Head Down

When life throws you to the ground

Keep your head down and you'll get through it

When your luck is fading and your chips are down

Keep your head down and you'l get through it

When you're tired of waiting and no answers are found

Keep your head down and you'll get through it

When constant rejection is the only sound

Keep your head down and you'll get through it

'Life's a bitch and then you die'

The clarion call of the over-trivialized

Cynics and hipsters that forever frown

And if you let them, they will drag you down

They live to be miserable, belittle and mock

But in their rantings, don't take much stock

They want the drama cause they love to act

Emotion's more important than logic or fact

Let them make their bad choices and let it

Go, go, go, go

They're always be in need of a helping hand just

Go, go, go, go

Or they'll pull you down with them like a drowning man don't

Go, go, go, go

They need to find their own two legs and stand so

Go, go, go, go

When life throws you to the ground

Keep your head down and you'll get through it

When your luck is fading and your chips are down

Keep your head down and you'l get through it

When you're tired of waiting and no answers are found

Keep your head down and you'll get through it

When constant rejection is the only sound

Keep your head down and you'll get through it

 

Let them make their bad choices and let it

Go, go, go, go

They're always be in need of a helping hand just

Go, go, go, go

Or they'll pull you down with them like a drowning man don't

Go, go, go, go

They need to find their own two legs and stand so

Go, go, go, go

*recording notes - Music recorded in Pro-Tools.  Guitar was a Schecter Damian 7-string.  Sansamp in Pro-Tools for the distortion.  Zoom 234 for drums, direct line recorded.  EB-0 for bass.  Recorded vocals in Ardour using a Heil PR-20 in my car, on the overlook up the road from Dirt Fish Rally School.

Breathe

When each day feels like it's worse than the one before

When you're running on empty and everyone wants to take more, more, more

Can we just take a minute to breathe?

To beat them, you have to put your nose to the grindstone and repeat

I'm not giving up

Not giving up

Giving up my dreams

It doesn't matter

What they say

They're just fragile

and so afraid

It makes them lash out

It makes them cruel

But in the end

They're just your tool

When you feel like your life is no longer your own

When every hour of every day is spent for others, even when you're home

Can we just take a minute to breathe?

Learn to take time out for yourself and repeat

I'm not giving up

Not giving up

Giving up my dreams

When pressure builds in your temples it feels like time has slowed

When you feel like one wrong word from someone and you're going to explode

Can we just take a minute to breathe?

Don't waste your time on them, just remember to repeat

I'm not giving up

Not giving up

Giving up my dreams

It doesn't matter

What they say

They're just fragile

and so afraid

It makes them lash out

It makes them cruel

But in the end

They're just your tool

*recording notes - Music recorded in M-Audio version of Pro-Tools.  Drums mapped individually from Zoom 234, drum bank 4, one hit at a time, then the drum beat was created inside Pro-Tools.  Bass was direct line recorded with an EB-0.  Guitar was a Dillon acoustic/electric guitar, using Sansamp distortion in Pro-Tools.  Vocals were recorded in the upper parking lot of Snoqualmie Falls, in my 2009 Ford Focus, using a Heil PR-90 in Ardour through an M-Audio Fast Track. 

The Road I've Traveled

And the road I've traveled

Well it keeps me hanging on

And I don't stop for nothing

Just a learning right from wrong

Life will stop for no one

and you will never sleep

Unless we search for answers 

Already at our feet, yeah

Doesn't matter what I do

Or where I stay, I'm always

Anxious to keep moving on, moving on

This never-ending unrest burdens me

It's like an hour glass in my soul

driving me forever onward

I see my face in the mirror getting older

Seasons passing as I blink my eyes

And still this restlessness tears at me

And no matter how far I run, I know I can't hide

I gotta go!

My soul screams at me

Am I running from myself?

I don't know

This just can't be

The only life I have

The only thing I know is I just

gotta go, gotta go, gotta go!

I've gotta go!

*Recording details: I used my Dillon acoustic/electric guitar direct line into Pro Tools.  The distortion on the acoustic is the native Pro Tools Sansamp, Rockstar setting.  I used an EB-0 bass direct line into Pro Tools, and the drums are from a kit I created using the 4th kit on my Zoom ...234 drum machine, sampling each piece individual into Pro Tools and laying them that way.  I used a Heil PR-20 for vocals in 2012 for Tom and then again in 2015 for myself when I completed the song using my car as a vocal booth. 

