Gordion's Knots

You want to save the earth
Yeah, that's okay
As long as it don't interfere
With your good day
You want a Revolution
Yeah, that's alright
As long as you and your rich kids
Don't have to fight
You want the daily comfort
and convenience of the
civilized
So every night, intoxicated,
Brainwashed by the tube
You look the other way
And say inside,
"Oh gosh, I never realized"

(Chorus)
The lies we hold inside
Have got us twisted up in
Gordion's knots
The lies we try to sell ourselves
Denying when we smell the rot
We're floating in a shared despair
Look into me
There's nothing there
Look into me
There's nothing there

You say you want to save the whales
But on a diet, watching scales
You say you're so fed up with this
But every night you need a kiss
(And no one's really faithful these daze
anyway...
No no one's really paying prices
Pay to pray to play to make your day
It's all illusion anyway
There's nothing here for me to say...)
[chorus]

I say I want a brave new world
But I'm too scared to leave my bed
We say we want a world of peace
But action's lost
When everybody's
Stuck in their own head
Oh yeah we're full of good intentions
We got plans to follow Jesus
Once we've got enough in savings
to afford a cushy life
in our old age
[chorus]

(Bridge)
Oh yeah we're gonna save the world,
But not right now
Let's have a drink
Oh yeah we're gonna save the world,
But for the moment
I don't want to have to think
Just pour a drink
Oh yeah
Oh no
Oh don't you know
Oh yeah
Oh no (repeat)

In My Dreams

I have dreams
And you are the girl in my dreams

(repeat several times, with changing melody written elsewhere...)

-ZL

Joie

Joie
Left so many lonely
Far too soon
You've seen the moon
In person
Yet your personality
No longer visible
To see
It's such a tragedy
You're loved
Still
Let's take on these
Obstacles
The planet's ill
And in your spirit
Those in love
Continue
Marching to the rhythm
of your stolen heartbeat

(Chorus)
I can cry
for daze
This world's gone crazy
Miss you so much
Joie
I can cry
for daze
This world's gone lazy
How can this happen?

In your name
We criticize this shameful
Blame-game
by the perpetrators
Let's fess up
For loneliness and fear
Have got us bottled up
And you're no longer here
This sadness takes me
Further into
Desperation
Civilization
Owes us better
Joie
In your name
I vow to never fear (chorus)

The meloncholy grips me
When the situation
Feels so grievous
How can we be stolen
By insanity
We've got so much to give
But let us Live!
This genocidal progress
Joie
In your memory
We struggle
For the Beauty
To win over
All this evil
All this apathy
Your Beauty
In our hearts
For nothing starts from nothing
Love is all there ever is (chorus)

Replaced Hipster

My flattened pores
Are sweating bullets
Greasy grimy,
Lost my knack
The Zackattack
is wearing thin and Who'd you think would win and
Where'd you place the Mojo
I've misplaced the one I'd
thought I'd seen
Let's make a scene
Let's start a row
Let's bake potatoes
Make some babies
Have some sense--
You lost some marbles?
My defense is rather garbled

(Chorus)
Hipster's been replaced
An older gentleman resides inside
You needn't now decide
It's only docu-drama
Let the fusion loose
It's only yours to lose

Tears erode the cheekbone
Of the magistrate,
Insensate,
It's the trauma, drama
Let down in the cosmic whirl
A goy or birl
Hesitate to play my hand
You understand-- you're dying?

What I Want

What I Want
Alternative to this
Abyss is
Local, self-sufficiency
Community resposibility
For our own happiness
For our own needs
For in this Corporatocracy
The humble wiped out with the tide
To live for others
Not for profit margins

(Chorus)
What I Want
It's what I want!
What I Want
It's what I want!
This world tears
itself apart!
And just to Heal
is what I want

What I Want
It's What I Want!
Some newfound sanity
Surreal, all these Lies
This lifestyle
Seems so to require
This destruction
Suicidal, ecocidal
What I Want
Is what our species, planet needs
Today! (chorus)

It's what I Want!
To raise my daughter
In a world not going downhill, fast!
It's What I Want!
To not be judged by size of wallet
But by contents of my breaking heart
I Want to leave a mark of peace
I Want our culture's conscience to release
This guilt we're loading on ourselves with this insanity (chorus)

Lost

Your feet now rest
Upon my lap
Your large eyes glisten
Stubborn
You don't always listen
I'm so lost
In love with you

It's lovely
Simple
Fills me
Leaves me whole
So simply happy
I'm so lost
In love with you

Your little lilting
Singing voice
Your laughter lifting
Every heart nearby
I'm floating daily
In this high and
I'm so lost
In love with you

Your golden curls
Hang lightly down your back
When worn up
Showcase
Gorgeous, perfect
Long and lovely neck
I'm lost, so lost
In love with you, in love with you

You glisten, glow and glimmer
Lovely
Vibrant lucid energetic
I escape my skin in happiness
I'm lost
I'm lost, so lost
So lost in love with you,
In love with you

