Bogged In Shitter's Ditch

Tactical Crypto Synergy

Free Da Bud     Ranzero/Owen Burgess   Socan 2024 Canada

When he be smokin’   Master Blasta tokin’
It ain’t no jokin’   he ain’t no broken down clown – rappin
Scrapper  from the get go    King Kong of the easy flow
Eyes like headlights glow    showin’  us bright
Surprised delight   when he crack it open, crack open the night
White MF and a big hat trucker
MC  suckers be punch drunk – ruckus
Shuck us and jive      live to crtiticize
So  fly,   a big bud ally   Better burnt out than burnt alive

The needle I drop   your attention I got
Then it’s battle or flop
No diff made to your one last big shot
Tapped out at 420 but yer  joint’s  got you in jail
Ran outta money    sure ain’t funny
A baby on the way   a bitty blue eyed honey
If I had a credit card   I’d bang that plastic hard
Buy a trailer wit’ a yard   a dobbie  unchained on guard
But ya think it be all easy   In the cloud it be all fleecy

No affection for an abject nation   Livin’ under a rage you call inflation
An overblown word   you heard first hand
Standin’ wit’ your  hands out in the food bank line
No design of your mind brought me here
Where yer  handin’ out yer cans of spam an beans so dear
Sure I’ll eat my grief and to be brief
The program’s mis named when it’s  called relief
Homeless   roamless   more or less livin’ in a sleepin bag
Rag tag bag dad like some bugged out hermit
CHORUS
Amerika
Free the bud
Amerika
light one up with me
O say Amerika
Can you see
By the dawn's
Early burning weed
What so proudly we fuckin hailed
At twilight's last deal
On every city street
In Amerika!
Amerika 
Amerika
Free the bud in Amerika
Amerika
Light one up  Amerika
with me
Light it up Amerika
in Washington DC
Light one up  
Free the bud

Free Da Bud

JUST LIKE YOU SAID       Ranzero/Burgess SOCAN 2024

I was sad and blue
I was hungry too
But now that I found you
I can love again it’s true
 
I woke up and shivered 
Though the heat was turned on 
Nothing was delivered 
Another morning lost

Then I heard you speak   - And I answered so coldly
I was scared it was only  - A name that I dreamed
A name with a sting  - A name I heard screamed
A name that still rings in my head - An unwanted guest
 
Now I can’t dance or croon
No one says I’m cool
But I can face the truth
I am a fool for you
 
No more Netflix nights
With the TV turned off
Or thinking there’s no difference 
Between silence and talk

When I heard your voice - And I answered you slowly
I was afraid it was only  - an echo long lost
An echo that lies  - An echo that cried
An echo that tried to hide in my head - just like you said
 
Just like you said 
All life is blessed
So now I will get dressed
I think I passed the test
 
 I was sad and blue
I was hungry too
But now that I found you
I can love again it’s true
I can love again it’s true

Just like you said

When the lights go out and I close my eyes, I can go anywhere in my mind. The darkness brings comfort to my soul.

The Darkness Brings Comfort To My Soul

Portrait © 2025 Owen D Burgess SOCAN

Throw paint at canvas  oo-oo-oo
Kill the shadows ah-ah-ah
Live in madness oo-oo-oo
Nothing else today   
Think in splatters oo-oo-oo
Brush in sorrow   ah-ah-ah
Accept my fate oo-oo-oo
Nail down the corners  

It’s only your portrait hanging there
Saying hello to me in silence  
It’s only your portrait hanging there
Chiarscuro killed your vibrance
It’s only your portrait hanging there
I stand and stare for hours and hours
But art is such a hopeless power 
It’s only your portrait hanging there
 
Change grief to anger  ah-ah-ah
Lock every door oo-oo-oo
Hang my living heart ah-ah-ah
In a damaged frame
Can you see now ah-ah -ah
What might have been oo-oo-oo
In this wreckage ah-ah-ah
More than colors bleed  

Life is made of broken wonders
Even beauty leaves a stain
I should hide your picture in a shroud
You have put the pain in painting
And only you can take the paint away
 
