Take Off the Uniform
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey


[intro]

Coward!
Coward!
Coward!
Take off the uniform

If I stand in front of you
Can you pull the trigger
How does it make you feel
Is your courage a bit bigger

If you shoot into a crowd
and a child cries out loud
If his mother rushes you
Will you also shoot her too

Coward!
Coward!
Coward!
Take off the uniform

-/-

You are a coward and a traitor
You are serving a tin god
Take off the uniform
You should never have it on

You are following orders
You are just doing your job
That is what cowards say
They think they'll get away

Coward!
Coward!
Coward!
Take off the uniform

-/-

Tell them you can't do it
Tell them you resign
Take you lumps and walk away
Come over to our side

Does what you're doing make you proud
Can you talk about it out loud
You will never have a friend
Best put a bullet in your brain

Coward!
Coward!
Coward!
Take off the uniform

-/-

Just wait a little longer
You will stand before a jury
They are not going to forget
The ones they had to bury

Remember Nuremberg, remember Abu Ghraib
You can't do what they say
You are a psycho just like them
And for this you'll have to pay

Coward!
Coward!
Coward!
Take off the uniform

Coward!
Coward!
Coward!
Take off the uniform

-/-

Tell them you can't do it
Come over to our side

Come over to our side
Come over to our side
Come over to our side

Take Off the Uniform

Autumn in the Springtime
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[piano intro]

When you left, the seasons changed
My whole world was rearranged
No more sun, the air is chill
The night is standing still

When you left, autumn in your place
Brown and red is all there is
Green and gold will skip a beat
All new life is on retreat



I see it on my face
My eyes stare back at me
The love that used to shine
Gray, now takes it's place

[pre-chorus]
I cannot move, into the summer
I find myself, trapped in the fall
No bright colors, no warm nights
No happiness at all

[chorus]
Autumn in the springtime
and summer never more
things are so much colder
never like they were before

Autumn in the springtime
and summer never more
things are so much colder
never like they were before

[01:56][instrumental][02:30]

Autumn in the springtime
and summer never more
things are so much colder
never like they were before

Autumn in the springtime
and summer never more
things are so much colder
never like they were before

[03:30]

Autumn in the Springtime (B side)

On the River to the Lake
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

A drive along the river
We float our raft down to the lake 
The water's warm and slow 
Bugs and frogs dart in our wake

We beach out on the island
Spread out blankets on the sand
We talk a little but fall asleep
The sun sets before we stand

In a hurry we pack up
Back in the water floating down
In the dark we hit a log
You never would be found

[chorus]
I think I might go drifting
In the middle of the night
The water is rough, it is now winter
I will soon be out of sight

[instrumental]

I cannot forget that night
The panic in the dark
I can't get near the water
I can't go to a park

A splash, then total silence
Just me screaming, trying to see
I cannot sleep at night
This might be how it will be

More and more each passing day
I see I was to blame
More and more another night
I am destroyed by the shame

[chorus]
I think I might go drifting
In the middle of the night
The water is rough, it is now winter
I will soon be out of sight

[instrumental]

[chorus]
That summer wears me down
I cannot stand it anymore
All I do is dream of drifting
Drift all the way to nevermore

I think I might go drifting
In the middle of the night
The water is rough, it is now winter
I will soon be out of sight

I think I might go drifting
In the middle of the night
The water is rough, it is now winter
I will soon be out of sight

[instrumental]

On the River to the Lake

You Can't Fix the Weather
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

If you had one thing
and I had another
and we both worked together
and we both helped each other

We could get something done
and it would be much more fun
We would get a lot further
But you can't fix the weather

You can't fix the weather
You can't bring back bees
Everything that was nice
It's all gone like the ice

[instrumental]

So why do we bother
Why start at all 
It's the middle of winter
It still feels like the fall

I have to think where we'll be
Will there be any trees
It is all such a bummer
I am dreading the summer

You can't fix the weather
The forests are gone
Everything that was nice
It's all gone like the ice

[instrumental]

So pour me one more drink
I want to hear the stuff clink
It could be the last time
With the world on the brink

You can't fix the weather
You can't bring back bees
Everything that was nice
It's all gone like the ice

"Bye bye"

bbaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

You can't fix the weather
You can't bring back bees
Everything that was nice
It's all gone like the ice

"Bye bye"


[outro]

You Can't Fix the Weather

If You Were My Pet
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[guitar solo]

If you were my pet
If you stayed out all night
and came back home wet
It would be alright

If you were my pet
I would understand
Sometimes you would roam
But you'd always come home

[guitar solo]

If you were my pet
I'd give you a bath
I'd  get you some food
and treat you real good

If you were my pet
and I was your man
I would stand by your side
and give you a hand

You'd sleep in my bed
and I'd keep you warm
I'd take off your britches
and scratch all your itches

We would go to the beach
and play in the waves
You would be on a leash
and stay within reach

I know you are wild
and would take off your clothes
But you are not a child
You can wipe your own nose

[guitar solo]

If you were my pet
One day you'd be old
I would keep you around
would not let you down

That is how it should be
It is the right way
between you and me
Won't you please stay

Won't you please stay
stay here by my side
and be my pet
till the day that we die

[guitar solo]

[outro]

Won't you please stay
stay here by my side
and be my pet
till the day that we die


