Written by Chris Debellis & Lennox Campbell-Berzins
Chris Debellis - Guitar
Leo Orlov - Guitar
James Atin-Godden - Bass and Backing vocal
Aniqa Qadir - Meows and Harmonies
Ryan Cassar - Producer, Mixer, and Backing vocal
Lennox C.B. - Vocal, Guitar, Drums

The Grocery Song

Dead Man’s blues along a trench line, hear the bullets hiss and shrapnel whine 
How bout a chorus for the firing line? Put em to tombs just a matter o’time. 
Spinal rupture from a thunderclap, fallout burned a hole in the sack. 
Feel the love from your M16 – once she gets a purring she’s a mean machine. 

Maggot rhyme, death bell chime, crows are fine, over to dinner at the losing side. 

Brewing bloodbaths with the toxic rain, 
Pour it over till it bleach the stain. 
Hell incarnate and the court of heat, 
Be like a rock or be quick on your feet. 

Light the match, itch the scratch. Burn the wick, make it quick. 

Burp or choke now, won’t be for long. Bombs burn up now, blot out the sun. 

Sour Belching from the sea of fire licked the sky as the flames grew higher. 
Spectres out marching on parade, stole a tank for a motorcade. 
Lullabies for lulling slaughter, factory guns seduce the martyr. 
Chemical coated intermission saved my skull from inhibition. 

Maggot rhyme, death bell chime, crows are fine, over to dinner at the losing side. 

Dub me filthy, club me dumb, 
Nothings new under this sun. 
You play cat, I’ll play mouse, 
Only takes two to burn down the house. 

Fan the flame, never wane. Flick the switch, break the stitch. 

Cough or toke now, won’t be for long. Blood stream up now, smoke from a gun. 

Riders backing up the rear today – horsemen watch the battle sway. 
Fly no banner on the shooting ground, waiting on the final trumpet to sound. 

CHORUS END
credits
from Magicikada, released 13 October 2014 
Lennox Campbell-Berzins – Guitar and vocals 

Aniqa Qadir – Vocals 

James Atin-Godden – Bass and vocals 

Daniel Staples – Drums 


Produced and Mixed by Aaron Corbett 

Mastered by Daniel Staples

06- Maggot Rhyme

Lennox Campbell-Berzins – Guitar and Vocals. 
James Atin-Godden – Bass, Keyboards,  and Vocals.
Aniqa Qadir – Vocals
Daniel Staples – Drums and Vocals

Arranged and Produced by Ruby Cikada
Written by Lennox Campbell-Berzins.
Engineered by Mitch Girio at Slaughterhouse 754
Mixed by James Atin-Godden, Daniel Staples and Kieran Maraj
Mastered by Richard G Benoit

There goes my pretty puppy 
chasing squirrels round the maple trees.
Running wild all through the valley 
As I watch a picture perfect scene. 

Marigolds in bloom,		
Northern wind chiming a tune,
Dreams floating at high noon. 
Winter comes so soon, 
Like the restless moon. 

High in the park x2           Long Before dark        High in the park

Marry me to distant oceans,
Foggy notions of chivalry.
Climbing high through misty mountains
Hidden fountains of gold and green.

Wait on till dark… Hearing all the young dogs bark… summer came and left its mark
With the first monarch…  gliding through the park.

My puppy waits for me now, 
Somewhere near yet somewhere far. 
I’ll follow our path through the valley.
 Lay him to rest under the stars.

Season cards were sent… signed away in merriment… winter came and took ferment.

High In The Park

Lennox Campbell-Berzins – Guitar and Vocals. 
James Atin-Godden – Bass, Guitar, and Vocals
Aniqa Qadir – Vocals
Daniel Staples – Drums and Vocals

Arranged and Produced by Ruby Cikada
Written by Lennox Campbell-Berzins.
Engineered by Mitch Girio at Slaughterhouse 754
Mixed by James Atin-Godden, Daniel Staples and Kieran Maraj
Mastered by Richard G Benoit

Mama told me long ago,	 bout the folks she used to know, 
And stories come and stories go, of ancestors high and low.
Like old Germaine who went insane or young Constance who sailed to France,
The toil, wars, and all the scores that lead a boy to find out more. 

