* * * LYRICS * * *
AND A SMILE
Life is just a minuet, a pirouette, a silhouette
Don’t forget to place your bets on kindness and a smile.
Puppy-bellied bumble bees, runny nose, and dirty knees
Say thank you, thank you, yes, and please
To kindness and a smile.
Cuz only sunshine dries the rain.
Only love and kindness heal the pain.
Life is just a do-se-do, now you’re here, then you go
Every livin’ body knows the kindness of a smile.
All the friends we haven’t met, the fun that hasn’t happened yet,
Don’t you know it’s as good as it gets when you give someone a smile.
LIFE IS LIKE
C’mon kids, let’s get outside. Outta the cage into the sweet sunshine.
There’s stuff out here we just can’t find online.
It’s like life is living life...I love it.
We’re made of cake and rain and thunderbolts.
It’s sweet to taste the wind and waterfall,
Same heart in every human animal.
It’s like live is living life, It’s like life is giving life.
C’mon we are the ones reflecting sun, we are star shine.
We got the muscle yeah we got the nerve,
It’s fun to run and feel the wind in your fur.
No need to be afraid of what you’ve heard.
It’s just life is living life, c’mon now.
We’re done with doomsday, yeah we need some fun
We’re gonna kick it out to everyone, spinnin’ together at the speed of love,
It’s like life is living life, It’s like life is spinning life.
C’mon we are the ones reflecting love, we are star shine.
C’mon c’mon we are the sun, we are sun star shine.
I WILL BE WITH YOU
When the cold winds blow, and the lightening strikes,
and the training wheels fall off your bike, I will be with you.
When there’s just no hope and you’re out of rope
and you start to slip down a big black slope, I will be with you.
When the sun doesn’t shine all around you but you smile,
That’s exactly when I will return.
When the monsters come and you’re scared to death,
And you just can’t move cuz you got no breath, I will be with you.
If you close your eyes you will understand,
If you just reach out you will feel my hand, and I will be with you.
INCLUDING STU
Stu was a kind boy grew up in our little town,
Loved to dress up like an actress in the movies at dad’s theater,
where Stu ran sight and sound.
But oh boy, how were we to know?
just how our native son could grow.
Slowly Stu unfolded as a sweet transgender man,
His heart remained the same to us, though some don’t understand.
But oh lord, who are we to say?
We’re all doing our best just trying to make our way, yeah.
But it seemed the world wasn’t ready for the first transgender mayor,
‘til a handful of out-of-town evangelicals came protesting in prayer.
Well they shouted and spat, and they held signs that said, “God hates fags!”
and “God hates Stu!” “And while we’re at it brother, God might even hate you, too!”
We couldn’t take it anymore..
So grandpa put a dress on, and Granny had on Gramp’s pants.
Then the whole town joined in to show that clothes don’t really make the human.
200 men, women, and children dressed in drag, yeah
And Grandma sang out loud and true, she said, “Doesn’t your God love everyone
Including you?” “C’mon!”, she said, “Now God bless everyOne of us,
Including Stu”
Stu’s still that kind boy and he’s the mayor of our town.
HOPE AND KINDNESS
Oh, all of us will make it and hope and kindness will take us there.
Lemurs, nuns, and monkeys, they all know it’s better when we all share.
I believe in Jesus and anyone who is kind and fair.
Love is as bright as the sun in the sky,
And love is the light in your eye.
Oh, love is all around us, the sweet gas of laughter is everywhere.
Heaven knows we blow it, and nobody wins when we don’t play fair.
Fear will just defeat us, but hope and kindness will take us there.
SOLDIERS
Dona Nobis Pacem
On the far side of the earth there is a mirror,
And it’s so big the kids there look back over here.
They watch us eat and play they see we’re just the same so,
They wrote a song let’s sing along and let the world know
We don’t wanna be soldiers when we grow up, no sir, no way.
We don’t wanna kill strangers they’re only neighbors we haven’t met yet,
Give ‘em a chance we could become best friends.
