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We spent the winter recording a new batch of songs that go together, and will probably become an album…which we hope to make available by Shipwreck Day. We are calling it: Cross Out My Brain!!!!!!!
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D+ “Cross Out My Brain!!!!!!!!” Lyric Sheet

Side One
1.Red, White & Blue Lies
2.Our Father
3.No Mystery
4.Pandora Balks
5.Desired Buy
6.Double Crossed
7.Clever Knot

Side Two
1.Duck
2.Reach For The Sky
3.Rose
4.Jesus Is In

5.Fiendish Plot

RED, WHITE & BLUE LIES
Started with white lies, bending what’s true
That led to red lies; I was angry with you
Hate was inside me, pushed you away
Now I tell blue lies: (like) I’m feeling okay

Red, white and blue lies,
Red, blue and white
We had a few tries, then gave up the fight
Red, white and blue lies
White, red and blue
I’ll choose the new lie; ashamed of what’s true

Taxing my conscience, won’t go away
Pride turns up louder, can’t hear what you say
Don’t want understanding; don’t need your respect
I get my meaning, from what I reject

Red, white and blue lies,
Red, blue and white
We had a few tries, then gave up the fight
Red, white and blue lies
White, red and blue
I’ll choose the new lie; ashamed of what’s true

I need protection; cold winds blow hard
A coat with more colors, yard after yard
Bigger and brighter, not all white and black
Let me ask you a question…that’s not an attack

Red, white and blue lies,
Red, blue and white
We had a few tries, then gave up the fight
Red, white and blue lies
White, red and blue
I’ll choose the new lie; ashamed of what’s true

OUR FATHER
His intentions were good, tried to do what he should
Hoped he’d do what he said he would…but it ended

The way you walk that walk, Stay-at-home Dad
The way you talk that talk, Stay at home dad
I know all these kids must be driving you mad
but, stay at home dad

Her intentions were wife
She had eyes for my life
kept expecting the worst, due to that kind of thirst

If you lived here, you would be home now

Stay at home dad

Stay, don’t stray

If you had ears,...
If you could hear,...

Stay at home dad….

Stay, and play

NO MYSTERY
How did you get
So full
Jaded and naive
Jaded and naive
Where do you go
Nothing to know
Jaded and Naive….

No Mystery, no mystery
Jaded and naive….
No mystery (no history)
jaded and naive

PANDORA BALKS
Pandora’s Box
Is full
Of emptiness, emptiness

Pandora’s box is full so full of emptiness

Don’t come to me, stupid song
Don’t come, don’t come
Don’t come to me stupid stupid song, don’t come – come

Roll over me, big old rock
Roll on me, roll on me
Roll on me
Can I sing a song
Big old rock, can you sing…along

Don’t come to me, stupid song
Don’t come….

Pandora’s Box is full of emptiness

DESIRED BUY
By myself, By myself I want
I want to be…desired

I want to be
I want to be desired
I want to be desired by myself

More patch than hose
how it flows
why it grows
God only knows

I want to be, want to be desired
I want to be desired, by myself

More hose than patch
Down the hatch
Well is full
Drink until
I’m by myself, by myself I want
I want to be desired, by my self

DOUBLE CROSSED
I sing words that have two meanings
and feel twice as smart
Until someone else inside me
Loses heart
Recede Reseed Recede
Reseed Recede Reseed

Here I am again but maybe I should leave
I don’t know the weather, I can be
Be Leave Believe Be Leave
Believe Be leave Believe

Close enough to taste but your tongue’s gone dumb
With words that you keep wasting on the numb
Re-fuse Refuse Re-fuse
Refuse Re-fuse Refuse

Here I am again just where I began
caught between the fire and the frying pan
Over right over left over
Left -overs, I’m coming right over

I sing words that have two meanings and feel twice as proud
No one gets above you on a cloud

The reins, who holds the reign
the rains who holds the reins
Across the fruited plains
A cross, cross out my brain