Whenever I feel sick or insecure , I think of them and dance a sword dance. 

Theordore a prisoner of war -before the trenches made their gore - 
Opened up a grocery store despite the regal clothes he wore
While Islanders and Mariners wrestled waves and cut-throat gnaves,
The lore of old as good as gold, when evening shines on days of old. 

Young Nancy crossed the sea with five kids and a dowry
While uncle Don was running rum, got lost at sea and towns went numb. 
Or granddad who wore the cloth, went to war and took it off
			
His brother died at 17… buried by a lumber mill canteen…
Another time, another place it seems… Every family has its wounded tree…
Think of them and dance a sword dance!

Sword Dance

Lennox Campbell-Berzins – Guitar and Vocals. 
James Atin-Godden – Bass
Aniqa Qadir – Vocals
Daniel Staples – Drums

Arranged and Produced by Ruby Cikada
Written by Lennox Campbell-Berzins.
Engineered by Mitch Girio at Slaughterhouse 754
Mixed by James Atin-Godden, Daniel Staples and Kieran Maraj
Mastered by Richard G Benoit



All the eyes of the world have seen the glory of her face. 
No painter, no believer none can begin to trace.
How could I’ve known she’d come to me to right my wrongs. 
Could she have known I’d praise her here in mortal song. 

She has a way I could never say when she gives me loooove. 
When she’s away I don’t wanna see the day, when she gives me love. 

Command me.     
Subdue me.	
Navigate me.	
Correct me.

Where’d you get those cauldron eyes
Blurring out the lines between the iris and the white
Brewing thunder in their iron base
Leaving not a single trace of the sunken night
Fire flowing through your features as a hero’s might. 

I tend to think of her when the lights go out
All my charge and conscious guards fall into a helpless route
This funny recklessness, this absent mindedness
How long can it really last after weeks have passed.

She Has A Way

“Meanderin’ Blues” is dedicated to the memory of Lenny Breau and Ali Farka Toure.

Lennox Campbell-Berzins – Guitar and Vocals. 
James Atin-Godden – Bass and Keyboard
Aniqa Qadir – Vocals
Daniel Staples – Drums

Arranged and Produced by Ruby Cikada
Written by Lennox Campbell-Berzins.
Engineered by Mitch Girio at Slaughterhouse 754
Mixed by James Atin-Godden, Daniel Staples and Kieran Maraj
Mastered by Richard G Benoit

All night long I’m meanderin’, wear these cloaks like a Paladin. 
All night long I’m meanderin’, swoop and bound like a peregrin. 
All night long I’m meanderin’, pins and needles give me half a grin.
All night long I’m yammerin’, telling tales of the Saladin. 

Golden Tracks on my feet, laugh to scorn a city street.		 
Locomotion like I never knew, sends me down to Timbuktu. 

All night long I’m stammerin’, scaring birds from the looney bin.
All night long I’m ponderin’, how the hell I didn’t fall in. 
All night long I’m blabberin’, asking round for my fellow kin
All night long I’m mentorin’, teachin’ demons how to sin. 

All night long I’m chatterin’, melting minds like they’re made of tin
All night long I’m meanderin’, why don’t you all join?

Meanderin' Blues

Let me take you back ten years or so 
To the buds i knew in around my home 
Middle school mayhem made us feel the same 
We were a motley crew, a sight to see 
A goth, punk, metal, hippie family 
At night we waltz these streets in drunken harmony 

We wept and bled, some even got head 
From devil's peak to the forest bed 
Hallowed times in the skirmish line 
These were some friends of mine 

Chorus: 
Oh, Roncy Renegades take me back 
The party, the glory of the first attack 
The older i get, the more i miss the act 
The old brigade of the Roncy Renegades 

Some went high and some went low 
We got a feeling or a promise from an undertow 
Trade nights for day and bathe in the afterglow 
A comradery we could never see 
The days flew by in the revelry 
We clocked some hours in this feral company 

Soon enough we had enough 
The love we felt was getting rough 
Too much confined to too few 
What were we gonna do? 

