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Fool's Parade
05:23
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Fool's Parade
Take your turn in line
Do not hesitate
Have you made up your mind
On how to negotiate
The order of which your name will appear
How fast will all your worries disappear
Join the fool's parade
Join the mighty parade
Join the ever-growing parade of fools
Coming back for more
Of the same old farce
Since you liked it before
You get to go to Mars
With all the blessings of the family
For sure it’s satisfaction guaranteed
Join the fool's parade
Join the mighty parade
Join the ever-growing parade of fools
We make the rich much richer
And the poor more miserable
Really, we don’t like anyone
We prefer war
We must assume total control
To save you all
From the pact that you’ve made
With the evils
Of your living hell
Tired of feeling small
Tired of walking blind
You have answered the call
You must have read our minds
Go enjoy your fifteen minutes of fame
It’s our pleasure to see you rip the place
Join the fool's parade
Join the mighty parade
Join the ever-growing parade of fools
© 2006 US Copyright Office
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2. |
Say Goodbye
04:39
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Say Goodbye
He turns around
Pulls out a cigarette
A shadow dancing off the light
It must be done
Flashes across his head
Some will dodge
Some will lie
Some just pay the price
Oh my, oh my mind
Don’t you know when it’s time to say goodbye
The air is thick
With the sweat of the night
A song echoes in the alley
A voice is heard from across in the dark
Someone shouts
Someone cries
Someone walks away
Oh my, oh my mind
Don’t you know when it’s time to say goodbye
Punch and Judy
Have been served by the man in grey
Cold and surgical
Is the blade that lies on the tray
He turns around
Pulls out a cigarette
A shadow dancing off the light
It must be done
Flashes across his head
Some will dodge
Some will lie
Some just pay the price
Oh my, oh my mind
Don’t you know when it’s time to say goodbye
Punch and Judy
Have been served by the man in grey
Cold and surgical
Is the blade that lies on the tray
Oh my, oh my mind
Don’t you know when it’s time to say goodbye
©2006 US Copyright Office
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3. |
Into The Fire
04:59
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Into the Fire
A strong wind was blowing
Over the San Francisco Bay
Indicating a major change
As if with it you just had sailed away
As if your soul had lifted from this space
The road that was open
Has become a crowded highway
A gridlock to the last frontier
Elephants to their final resting place
Winnebagos to their junkyard fate
With our heads deep in the sand
We are never satisfied
An air-conditioned nightmare ride
Takes us into the sun
Straight into the fire
A fusing final embrace
To become part of the blaze
A fork in the system
Away from the tried and true
Takes me to the unbeaten end
Allowing me to reconnect with you
It seems our love is spreading out its roots
It seems the world is turning round again
© 2006 US Copyright Office
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4. |
Let It Out
06:03
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Let It Out
Let it out
Unleash the burning ache
The time has come
For all to share the blame
Most of us have had enough
Of the precious few
That plunder away our supplies
While playing the game
Of distorting the truth
Let it out
Turn up the silent scream
Don’t run away
From the smoke of that screen
The end can never justify
The evil of these wars
It takes a fool to glorify
The genocidal nature
Of these calls
It doesn’t take a revolution
Don’t let them make you
Believe it’s a crime
To speak an open mind
To walk tall and proud
Without the blinds
To share a common ground
Though empowered as one
Without the fights
Let it out
The internalized pain
The guilt you feel
Was infused in your brain
Time for us
To step away
From the central stage
This fool has been made a display
But this fool has come forward
To turn the page
It doesn’t take a revolution
Don’t let them make you
Believe it’s a crime
To speak an open mind
To walk tall and proud
Without the blinds
To share a common ground
Though empowered as one
Without the fights
©2006 US Copyright Office
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5. |
Starless Night
06:40
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Starless Night
A danger space
Lethal embrace
Ensnaring your mind
Has weakened your defenses
A word is said
Sweet poison laced
Confusing the lines
That define your existence
You must open your eyes
To allow in the lights
Let the rainbow spread its hues across the sky
Of this starless night
A gripping sense of loneliness
A penetrating fear
Transgresses the chain of power
To fall the prey to emptiness
One has to set the pace
The script is carefully tailored
You shouldn’t pay the price
If you didn’t tell a lie
You must free the voice
That once sang to the child
At the edge of night
A danger space
Lethal embrace
Ensnaring your mind
Has weakened your defenses
A word is said
Sweet poison laced
Confusing the lines
That define your existence
You must open your eyes
To allow in the lights
Let the rainbow spread its hues across the sky
Of this starless night
©2006 US Copyright Office
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6. |
History
05:02
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History
There will be time to assess the crimes
From how many angles can you tell a lie
For now we need answers to the damage done
Swing around this unprecedented blight
Sift through the ashes, spread out the smoldering pile
There was the war that ended them all
Before you knew it the Nazis walked tall
Who says history never repeats
When old men in suits drum in the beat
No surprise when some of us can barely read
The sick, the weak, the destitute
What are you gonna do about it
The corrupt, the greedy, the criminal
