Podcast Title

Crossing Wires

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:21:00 +0000

I look around at all the insanity
As they ask us to ignore reality
replacing reason with ideology
Is a recipe for mass idolatry

They promise you a taste of utopia
Instead you wind up with a case of myopia
All the while they stoke your xenophobia
And their power grows like a cornucopia

You know it feels just like someone's crossing our wires (Crossing Wires)
A puppet master controlling us with our fears and desires (Crossing Wires)
You know it feels like someone's crossing our wires (Crossing Wires)
Hijacked by the promises of some phony messiah

We got a warning from Yuri Bezmenov
We'll give away what we are in possession of
A resurrection of Georgi Plekhanov
Active measures bring the normalization of

Control the man and control the society
power given to a central authority
Is an abdication of your civil liberty
Your constitution stands between you and the tyranny

You know it feels just like someone's crossing our wires (Crossing Wires)
A puppet master controlling us with our fears and desires (Crossing Wires)
You know it feels like someone's crossing our wires (Crossing Wires)
Hijacked by the promises of some phony messiah

In A Moment Of Silence

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:21:00 +0000

I'd have my buzz on 24/7 just like the doors of a seven eleven
sliding in and out of Ig DM's, hell I just figured carpe diem
But I was escaping from what was inside, I could run but I could not hide
'cause when life goes down the tubes, there's no choice but to break on through

Bowed head, closed eyes, in a moment of silence, I can empty my mind, in a moment of silence
Doves cry, leaves fall, in a moment of silence I can feel it all, in a moment of silence

I can learn to think like Steven Hawking, and still my monkey brain keeps on talking
Controlling me with my fears and desire, acting like there's a 5 alarm fire
I need to stay within the moment, cool my jets and just control it
Bow my head, close my eyes, and take a deep breath 'til it all subsides

Sun down, lights low, in a moment of silence, I am one with the glow, in a moment of silence
Love in, love out, in a moment of silence, I'm a roundabout, in a moment of silence

Looking for guidance, looking for truth, looking for a way to heal these wounds
Waiting for solace, waiting for peace, waiting for the spirit to deliver release

Bowed head, closed eyes, in a moment of silence, I can empty my mind, in a moment of silence
Doves cry, leaves fall, in a moment of silence I can feel it all, in a moment of silence
Sun down, lights low, in a moment of silence, I am one with the glow, in a moment of silence
Love in, love out, in a moment of silence, I'm a roundabout, in a moment of silence

Wherever I Go

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:56 +0000

Hello Mother hello Father sing to me
A lullaby, or if I cry a soothing harmony
share your stories of love and glory, and tragedy
through life's long journey
you'll always be there to witness me

A tapestry
My life is changing Wherever I go
A new arrangement of the songs that I know
The melodies grow
The notes overflow Wherever I go

Hello Mother, hello Father now I'll sing to you
In a prism of colors and a spirit of wonder that tells my truth
And sons and daughters beyond all borders come on join with me
lift your voices and make your choice as one family

A rhapsody
My life is changing Wherever I go
A new arrangement of the songs that I know
The melodies grow
The notes overflow Wherever I go

Living In Hollywood

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:52 +0000

She wants diamonds and fashion
Champagne and caviar dreams
She wants to live in a mansion
Star of the silver screen

Hustle bustle she found herself in the fast lane
Running elbows in the best parts of town
In the polo lounge over drinks and cocaine
She signed a deal that turned her life around

Hey you want to be a star now
Living in Hollywood
Hey you're gonna go real far now
Living in Hollywood

She goes to all the in parties
And walks around like a queen
They say we loved your last movie
What does all of it mean?

When the story broke in the papers
All about those kinky photographs
Her career took a nose dive
And when she crashed they wrote as an epitaph

Hey you could have been a star now
Living in Hollywood
Hey you could have gone real far now
Living in Hollywood

Take me all the way
Shake me all the way
Make me all the way
Break me all the way
Take me all the way
Bake me all the way
Fake me all the way
Snake me All the way

Hey you're gonna be a star now
Living in Hollywood
Hey you're gonna go real far now
Living in Hollywood

Living Hollywood...

Originally written summer of 1991 and painstakingly restored from two Yamaha MT series 4 track cassette tape recorders and remixed with new drums, bass and hammond organ.

Special Thanks to Tony Polemeni my high school friend for his great guitar work.

