Songs

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The Tide

Well I woke up in another world sometime before it all evolved
There were no solutions, no one reason, no one was to blame,
and like everytime before you know I felt the same

Up from the bottom down from the rain
Picture perfect fantasy
You read it in a magazine
And I hope you notice that I’m just a mortal man
As for the world you know, well, it’s great but you got to go

Drifting away drifting away
Well, I wait for the tide to come

Word and Music by Ian Reardon

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The Man Who Knows Things

They say it takes a man to climb a mountain and everyone has a mountain of their own
Chop it down to size and take of flying
You never find it at the end of the road
You find it along the way

Look out over the moonlight `cause I feel like I’m coming `round the bend
Look out down below `cause I’m falling all around you
Slip through the cracks to survive

Don’t you know you’re just like me
I’m just like you, and where all one and the same

Hold your head high, and shake off the things that you don’t need
Do what you please well, just don’t bother me
Take some time with mine

Just the other day I seen the man who knows things
He was reading me a message from behind the lines
It said, “slow it down. There’s plent to go around. Relax `cause everythings gonna be alright.”

And “don’t you know you’re just like me.
I’m just like you and we’re all one and the same”

Words and music by Ian Reardon

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Ticking Away

When you know where to hide you know you don’t mind at all,
`cause you know where to hide from the truth
When you know what you’ll find it’s like a clock in your mind ticking away
The seconds they drive hours to days
I’m falling away on a wave on a wave on a wave on a wave fall away on a wave

Eyes like a window flashing the scenes of the life outside
Caustic and feeble perilous victims of meaningless games
Never seeing, never believing in themselves
`cause they just close there eyes or they’re looking away

How can you find yourself?
In the darkness you’re bleeding
Strangled and rising to melt in the palms that you’re feeding
Thought about everything else, how your hearts like a needle?
Now won’t you think about it, where will you go?

Your frozen eyes glare but not to see
Remember everything and what lies in between
Wake me in the morning find I’m standing still
Watching all the memories on the window sill.

Words & Music by Ian Reardon

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The Truth Is A Lighthouse

As a boy I was kind
Of living inside my mind
And today
I’m pretty much the same way

But I’ve got to say
I put up with shit that I would not have today
From those who were
So in & insecure

I know that the truth is a lighthouse
On the shore of forever more
As I’m sailing along
It seems like I hear a song
As the waves project silvery spray

Point yourself toward the light
And do what you know is right
Plot a course directly for the source

‘Cos you know that the truth is a lighthouse
On the shore of forever more

Don’t you hang your head
Just because of what some asshole said
They have to pay
For their sins every day

Every day of my life
I’m learning until I arrive
On the shore
Of forever more

Words and music by Chris Carter

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Feet On The Wire

Do you feel self control?
Can’t keep yourself from being the fool
Is this how you want me to be screaming out loud with my foot in my mouth?

In the morning I’ll wake up to find that I’m standing my feet on the wire

If I could only relate to who you think I am
Too far away from you my thoughts of me
Can’t even worry can’t lose your mind
Tragic conclusion we love it every time

In the morning I’ll wake up to find that I’m standing my feet on the wire

In times I feel trouble you know I can’t make my mind up
Into the forgiven a world so messed up
No rhyme or no reason
You know I can’t make my mind up
Elenchus and deeming the whole world a helpless lot
A whole in the vessel
A slow shift to drain
Your heart full of trouble
Only your hand to blame
No rhyme or no reason
You know I can’t make my mind up
Elenchus and deeming the whole world a helpless lot

Do you feel self control?
Can’t keep yourself from being the fool
Is this how you want me to be screaming out loud with my foot in my mouth?

