Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Hide it under the mattress

The provocatively titled Pornographic marks the end of the 6th volume of the Songs of Days, "Before the Wave." Tomorrow will begin the 7th and final volume of the first song of the day project, "The Mushroom Grace."

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

874 : 8/31/00 : Pornographic

You’ve got a pornographic laugh
it excites me incites me
to reveal a slender shaft of wit
You’ve got a pornographic mind
surprising so mesmerizing
I’ve got to slip inside of it
oh baby talk to me the way you do
I’ve got to get inside that mind I’ve got to find
the secret to that kinked charm
I’ve got to make you laugh again
and make you give it up that laughter fills my cup
I’ve got to hear it with you on my arm
You’ve got a pornographic heart
Can’t look away I’ll stare all day
Oh baby won’t you pin it on your sleeve
I’ve got a sentimental bent
I’m listening to that heart glistening
with love so pornographic I cannot believe

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Monday, August 30, 2010

873 : 8/30/00 : Immortality

1,943 : 23 ?


It is written:
Immortality shall
come from the nano
infiltrating through the ears
that’s the secret plan-o
some may try
resist the change
the nano will not spare them
don’t you know the sole cure for
our miseries is to share them
aren’t we gonna get bored daddy
aren’t we gonna crack
aren’t we gonna break down
when that monkey’s on our back
they say we’re afraid of dying
I say most still fear to live
careful what you ask for
what the nano has to give

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

872 : 8/29/00 : Cassiopeia

Cassiopeia I thought I’d see you
when I let my mind go free
you would descend and speak to me
Pale Andromeda love to get my hands on ya
Why not reach for a star
From wherever you are
And there’s Orion always Orion
Far past the Autumn sky
this year is not yet passed by

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Saturday, August 28, 2010

871 : 8/28/00 : Unintentional

Unintentional’s the
only way to slide into the
Waking sleep the
big hibernation
along winter’s sleeping
my own counsel I’ll be keeping
fiddling while the forest burns
the season turns
and I’ll be waking soon

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Friday, August 27, 2010

870 : 8/27/00 : Intentional

If you feel a closeness to me
If I seem to understand you
I assure you the effect’s intentional
If you found from time to time
that I was not far from your mind
I assure you I strive to be three dimensional
with you
If I’m smarter more accomplished
if I have surprising charm
I assure you it was my aim always
stretching back nine years or more
a chance encounter so much in store
waiting for encounters in chance hallways
Intentional I aimed at you
and though you seemed untouched by me
I never really wavered in the end
And when I knew the time was right
brought my intentions to the light
trusting that somehow you’d comprehend

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Thursday, August 26, 2010

869 : 8/26/00 : Fifth Principle

Under the thumb of the fifth principle
out of excuses or out of my skull
just trying to find a place where I may rest
but everywhere I go I’m put to the test
This is the wild card that goes anyway
the fifth principle that does not lead or obey
written in water or traced on a stone
it doesn’t appear till it finds us alone
the concept the blueprint the marker the map
and beyond all that a big bucket of sap
and I’ve got a bucket for every tree
and the fifth principle it means nothing to me
but there in the last run I’ll see it arise
and the error of my ways revealed to my eyes
then we shall see what we save what we cull
laboring in the sun of the fifth principle

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

868 : 8/25/00 : Sister Strap-On

Here I am in this Post Modern age
Hey uh sister strap-on
Won’t you rattle my cage
I need a shock to shake me free
I need someone to punish me
Uh bend me over sister
make me your wife
I beg you sister strap on
revolutionize my life
Just take me round the final bend
round to where the road won’t ever end
Here I am on this rack of sin
Dear god sister strap on
When does our session begin
Educate me to your ways
I plan to be down here for days

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

867 : 8/24/00 : Choose

Virile, sterile, puerile, hung
choose to choose the song that’s sung
Led by Plato, Proust or Jung
clever, sever, lever, lung

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Monday, August 23, 2010

866 : 8/23/00 : World Fever

1,937 : 16 ?