Fireflies In A Mason Jar

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:45 +0000

As the days got longer and the sun got warmer
And the promise of spring turned into summer
You went from being just the girl next door
And turned out to be so much more

With your pixie cut and your strawberry dress
and that smile I hadn't noticed yet
We would sit for hours on the garden wall
barely talking about anything at all

As the world turned slowly into night
We found something better than candlelight

Fireflies in a mason jar We're all alone below the stars
I'm looking at you, you're looking at me and our faces are glowing bright lime green
No one knows just where we are except our fireflies in a mason jar

SOLO

The sun is setting as I look out the window
There's frost on the glass and I'm watching the wind blow
I wonder if you still remember
Those magical nights of our endless summer

When the world turned slowly into the night
And we found something better than candlelight

Fireflies in a mason jar We're all alone below the stars
I'm looking at you, you're looking at me and our faces are glowing bright lime green
No one knows just where we are except our fireflies in a mason jar

Fireflies in a mason jar

Old Age (When did you get it?)

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:41 +0000

"Hello Sir" were the words that killed me
I looked around, thinking my dad was behind me
Then I heard, my favorite song in the elevator
It seemed absurd, it felt like time was a traitor

I just got the call you know it comes for us all

Old age when did you get it?
It creeps up real slow
Old age never forget it
Time down the river it flows

All the kids have left the house and are fully grown
And that damn couch I can't get up without a moan
That's Ok - Because there's always love that fills up my days
There you are, right beside me on life's long journey

I'm standin' tall 'cause you'll be there for it all

Old age when did you get it?
It creeps up real slow
Old age never forget it
Time down the river it flows

Old age when did you get it?
Not that long ago
Old age never regret it
into the years of gold

The Joint Is Jumpin'

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:39 +0000

Gotta taste that beat
The music's bumpin'
Get off that street
The joint is jumpin'

We're on our feet
Our fists are pumpin'
Just feel that heat
The joint is jumpin'

I'm walking dead working nine to five
Wait for the weekend just to feel alive
Roll down the windows of my Chevrolet
Feel music pulsing from a mile away

Don't need no Molly
Don't need no Ecstasy
Just need your body
Swayin' next to me

Gotta taste that beat
The music's bumpin'
Get off that street
The joint is jumpin'

We're on our feet
Our fists are pumpin'
Just feel that heat
The joint is jumpin'

Hey Mister DJ Don't you ever stop
Giving me chills when you needle drop
Lights are flashing, my pulses racing
One more thrill is what I'm chasing

Don't need no Molly
Don't need no Ecstasy
Just everybody
Swayin' next to me

Gotta taste that beat
the music's bumpin'
This is where we meet
the joint is jumpin'

We're on our feet
Our fists are pumpin'
Just feel that heat
The joint is jumpin'

Thunderin'

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:34 +0000

Like a grain of sand blown across this barren land
I await the rain to release me
In the blink of an eye as I look into the sky
I know the clouds can appease me

Thunderin' Thunderin'
It's all sound and fury
Wonderin' Wonderin'
All guts and not glory

In the heat of the night when you're itching for a fight
And you won't even discuss it
So I head to the road - trying to unload
But there's no way to outrun it

Thunderin' Thunderin'
You're like a storm that keeps rolling
Wonderin' Wonderin'
Where all this is going

Now I hear the sound shake me to the ground
And I feel like succumbing
So I wait for the rain -hoping in vain
'cause I know it's not coming
Thunderin' Thunderin'
It's all sound and fury
Wonderin' Wonderin'
Why?
Thunderin' Thunderin'
You're like a storm that keeps coming
Wonderin' Wonderin'
Was it all for nothing

Shades of Hope

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:30 +0000

Losing hope, where did it go?
Hope against hope feels like the final blow
False hope is just like a dagger
Only hope can light the way
Give up hope, I can't face another day
Beyond hope, can I find my way back again?

Hope for tomorrow love without sorrow
Moving beyond my shadow self
Hope springs eternal, jumps every hurdle
All I need is a glimmer of...

(Instrumental break)

Hope for tomorrow, love without sorrow
Moving beyond my shadow self
Hope springs eternal, jumps every hurdle
All I need is a glimmer of...

Hold out hope, keep hope alive
The only way from this pain I will survive
That's all I have 'till I see you again

Hope for tomorrow love without sorrow
Moving beyond my shadow self
Hope springs eternal - jumps every hurdle
All I need is a glimmer of... hope

Tomorrow's Yesterday

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:22 +0000

Out with the old and in with the new
January's got me feeling blue
First to remember, last to forget
Forward and back are fear and regret

Pushed to the left pulled to the right
Viewing everything in black or white
I can see it with my own eyes
This is where the truth goes to die

I'm living with tomorrow's yesterday
I'm flirting with the future's past
Stuck looks like he just wants to get-away
First says its never going to last

Look over here, look over there
January's looking for a little more air
Close your minds and open the doors
Instead of peace we're choosing wars

Get your freedom under control
More Stalin, less Rock 'n Roll
Good for the body, Bad for the soul
Once divided you can't see the whole

