1. An Ounce of Prevention
2. Chains
3. The Denouement
4. Dumped For A Girl
5. Geriatric Girl
6. Hold On
7. Ode To The Road
8. One Solution, Revolution
9. Pygmalion
10. The Power Of One
An Ounce of Prevention
His wife’s frail shallow grave, so close to their
humble home.
No strength left to expend on the dead.
She should be with her children
In the graveyard by the woods.
It’s hard to believe that it’s you and me
Who had a helping hand in helping people die.
Chorus
Prevention is the best cure.
It’s time to get out and fight.
Prevention is the best cure
It’s time to get out and fight.
His eyes stare into the lens of a nation.
Expressionless because he knows
that soon he must die. A life spent working for
nothing.
Nothing but dreams and lies.
As rivers and hopes run dry,
memories wet his eyes.
Days in open fields and nights
under a blanket of stars.
Prevention is the best cure
It’s time to get out and fight.
Chains
She was freedom, I was in chains,
She slipped away, there’s only one man to blame.
The hour came and went, I watched it go by,
No consolation for a man who didn’t try.
Goodbye opportunity, Hello broken dreams,
Maybe I’ll hit the open road, like diamonds she
gleams.
I can’t seem to remember ever feeling this low,
I know that I have but it was a long time ago.
Chorus
Saved me from myself, she’s my social queen,
Let’s go out drinkin’ tonight and see what life means.
My fighting spirit’s back, redemption is her name,
We’ve go nothing to lose but these chains.
Like Montezuma’s children we’re all being misled.
The system serves the few, the system is Cortes.
My fighting spirit’s back, redemption is her name,
We’ve got nothing to lose but these chains.
Chorus
The Dénouement
We said our goodbyes and she clung onto me
Like I was a life buoy our parting the sea
What more can one ask for than to be loved like this
In sorrow there’s often some bliss
Emptiness in the most beautiful acts
Cannot be seen ‘til after the fact
The beauty still lingers on past its death
Towards the dénouement.
Burn awhile longer my flickering flame
Soon the darkness will keep us from saying
All that we meant to but we were just too shy
It’s too late once you’ve said that goodbye
The making of men is in adversity
Sometimes I think that in times like these
It’s all just a test the confusion’s untrue
Don’t panic, you’ll know what to do.
Dumped for a Girl
She says she feels freer than ever before
She says she feels more like a woman than ever before
He should have seen the signs, He should have seen the
light
But it’s all water under the bridge
tonight…tonight…tonight…tonight…
She does things that he could never do
She does things that only a woman can do
They could have a manage a trois, if only he played
his cards right
But it’s all water under the bridge tonight…
tonight…tonight…tonight…
He shouldn’t feel bad for being her last man
He shouldn’t feel bad for being something she can’t
stand
He got dumped for a girl Poor bastard feels like shite
But it’s all….
But it’s all…
Geriatric Girl
Stay with me tonight cheri
And in the morning instead of hungover you’ll
Wake up feeling satisfied.
Instead of that cereal that only makes you shit
For breakfast we’re gonna eat a big
Banana split
I’m talkin’ six scoops of ice cream, three bananas
A shit load of chocolate syrup served up in a
A big red bowl, one spoon between us.
Chorus
But isn’t it a better way
Isn’t it a better way to
Isn’t it a better way to live.
And then I’ll playfully suggest
That we go back to bed, get covered in chocolate
syrup,
Spend the day just lickin’ it off of each other
You’ll laugh at my boyishness
And thank me for the tempting offer but insist
We gotta go to work
Chorus
Live for tonight ‘cause tomorrow never comes
And I’m only
Hangin’ on by a thread
Talk to me for a little while longer it’s been
A long time since I last saw you and you know
(chorus chords)
You’re my favorite little
You know you’re my favorite little
You’re my favorite little geriatric girl.
