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

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

The Job
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

This job is not for me
The bright lights 
on plastic faces
The false cheer 
and hopeless hopes
while inside we try to cope


We stare at screens
real life unseen
we look for one last trick
the one last phrase
to make things stick
to win the race

what we do is not for us
for others rarely seen
we have no purpose of our own
we are part of the machine
what harm we do not care
though mostly unaware

today I walked away
I couldn't do it anymore

today I walked away
I couldn't do it anymore

today I took my pay
I was looking at the door
In my head, I heard the line
"you won't, see me, no more"

Outside I saw the sun
and I felt that I could run
I would have laid down on the ground
Just relaxed and heard the sounds
Life was waiting to begin

[instrumental]

what we do is not for us
for others rarely seen

we have no purpose of our own
we are part of the machine
what harm we do not care
though mostly unaware


today I walked away
I couldn't do it anymore

today I walked away
I couldn't do it anymore

today I walked away
I couldn't do it anymore


today I took my pay
I was looking at the door
In my head, I heard the line
"you won't, see me, no more"
no more
I heard the line
"you won't, see me, no more"

[instrumental]

Outside I saw the sun
and I felt that I could run
I would have laid down on the ground
Just relaxed and heard the sounds
Life was waiting to begin

[instrumental]

Outside I saw the sun
and I felt that I could run
I would have laid down on the ground
Just relaxed and heard the sounds
Life was waiting to begin

[end]

The Job (rnbjazz)

Contract Litigation (Glass Walls)
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

Glass walls around my world
enclose all my emotions
I work in silence with fixation
I deal in contract litigation

No feelings are allowed
My heart under a shroud
I care for nothing but the law
And only when it suits
I fill all of my time
With hard fanatical pursuits

Up at five and to the gym
I run until exhaustion
Then work myself to death
'Till I have given my last breath

[instrumental]

I only eat the special mix
And only drink the awful shake
I do this without fail
More than you could take

I compartamentalize my mind
You only get a little box
Much too small for a real life
I never open any locks

I sleep alone warm in my bed
What pleasure I may need
I never think, I never said
I use other means instead

[instrumental]

Don't talk to me of love
Friendship does not pay
Tomorrow across the table
You don't know what I might say

Glass walls around my world
enclose all my emotions
I work in silence with fixation
I deal in contract litigation

Don't talk to me of love
I do not believe in words
I do not want your obligation
I deal in contract litigation

[bridge]

Don't talk to me of love
Don't talk to me of love
I do not want your obligation
I deal in contract litigation

I deal in contract litigation

[outro]

Contract Litigation

Contract Litigation
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey



Glass walls around my world
enclose all my emotions
I work in silence with fixation
I deal in contract litigation

No feelings are allowed
My heart under a shroud
I care for nothing but the law
And only when it suits
I fill all of my time
With hard fanatical pursuits

Up at five and to the gym
I run until exhaustion
Then work myself to death
'Till I have given my last breath



I only eat the special mix
And only drink the awful shake
I do this without fail
More than you could take

I compartamentalize my mind
You only get a little box
Much too small for a real life
I never open any locks

I sleep alone cool in my bed
What pleasure I may need
I never think, I never said
I use other means instead



Don't talk to me of love
Friendship does not pay
Tomorrow across the table
You don't know what I have to say

Glass walls around my world
enclose all my emotions
I work in silence with fixation
I deal in contract litigation

Don't talk to me of love
I do not believe in words
I do not want your obligation
I deal in contract litigation



Don't talk to me of love
Don't talk to me of love
I do not want your obligation
I deal in contract litigation

I deal in contract litigation



Contract Litigation (disco soul)

Contract Litigation (soft and slow)

The Job
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

This job is not for me
The bright lights 
on plastic faces
The false cheer 
and hopeless hopes
while inside we try to cope


We stare at screens
real life unseen
we look for one last trick
the one last phrase
to make things stick
to win the race

what harm we do not care
though mostly unaware
what we do is not for us
for others rarely seen
we have no purpose of our own
we are part of the machine

today I walked away
I couldn't do it anymore

today I walked away
I couldn't do it anymore

today I took my pay
I was looking at the door
In my head, I heard the line
"you won't, see me, no more"

Outside I saw the sun
and I felt that I could run
I would have laid down on the ground
Just relaxed and heard the sounds
Life was waiting to begin

[instrumental]

what harm we do not care
though mostly unaware
what we do is not for us
for others rarely seen
we have no purpose of our own
we are part of the machine


today I walked away
I couldn't do it anymore

today I walked away
I couldn't do it anymore

today I walked away
I couldn't do it anymore


today I took my pay
I was looking at the door
you won't, see me, no more
"you won't, see me, no more"
no more

[instrumental]

Outside I saw the sun
and I felt that I could run
I would have laid down on the ground
Just relaxed and heard the sounds
Life was waiting to begin
waiting to begin

[instrumental]

Outside I saw the sun
and I felt that I could run
I would have laid down on the ground
Just relaxed and heard the sounds
Life was waiting to begin
waiting 
to begin

[end]

The Job (B side)

No Money in Honey
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

You can take it slow
Or get real wild
No matter what
It's all for show

It ain't all that bad, 
When it's real good
And good enough 
Will pay for food

You just keep on going
'til you're all spent
Before you know it
You'll have the rent

[chorus]
maybe there ain't
any money in honey
but whatever you got
you got it cummin'

[instrumental]

You can take it slow
Or get real wild
No matter what
It's all for show

It ain't all that bad, 
When it's real good
And good enough 
Will pay for food

You just keep on going
'til you're all spent
Before you know it
You'll have the rent

[chorus]
maybe there ain't
any money in honey
but whatever you got
you got it cummin'

[instrumental]

It is the life
It's just the game
They say you're bad
That you're to blame

But it ain't so
Give it a try, 
you never know
you never know

[chorus]
maybe there ain't
any money in honey
but whatever you got
you got it cummin'

[instrumental]

But it ain't so
Give it a try, 
you never know
you never know

You gotta cumm
and I've got to go

You gotta cumm
and I've got to go

I've got to go

Goodbye for now, I've got to go

[instrumental]

No Money in Honey

No Money in Honey
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[instrumental]

You can take it slow
Or get real wild
No matter what
It's all for show

It ain't all that bad, 
When it's real good
And good enough 
Will pay for food

You just keep on going
'til you're all spent
Before you know it
You'll have the rent

[chorus]
maybe there ain't
any money in honey
but whatever you got
you got it cummin'

maybe there ain't
any money in honey
but whatever you got
you got it cummin'

[instrumental]

You can take it slow
Or get real wild
No matter what
It's all for show

It ain't all that bad, 
When it's real good
And good enough 
Will pay for food

You just keep on going
'til you're all spent
Before you know it
You'll have the rent

[chorus]
maybe there ain't
any money in honey
but whatever you got
you got it cummin'

maybe there ain't
any money in honey
but whatever you got
you got it cummin'

[instrumental]

It is the life
It's just the game
They say you're bad
Should be ashamed

But it ain't so
Give it a try, 
you never know
you never know

[chorus]
maybe there ain't
any money in honey
but whatever you got
you got it cummin'

[instrumental]

But it ain't so
Give it a try, 
you never know
you never know

You gotta cumm
and I've got to go

You gotta cumm
I've got to go

I've got to go

Goodbye for now, I've got to go

[instrumental]


No Money in Honey (soulish)

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