(Why don't you)
Quit your job and do something you believe in
If it pays the bills I guess it's not a sin
Ask yourself if your work is worth your oxygen
'n Quit your job and do something you believe in

Take a look at the bigger picture 
Whose your daddy, whose your investor 
How does it feel to fit in a system 
Like a good pawn in the larger stratagem 
Take a look at the brighter future
The tapestry, with a missing suture 
Is this all you can contribute 
The only fruit of your life's pursuit 

Quit your job and do yourself a favor
Write yourself an occupational waver
If you really believe in dreams worth pursuing
Quit your job and do something you believe in

If you would pardon my sarcasm,
Were you born of love or pragmatism?
Pity the life wasted on survival 
Like what is within isn't eternal 
Don't be afraid it's just your dream
It can't be worse than an employment scheme 
Don't sell out just to stay on roll
Don't discount the price of your soul

Quit your job and do something you believe in
If it's worth your salt of who you are within
Take a deep breath of precious sacred oxygen
n' Quit your job and do something you believe in

Take a bite, make it slow 
Take it where you want to go, 
Try for size - don't compromise 
All you are is all you IS
Take a risk, make a row
Face a ruckus, take a bow
Settle for more it's not bizarre 
You owe it to who you are 

Quit your job and do something that you want to
Innocent dreams are worth holding on to
Ask yourself if your work is worth who you are
n' Quit your job and do something you believe in

If you and your job are in perfect sync
I guess it wont hurt to re-think
Is that comfort zone a trap
Holding you like a snap clasp strap
Where's your heart in black and red accounts
If staying around is all that counts, 
(you know) Plastic lasts centuries 
Like a heart in deep freeze 

Quit your job and do something you believe in
If your life is more than an intern (prison)
Ask yourself if your work is worth your breathing
n' Quit your job and do something you believe in

Now those of you who have a lot of work to do 
This song was not written for you
Ignore it like that voice in your head
And hold your job until you are dead 
Don't expect a bed of roses 
Or Your freedom stolen from under your noses
When your Free lunch eats your liberty 
Convince yourself that you are free 

(and)
Quit your job and do something you believe in
It's worth the risk when it's you. you are deceiving
Break the rut and follow your inner weaving
n' Quit your job and do something you believe in

Take a risk at something worth believing
Take a risk at something worth your breathing
Take a risk at something worth believing
Take a risk at something worth your breathing

Get off your backside and do something you believe in
You'd really look good when you don't suck up to the system 
It is sexy to have your own rhythm
Quit your job and do something you believe in

Quit your job and do something you believe in
Quit your job and do something you believe in
Quit your job and do something you believe in
(you can do it)
Quit your job and do something you believe in
(yes you can)
Quit your job and do something you believe in
(yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Quit your job and do something you believe in
Quit your job and do something you believe in
Quit your job and do something you believe in
Quit your job and do something you believe in
(believe in)
~

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Quit Your Job

As Years Roll By

4/4, 65 BPM, All chord changes in 2 measures except F# is held for 4
Intro
D E G A7th D Bm A G Bm A G D G Em F#

D		E			G			A7th 
In the light of the fading sunset 
D           Bm                  		A   G
The story of my day is overset 
Bm        	A  			 G		D
Life is rife with bleeding colors 
G            		 Em
Between the pages
F#
And the Binding squeeze  of Uncertainty 

D		E		G			A7th 
My poetry is hardly worth it’s breath
D           		Bm                  A   	G
It’s just as good as food is to the dead
Bm        	A 		  G		D
In prison bars I’m keeping time
G             Em
doing the cages 
F#
Justice till I’m finally free

Interlude 
D E G A7th D Bm A G Bm A G D G Em F#

D		E		G	A7th 
I see the future in the past 
D           	Bm                  A   	G
When it comes I know it will not last
Bm        		A   G		D
Ghosts of Plans Weighed and Laid
G             		Em
In Children's Faces
F#
Haunting breeze embraces curtains 

OUTRO
D E G A7th D Bm A G Bm A G D G Em F#

As Years Roll By

Good Morning Sunshine
Good Morning Sunshine
Are you the same sunshine 
that was here yesterday 
You feel kinda different 
Though you are the same 
Maybe it’s the other way round 

Good Morning Sunshine 
Across  the light years 
Radiating here today
Ancient freshness 
From another world
Do you like what the day’s become 

Tripping on your day, daily light
Tripping on your daily light

Good Morning Hailstone 
How does it feel to  be hardened 
As you pellet the earth
I guess you'll soon melt away
I guess you'll soon be gone
Would you like to meet the sunshine?

