You Invented Sex

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 You Invented Sex

(Gaulke/Gaulke-Corner-Prol)

you were so bored

you couldn't feel any more

everything 

fell into parts

you felt so cold

the work was hard

so you 

made something up

you invented sex

it seemed like a good idea

though I had thought of it first

you gave it wheels

  

think of the people

hurting in this life

that could be

healed with this thing

taking off their clothes

getting so close 

if they knew

what would disappear

you invented sex

what a scary thing

maybe it will never work

maybe it's too weird

touching each other

dissolving all fear

how could anyone

return to their work?

Cakewalking

put on your red dress

I'll wear my pressed shirt

meet me at the place

I'll bring records

we'll share the bread

with yesterday's soup

go on take the lipstick

and those flat shoes

we'll go cakewalking

like our betters do

they've got things

we got moves

cakewalking 

on the avenue

night throws off the day

the mood's rising like the moon

teasing appetites

being the street life

twisting the city 

as we unwind

putting everything beneath our feet

dancing on our liberties

hands in the pants of the city

a swift kick after a squeeze

In a Musical Way

I want a life as bright as these chords I play

I want to live my life in a musical way--

Birds singing, a milkman whistling, a fat happy maid

Pancake-flipping oh yeah

I go to work against reality

Battling the world with my bare feelings

My heart never leads me astray

Just as long as I continue singing

I'm playing the part of an underachiever

In an out of town run that goes on forever

You could be the disaffected lover

Whose heart swells on an orchestra cue

Dancing our way past the fear

That anything wonderful's not real

Harmonizing on a melody

That worms its way into your dreams

Spotlights, pink tights, alcoholics

Costume, scenery, nervous breakdowns 

We're switching scenes like hand puppets

Up until the curtain comes down

song link

Major Chords

"Life doesn't happen in major chords," said Martin Gore of Depeche Mode in an interview once.

It’s a challenge to use them…to appeal to the universal without sounding too preachy, didactic, or too simple. If you stay small, the work lacks resonances. I don’t think there’s a formula to this, more of a recipe that is constantly reworked.  

It’s knowing when to strike the universal chord that balances the whole piece. When you change directions of the tempest you’ve created.

Yeah, so you bridge your most intimate, subjective experiences with the force of the powerful mathematics. That’s the meat of it. 

Vines from Hien (doesn't rhyme)

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from our show at Spike Hill

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