Track 01 from the album "The Motive of the Prophets" by Psychotic Son
Words & music by Robert Lawrence Postrel
Produced and published by Rob Postrel Music (2021)
All instrumentation, vocals, and arrangement by Robert Lawrence Postrel
Release date: September 30, 2021
Official sites: https://linktr.ee/psychoticson

In the beginning, the sheep were allowed to play
Being fed their bullshit, every single day
The motive of the prophets, makes it very clear
Obey us when we tell you to, and you’ll have nothing to fear

Trouble lies ahead, and it won’t be easy
The leaders of the world are very sleazy
Hands on the cash, a finger on the button
With no regard for the utter destruction

The orange glow’s still glowing on the horizon
Still giving hope to millions and millions
The motive of the prophets, makes it very clear
Rise up and don’t repeat; the sheep will still adhere

Into the darkness, we walk
But still, we don’t see
The storm is here, so save yourself
And come with me…

The Motive of the Prophets

INSTRUMENTATION COMPLETE - NEED TO RECORD VOCALS

Track 01 from the album "The Motive of the Prophets" by Psychotic Son
Written by Robert Lawrence Postrel
Produced and published by Rob Postrel Music (2022)
All instrumentation and vocals by Robert Lawrence Postrel
Official sites: https://linktr.ee/psychoticson

1987 version - https://soundcloud.com/psychoticson/burning-eyes-original-1987-demo

The moonlight’s glow shines on this urban blight
In time this city will burn to the ground
From the rooftops we see the blazing light
As fireman battle another round
                  
In the children’s eyes you can see the pain now
Their house burned down there’s nowhere left to go
Will these families start all over again maybe no
Stand in the cold watching the buildings glow

The sunrises up and the next day
We see the burned frame and the charcoaled brick
The people who live there look the other way
Nothing new to them but it makes me sick, sick now

The arsonist’s eyes are fires that burn
Playing with fire you’ll live in an urn

The moonlight’s glow shines on this urban blight
In time this city will burn to the ground
From the rooftops we see the blazing light
As fireman battle another round

In the children’s eyes you can see the pain now
Their house burned down there’s nowhere left to go
Will these families start all over again maybe no
Stand in the cold watching the buildings glow

The sunrises up and the next day
We have to pay, for the next day

Burning Eyes

Instrumentally complete. Needs vocals and some sound effects.

Track 05 from the album "The Motive of the Prophets" by Psychotic Son (https://soundcloud.com/psychoticson/sets/the-motive-of-the-prophets)
Written by Robert Lawrence Postrel
Produced and published by Rob Postrel Music (1983, 2022-2025)
All instrumentation and vocals by Robert Lawrence Postrel
Official sites: https://linktr.ee/psychoticson

LYRICS INSPIRED BY ACTUAL TV NEWS REPORTS IN NYC. BOTH IN 1983 AND IN 2024

EXPLICIT

0:00 i. Violent Overture
--Musical Interlude--

POLICE RADIO: Shots fired; shots fired. Officer down, I repeat officer down. Suspect is armed and dangerous.

--Suspenseful Atmosphere-- 
--Musical Interlude--

6:04 ii. Maybe You'll Be Next (https://soundcloud.com/psychoticson/violence-next)

I think I’m gonna go out and buy myself a gun
Shoot some police, I think I’ll have some fun
If they catch me now, I’m gonna have to run
Maybe you will be next

I think I’ll set a bomb off in a locker at JFK
I’ll throw you on the subway track if I don’t get my way
I’ll rape you I’ll beat you I don’t care what you say
Maybe you will be next

Well, I am the lunatic you fear in your dream
But this is reality I’m just how I seem
You better watch out I’m a-lurkin' in the dark
Be waitin' for you when you’re walkin' through the park

I feel so lonely now
And I feel so high
I feel so violent now
And I’m gonna fly
On by, so high, you're gonna die

Look at my boy Luigi, he made himself a gun
Hunting down the man, he's gonna have some fun
If they catch him now, he's gonna have to run
C-E-O will be next

You’ll never catch someone, who’s as sick as me
I’ll go to court and plead insanity
They’ll let me go and feel sorry for me
Maybe you will be next

Well, I am the lunatic you fear in your dream
But this is reality I’m just how I seem
You better watch out I’m a-lurkin' in the dark
Be waitin' for you when you’re walkin' through the park

I feel so violent now
And I’m gonna fly
On by, so high, I'm gonna die
Right now...