So we don’t wanna be soldiers when we grow up.
Should poor boys and girls have to murder just to earn their dinner?
Cuz hunting humans is the job when pulling triggers.
Those soldiers’ bullets hit us kids they hit our mothers,
And the D.U. bombs they drop kill dads and tons of brothers.
So we can’t fight for peace cuz war is never ending,
We kill two soldiers then ten more will come revenging.
The smartest leaders say non-violence is the only way,
And as we learn to share the world we see that peace is here to stay.
So we’re not gonna be soldiers when we grow up.
Cuz there are no enemies, now we can see each other’s dreams.
And the birds, the bees, the trees, the air, the fruits of love are everywhere,
Cuz love is meant for everyone to share.
Peace is a cake we all bake together, sugar. peace is a cake we all share.
BEAUTIFUL
If you wanna feel beautiful
Look for the beauty in someone else,
Cuz our eyes are just mirrors
Reflecting off their tears and their smiles.
And if you wanna be loved,
Send your love out to everyone.
Love’s just a boomerang,
Doesn’t come back ‘til you give it wings.
Crack open that crazy heart,
Open super wide and super good’ll fall inside.
Now all hearts combine
So open and wide,
Love can’t help but find us,
Love can’t help but shine.
Oh, how a kind heart shines.
WORKAHOLICS AND CONTROL FREAKS
Late the other night something weird occurred to me,
Maybe everything we do is not the way it’s supposed to be.
Confusing all our paths just to manifest our destiny,
Now I don’t really know but i’m pretty sure that
As workaholics and control freaks we might be trying to hide from something.
Got to get a job find some work or some employment,
Everybody tries to tell me it will lead to some enjoyment.
Later on when I got money I can buy a little time,
But if I wanted to buy time why did I have to stand in line
Just like a workaholic or a control freak who might be trying to hide from something.
It’s a short drop down to the cold cold ground,
We only get so many gulps of air.
But every road could lead to a life so sweet,
If we could see we’re already there.
My honey she’s a doctor, lawyer, teacher, and a novel writer,
I look in her eyes and i can see a little sad inside her.
Baby, baby, baby got to run a little faster now,
I don’t really know but I wouldn’t put it past her
If she’s a workaholic and a control freak and she’s trying to hide from something.
Workaholics and control freaks, we’re all trying to hide from something.
NEW DAY
Hey, there’s a new day comin’
Might be hard just to imagine
But Imagine if it did.
A return to a world of wonder,
Everybody’s sheltered under
From the codger to the kid.
And the sun will shine,
And the birds will sing.
Cuz sister, yes there’s a new day coming,
No more bitchin’ no more bummin’
Laughter’s spillin’ out the lid.
No one knows when their last day’s comin’
Would we quit the fuss of nothin’
And have more fun because we did?
No more sad hard times,
Everybody eats,
The air and water’s clean.
Yes, there’s a new day comin’,
And it doesn’t really matter what you do or what ya did.
Don’t cha know there’s a new world comin’
And it’s time to stop from runnin’ from the way we’ve always been.
We were made in love,
We were born to love.
We’re a song of love.
I said that hey, there’s a new day comin’,
Don’t ya know, there’s a new world comin’.
Sister yes, there’s a new day comin’,
Might be hard just to imagine,
But imagine if it did.
THE SUN IS ALWAYS SHINING
We think the universe is such a friendly place
We see no enemies and so we’re free to find the kindly space,
Where we can all pull together ‘til we pull this whole thing off
Yeah, if we each lift a pebble we won’t have to blast the mountain top.
Happy smiling super challenge wish upon a star show,
Everybody’s super balanced peace is a go.
I’ve got two cookies so I’m giving one away,
Cuz everything tastes better when we share like water, air, and cake.
We’ve shared the dirt and air with Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, and Mohammed,
Mary Magdalene, Gandhi, and King, Rosa Parks and sweet John Lennon.
