Strange Things Happen
Mike Love/Terry Melcher

She believes in God
And karma too
Paranormal powers
You know some people do
Got Scorpio risin'
Uh huh
Tell you what's in your stars

Every time I touch my baby
Strange things happen
Every time I touch my baby
Strange things happen
Every time I touch my baby
Strange things happen to me

She was down in Rio
Turn the heads of state
Got 'em into makin'
This planet a better place
On Copacabana
Uh huh
Oh yeah she radiate
Better go meditate

Every time I touch my baby
Strange things happen
Every time I touch my baby
Strange things happen
Every time I touch my baby
Strange things happen to me

Met a psychic reader
With a crystal ball
Had a vision
Said we could have it all
I caught her gazin'
Uh huh
At our destiny
Cosmically

Every time I touch my baby
Strange things happen
Every time I touch my baby
Strange things happen
Every time I touch my baby
Strange things happen to me
Every time I touch my baby
Strange things happen to me
Every time I touch my baby
Strange things happen to me

Strange Things Happen

Fire Away

The sans culottes have breached the gate
The Jacobins are on their way
So I'd be careful when you say
Let them eat cake
For your own sake
Time to come to grips
Consider
Cashing out your chips
Accept your fate
It's not too late
To run away

Call the soldiers off the fight
You've got the might
But not the right
You could steal into the night
Get out of sight
Start a new life
Let it go
Cause it's just your foolish pride

Now you've got the ammunition
To defeat the opposition
But I might just be the one
At the barrel of your gun
If you end this revolution
With a rebel execution
Then I might just be the one
At the barrel of your gun

The people need some food to eat
The Bolsheviks are in the streets
The revolution won't be tweeted
Out again
Anastasia's
Wearing a disguise
She won't be
Taken out this time
The lesson's learned
She won't get burned
Now it's your turn

If your ego can't be tamed
Then that's a shame
Don't lay me blame
If you go down with the ship
You know I'll flip
You'd do the same
If it were me
So adjust your foolish pride

Now you've got the ammunition
To defeat the opposition
But I might just be the one
At the barrel of your gun
If you end this revolution
With a rebel execution
Then I might just be the one
At the barrel of your gun

Fire away, it's okay
You don't need me anyway
You're so big, I'm so small
Line me up against the wall
Fire away, it's okay
I don't need you anyway
I'm so big, You're so small
Line me up and make me a martyr

If you play Caesar Augustus
A triumvirate justice
You can throw me overboard
After falling on my sword
If you fortify your tower
You could fight to stay in power
But I think I've had enough
You can cast me as MacDuff
If you silence the guerillas
Send a dethsquad out to kill us
Ask your friends at CIA
If they'll bury me with Che
Fire away

Fire away, it's okay
You don't need me anyway
You're so big, I'm so small
Line me up against the wall
Fire away, it's okay
I don't need you anyway
I'm so big, You're so small
Petty kings are destined to fall

The communists have lost the plot
Capitalists have all been bought
The intellectuals all thought
You'd know by now
That you'll never
Justify your reign
You'll never
Win our hearts and brains
We see right through
The fake milieu
The problem's you

It's a bloody way to go
I hope you know
It's apropos
Cause you reap just what you sew
The status quo's
Been overthrown
Let it go
Cause it's just your foolish pride

Now you've got the ammunition
To defeat the opposition
But I might just be the one
At the barrel of your gun
If you end this revolution
With a rebel execution
Then I might just be the one
At the barrel of your gun
Yeah I might just be the one
At the barrel of your gun
And you know I'll be the one
Staring down the barrel of your loaded gun

Fire Away

Another one from the end of December that I wanted to share.  I started writing this one right after I finished all the tracks for Shifted Silhouette, so it was a chance to take my new instrument in a... still big and heavy, but more atmospheric direction.

Xyln

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After the War

I know it's grim but picture this
A world of harmony and bliss
But paradise will have to wait
The enemy is at the gate
Just trade your butter in for guns
We'll pay you interest when it's done
We'll lay the bricks
We'll feed the poor
We'll heal the sick
After the war
After the war

Our sacrifice might seem a curse
The other side has got it worse
With all the battles that we've won
Their casualties are two to one
I'm sure that God's with us, besides
I'm selling coffins to both sides
The blood we shed
Is gonna pour
We'll mourn the dead
After the war
After the war

At the parade
We'll all get paid
We'll all get laid
Don't be afraid
It's just a gun
Somebody's son
It won't mean none
After we've won
And when it's done
We'll be so free
A victory
For you and me
I'm shipping out
Another tour
We'll fall in love
After the war
After the war

Hitler and Stalin came to blows
Our adversary's one of those
Whichever team might egg you on
That's where the battle lines are drawn
And our democracy will prove
The candidates they preapprove
All have a mandate
To ensure
We have a plan
After the war
After the war

