Song of a Lost Raccoon by Storm Rizing

howl at the moon
for tonight could be our doom
I don't know you 
but I would like to show you
the world we know is in a great crisis
and everything precious 
everything great
is going to have to wait
there are equations that must be closed
so as the chaos comes in
don't forget to show your
beautiful side
your smile
your kindness 
and mile-by-mile
we'll make this world whole again
the dark powers that manifest
all of this crisis and painful circumstance in our lives
our lives have been drawn
against some unpleasant
uncertain dawn
the goal they sought out and set to own
business empires have shown
we are 
we are
we are starving
scrambling to just make it by
all the meanwhile
some fat cats
some blue blood
the upper class
this is the same song we've been singin'
you're probably the same ears that have been listinin'
we must do something about this great struggle
this doom that is mugging us
this is the time to struggle
I have found
that even this sound
all plans pale in the face
of how fucked
the human race
we-you injured ourselves
this system is murder
this system we live in is murder
and still here in two thousand-fifteen
the same trends of decline
that have been with since the last centuries
this paradigm has its roots in 
the same hunger for greed and power
leaves us destitute
and i'm so sad to see what its done to all my friends
and all the other people who wouldn't even pretend
stuck in a megalithic system that swallowed them up
demanding from us money for a home
and everything we could want or need or hope for
and all the ways that we went around to get in control again
we were deprived of our free will
because everything is bought and owned 
so-Oo-oo
that's when i turned to the streets that I miss 
that i miss so much
i really wish i was out there with nothing but a sleeping bag 
because then my time would be my own
my mind unimpinged
but sealed behind these hinges in this comfortable house
like a comfortable mouse
and here i watch as the world falls 
just like it always has
i am suffering because i have no way 
to do anything about
our decay
our decay it is a corpse
our decay 
our decay 
and its getting worse

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Song Of A Lost Raccoon

The Clouded Gateway by Storm Rizing

schoolin' is
this rule is
we are tools in
the same old
the same old a-frame building
stocked up in their building
I am tired of taking the cities
tired of them ruling this place
my mind is furled
I love the world
the bristling pines
places in time
lovely creatures
lovely rhymes scents and features
that only the world in it's beautiful glory can deliver now
but we spoil it
in greed we toil
the skies and ads
obligatory lifestyles 
circus fairs
bread and wine for your comfortable fruit
you glut in the scenes of the fruit
of technology and industry and modern consumer psychology
building 
building it building 
building it building 
the rat race
the rat race
they've built and we've come and we've filled this space
this space
this space is of detriment to our whole race
the shopping mall
first world privilege
seal it in plastic in plastic in plastic
throw it all away
its a panic attack it
sail it
package it up
buy it
taking it up
we're gonna exploit everything endlessly
we gonna gonna take it exploit it and wreck it
we don't give a fuck
we're the western interests
going global we use it
its not anyone anymore
this is a global- fuck'en
the door
pandora's doorway
the gateway to the future is clouded in the smoke and debris
of a broken place full of thneeds and I 
I see it coming but I can do so little for it cause I
for it cause I am just here singing to you 
in a time where we are more than we're two
we gotta be in tune with the world see
we are at risk of losing not just are harmony
but the world we may care about
I'm afraid if you're jaded beyond your sense of repair
if your jaded and cracked and your muscles are torn 
cause' your mind is sore and you can't go anymore
I relate to you
been there too
but we gotta crackle with the lightening
these energies of healing need to rip from our bodies
we need ta' unleash the powers of our minds
our souls 
and our hearts
if we're gonna do it in time
because this system is wrecking it
wrecking it
this panic attack 
they are selling it 
selling it
and the kids are buying at an alarming rate
the consumer culture conforms at an accelerated rate
I don't know how to get out in time
but its not about me I guess I could leave anytime
I could go out to the woods with a backpack or a property
it doesn't really matter 
I can by out there you see
cause' I am not a loyalist
to the industrialist capitalist corporate shit stack
those empirical bastards that are building it
fuck them
I really wish that they would just take a sit 
and realize their role in all this
they are all the greatest detriment to the whole of us 
but 
they are
they are okay with their roles in it
throw them in the chokee yayay yayay
what the fuck is wrong ayeaye ayeaye ayeayeaye
why don't they listen listen or care
they just want the people out of their hair
they wanna see it
wanna see it
wanna see it in the way that gets them through
gets them what they want to do with it
usually that is just amassing wealth
what the fuck is it worth it
we got starving bellies and mouths to fill
so many mouths to fill
so many mouths to fill
rather than provide
they provide with a daggerous smile
and diplomats guile
ooooh
ooooh
ooooh