Hello again Sunshine 
If you don't mind, 
Can you do that thing you do for all you’re worth 
Shine a little harder than the hailstone 
Shine a little brighter for my gravestone 
I too will soon be gone

Tripping on your day, daily light
Tripping on your daily light

No accidental rainbows 
You Refract, and break off 
Break back, in spectrum 
Shredding your wisdom 
In hues across the skies 
You’ve got your way And it shows 

Good Morning Today, 
I know you are already yesterday 
somewhere on this globe
Maybe tomorrow in some place else
Maybe a rainbow of precious trails
Today you know where my treasure is

Tripping on your day, daily light
Tripping on your daily light
Good Morning, Morning
You will turn to afternoon 
Your light will soon be shone  
What’s so good about a morning 
Soon to be withdrawn
How could it be so good if  it wont last 

Sunshine. sunshine 
Trap yourself in some sweet verdure 
Stay around in some form forever 
Separation from your light
Feels like the dead of night 
Stay around - flow like a river

Tripping on your day, daily light
Tripping on your daily light

Good morning sunshine 
Good morning hailstone 
Good morning, morning 
Wherever you are 

No two moments are the same
No two mornings are the same

Good morning 
Good bye morning
I hope to see you, 
Again!

Good Morning Sunshine acoustic

Pawn Queen!
Crossover my pawn n be a queen 
Come on over my friend
On the other side of dawn these things can be a bit extreme 
I can see your square 
I can see you getting there 
First in line through the danger zone in a monochrome scheme 

I love to see you fighting
I love it when you win
I love to see you charge and fight like the soldier that you are 

Look at who said you weren't powerful 
Look right through those who said you weren't cool 
Look at those who stood there eying (horses n bishops and rooks as assets)
Look them in the eyes - Take them by surprise 
Look beyond their lies - Don't take their advice 
Just give them what you've got and what not, be all you can be

I love to see you fighting
I love it when you win
I love to see you charge and fight like the soldier that you are


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Pawn Queen

Thinking of You

I was thinking of you
And I realized
what a delight
you are to think about
I was thinking of you
And the flowers in your hair
My brain was a binging
On the perfume in the air

I know it's a fantasy
I know it's is not you
But I get a kick thinking I'm thinking of you
I know it is crazy
I know it's not right
But I get so happy thinking of you day and night

Thank you for being so good to think about
Thank you for being a joy to think about

Intra-personal meditation
Brings you where I am
I love you for all you are
Figment of'amation
Love so pure
So true and sure
Gets me off thinking
Of the you that I think you are

I know it's idolatry
I know it's untrue
But It makes me tick thinking I'm thinking of you
I know it's idiocrasy
I know that it's is not fair
But I get so far thinking of where you are

Thank you for being so good to think about
Thank you for being a joy to think about

You're so unpredictable
Every thought is fresh
Fable label pedestal gable
Almost in the flesh
Thoughts of you delectable
Rightly I suppose
If I could call this thinking
I guess anything goes

I know it's hypocrisy
And a graven image of you
But I feel so righteous thinking I'm thinking of you
I know it's Blasphemy
Of all that you are
But I love these thoughts of you like a sacred scar

Thank you for being so good to think about
Thank you for being a joy to think about

Thank you for being so good to think about
Thank you for being a joy to think about

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Thinking of You

Love songs are entreaties of the soul 

Every Love Song is a Prayer
Dear lover
Dear bygone fire
Dear fantasy of eternal bliss
Dear royalty enthroned
Dear whoever you are
Dear mystic overtones in the night

Every love song is a prayer
Every love song is weird
Every love song brings me to my knees
Every love song needs a redeemer