I'm living with tomorrow's yesterday
I'm flirting with the future's past
Stuck looks like he just wants to get-away
First says its never going to last

Pushed to the right pulled to the left
Suppressing anything they can't confess
Gas lighting 'till you acquiesce
Give me liberty or give me death

I'm living with tomorrow's yesterday
I'm flirting with the future's past
Stuck looks like he just wants to get-away
First says its never going to last

Jump Out The Window

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:20 +0000

When I was a kid I didn't like to follow
All the rules telling me what I oughta
I danced to the beat of my own drummer
So every day was like a taste of summer

I heard a voice inside of my head
And this is what it said

Jump, Jump, Jump, out the window
Go, Go, Go, where the wind blows
Fly, Fly, Fly, until tomorrow
Cause I ain't never going home no more

Jump out the window!

Now I'm grown up and I'm in Love-a
But there is something that I soon discovered
You can't change me with all of your yellin'
'cause I aint buyin' what you're sellin'

I heard that voice inside of my head
And this is what it said

Jump, Jump, Jump, out the window
Go, Go, Go, where the wind blows
Fly, Fly, Fly, until tomorrow
Cause I ain't never going home no more

Jump out the window!

You ain't my Mama, I ain't your Papa
So why are you dishin' out all this drama?
I ain't your father, you ain't my mother
So I don't understand why you have to become her
I'm not looking for some kind of nirvana
But the way things are going it makes me wanna

Jump out the window!

Jump, Jump, Jump, out the window
Go, Go, Go, where the wind blows
Fly, Fly, Fly, until tomorrow
Cause I ain't never going home no more

Jump out the window!

Posthumous Special Guest: Clyde Stubblefield on Drums

Where are you this Christmas?

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:18 +0000

Watch video on YouTube

Cha-Cha-Cha-Chia pets are on TV
But where are you this Christmas?
Egg nog's back at the grocery
But where are you this Christmas?

The parking lot is filled with snow
But where are you this Christmas?
Luxury cars with giant bows
But where are you this Christmas?

All around I hear the sounds of merry good cheer
Sleigh bells ring, jing-a-ling brings back memories of yesteryear

Smell those cookies cooling on their trays
But where are you this Christmas?
A yule log crackles on the fireplace
But where are you this Christmas?

Colored lights brighten up the tree
But where are you this Christmas?
Mistletoe 's hanging over me
But where are you this Christmas?

All around I hear the sounds of merry good cheer
Sleigh bells ring, jing-a-ling brings back memories of yesteryear

Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Where are you this Christmas?
(repeat)

All around I hear the sounds of merry good cheer
Sleigh bells ring, jing-a-ling brings back memories of yesteryear

Colored lights brighten up the tree
Where are you this Christmas?
Mistletoe 's hanging over me
So where are you this Christmas?
Christmas, Christmas, Christmas?
Fa-La-La

Dart's Lament

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:11 +0000

Torn apart - by a rift in the world
Turned upside down without a single word
When the sun goes down and the porch lights glow
There's only one place- that I want to go

I want dress up like a princess unicorn
Or wear a mask and bark at the moon
I want to fill my bag with nougat and chocolate
I want to go trick or treating with you.

Called back to a place I don't understand
By a singular voice that makes all demands
We'll meet again in a time and place
When I break my bonds of both time and space

I want dress up like a princess unicorn
Or wear a mask and bark at the moon
I want to fill my bag with nougat and chocolate
I want to go trick or treating with you.

Another Song

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:10 +0000

The A.R. man said with a yawn
The world doesn't need another song
Put down your pen you all got it wrong
'Cause the world doesn't need another song

But the world still needs love, hope and faith
The kindness to remind us that we're all the same at the end of the day
So I say -

Sing my song - I gotta sing my song

I've got a feeling - deep inside - That I need - to spread far and wide
With a groove that can satisfy - keep on spinnin' till its certified

But the world still wants love, hope and faith
The kindness to remind us that we're all the same at the end of the day
So I say -

Sing my song - I gotta sing my song

Where do they come from? I don't know
But when they're comin' I gotta let 'em flow

Breakdown 1
This melody's inside of me I gonna set it free
Sing my song - I gotta sing my song

Breakdown 2
Sing my song I gotta sing my song
I've got a feeling - deep inside - That I need - to spread far and wide - With a groove that can satisfy - keep on spinnin' till its certified
This melody's inside of me gonna set it free

He looked at me and said with a yawn
The world doesn't need another song
Put down your pen you all got it wrong
'Cause the world doesn't need another song

But the world still needs love

Swingin' for the Fence

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:20:04 +0000

I don't climb the mountain - I drill to the center deep inside
I erupt like a fountain - Sharing all the fire that I find
The world around could be falling - But still the music keeps calling me