CLEVER KNOT
Clever knot
you’ve tied a very very clever knot
knew it once but since is long forgotten
cord is rotten
come untied

Strike the lord
His labor tactics are abhorred
by any self-respecting man or lass
what comes to pass
his will, be done

Leap of faith
Uncle doubting Thomas weak embrace
Don the dusk whenever lights too dim
Life’s too grim
feel your way

Clever child
Another category to be filed in
And defiled by, watcher’s need

Leisure time
You’ve exhaled the breath that was your prime
Gasp now for the reason you’ve behaved
so enslaved
to no one

Clever knot
I’ve tied a very very clever knot
knew it once but since is long forgotten
cord is rotten … come untied

DUCK
Heads, I win
Tails, you lose
DUCK, your name
Luck, fair game

Luck she came and went and left us wanting
all the power the righteous now are flaunting
soul now sold out future feeling haunted
keep your head down, you won’t see the taunting

Duck….Duck

Heads, you lose
Tales, I spin
DUCK, you’re tamed
luck, so lame

Tales are lost now his story is famous
Heads of church and state they try to shame us
Can you dodge the finger of their blame
You can count on me to know your name

Duck….Duck

REACH FOR THE SKY
You left a lot out
The letters before the Vs
The fish below the loaves
Whining in the Water

I can’t swim…to him

He’s wrong
So Wrong
Gotta write another song
LOVE ME, LIVE ME, LEAVE ME

Out on a limb…the last leaf not to fall

For you
It’s true

Lying on the ground below
I know

The snow will leave me rotten

Under foot
Stay put

Devour me completely…with your root

So sound asleep
Napping across your trunk
Hungry for your fruit
Gravity forsake me

………

I shake
To make
The tale eat the snake
LEAVE ME, LIVE ME, LOVE ME

Out on a limb…the last leaf not to fall

For you
It’s true

Lying on the ground below
Know more

Spinning son is rotten

to the core
so soar

Reach for the sky…when you ask why

ROSE
Way past, way past tense
Rise…Rise
Way past, way past tense
Rise

Can you hear the name that he denies
Can you read the noose between the lies

Pains me to endure, pleasure’s simple cure

Way past, way past tense – rise

JESUS IS IN
So ill equipped
to handle flame
Burning truth
for molding blame

Mines are yours
to still my tread
of camels pass
through needle’s thread

The frozen spell
you can’t contain
Will thaw the flesh
of my remains

Rising sun
tan my hide
stretching o’er
the place I lied

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I heard songs about Jesus
before I was born
floating in my mother
organ chords and a hundred voices, including hers

I was disillusioned early
by the contradictions
of those who
mock the simple message of love
with lessons in punishment

How hard is it to believe
to insist that you know
the one word answer to all of life’s questions
to define faith as thoughtlessness
questions as taboo

How wrong might it be to twist the spirit
of love for humanity
Into a bully’s creed of willful ignorance and shameless hypocrisy
backed by more than the threat of violence

Does anyone doubt Christ’s love of children
and fury with hypocrites
those who climb atop the heaping remains of voiceless victims
only to trumpet their own self-righteousness

I believe, now more than ever
that Jesus lives
in our curious love of life

Heavenly choir
Draw me in to this memory of hope
the leap of faith
along the way
we sing together
Jesus is in, Jesus is in the way
Jesus is in the way…we ask questions

FIENDISH PLOT
Fiendish plot – flow of rage and lust begin to clot
Screen all calls but those ones from within – plug the din – into a
whole
Teacher’s game – starts too early to enjoy the blame
sweating out the worries of her burden, you have learned – all the moves
Arrow’s plight – Stupid missiles flying past my heart
Coddled on the milk of curdled kindness, looks like
blindness…throwing darts
Comfort lies…face down phantoms laugh about your size
In boring dances that have left you ridden, rise unbidden…for your last wave