The Clouded Gateway

Futility Blues by Storm Rizing

divided and desperate
defeated and apathetic
a hypocrite
a royal class brat
defeated and blundering
self deserving no one
cause i
only wish for the summer sun
so i can pack my backpack and leave everyone
tired if the pace
the frenetic pace of modern life
really want a taste
get back to the road and go away
but no no no
i feel like i would leave my chance at saving our collective destiny
a point of contradiction 
a point of contradiction 
a point of contradiction 
and i just wanna 
wanna resolve it and have some fun
find the peace before its done
spend your laboring
lose your self and now it's amazing
the sky
the skies so blue
and i am tired of spending it
trying to correct and avoid our greatest doom
caught up and bored in my living room
thought i'd get a careeer
thought i'd get a degree
thought i'd spend my time serving a greater destiny
but its so ironic how the world pacifies us
they say "co-opt the world to change it"
but no no no
it won't work
we're doomed
no no no it won't work
being the head
or the directer
even the fucking president
can't change it fix we go
can't change it fix we go
i miss the road
i miss the road
i miss when my time was there standing in my boots with 
nowhere to go
and not a dollar to my name
no schedule or routine to take my time away
i miss the days where i would wander
and now i'm here and in comfort i squander
don't waste another minute playing dumb
you clearly know the ultimate sum
can this world be saved
answer 
a second more
ask yourself where you will be when the winds have come
there is more
more chaos to be felt
more crisis round the corner
there is more 
more love to be had
the happiness you sacrificed you are so bad
spending your time confined 
four walls this paradigm
takes and spits you up
and chews you and cuts you up
and gives you nothing but a bill
take your life and now you are a shill
here my friend
take take the blue pill
the steak will taste better here in the matrix
don't ask what is really going on
you must get ready for the night
ignore the coming dawn
a future that we walk on interstates that have crumbled 
the wild wild wilderness is now coming
we squandered
we squandered the modern age
and now we should be bothered to be aware that it falls
falls
falls

Futility Blues

Around the Bend by Storm Rizing

here we are moving on into the end
ecocide this is a constant trend
choice elective voluntarily made
the corporations prey on our increasing needs

this is a place that decides to get into and infiltrate our minds
i do wish to get through to you in a time when it matters most
we need to redirect us all
to stand up against the ghost of the man behind the curtain 
proposing an evil plan
choosing what is chosen
deciding what will be

sun it rises upon the skeleton of a planet
burning smoke an into a deathly deadly place 
that you will be born into if we don’t change it
change it when it matters most
The ghost of our demand
our first world privileges
yielding chaos and death

this is the ultimate fact that lives behind the lines
every one of us loyal to this paradigm
ignore the fact that stemming from the courses of the choices of all of our life
a growing strife
suicide and death
loss of self, the choice
this consequence is inevitable

capitalism has extorted the world
and daily robs from us a better life

who are you to think your choices don’t have consequences
everything’s so plastic, everything invented
you buy it with your money not caring for the cost

this is a final call I hope that you are not lost
cause' we are in a time
we’re running out of everything
this paradigm is robbing us of everything that we care most for

and delivering unto the enemy
bombs are flying; anomie
this apathy inside of us
hope we can get out of the clutches of
clutches of this paradise
of pleasure and pain,
consumed by 
a hunger in our plates 
planted their by consumer minds

and I can see that we will end
this could go all night
can't help but defend the tree and love the breeze
cause' you can hear it blowing in the wind
you can hear an end to everything
the sunrise just like the moonshadow
we follow it into the night

millions and trillions of dollars putting forth
building bombs what is the real worth
we say it’s to fight terrorism
but isn’t it true that we are terrorists with a smoking gun
america
america
america
what have you become?