Dear touch
Dear out of reach
Dear timeless momentary kiss
Dear snake in the sand
Dear transcendent crutch
Dear mystic overtones in the night

Every lover is a blasphemer
Every lover has sinned
Every lover carries the disease
Every lover is aware

Dear taste
Dear sigh (desire)
Dear fate, hate, wait and hesitate
Dear waste of my time
Dear hopelessly divine
Dear mystic overtones in the night

Every loved one is the devil
Every loved one crucified
Every loved one is more than birds-n-bees
Every loved one is a seer

Dear stanzas
Every stanzas
Your pattern is broken
Your lines are out of tune
Go wash your bloodied hands
And cleanse your tainted lips
Celebrate the curse of the art
Celebrate the art of the curse
Curse the celebrated art

Every love song tends to meander
Every love song should be heard
Every love song is dripping poet’ese
Every love song is dear

Dear pamper-proofed 
Dear uncomfortable 
Dear demanding saint on a steeple 
Dear so-undear 
Dear irreplaceable 
Dear mystic overtones in the night

Every love song has a bleeding motif
Every love song has belief
Every love song has to be inspired
Every love song is wired

Dear stranger
Dear state of flux
Dear convoluted architect of thoughts
Dear black and white 
Dear left without a fight
Dear mystic overtones in the night


Every loved one is slightly obscure
Every loved one is a nerd
Every loved one is hard to appease
Every loved one sheds a tear

Dear magic
Dear snake charmer
Dear flying carpet pilot 
Dear packaged  purity 
Dear vulnerable cyclone 
Dear mysitic overtones in the night

Every loved one tends to forget 
Every loved one has to sweat 
Every loved one invents a story 
Every loved one must worry

Dear sacred
Dear bloody farce
Dear mercenary heart-of-gold digger
Dear sensual arrogance 
Dear in-no-sense innocent
Dear mystic overtones in the night

Every lover is a pandering self 
Every lover counts a cost
Every lover must die to something 
Every lover lives for another 

Dear cigeratte 
Dear bad for me
Dear catalyst of addictive poetic release 
Dear very special kiss 
Dear sensitive fingertips 
Dear mystic overtones in the night 

Every love song is a cheap commercial 
Every love song a monopoly 
Every love song is money on the radio 
Every love song is unfair 

Dear tensions
Dear design 
Dear incapable of seeing beyond the mirror 
Dear troubled martyr 
Dear healing waters 
Dear mystic overtones in the night 

Every love song is an irony 
Every love song is self interest
Every love song is magic between the ears
Every love song is a joke 

Dear analyst 
Dear never been kissed
Dear reader of poems between the lines
Dear terrible nightmare 
Dear juggling butter fingers 
Dear mystic overtones in the night

Every lover must stop and stare
Every lover must be afraid
Every lover must do due diligence
Every lover plays with fire

Dear bandwidth 
Dear cheap guitar picks 
Dear fruit conserve for you aunt 
Dear accade-maniac 
Dear dog and pony show 
Dear mystic overtones in the night 

Every loved one is an idol
Every loved one an angel
Every loved one is a holy façade
Every loved one is moved by God
Every love song is broken …

Every love song is a broken record 
Every lover is a bard 
Every loved one is slightly sanctimonous 
Every love song is a prayer 

Every love song is bad poetry
Every lover an embarasment 
Every loved one is heaven sent
Every love song is a prayer

Every lover is a voyeur
Every loved one is a cure
Doctrinaire, Debonair, Billlionair pauper
Every love song is a prayer.... 1 ,2, 3, 4
Taste of caviar,  Castles in the air,  Every love song is a prayer- 4 
Every love song is  forever

Every love song must be played backwards
Everylove song is only words 
Every love song has to be doxology 
Every love song is a prayer 

Every love song is  philosophy 
Every love song a debate 
Every lovesong is prone to wear and tear 
Every love song is a prayer 

Every loved one is a live bait 
Every lover has to wait
Every loved song makes you wanna meditate
Every love song is a prayer

Every Love Song is A Prayer

Candy Cellophane

Candy
Cellophane
Look right through outer cover
Myopic Cherubic
Can’t see very far