It’s only your portrait hanging there
Saying hello to me in silence  
It’s only your portrait hanging there
Chiarscuro killed your vibrance
It’s only your portrait hanging there
I stand and stare for hours and hours
But art is such a hopeless power 
It’s only your portrait hanging there

oo-oo-oo, ah-ah-ah
It’s only your portrait hanging there
oo-oo-oo, ah-ah-ah
It’s only your portrait hanging there


only your portrait

Whistle for my Love
Music by: Mike Bolwell and Martin Deemar of DatE www.facebook.com/Dick.and.the.Emotions/?fref=ts
Words by : Owen Burgess https://www.reverbnation.com/owendburgess/songs
Whistle for my Love

When I become emotional 
And my dreams fall dead on the floor
You help me pick them all back up 
When I hear you whistle for my love

Then you lift me up and hold me close 
Your warm lips touch my cold nose
One thing you can always trust 
I will come when you whistle for my love

Lucky dog like me
I was running through the cold city
Looking for a bed to curl up on
Listening for a whistle I prayed would come
I ain’t got no pedigree
But never doubt my loyalty
I’m so happy being on your leash
Any time you call me I will heel

When I’m rolling in your arms all night
It doesn’t feel like puppy love
It feels like I won the best of show 
Yeah - this sad-eyed mutt you care for

Then you lift me up and hold me close 
Your warm lips touch my cold nose
One thing you can always trust 
I will come when you whistle for my love

Lucky dog like me
I was running through the cold city
Looking for a bed to curl up on
Listening for a whistle I prayed would come
I ain’t got no pedigree
But never doubt my loyalty
I’m so happy being on your leash
Any time you call me I will heel

Socan 2017   M. Bolwell, M. Deemar and O. Burgess

Whistle  For My Love

Words and Lyrics by Alexander W.G. Brown 
Originally Recorded by the V-Crew, Toronto Canada
This recording is a version by Step Back a Sydney Australia band that morphed into The Urge Curve in later years. 
Players on this recording are:
Steve Peach - Guitar
John Knowles - Bass Guitar and Vocals
Adam Free - Rhythm Guitar
Tom Simmons - Vocals & keyboard
Ben Haughan - Drums

New Wave Eddy - Urge Curve Version

CHASING STARS   Words and music by : Mick Ranzero Bolwell   Lead Guitar by: Michael  Meredyth of Boss Hominid and The Skinner Box   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-C8s-7_5p8
Bass by: Bob Heidrich of Torpedo Sunrise   https://www.facebook.com/rock4rent/
Chasing Stars
Take me out to the Mothership
I've been waiting my whole life
Just one smile from you is all it took
Heard you say it will be alright
Put me down for a cryo sleep
A hundred years of  bliss
I could try to live without you
But can’t imagine a sweeter kiss
Take me out of the Milky Way
Our earthly hosts left far behind
I'm leaving everything to the kids
Eyes in the viewports dull and blind
The Acolytes were singing
Hale Bop baby blue
Lots of room in the New Beginning
That’s a promise from me to you
Misery loves you company
Will you miss me when I’m gone?
I won’t miss the World at all
Cuz I know all of you just have it wrong

	        	Should I send a message on the next comet tail
                    	Will it drown out the sorrow when all those voices wail
                    	Should I whisper your name as the other Nebuli do
                    	Will we see all our friends out on Altair 42

Our paths will cross again
Hope my heart will mend
A light year from heaven
A long way for my love to send

SUPERMODELS INC.

instrumental self-indulgent Odyssey. backing track (synths, beats bass etc) all done with a free app for my $100 android tablet. i done the guitars meself. with me Laney, me strat a modest multi fx and fake tube screame. the rest, if i can ask you to imagine Daimond Dave saying it for me, IS HISTORYyyyyyyyy!!!!"

Mal de Cul

Mick Bolwell: Toronto based Songwriter with over 500 songs filling up my bucket list so far. I started writing in the late 70's for the rock band Mick Slick among others . I have written songs for diverse bands like Freudian Slip, The 68's and Aural Sects. Along the way I wrote spots for radio, 3 musicals for Frolics.ca; a children's black light puppet theatre company, film and television and I collaborate with other musicians on Sony Music's AcidPlanet website, Kompoz.com and Bandlab.com. I have been a member of SOCAN.ca since 1979. I now spend my time working with the internet based band Boss Hominid. Our latest video (see below) can be seen on YouTube, called "Plastic." https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4ixhh_KQTPWeV-54eqiblPDppSDefZ0n

Chasing Stars

Ranzero

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