And when the sun shines (the sun is always shining),
The sun shines on everyone.
Yeah, when the sun shines (the sun is always shining),
Sunlight shines a mighty smile on everyone.
Fun monk he told me we are all here through the kindness of another,
So pass it on just like a song from one brother to another.
Yeah, we are all fellow travelers making our way ‘round the same sun,
Teacher, doctor, nun, mother, trucker, fireman,
It’s one for all and all for one.
Sunlight shines a mighty smile on everyone...
SWEETER
I had myself a dream that I could fly over mountains,
Soar through the valleys in the heat of the summer.
I tasted the sun and then I danced with an eagle.
The fruit is always sweeter than the wine.
Out near the barn where they keep my favorite filly,
I tear down the fence and let her run off to nowhere.
Who says you have to pay a price for your freedom?
The fruit is always sweeter than the wine.
Sometimes late at night when we remember we’re children,
And the skies are full of wildness and the world is stuffed with wonder,
Who says that every single question needs an answer?
The fruit is always sweeter than the wine.
If emptiness is happiness then I’m just good for nothin’,
Drunker than an angel on a barstool out in heaven.
Now who says that life has got to be a destination?
The fruit is always sweeter than the wine.
GRANITE
The moonlight on the mountain makes the granite look like snow.
The moonlight on the mountain makes the granite look like snow.
One hundred miles behind me and a hundred more to go.
Cities swallow rivers and they spit ‘em out to sea,
Them ol’ cities swallow rivers and spit ‘em out to sea.
They may gobble up the landscape, they won’t get their teeth in me.
I saw a politician on the back end of a train.
I heard a politician on the back end of a train.
He just left a trail of smoke, I never saw that man again.
NUNDERWEAR
Well they tried to clone Jesus from the shroud of Turin.
But the test tube was tainted with that patented Monsanto sin.
All the tabloids proclaimed Him: Genesus, Lord of the Fly,
And he performed every Sunday in his very own lingerie line.
Singin’ “Nunderwear, get into the habit,
The threads next to godliness.
Buy my Nunderwear, I confess you can grab it,
Cuz these sisters’ knickers won’t twist.”
He became a sinsation, at www.genesus.com
For He was hung like the devil,
And Oprah swears Nunderwear’s number one.
Then He became Lord of Wall Street, his prophets bought up the world.
And He said, “Now will you listen to what you’ve never heard?
Now may I have just a word?”
“Love’s the shit, love’s the bomb, love’s the only salvation
Love’s all I was trying to say.
Love each other, you mothers, before it’s all over,
Be you redneck or hippie or born-again gay.”
‘Twas a crossbow that nailed him, just when springtime had come,
In his Genesus brand speedo, sluggin’ down His Beelzebub Rum.
I heard Him singin’~
“Love’s the shit, love’s the bomb, love’s the only salvation
Love’s all I was trying to say. So hey, buy my Nunderwear,
And slip in to the habit, cuz these sisters’ knickers won’t twist or fray,
No these sisters’ knickers won’t twist.”
Hallelujah.
WE KNOW WE KNOW
I would take over four years,
To reach the nearest star at light speed.
Great big brains and clever minds,
And there’s so much we think we think we
Know we know we know we know.
No way to know way no way no way there’s,
No way to know...
TWEEKIN’ TONIGHT
Warm and dry summer wind,
Moon’s crawlin’ over the bend,
Strangers are talking with friends,
They’re all feelin’ alright.
So why does is feel like everyone’s tweekin’ tonight?
Thought I’ve not said a word,
There’s a lot that I’ve heard.
Lips keep on flappin’ like birds,
That got lost in the night.
Sure enough seems like everyone’s tweekin’ tonight.
I swear it still feels like everyone’s tweekin’ tonight.
Maybe I’m just too slow,
Any speed that I go,
Trying just to let it all flow,
Let ‘em pass on the right.
Warm and dry summer wind.