In the morning I’ll wake up to find that I’m standing my feet on the wire

Words & Music by Ian Reardon

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So Far Away

so long so many miles
I drive on to rest my head
searching trudging onward
turn around turn around

all the days that i spend the distance between us
so long fair well
falling light still lights my way
turn around turn around

so far way
you keep me hiding from myself
pictures in my head
tell me what your all about
but they’re not real
that’s not really how you feel

your eyes catch me way down
way down in myself
you might be there but am i here
here right now within myself ?

so far way
you keep me hiding from myself
pictures in my head
tell me what your all about
but that’s not really how you feel
and now i feel so blue
I’m like a puppet on a string
my strings are pulled by you

words and music by Ian Reardon

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You’ll See The Light

When you’re dealing with yer feelings
Running circles in yer mind
Like a gerbil on a wheel
Accomplish nothing in twice the time

Could it be yer out to get you
You never liked you anyway
Well I think my head’s a nice place
But I wouldn’t want to stay

Well I really don’t feel like waiting ’til the end of my life
To let it go

I had a dream about you
Trying to tell me something big
But you started talking backwards
You were wearing a rainbow wig

When you’re dealing with yer feelings
Running circles in yer mind
Do you need help destroying yourself
No, I think you’re doing just fine

Well………

Well, it is what it is
And that’s why it is
And even if you don’t understand don’t fight
You’ll see the light
Let it go
‘Cos people will be who they’re gonna be
And you will see, you will see the light

Words and music by Chris Carter

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Surrender to the world

I just wanna be alone
No one waiting on the telephone
Don’t wanna see a picture on a T.V. screen
I just wanna be alone with me
Too many people need to scream and shout about the world bringing them down
You tell me problems and I try to tell you mine but you don’t like the way they sound

Now it’s a whole lot easier to surrender to the world
A whole lot easier to try to find myself and you find yours

She takes advantage
He takes advantage
You all take advantage of me
Mind manipulation
Your heads looking too spun to contact your heart on your sleeve
When your turning over
In years you’ll remember your green hopes of conquering greed
and I’ll be staring at you a joke that you confused
Your pride turned to dust that you bleed

Now it’s a whole lot easier to surrender to the world
A whole lot easier to do anything that you want
A whole lot easier to make up my mind on my own
A whole lot easier to try to find myself and you find yours

You always did everything that you said you would
and then you threw it all away for a rainy day
you left me hanging in a downpour color me distant
with a safe anchor holding you down

And now I think it’s true what they say
You make your own luck believe it
Too much of your sorrow is taking up my time
You wonder why they leave you
Well the harder you grasp well the quicker it falls
Something ain’t nothing without you and your love to give

Should’ve known should’ve known should’ve known better than before

Words and Music by Ian Reardon

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We’re Paralyzed

We’ve come to the point where we’ve figured it out
It’s all been done
It’s all been done
We can’t seem to have fun

Heard it before
Don’t wanna hear it again
Seen it all
And it was valid then

But now we’re paralyzed
We’re paralyzed {repeat twice}

Where is the wonder?
I’m wondering now
When I look at your faces
We’ve lost it somehow

Cynical people
Living in hell
Your spirit is broken
You’re killing yourselves

Heard it before
Don’t wanna hear it again
Seen it all
And it was valid then

But now we’re paralyzed
We’re paralyzed
Now we’re paralyzed
We’re paralyzed
Just a pair of eyes
A pair of eyes

We’ve come to the point where we’ve figured it out
It’s all been done
It’s all been done
And now we’re under the gun…..

Words and music by Chris Carter

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The Chameleon

As every day comes to pass your eyes different from the past
I can’t remember when the change happened and the chameleon came

I’ve been knocked down
Cold clocked hard ground
You swim while I drown

Picture tube fade to black chameleon lies on her back
Gently creeping round the room taunting me with every move

I’ve been knocked down
Cold clocked hard ground
You swim while I drown cause I’m through

Wasting my time with you or whatever you turned into
Sometimes the change comes fast present turns into past
Trying to hold on to a memory is all I do
I don’t know who I know but who I knew

Back and forth day to day
Many layers shaved away
Till nothings left for me to cling I’m waiting for the birds to sing

I’ve been knocked down
Cold clocked hard ground
You swim while I drown cause I’m through

Wasting my time with you or whatever you turned into
Sometimes the change comes fast present turns into past
Trying to hold on to a memory is all I do
I don’t know who I know but who I knew

Music by Forest Smith
Words by Forest Smith & Peter Gray

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Curtains

Got a lock on my feelings got a hole in my heart
I’m in a whirl of confusion drifting apart

Someday somewhere someway somehow
we’ll wake up face to facing now

Suspended and drained hanging high alone and wide
Low and complicated stating “everythings alright”