Debris
Aeroplane
See the flash and you discover
Idea Media
Stimulate the brain

Carry youself like you bought the world for a song
Carry youself like this world is not where you belong
With the weight of the world written off in song
Carry youself, in a song

Moonshine
Bad rhyme
Did you know the curtain’s torn?
Believe
Perceive
With and not through the eye

Aspirin
In Sudan
Somebody’s daddy got blown
Intelligence
Commonsense
Technically lie

Prison youself like you fought the world for a song
Prison youself or someone else will lead you on
With the bars of a rhyme and the measure of time
Prison youself, in a song

Tower falls
War breaks
Look at the military spending
War on waste War in haste
No budget to investigate

Poor croak
Frogs broke
Communities redefined
Operation freedom
Dictates your every move

Carry youself like you bought the world for a song
Carry youself like this world is not where you belong
With the weight of the world written off in song
Carry youself, in a song

Song sung
Damage done
Look how it’s getting to you
Bowdlerize Analyze
But you can’t forget this tune

Foot prints
In your minds
Like a pebble in a shoe
Forgive & live
The mischief of a smile

Prison youself like you fought the world for a song
Prison youself or someone else will lead you on
Prison youself with the bars of a rhyme and the measure of time
Prison youself, in a song


Acid rain
Buying pain
Look at how we’ve evolved
Pleasure Terror
Advertising hell

Good night
Sleep tight
May the good Lord keep your TV
Remote control
In your soul
Where the corporate cant prevail

Carry youself like you bought the world for a song
Carry youself like this world is not where you belong
Carry youself with the weight of the world written off in song
Carry youself, in a song

Mumbai
Terrify
We too have a ground zero
America Condoleezza
Said it must be Al Qaeda

Discount
Head count
Brains cells lost in BPO
Daytime REM
Uncle Sam’s agenda

Prison youself like you fought the world for a song
Prison youself or someone else will lead you on
With the bars of a rhyme and the measure of time
Prison youself, in a song

Rain drops
Light bends
The Sky’s own emoticon
Colon open -Parenthesis :-(
twisted rainbow frown

Take a bow
Shoot an arrow
Stupid Cupid got you down
Amazed Confused
By a Sentimental clown

Carry youself like you bought the world for a song
Carry youself like this world is not where you belong
With the weight of the world written off in song
Carry youself, in a song


Candy Celophane

Good Morning Sunshine
Are you the same sunshine 
that was here yesterday 
You feel kinda different 
Though you are the same 
Maybe it’s the other way round 

Good Morning Sunshine 
Across  the light years 
Radiating here today
Ancient freshness 
From another world
Do you like what the day’s become 

Tripping on your day, daily light
Tripping on your daily light

Good Morning Hailstone 
How does it feel to  be hardened 
As you pellet the earth
I guess you'll soon melt away
I guess you'll soon be gone
Would you like to meet the sunshine?

Hello again Sunshine 
If you don't mind, 
Can you do that thing you do for all you’re worth 
Shine a little harder than the hailstone 
Shine a little brighter for my gravestone 
I too will soon be gone

Tripping on your day, daily light
Tripping on your daily light

No accidental rainbows 
You Refract, and break off 
Break back, in spectrum 
Shredding your wisdom 
In hues across the skies 
You’ve got your way And it shows 

Good Morning Today, 
I know you are already yesterday 
somewhere on this globe
Maybe tomorrow in some place else
Maybe a rainbow of precious trails
Today you know where my treasure is

Tripping on your day, daily light
Tripping on your daily light
Good Morning, Morning
You will turn to afternoon 
Your light will soon be shone  
What’s so good about a morning 
Soon to be withdrawn
How could it be so good if  it wont last 

Sunshine. sunshine 
Trap yourself in some sweet verdure 
Stay around in some form forever 
Separation from your light
Feels like the dead of night 
Stay around - flow like a river

Tripping on your day, daily light
Tripping on your daily light

Good morning sunshine 
Good morning hailstone 
Good morning, morning 
Wherever you are 

No two moments are the same
No two mornings are the same

Good morning 
Good bye morning
I hope to see you, 
Again!

