Lyrics. Chords, Melody. More Oorlab Songs can be found here :

http://oorlab.bandcamp.com/album/moonsongs

http://oorlab.bandcamp.com/album/november-hometaping-2012

http://oorlab.bandcamp.com/album/from-scratch



Songs

https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/challenges/18/the-write-a-post-covid-summer-song-challenge-starting-thread/7161/

From Red to Green

Do you remember
What we didn't know?
How fast this bad thing spread?
Doctor Li sacrificed himself
as history will show.

Shelter in place
Track and trace
From a lab or a bat,
Who knows how we did get
into this mess.

But soon
before you know it
  (before it's coming back again)
We will go
from red to green!

Remember how terrified we all were
Who could've foreseen this?
A president's ghost
still haunts the Capitol,
Body left, spirit stayed  

get on with life
Not as we knew it 
A summer of lust
Or paradise lost?
Get on with life
Not as we know it
chorus

Space they say
is the final frontier
But I think it is human ignorance

From Red to Green

Future journeys

From red to green

bandcamp

River - for ET

Give me love, River, give me love
or at least reason to pass it on
innocence prevails,
and if kindness ever fails
break walls with you patience.

Give me time, River, give me time
and purpose for me & my soul.
Situation floats,
no anchor to hold back
the undertow that pulls below.

Bring the angles, River, bring them all,
those Siren stories, causing men to fall.
Symphonies of light,
the universe did sing,
In the coolest dream...


River

Waiting-blues-oorlab-july2011
recorded in the blue room, Maslenica July 22nd 2011. Slide guitar.
Some background noises. Edirol recorded  WAV edited with Audacity to Flac.

Waiting Blues

dedicated to Levi, Rob, Raoul & Hans - the original Silent Steps

Lyrics collab with Todd 

People say it can't be done, but ...

Mind over matter,
Truth will come,
Seeing is believing
In the setting sun.

Mind over matter,
Proves it can.
Will, not shattered,
Makes a winning plan.

  In these days of fading trust
  And uncertainty & counting cost...

Mind over matter,
You know, we will prevail.
Rest in the shade,
When the work is done.

Things will get better
If you carry on,
Look at your compass:
Trust to travel on.

  Greed is still beyond control,
  But don't let it bring us down,
  Destroying our souls.

Dance to remember,
Forget the national ebt,
Mind over matter,
Occupy your own.

Mind over matter,
Freedom of your soul,
Accepting all together
Each can play his role.

  The lantern of hope still burns bright
  To brighten our souls,
     Carrying on,
        All has one.

Todd & Oorlab – January 2012



Mind over matter (lyrics collab with Todd)

drawing by dick (done quick&dirty) - clip at https://youtu.be/_lRwfDhll3I (also quick&dirty) - thanks to @the-plugs for noticing digital plops in an earlier version.
Drums played with real wooden sticks on V-drums (roland).
Lyrics by Stan Major https://soundcloud.com/smajor1
Fast Jet 
Stan Major feb 2018

There's a fat man on a pogo stick...
I think he's goin' down.

There's a fast jet leavin';
I ain't stickin' round.

The world I knew has come apart;
all I hear are pointless lies.

I'm hopin' that I don't regret
my new life under Aztec skies.

Gotta get a new identity;
I think I'll join the C.I.A.

The fat man on that pogo stick...
I think he's lost his way

A fast jet
to Mexico,
that's how I flew.
I see Mazatlan below.

Where is the landfall of that hurricane
they said is gonna come?

I'll app you when I get there
under the Aztec sun.

Cowboy on that pogo stick
is showing off his gun.

Darling let's go underground
until this wind has blown;

no telling where it's heading,
in which quarters it will roam.

A fast jet
to Mexico,
that's how I flew.
I see Mazatlan below.

When I left out of Birmingham
my guts you know were in a knot (I left my money on the table)
the T.S.A. grabbed my balls
I thought that I'd been caught in a rut (nothing to declare)
but still I got on board
without getting shot
Without getting shot
without getting

Fast Jet (Stan Major lyrics)

Recorded for November Hometaping (http://www.hmtpng.com )

June Jane

Comments & ideas for collaborations appreciated. 
Instruments: violin, mandoline, acoustic, bass and electric guitars, harmonica, tin whistle, darbuka, sansula, roland synthesizers. 
Recording with Cubase Elements 11 

Recommending these inspiring musicians: 

https://soundcloud.com/the-plugs ;  https://soundcloud.com/pleudoniem ;  https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett ; 
https://soundcloud.com/dan-lockhart ; 
https://soundcloud.com/julsy ; 
https://soundcloud.com/houckjt ; 
https://soundcloud.com/tante-meli .