Someday somewhere someway somehow
we’ll wake up face to facing now

Music by Forest Smith
Words by Ian Reardon

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Spinning Blue Globe

rising to the surface land
up from the darkest depths
hovering over the distant shore
watching the waves scratching the edge and crashing to the ground

and I drift away
on the ocean breeze
into the cloudy sky
oh miles away
floating high above the world that I climb away

i know sometimes it ain’t so easy
life can trap you in the swirling bind
hope is just another opinion
hanging in the ocean wide

a key to the door
flying high below a world of blue
too far to reach
but to close to hide your eyes
away

words & music by Ian Reardon

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Commence, Your Time Is Up

final signs
life compact and still
waiting on the edge
a windy vacuum chill

controlling minds
losing sight to see
looking back again
the gardens full and green

no more will i sigh
or to caste a tear
i wave my hand to stray
a shallow glass to clear

looking across the starlight
trying to climb away
long stance of confusion
flying through the days

only a moments pass
is taking control
fool hearty world
has taking the wheel
beg for your lives
like pets in a cage
following lines day after day

sunshine, the grass so green
Rise up to meet the trees
Place back the piece divide
sunlight in my eyes

somewhere over the hillside
i see our lives wasting away
only a few more turns around
it’s coming around

to all of you
i fold my hands
i see the horizon rising
up to meet the land
cold clear remembrance
showered to collide
i’m rolling over the distance
i’m rolling home to arise

hear me and what I have to say
don’t walk away with your head in the ground
hear me and what I have to say
don’t walk away with your head in the clouds

Cause, you’ll fall down

words & music by Ian Reardon

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Big Man

Here’s the story of a big old man
He hides away in his own computer land
He don’t go out much `cause he doesn’t need a thing
He’s got a built in life on his own computer screen

Oh Moby you got a plan for everyone
Oh Moby you understand

When he was young the kids would call him names
and then they’d beat him up and they’d ridicule his things
So he’d hide away and forget about the pain
in his own little world behind the computer screen

Oh Moby you got a plan for everyone
Oh Moby you understand

words & music by Ian Reardon

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Thieves In Green

Today could be the day for you
but you lie awake and fake your life away
When you gonna see the world around you well
nobody cares about the news today

Where can I find a way standing in the rain

Manipulate you situate yourself
You keep on telling lies you keep on telling lies
Commanding thieves in green through your charade
but you keep on telling everyone different things

Where can I find a way standing in the rain
Don’t let them see you smile
Make it last a while

Mannequins replace the human race
Get in line put on your plastic face
They tell you what to think and what to say
and they rearrange your thoughts `til your okay

Where can I find a way standing in the rain
Don’t let them see you smile
Make it last a while

I woke up this morning
Turned on my radio
A cold fair warning
Now I don’t know which way to go
So I guess it’s divided we fall
into the teeth we’re torn
The clouds spot the sky and something just ain’t right

Mannequins replace the human race
Get in line put on your plastic face
They tell you what to think and what to say
and they rearrange your mind `til your okay

Today could be the day for you but
you lie awake and fake your life away
When you gonna see the world around you well
Nobody cares about the news today

Words and music by Ian Reardon

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Broken Song

my head is spinning with broken phrases and words from the day
i try to sleep but i can’t get away from all the things they say
it’s eating me up inside, i can’t make it go away
If there’s a solution, i wish it’d hurry up and come our way

now i know, yes i know, it’s been going on for so long
like a record that’s broken, we just keep playin’ the same old song
some try to fix it, but they can’t because their reason is wrong.
and i guess it’ll keep going on long after i am gone

and i feel my world breaking
from all the choices we been makin’
there is no give there’s only taking
and I can feel my heart aching

sometimes when i look at you, i feel the tears swelling in my eyes
i don’t know how anyone, can break the spirit of someone your size
and what kind of man am i to subject you to the hate and the lies
i guess the best thing that i can do is just love you ‘till the day i die

you know i could turn around and tell myself it’s all gone away
but i’d always hear the sound of sirens moan across the bay
don’t wanna stay silent now we got some things we gotta say
i don’t want to see it fall

