Cemetary Love

Recorded by Tony Feyer from Cardbored out of NYC. He asked me to sing this as a tribute to his friend that passed away.

Benzedrine

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

Flat Earth Society Girl    Music By : Tony Feyer    Words by: Owen Burgess   All Keys By: Martin Deemar   All Vocals By: Mike Bolwell

Flat Earth Society Girl 

Neil Young’s blasting
On the 8-track player
My girl’s telling me
Neil’s reciting a prayer 
Sitting on my back porch
Beer in hand
I’m starting to believe
The world is flat

Look out for  
Them spiritual girls
Man they’ll buy you shooters 
Then things get worse
I was all alone  
In an American bar
When I saw my future
Dancing on a star 

Flat earth society girl
She knows the trail to another world
Flat earth society girl
It’s a leap of faith but I don’t care
        
Way out here
Where we’ve been living
Like a two stray dogs
Closer to heaven
No more billboards 
And electric signs
Sticking pins and needles 
In our eyes 

They sell you this 
They sell you that
Tell you lies
Tell you white is black
Tell you so much
That you forget 
We’re all coming to
The apocalypse

Don’t get disillusioned
When your delusions shatter 
It’s not what you think
It’s who you think about 
That matters

There’s so many things I can learn 
From my flat earth society girl
There’s so many things I can learn 
From my flat earth society girl
There’s so many things I can learn 
 There’s so many things I can learn 
There’s so many things I can learn 
From my flat earth society girl

SOCAN 2017   Bolwell/Burgess/Deemar/Feyer

FLAT EARTH  SOCIETY GIRL

A huge shout out to my muso friends in Wrecking Crew 6 for letting me feed my Bowie demons.

DEMONS     Music by: Mike Bolwell      Words by: Owen Burgess

A Wrecking Crew 6 Production
All Vocals: Mike Bolwell
Bass: Bob Heidrich   
All Keys:  Dr. Dee    
Skinnertronics:  Michael Meredyth 
 
Produced and Mixed by:  Mike Bolwell and Plavakuca
SOCAN 2018

DEMON	            Bolwell/Burgess SOCAN 2018-02-04

Don’t follow the demon
Don’t feed your demon 
Don’t follow the demon
Baby - love the skin you’re in
Don’t feed your demon 
Learn to take it on the chin
Don’t follow the demon
That Slavery’s a deadly sin
Don’t feed your demon 
Don’t let your demon win
Don’t follow the demon
Leave him in Berlin
Don’t feed your demon 
Let the dance of love begin

Don’t feed your demons
Demons promise romance
But demons make you crazy
Time to take a chance
The world is good tonight
Let’s burn out in style
Let’s find a new addiction  
A drug that I call freedom

Don’t follow the demon
Baby Follow me instead
Don’t feed your demon 
Feed your heart not your head
Don’t follow the demon
Baby Follow me instead
Don’t feed your demon 
Be alive not dead

Don’t feed your demons
Demons are big liars
They offer you eternity
Throw you in the fire
The world is ours tonight
Let’s burn out in style
Let’s try a new addiction

DEMONS

LOOK OUT FRIENDS    Music by: Tony Feyer   Words by: Owen Burgess and Mike Bolwell

Mixed and Produced by : Mike Bolwell,  WreckCrew6 and Plavakuca
Socan 2018

Look Out Friends

Child of feather boas
Dragging on the floor-ah
I hear the way you’re talking
Sweet and cheap – oh man
You’re living in the fast lane
Killer looks - a lad insane
Daggers shoot  from your eyes
A pretty face on dead end road
CHORUS
Look out friend
The night’s on fire
People act cool
But the temperature’s rising
Look out friend
Be a little bit wiser
The thrills around here
Are suicidal  And  in the dark
Hold onto your zipper
You can’t tell the angels
From the American ripper.
VERSE
The world’s in a coma
Nobody wants to know ya
I came in with my best friend
And now he’s dead– or I am
You’re wobbling on your high heels
So listen kid – here’s the deal
Don’t let anybody STEAL your gold
SOLO
BRIDGE
I wish I had a dollar for every kid 
Who was going to change the world
And one for every song 
That ended way too soon
Wish I had dollar for every guitar player 
Who plays out of tune
And one for all the lies I’ve heard
I’d give it all to you 
EXTRO
Yah Look out friend 
What else can I say
Except better go pray  for better days.

