Once More From Personal Experience - nothing nothings a 24-hour album -- 2004-07-27 =================================================== You Aren't A Chef (title: AdamB) 4/4 Stephanie, I never once regretted making you my wife And I have been quite fond of how we've minimized the strife (so far) Now I hope that you won't mind this But you're killing me with kindness I want to help you find this out 4/4 So please put down the knife 2/4 7/4 Your witty repartee makes you the hit of every party Your oil paintings photoreal except when they're more arty 6/4 You're endlessly good-looking But when it comes to cooking: 3/4 4/4 Stef, your meatloaf is a treat But your fois gras is blah Your souffle falls like the Times Square Ball Stef, I won't con you I love your lasgna But can your plan for chateaubriand Stef, you aren't a chef 7/4 7/4 When you make your Duck a l'Orange 8/4 There's nobody who'd eat it and live to tell 7/4 Except maybe the statue from Don 5/4 Giovanni 3/4 Before it went to hell 4/4 Your lemonade I'll grade an A But your fois gras is blah Your souffle falls like the Times Square Ball Stef, you can boast About your pot roast But no, don't crow about your escargot Now don't act deaf It's your only F Stef, you aren't a chef ------- chords: E9 Bm G Bm G C Bm G Am C Bm Bm G Bm G D C Bm C G Am Em Am Em C G Am Em Bm C F C G Am Bm C G Am Em Am Em C G Am Em Bm C D E9 =================================================== The Sun Picked Me Up, The Wind Blew Away My Clothes (title: Ferret) The sun... the wind... the sea... the sand... the sky... The sun picked me up The wind blew away my clothes The sea tripped me up Where I landed, nobody knows But I couldn't help smiling out the side of my face I couldn't help smiling at the sight of the place It has palm trees and beaches And an outcropping that reaches Up into the top of the sky And that's why I wasn't worried about staying alive I had everything I'd need to survive I had the sun on my side I had the sea on my side I had the wind on my side It was just a matter of time The sun taught me truth The wind blew away my fears The sea offered life The sky sheltered tears But I couldn't help smiling like the man in the moon Couldn't help singing out my favorite tune There were palm trees and beaches An outcropping that reaches Up into the creche of the sky And that's why I wasn't worried about losing my mind I had everything that I might want to find: I had the sun on my side I had the sea on my side I had the wind on my side I had the sky on my side It was just a matter of faith ------- chords: Am Am C Am C Am D F C G Am G F C A D G D G D G D G D G D G D G D G A =================================================== Could Today Go Any Slower (title: AdamB) Could today go any slower? It's quarter past nine Stare at the screen What does it mean Waiting for stars to align Restack reports Watch QuickTime shorts Searching with nothing to find I'm on the road in my mind It's quarter past ten Stuck in a meeting Count my heart's beating Hoping somebody says "when" Scribbling sketches Wrestling wretches Following up from the rear Can't wait to get out of here Could today go any slower? When the day reaches its end I'll drive home in my car It's not very far But not long there I'll spend It's two hundred miles That I'll race to reach your place To see your face For just one week-end It's just half past ten Maybe it rains Paperclip chains Re-sort all of my pens Shuffling papers Refilling staplers Chat with a colleague or two Failing to not think of you ------- chords: G F C G G Am G F Am Em G D C D C D C D C D Em G Em G D C D C D C D C D C D C D C Bm Em D C Bm Em D =================================================== I Loved You Twice (title: Zvi) 5 I loved you twice as much as you deserved 5 The route we traveled curved, I guess you swerved 6 You mended badly, ended sadly, left no word 5 I found I could live without your love 5 I'd have to wear the glove, come push to shove 6 Please don't resist, I can't desist, just rise above 6 I loved you twice as much as any other man 5 You killed yourself and I don't understand 6 I want you back and I'm on track (I've got a plan) 5 Reanimating your dead body fails :( 5 Removing all the nails leaves ugly trails 6 I fear the bystanders may try to spread some tales 5 I hold on to some bits of flesh and bone 5 I work alone and get into the zone 6 I do some science stuff, it's rough, but here's your clone 6 I loved you twice; the you before and the you now 5 But the new you has plans I can't allow 6 Despotic rule just isn't cool; I'll stop you! How? 5 I've got a gun; don't move, don't even sigh 5 I gave the college try, it went awry 6 I loved you twice, but you're not nice, so you must die (numbers are time signatures x/4 for the vocal lines) ------- chords: Adim7 Ab-halfdim7 Cm Cm Gm Cm Fm Cm Adim7 Ab-halfdim7 Cm =================================================== The Hobbit Mafia (title: RonE; lyrics by Laurie Anderson and J.R.R.Tolkien) Sun's coming up on the Shire. It's Sharkey's day. It's Sharkey's day today. Sharkey wakes up and says: There was this road. And there was this man. And the man was Gandalf. And the hobbits were there too. Strange days. And Sharkey says: All my hopes are ruined. Had I been warned of your pursuit, I would have denied you the pleasure. Oooh, Sharkey--he's Mr. Heartbreak. And Sharkey says: One ill turn deserves another. And the Shirriffs are running wild. And Sharkey says: Put 'em in the Lockholes. This country wants waking up and setting to rights. Oooh, Sharkey--he's Mr. Heartbreak. Sharkey says: It will be a grey ship, and full of ghosts. Nobody knows me. Nobody knows my name. Deep in the heart of the Shire. Listen to my counsel. =================================================== Magnetic Poetry [not recorded for lack of time] (title: ddyte) My passion was a drug A fashion of aesthetic No metaphor, I shrug Smoke silhouette electric A chocolate paradise Cherish blood, worship skin For fever linger twice Warm arrow, down within Drunk on liquid dazzle smile Voicing velvet ghostly style Bellow broken belly while Caramel, translucent concrete Moist magic in the street Candy clouds decay and speak And grive in perfect file Adulterers and monkeys sleep Wicked gods and witty wives Unyoked, betraying shepards reap Sovreign dispatch, all their lives