music & lyrics by Naren Schoenacher

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Leave Me Alone

where were you when i needed you
all the times you said you’d be
now and then I’ve been looking down right through
waiting for you to lift me up

its so hard when your
so weak to stand
helplessly beside yourself
you can’t remember well
how to feel right now
you don’t even know who you are

it’s like the whole world is falling down on top of you
nothing seems to change
as the hands of time slow you down
and leave you alone
all by yourself

well you know i didn’t choose to
feel this way
i’m just another saint of circumstance
for a while i’ve been distant looking out
so reluctant to see the past

many times i feel
you know how i feel
but you don’t even seem to care
so i think it’s time
cast your remaining stones
and go on and leave me alone

and let the whole world come falling down on top of you
you see your life ain’t real
emotions that you feel
are cold as stone
leave me alone

words & music by Ian Reardon

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Feeding Your Mind

twisting and turning the knobs in your head
who’s in control well it’s me
feeding your mind with the lies that you find.
but you didn’t know a thing
if i were you well i’d look again
but then again would it end
i’m hoping to find the lock on your mind
i’m finding you’ve left for a while

all your thoughts just float away down the drain

crippled emotions a speck on the wall
latent but blatantly blind
cowering over the towering hills
fearfully lagging behind
religiously grasping for someone’s beliefs
suggestively tossed on the pile
i’m hoping to find the lock on your mind
i’m finding you’ve left for a while

all your thoughts just float away down the drain

who are we ?
why are we here ?
where are we from ?
and where you going to go
now and forever more
as the light breaks down below ?
and where are you now that you know
that your just the same as me
and i’m just the same as you
and we are all one
and all is well ?

words and music by Ian Reardon

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Less than a Speck

it aint me
i aint your errand boy
i’m not part of your plan
i will not be employed

so many people
lost in a corporate maze
the blinding haze
lies low across the land

pay no attention
to that little man
behind the curtain
he’s just as scared as you

we kill our brother
in the name of God
the fiery rod
it is ruler of the land

this dream we dream
it is so exclusive
no it’s not conducive
to living without fear

the only reason
i live out each day
is to find a way
to tear the curtain down

get on down
past your soul and around
to where the child sleeps
you know he holds the key

the time has come for us to see
what we should have seen so obviously
the only thing that’s gonna help
is to look deep down within yourself

when you do, you will find
we are all of the same mind
then it will be plain to see
that little bit of you in me

now it’s time for the sublime
to make you see just how it could be
with this code i quietly load
just a little trick to make you all sick
on your knees in the palm of my hand
a faceless king of a lyin’ land
it’s only over when i say so
then as i came i’ll quietly go
away…

music & lyrics by Naren Schoenacher

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Waiting

I will give you some advice
but I can barely heed my own
I’ve rehearsed my lines
I start the show on time
but the people have all gone home

Allow me to explain my situation
If there’s anyone who cares enough to hear
People rarely listen
They nod and wait their turn
So many words fall on deaf ears

Waiting for someone to come home to
Waiting for somewhere to belong
Waiting someone to believe in
Waiting been waiting for so long

You ask me what’s on my mind
but do you really have the time
I see it in your eyes
It comes as no surprise
your just waiting to speak your mind

Allow me to explain my situation
Is there anyone who cares enough to hear
people rarely listen
They nod and wait their turn
So many words fall on deaf ears

Waiting for someone to come home to
Waiting for somewhere to belong
Waiting someone to believe in
Waiting been waiting for so long

words & music by Naren Schoenacher

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Speaking Tongues

you tell me everything you show me nothing
i’m so amused by the things you lose
i can’t recall the dream at all
won’t you take control

if you could find the time
you could find the one who loves you
you could find yourself
you could take yourself for granted

speaking tongues in words that whisper
your so obsessed you can’t understand
don’t you know the world is moving
spinning ’round to knock you down

words and music by Ian Reardon

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When Numbers Were One

slow changes
you roll flip and tumble
you mumble you self to sleep

warm exchanges
your taking
your making
your braking
your life’s mistakes

i can see in your eyes that you
finale realized that your you
and as this world collides
to the next one and so on
you go on just the same

life is glowing
you pause for a moment to gaze out along the breeze
alive the sun is shining
look to your self
no one else looks more like you

chorus

warm summer day
the light hits the water
and shimmers a glimpse to fade and go on
i see a distant face
but it doesn’t matter
they don’t know me know anyway

lay down think back again
before the time when you were young
do you remember when
days were not numbers and numbers were one
standing alone
climbing the hillside to here reside
shining on
from the sun to the stars and then back again

words & music by Ian Reardon

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Sailors (Watching Men Walk On The Moon)

