Now I ain’t got no time to sit around and play
because there’s a world outside and it’s getting away
They want to buy this world and make it their own
And buy every pretty city on the way back home

But I’ve been thinking of ways of using sunshine rays
because all that oil in the ground will set this world ablaze
I wanna take every barrel and make it my own
and pay Mama Nature back every penny we owe

Now we’re getting annoyed because we’re underemployed
and we ain’t making no jobs, we’re just making a void
and I buy just to try to get a piece of the whole
but every time I buy a sell a piece of my soul

Now I’m telling you how I lost my way through the crowd
because I didn’t care for the poor, I only cared for the DOW
and I’d buy all the things that I cannot afford
the same way my country buys its way through the war

I need to resolve why I refuse to evolve
and why I’m afraid to let my ego dissolve
to say, why do I buy buy into the game
instead of saying bye bye to the cause of my pain

So I won’t take anymore. I left my shame at the door
I’m tired of being a clown. I’m tired of being a whore
I won’t abide-bide-bide by the rules of the game
so you can take my fucking money but I’m keeping the change

I’m keeping the change
I’m keeping the change

Lead Guitar, Bass: Jake Reynolds
Rhythm Guitar: Ned Parker
Production: Jake Reynolds
Lyrics and Arrangement: Ned Parker

Recorded at Otherside Studio

Keeping The Change

Oh I'm just a slave and I work all through the day
So that I can make a wage and have my 2 days of escape
Which I can use to pay to break my body down
and then I'll pay and I'll pay to fix my body up

And I pay to make mistakes
And I pay to ease the pain
And I'll pay to remain the same

Oh I'm just a slave to the rules of the state
And I don't like my president he's the perfect one to blame
So I'll complain and I'll complain that things will never change
And then I'll pay and I'll pay to keep those things the same

And I pay to make mistakes
And I pay to ease the pain]
And I'll pay to remain the same

Oh I'm just a slave to the chemicals in my brain
And they don't know the difference between a porno and a mate
And I never miss a beat to numb my own intimacy
So then I pay and I pay to male enhance reality

And I pay to make mistakes
And I pay to ease the pain
And I'll pay for my grave if I don't change

Don't fight the pain, Don't fight the pain, Fight the game
We're only slaves to old behaviors we don't change
Listen to what the pain is saying
Don't fight the pain, change the way you behave

We can change the world today
Because we can change the way we behave

Vocals:    Ned Parker
Guitar:     Ned Parker
Drums:    Drew Cohen
Lyrics and Arrangement:  Ned Parker

Recorded at Inner Ear Studio

The Slave Song

Walking through a desert land in a world I do not understand
Am I alone
The only way that I can learn is to shed the skin that I have burned
Have I wronged

Clear the noises in my brain
There is only one noise that remains,

and it is

Rain drops atop the ceiling, late talks when I was feeling low
And you said you loved me
Night breeze the trees whispering that you and I are kissing
Oh my love are you listening to
our truth

The girl that I pretend you are is not the one who I adore
I was wrong
The one I've loved for all of time is the one that's deep inside your eyes
I know

Clear the noises in your brain
There is only one noise that remains

Rain drops atop the ceiling, late talks when I was feeling low
And you said you love me
Night breeze the trees whispering that you and I are kissing
Oh my love are you listening to
our truth

The demons that you listen to from all the things I put you through
I can't know how dark and grim it must appear
But the things you fear the most are nothing more than a ghost
And if you face them, if you erase them
All that you will hear is

Rain drops atop the ceiling, late talks when you were feeling low
And "I love you"
Night breeze the trees whispering that you and I are kissing
Oh my love are you listening to
the drip drop of coffee brewing, up top the doves a cooing
ruffling of the sheets a moving, scuffling of our knees a spooning
tip tap of toes entwining, the sound of you and I combining
Oh my love is it reminding you?
of our truth

Vocals:   Ned Parker
Guitar:   Ned Parker
Drums:   Drew Cohen
Percussion: Drew Cohen
Lyrics and Arrangement: Ned Parker

Recorded at Inner Ear Studio

Our Truth

When I was a boy I had a plan
To save the world as best I can
But as I grew so did a hole
I am who I am and I am no more

Deeper and deeper I found the abuse

Abused every short cut I could find
Took my rewards like an addict in line
Until one day I met a girl
She broke my needles and gave me a world

Deeper and deeper I feel in love with you

All the wrongs that I could right if I could find more pages
But I have found to just put down the book is more courageous 
We only get so many tries before we're left behind
so don't be vain, it's just a game, the end cannot erase us

The hole inside me had been flushed
I found a home inside your touch
Love is a shield in a world at war
and I said, don't worry this world won't hurt me no more

But deeper and deeper I filled my hole with you

The hole inside me had no end
I cooked your love and shot it in
That's the only way I know
I wonder where that hole does go

All the wrongs that I could right if I could find more pages
But I have found to just put down the book is more courageous
We only get so many tries before we're left behind
So don't be vain, it's just a game, the end does not erase us

I don't know,
I don't know,
I don't how to get over you my love.

