Some happy endings have bloody sequels. 

Lyrics: 

It’s all the same fairy tale on different days
	(Trying to meet expectations)
We want different things but in the same ways
	(Seeking re-orientation)

In a marriage like a bank job gone awry
	(It’s a hostage situation)
Dog days, full of rage, no reasons why
	(Just endless negotiations)

CHORUS
Though this won’t go how you want it to go
And I can’t be what you want me to be
There are still some secrets that I know
Like where the bodies are buried

I’ve done things that I can’t forget
	(A few uneasy sensations)
I had some doubts, but I’ve no regrets
	(Convincing rationalisations)

Never thought we’d be the type to rule by fear
	(Through ruthless organisation)
But your ends and my means have kept us clear
	(Convenient defenestrations)

CHORUS
We can make a new start and try to take it slow
‘Cause we’re the ones the kingdom needs
And there are still some corners where our love grows
Like where the bodies are buried

BRIDGE
Time’s up Buttercup
Sink or swim
To play this game
You gotta play to win

I’ve done the dirty work
To keep the throne
You’re the queen
But you can’t go it alone


Held together by the weight of our sins
	(Facing eternal damnation)
If we can’t go out at least no one gets in
	(Well, who needs good conversations?)

Stormed the castle, but we lost ourselves
	(A psychic dislocation)
But a love like ours you can’t take off the shelf
(Time to build up some new foundations)  


CHORUS
‘Cause this might end in a different way
Not what we want but maybe what we need
We can make a new home, baby, starting today
Down where the bodies are buried

**

Music: Pete Scheidler / Mike Zuppa 
Words: John Wood

Personnel:
Guitar and bass guitar: Pete Scheidler
Drums: Mike Zuppa
Vocals: John Wood

Buttercup

The final frontier can be pretty...final. 

Lyrics: 

Space Suit
Launch Pad
Count Down
Lift Off

Light Speed
New Home 
Orbit 
Touchdown

Green Men 
Ray Gun 
Lift Off
Light Speed

New Course
Rations
Asteroid
Repairs

Light Speed
New Home 
Orbit 
Touchdown

Green Men 
Ray Gun 
Lift Off
Light Speed

New Course
Rations
Asteroid
Repairs

Engine 
Failure
Floating
Helpless

Space Suit
Launch Pad
Lift Off 
Light Speed

New Home
Green Men
Ray Gun
Lift Off

Asteroid
Repair
Floating 
Hopeless

**
Music: Pete Scheidler / Mike Zuppa
Words: Pete Scheidler

Personnel:
Guitar, bass guitar and vocals: Pete Scheidler
Vocals: John Wood
Drums: Mike Zuppa
Additional guitar: Max Zuppa

Colonizer

Isolated Rhythm - You Hide

Not all heroes wear capes.

**
Lyrics: 

I FEEL CLEAN
I FEEL SHARP

ON THE SCENE
AFTER DARK

LOOK AT ME

USE TO BE WAY TO PASSIVE
BUT NOW YOU SEE I’M RADIOACTIVE

LOOK AT ME

I’VE GOT POWERS
AND I’M NICE

UP ALL HOURS
FIGHTING VICE

LOOK AT ME

WHEN THINGS WENT WRONG THE BIG DISASTER
MADE ME STRONG MADE ME FASTER

LOOK AT ME

I FEEL COOL  
I FEEL NEAT

OUT OF SCHOOL 
ON THE STREET 

LOOK AT ME

IN MY MASK I FEEL MASSIVE
I’M ON TASK—I’M RADIOACTIVE

LOOK AT ME

USED TO BE WAY TOO PASSIVE
LOOK AT ME I’M RADIOACTIVE

LOOK AT ME

** 
Music: Pete Scheidler / Mike Zuppa
Lyrics: Pete Scheidler

Personnel:
Guitar, bass guitar, vocals: Pete Scheidler
Drums: Mike Zuppa
Backing vocals: John Wood

Mixing by Mike Zuppa

4 July 2019 Release

Radioactive

What you need, what you want, what you have and what's good for you: not always the same thing. 

**
Was it something I said
Well nevermind, nevermind
But now your face has turned red
For no reason I can find

You’re not like them all 
How right I was (for a change) 
A glance can lead to a fall
And that is only because

CHORUS
This may not be the right thing
But it’s something
In fact it’s everything to me

BRIDGE

I guess I’m one to talk
That I’ve seen it all, seen it all
Before I can walk
I’ll have to learn to crawl

Now I’ve got nothing to hide
At least from you
You can take me aside
There’s nothing I won’t do

CHORUS
‘Cause this might not be the right thing
But it’s something
In fact it’s everything to me

I know I know nothing
Except one thing
That this means everything to me

**
Music: John Wood / Pete Scheidler / Mike Zuppa
Lyrics: John Wood

Personnel:
Guitar, vocals: John Wood
Bass guitar: Pete Scheidler
Drum programming: Mike Zuppa

Mixed by Mike Zuppa

Everything

This will become a Calm Rads song after it's polished up a bit, but I recorded this last weekend and really like it, so here you go. 

With apologies to George Harrison. 

Lyrics:

What’s so great about a sunrise?
They happen almost every day
And that’s just about the size of it
And everything I wanted to say

I’d noticed that her orbit
Had gone elliptical and strange
Now she’s like a lost satellite
Moving faster out of range

She was the single light of my life
She made everything seem alright
She was the only one 
I ever really wanted to see
But there goes the sun
And there goes my baby

For more than four billion years, it’s floated there burning away
At least that’s something I once heard Carl Sagan say
But this is a record that ends today
And what’s the point of time and space anyway?

We all want someone to circle round
In the vast, deep dark of space
Out there nothing makes a sound
And now I’ve lost something that I can’t replace

She was only light of my life
I even tried to make her my wife
She was the only one 
I ever really wanted to see
But there goes the sun
And there goes my baby
Yeah, there goes the sun 
And there goes my baby

Music and lyrics: John Carter Wood
Guitars and vocals: John Carter Wood
Drum programming: Mike Zuppa

©️ John Carter Wood

Image of the sun, via Nasa: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/why-the-sun-wont-become-a-black-hole

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There Goes the Sun

There Goes the Sun (Whys and Wherefores Version)

Funkalicious D4

Directions

Euphonic. And Electric.

Lyrics: 
All that I want to say
And to tell you
Drowned in the day-to-day
Nothing I can do

If there’s another way
Just tell me how
Not on some distant day
In the here and now

We watch the world through our screens
And tell them all our hopes and dreams
Seems like such a little thing
Hearing the stars in the voices of machines 

All that I thought I’d be
So long ago
Far as I can see
I don’t need to know

We live our lives through our screens
Tell them all our secret things
And sometimes just how odd it seems
Declaring our love in the voices of machines

Words and music by John Carter Wood

Personnel: 
Programming, guitars and vocals: John Carter Wood

Artwork:  Circuit board in storage. Used under a creative commons license: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86999964

The Voices of Machines

Music and Lyrics by Cheap Trick

Recorded by Dos Monstros without permission
We will beg for forgiveness later

Backing vocals courtesy of Smokey Basement Studios

Cheap Trick Tribute - Come On, Come On

A side project of one of the members of The Calm Rads.

Demos, works-in-progess, and whatever else I come up with.

Be sure to check us out at https://soundcloud.com/thecalmrads

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