One life - no regrets - I'm livin' swingin' for the fence
No risk - no success - I'm livin' swingin' for the fence

You can stand on my shoulders - Please remember I'm just another guy
Be bigger, badder, and bolder - just spread your wings and light up the sky
Unchained expectations - Pass it on to the next generation

One life - no regrets - get livin'swinging for the fence
Come on - there's no success - Unless you're out there swingin' for the fence

[Break – Solo]

One life - no regrets - I'm livin' swingin' for the fence
No risk - no success - I'm livin' swingin' for the fence
Go on, place your bets - I'm livin' swingin' for the fence
No time for second best - I'm livin' swingin' for the fence

Stuck in a Groove (Runout Groove)

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:58 +0000

Being with you is like living in stereo
When you're gone life collapses to mono
Like eating the inside of a double stuff Oreo
Then all that's left are the cookie crumbs you know

I'm stuck in a groove - stuck in a groove - cause I'm loosing you

Our love is like a transistor radio
The static builds up the further apart we grow
Like a record we play over and over oh
Now we're stuck in the runout groove you know

I'm stuck in a groove - stuck in a groove - cause I'm loosing you

You goin' to the bridge? I'm goin' to the bridge, here come the bridge

I'm stuck in a groove - the runout groove

Dead wax, dead wax, dead wax,I'm in that dead wax
Dead wax, dead wax, dead wax, get out of that dead wax

I'm stuck in a groove - stuck in a groove - cause I'm loosing you

Empty Room

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:53 +0000

The clock on the wall is right only twice a day
There's dust on the floor and your footprints only go one way
There's a dent in the bed but you don't lay there no more
I stand all alone in a silence I can't ignore

When I walk in this empty room - Talk to this empty room
But I can't hear you no more
Wait in this empty room - Break in this empty room
Can't seem to close the door to this empty room

Now the phone in the stand rings off the hook all day
There once was a time you were always a call away
Back in the days when the end seemed so far away
Once and for all I’m left with so much say

So I walk in this empty room - Talk to this empty room But you don't answer no more
Wait in this empty room - Break in this empty room
Can't seem to close the door

In my dreams you tell me you're doing fine
We'll meet again when I join you on the other side

Till then I walk in this empty room - Talk to this empty room
But I can't feel you no more
Wait in this empty room - Break in this empty room
Can't seem to close the door to this empty room

In this empty room

Chickadee

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:53 +0000

There once was a time - you were just out of reach
Chickadee-dee-dee - Chickadee-dee-dee
Then you moved so close so our eyes could meet
My heart skipped a beat - Chickadee-dee-dee

We’ll have such a good time
I don't understand
Why fly off to the blue sky
When you should be eating from my hand

When I wake up in the mornin' I can hear your voice a callin'
Chickadee-dee-dee - Chickadee-dee-dee
Makes me rise and shine singing like a robin
Chickadee-dee-dee - Chickadee-dee-dee

I know you have your own life
But please understand
I'm as close as the crow flies
And I'm here when you want to land

My Sweetie Yeah
[Music Break]

We're having such a good time
Please Please understand
I am yours and you're mine
'Cause two in the bush can’t beat one in the hand

Now the summers are bright and living is easy
Chickadee-dee-dee - Chickadee-dee-dee
But the winters are cold and its warm here beside me
Stay with me Chickadee-dee-dee

My Sweetie Yeah | My Sweetie Yeah | My Sweetie Yeah | Chickadee-dee-dee

Chop the Wood (The Practice)

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:47 +0000

I wrote you a poem but you don't know it
If it sits in my drawer am I still a poet?
I have something to say - will you listen
Even if you don't - am I still a musician?

Chop the wood and carry the water
Anchor up and leave the harbor
Sing a song share it with others
Take a breath and start over

I stand on this stage singing in this microphone
Hoping you'll change...to the sound of my baritone
If I'm playing a club.... or filling up a stadium
I go back to my room and practice till the next song comes

Over and Over
This is the practice

Clear your mind of all distractions
Now its time to get to the practice
You may think that you can't do it
trust in the practice to get you through it
You don't need any qualifications
Avoid the drama and the expectations
You may feel like you need some magic
What you really need is to trust in the practice

Chop the wood and carry the water
Anchor up and leave the harbor
Sing a song share it with others
Take a breath and start over

Chop the wood and carry the water
Was good enough for Pope and Chaucer
Lennon/McCartney and Stevie Wonder
Chopped the wood and carried the water

Carole King and James Taylor
Cole Porter The Gershwin Brothers
Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:45 +0000

The lies we tell ourselves
When nobody's listening,
The lies we tell ourselves
Unwilling to witness it