If You Were My Pet (reggaeish)

Hoping for Spring
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

One morning I woke, I opened my eyes, Whatever I ate, the coffee I drank, It all tasted flat
I put it all down, walked out of town, and that was that


The music I played, the songs that I loved, just so much noise
Whatever I heard, I was one of the herd, I had no choice


All of my dreams, my fabulous schemes, lost in a fog
I was not just tired, or bored with my job, I care about nothing, 
except my dog

I was all empty, once I had plenty, but now I'm scared
All of my life, the constant strife, It took me nowhere

I need to stop, abandon it all, try  a new thing
So here I go, taking a chance, 
hoping for spring

[instrumental]

All of my dreams, my fabulous schemes, lost in a fog
I was not just tired, or bored with my job, I care about nothing, 
except my dog

I was all empty, once I had plenty, but now I'm scared, All of my life, the constant strife, 
It took me nowhere

I need to stop, abandon it all, try  a new thing, So here I go, taking a chance, 
hoping for spring

[instrumental]

One morning I woke, I opened my eyes, Whatever I ate, the coffee I drank, It all tasted flat
I put it all down, walked out of town, 
and that was that

[instrumental]


Hoping for Spring (very jazz)

Hoping for Spring (vegas)

Gone by the Next Call
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

The spark is gone, you're on the phone
But you don't care
They might be words, it's just a drone
Going no where

Not of a sudden, but then one day
One day you know, it was a show
Every color, is turned down low

The world is gray, nothing to say
And you don't care
You don't want another day
Going no where

From now on, it's all pretend
The smile you make, The cards you send
It never ends

[bridge]

You don't fit into this life
It was fine, the world you knew
But that was then, and good for them
But you are you

You need to leave the past behind
You don't need to be unkind
Fifty ways are quite enough
Paul said it well, he said it all
So, be gone, by the next call

[instrumental]

You don't fit into this life
It was fine, the world you knew
But that was then, and good for them
But you are you

You need to leave the past behind
You don't need to be unkind
Fifty ways are quite enough
Paul said it well, he said it all
So, be gone, by the next call

[instrumental]


Gone by the Next Call

Here for Revenge
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

She is not all that nice
Like sugar and spice
She seems like the thing
Like someone to bring
But what do you find?
Much too late in the day
Has it all gone away?
That the fun you first had
Was not meant to stay

[bridge]

It was all just for show
You were just shown around
She would let someone know
The new guy she'd found

You were some kind of bait
And she would make you wait
But you weren't staying too late
It was not a date

[chorus]
The girl is real strange
And out of your range
The feeling you get
Is you're here for revenge

[instrumental]

It was all just for show
You were just shown around
She would let someone know
The new guy she'd found

You were some kind of bait
And she would make you wait
But you weren't staying too late
It was not a date

[chorus]
The girl is real strange
And out of your range
The feeling you get
Is you're here for revenge

[instrumental]

The girl is real strange
And out of your range
The feeling you get
Is you're here for revenge

[outro]


Here for Revenge

Came and Went
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

The fires they came, 
they came and they went
they left on their own
the fuel had been spent

Our homes went too
And some of our pets
Things that we loved
But we kept the regrets

[instrumental]

We don't know where to go
Insurance pay is slow
In the meantime
I guess we just don't know

Our savings are all spent
But we have a nice tent
It's close to shopping
And we don't pay rent

Our kids don't go to school
They will grow up to be fools
Welcome to the species
A bunch of dumb tools

[instrumental]

This does not look like winning
A bit more like a great thinning
It is the beginning of the end
And the end of the beginning

There are thousands more like us
And billions round the world
It ain't what we were told
But he is dead, he just got old

This is our new life
We'll I guess it is all mine
The smoke, it took my wife
Our faces they don't shine

Our kids don't go to school
They will grow up to be fools
Welcome to the species
A bunch of dumb tools

Welcome to the species
A bunch of dumb tools

A bunch of dumb tools

[instrumental]


Came and Went (E)

A Better Life on Mars (redux)
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

Alone back in my room
The windows face the clouds
I stand inside the glass
The cold inside my bones
The walls are white and bare
For hours I'm barely there

I hold on to a dream
I feel I want to scream
In time emotions melt
Exhaustion takes my mind
I lay down on my bed
But sleep is hard to find

[chorus]
My world is lost to me
I stare up at the stars
I'm not where I should be
A better life on mars

[instrumental]

I dream of clear skies
A night so very black
The darkness hurts my eyes
I live below the ground
A shield for my emotions
I never will be found

The sand goes on forever
The silence blasts my mind
The light it whispers never
Like rust beat down by time
There is nothing left to see
In here it's only me

[chorus]
My world is lost to me
I stare up at the stars
I'm not where I should be
A better life on mars

[instrumental]

I dare not go outside
I stare up at the stars
I need a place to hide
A better life on mars

My world is lost to pain
I stare up at the stars
I no longer can remain
A better life on mars


A better life on mars

A better life on mars


A Better Life on Mars

I write the lyrics; Mr. Alfonso Suno composes the music.  Working with the lovely Ms. Ai Ongaku, they create the arrangements.  Ms. Ongaku and her crowd are responsible for the performances.  My part in creating these tracks is very small. Nonetheless, I am to blame.  Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Take Off the Uniform

I and Ai

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