Seems like we're always on the brink
But we'll prevail I doublethink
These days it feels like war is peace
I might just join the thought police
And our economy will thrive
Cause they say two plus two is five
We'll have some fun
in '84
On Airstrip One
After the war
After the war

At the parade
We'll all get paid
We'll all get laid
Don't be afraid
It's just a gun
Somebody's son
It won't mean none
After we've won
And when it's done
We'll be so free
A victory
For you and me
I'm shipping out
Another tour
We'll fall in love
After the war

After the war
After the war
After the war
After the war
After the war
After the war
After the war
After the war

After the War

Revelation

I am the alpha and the omega
Who is who was and who is to come
The almighty
Do not be afraid
Amen

Revelation

Cashing Out

A highway through the desert sun
What's that Mirage on the horizon?
Something where nothing should exist
Let there be light, viva Las Vegas

An act of pure creative will
An epic vision to fulfill
A world designed to entertain
We all buy in and play the game

Of the world we choose to live in
Give it a whirl, the wheel is spinning
This is our world to lose and I choose to win
I'm cashing out

We all accept the cheap façades
Selling false hope with winks and nods
We dull our senses, fool around
Ignore the risk and double down

Some speed to get me out of bed
Some weed to rectify my head
Mixed drinks to cultivate my buzz
And you can guess what this pill does

To the world we choose to live in
Give it a whirl, the wheel is spinning
This is our world to lose and I choose to win
I'm cashing out

“Who needs luck when you've got fate,
and it's death?
Yeah, the house always wins.”

A pagan orgy aftermath
At Caesar's Palace in the bath
I spill my seed and then return
To give the slots another turn

The temples in the wild west
Run seven days but none for rest
The money-changers on the floor
Can keep their chips, I'll take the door

Of the world we choose to live in
(Vegas baby Vegas baby Vegas)
Give it a whirl, the wheel is spinning
(Vegas baby Vegas baby Vegas)
This is our world to lose and I choose to win
(Vegas baby Vegas baby Vegas)
I'm cashing out

Cashing Out

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Sky So Wide

8:07 AM

No More

Ziggy's gone to Mars
He left us his guitar
Strumming at the moon
Singing all his tunes
He left us here marooned
Gone much to soon
What's eternity?
What's modernity?
Don't believe in modern love
No more

I'm not one to cling
I swing from fling to fling
Cause everyone likes sex
But no-one likes their ex
I move on to the next
It's not complex
What's monogamy?
What's misogyny?
I don't believe in you and me
No more

But we can still be friends
I know we'll meet again
I don't know when

A mutant grassland chimp
Is naturally a pimp
Watch those cavemen go
I wonder if they'll know
Humanity plateaued
After VanGogh
What's insanity?
What's humanity?
Don't believe in starry nights
No more

But we can still make art
Even worlds apart
You're in my heart

If chemistry is love
I must be dreaming of
A serotonin fix
An oxytocin trick
An epinephrine kick
I'll take my pick
What's material?
What's ethereal?
Don't believe in god and man
No more

Still somebody's home
I'm in my head alone
Against the great unknown
I'll face this on my own

No More

Time to Go Now

It's a brand new beach
The ocean's out-of-reach
And the tide's so low
Where did the water go?
Now a roaring sound
Is trembling the ground
It's a tidal wave
Now who you gonna save

Time to go now

Hear the wave crown
Doncha wait 'round
Catch an outbound
Take the high-ground
Run you can't hide
From the riptide
Flee the coastline
To the hillside

Now the refugees
Are moving up the street
And the water's free
But nothing's left to eat
Doncha look at me
It's not my responsibility
I'm just a retiree
Living in Miami Beach

Time to go now

It's a basic simple premise
No clandestine phantom menace
Tides are rising there goes Venice
Drown the children that condemn us
Just ignore that sinking feeling
Real estate is through the ceiling
You can get away with me and
Build a fortress in New Zealand

Now we're off to Mars
Flying through the stars
To live inside jars
This life no longer ours
Total human race
On an offworld base
I unseal our case
To the vacuum of space

Time to go now

Cut the small talk
Drink the hemlock
Break the airlock
Take a space walk
Sunlight beaming
Am dreaming?
Silent screaming
No redeeming

Old New Orleans
Or the Lowlands
Amazonans
And Samoans
From Kuwaitis
To the Chinese
Bangladeshis
And The Maldives

From Alaska
To Havana
Costa Maya
To Jakarta
Senegalese
And New Guinea
Plus Somalis
And The Finnys

Time to Go Now

Enigmatic
Vertigo Fox is a strange and strangely musical creature who who infuses progressive, metal, and industrial rock into his own unique sound that explores the weird and unusual.

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