Don’t shoot the sun when you see the land
Don’t believe a thing `til it’s in your hand
Flat calm waiting in the doldrums your destination is miles away
Hoist your sail and then you sail away windward and stern into the setting sun

Like a sailor watching men walk on the moon
you think you’re wasting time
Brushed by the fringes of a hurricane
but you’re just coasting along
You’re just coasting along

Winds shift and now I’m lost but I never knew the way
Drift on until I’m gone and I sail on to solid ground
How long?
I don’t know
There’s just too many ways to go
You got to follow the signs stained by the waterline

Like a sailor watching men walk on the moon
you think you’re wasting time
Brushed by the fringes of a hurricane
but you’re just coasting along
You’re just coasting along

Oh, you’ll find your way just like a fool on the edge,
happy that you don’t know which way to go

Like a sailor watching men walk on the moon
ou think you’re wasting time
Brushed by the fringes of a hurricane
but you’re just coasting along
You’re just coasting along

Words & Music by Ian Reardon

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Standing In Motion

green standing in motion
it seems like everyone is so far ahead
left behind with no way to mention
how i feel or where i am

and though you know noone is better
can’t you see it’s killing me

empty halls and lonely walls
footsteps that linger far too longer
a shallow place a lonely face
no words you just said it all

and though you know noone is better
can’t you see it’s killing me
for far too long i’ve been walking in circles
i never seem to open up the door

words & music - by Ian Reardon

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Now

thoughts splash in my mind, creating ripples in my soul
i’ll ask but i’ll never find, the answer to it all

why then should i try, to end a quest so very old
might as well get high, and forget what i’ve been told

i saw a painting once in a museum, kept on standing there until they closed
the colors you just had to see ‘em, spinning like a kaleidoscope

sometimes i go back in my mind, see her face like yesterday
her eyes so calm when they were frozen in time, i know she knew the answer that day

used to think it all would come together somehow
looking way ahead i forgot to be here right now
ran so far and fast i just lost sight of my place
when it was always right in front of my face

the rings drift along the glass, spread outward from the inside
they glide effortlessly by, don’t even try to tell me why

can’t believe how much time has passed, could’ve been where i am all along
now i begin my life at last, i’ve been looking at my world all wrong

used to think it all would come together somehow
looking way ahead i forgot to be here right now
ran so far and fast i just lost sight of my place
when it was always right in front of my face

i’m sick of running ‘round in circles in my mind
nobody knows the truth until the day they die
so many people talking who ain’t got nothing to say
ain’t gonna let my life slip away

words and music by Naren Schoenacher

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Shining

shadows fall on my face
the world seems like a tired place
and i just need to get by
for a while
i’m gonna wait through the lonely days
and some day
the suns gonna come out shining on me

rain on my windowpane
like these tears that fall from my eyes
go wash away another day
and i’m gonna be alright
and some day
the suns gonna come out shining on me

so long been hanging ’round
i don’t need no one to tie me down
some times i just need to get high
for a while
gonna wait through the lonely days
and some day
the suns gonna come out shining on me

clouds rolling by
like the water in a stream
some times i just need to dream
for a while
i’m gonna wait through these lonely nights
and some day
the suns gonna come out shining on me

music by Ian Reardon
words by Ian Reardon & J. Ferris

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Pendulum

the pendulum, set in motion
moving through and resonating true and free
questions asked, answers found
things may not go your way this round
the spaces between, reveal what’s to be
you’ve become a topic of terrible sadness to me

between each swing of the pendulum are the spaces where the truth hides
acknowledge what you witness and what it is you feel
open to trust intuition
can you not feel what is real

the answer lies within your question
the answer is revealed when you open your mind
i’ve seen your eyes before, like a friend i’ve never known
your presence, you know it soothes my burns and brings me peace

