One For The Dead

April 22, 2014
WilliBrown VeniceBeach 2005
though my chest rises with breath and my head nods on my neck these fingers typing here will one day feed the earth though now in my room with the sunlight streaming onto my right foot i can see hear and touch the space it really won’t be long until i am space and some other singer laments us you and i who have died but haven’t left space there are bodies and there are beings and today i am both
Wrathful deity of Vajrayana - Ekajati

Lord’s On My Side

August 30, 1990

All of them angels left town today
Nothin left for them girls to do
Follow down the bugle call
They just had to let me fall
The lord’s on my side
but his hands are tied

Hangin like a star in the Milky Way
There’s a party goin on around here today
Bangin on a cold blooded medicine drum
There’s a sky full of glory / i’m gonna get some
The lord’s on my side
but his hands are tied

Lookin for the secret in a red man’s boneyard
Pryin it loose with my brunette hot wrench
I make my own music / ain’t nobody’s business
Ain’t nothin to comin’ thru in a pinch
The lord’s on my side
but his hands are tied

  • Chorus
    The lord’s on my side
    i made the wheel / i’ll let it ride
    The lord’s on my side
    but his hands are tied

Note: This was recorded in a cold Nebraska winter basement with no heat, strange energetic distortions and very poor musical synchronization. What a fuckin’ mess. On my side, indeed.

Bob Dylan holding cue card reading Get Born

Elvis 2.0

August 30, 1990
Recorded on “Crow Bar Peace Pip

Now the hero’s got empty shoes
and the stand-in’s got the stage fright blues
they don’t get sick and the don’t get well
they spend their time a hangin’ around the ink well

  • Singing ooh, ooh there’s a doctor’ll give ya anything
    ooh, ooh, ooh and they sing it again
    “You may be dying for my sins
    but I don’t owe you a thing
    you may not be a fool (elvis)
    but you ain’t no king”

Dyin’ from a pop disease
Crucified and the symptoms are these
Sex, Drugs, Money, Fame
It’s what the people want so I’m not to blame

Bridge:
Sign my paper with a manuscript
One way ticket to the kicking crypt
Where I can meet my devil say yakety-yak
Get my girl if I don’t look back

Lonely, in a crowded room
The music’s loud going boom boom!
Yeah what gets ya thru the night at the end of the day
No body understands a word you say

  • Ya say Ooh, ooh, ooh there’s a doctor give ya anything
    ooh, ooh, ooh and they sing it again
    “You may be dying for my sins
    but I don’t owe you a thing
    you may not be a fool (elvis)
    but you ain’t no king”