I'm a looser - I'm not worthy
I'm the accuser, judge and jury
Could please come and assure me
Cause your the one who's going to cure me

The lies we tell ourselves
When nobody's listening,
The lies we tell ourselves
Unwilling to witness it

I am empty have no meaning
But the truth is full of feelings
The hurt is what I am concealing
I'd rather run than risk revealing

The lies we tell ourselves
When nobody's listening,
The lies we tell ourselves
Unwilling to witness it

Flooded by the pain of life
Overwhelmed by all its strife
Lost inside my fantasies
Reality whispers "come home to me"

I'll be happy with more money
Find the land of Milk and Honey
Bigger, Better, Newer, Shiny
These are all the chains that bind me

The lies we tell ourselves
When nobody's listening,
The lies we tell ourselves
Unwilling to witness it

The lies we tell ourselves

Black Hole Soul

Peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:43 +0000

Moving at the speed of causality
My only flaw is my fleeting mortality
I'm in need of a human connection
To save me from my own imperfection

My life is stranger than a sci-fi fantasy
Come too close you'll see my duality
Make a move in any direction
You'll find you only have a single trajection

Look inside of me -You can't hide from me - Feel my Black Hole soul
Feel my gravity - bend reality
Your heartbeat's racin' out of control

My soul is like a black hole
You know its there but not how or where
My soul is like a black hole
You can't see it - but you feel it so you know it's there

Infinity runs in many directions
From birth to death to resurrection
Upon further introspection
To spend it with you is my predilection

Come walk the plank to my singularity
Where we are constant for all eternity
Let our muons entangle together
Ride the event horizon forever and ever

Look inside of me -You can't hide from me - Feel my Black Hole soul
Feel my gravity - bend reality
Your heartbeat's racin' out of control

My soul is like a black hole
You know its there but not how or where
My soul is like a black hole
You can't see it - but you feel it so you know it's there

My soul is like a black hole
My black hole soul

Always

Peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:40 +0000

In the days of my youth - I did not know how to be a man
My love was a greed - searching for a place to land
You were the light to my dark - your eyes saw into my soul
But my fear and my shame drove you away long ago
Still you should know...

Always - After all this time - Forever
Always - If only in my mind - Together
Always

I let you slip thru the veil - I will forever atone for your loss
I will do what I must - no matter the cost
You were the May to my June just like the sun to the moon
Every move every step - every heartbeat honors you

Always - After all this time - Forever
Always Until the end of time Remember
Always

Gratias tibi , me paenitet , te amo , vale

Always - After all this time - Forever
Always Until the end of time Remember
Always

The Polka Dottie

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:38 +0000

Dottie learned to hop hanging from her mama's apron strings
It wasn't long till she learned how to really swing
Jaromir and Frankie playing on the radio
The music pulled her in just like an undertow

Hey Ho - it make her happy - let's go and do the polka Dottie
Hey Hoh - its a party - let's go and do the polka Dottie

Dottie practiced polka any time she had the chance
bedroom schoolyard weddings boy did she love to dance
She became a dark-eyed beauty - yeah she looked so smart
on the dance floor she met the man who won her heart

Hey Ho - it make her happy - let's go and do the polka Dottie
Hey Ho - its a party - let's go and do the polka Dottie

[Musical Bridge]

Hey Ho - everybody - let's go and do the polka Dottie
Hey Ho - its a party - let's go and do the polka Dottie

The years rolled by and Dottie's grown her own family tree
three generations of dancers with a polka pedigree
She's lost her jump so she may not be out polka hoppin'
but she still out there dancing yeah her feet ain't stoppin'

Hey Ho - it make her happy - let's go and do the polka Dottie
Hey Hoh - its a party - let's go and do the polka Dottie

Hey Ho - everybody - let's go and do the polka Dottie
Hey Ho - its a party - let's go and do the polka Dottie

Even Now

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:37 +0000

It seems to me - we've always been together
We've always been as thick as thieves
But time is strange it works to separate us
But there is one thing it can't change

Even now if you stumble or falter
Even now I'll be by your side
Even now - come hell or high water
Even now - I'll be by your side

If the sea should roll - and the sky is full of darkness
There is one thing you should know
Have no fear - I will always be there
Call my name and I'll appear

Even now - I'll walk upon water
Even now- to be by your side
Even now - If you stumble or falter
Even now - I'll be by your side

The great things in life they don't come easy
Sometimes things just don't work out
As long as I have your light to lead me
I'll find my way I have not doubt

Even now - you walk upon the water
Even now - to be by my side
Even now - every son every daughter
Even now - He'll be by your side
be by your side
be by your side

Smoke & Desperation

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:33 +0000

Long distance romance - late night conversations
So much promise except for the realization
Left alone at the railway station
Surrounded by the smell of Smoke and Desperation

