Vocals: Phil Jourdan
Piano: Leo Steeds
Mastered by Christopher Leary (Melograf Mastering)

Shenandoah

This song is both:
1) A scathing critique of the ways global capitalism encourages its subjects to look out for themselves at the expense of other people's wellbeing, and even their own, with the effect of turning everyone into what Erich Fromm called "marketing personalities", and...
2) An excuse to use the name "Priscilla" in a rock track.

Lyrics:

Hey now, honey, what's that you're reading?
Financial papers that you printed out this morning?
Well, you can't leave your money lying around.
I could invest it for you, make sure that it's working for you.
Who's your husband? What's the show he's running?
I bet your husband is the CEO of something.
When you make your money from your divorces,
It's never stupid to just bet on all the horses, but
If that goes away, who knows what'll stay?

'Cause sooner or later we all know it's going to fall.
Please. (Yeah!)
Sooner or later we all know it's going to fall.

Hey Priscilla, or whatever your name is.
Somebody called and said he wants to make you famous.
But he's just as bad as those chicks he's always hating.
The only difference is the limit to his patience.
But if that goes away, who knows what'll stay?


'Cause sooner or later we all know it's going to fall.
Please. (Yeah!)
Sooner or later we all know it's going to fall.

When the glitter gets rubbed off the suffering,
All that's left is so cute and unconvincing.

Who made the mess made the world so much fun.

Sooner or later we all know it's going to fall.
Well, at least you can buy yourself a smiling new puppy!
And he's never gonna leave you!
Sooner or later we all know it's going to fall.

Sooner Or Later

Ever worked with someone who just couldn't lighten up? Someone for whom every minute of the day had to be filled with hard work? Someone who just couldn't understand the concept of fun?

This is a song written by that person. For you.

Lyrics:

Is this some kind of game we've all been playing?
Does anybody here believe that a single thing could matter?

You jump from plan to plan and you laugh too much.
You just want to touch each other.
And you use work like a glove to feel each other out,
Feel each other up like lovers.

Are you kids having fun? 
Is the party going well?
We've got a job to do.
I'm not going down because of you.

Stop the jokes! Should I be patient?
You think that maybe I could learn to take a joke.
But what have we done? What's our achievement here?
What are we paid for, anyway?

Are you kids having fun?

Is the party going well?
We've got a job to do.
I'm not going down.

Now I'm cutting the corners you won't cut.
(You're fucking it up, keep fucking it up)
And I'm kicking down what you set up.
(I'm doing my job, I'm just doing my job)


Are you kids having fun?

Is the party going well?
We've got a job to do.
I'm not going down because of you.


Now I'm cutting the corners you won't cut.
(You're fucking it up, keep fucking it up)
And I'm kicking down what you set up.
(I'm doing my job, I'm just doing my job)
You keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep fucking it up.
Keep-keep-keep-keeeeeeep fucking it up.


We've Got A Job To Do

In this track, we tackle, perhaps for the very first time in rock music,  the difficulties of growing up and being assimilated into The System.

Lyrics:

All of these rules make a boy unwell.
All of these ropes left to learn.
There's too much pressure to make yourself
Do good things for a place in hell.
(Howl at the moon, howl at the moon)

'Cause I don't need a lesson on the origins of hate,
Or token declarations that it's time to pray.
I'm pretty easy going when I'm put to sleep —
But if I flex a muscle, bring out the muzzle!

You can be a wolf, you can be a snake.
Get the lion's share or the golden egg.
But maybe losing is the norm.
Dying dogs and eager worms.


'Cause I don't need a lesson on the origins of hate,
Or token declarations that it's time to pray.
I'm pretty easy going when you put me to sleep —
But if I flex a muscle, bring out the muzzle!

'Cause I am not boy. I AM DOG.

You could be noble. Wouldn't you like that?
(My time is wasted on these things.)
You could be productive. Wouldn't you like that?
(My time is wasted on these things.)
And people could love you. Wouldn't you like that?
(My time is wasted on these things.)
Yeah, people could love you, but you bite right back.
(My time is wasted on these things.)

What if the wolf is just a desperate dog?
What if the wolf is just a desperate WOOF-WOOF-WOOF-WOOF-WOOF-WOOF?!?!?!?!?!?