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▼ Dedicated to the late Michael E. Ruppert, whom I share a birthday with. This song boldly denounces corporate globalization/ social engineering, and seeks to draw attention to the immediate dangers posed by global climatic instability caused by humans. Cat Stevens: thanks for "Moonshadow" And Bob Dylan: for "Blowin' in the Wind" ▲

Around the Bend (The Great Bottleneck Blues)

Peace De' Resistance by Storm Rizing

blood soaked sun 
it gazes down upon
mistakes a millennium in the making
stuck
tale of civilization
it is a fact that we struggle against
not just ourselves
nature is fierce
pattern of struggle
pattern of war
pattern of love
and no more
so damn advanced we've become
casting our shadows on the very sun
the human race
what is our fate going to be
we expand
expanded and expounded
going beyond what was necessary
going on now 
its a hurry
we step on into the coming night
total information accessibility
lost in the world its a
blue sky turned grey
its getting hotter on this blue and green planet
as cerulean fades it way to brown
we're losing out
and leaving behind the multitudes
the billions of other humans made to earn
inequality it seems to be here to stay
the legacy we cast upon
the future may 
come and gone
is paved in the blood and misery
wish we could get out of apathy
but the cycle 
the setting of the sun
eating up the world we love
destroying it all 
wheres the love
hungry
hungry and blind we go
in this war
we all will lose
hungry for some good news
but oh
we won't hear our prayers heard
we're using up the world
and it feels like not enough of us care
so the blood-stained son
cries beneath a smoking gun
and bleeding 
bleeding and broken we'll fall
loving it all
seeing it all come to a point of 
absolute devastating failure
and we are caught in the maelstrom
this is a storm to take us all
but the consequences that will mount and weigh upon us all
are felt and sensed
a butterfly's wings have flapped
and even as we collapse
I know it was coming fast
through the choices to live and dominate the planet
the people that control the corporate
the wealthy
as this empire has bloomed and known
they've needed to own
have control of far too much
I wish it would not have to end in dust
end in dust
but it is all coming
dusk is here as the embers falling
and if we want to keep the skies a beautiful blue
if the green is something we want to have in more than dream
we need to correct
correct our path
but I'm afraid that this world they've built will last
it has convinced us
to be hungry for too much
and care only about ourselves
forget about the rest of us who dwell
the birds and the trees
where is our humanity
the dolphins 
the whales
the lions
and the cockatiels
and we're drunk on our own hunger
drunk it is a blunder
we
this dream
this dream
this dream
this dream
is now becoming a nightmare as 
the sun it sets here
the sun it sets here 
and crossing the horizon 
a billion transmission lines
lighting the atmosphere from below
burning all the coal and oil
wrapping it in plastic
a hundred thousand heart attacks
selling the poison by the pound
oh the sound I have got
a whisper in the dark
the dawnlight pales
and the new days hails
in triumph found
and it is the sound of our heartbeat
the resistance to this scheme
that is treasured here
a way to peace
but oh the world we are colonizing
destroying it all
this battle is won
here have a car
what do we even strive for when the trajectory that we're going on upon
promises to sweep us down 
and bring the world to the ground
we'll eat up all the beautiful life
and what can one single life seem to do
dust to dust
dust to dust
dust to dust
dust to dust
if we want to avoid this wicked fate we'll have to call upon 
the impossible
is it impossible
and I fear
I fear we will fall
and there is nothing at all I can do 
for me and you