A hazy bar room full of friggin' strangers
The sound of blues matching my frustration
I didn't know that the road to damnation
Is filled with the smell of Smoke and Desperation

The smell is in my clothes the smell is in my hair
I'm hacking up a lung - dear death I'm almost there
Oh Dear lord I've got to quit this scene
I've turned into something quite obscene

Now it's time for some deep detoxication
I need something to break up this stagnation
Open the door to get some ventilation
To take away the smell of Smoke and Desperation

The smell is in my clothes the smell is in my hair
I'm hacking up a lung - dear death I'm almost there
Oh Dear lord I've got to quit this scene
I've turned into something quite obscene

A hazy bar room full of friggin' strangers
The sound of blues matching my frustration
Open that door to get some ventilation
And take away the smell of Smoke and Desperation
Save me from the stench of Smoke and Desperation
And blow away the smell of Smoke and Desperation

Spirit Of The Red Horse

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:31 +0000

Spirit of the Red Horse

A sacred space where we join our souls
Where the story of our lives unfolds
We come together and elevate - We bear witness and celebrate
Receive the gifts that we've been bestowed

Ring of silver - circle of gold
Spirit of the Red Horse
You deliver the truth that we hold
Spirit of the Red Horse
Sky so blue on the wings of a cloud
Spirit of the Red Horse
Notes ring through - our truth is avowed
Spirit of the Red Horse

We walk along these white sandy shores
Our destination clearer than before
A green bird full of laughter - cheering our lives forever after
Just as you are mine - I am yours

Ring of silver - circle of gold
Spirit of the Red Horse
You deliver the truth that we hold
Spirit of the Red Horse
Sky so blue on the wings of a cloud
Spirit of the Red Horse
Notes ring true - our truth is avowed
Spirit of the Red Horse

Fly so high - through the sky
Two souls - share one life

In Between

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:28 +0000

I'm doin' time in this homemade prison
In the culdesac of this subdivision
Where every day my big decision
Is what to watch on the television

Sittin' around in these grey old sweatpants
Choosing 'tween news and daytime romance
Every day bleeds into another
And everything has lost its luster

Keepin' on Keepin' on

Well I'm in between if you know what I mean
I'm not talking about gender - I'm talking about green
I've been chewed up and spit out (tossed out) by the corporate machine
If you ask how I'm doing - well I'm In Between

Getting sacked 's a bitter pill to swallow
Only so long you can sit around and wallow
Only one way to a new tomorrow
is to lead with your head so your heart will follow

I thought about the things that give live meaning
thought about the things that happiness brings
I dusted off my beat up 6-string
wrote a song and I started singing

Keepin' on Keepin' on

Keepin' on
Keep on moving your feet - The best is yet to come
Don't wait for an invitation - Take control of the situation

Bad Batch

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:28 +0000

Me and the crew - We are all bad seed
But we do what we do - We are all you need
So strap in - hang on tight - for this wicked flight
We're all in - we unite - We always win the fight

Below us the sands are shifting
It's not safe anymore
The fortunes of war

We are the bad batch (Bad Batch)
Bad Bad Bad Bad Batch
We are the bad batch (Bad Batch)
Bad Bad Bad Bad Batch

We can chose to conform - that's the easy life
We can use our free will - and choose to do what's right
So strap in - hang on tight for this wicked flight
We're all in - we unite - we're always in the fight

There's a difference 'tween bad and evil
It lies in the path we take
The choices we make

We are the bad batch (Bad Batch)
Bad Bad Bad Bad Batch
We are the bad batch (Bad Batch)
Bad Bad Bad Bad Batch

Together Again!

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:24 +0000

Welcome back everyone - This song is dedicated to all you you who kept the faith and knew one day we would all be Together Again!

Once when the sky was falling - I had a dream
To get free from the boiling water - And jump into the stream
Sometimes good intentions - aint what they seem
I heard freedom calling - It let loose with a scream

We'll be dancing - We'll be singing
When we're together again
We'll be laughing - We'll be cheering
When we're together again

We've waited for this moment - it finally came
So come on and draw the curtains - and set the stage
Let go of all your burdens - and live for the day
The floodgate's about to open - let's keep it that way

We are dancing - We are singing
Now that we're together again
We are laughing - We are cheering
Now that we're together again

In arenas and in theaters - We're all together again
Playing live is so much sweeter - Now that we're together again
In the clubs and in the bar rooms- We're all together again
Live in Concert is our motto - Now that we're together again.

Sitting On The Fence

peter@punzi.ne (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:20 +0000

Sitting on the fence
If I wait too long
So much can go wrong - for you and me

Sitting on the fence
I can hear the calls
And if liberty falls - what will be?