'Cause I don't need a lesson on the origins of hate,
Or token declarations that it's time to pray.
I'm pretty easy going when you put me to sleep —
But if I flex a muscle, bring out the muzzle!

'Cause I am not boy. I AM DOG.

Blood Of The Dog

Duke Nukem

Lyrics:

You had such good intentions. 
You knew more than we knew. 
So obsessed with redemption 
And with killing the demons you carried in you. 

Little flickers of beauty 
In every move, every take. 
Such impersonal friendships 
You maintained in this prison you wished to escape. 

But whatever you did it's all there. 
You shocked everyone into silence. 
Whatever they love is untrue 
If they still deny what you cherish. 
I guess you can't argue with proof, 
No matter the evil of justice. 
The heart of the system is you, 
And we're all just legacy features. 

What the fuck were you thinking? 
This disease you transmit, 
With its purifications 
Turning human lead into golden shit. 

So seduced by the violence, 
So corrected inside, 
Till whatever was good in you 
Was politely destroyed or argued aside. 

But whatever the truth is, they lie. 
And God is your only defense now. 
The truth will endure as a joke. 
It's all circumstantial evidence. 
I guess you can't argue with truth 
If you want ambiguous justice. 
The heart of the system is you 
And we're all just legacy features. 

Now all I can say about you 
Is that sometime ago you were here. 
The rest is all conjecture. 
But if even somebody like you 
Can torture and kill someone, 
What is there left but silence?

Terrorist

You were always so tough
Everything had to be rational
Had to have you so much
There was no time to respect myself
When the going was good
Everything helped you to hide away
And I would play dumb
'Cause I didn't want you run away

Now you've had your great awakening
Need a greater great awakening
Cause you've found the cause of suffering
Will you have to forget about me
When you sit under the Bodhi tree?

You came and you went
Promising I had done nothing wrong
But whatever you've kept
You're keeping to make me believe you're strong
Cause the world has to think
All that you do is just as you planned
If that means leaving me
At least you can say the lesson's learnt

You're saying that we're through
But I don't think you mean it
I don’t think you mean it
Ah, swear I'm good for you
But I don't think you'd mean it, ‘cause I know I was always so tough
So tough that you needed to hide away
And you loved me so much
It just didn't make any sense to me

Now we've had this great awakening
Need a greater great awakening
'Cause we've found the cause of suffering 
There there's no you and there's no me
There was never you and me
There's no coming back for me
When you sit under the Bodhi tree

Phil Jourdan (songwriting, vocals) 
Matt Holt (guitar, production) 
Leo Steeds (synth, production) 
Jason Gale (bass) 
Josh Bennett (drums) 

Yaron Fuchs (mixing) 
Greg Calbi — Sterling Sound (mastering)
Recorded at Blackdown Studio, UK.

Under The Bodhi Tree

I Praise You All, My Buddha Friends

I Surrender To You

To My Shame, I Do Not Praise My Teachers

And Then I'm Gonna Die

People Get Shot Here

I Will Destroy You

Hallelujah

Love And Compassion

Book Of Shame

Listen to me
I’m the only one talking
I’m the only one listening
So please listen to me

Absence doesn’t mean I’m not here
Presence isn’t something to fear

Listen to me
I’m the only one talking
You’re the only one listening
So please listen to me

Absence doesn’t mean I’m not here
Presence isn’t something to fear

Take me to heart
Right from the start
Moment to moment until you’re alive again
It is my heart that you’re holding
In the mind that you’re beholding
What you think comes after what we are
I suggest you take this to heart
Right from the start

Listen to me
I’m the only one talking
I’m the only one listening
So please listen to me

Absence doesn’t mean I’m not here
Presence isn’t something to fear
Absence doesn’t mean I’m not here
Presence isn’t something to fear
Please listen to me

