turned to charades and degradates and masquerades

Yeah this is your life
Yeah this is your life
Yeah this is your life and it's just life and it's yours alone to live

Yeah this is your life
This is your life
Yeah this is your life and it's just life and it's yours alone to live

Shopping closets turn into halfway houses
Somehow the space to fill just keeps on getting louder
So many roads lead out to abuse
The pattern gets old until the needle renews

Gone for so many years, friends' support disappears
N.A. Meetings repeating the same first day every time
This cycle's no way out, no way to stop herself
So she's at risk, and helpless, and restless, and reckless, regardless

Cause this is your life, yeah this is your life
Yeah this is your life, and it's just life, and it's yours alone to live
Yeah this is your life, yeah it's your life
Yeah this is your life and it's just life and it's yours alone to live

Your Life - Neomythics - Projectiles

Lyrics by Gregory Howe:

Climbing Out Young Blood Overtakes the Old Guard
Commence Resistance	

Young blood is coming up
Old guard is dying off 
Polish is wearing out
Turning to illusion

The whole thing is over
The whole thing comes crashing around you
The ceiling is cracking
Shaking, you reach our arms on through

We’ll come climbing out of the underground
And like zombies we’ll overwhelm

The last scene is over, 
An old scene comes crashing around us
The ceiling is cracking
Laughing you reach our arms on through

But it’s hard to tell when all the pieces fell
When you pick them up and then spin them round  
Finding broken lines form new shapes in time
 
The old scene is over
A new scene is flashing around you
The ceiling is cracking and laughing
We reach your arms through

Bridge 2:
But it’s hard to tell how all the pieces fell
So you pick them up and then dust them off
Matching broken lines we’re forming shapes in time

Because 
You know you’ll have a better hold the next time round
You’ve seen how movements echo all around this town
And some insighted reach will suddenly confound
It always draws a crowd when everything is falling down

The whole scene is over, 
And the new scene comes crashing around you
The ceiling is cracking
Imagining you reach our arms


Climbing Out - Neomythics - New Corporate Resistance

Featuring Harvey Mandel on Guitar!

Also featuring background vocals by Lisa Rein and Nathalie Sanchez.

Lyrics by Gregory Howe:

Watching the wheel that never stops
I see the seconds pull the clock
Waiting patient click and pause
Three more seconds till the drop

Within the calm before the storm 
a trepid wind hovers forlorn
Inching forward steadfast warned
surface tension tightly formed

Fall to feathers in a day dream
where I am at the climax witnessing
The surreal opposite of what I'm seeing
Until this reflections splits into fractions
And I'm hanging on the second hand and slipping

As the ripples stay unchanged
between absence we are sustained
Waiting patient click and pause
three more seconds till the drop

Surface Tension - Neomythics - More Protection

Neomythics are: Harvey Mandel (guitar), Gregory Howe, Matt Montgomery, Jimmy Fontana

Lyrics by Gregory Howe:

Burning Man and Astronauts see barren landscapes stretching out
Someway against the logic we're taught from the future comes ancient thought
Putting men upon the moon, 
like pagan rituals of doom between
Bastions of endless space, vacuums of both time and place

So, put your shades on. Here we go
Give the word to Mission Control
Start the countdown on my mark
Tensions mount out in the dark
Ancient Capsule, Noah's Arc
Sentient beings tossed between stars
Those who come light the charge
Ignite so 1 may lift

Mystics and Mathematicians Finding logic in their system
Studying realms beyond vision
Scanning lines for extra dimensions
Scientists in shaman's robes
Growing life for brave new world
Tribal elders in white lab coats
Prognosticated that her we go so

Put your shades on hold my hand
Give the word to Central Command
Start the countdown with the clock    10
Tensions mount among the flock          8
Ancient star born astronauts                6
Sentient beings that time forgot          4
For all those who come light spark       2
Divide so                                                  1
May burn

Genius lurks mad savant Seeing things most of us can't
Where distances truly daunts Intertwining cosmic dance
Stretching from far beyond eternal knowledge carries on
Man and Machine infinity Comes as the singularity

So put your shades on here it comes
Send out word to everyone
Start the countdown engines on
10 Tensions mount all fear is gone
8    Ancient stat ship sequence go
6    Sentient helix we decode
4    For all those who come to sacrifice
2    Survive so 1 May live

Countdown - Neomythics - Projectiles

The Neomythics are: Gregory Howe, Matt Montgomery, Jimmy Fontana, Harvey Mandel, Nathalie Sanchez and Lisa Rein.

Lyrics by Gregory Howe:

Folks selling time-shares in Kansas silos
And every movie's the end of our world
It's this obsession with Armageddon
Gathering rations stockpiling weapons

Cause they be bugging and bugging out
Yeah they be bugging, see for yourself
Yeah they be digging, digging in the ground
Yes they be digging and it do confound

Why is the holy land always at war?
When will the Gods repel their walls?
Judgment come and cause disaster
Waiting patiently for the rapture

Night Vision goggles black Danner boots
Respirators and Hazmat suits
Fresh water supply. Surefire flashlight
Food for ten years, dry-packed and freeze-dried
Cause we be digging and digging in the ground
Yeah we gone dig in, 'till we're upside down
Yeah we be buggin, bug buggin out
Eh we be bugging, leaving no doubt

You Got to Hide, Your Supply
Move To The Side. Get Potassium Iodide.

They point at Katrina. The Super-Dome.
DHS and FEMA. Invading homes.
They Took the Civil out of Ization
It must have seemed just like Revelations

Now they be bugging and buggin out
Yeah they be bugging, leaving no doubt
That we be saving food on the shelves
Yeah we be saving. Saving Ourselves.


Preppers - Neomythics - More Protection

Neomythics is Gregory Howe, Matt Montgomery, Jimmy Fontana, Harvey Mandel on guitar. This track has Lisa Rein on background vocals.

Lyrics by Gregory Howe:

Started looking closer,
but no answer came to me
Nothing really seemed to add up
to the reported story

We see Yesterday's Hero (Michael Hastings)
burned to death in an automobile
Why does it come as no surprise
that it wasn't recognized as crime?

I go and get my coffee and I
read the paper till nine
Casually aware of the
events shaping our time

and we see today's heroes
diving into gears of the machine
Why does it come as no surprise that
their sacrifice goes unrecognized

And we see tomorrow's hero (Edward Snowden)
behind the glow of his computer screen
Keyboard trained warrior
leading a cause to liberate and free

Tomorrow's Hero - Neomythics - More Protection

Background vocals by Nathalie Sanchez and Lisa Rein.

Lyrics by Gregory Howe

Short sighted, facts divided
Contracts issued and decided
Though all surely will be blighted
Enter in the uninvited

And in their big rigs
They have invested
Green lighted
Inside, untested 
Cloaking toxic as trade secret
All those have been defeated

So go ahead and shoot it down
Feel the pressure building up
Pump more in and drill it out
Pretty soon this thing will bust

Feel the pressure building up
Pump more in and drill it out
Pretty Soon this thing will burst
This Ground will crack

And so the target, many say
Are the shale deposits of Monterey
Fifteen Billion Barrels is enough stake
To destroy our water and cause earthquakes


Countdown - Neomythics - Projectiles

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