the future is now inevitable
as the pendulum reveals my path
my hands are able, my love is genuine
respect for life, and the ability to rise above the strife

destiny lies entirely within

lyrics by Chris Nelson & Naren Schoenacher

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Fragile Foundation

just a step on the foundation
to crack the image tattered and torn
so to you what’s your solution
as your juggled lies all drop to the ground

for too long
it seems to me
everyones taking everything
they see

lost on a plan til unfolding
to the point of stopping all time
minuets flash a wave of suspension
taken back to thoughts of my home

do you remember
do you see
the whole world’s upside down
on a tightrope
miles from the ground
just look around

words & music by Ian Reardon

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Why are these Pillows following Ye?

driving my car through the hills
thoughts come on and take the wheel
too much of nothing on my mind
when i step on the gas
the thoughts climb away up in to the night

rain drops crashing to the shield
wipers keeping perfect time
when a song comes on and says to me
don’t worry every things gonna be alright with me

words & music by Ian Reardon

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Blanket

walking through a bazaar in the streets of new dheli
i met face to face with a man named mohandi
he whispered so softly as he captured my face
you’d better bring a blanket the world’s a cold place.

i walked on further ignoring the man as his prophecy danced and bewildered my head.

he spoke in a language i was sure i’d never heard
yet somehow i knew i comprehended every word
inches from my ear he whispered in an ancient tongue
the truth became too clear i just had to break and run.

i ran in circles before i realized my goal: to find and to question the silly old fool.

i tried my best to ignore all the things he had said
but the words they kept repeating like a mantra in my head
why had i run, who was this old man
my head began to spin and it was more than i could stand

what was it he meant in doing this so, leaving me digging through conscience and soul
though i searched for days i met only his son and he beat me down and only for fun
for hours i lay with blood in my eye repeatedly asking the same question, “why?”

“what is it you want?” i questioned aloud, “a house on the hill with your very own hound? is it money or power or answers to life, musical freedom or a beautiful wife?”

i lay there and cried as the moon shimmered down, thinking aloud that i must be a clown.

my body had bled but not much more than my soul for my answers in life were yet to unfold. at moments first glance my eye did catch the shadow as the old man’s reflection danced in the window.

scurrying to i found the energy to fall as i screamed to the man in bewildered awe.
with all the energy and strength i had left i stood to my feet gasping for breath.

“you crazy old fool,” i screamed as he ran, feeling the need to learn all that I can.
he was gone from my view as soon as he heard and off he did run like some strange wild bird. i fell to a squat as i cursed him aloud and i realized the box he had left on the ground. Inscribed on the front was a phrase that i knew: uffda/bust v. this was my first clue.

inside the box was a thing of strange kind. a microscopic buzz drum that fucked with your mind, incense and matches and beads galore (my mind was in a flurry i just had to know more) a basket weaving sketchbook, a tribal colored pen, a set of matching pencils and a hairpiece for his chin.

i realized that nothing was as i thought it to be. that crazy old fool, he had forsaken me. i picked up what was left of the pieces of my soul and then on through the market place i did go.

music by Naren Schoenacher, lyrics by Schoenacher & Nelson

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Creatively Losing Expression

i’m high feeling low
lord baby won’t you take it slow
some times when i’m way on down low

it takes time to ease your mind
how you been babe, i’m doing fine
sometimes when i’m way on down low

it’s not my fault you can’t see the picture
lord, pick up your life from where it came
well, it’s hard to be a smooth operator
when the world is hardly looking right

creatively losing expression
outmoded conversation lord what a drag
sometimes when i’m way on down low

you talk big but lose inspiration
lord, frustrated complications take you away
sometimes when your way on down low

words & music by Ian Reardon

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Schlippery

hold on raise your head
one road moving onward
soulless motions running through
forward to the meaning

how long the days i spend to last
go look for the meaning
conscious sanity that’s bound
go look for the answer

every now and then
i feel the need to go out and get lost
out there on a limb
pressing on no matter what the cost
but i stay back instead
finding comfort in my dwelling place
some day though i’ll go
where no one can place my face

nobody knows where i’m going

it’s that time of year
main sail clangs against the mast
you feel it to my dear
are we the first of many or the last
i’m on that train again
wondering if it all will come out right
try to remember when
i could make some sense out of the light

music by Ian Reardon, Naren Shoenacher, & Brad Mehder
words by Ian Reardon & Naren Shoenacher