Chorus 

Well the times have changed we all grew up 
But somehow drink from a heathen cup 
The places change but the people stay the same 
On a friday night the streets are dead 
No goths, punks, or stoned metal heads 
Where did all the freaky people go? 

But i'm not about to give up the fight 
I still believe in a marauder's plight 
The boys will ride again 
Even if it's at the very end 

Chorus

RUBY CIKADA ---- EP II 

Lennox Campbell-Berzins – Vox, Guitars, Mandolin, Digi Guitar, and percussion. 
Aniqa Qadir – Vox 
James Atin-Godden – Bass, Backup Vox, Guitar, Keys, Melodica, Violin, and percussion. 
Daniel Staples – Drums 
All songs written by Lennox Campbel-Berzins 
Produced and Arranged by Ruby Cikada 
Mixes by James Atin-Godden and James Mulvale 
Mastered by Noah Mintz at the Lacquer Channel Studios 
Album Art by Allison Boddy 

Special thanks to James Mulvale, Allison Boddy, and Ma + Pa.

Roncy Renegades

All for nothing and everything spent 
When i could have stayed content 
Though i never know love's intent 
Even when it ate my rent 

But i don't mean to whine or vent 
I take it as a compliment 
That our moment came and went 
Though you wore another man's scent 

Bridge: 

Even though, I feel alone (aye) 
I don't need to envy you, 'cause i'm 
Better off now, on my own now 
And you haven't got a clue 

Chorus: 

All you pretty girls 
Go get your boyfriend and leave me alone 
x3 

All those nights we chased the dawn 
Wondering if i was doing wrong 
But i'd never make a cuckhold of him 
Even when we sipped our gin 
One year passed when you parted at last 
There i thought i'd make a pass 
But the colour faded from your cheeks 
There i knew this game had peaked 

Bridge 

Chorus 
All you pretty girls 
Go get your boyfriend and leave me alone 
x4


RUBY CIKADA ---- EP II 

Lennox Campbell-Berzins – Vox, Guitars, Mandolin, Digi Guitar, and percussion. 
Aniqa Qadir – Vox 
James Atin-Godden – Bass, Backup Vox, Guitar, Keys, Melodica, Violin, and percussion. 
Daniel Staples – Drums 
All songs written by Lennox Campbel-Berzins 
Produced and Arranged by Ruby Cikada 
Mixes by James Atin-Godden and James Mulvale 
Mastered by Noah Mintz at the Lacquer Channel Studios 
Album Art by Allison Boddy 

Special thanks to James Mulvale, Allison Boddy, and Ma + Pa.

All You Pretty Girls

I cut corners with a flight of ease 
My dancing shoes only aim to please. 
I’m burning up like smokestack lightning 
I’ll put it down in tiptoe tapping. 
I can rattle and roll like Pinnochio 
Play Mariotnette like Antoinette. 
I shuffle better than a deck o’cards 
Give Fred Astair my kind regards. 

Chorus: 

Melody can be my baby 
Harmony can be my daddy 
I don't need to be wary 
When I dance we are a family 

I'm sidewinder, a trailblazer 
I got more twang than a sci-fi laser 
I'll cut you down like an Eastwood villian 
All the while i'll just be chillin' 
I groove harder than a spinning screw 
Got more moves than i know what to do 
Make no mistake, i'll instigate 
Get your feet pumping till they detonate 

Chorus

RUBY CIKADA ---- EP II 

Lennox Campbell-Berzins – Vox, Guitars, Mandolin, Digi Guitar, and percussion. 
Aniqa Qadir – Vox 
James Atin-Godden – Bass, Backup Vox, Guitar, Keys, Melodica, Violin, and percussion. 
Daniel Staples – Drums 
All songs written by Lennox Campbel-Berzins 
Produced and Arranged by Ruby Cikada 
Mixes by James Atin-Godden and James Mulvale 
Mastered by Noah Mintz at the Lacquer Channel Studios 
Album Art by Allison Boddy 

Special thanks to James Mulvale, Allison Boddy, and Ma + Pa.