Fever the descending moment
falling back into the same old
Try so hard to step up to a
new horizon in from the cold
The whole world has got a fever
caught it back in fifty one
Used to think just I could see it
now I know I’m not the only one
what is causing this affliction
that has kept us up at night
brooding over past mistakes
and waiting for a hint of light
Fever an ascending chorus
rising to a different, new
way of seeing acting being
step up stand up follow through

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Sunday, August 22, 2010

865 : 8/22/00 : Arcana

Unrecorded in the lesser Arcana
after twenty years of eating manna
and wandering in a crazy style
I got an urge to settle down a while
The spirit hovers over the water
Reveals the pattern with a vector plotter
no surprises to get wild about
it’s all circles and they all move out
In the lens the all-seeing eye
ups the magnification high
enough to see on the head of a pin
what seems to be an angel counting him
It’s a mad religion true
obsessed with fives and the color blue
The Greater Arcana records not a word
and this is all just things I heard

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Saturday, August 21, 2010

864 : 8/21/00 : Credit

Slide the card through the slot
come on slide it
make the magic machine
Shower you with gifts
For being just the
great thing that you are
the great hand of the marketplace
invisibly through all the human detritus sifts
Oh yeah
that’s right
the foundation of a new day
oh yeah
that’s right
we’ll build a great society on top of it
Uh huh
it’s true
I gotta be crazy
sliding it through
their filthy slot
crazy for giving what
I haven’t got

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Friday, August 20, 2010

863 : 8/20/00 : The World Soul

Am I imagining the world soul
aching and groaning
under the weight of all our irate
pissing and moaning
could it be there’s a true place
where the spirit arises
where the world soul wells up
and silently baptizes

Walking the spiral for the world soul
diminishing spirals
is there a vector of renewal
truth retroviral
And at the center what I’ll find
is not a mind is not a stone
a chamber without door or walls
a place where no one is alone

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Thursday, August 19, 2010

862 : 8/19/00 : Loving the Question

Loving the question
easier said than done
We all want answers
to our postmodern cancers
embracing the technique
seeking our natural peak
the valley behind us
the sun that may yet blind us
in difference and scorn
have set us back and left us torn
And those of us who still care
We better be there
I’ll love the question true
make my way back to you
and write it in the stars
on Jupiter and Mars
The answer’s in living the question
no sooner said than done

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

861 : 8/18/00 : Burning Coal

What began as a digest of regrets
of so many things beyond all control
what began as a manual of hedged bets
is turning into a burning coal
I dreamed I smoked a joint with the President
and talked about trying to change the law
that had come to be so diseased and bent
it looked to collapse under the weight of a straw
and I dreamed that I was the President
shouldering a burden I didn’t want
trying to stand up for the innocent
wielding a tool so heavy and blunt
this is a digest; I regret nothing
I stand behind every goddamn word
so ask not if the coal is still burning
of that you may rest assured

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

860 : 8/17/00 : Sickness

When we’re sick of the sickness
the sickness shall cease
and finally pick up the final piece
a relic of days long past gone by
the sickness in my hand, my eye
and though they offend me
in their sick way
confess I couldn’t pluck them out
cast them away
they say I’m not fit
for the Kingdom to come
and they may be right
I’m no sicker than some
who say that they’re already
riding the rail
that will take them straight through
this illusion this veil
I’m not sick of my sickness
I’m getting there quick
but I live in today
and today I’m still sick

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

859 : 8/16/00 : The Lost Thought

1,931 : 10 ?



The lost thought the lost verse
the lost art such a curse
what it was is gone now
what’s left is the long bow...
it glimmers and dances
but spins past the chances
of chance recollection
evading detection
it’s gone now we must yield
and harvest a new field
set free from the lost thought
content with what’s fresh caught

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Sunday, August 15, 2010

858 : 8/15/00 : Admit Defeat

Admit defeat avert my eyes
there is no consolation prize
dying for the slimmest hope
hoping God will give me more rope
throw the towel in I’m all through
at least for now at least that’s true
I can’t wait fifteen minutes more
trying to stare a hole through the floor
in a one way tie for last
not much of an iconoclast
no not much of a hero true
so paint my little wagon blue
I might as well go on the road
let all the rubes watch me implode
a tent revival kind of thing
for which this last short tune I sing

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Saturday, August 14, 2010

857 : 8/14/00 : Microscope

Ah: Microscope
look a little closer
reveal the structure within
Up periscope
rise above the posers
look across to where it might begin
things that are tiny
things far away
there’s a scope for every point of view
don’t think me whiney
but I have to say
I wish I had a scope to look inside me too
You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Friday, August 13, 2010

856 : 8/13/00 : Past Due

I’m past due
for a little rain on my Garden
past due for a pleasant surprise
don’t you think it’s time for
an unexpected joy to be revealed to my eyes
It’s long past due for my
ship to come in
loaded with glory and wealth
Still I sit around and wait to turn the corner
on work on happiness and health
maybe we live in a world of order
Where nothing can occur
before its time
and my sense of being past due’s
an illusion
I just can’t understand the reason
or the rhyme
maybe my time is already come
has been hear all along
waiting for me to unlock its secret
and talk about it in a
song