Sitting on the fence
As the world goes by
with no alibi - am I free?

Sitting on the fence
When tragedy strikes
(And) emotional dikes - break and scream

I know what's right
I know what's wrong
I have to be stronger

I need to move
I need to act
I need to make some impact

Sitting on the fence
Seeing with my own eyes
Am I really surprised by the proof

Sitting on the fence
Hearing all the lies
My soul descries the truth

Sitting on the fence
Nothing can redress
Watching innocence take its final breath

Sitting on the fence
W atching hate transgress
leads my spirit to the dance of death

I know what's right
I know what's wrong
I need to be stronger

I need to move
I need to act
I need to make some impact

Sitting on the Fence

What's In Your Garage?

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:19 +0000

What's in your Garage
What's in your Garage
What's in your Garage
What's in your Garage

I'm searching I'm seeking for a way to make some harmony
If your willing I'll listen to your sweet sounding melody

What's in your Garage
What's in your Garage
What's in your Garage
What's in your Garage

I'm searching I'm seeking for some way to make some harmony
If your willing I'll listen to your sweet sounding melody

What's in your Garage
What's in your Garage
What's in your Garage
What's in your Garage

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Drum Kit: Kick - workbook soles slapping
Snare - foam insulation slapped against hand
Hi hat- dog leash click, two large spoons whacked against my hand
Ride cymbal - two sizes of pizza pans (one for outer and one for bell) hit with spoon
Crash - rectangular baking pan hit with rubber mallet
Claves - 2x4" pieces of wood banged together by my son.

Other Sounds:
Bass - bungee chord on 1/4 with two eye hooks plucked
Main keyboard sound - hair clip taped to a plastic shower head box (for resonance) and plucked
Tooth brush buzzing - both string sound at end and also the lead synth sound
Jug blown - high pitched flute like notes
Bell like sound (at end) a ceramic votive struck with a spoon
Strange gong like sound (at end) post hole drive struck with a rubber coated hand sledge

All sounds recorded with a Shure SM81 and sampled into Logic Pro X's Sampler

Lava Fields of Kilauea

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:14 +0000

Written for a Kontakt writing competition - using only Kontakt instruments based on a prescribed motif.

Hindsight In 2020

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:13 +0000

So many problems - so many rules
So much confusion makes leaders look like fools
Nobody asked me - but I always knew
Give up your freedom then take it up the wazoo

Hindsight in 2020
I am smarter than any cognoscenti
Hindsight in 2020
When you've seen what's coming you're always ready

Let's take a drink with Rip Van Winkle
We'll pound them down until we tingle
'Cause when it rains - it keeps on pouring
That's the time to keep on snoring

Hindsight in 2020
Well I'm smarter than any cognoscenti
Hindsight in 2020
When you've seen what's coming you're always ready

They take our freedoms away (What can I do about it?)
And leave us no place to pray (What should I do about it?)
Keep us muzzled every day (What will I do about it?)
No one hears a word I say

Hindsight in 2020
I am smarter than any cognoscenti
Hindsight in 2020
When you've seen what's coming you're always ready

Hindsight in 2020
I can solve the worlds problems without even sweating
Hindsight in 2020
If I speak truth you might resent me

Hindsight in 2020...

Jenny and Lance (I'll be your Lance)

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:10 +0000

Lighting - thunderstruck by the beauty I found in you
Striking - I would give up everything that I knew
Waiting for a chance to be alone with you
Aching every time I have to bid you adieu

When it's all said and done - I will be the one

You'll be my Jenny I'll be your Lance
We'll make our own Arthurian romance
When you're ready give me a chance
You'll be my Jenny and I'll be your Lance

Racing - to the ends of the earth just to get to you
Taking slings and arrows of outrageous fortune for you
Willing I would lay down my life if you wanted me to
Filling the emptiness of our souls and make us anew

When it's all said and done - I will be the one

You'll be my Jenny I'll be your Lance
We'll make our own Arthurian romance
When you're ready give me a chance
You'll be my Jenny and I'll be your Lance

When its all said and done I will be the one
I'll be waiting whenever you're ready - I'll be your lance if you'll be my Jenny

We Will Endure

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:08 +0000

Casting stones in this cancel culture
Swooping down like a hungry vulture
A wicked game of long division
Tears us apart just like fission
We can stand around pointing fingers
While the pain and resentment lingers
All of our misunderstandings can't be solved by just demanding

Take a look at our face
We are one human race
Fallen from grace

Let it pour - We will endure
Let it pour - We will endure
Let it pour - We will endure
Let it pour - We will endure

