“Venice Gypsy”              

(This song pretends to be the story of how the vocalist met his wife.)

 

“Talks Too Much”

(This song is about the things we’d like to say to the over-talker in our circle of friends.)

 

“Machu Picchu”

(This song pretends the vocalist is naive enough to vacation in Mogadishu rather than Machu Picchu.)

 

“What an Ass am I”     

(In this song, the vocalist pretends to be Hamlet in a moment of self-reflection.) 

 

“Taps”                        

(This song displays the vocalist as a Steinbeck character who appears to be envying a dead girl.)

 

“Aboriginal Sonnet”       

(This song displays a marriage in trouble.)

 

“Lighthouse Keeper”

(This song narrates the life of a spooky lighthouse keeper.)

 

“Tough Times”             

(This song chronicles just a few of President 45’s buffooneries.)

 

“Brew-Made Booze”

(This beer-glorifying song sounds like it belched itself into existence.)

 

“Cuttlefish”

(This song pretends the vocalist is a squid-like creature called a cuttlefish. Small male cuttlefish cleverly imitate females in order to sneak by bigger males.)

 

“The Ghost of Tom Joad”   

(In this song, the vocalist pretends to be literature’s most famous Okie.)

 

The First Third of "Lot a Lot”                       

Lot, supposedly the only good man in ancient Sodom, proves in this song to be highly over-rated.)

 

“Sir Toby Belch”                  

(This song displays how tricky it is for the vocalist to be friends with Shakespeare’s most notorious party animal.)

 

“Sweet Little Wife of Mine”  

(This song has two voices: Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s. Macbeth wants to fulfill the witches’ prophecy slowly and naturally. Lady Macbeth wants to hurry it along murderously.)

 

“Lenina”                          

(This song displays two Brave New World characters, who have very different notions on sexuality.)

 

“We’ll Be Good” / “Say What?!”                               

(These two unrelated songs are natural E-major blends.  “We’ll be Good” is about space aliens who have put themselves in charge of exterminating unworthy planetary species. “Say What?!” mocks political correctness.)

 

Pursue the Arts, Adolf”

(This song asks people to alter history by complimenting Adolf Hitler’s and Charles Manson’s artfulness.)

 

“Safety Net”

(This song explores a person’s need to feel secure.)

 

“That Caveman Song”

(This song claims to know humanity’s first drummer, a caveman who is reluctant to leave the safety of his cave.)

 

“Due to You”

(With rather silly lyrics, this song gives serious attention to how lucky a guy can be if he wins the heart of the right woman.)

 

“Soulgasm”

(This songs shares impossible hopes that there will be an angel-filled afterlife.)

 

“Punk Balloon”

(This is a break-up song. Technically, it should be called “Punctured Balloon.”)

“Frostbite”

(This song, though written by a male southern Californian, appears to understand how a cold-region female would feel in the dead of winter.)

 

“Area 51”

(This cautionary song describes a woman’s attempt to rescue an incarcerated alien.)

 

“Flamingo”

(This song reveals and rationalizes an awkward, not quite bestial devotion to a graceful, pink bird.)

 

“What Does this Dream Mean?”

(The chords are to blame for the spooky sounds and images in this dreamscape. These dramatic chords are F6, Fm, Fm9, and F7sus4.)

 

“Hippie Eulogy” 

(This song exhumes some of the ups and some of the downs of the ‘60s.)

 

“Typhoon”

(This song is about the wet and wild ride that comes with falling in love with a tempestuous soul-mate.)

 

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