Poser

Think you're different, pretend you're bad
Think you're edgy, you're so sad
Anti-corporate, anti-greed
You prop up both with whiney need

Want handouts?
cause you're a poser
Try to stand out
cause you're a poser
you lean left
cause you're a poser
you're not a punk
you fucking poser

Support big unions and their greed
Spit talking points for going green
Hate on people that succeed
You're just a hipster wannabe

Want handouts?
cause you're a poser
Try to stand out
cause you're a poser
you lean left
cause you're a poser
you're not a punk
you fucking poser

You can't speak truth to power
when you're the one that's in power
You tell me you believe in hope
Anarchist?  What a joke

Want handouts?
cause you're a poser
Try to stand out
cause you're a poser
you lean left
cause you're a poser
you're not a punk
you fucking poser

*Recording Details: After buying a cheap Estaban G-10 practice amp, I decided to record all the punk rock songs that weren't attached to my Anti-Social(ist) playlist with the amp.  I used my Heil PR-20 to record the amp in Ardour through my M-Audio Fast Track.  I never even reached 1 on the volume and recorded it fairly quietly.  I'm pretty happy how it turned out.  I wanted a sort of tinnish overdrive for the mid-80's punk sound.  I recorded vocals with my Heil PR-20, using my car as a vocal booth.  I recorded bass through my Multi Track into Ardour.   I redid the drums in Hydrogen, mostly using the standard kit with a few exceptions. 

Just Scratching the Surface

Supported and expanded Bush's unconstitutional Patriot Act.  And then had four US citizens killed without judicial process.

Ordered private company, Boeing, to shut down and then fire 1,000 non-union employees.

Was fast and furious to put guns into criminal hands, ending in the murder of US Border Patrol Agent, Brian Terry.

Fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin for discovering his friend, mayor Kevin Johnson, had embezzled government funds.

Gave tax dollars to campaign contributors and lobbyists claiming it was for 'green energy', and rewarded others with high paying federal jobs.

Had armed SWAT agents raid a law-abiding guitar factory, Gibson, because it was owned by a Republican.

Forced banks to give mortgages to people who couldn't afford them, and collected $23,000 in legal fees for himself for doing so.

Ordered military to stand down while Benghazi consulate was under attack, resulting in 4 American deaths that could've been prevented.

We voted for death by hope.

(Just think, that clock was $10 trillion when Obama took office... a number he said was irresponsible and unpatriotic.  What does that make the current number?)

*Recording Details: After buying a cheap Estaban G-10 practice amp, I decided to record all the punk rock songs that weren't attached to my Anti-Social(ist) playlist with the amp.  I used my Heil PR-20 to record the amp in Ardour through my M-Audio Fast Track.  I never even reached 1 on the volume and recorded it fairly quietly.  I'm pretty happy how it turned out.  I wanted a sort of tinnish overdrive for the mid-80's punk sound.  I recorded vocals with my Heil PR-20, using my car as a vocal booth.  I recorded bass through my Multi Track into Ardour.   I redid the drums in Hydrogen, mostly using the standard kit with a few exceptions. 

Lost

Why
Would
You

Why would you do the things you do?
When you know it's bad for you?
Refuse to fix youself and mend
The wedge between family and friends
You can run but can't change your past
How long do you think you'll really last?
This is what happens when you mix up love and lust

*Recording Details: After buying a cheap Estaban G-10 practice amp, I decided to record all the punk rock songs that weren't attached to my Anti-Social(ist) playlist with the amp.  I used my Heil PR-20 to record the amp in Ardour through my M-Audio Fast Track.  I never even reached 1 on the volume and recorded it fairly quietly.  I'm pretty happy how it turned out.  I wanted a sort of tinnish overdrive for the mid-80's punk sound.  I recorded vocals with my Heil PR-20, using my car as a vocal booth.  I recorded bass through my Multi Track into Ardour.   I redid the drums in Hydrogen, mostly using the standard kit with a few exceptions. 

Lying Liar Who Lies

You turn to me when I say to you
And try to tell you that I'll be true
You left me without a goodbye
Told friends I left you alone to cry
Now all my friends are mad at me
Even though you're the one who left me
It was hard enough when you hurt my pride
But why'd you go and make up lies?

A lying liar who lies
A lying liar who lies
A lying liar who lies
A lying liar who lies

So I moved away, and I moved along
Even though I was the one who was wronged
Found new friends and a new place
My heart was healing, life was great
I picked up, started over again
Then you contacted my new friends
Made up more lies about me
What's your problem?! You left me!

A lying liar who lies
A lying liar who lies
You're a lying liar who lies
A lying liar who lies

*Recording Details: After buying a cheap Estaban G-10 practice amp, I decided to record all the punk rock songs that weren't attached to my Anti-Social(ist) playlist with the amp.  I used my Heil PR-20 to record the amp in Ardour through my M-Audio Fast Track.  I never even reached 1 on the volume and recorded it fairly quietly.  I'm pretty happy how it turned out.  I wanted a sort of tinnish overdrive for the mid-80's punk sound.  I recorded vocals with my Heil PR-20, using my car as a vocal booth.  I recorded bass through my Multi Track into Ardour.   I redid the drums in Hydrogen, mostly using the standard kit with a few exceptions.