Lyrics

My Time

(Rip Winkler)

I just want my time

There is a source of all desire and a voice of reason

It’s a wretched night alone or the mess that she’s in

What’s a man to do with a contradicted soul?

It’s the miracle of science, take a half and make a whole

There is a source of all desire and a voice of reason

Any step outside is an act of treason

What’s a man to do when the contradiction’s home

And his prison is the only place he’s free to roam?

Too many voices have found their way into my quietest place

And they keep selling even after I have hung up the phone

A lone detective is searching for clues in invisible space

To find which fantasy is closest to resembling his own

To live in the world he’s imagined now

To inhabit the world he’s imagined

As long as he can

There is a source of all desire and a voice of reason

One minute you’re hot, and the next you’re freezing

What’s a man to do in a world that doesn’t know

That just because you don’t detect it doesn’t mean it doesn’t grow

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Milton’s Widget

(Rip Winkler,Charlie McCluskey)

When I was a young boy plowing in the cornfield, I would wonder

What would become of my life, and then I heard a voice like thunder

The modern equivalent of immaculate conception, the perfect widget

Drafted, designed and all that by yours truly, Milton Morrhedd

Off to see the world

First to Greenland and Portugal

Off to see the world

With my hotel California girl

When I’d come home from school I’d work out all the details til my bedtime

Stretch to the limits the laws of modern physics- vectors, cosines

Built up the prototypes in a bunch of different colors- hot pink, lime green

Till one day there it stood on my desk in all its glory, the perfect widget- and I’m

Off to see the world

Maybe Malta and Senegal

Off to see the world

With my hoed-out catatonia girl

(Hold out catatonia girl)

I sold my widget to Acme Enterprises- cash cow, free now

Signed an agreement for global distribution, I’m famous and how

But I will never rest til there’s one in every household in the whole world

Drafted, designed and all that by yours truly, Milton Morrhedd- and I’m

Off to see the world

Pakistan and Namibia

Off to see the world

With my ecstasized euphoria girl

Off to see the world

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Here In The Moment

(Rip Winkler,Bob Ashley)

Well my friends

And they say my star is rising on a day that never ends

If I mess up, there’s time to make amends

Love my job

In the right place at the right time, and I’m pretty for the mob

Till the chopper with the ladder takes me home

I’m looking out over the harbor and in China, they’re only eating breakfast

Grown- and I’m glad for all I have because there’s so many more who’ll never get this

Open door

If there’s really nothing more, then you will make my day

If you tell me why I’m just ok

Here in the moment everybody is the same

Because once you’ve gotten in the game,

You get to thinking it can never be fair

Ten stories up, you move the world to win a name

But if you’re looking for a reason

It’s not there

Billboard clown

When the bottom’s at the top, the top gets buried underground

Just in case it ever matters, it’s around

Simple pawn

Never even contemplating where his consequence has gone

Not a single thought that he can call his own

But his little sister went to college because he saved up for years to do the right thing

Once there must’ve been a girl he’d die for, but he had to be wrong to practice losing

Open door

If there’s really nothing more, then I will wash your feet

If you tell me why we’re incomplete

Here in the moment everybody is the same

Because once you’ve gotten in the game,

You get to thinking it can never be fair

Down in the street you have to fight for anything,

But if you’re looking for a reason

It’s not there

Everybody’s always doing something

For somebody who is into proving that the moment was there

Here in the moment everybody is the same

Because once you’ve gotten in the game

You get to thinking it can never be fair

By satellite you see the world within a frame

But if you’re looking for an answer…

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Triangulator

(Rip Winkler)

Enter our hero, he’s only looking for adventure

Where you’re safe, where he finds his improbable victim

He knows where it is forbidden, that’s where he can say that anything goes

Where the will is gone, he will be going

Triangulator in the zone

No one hears his heart complaining

Until you reap what he has sown

No one knows just where he stands until you stand alone

Get him alone and he seems like any other person

Til he sees where you’re blind, then he’s sliding in through the keyhole

If they say that God is love, then love is more than anyone knows

He will double down with a weakness showing

Triangulator in the zone

No one hears his heart complaining

Until you reap what he has sown

No one understands his dance until you dance alone

As is such our time and our place in power

We design our minds grafted through the other

Welcoming stranger- you measure a move, he measures

Cards on a table, the move becomes its own

Alternate thunder

Inside the fires glow as they wander around the wreckage

Looking for signs of an order,

And if an order decides upon balancing sides,

Where they find their way to one

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Yellow Pearl

(Rip Winkler,Charlie McCluskey)

He thinks that he has seen it all, but has he met you girl- the Yellow Pearl?

Between Creation and the Fall, there’s only been you girl- the Yellow Pearl

Some things will not be undone by the meek

Big game requires truer-than-tried technique

Tap into elemental girl- the Yellow Pearl

He thinks that he can have it all, but can he have you girl- the Yellow Pearl?

