Strip me of immortality
Say religion’s just a drug
It should be swept under the rug of reality
Strip me of immortality
Give me meaningless devotion
To this ball-and-chain emotion of this animal breed
Category: Music
Posts related to music.
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Strip (Lyrics)
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Liner Notes: Strip
When Harold and Doug approached me about releasing and recording old songs from the band, I was torn about the idea. “Strip” illustrates the main reason for that.
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Liner Notes: Wall St. Wisdom
The Reign recorded “Wall St. Wisdom” at Neverland Studio in 1991, but its roots reach back another seven years or so.
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Wall St. Wisdom (Lyrics)
Brown nose, serving time, focus on the bottom line
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Servant of the dollar bill, master of the overkill
Fiery hoop high jump, God the Father Donald Trump
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Better Late than Neverland: An Album
Photo by Oliver Thin. My old band, The Reign, is on the cusp of releasing our second album. It only took 35 years.
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Liner Notes: Footsteps in the Hall
Illustration cropped from the York Grief Study’s website. I wrote a new song, centered around a character’s experience of grief.
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The Color of the Pen (Lyrics)
I saw suspicion in her eye
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Liner Notes: Josie
“How does that Simul-sync function?” In the early ’80s, I got my hands on my first multi-track recorder: a Teac 4-channel reel-to-reel tape recorder.
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Music as meditation: Midori’s Bali
Google tells me that I’ve got a song in my music library with 1500+ plays. I’ve got a few others with over 1200 plays, and a couple more approaching 1000.
I believe Google, too, though I know these numbers actually understate the reality.
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