Got It Wrong

You've got it wrong
It's been so long
You've got this notion
This is not enough
This what we got
This you and me and
Plans and
This commitment
You're a throw-away dispose-it
Junkie
Gotta have a new one
This one's last year's fashion
Superficial Stupid
I still love you
But you're losing my respect

(Chorus)
You've got it wrong
This Love could still be strong
This doubt
You're shouting out about
Compared to Lifelong Love
and this
Shared Life
you've got It wrong

Expect it better than you've got it
And you're ending up with nothing
But your self-esteem, invisible
Is where the problem really lies
It's no surprise
You're feeling lonely
All your condescension
At my sadness
Justified by this betrayal
I won't play ball
I don't buy that this decision
All your brutal, cold derision
Comes from anything legitimate
You ain't got credibility
With me
Stupidity and selfishness and
Desperation-- I've got empathy-- but more frustration

Blah blah blah

Here the words are
Hear the words
The language can collapse into
You think you've got a concept
Truly in significance
You've left the substance
On your right you're left wrong
Writing as you're riding into
Meaning less and less and
Disappearing into so-called meaning

(Chorus)
Blah blah blah disease
It's not so easy
Freedom from this imposition
Your position
Ruled by what you
think you know
You're wrong
This song's for you
Koo koo ka choo

How to say
It's all in play
It's meaning less and less and
Therein freedom wrung
Like water from a saturated cloth
We've waited long enough
It's time for Nothing
To prevail
You'll see
We're free
When Nothing
Means so much (chorus)

The blabber
Ladder-climbing
Strategizing
Selfishness two-timing
So embedded in our concepts
Rules beliefs and regulations
So absurd
Our concepts rule reality
We've got no credibility-- it's meaningless (chorus)

I Have a Dream

I have a dream
This afternoon
The sun is shining on us still
We need to summon all our skill
We need to, each of us, rethink
For dying oceans have begun to stink
And hurricanes, and forest fires
So many species gone extinct
We must rethink our current course
And Each of us, responsible
Our choices in our day-to-day
Are what will shift this outcome

(Chorus)
I have a dream
And though it seems
So hopeless sometimes
I'll keep dreaming
Join us
Someday
Join us!
NOW, today!

I have a dream
That each of us
Will grow our own
And spin and weave and sew our own
For corporations, governments
Our centralized societies
Are leaving each of us dependent
Impotent, in-debt
As profits grow for these gargantuan
Behemoths-- ecosystems die
And I -- I have a Dream (chorus)

I have a Dream
That Gandhi's Vision--
Passed to him from Tolstoy
Passed along to Martin Luther King
So many others
Share this Vision
Now's the time
For each of us
To take responsibility
For all our choices
Now's the time
To face the facts
It's time to act
It's time to recognize
The Status Quo
Destructive
Will destroy this Awesome Priviledge
We call Life (chorus)

Stop ReThink

Give up the whole hullabaloo
It's not here just for you
It won't lead to relief
Of corroded belief
That you need to keep up with the Joneses
Your cellular phoneses won't shield you
The emptiness gnaws from the inside
The more we consume It
The more It consumes us
Defines us
Refining a glib obfuscation
Post-modernization
Consuming our nation
Denies conversation
No listening

(Chorus)
Stop! ReThink!
It's beginning to stink
The demise of the planet
Is taking us all down
ReThink our priorities,
LifeStyle, the Waste
We're beginning to hasten
Catastrophe, planet-wide

What you do What I do What we do
In our own lives
Consumption is key
For we buy what we see
We succumb to our envy
We're pawns of well-advertized "mainstream"
Crave normalcy, fitting-in myth of "enough"
All this stuff
Our society, top-heavy
Wavering
Ready to crumble
From its own weight
Why sit and wait
Let's ReThink this
Let's-- each of us-- transform our lives
If we want to survive
If we care for All Life

Lost Me Now

You had your chance
But now it's lost
I gave you every opportunity
To change your fickle convoluted
Victimizing mind
You flake
You loser
Lost me now
and that's for good
I knew you wouldn't
Pull your load
So long this road
And you've no constitution
Patience
or Perspective
Lost me now

(Chorus)
You Flake!
You Loser!
Lost me now!
Don't ask me how!
You've done it!
To us both! (repeat)

You thought you led the dance
And didn't like the song
It won't be long until
Your second-guessing comes to
Haunt you
Too late now, though
Ask me how, you know already
You've done this to both of us
Disgusting

Slowly

Coming at me slowly
Leaving slowly
Nonchalant the way you leave me
Lonely
Just another thing to do
Your feelings true
But always changing
Rearranging what was destiny
It's not
No more
To you a bore
So now we're both alone
And only I'm so saddened
By the trauma of your restless
Needs

(Chorus)
Come at me slowly
Leave me slowly
In this limbo I'm just lost
So dangle me slowly
I'm so lonely
Waiting for your newest verdict (repeat)

Howling, silent, through this torrent
Tears are dry in resignation
My stagnation
What I want is gone
So where to go from here?
Through mist I peer
Into unknown and bleak horizon
You, my prize, on other voyages
In distant, foreign places-- gone. (chorus)