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Thursday, August 12, 2010

855 : 8/12/00 : The Magnet Part One

Crystal clear and filled with light
the end of ignorance and night
slightly convex bent and straight
the magnet man can you relate
watch it bend the point of view
of me of anyone of you
watch it bending gravity
part one is over now we wait and see
the magnet is an artifact
produced by the union of a secret pact
its manufacture lost in mystery
and here’s the trick of how this could be
in the background of the story told
there lies a riddled waiting to unfold
where did it go when it disappeared
yet was not destroyed as they had feared
it went to where the magnetism
goes after crossing the causal schism
action at a distant explained at last
the magnet pulls the present from the past

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

854 : 8/11/00 : The Magnet Part Two

Baby sometimes we’re just
Like magnetic dogs
we spin to meet or
flip like plastic frogs
In the grips of forces
we scarcely understand
the magnet part two
has us in its hand
The great Magnet’s will
cannot be superseded
But though we have a fate
we are not yet defeated
the poles we inhabit
Our opposites attract
mediated by the magnet
leaving us the will to act

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

853 : 8/10/00 : It’s Not Working

Is it working yet
I still feel pain
It’s not working
please try again
It would have worked by now
it would have done the job
but I don’t feel a thing
I’m getting every throb
Help me get me through
give me just one more
can’t I please I know
God I know what’s in store

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Monday, August 09, 2010

Favorite Songs Archive

All the favorite songs that have appeared in the sidebar.

Volume Two Point Seven: Seven

  • One
  • Brass Ring
  • Nothing Virus
  • Onion
  • The Magnificent

  • Volume Two Point Six: The Axis

  • To the Bridge
  • Slow Time
  • The Moment
  • I'm Not Sick
  • Bake

  • Volume Two Point Five: The Creative

  • This is Your Brain
  • Narcissus
  • Lists
  • Host
  • Heart Worm

  • Volume Two Point Four: Not Another Bridge

  • Paraphrase
  • Cilantro
  • Factions
  • It's Harder Than You Think
  • More Light

  • Volume Two Point Three: Persist

  • Strong As Death
  • Fog
  • Siren, Banshee, Shrike
  • Guess What I Did
  • Overture

  • Volume Two Point Two: The Catch-Up

  • Dogs
  • Peril
  • Stone
  • Job
  • The Price of Freedom

  • Volume Two Point One: Log Book

  • Step
  • Tomorrow Never Comes, Again
  • Plank
  • It's Rome, Baby! (Intro)
  • Parliament of Owls Brigade

  • Favorite Songs from the Interim

  • Let it Ride
  • Pennies from Heaven
  • Poison
  • Kaligula
  • Three

  • Volume Seven: The Mushroom Grace

  • Drawn In Blood
  • What is Truth?
  • Early Riser (II)
  • If I Don't Burn
  • My Masterpiece

  • Volume Six: Before the Wave

  • Obsession
  • Magic Bullet
  • Parabola
  • The Dive
  • Black Angel

  • Volume Five: Untitled

  • Obedience
  • If You Love
  • Departure
  • No Water No Moon
  • Eat the Blame

  • Volume Four: Blank Book

  • Pentagon Files (Day of Inception)
  • Random Walk
  • Reiteration
  • Big Bell
  • Reason for a Song

  • Volume Three: The Functional Notebook

  • World for Sale
  • Function Ghost
  • The Last Night
  • The Last Shattered Verse
  • Jonestown

  • Volume Two: Record

  • Doomsday
  • Plinth
  • Heaven Won't Help You
  • Her Majesty's Fools
  • Queen of Heaven

  • Volume One: Songs of the Days (Vicious Cycles Revisited)

  • The Center
  • Manual Transmission
  • Telemeter
  • And Necessity (explains the tagline)
  • Sisyphus’ Reprieve

    You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here
  • 852 : 8/9/00 : Sludge Cup

    1,923 : 1 ?


    The race is the sludge cup
    so race for the bottom
    the vast sewage cistern
    of power’s dark flotsam
    The price is a full cup
    of dark liberation
    the freedom of power
    and its machination
    I stand on the sidelines
    and watch them all lie
    I’ll vote in the sludge cup
    though I scarcely know why

    You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

    Sunday, August 08, 2010

    851 : 8/8/00 : The Oh’s

    Some day forty years from now
    We’ll be rocking on the porch
    having made it through somehow
    Saying:
    Hey homes d’you remember back in the oh’s?
    Oh’s, oh’s oh’s
    My friends laugh know knowing it’s true
    We can’t help but be amazed
    at the craziness we do
    It’ll all go
    Just like it looked t’go
    back in the oh’s
    oh’s oh’s oh’s