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Peace De' Resistance

-----INTRO----
David Hulbert: Wooow!!
Sebastian Hopper: I was just a  spoiled frickin' city kid back then, no joke
David Hulbert: i don't know where i am the city is big it makes me wanna jig. all the dancers outside wanna show you their boobs but they wanna make you pay them- isn't that the truth?
Stormy: 
"I don't like the city it is way too big
always somewhere to go and nowhere to be
it always reminds me how unfree I feel in the city"
Sebastion: the city sucks man


------------|Get out of the City|------------

me: always so full of noise and toxic dust,
all these walls of cement and all this rust.

whenever I am there in the big city,
I always think to myself,
how I just need to get out,
and see some pastoral grassland again!
...somewhere where I can see the goddamn stars,
away from a million fucking cars!

and even though I am out there,
I know that somewhere a mountain falls.
a forest is cut down,
they are taking it all,
to build up the skyscraper lifestyle.

while the're busy paving green mile-by-mile.

this cancerous body of urban wastes, 
that fosters the insanity and depraves.

I know its connected by a veiny river,
the interstates, they connect it all and bring us our dinner.

a thousand oil spills of inevitability,
so that we can live in condos,
and go on shopping sprees!

the taxi will take you almost anywhere,
but its hard if you want to really go nowhere.

in the big city you can't escape the patterns,
routine and obligation; fashion,

they've fashioned themselves out of what they hate,
but they cant seem to get out and its almost too late.

dancing around like flies on a wall,
in the center of a crowd alone in the thrall.

they catch sight of a streetlight,
flickering on some forgotten street.
and they ask themselves,

who are you?
and where are we?
and how can I get out of this city?

where poisonous gas is leaking up through the cracks,
sewage spills out on the hearts of the inhabitants.

and Oooooh life in the city,
shake up and packaged like its one big prosperous dream.

floor by floor and level by level,
the neon sign smirks at you like the devil.

but how do you get out?
these shackles they hold you to the cubical. 

you dream of freedom while you pay for parking.

you take a trip down to the Chinese place for takeout,
put on your makeup its a big fake-out,
you slap on a smile to pretend that you don't really doubt.

being a part and sitting around,
you really just want to take a flight out of town.
so leave the city before its too late

undo the handcuffs that have you shackled to the,
great gravest lie in your life.

life in the city as your life passes you by!
ah! it hurts to be here alone in the city,
so take a lesson from us three.

get out!
get out of the city!
"get the fuck out"
don't even worry about your things.

one foot in front of the other,
take it from us we know.

get out of the urban jungle!
the place you live in constant manufactured struggle!
raise a fist with your hand to your heart!
say with gusto that you refuse to take a part!

get out!
get out of the city!
you gotta get out,
before it all falls to the sea!

falls to the sea!
when it all will crumble in the end...

get out!
get of the city!"


'Get out of the City'
From the  Legendary one-time 'Rotten Banana Jam'

 100% improvised 100% fun

Intro - Crazy Dave (intro), Seb
Vocal backup effects - Sebastian (dabadabadaba), 
Vocals and rhythm guitar - Me
Harmonica- Crazy Dave
Percussion/ tapping- Seb
Second Guitar- Sebastian