He put his fist into a wall to get to the truth, girl- the Yellow Pearl

This jewel from neither the east nor the west

Your test- to let your best be guessed

Tap into elemental girl- the Yellow Pearl

Lonely and so distracted

And what would his coming home be

If not total absolution in your arms?

Then gently, you lay him to rest

Let him see it shining

One last time

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Retro Girl

(Rip Winkler,Charlie McCluskey)

Retro Girl, loves the Sixties

Loves the Seventies and Eighties too

She digs the clothes, wears the music

Sees it all like it's shiny new

She’ll dig up things that no one else remembers

To make you wish you were the one who thought of it first

She’s out of sync and she knows it

I’m in love with a Retro Girl

Retro Girl, punk and hippie

Disco nights bleed into her days

Just take a look in her closet

Leather plaid purple paisley haze

Just when you think that everything has happened

She finds a way to make it all exciting again

When she’s around, you will know it

I’m in love with a Retro Girl

Maybe she believes time is a department store

Where you can buy the things you truly love

But when she sleeps do her nightmares reveal it all

In dreams of space suits like no one has seen

In all the colors of summer and early fall

Metallic silver and ripe tangerine?

But in the end, all I know is I’m in love with a Retro Girl

Maybe she believes fashion is a timeless game

Meant to annoy the ones who live in now

Retro Girl, digging deep now

Into the nineteenth century

She’s bumping Brahms, wears a corset

Rides a horse to the DMV

Is there a secret to her crazy hipness?

Tomorrow yesterday looks so much cooler than this

But in the end all I know is I’m in love with a Retro Girl

I wanna be with a Retro Girl

A future me and a Retro Girl

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The Things That You Can’t Decide

(Rip Winkler,Charlie McCluskey)

Don’t be outside when the weather comes, ‘cause it’s only gonna get worse from here

There’s nothing that you can do that’s gonna scare it away

And just as sea reflects the sky’s unfaltering gray,

The things you want to hear are not the things I’m going to say

Here it is, the time has come to take a bitter leave, and though

There’s nothing in it for you, well, could you do this for me?

Tell me that it’s beautiful, tell me that it’s fine

Tell me that a feeling can survive for all of time

Tell me when I look for more that no one’s gonna mind

Take it or leave it, in love you live and die by the things that you can’t decide

The things that you can’t decide

For at the bottom, it’s best if you believe there’s nobody on your side

There’s nobody on your side

Somebody had to be who I am in order for this and that to occur in you,

And just as it is for you, it is the same with me

Love can pull you up when you’ve a foot inside the grave

But undefined it’s bound to kill the thing it meant to save

Feeds you to the devil as it puts you on a wave

Take it or leave it, in love you live and die by the things that you can’t decide

The things that you can’t decide

For at the bottom, it’s best if you believe there’s nobody on your side

There’s nobody on your side

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Tough Love

(Rip Winkler,Charlie McCluskey)

Look at you, half dead

With everything you’ve ever wanted

Time has come for paying dues

From push into shove, there is only tough love

Way too high, too low

The note she left on your pillow

No more tears, and no more blues

A fist in a glove, but it’s only tough love

Wake up from living for today

Think up and out and far away

Born again, born to lose

A hawk kills a dove, but it’s only tough love

Tougher than love, but it’s only stronger love

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The Greater Science

(Rip Winkler,Charlie McCluskey)

Hailing in the Aquarian age only to throw yourself away

While you were in fantasy land, you see the suits were making the real play

Rolling God and Devil into one Divine

Ruling metaphysis and the bottom line

Hey now, who is the man, jot this down

How do you make it pay?

You can give it all up to the greater science,

What are you gonna do with your soul?

It’s got the markings of a love affair

Seems you can think of nothing else, and you can dance on air

Give a little love up to the greater science,

Once you get it under control

There is no room for your baggage here

Presence of mind in absence of fear

To be invested in opposite aims, in both the fuel and in the fire

A little pressure smartly applied can build a new, or bring down an empire

You’re a bright-eyed genius and a solid kid

But on this day in time, you have been outbid

Hey now, batten the hatch and stay down

Maybe another day

Give a little love up to the greater science,

What are you gonna do with your soul?

It’s got the markings of a love affair

Seems you can think of nothing else, and you can dance on air

You can pin it all upon the greater science

Once you get it under control

There is no room for your baggage here

Presence of mind in absence of fear

Don’t even try to be original

There’s nothing whole they haven’t seen in pieces before

They want the leap, but there is no way they’re breaking your fall

You say that hope abounds

Does it spill from your golden cup?

I see you slide in from the visible

So disappointed there was nothing left to explore

But we’re only living in the danger of losing it all

You wrote the numbers down

So now let’s see how they all add up

Wake up to the greater science

What are you gonna do with your soul?

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Regroup

(Rip Winkler)

What of I does the question say?

In the tearing down, is the build again?

Once upon a time in a primordial soup

What had come from oneness could regroup

From the cry of the castaway

In that plaintive sound, has there ever been

Any other sky to seize me out of the loop

So all the little splinters can regroup?

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