Listen To Me

One Cut

I am neither strong nor not strong, 
nor both strong and not strong, 
nor neither.
I am neither fulfilled nor not fulfilled, 
nor both fulfilled and not fulfilled, 
nor neither.
I am neither joyful nor not joyful, 
nor both joyful and not joyful, 
nor neither.
I am neither abundant nor not abundant, 
nor both abundant and not abundant,
nor neither.
I am neither peaceful nor not peaceful, 
nor both peaceful and not peaceful, 
nor neither.
I am neither creative nor not creative, 
nor both creative and not creative,
nor neither.
I am neither balanced nor not balanced, 
nor both balanced and not balanced, 
nor neither.
I am neither present nor not present, 
nor both present and not present, 
nor neither.
I am neither compassionate nor not compassionate, 
nor both compassionate and not compassionate, 
nor neither.
I am neither patient nor not patient, 
nor both patient and not patient, 
nor neither.
I am neither clear nor not clear, 
nor both clear and not clear, 
nor neither.
I am neither inspired nor not inspired, 
nor both inspired and not inspired, nor neither.
I am neither open nor not open, 
nor both open and not open, 
nor neither.
I am neither whole nor not whole, 
nor both whole and not whole, 
nor neither.

Neither Both Nor

This loving kindness
Is for me and you and everyone
This loving inner smile
Is for all manifest phenomena 

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease

This loving kindness
Is fully inexhaustible 
It saturates my cells
And brings me back my youthfulness

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
This loving kindness
Is for me and you and everyone
This loving inner smile
Is for all manifest phenomena 

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease

This loving kindness
Is fully inexhaustible 
It saturates my cells
And brings me back my youthfulness

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
This loving kindness
Is for me and you and everyone
This loving inner smile
Is for all manifest phenomena 

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease

This loving kindness
Is fully inexhaustible 
It saturates my cells
And brings me back my youthfulness

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
This loving kindness
Is for me and you and everyone
This loving inner smile
Is for all manifest phenomena 

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease

This loving kindness
Is fully inexhaustible 
It saturates my cells
And brings me back my youthfulness

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
This loving kindness
Is for me and you and everyone
This loving inner smile
Is for all manifest phenomena 

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease

This loving kindness
Is fully inexhaustible 
It saturates my cells
And brings me back my youthfulness

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease

May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease
May I be peaceful 
May you be peaceful 
May we be peaceful 
May our hearts find ease

May You Be Peaceful

I am the power of the empty mind
I am the power of the liberated soul
This is the hurricane of my amazement
This is the hurricane of my self-wonderment
This is the hurricane of my awakening
This is my hurricane
Of self-envisioned wonder
I am the power of the empty mind
I am the power of the liberated soul
This is the hurricane of my amazement
This is the hurricane of my self-wonderment
This is the hurricane of my awakening
This is my hurricane
Of self-envisioned wonder
This is my hurricane
Of self-envisioned wonder
This is my hurricane
Of self-envisioned wonder

This is the Hurricane!

Original Slice

Hours and Hours

Hey
Hey you
Yeah you
Stop fucking with the program
Stop fucking with the schedule
Or you’re gonna get smacked

Yeah you
Stop fucking with the details
Stop fiddling with the numbers
Or you’re gonna get whacked

Hey you, you, you
Stop fucking with the program
Stop fucking with the program
Stop fucking with the program
Stop fucking with the program

You need to stop
Always messing with the outcome
Motherfucker 
I will make you eat the program

Hey you, you, you
Stop fucking with the program
Stop fucking with the program
Stop fucking with the program
Stop fucking with the program
Hey you, yeah, you
Stop fucking with the program
Stop fucking with the program
Stop fucking with the program
Stop fucking with the program
You fucking lunatics

Stop F***ing with the Program!

Third Rank

Second Rank

Don’t forget that heaven
Is even softer than a kitten
Even softer than a kitten
Something beautiful to love

And may you every moment
Remember not to let things spin you round
Make yourself the single point
The rest is always here now

Don’t forget that heaven
Is even softer than a kitten
Even softer than a kitten
Someone beautiful to love

And yes, there’s an intensity
That challenges the strongest and most pure
Abiding as the single point
You watch without watching 

Don’t forget that heaven
Is even softer than a kitten
Even softer than a kitten
Something beautiful to love

Don’t forget that heaven
Is even softer than a kitten
Even softer than a kitten
Someone beautiful to love

jizo/yakushi

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