Get Out Of The City

Time The River (the great divide) by Storm Rizing  

a great divide has come at last
I don't know if this will last
we may see the final death delusion of
an order built on something great
the kings of the modern state
the corporation they are a king
and now we hear the ring
a million thousand boots around
riot police are on the ground
watching high
high above
a satellite cloaked in love
and wonder wonder wonder when
will we get out and start again?
but no no no no
everything that flows along
especially that which is so wrong
so gravely wrong
and all it it goes it goes
it goes long
time the great river walk 
down to the shore lets have a talk
the world we know today
the world we know today
is partially but not complete
made from that
the dreams 
we sleep
we walk
to the future we walk
and now the echoes
the echoes have stopped
and now all we do is jabber wok
jam around and barely talk
earphones in your ear
now our communities disappear
as the technological assimilation
sweeps us now 
the modern nation
and oh
was it all for good?
an oceans rise  
the eyes 
the ice
its melting now but its all right
you can get the packages
a dream that's built and manufactured in a thousand plants
hope you don't like the plans 
cause they eliminate the most precious state
human beings n' free to love
an choosing virtue and now above
beyond beyond away we walk
the trajectory oh I wish we were taught 
it confined 
can fight 
can find 
to lies defined 
to fight the lines 
that were built to keep us down
consume our lives all around and
oooo-oooO-Oooo-ooO
please do what you can
subvert the evil plans
now is the time we'll see
the evil villainy
and now we go we go 
we walk along
the shore we now have come upon
this river
the river

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Time the River (the great divide)

Song To Compromise by Storm Rizing

it seems alright inside the bubble in which you live
suburban palaces with walls that will forgive
split-screen madness as you forget the costs
you run around in frenzy but now its your day off
and what do you do?
you sit inside and grow bored with you
and closer now you close your eyes but can't slow down
now it goes, goes on right along 
continue relentlessly along this life you plod 
oh oh oh
oh oh oh
oh oo oo
and gradually the smile smirking back at you from the mirror
seems to be getting the last laugh in this song
the song of your life 
the ugly side
the compromise 
that haunts your mind and lets you know that you live 
a fading echo  
a failing one
so much left undone and no  time to do it in 
because
because your compromised
you let your eyes be neglected by
you let your heart go its all a lie
and where do you go when you've fallen all down into the core
in the maelstrom of all you have not lived for?
the regret
oh oh the ice cold regrets
hollow 
a missionary oh
you called who down?
you call to snow
you howl n' howl n' howl n' howl as the rain comes
it soaks your coat and swallowed your guns
and your blind
blinded by the sleet in your eyes
your very own self perpetuated demise
so just open them
remove the stitching from your eyes
your beautiful eyes
and its no surprise that you are here now
so stop lying to your self
you've got to reach out and pick up that sense of meaning
that you once found so many years ago for it waned and
mundane normative adult hood
put you through the wringer
and now you can barely glimmer
in the light of the full moon
you hardly care 
anymore 

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Song To Compromise

----------│DOLDRUMS│------------

what will matter in the end my friends
is where the world is 
when it all ends
i ask you to think about what you are going through in life
and really cast a thought to where you'll be at the end of time
the end of days
the day when
this meditative maze
and its amazing to see the world in all of its glory
and to know that the future it is building
is slowly crumbling  away
from dust it crumbles on along to dust 
it oh it must
i know it must
the only unchanging thing is the story as we know it is told by the winner
U.N. the winner

this winter will be dark and cold
and most of us will freeze to the bone
and the fate we create isn't what we wanna see
but the world that we know is all building 
under it's own weight
and we wait
and we wait
but it doesn't get better
we are in in in in in 
the chains and the fetters and the turtleneck sweaters
and the amazon accounts
leaking all our 

choice and choice its all to choice
and oh the boat is keeling on and now its getting moist
as the waters rises now 
as the glaciers melt
the sound of methane escaping 
into thee atmosphere
the atmosphere
we act like its okay
and we don't care
and now we'll disappear
and now we care we'll disappear

because this all just one great battle of cause and effect
and now we'll fail but I'm not oh at all surprised
i'd say we should listen to we who spit out
the writing on this wall is getting darker 
but the wolves are getting brighter 
you can the hear the tune inside you its your own voice
singing that  the world will get green get
"...go on in the world because"
so we should change it
or we'll lose it all
and get the better of us

and then there will be a fall into ages like night
fascism rises all around the world
and the corporate business agenda
has us flirting the line with true disaster
its the power that their after
they'll manipulate our fate to get the best out of it and us
we'll see
just wait
just wait 
just wait
i'll see it all go down
we will watch the water rise
and it won't slow down 
till the veil it bursts
and the people in
in ________
wake up...