You got up and walked out the door
Don't worry I won't hurt you no more
I am who I am, and I am no more
Don't worry this world won't hurt me no more

Lead guitar, Rhythm guitar, Vocals: Ned Parker
Production: Jake Reynolds
Lyrics and Arrangment: Ned Parker

Recorded at Otherside Studio

The Hole

On the night that we first tried, to open up our lives
I had no idea what laid behind those brownie eyes
And the deeper that I go, the more that I am shown
That there are things that human minds can truly never know

Because I cannot explain, how when we are apart
You can touch my heart and you can share my brain
And put yourself inside, everything I find, everything is you you you

My deepest root, my upper eye
my humming bird, my butterfly
the gem inside the gemini
the horns with which you hold me by
my hooves my hands my heart mi sol
el fuego en my corazon
you live inside it all, I'll never be alone

And the things that you create, seem to rearrange
a world that I can't take into a different place
Where I can search for hope and know that it is true
because everything is you you you

(Chorus)

And the things that I create, are nothing more than shapes
reflections of the quantum beauty that you radiate
And in this search for home, don't ever be afraid
I'm never far away, you'll never be alone

Rhythm Guitar, Vocals: Ned Parker
Lead guitar: Jake Reynolds
Production: Jake Reynolds
Lyrics and Arrangment: Ned Parker

Recorded at Otherside Studio

El Fuego En Mi Corazon

Tell me what is this line
That you drew in the soil
To restrict my mind
To a piece of the whole

From the Nations of lies
To the nations of poor
There is no fight
Worth fighting for

Do you believe in a line
Does it give you pride
Do you think that your side
Is worth more

From the planets up high
To the rivers down low
There is no price
On a human soul

These lines are designed to keep tied to 1 or 2 economies
And you'll be tried and facing life, if you help an economic enemy

If only it were free to move across these lines and see the families that we were told are our own enemies
That's when we would see, that they're no different, we're all just trying to raise our children but forced fund our own militaries
But same team, same team, same team

So tell me what is this line
That you drew in my mind
Just to make me afraid
So I'd fund your crimes

But from the streets of LA
To the caravan lines
There is no fight
There are no lines

Do you believe in a line
Does it give you pride
Do you think that your life 
Is worth more

Well from the planets up high
To the rivers down low
There is no I
There's only the whole
There's only whole

One way
One way 
One way

Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Drums, Vocals: Ned Parker
Bass: Jake Reynolds
Production: Jake Reynolds
Lyrics and Arrangement: Ned Parker

Recorded at Otherside Studio

Do You Believe In A Line

On the day that Manny ran away 
he made himself a home behind the CVS 
and that's where I had first heard him convey
What he calls sanity

2 in the afternoon
a young man in an old man's body told me not to move
"you'll scare my dinner away"
As two rats ran away

3 burritos later we were in an elevator
just to ride it up and down 
and that's when I had asked you how you hit your brain
b/c I think you're insane, you looked at me and started to say

If I had my reign, I would give it all away
because I can't rule you, but can I rule me?
or do I have to pay to play the only game that you've considered to be sane
Then I will have to buy my way outside this insanity

The first week I moved in down the street
Me and Manny traded places and as he laid in all the blankets
said your ceiling had no stars but my own life is a mess

He said your life is nice, if you don't mind that 9-5
is forever wasted, you'll have no imagination once your 35
and did you hit your brain, b/c I think your insane, but I won't make you change

because (chorus)

Well the days were getting longer, and so was Manny's hunger
and I just got so busy that I lost track of our visits
and I didn't have much money but I grabbed a box of triscuits
and I came around the CVS and found your body motionless
and though I knew you passed away, I hoped you'd hear me say

If I had my reign I would give it all way
because I can't rule you, I can only rule me
or do I have to pay to rule me?
is this the only game that we're allowed to play?
Now you don't have to buy your way outside this insanity
Now you won't have to buy your way outside this insanity
I wish that I could buy your way outside this insanity
So for you I'm going to find my way outside this insanity

Vocals, Rhythm Guitar: Ned Parker
Lead Guitar, Bass: Jake Reynolds
Lyrics and Arrangement: Ned Parker

Recorded at Otherside Studio

Manny

Bye baby Bye
I'm escaping to the sky through the arms of gemini
don't cry baby cry
you will always be my only satellite

And if you love me so
then you'll let me go
take to June upon a moon already orbiting your eye
so you don't have to fight
because your gravity is holding me tight

Bye baby Bye,
You'll be swimming up to Mars on a moonlit cancer tide
Don't cry baby cry
I will always be your only satellite

And if I love you so
Then I'll let you go
And I'll hope you find the ocean tide that leaks beneath my eyes
and sweeps you deep inside
where my gravity is holding you tight

If the fish inside your soul has to swim away
then the earth inside this bull will evaporate
but you can breathe me in, and I will stoke your flame
till your fire burns to coal, till my air returns the rain

and we can try again on the other side of another dream
because I believe that we align no matter what these signs have to say

Bye baby bye,
don't you let this world confine the beauty bubbling in your mind
Cry baby cry,
till the water turns to fire in your eyes

And if you feel alone, and the night gets cold
don't you shiver, I'll deliver you the arms of gemini
they'll wrap you good and tight
and my gravity will hold you tonight

Guitar, Percussion, Vocals: Ned Parker
Production: Jake Reynolds
Lyrics and Arrangement: Ned Parker

Recorded at Otherside Studio

Arms Of Gemini

Wait I don't want to go on and see how things will be, remember when you
I remember when you would say you'll see
Wait I don't know how to show how things should be or how far I can reach
For a memory

Wait we were hiking down a lonely island that's all I can seem to see
You're a memory
Hey I don't want to know what comes after I just wonder who I'll be
As a memory

You're a memory
You're a memory

Hey we were hiking down a lonely island that all I can seem to see
You're a memory
Hey may we never live in lonely laugher if thereafter we will meet
As memories

You're a memory
A good memory

A Memory Rough Cut

I am a singer-songwriter based out of Washington DC. I write songs about love, politics, and personal growth. My recorded songs have a folk-pop sound to them. When I play live, I perform as one-man-band with a more raw acoustic sound.

A Memory Rough Cut

Ned Parker

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