What are you gonna do about that
The war and the death of innocents
What are you gonna do about it
The terror that’s real and the terror that’s fake
What are you gonna do about that
The outresourcing and the national debt
What are you gonna do about it
Politics with a religious bent
What are you gonna do about that
There is the guideline and there is the law
One aims to protect, one’s for control
We play with various forms of slavery
Sweeping from torture to psychology
Maybe it’s time to rewrite this parody
The sick, the weak, the destitute…
© 2006 US Copyright Office
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7. |
Fluid
06:12
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8. |
Sandman's Lot
07:30
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Sandman’s Lot
The father’s is on the loose
The mother’s fattening (fattening)
One kid’s a mall rat
The other’s on crack
That’s the theme
Still searching for the American Dream
Spreading like whores before their lying pimps
The neighbor has a ride
That does nearly a pint to the mile
At Sunday gas-up
It takes a Benjamin to fuel his pride
Five days a week for a weekend drive
Plus three extra nights to feed the credit line
But dear, don’t you cry
They voted for a man they could trust
So wipe out the tear from your eye
They’re cruising on their plasma high
Uncle Harry has gotten nasty
With the little girls
He’s got his sticky fingers way up too many skirts
Nobody dares to face such a fine Christian man
Plus Harry’s got a mean streak on a par
With the slime
The nation’s got an issue
With the foreign labor force
It seems it’s taking all the shitty work
From these mighty shores
The money isn’t worth the price of its paper base
Plus half the time its value is caught in cyberspace
So dear, don’t you cry
What you see is not worth your while
They’re playing in the lot of the sandman
Not guessing they’ve trashed the Promised Land
© 2006 US Copyright Office
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9. |
The Rejected
05:51
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The Rejected
He walks along the street
Avoiding the sunny side
Like a man with nothing left behind
Soon he’ll make the corner
Options to the right or left
Does it really matter?
When the past haunts you down
No time to make up your mind
Then alright, you take your chances
Maybe the road will open wide
It comes down to a few nuances
Could a change be realized at last?
There used to be a time when you had it made
Nothing could come in the way
There was a certain friend
With a strange look in his eyes
Nobody paid attention
One morning came to rise
From the ashes of his life
A small amount in daily doses
A discreet switching of the hands
Completed a final swap of places
In the body of a different man
There are voices in the alley calling his name
Come forward and meet the powers of this god forsaken place
Come to the nightmare
Of the lost and the rejected
She once was a beautiful girl
With a smile to spare
She took many breaths away
Now she lies down
A broken nose, no teeth
Smacked out of her head
Dying in the alley
Nobody seems to care
When joy is in the air
You simply look the other way
You block it out like you have been trained
Thanks to the few who mind enough
To volunteer for the rejected
There are voices in the alley calling her name
Come forward and meet the powers of this god forsaken place
Come to the nightmare
Of the lost and the rejected, the neglected, the dejected…
© 2006 US Copyright Office
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10. |
For Profit & Power
04:10
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For Profit and Power
They lied about the war
They lied about the towers
While people die for their mistakes
While soldiers fight for a gross charade
For the thirst of those in power
They took the jobs away
Dividing the good people
Against each other
So that they are left
De-unionized, dehumanized
Like souls without a nation
To call a democracy
A place that allows torture
A land that strips its citizens
Of their rights and their dignity
Downright borders on evil
They lie, they lie and then some more
Like kids with their hands in the jar
Eying the door
They lie to us like we can’t see right through the holes
Then try to rob us of what we’ve earned
Until we fall
For them to call the center the left
Tells us how far these fascists
Have overtaken the system
For profit and for power
Like bloated undertakers
It glorifies hypocrisy
For them to call the numbers
And then end up
In a pit of snakes
Blaming the devil for their sins
Like drunken shifty cowards
They lie, they lie…
© 2006 US Copyright Office
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11. |
I Can't Feel The Rain
02:39
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Can’t Feel the Rain
Why wait to see until it happens
The happening is now
To fail to act upon the problems
Tells me you don’t belong
Negligence leads to reaction
Reaction to the fear
That fuels the drama of intervention
Right on your TV screen
Oh I can’t feel the rain
Rolling into my eyes
The silence and the darkness
Tell me have I gone blind
We started with your average leader
An idiot with a smile
Now we have a group of dictators
Waging a war on rights
All that ‘coz we let it happen
Before our very eyes
We failed to monitor the system
Now we’re paying the price
Oh I can’t feel the rain
Rolling into my eyes
The silence and the darkness
Tell me have I gone blind
©2006 US Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Francis Voignier San Francisco, California
Francis Voignier formed his first band in 1968. He moved from Eastern France to Paris and then London where he made his
professional debut. He worked in NYC
as a sideman between 1978 and 1982, before heading for San Francisco where he spent 10 years performing and recording with many bands, as well as producing artists in his own studio. He now lives in the Northern California city of Eureka.
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