Good Morning Sunshine

Bloody Jesus 
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Bloody Jesus Sweet Jesus Bloody Jesus 
Wash my sins away 
Bloody Jesus Sweet Jesus Bloody Jesus 
Feed me well today! 

Take these songs 
Add your blessing 
Market this doggerel I bring 
Sell it like the Beatles 

Bloody Jesus Sweet Jesus Bloody Jesus 
Wash my sins away 
Bloody Jesus Sweet Jesus Bloody Jesus 
Help me sing today! 

Mould me riches 
Shape me famous 
Walk me on a carpet of gold 
While I live on earth 

Bloody Jesus Sweet Jesus Bloody Jesus 
Wash my sins away 
Bloody Jesus Sweet Jesus Bloody Jesus 
Turn up my luck today! 

Give me excess 
Pay my taxes 
Groupies on the straight and narrow road 
And roadies to carry my load 

Bloody Jesus Sweet Jesus Bloody Jesus 
Wash my sins away 
Bloody Jesus Sweet Jesus Bloody Jesus 
Watch my step today! 

Break this monologue 
Gimmi dialogue 
Speak to me with words i like to hear 
Let's talk it over a beer 

Bloody Jesus Sweet Jesus Bloody Jesus 
Wash my sins away 
Bloody Jesus Sweet Jesus Bloody Jesus 
Fill my cup today! 

Make me humble 
Make me proud 
Make me single 
(please) make me a crowd 
Make me follow 
Make me lead 
Make me helpful 
Make me helpless 
Make me beautiful 
Make me ashes 
Teach me how to live and how to die 

(Bloody Jesus) I know this sounds sac-religious 
(Sweet Jesus) I am ironically honest 
I hate to see thee with blond hair and blue eyes 
Crucified on TV between 2 commercials 
For the moneychangers in steeples and bells wont you buy me a Mercedes Benz 
You know I really really care about my carsickness prone loved ones 

Bloody Jesus Sweet Jesus Bloody Jesus 
Wash my sins away 
Bloody Jesus Sweet Jesus Bloody Jesus 
What's my cross today! 

Outro 

Get thee behind me 
And walk beside me 
Get thee behind me 
Back me up and lead me- Amen 

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Bloody Jesus

Musically 
My childhood memories of music were from sitting near the organ in a small church with no choir. It was a rickety organ and the organist was not exactly Chuck Leavell. 

I heard a host of sounds besides his faltering but fervent playing. I heard leaking bellow, loose reeds and a host of other things including a gecko that sounded just like this http://www.naturesongs.com/gecko1.wav 

The church  sound system would softly pick up All India Radio right through the service, really giving me a collage of aural memories, that I hold dear. 

I wish to reproduce and share some of those sounds and experiences in this recording. 

Lyrically 

It is a bit like a broken record (like many Psalms) with a needle skipping across 33 stanzas of biblical imagery and discourse stretching itself across many literary scenarios - The Witch of Endore (by Rudyard Kipling), Leonard Cohen’s Tower of Song are a few of them. 

Here, I am looking at my life and the experiences of others through a mirror of several scriptural readings and literary influences. I am assuming that my listener does so to. and i have tried to leave in layers of meaning to catch the intrigue of the listener who doesn't. 

I am sure not everybody would catch on with Odysseus of Homer's Odyssey sowing salt to in feigned insanity to absolve himself of his vows of protection to his sisterinlaw (Helen of Troy), but on the other hand, i'd like to think there is enough in the song to whet an appetite, for those who's appetites crave whetting.  

The commentary culminates a host of life-experiences and emotions taking on both confessional and  accusatory tones to finding resolution in  Hallelujah. 

To those who care to take out a good chunk of time to endure the 32 minutes of repetitive Hallelujahs holding up a few gems, my hope is that your endurance will prove worthwhile.