Hold On
Chorus
Hold on, Hold on, yea
To that vision until it is formed
It’s blurry but it’s there
I can see it, I can feel it, I can taste it,
I can hold it in my mind and play with it
But it’s far from real right now
Chorus
The clock ticks past the mdinight hour
I’m still wide awake
Drinking soothes my bitter nerves
But the dawn is far from real right now
Chorus
Bridge
Chorus
Red Velvet Revolution is getting all the flak
Patience is a virtue and no band’s a saint
Fire it up and burn it long
We’re gonna be here, be here for a while.
Ode to the Road
I write a song while I’m here with nothing else to do
It probably won’t turn out right it probably won’t be
very good
But with all the mass-produced, cultural tripe, that
fools and dupes adore alike
Honesty shines through ignorance like stars in the
night.
I drink a drink while I’m here. I’m waitin’ round for
you
You’re late again as usual you’re playing me for a
fool
But what you give is what you get, man, and I’ve been
giving it to myself,
And when I’m so down-and-out lonely tired she’s the
only one that helps.
But I will hold my head and hold it high. Fuck ‘em
all and never die.
I’ve been through worse than this and I can still hold
a smile
I’m so young and foolish and it’s so hard to settle
down
But why the hell would I the road’s my home, my poem,
my love, my song.
One Solution, Revolution
One more scene in this tragic play
Queuing up for donuts in December rain
They should be queuing up for a brand new brain
It all makes me wonder why the hell I pay
Taxes to keep the elites alive
God forbid that they should die
It feels like I’m only just getting by
Give us strength lord we need to rise
Chorus
Fuck the elites they’re easy to replace, easier than
me and you
Take it all back, take it from The Man, take it from
the hands of the few
(1st) I’d rather die upon my feet than to live upon my
knees
(2nd) You’re fear of dying has kept you from living
it’s time to stop taking and time to start
giving
Awareness leads to autonomy. There’s one solution.
Revolution.
He passed his law in the middle of the night
Before the people had their right
To say something maybe get out and fight
The masses don’t care but maybe they might
If you cut off their cable cut out their tongues
The corporation’s hungry just feed it the young
Our golden apples of the sun
It’s a matter of time before the planet burns
Pygmalion
Pyg’s had it with girls he can’t take it no more
Magazines and Vaseline, Pyg’s become a bore
Took a subway eastbound got off on Yonge
It’s when you least expect it that you fall in love.
She was perfect in every regard
Lips always open but never a sound
Sky blue eyes cheeks rose petal red
Oh how he adored her inflatable head!
He called her Liz and got down to the biz
Pyg’s infatuation became obscene
Liz was every perverts dream
Days passed by, he couldn’t leave her plastic side.
He found a life-giving potion on the internet
Concocted it up and poured it down her neck
Her breasts turned soft her nipples stayed hard
Her lips were moist, her nails like shards.
At first Liz was amoured by Pyg’s constant affection
What girl doesn’t like flowers, poems, and attention?
Until at a party it all came to a head
Liz realized Pyg was socially retarded.
She broke it off with poise and grace
But Pyg was livid enraged he paced
And screamed “Fetch my slippers! I am your creator!”
Liz was scared. She thought that he might hit her.
But Liz held strong and stuck up for her rights
She wouldn’t succumb to his cowardly fight
She told him straight out where he’d gone wrong.
A confident woman is what he needed all along
“Liz won’t you come back to me.”
“Liz won’t you come back to me.”
“Liz won’t you come back to me.”
“Liz won’t you come back?”
“No.”
The Power of One
It could’ve been different, it could’ve been sweet
Put your money in the fire, for a new kind of heat
Slow it down nice, break through the glass ceiling
Forget what they’ve taught you, and go with your
feelings
Break the banks, break the power of religion
I’ve got faith in myself, there’s freedom in wisdom
Hearts are gonna mend, when minds replace guns.
There’s power in numbers, it’s the power of one.
Chorus
Gotta stand up, gotta get together
Show them how you feel, and change it forever
Men declare war, boys go and fight
Soon children are dying, in the dead of the night
Shout it out loud, or scream better still
You may lose your voice, but never your will
Hearts are gonna mend, when minds replace guns.
There’s power in numbers, it’s the power of one.
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