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

I wanted to do something a little less reliant on my synth hardware, to really have fun with some of the synth plugins I've amassed over the past couple years, break out the Minibrute, and the Nexus and Obscura orchestral libraries.
Had a blast with this one, it's really got everything -- even if some of the guitar parts were a little bit tricky to play how I wanted with my limited coordination.

In terms of songwriting, this one is maybe a little bit folkloric, kinda like if the Wild Hunt was applied to the effects of climate change.  As seen from inside, of course, 'cuz that's thematic and it's still me writing it after all ;)

Xyln

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

BackHome

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Sky So Wide

8:07 AM

MOVEMENT SETUP

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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