Sidewinder

Seems to me, from what I see	
My vantage point, it wasn’t free 
This little hole, that I have dug	
Gives little warmth, even to a slug 
And if I were, a gun for hire	
It still leaves much, to be desired 
My back is broke, I’m out of rope	
I need a drink, to help me cope 

Chorus 

But I won’t be here for long	
And I can sing an evening song 
I’ll climb above this world of hurt	
All and all, it all just looks like Dirt. 

I’m sifting through, some wood n rust	
Prompted by, a golden lust 
But what would I, ever aim to be	
In a town, without economy 
And so my days, are shaved and spent	
Just so I, can pay my rent 
And so I say, I’ll pay my dues	
But what about, the richest few? 

Chorus


RUBY CIKADA ---- EP II 

Lennox Campbell-Berzins – Vox, Guitars, Mandolin, Digi Guitar, and percussion. 
Aniqa Qadir – Vox 
James Atin-Godden – Bass, Backup Vox, Guitar, Keys, Melodica, Violin, and percussion. 
Daniel Staples – Drums 
All songs written by Lennox Campbel-Berzins 
Produced and Arranged by Ruby Cikada 
Mixes by James Atin-Godden and James Mulvale 
Mastered by Noah Mintz at the Lacquer Channel Studios 
Album Art by Allison Boddy 

Special thanks to James Mulvale, Allison Boddy, and Ma + Pa.

Dirt

We were born of an amber flame 
Kindled By a spark we claim 
Fueled by a fairytale game 
Wild hearts can never grow tame. 
We were destined for a happy end 
Hand-in-hand while running round the bend 
No rule to Comprehend 
No tracks, no letters to send. 

Bridge: 

Oh, I can’t let go of what I know 
Come comfort me, race me to the sea. 

Chorus: 

On the run, on the run Again, 
We were on the run again, 
On the run again. we were 
On the run 
On the run 
On the run again 

I think we met at a game of skip rope 
Never danced till we eloped 
Always running out of dope 
Open road was our only hope, 
But we lost it by the sea 
Candle burnt its ends in glee, couldn’t find that old alchemy in the cape of Love (G) & worry (A). 
Bridge 2 
Oh, I can see now the why and the how you, could’ve marry me but now we’ll always be.


RUBY CIKADA ---- EP II 

Lennox Campbell-Berzins – Vox, Guitars, Mandolin, Digi Guitar, and percussion. 
Aniqa Qadir – Vox 
James Atin-Godden – Bass, Backup Vox, Guitar, Keys, Melodica, Violin, and percussion. 
Daniel Staples – Drums 
All songs written by Lennox Campbel-Berzins 
Produced and Arranged by Ruby Cikada 
Mixes by James Atin-Godden and James Mulvale 
Mastered by Noah Mintz at the Lacquer Channel Studios 
Album Art by Allison Boddy 

Special thanks to James Mulvale, Allison Boddy, and Ma + Pa.

On The Run

Bada daaa da da da daaaa 
Ba daaaa da da da daaa 
Bada daaaa da da da da daaaa 
Bada daaaa da da duh da 

Badaaaa da daaa daa dum da duh daaa 
Badaaaa da daaa daaa daaaaaa 
Badaaaa da daaa daa dum ba duh daaa 
Badaaa da daaa dum daaa


RUBY CIKADA ---- EP II 

Lennox Campbell-Berzins – Vox, Guitars, Mandolin, Digi Guitar, and percussion. 
Aniqa Qadir – Vox 
James Atin-Godden – Bass, Backup Vox, Guitar, Keys, Melodica, Violin, and percussion. 
Daniel Staples – Drums 
All songs written by Lennox Campbel-Berzins 
Produced and Arranged by Ruby Cikada 
Mixes by James Atin-Godden and James Mulvale 
Mastered by Noah Mintz at the Lacquer Channel Studios 
Album Art by Allison Boddy 

Special thanks to James Mulvale, Allison Boddy, and Ma + Pa.

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