The Suite Violence (i. Violent Overture, ii. Maybe You Will Be Next)

Suite Violence (i. Violent Overture, ii. Maybe You Will Be Next)

Written by Robert Rosenberg
Performed by Prophet Motive - 1983

Mushroom Cloud (1983)

Written by Robert Rosenberg
Performed by Prophet Motive (1983)

Fashion (1983)

Instrumental complete, needs vocals

Track 04 from the album "The Motive of the Prophets" by Psychotic Son
Music by Robert Lawrence Postrel
Words by Ed G Peterson
Melodies/excerpts from Gnossienne No. 1 and The Gymnopédies No. 1 by Erik Satie (Public domain)
Produced and published by Rob Postrel Music (2023)
All instrumentation, arrangement, and vocals by Robert Lawrence Postrel
Release date: TBD
Official sites: https://linktr.ee/psychoticson

Intro (Instrumental)
Groups of us they name, though we’re not the same.
Kept subdued and tame, we’re still not to blame.
Thinking we are weak, they’re themselves oblique.
Full control they seek: “Thou shalt not misspeak!”
Groups of us they’ve named; that is how we’re blamed.
Those untouched unjust we’ll resist; we must!

Individuals, souls within our skulls,
We are all unique. Yes! Our minds we speak!
Plans hidden from us, their evil opus
Unfolding now behind portrayers of mankind!!!

Individuals, souls within our skulls,
We are all unique. Yes! Our minds we speak!
Traps laid before us: their evil opus
Advancing much maligned betrayers of mankind!!!

Musical Interlude (Instrumental)

If you’re set apart, who can hear your heart?
Set aside those fears; clear away those tears…
We must not ignore all that came before;
Spoken word and ink kept us from the brink.
Thinking we are weak, mass control they seek:
Much our suff’ring brings those who pull the strings!

Individuals, souls within our skulls,
We are all unique. Yes! Our minds we speak!
They shall respect us! Their evil opus
Shall crumble from combined defenders of mankind!!!

We are free to think: righteous thoughts we link;
Spoken word and ink keep us from the brink.
Study, we implore! Heed what came before,
So we don’t repeat that which caused defeat!
Not yielding to some great seal, our vigilance won’t repeal
Pursuit of happiness real; our bells of liberty peal!

Individuals, souls within our skulls,
We are all unique. Yes! Our minds we speak!
They shall respect us! Their evil opus
Shall crumble from combined defenders of mankind!!!

Musical Interlude (Instrumental)

After The Opus

Oppose the Opus

Track 06 from the album "The Motive of the Prophets" by Psychotic Son
Written by David Gilmour and Roger Waters (Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd. and BMG Platinum Songs)
Originally recorded by Pink Floyd on their album "Wish You Were Here" (1975)
Produced and published by Rob Postrel Music (www.idblm.org/369798)
All instrumentation, vocals & arrangement by Robert Postrel
Single release date: October 4, 2021
2023 Remaster release date: January 12, 2023 (Video)
2023 Remaster release date: February 12, 2023 (Audio Single)
Official sites: linktr.ee/psychoticson

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?

Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year

Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here

Wish You Were Here

Track 08 from the album "The Motive of the Prophets" by Psychotic Son
Written by Robert Lawrence Postrel & Ed G Peterson (in the key of A# Minor)
Melodies/excerpts from Gnossienne No. 1 by Erik Satie, The Gymnopédies No. 1 by Erik Satie, and Promenade by Modest Mussorgsky (Public domain)
Produced and published by Rob Postrel Music (2023)
All instrumentation and arrangement by Robert Lawrence Postrel
Release date: June 11, 2023
Official sites: linktr.ee/psychoticson

INSTRUMENTALLY COMPLETE, NEEDS VOCALS

Track 07 from the album "The Motive of the Prophets" by Psychotic Son
Words & music by Robert Lawrence Postrel (in the key of C# Maj)
Produced and published by Rob Postrel Music (2023)
All instrumentation, vocals, and arrangement by Robert Lawrence Postrel
Release date: TBD
Official sites: linktr.ee/psychoticson

0:00
i: The Conception
BIRTH MOTHER:
I went in with good intentions
To start a family
Your dad had to go so far away
He couldn't be with me

And since I believe in right-to-life
I put this into play
Surrogates to lead you to
The fate of the ghost train
Ghost train haze

2:25
ii: The Reception
THE SON:
Right from the conception
The cycle of a karmic stage
Right from the reception
Ridin' on a ghost train haze

They put me in their culture
To mold me to their ways
My reality for the future is
Trippin' on a ghost train haze, yeah

3:00
iii: The Deception
ADOPTED MOTHER:
I didn’t want you to find out
Your namesakes’ fate in life
I wanted you to be like us
I even chose your wife

When you found out the deep dark secret
A psychotic karmic phase
I had no choice but to shut you out
It's the fate of the ghost train
Ghost train haze

4:30
iv. The Redemption
BIRTH MOTHER:
My spirit has been with you
On the shade; in Christmas songs
It was very hard for you
Not feeling you belonged

I led you back to where you're from
To see how we were raised
And we welcome you with open arms
The last stop on the ghost train
Ghost train haze

Ghost Train Haze

Instrumentally complete. Needs vocals.

From "Suite Violence (i. Violent Overture, ii. Maybe You Will Be Next)"(https://soundcloud.com/psychoticson/violence), track 05 from the album "The Motive of the Prophets" by Psychotic Son (https://soundcloud.com/psychoticson/sets/the-motive-of-the-prophets)
Written by Robert Lawrence Postrel
Produced and published by Rob Postrel Music (1983, 2022-2025)
All instrumentation and vocals by Robert Lawrence Postrel
Official sites: https://linktr.ee/psychoticson

LYRICS INSPIRED BY ACTUAL TV NEWS REPORTS IN NYC. BOTH IN 1983 AND IN 2024

I think I’m gonna go out and buy myself a gun
Shoot some police, I think I’ll have some fun
If they catch me now, I’m gonna have to run
Maybe you will be next

I think I’ll set a bomb off in a locker at JFK
I’ll throw you on the subway track if I don’t get my way
I’ll rape you I’ll beat you I don’t care what you say
Maybe you will be next

Well, I am the lunatic you fear in your dream
But this is reality I’m just how I seem
You better watch out I’m a-lurkin' in the dark
Be waitin' for you when you’re walkin' through the park

I feel so lonely now
And I feel so high
I feel so violent now
And I’m gonna fly
On by, so high, you're gonna die

Look at my boy Luigi, he made himself a gun
Hunting down the man, he's gonna have some fun
If they catch him now, he's gonna have to run
C-E-O will be next

You’ll never catch someone, who’s as sick as me
I’ll go to court and plead insanity
They’ll let me go and feel sorry for me
Maybe you will be next

Well, I am the lunatic you fear in your dream
But this is reality I’m just how I seem
You better watch out I’m a-lurkin' in the dark
Be waitin' for you when you’re walkin' through

I feel so violent now
And I’m gonna fly
On by, so high, you're gonna die
Right now

Maybe You Will Be Next

Maybe You Will Be Next (Single)

My compositions, and other artist's compositions that I arrange, do not conform to any genre. Its classification is post-genre which is music beyond any description. In fact, the artist becomes the genre. My compositions are heavily influenced by progressive rock, post-rock, and classical music. My most Influential composers/musicians are Tony Banks, Richard Wright, Jeff Lynne, Steve Hackett, David Gilmour, Robert Fripp, Phil Collins, Keith Moon, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, and Modest Mussorgsky.

All instrumentation and vocals by R. L. Postrel
Produced by Rob Postrel Music

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