This is work in progress- i mixed up the stanzas a bit, tried a quick retake of what i thought i had forgotten and goffed up more- the lyrics are (at least supposed to be) as follows 



I’m familiar with some clichéd chords
That Psalmists pick to charm the Gods
And originality is not their cup of tea
The fancy riffs the rise and fall
The all knowing has heard it all
It’s not rocket science to compose Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was painted like a spoof 
From your high and mighty palace roof
Where one day your sons will take your concubines
You took her in and made her yours 
And then you got rid of her spouse 
You woke up to an aching Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Well Baby I am not a God
You know that I am but a bard
I serenade in public and dance naked 
I've waved the flag and I have lied
At last I’ve broken down and cried
In strains of bruised and bleeding Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Once upon a time in eternity 
The air was clean and the stars were free 
To sing about the beauty of  their making
The brooding spirit has arrived 
To blow his prostituted bride 
Merciful but not fooled by her lip service 

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

The blame is taken down'n slain
Crucifixion won’t entertain 
But if it did, it speaks volumes about you
Bow your knee and complain 
Spit your fiery tongues in vain
In holy and in stolen Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah 

I failed the test wanting a crutch 
I couldn't trust, so I had to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to screw you
And  though I lose my way back home
I'll find it with a fine toothed comb
With nothing on my map but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There’s only so much I can sing 
These lines are all I have to bring
For anything read in between I blame you
Lover when you take the stance 
Love is not a game of chance 
It’s a dance where we both hear different music 

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

For those who think they know the facts 
Pertaining to these glorious acts
Shooting from the critics point of view 
Bite your tongue and kick the cat
Face your flaws in mortal combat 
The demons of your self are out fuck you

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah 



Have we made love a fantasy 
Before you fled from reality
I cherished your every shade of integrity 
The spectrums bleed into white 
Haunting us with dreams of light
In taunting and redeeming Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Is any of this too explicit 
Does it hurt or  sound counterfeit
I swear; i did not try to ruin it
I learnt to sing in the valley of loss
Marry the church in the courts of divorce
Convicting choir’n jury with Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Eye to eye and cheek to cheek
Reflecting each other so to speak
Together we make a freak clique 
We’re opposites but that's alright 
If love is strengthened in the fight
Nights break open in moans of Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

In agony and theology
Liturgic philematology  
I practiced the apology i owe no one
Cheerfulness comes breaking forth 
In breathless orgasmic pains of birth
Wrapped in cries and sighs of Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Fine wine and a sound mind 
Soul and spirit intertwined 
I've never seen how love could be so blind
Delusions of  destructive kindness
Burst asunder far behind us
In  mushrooms of  smoking Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Slight of hand and a twisted arm 
Wasted dreams and a plastered charm 
We were throwing up at the gates of hell
If we make it past the eleventh hour 
Would Jesus, captain of the bar
Serve us through happy hours forever 

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah


The Holy Spirit is on the house
Fires many streams wont drouse
Unless it is from within don't let her rouse 
She must sleep off her poison 
Wake up to a new horizon 
And a vision of sincere devotion 

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I've worn my scars to the bone
My tragadies are overblown 
I've reaped every blessing i have known
I've sown the salt of life and choice
I've watched the mountiains all rejoice
And celebrate their roots in Hallelujah 

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah


I'd like to think i had no choice 
Born with the gift of a tortured voice 
And an appitite for vice though i'm a novice 
I'd love to put my thoughts on ice 
Salute the personal edifice 
It all comes down to simple Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

What does it mean to be adult 
To  bear wittness of one’s own fault 
My template is childish by default 
I cut my teeth with every insult 
Exult in poetic result 
Forgiveness can be vengeful  Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

My heart is bare like a vacant throne 
Deserted in the dawn of doom
No wonder I am so prone to gloom
The census was my thorny crown 
My measured might brought me down
Now weakness is the business of Hallelujah 

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Murder can be kinder 
Than watching the master steal your lover
You got me in my zeal for office 
Amends within the bounds of reason 
Portends to justify treason 
When Hallelujah is way out of question

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Deafened by your dead silence 
I crave the ghost of eloquence
Rising up from forbidden science
The oldest roads lead to her door 
Nothing's changed the sorrow in store 
Lying and bamboozling Hallelujah 

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

A mirror is the poet’s best friend
If God ran out of angels to send
I see my self in you so selfishly 
My vanity looks good to me
My fetters gleam like jewelry 
You see through me despite the debris 

