Spice and spice and everything twice
My baby looks good in apple juice on ice
She floats into the paisley room
Lookin’ nice in a glass of apple juice on ice

You catch more flies with honey
But you catch more honey with bears
And bears are nature’s perfect killing machines
Just ask my baby if you don’t know what

I’m mean and grumpy and sleepy ‘round the clock
But I wanna be nice like my baby taught
Me to be when she does not serve tea
With cream cream cream and everything in threes

A-ring-a-ding-ding my baby can sing
And when she’s out of helium she sounds a little like Bing
She’s got electric boobs
Her mom does too
You know I read it in a mondegreen

Sugar and sugar and my baby asks would her baby
Like a stick of butter and a triangle of cherry pie
And I say “I’ve spent an ice age
In the polka-dot room watering my nightshade”

Salt and pepper
My baby looks better in a scarlet letterman’s quagmire sweater
Swattin’ the flies with her checkerboard eyes
And lookin’ twice when she crosses her Ts and Is

Spice and spice and everything twice
My baby looks good in apple juice on ice
She floats into the houndstooth room
Tumblin’ dice in a glass of apple juice on ice

One more time
What does that spell!
Thank you doctor

Apple Juice On Ice

I can't abide you, guy
I'm not inviting you to my
swimming pool party
Why, did you think that I was?
Are you serious?

But knowing you
you'll just dig your own pool
and declare that it's better
and that your water's wetter than mine
You think you're clever
but time will find your blather blind

Snake in the cake
Mouse in the milkshake
Oh God oh great
We gone and made a big mistake
Fleas in the crêpes
Bees in the cheesecake
Oh bloody Hell
Mr. Orwell, as you were saying

Somebody told me that 
Hell was unfolding that
there was no hoping 
Oh wait
That was you who said that
You printed it on hats

Everyone ate you up
Drank you from Kool-Aid cups
Now it's on the TV
It's in the feedbag
And the kingdom agrees 
We need the keys back

Snake in the cake
Mouse in the milkshake
Oh God oh great
We gone and made a big mistake
Fleas in the crêpes
Bees in the cheesecake
Oh bloody Hell
Mr. Orwell, as you were saying

Snake In The Cake

Your love is a hole in the moon and
my love is an astronaut with a spoonful
of sand trying to meet the demand for
sand-filled moon holes but dammit
I'm only one man

Your beauty is immeasurably out of control and
whoops! There's another hole in the sun
where your love must've come from
and all of my sand turns to glass in its oven

I simply don't have the wherewithal
but I want to something terrible
deliver the love you deserve
but it's worse than a curse
and it drains my reserves

Your love makes unreasonable demands
Your love makes unreasonable demands of me

A moon monster digging another hole
A sun spectre making unfillable
spaces and caverns
my face was so saturnine
but now I'm grinning idiotically

Unreasonable demands
Unreasonable commands

Unreasonable Demands

The Absence Of Bees

‘Best Guess’ is a new work from Dan Swanson and Steve Andricks.  This piece brings together ambient, musique concrète, and cinematic soundscape elements to create a very unique work that we hope you’ll enjoy.

We made our beds
Said our goodbyes 
Thought through our plans
Till we were paralyzed.
After all, what is life
But questions asked?
And our answers can only be
Our best guess.

Some succeed while others fail
Some find their freedom
While others land in jail.
For what is life but questions asked?
Our answers are only our best guess
Our best guess.

We gain an edge 
Dull the surprise 
Think through our plans
Until we’re paralyzed.
After all what is life
But questions asked?
And answers can only be
Our best guess.

Copyright Swanson-Andricks 2023

Best Guess

Forever is a new song featuring me on acoustic guitars, vocals and bass.  Enjoy! 

FOREVER
I’ve heard it said that love’s forever, 
Once it begins, it never ends.
Shines like a candle in the darkness, 
Warms like a fire that burns within. 

Was it the first time that she met you?
Was it the first time he held your hand?
Was it that kiss to close an evening
That neither of you wanted to end?

I’ve heard it said that love’s forever,
Once it begins, it never ends.
Shines like a candle in the darkness,
Warms like a fire that burns within. 

{interlude}

I’ve heard it said that love’s forever,
Once it begins, it never ends.
Shines like a candle in the darkness,
Warms like a fire that burns within.

Was it her smile that grew to greet you?
Was it his laugh that pulled you in?
Was it that kiss to close an evening
That neither of you wanted to end?

Was it the way he would embrace you?
Was it her touch upon your face?
Was the kiss you shared transcending
That pulled you from that time and place?

I’ve heard it said that love’s forever,
Once it begins, it never ends.
Shines like a candle in the darkness,
Warms like a fire that burns within.
Shines like a candle in the darkness,
Warms like a fire that burns within.

Copyright Dan Swanson 2023

Forever

remixed by Area Zone
mixed by Evan Langford
mastered @ infaze mastering

Boom chuck Area Zone mix

Ooh Ooh let the cowboys sing it!
Ooh Ooh let the cowboys sing!

A million people walking from the greedy motherfuckers
Dodging bullets, bombs and shells to escape from this hell
Don't look back our leveled shack we'll never get our lives back
Hand in hand we go into tomorrow never knows
We tell the kids it's an adventure walking for the great pretenders
Sitting on their borrowed thrones with spinning phones and fiery drones
We didn't do a thing but we don't measure wealth in bling
So just let us do our thing and let the cowboys sing!

Wa Ooh Wa Ooh Wa Ooh

We don't even know exactly where we go and who we owe
But we just keep on walking while the UN keeps on talking
So the banks can keep the beat of the billionaires beating meat
While we walk this lonely road and where it leads we'll never know
A million people walking from the greedy motherfuckers
Dodging bullets, bombs and shells to escape from this hell
We didn't do a thing but we don't measure wealth in bling
So just let us do our thing and let the cowgirls sing!

Wa Ooh Wa Ooh Wa Ooh

These amazing puppets need no introduction
Ooh Ooh let the cowboys sing it!
Working tirelessly to lay waste to our world for their invisible friends
Ooh Ooh let the cowboys sing!
Wa Ooh Wa Ooh Wa Ooh
Marvelous!
Wa Ooh Wa Ooh Wa Ooh
All together now!
Wa Ooh Wa Ooh Wa Ooh
Ooh Ooh let the cowboys sing it!
Ooh Ooh let the cowboys sing!

Let The Cowboys Sing

My Mum singing the nearness of you George Fagg on piano, Bill Wheatley on Bass My Dad John Wheatley on Clarinet, (although not on this number)  Alf Binger on drums. They played together between 1966 and 1971, in Nottinghamshire and East Midlands.

The Nearness Of You Sung By Rona Wheatley

A song sung by my Mum back in the 1960's with the aid of modern technology the tape hiss has been reduced and brightness has been restored. Only a single mic was used to record this.

Someone To Watch Over Me

Joni Mitchell's classic arranged for solo guitar and performed by Dan Swanson

Both Sides Now

Videos
I Just Wanna Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u46wAl_GDkA
Let The Cowboys Sing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtZDyXbBwGo
Let The Cowboys Sing (Short Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYF43v78lN4
If Music Was Fashion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdA1aEaZaZg
Swimming Underwater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuZZ-n03tlo&t=311s
Walking To The Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1QjXYX5Rxs
The Face That Time Forgot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zedUxjXMr3w&t=2s
Instrumental Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5jR00sfqtA

Let The Cowboys Sing

Michael Belmes

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