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Radio Friendley People

radio friendly song
well, i’m a playing it, playing it, playing it, all night long
all night long on the radio

i’m a trustafarian college boy
no need for me to be employed
i got a brand new four wheel ride
well, i think i’ll drink and drive
i only smoke the kind, i only smoke the kind
well, i hold it up to my third eye
well, dad pays the bills, and i think i’ll get swilled
and go and listen to my favorite little

chorus

it’s 4:20 i’ve got no money
i’ve got no pot i’ll steal it without a thought
suburbian rastafarian, you whitebread son of a bitch
jah rasta fari i got some thing in my eye
it’s that psychedelic gleam that makes me so keen
i got a trust fund i’ll steal off of anyone
i’ll steal your stereo
just to listen to my

chorus

well, all my friends in the plastic trentchtown
well, we just a hang around, hang around, hang around whoa !
people drive us to and fro
we give them no money, you know
well, why do you work all day, work all day, work all day
when you can beg
i will sleep on your couch
i will smoke up your pouch
i’ll eat up all your food
and listen to my favorite

chorus

music by Ian Reardon
words by Ian Reardon & Sean Foley

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Cars

cars roll by me at a frightening speed
i wonder if we’ll need ‘em in a hundred years
the journey’s endless there’s no turning back
wheels turn ‘round you try so hard to stay on track

you can look back in the mirror to see where you came from
but what you see roll away can’t be undone
someone stole the sign showing you a dead end street
you take the turn blindly now at a high, deadly speed

you get caught up in everything your so scared of
maybe you put it on yourself in some faraway time somewhere above
lately things don’t happen to work out, just the way you planned
maybe you put it on yourself in some since forgotten place, some other land

your life is moving too fast, gotta slow down and rest
but you say: gotta pick up the pace, gotta keep up with the best
you don’t even know you just put yourself up to the ultimate test
what will it take for you to understand, do you already see

now you’re trapped somewhere you don’t wanna be
gotta go somewhere else got to get yourself free
you don’t know how you got yourself in, all you know for sure got to get yourself out
do you know where you are when the sun comes up, it’s all apart of everything your learning about

hey man haven’t i seen you somewhere before
well i don’t know man, why don’t you tell me a little more
doesn’t it feel like we’ve done this before
maybe so brother, but i sure as hell wouldn’t wanna do it again

had a great time i guess i’ll see you then
i really do hope that we meet again
maybe we’ll stay together forever through both time and space
maybe i’ll see you again my friend in some different place trapped in some other face

there’s a risk involved in everything you do, don’t you worry it’s just you
trying to understand what it’s all about, maybe someday you’ll see it all work out
then one day you come to a place, where those two roads cross
one way you may just find your roots, the other way you find yourself completely lost

music & lyrics by Naren Schoenacher

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Paper Glass

falsified visions stir
compromise is losing hold
in time to be as one
warm light is growing cold

i’ll wake and see the truth
boldly lie in karmic waste
yet still i try to find a way
i hope that i can some day

the world revolves and days fade on
my feelings grow as you waste your time
how can i remain so still
in your eyes a void to fill

all i see a mounting haze a sea of frustration
won’t you read between the lines of communication
focusing a paperglass holding nothing
world on a string
a puppet caste holding on

words & music by Ian Reardon

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Out of the Blue

sit down relax let the time roll pass
you can’t fix your troubles anyway
you feel ok
it’s all gonna change
you’ll laugh and think it’s strange
god only knows it’s just a joke when you don’t win
the game

nothing’s ever good until it’s gone
you never heard the song
all the time i was singing tunes
to an empty room
stained emotions on the floor
wasted words that pour
all my thoughts away, away

i’m not the only one who feels the way i do

out of the blue
you change the way you feel
taken in hand by your own demands of me
catatonic waste
it’s written on my face
the meanings just the same
the words are rearranged
well, i can’t take the time
to justify the line that you crossed
and i’ll be satisfied to be
myself

words & music by Ian Reardon