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah


It’s hard to not be inspired
When the brain is wrecked and the heart is fired
I should have retired long before I started 
You know I lack the common sense 
To gauge the limits off the fence 
An immigrant in illegal Hallelujah 

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I strived with angels overnight 
Battled demons in their own right
I've stolen my own brother's birthright 
I beat the system of employment 
With dreams to crack the wage arangement
Limping to the tune of Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Everyone has spoken well 
Of souls that now burn in hell
The living are available to buy and sell
I try to not piss on the market 
With all of my eggs in  one basket 
To be honest I don't think I can fake it

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

It's wrong to pitch a song this long
Not trying to please anyone
I've pledged my allegiance to my art
For it's own sake I have to part
With many a pleasure of the heart 
Casting all my pearls to Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I don’t believe in static balance 
Like I disbelieve ecstatic parlance 
Your truth claims are quite your own design
You could say the same of mine 
Everyone has their stance to divine 
My decided hobbling stride is Hallelujah 

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I've walked the second mile a lot
With both my feet in my mouth
I slept through many a haircut of regret
My soul's set to a grinding stone
My verve is not yet overthrown
I'm not immune to opportune Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Sometimes I've felt i did belong
Those moments did not last very long
I've captured a few of them in song
I set them free in my memory 
In celebratory esprit 
Boyant with the weight of Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Low down in the tower of dirge
Inhaling wiffs of  sulphor surge
I fear the enterprise would submerge
I can't deny this desperate urge
To peal my heart for what might emerge
I pay my rent in uncountable Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Let's trade places for a moment
You can play house in my basement
And i can be spectator of my story
I'd know all the gory details
Of your sanctuary and bed of nails
And you's probably appreciate my poetry

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Cahoots the unthinkable
A friend-ship so unsinkable
Like the live gig on the Titanic
Manic panic sonic oceanic
Frantic  music made me theo-sick
We got hit by the tip of Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Shallowness no deeper than a splash
Blinded by your luminous flash 
I'd love to hang on but i must dash
Thank you if you heard me out
I know not what i sing about
Except it's some kind of Hallelujah

Hallelujah,.. ad infinitum!
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah 


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Hallelujah Uncoverd

A perfect moment 
Can last forever
Only in memories 
And now it all fall's apart

Folding the tent
Is harder when 
The anchor's settled deep 
The end is as sacred as the start

Don't let go
Of what is precious to you
if your hands are tied
you can hold on with your heart 
When all hope is gone 
You can still be strong 
Hanging threadbare by a long and twisted rope 
Hold on until, you can carry on

Try to remember
What it was worth 
Before the flames died
There's always a new birth in dying ambers  

Numbing the number
That counts the cost
What you lost and what you keep
Pack those bags an' treasure the souvenirs

Don't let go
Of what is precious to you
if your hands are tied
you can hold on with your heart 
When all hope is gone 
You can still be strong 
Hanging threadbare by a long and twisted rope 
Hold on until, you can carry on

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Don't Let Go

Love Remains

When the paradigms have shifted
Curtain calls have ceased
Time on the spotlight is done

When faith has moved the mountains
Hope has calmed the seas
Effort to walk on water has flown

Dreams have turned into memoirs
Silence echoes prayers
Memory's too bad to remember

Blessings comfort sorrow
Taste buds know tomorrow
Everything you wanted is wanting

Plastic bridges burning the smell is in the air 
Glass top tables turning pieces everywhere
No more hand cooked breakfast in the morning

Ravens have been eaten
Fish nets have been broken
A golden goose flew out of an omelet

Explain the magical
Question the miracle
When it is time to get up from your bed and walk

Images have faded
Sacred verses jaded
Love remains... Love remains

When your beauty turns to ashes
And the ashes don't remain
When mother's turn to traitors
And there's no one left to blame
Love remains... Love remains

When goodbyes mean forever
With no more lines to sever
The pearly gates of time are far behind you

Love remains... 
Love remains...



Love Remains- Grubby Halo with Geetha Navale

i am a songwriter

i have these songs

i would love to collaborate with other musicians and take over the world

Ta'fxkz

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