Opening theme song for Fabled42's The Realms of Ukodor.

The Choice Is Yours

Opening theme song for Fabled42's Legends of Sha'oghal

Show Me Your Legend

Theme song for a show that never went into production, but it's one of my favorites.

The Brave and the Bold

An old collaboration with a lyricist friend who co-wrote the lyrics with me. Taken from a livestream recording from a couple years ago.

In This Land Our Home

(guitar: DGDGBD)

Pre v: G/D
Verse 2, 0 (A, G/D)
pre-CH 3, 5 // (F, G…G/D)
Chorus 0, 3 // 8, 7.. 5 hold, 3 (transit) (D, F// A#, A, … G)

Feel my fathers head in my hands
Squeeze my head in my hands
The river shimmers round my shattered feet
Still my quiver’s nowhere near empty
Father, what have we come to?
Where do we run to?

Twisting in the worldwide prism
Like it or not, you’re gliding with ‘em
Like it or not, we answer to an algorithm
Which has no heart to feel 
And no need to reel
In the damage

Land of the free
Free to do good, Free to do bad
Faces of the many
Stretched city to sea to shining sea
Red tape, forsaken needs
Patiently the patient bleeds

Twisting in the worldwide prism
Like it or not, you’re lying with ‘em
Like it or not, we answer to an algorithm
	(A#, C, D…D#)
We answer to an algorithm
We answer to an algorithm

Only a man can feel
Only a woman can feel
a need for this land to heal
A need to take the wheel 
The old way Can’t be THE true way when
The future forms a ray through today
	
Twisting in the worldwide prism
Like it or not, you’re dying with ‘em
Like it or not, we answer to an algorithm
we answer to an algorithm
	Which has no heart to feel
	And no reason to reel
	In the damage

The Algorithm is Broken

Top Down

Capo 2

V: Am, Em, G?, Fmaj// Emaj…Fmaj

(piano: Bm, A, Gmaj// F#maj…Gmaj)
-
CH: Cmaj, Gmaj, Fmaj, [Am - Emaj]... riff thing

(piano: Dmaj, Amaj, Gmaj, [Bm - F#maj] … riff thing: B, E, Gmaj…Amaj) 

(When i was a boy)
I was thinking of next year
Now I’m fighting just to get back to here
Tried not to put my faith in disease
& all i want now is to make it back to the beach
-
(There’s always the danger)
Where was I supposed to be?
All these people, depending on me
My god, I’m stinking with fear
Here come winter again & how many next years?
-
I need to put the top down
I gotta let it go
And even as I’ve found out
	How to let the wind blow; i gotta let it blow
-
(The burning forest) 
Contradictory rules
“A representative will be with you soon
Please hold” - and coral’s crying
The work on my plate - is stupefying
-
CH
-
BRIDGE: F#, D, Emaj, F#/Emaj…D…A, Emaj
(piano: G#, E, G#/F#maj…E…B, F#maj)

	My, my universe
	The curse of time & the cosmic traverse
Lies, lies & scent of success
The whimper of slaves & the weight upon my
Chest

INSTR BR….end on D
















Top Down

Election Week

Liminality

Capo 2

CH: bar7+, bar9+, 9m, 5maj
(piano: Db7, Ab7, Ebm, Bmaj)

V: 4m, 2maj ||  Emaj, 2maj, Amaj, Amaj+
(piano: Bb, Ab || Gb, Ab, B, B)

In creatine dreams I’ve seen the puckering seams
Of Artificialand’s dark commandments
But i’m sleeping unsound with these clocks swirling around
And the 3 am angel invaders
Sing ‘better anger than fear' as the decision draws near
The great reversal’s nothing like rehearsals

You’re gonna find your way through that fray
To that great sunset at the end of your day

Your life will be the cost, whichever way you walk
By creating or re-selling things unchanged
Your referent pain points back to a golden mean
Where the hunger persists despite abundances
We are judged by what we give to all that which outlives
While the slanted Earth laughs us into dirt

	But you’re gonna…

Medusa me through the eye of a needle or two
Till sight returns to the blind spot in my mind
With head, heart, and luck, I have mined the veins i’ve struck
Never meant to make it hard on the aging guard
They gave me a fast life and a satisfied demise
No, android prisoners really are not miracles

Liminality


V: B, G, F#m, G
CH: D (Bar on 5th)...F#m, G
*power chords unless otherwise noted
 
(2x intro)

Distracted and unfriendly
In the city streets Afraid
You can’t change them You’re a stranger
And some people won’t rearrange, they’re
Disappearing into the prol feed
All jacked up on dirty fuel

why find the alignment?

(2 x verse instru)


What has been happening
With you my friend?
The things you say The things you don’t
As i’m fumbling for my light
They said don’t read the comments
I read the comments 
And they read just about right

I spy the alignment

(bridge: Amaj, G // Fmaj, Emaj):


	(2 x instru)
Unchain from the pain
relax the   your soul
Release the resentment
	Don’t let it get a hold

Do these trees feel a purpose? 
When will the stars notice their dust?
I got ideas; will you see ‘em?
There’s freckles on the morning sun
Labels lie, but i see you need one
& I’m dying to up and become

	I’ll find some alignment
 (3x,  end on B)


Alignment

Fountain of Youth

D// D, C/G // F, Em, F, G // D
 
Every day with you’s a fountain of youth
In every single way, in all that you do
Every day is a fountain of youth
You know it’s true, you know, you know, you 
know, you do
–
And I saw you coming at early dawn
I’d know you anywhere, in any crowd, I’d never move on
And all that you gave me was what wasn’t gone
It’s ain’t so much your grace, as your way to face what’s coming on

	Every day with you’s a fountain of youth
	In every way, in all that you say, in all that 
you do
Every single day’s a fountain of youth
It’s in your aim, it’s in your pain, it’s a prayer to truth
	(instru CH)
–
And now that you’ve landed, the cedars all ring and
Freedom ain’t for sale, but the kingdom remains in view 
And I see you’re not planning pyramids
But the work that you do is as old as it is new
–
	Every day with you’s a fountain of youth
	In every way, in all that you say, in all that 
you do
All of my days now, a fountain of youth
It’s in your name, it’s in your fame, it’s a prayer to renew
Integrating the narrow roads..
–







Fountain of Youth (feat. Doug Lee, RDL+)

GLUE

Riff is seated on 5th string between 6 & 8 frets. Moves to power chords which bounce along down 6th string
 –

INTRO: keyboard (B, A, G, A/B)

Keep on orienting     to the goal
It’s just that versus the    implack-able black hole
I was a feather before.     make me a burning sword
I can do better for sure.     I can live up to my word

Blue jay perched upon that       yellow-brown crown
Sees what’s up here is always       quite a long, long way down
I hear violin now       i hear my own vows sound
I’m transfigured.     I’ll feed myself to a crowd

	BRIDGE instru: Emaj, F, G, F/G // G, F, Emaj

<instrumental verse out>

Glue

Nothing occurs without the collusion of everything.

The Algorithm is Broken

Shilo DeLay

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