Mountain Crumbles

RED WHITE & BLUE     Music and Vocals by : Mike Bolwell   also featuring   Bass: Bob Heidrich,  Guitars: Michael Meredyth,  Vocal guitar mutation: Max Hutchinson   Words by: Owen Burgess

RED WHITE AND BLUE by Owen Burgess    

Tell you ‘bout a woman I used to know
A gothic girl with a heart of gold
Skin that crawled with strange tattoos
Tombstones, deaths heads, needles, too
Every one of them red, white and blue

How you ever gonna be somebody?
How you ever gonna make big money?
How you ever gonna be the one who make the rules... 
Red, white and blue

I was lost and far from home
She said she wasn’t and lived alone
With weird things all around in her room
C4, guns & tasers too
Every one of them red, white and blue


How you ever gonna be somebody?
How you ever gonna rule this country?
How you ever gonna be the one who makes the world...
Red, white and blue

She asked me to join her crew
Said the president was bad and cruel
I asked her what’s she gonna do 
Cuz my politics are pretty loose 
Like my high-toppin’ shoes
 
Down by the river side this morning
I think I saw a body floating
Was it her or someone else I knew? 
Cops, crooks, and  leaders, too
Every one of them red, white and blue

How you ever gonna be somebody?
How you ever gonna rule this country?
How you ever gonna be the one who makes the world...
Red, white and blue
Red, white and blue
Red, white and blue

Down by the river, I saw my baby.

Bolwell/Burgess SOCAN 2018

Red White & Blue

Then and Now   Words and Music by Mike Bolwell and Owen Burgess  SOCAN 2018

I used to be so predictable
You could always read between my lines
I never had a very much in the way of dreams
But anyone can change inside
Took awhile for me to realize 
Ambition comes from within
Now you’re looking at me like I’m a different man
Is it on my face, the state I’m in

Yeah that was then and this is now
 In case you’re keeping score
That was then and this is now
And you don’t know nothing anymore

I understand why you look at me strange
I understand if you want to quit
The love you need the life you want
These days I just don’t seem to fit 
We tried so hard maybe even too much
Took our best shots and got lost in the fog of battle
But if you still want to dance let’s get at it
I am willing to take that gamble

Cuz that was then and this is now
 Nothing’s like it was before
You think you wised up to every trick
You don’t know nothing anymore

l’ll be a fool for you
If you be a fool for me
Just throw away your preconceptions
At the door

Cuz that was then and this is now
 In case you’re keeping score
That was then and this is now
You don’t know nothing anymore
Yeah that was then and this is now
 Nothing’s the same as it was before
You think you wised up to every trick
You don’t know nothing anymore
You don’t know nothing anymore
You don’t know nothing anymore

Then And Now

DELUSION   Music and Vocals by Mike Bolwell   Words by Owen Burgess and Mike Bolwell,   Castaneda Yaqui Guitars by Michael Meredyth

DELUSION

I took the Red pill – I took the Blue pill
I didn’t want to
I took the Green pill – I took the White pill
Because you said to

What were you doing – The room was moving
I couldn’t find you
My eyes were blinded
But your words persisted
So I listened

You’ve got all the magik tricks
Creating love’s illusions
Erotic spells are all you’re selling
But I’m buying the delusion

You do wonders like Chris Angel
Your secrets understand my hunger
Day and night my search goes on
To fight my terror and feel your wonder

You’ve got all the magik tricks
Creating love’s illusions
Erotic spells are all you’re selling
But I’m buying the delusion

I saw your red eyes – I saw your blue eyes
I didn’t want to
I saw your green eyes – I saw your white eyes
Because you said to

DELUSION

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

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