    You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

    Saturday, August 07, 2010

    850 : 8/7/00 : Tale of 33

    Thirty three
    can never be
    an even path of anything
    remotely round
    the normal curve
    the order that
    the numbers serve
    they have a soul
    they have a voice
    they have a past
    but we the choice
    at thirty three
    cut back the lines
    the hour is late
    the woodbine twines
    cut to the chase
    the final part
    a tale of threes
    a woeful art

    You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

    Friday, August 06, 2010

    849 : 8/6/00 : Decade

    It’s been a long time since I felt like
    the kid I was so long back
    In the day gone gone forever now
    Another decade nearly on the rack
    what’d I learn in the first one
    I ought to’ve figured it out by now
    But when I try to trace back I can’t relate
    and it all seems a dream somehow
    A little clearer on the second ten
    at least the last five of that
    even so it’s a long time gone
    From when I stepped off that railroad flat
    And the last ten years of hard truth
    seems too short uncertain too
    I can only feel sure of one thing
    I spent it searching after you
    And since I found my baby yeah
    This third pass seems worthwhile
    guess I’ll have to face the first year
    of the fourth one with a smile

    You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

    Thursday, August 05, 2010

    848 : 8/5/00 : Speed Demon

    Speed demon claws in my back
    demon monkey crystal smack
    meth and monkey dust supreme
    please don’t mind that I scream
    If my eyes look like piss holes
    in the snow I’ve walked the coals
    of methamphetamine collapse
    just trying to burn a synapse
    that keeps tweaking me to the fact
    that I’ve invoked a deadly pact
    to ride this comet where it may
    and see again if it ends me today
    don’t try to slow me down my friend
    don’t try to circumvent my end
    I always like things short and sweet
    Creator or no I must be complete

    You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

    Wednesday, August 04, 2010

    847 : 8/4/00 : Half Hour

    A half hour is nothing no
    time to brew a storm, fill a sky with snow
    but no time to sit and wonder why
    maybe when I’m inside looking at a snow filled sky
    How many do you suppose I’ve got left
    before I am reaved and my kin bereft
    If I had to guess I’d say about a million man
    All that I have left to make my master plan
    Yet if two friends told two friends
    every half hour who says where it ends
    before I count all my fingers twice
    I’ve got my million one day no price
    We could do it all ourselves
    no leaders no aliens no damn dirty elves
    a collective agency of will
    watch the blind spider move in for the kill
    just a lovely story friend
    all good things must come to an end
    with an encryption elegant and small

    You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

    Tuesday, August 03, 2010

    846 : 8/3/00 : Weird Worm

    There’s a weird worm gnawing at my entrails
    between my navel and my pineal gland
    It seems to move around from day to day
    today it seems to be ensconced in my right hand
    the worm is guileless it eats without spite
    guess I must have brought it on myself
    I’m guessing that the way of purging it
    is nothing I’ll just pick up off the shelf
    I felt it curled around my ear today
    it was listening in on my life
    it made me sigh it could be worse I guess
    a minor annoyance in a world so rife
    with parasites and predators
    trying to get a healthy piece of you
    an undemanding tenant should not bother me
    but dear little weird worm you do
    I could expunge it with a cold black draught
    or catch it near the surface of my skin
    draw it through the membrane with a heated glass
    extract it and impale it on a pin

    You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

    Monday, August 02, 2010

    845 : 8/2/00 : French Connection

    1,916 : 9 ?


    I dreamed I was a driver on the French Connection
    Running smack and guns for the insurrection
    Fast money rough trade guns and blow
    cops in my pocket and a truckload of dough
    I was an enforcer in a factory
    making human growth hormone and DMT
    making methamphetamine and PCP
    I couldn’t believe that motherfucker was me
    dreamed I was a smuggler on the Ivory Coast
    my eyes were glazed and glossy and my mind was toast
    making midnight runs in a cigarette boat
    golden chains at my wrists and throat
    dreamed I was the kingpin of a mighty ring
    pushing something that was worse than anything
    Something dark and deadly but I didn’t care
    I looked into the mirror there was no one there
    I dreamed that filthy lucre was my only kick
    mercenary merciless unmitigated prick
    when the dream was over and when I awoke
    I was very happy to be clean and broke

    You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

    Sunday, August 01, 2010

    844 : 8/1/00 : Begins With One

    what begins with one
    ends with twenty nine
    and a few days
    If I’m not the same
    as the one that was before
    where is it the one left behind stays?
    open a door
    pass through a door
    am I a different man
    problems the same
    persistence and pain
    trying to do all I can
    Here’s the message of the mission vision
    Here’s the goal of the Big decision
    Everything begins with one
    and where it ends your guess
    is as good as anyone
    So if I live to see another sun
    I’ll call that one

    You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here