So while a litany of dirty laundry
Are used to tell a story
A million random acts of kindness
Will always be there to remind us
While they work to destroy our heroes
And let our cities burn like Nero
We'll share our strength with one another
Lifting up our sisters and brothers

Take a look at our face
We are one human race
Lifted by grace

Let it pour - We will endure
Let it pour - We will endure
Let it pour - We will endure
Let it pour - We will endure

Grace Give us Grace
Peace and Grace
Loving Grace

Let it pour - We will endure
Let it pour - We will endure
Let it pour - We will endure
Let it pour - We will endure

Nothing Gold Can Stay

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:05 +0000

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Poem: Robert Frost - Music: Peter Zee

Bull 299

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:19:01 +0000

When he was young just a small red dog he had to just follow along
Play it safe, pay attention to Mama and learn to just belong
But as he grew more independent and then equally strong
He longed to be a thunderbeast so tough that they'd be singing his song

Rolling thunder under clear blue skies - Bull 299
See the smoke dust begin to rise - Bull 299
He is the apple of the ladies eyes - Bull 299
Tall dark and handsome they can't deny - Bull 299

The years rolled by, he carries a ton now, he's nearly twenty hands tall
Built like a tank and full of raw power - runs like a fireball
Good ol' Jim he told us 'bout Leroy and not to mess with Slim
Those dudes were bad but they were nothing that holds a candle to him

Rolling thunder under clear blue skies - Bull 299
See the smoke dust begin to rise - Bull 299
Keep your distance a word to the wise - Bull 299
If you cross him - cut you down to size - Bull 299

After watching Alaska Animal Rescue on NatGeo (S1 E3) and learning about Bull 299 (Wood Bison Active Breeding Program) my son said "Dad you should write a song about Bull 299". So I did.

Your Funk #9

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:18:58 +0000

Soul Sisters give up your funk
Soul Sisters give up your funk

Everybody talks about it
Everybody sings about it
Everybody wants to feel your funk

Everybody thinks about it
Everybody dreams about it
Everybody wants to feel your funk

Soul Sisters lay down your funk
Soul Sisters lay down your funk

Everybody wants to move it
Everybody wants to groove it
Everybody wants to feel your funk

Everybody best behoove it
Anyone that wants to prove it
Everybody wants to feel your funk

Nobody Lives Forever

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:18:58 +0000

No holiday can keep away the dangers of your yesterday
You'll be mislead (You only live Once)
So keep your head (You only live Once)
What lies ahead (You only live Once)
Could leave you dead

Nobody Lives forever
- You're damn well going to try
- It's not your day to die
- The reaper won't be satisfied
- You're gonna look him in the eye
- Never ever say goodbye
- Just one more day to spy

So on this day you are the prey the object of this cruelest game
So don't give up (You only live Once)
and don't give in (You only live Once)
'cause in the end (You only live Once)
You always win

Nobody Lives forever
- You're damn well going to try
- It's not your day to die
- The reaper won't be satisfied
- You're gonna look him in the eye
- Never ever say goodbye
- Just one more day to spy

This song based on a James Bond book that has not been adapted to the silver screen (yet) written by John Gardner Called "Nobody Lives Forever" (1986).

Autumn Nights

podcastgenerator@example.com (Podcast Generator User) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:18:55 +0000

I wasn't looking but there you were
After all I'd given up on my happy ever after
But you saw right through me - right to my core
All the time I spend with you - leaves me wanting more

Come and hold me on this Autumn Night
Come and warm me from this autumn chill
The stars above are looking oh so bright
Let's make love 'till we've had our fill

Some things about you drive me insane
But if I'm honest I'm not without blame
But when I hold you I can think of no-one else
When I get down on one knee I can hear those wedding bells

Come and hold me on this Autumn Night
Come and warm me from this autumn chill
Won't you take my hand and share my life
To have and hold this day until

Share my life
The Autumn Nights are calling
Stars so bright
The shooting stars are falling
Share my life
We'll wake up every morning
Autumn Nights

Come and hold me on this Autumn Night
Come and warm me from this autumn chill
The stars above are looking oh so bright
Let's make love 'till we've had our fill

Autumn Nights
Autumn chill
Share my life

Composed in Garageband iOS

Summer Days

peter@punzi.net (Peter Punzi) — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:18:50 +0000

Summer days are passing by me
Sitting here so melancholy
Though a year ago I was in the throes of love
Now I can't explain this feeling

Summer Days I left behind me
I wonder if she'll ever call
My romantic fears are washed away with tears
Now I understand this feeling

All alone I drift along
Searching for someone to call my own
And the days go by so slowly

[Musical interlude]

All alone I drift along
Searching for someone to call my own
And the days go by so slowly

Summer days returned and found me
With the loss of love behind me
Though it was long ago and far away
I cannot forget this feeling
Summer Days