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"Fascism USA"

Doldrums

The Rotten Bannana Jams (the secret bonus track)

River Weed by David Hulbert, Sebastian Hopper, and me, Stormy

(laughter)
left my weed at the river
it makes me feel so blue every time I do
when you feel it in your heart you know its gone
when your weed floats down -pond-
the river weed
it goes fast as speed
just like a weed
the river weed
(jamming it up)
(rad bass solo from seb)
(harmonica solo Crazy Dave)
(funky bass breakdown)
(Dave bridging in another folksy solo)
Trevor "Elijah Come pick up your bread"
Dave "Whaaat?"
Dave  "Breads done, Elijah"
Stormy " I KNOW"
- the trio brings it home-

River Weed

Blocks ( No Barriers ) by Storm Rizing

the building blocks
the building blocks
the building blocks
the building
the building blocks
the blocks
the blocks
they're falling and you are okay with it
because you're okay with it
they've got benches and bunkers and buildings
and forges and empires and loyalty
and what have i got to fight with
with unity and smiles 
with abounding charity
with 
with a love that knows no barriers
no barriers
this love it knows no barriers
no race or creed are corrupted by greed
this love knows a love
a love that knows barriers
no barriers
this love it knows no barriers
no race or creed are corrupted by greed
this love knows all
knows all

Blocks ( No Barriers )

▁ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ █ If you are here please take note. These are my echoes - this project is one of my time capsules. Keep your lanterns lit. Forever yours


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“Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation 


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|  A WORD ON HISTORY IN THE MAKING |
"As the times intensify, political polarization take the place of meaningful dialogue- it is becoming more and more clear to me that the complex problems of our age demand intersectional politics, compromise, and dialogue that gets beyond pigeon-holing, and name calling that only creates mere division.

I think that it is clear that no party, ideology, or movement has all the answers. Too many politically charged arguments end when the participants plant their heels, and take to hurling absolutes, and slinging mud.

What is needed is to address the tragic consequences of globalization on people and the environment - this cannot be the "free market" because that does not confront the problems, it merely permits them, nor ought a government control everything- states rights, social programs, and free expression must all co-mingle somehow, though still perhaps not at all. 

Much to our peril, there are indeed axioms that refuse to cooperate: I belong to some, and that is the living division. Perhaps our great lesson, as history reveals, that ideas are living things; they possess us, they linger, grow, change, and endure the times even though we are mortal, and temporally bound.

I speak now of war; of ideas. And in this battle, we see the deeper concepts tinkle in the murky depths of our humanity- the drumming grows stronger, our pulses quicken as we witness a cry for blood, for sacrifice, for sweat, and for tears.

As we step closer to the presidential elections here in our (my) country, as the wold is increasingly endangered by militarization, and entropy that will haunt us as the specter nourished on the fragrant, and dangerous notion of limitless expansion- there is emerging from its hidden conclaves, the vanguard, the defenders, and aggressors- summoning minds the world over to fight in this storm. 

Beneath all this turmoil (of which more will develop as a necessary consequence of the primordial struggle) our lives will be touched by the hue of dusk, as a shadow promises a night-marish sleep, just as the sun begins to freeze beneath an ideological winter.

Is this the beginning of a dark-age? If our affairs worsen enough, as they taunt, yes-and then what are we then? Are we individuals defined by our identities, will events of scale swallow us? Is there a middle road in these extreme times? Is there time still yet, to navigate the rough waters, made all the more rough, as this ancient boat we ride in (civilization itself) threatens to capsize, as the waves lick upwards; the depths of self-conflicted hatred, envy, and zealotry hungrily promise a chaotic embrace...

Do not mistake me, this is the crescendo that rages on within the hollow halls, in the plate glass towers, in the poverty of stricken streets- a clamor no amount of screens, and slick ads can suppress.
There is danger friends, and I worry...
That is all."

STORM RIℤING 5/9/2016

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