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DINOSAUR VII

by Stephen Bard

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1.
A Total Mystery 01:48
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I went out last night To blow off a little steam Trying to forget how you and I blew up this dream Staring down my glass Confused by what I see In the end you know my friend That’s alright with me Long may it be a total mystery I woke up today Face down in the sand Trailer tears and dried up beers on the back of both my hands Cleaned up at the line Looked out into the sea Standing here it’s pretty clear there’s nowhere left for me Long may it be a total mystery Looking through you yesterday Thought I knew you Thought you’d stay Now there’s no one left to blame But me I don’t see the point Living here this way Down a beer and drown my fear out here beyond the waves Can’t even get that right ‘Cause suddenly I see Some muscle bound bleached blonde son of a beach en route to rescue me Oh the misery! Or is it comedy? Long may it be a total mystery A total mystery
2.
Drowned Angel 03:58
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The waiting worried moon Craves a counterpart In a world much darker than you faced When you first appeared Always gone too soon Raves the broken heart In an age of greed devoid of grace Unnatural and weird The Mississippi deep Sweeping you away Currently your absence doubles every day Nightmare trampled sleep Keeping them at bay A full time job No wonder then you didn’t stay Drowned angel Not of this time Not of this plane Drowned angel One of a kind Beauty and pain Drowned angel Dark aftermath lonely and sad Drowned angel A beautiful dream we didn’t even know we had The waiting worried moon Hanging in the sky Whispers of forgotten words A last goodbye Always gone too soon Before it even began Off to see another place Gone to feel another’s grace Drowned angel Not of this time Not of this plane Drowned angel One of a kind Beauty and pain Drowned angel Dark aftermath lonely and sad Drowned angel A beautiful dream we didn’t even know we had The waiting worried moon Craves a counterpart
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Found 02:31
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Don’t jam on the brake Just take your foot off the gas No need to be fake No need to be crass Be true and be real Don’t doubt what you feel That’s the best way to deal Watching the wheels go around This is what I’ve found Now here’s some more advice You can take it with a grain Just try to be nice ‘Cause everybody’s in pain Be good and be kind To your body and your mind If you cross that line You just might be inclined to go down This is what I’ve found Everybody gets lonely Everybody is only trying to do The best they can do The best they can do The best they can do Don’t jam on the brake Just take your foot off the gas If you have too much cake baby You’re gonna get a fat ass Be good and be kind To your body and your mind If you cross that line You just might be inclined to go down Be true and be real Don’t doubt what you feel That’s the best way to deal While you’re watching the wheels go around This is what I’ve found This is what I’ve found This is what I’ve found
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Just As Well 03:43
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Weren’t we tied from birth? Didn’t you ask me to dance? Tell me what’s it worth? This broken down romance I’m of the opinion you don’t have a clue I get the impression this doesn’t impress you Already out the door As far as I can tell Although you wanted more If this ain’t making love it’s just as well I wonder what you saw when you laid eyes on me I wonder what you hear in my melody I wonder if you think this was ever worth your time All these years holding on to what was never mine It’s such a mystery It’s heaven or it’s hell Although there’s history If this ain’t making love If this ain’t making love it’s just as well All these issues leave me nowhere Don’t pretend that you ain’t got ‘em If I even tried to go there I’d drown before I ever reached the bottom The bottom Oh it’s sad you know All this letting go But even so my dear I’m letting go Already out the door as far as I can tell Although you wanted more If this ain’t making love it’s just as well It’s such a mystery It’s heaven or it’s hell Although there’s history If this ain’t making love If this ain’t making love If this ain’t making love it’s just as well Just as well
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Make Me No Funeral 03:16
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Make me no funeral When I die If you’re still alive and knew me well Look up at the sky Know I loved you so Blow a kiss goodbye And go make the most out of your day Far too many graves all around And not just in the ground Make me no funeral No eulogies Lay me on the breeze so beautiful Look into the trees Know I loved you so Grow your memories as you go Make the most out of your stay Far too many slaves on the earth And not just in the dirt Of everything there is to feel Empathy’s a place to start You may not be completely free But you can be in your heart And it can be so hard to deal With this life we have to live The only thing that’s ever real Is the love we choose to give Make me no funeral When I die If you’re still alive and knew me well Look up at the sky Know I loved you so Blow a kiss goodbye And go make the most out of your day Far too many graves all around And not just in the ground
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Music Of 03:37
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If you were the ocean I’d drink deep and drown If you were the mountain I’d never come down If you were the garden I’d bathe in the dirt If you were the rainstorm I’d wash all this hurt away Music of my life Mother daughter wife Music of my life Rolling along now A magical fuel Flows through the song now Burns really cool To figure it out now To see where to go Never to doubt now And always to know the play Music of my life Mother daughter wife Music of my life Music of my life Mother daughter wife Music of my life Music of my life Mother daughter wife If you were the ocean I’d drink deep and drown If you were the mountain I’d never come down If you were the garden I’d bathe in the dirt If you were the rainstorm I’d wash all this hurt away Rolling along now A magical fuel Flows through the song now Burns really cool To figure it out now To see where to go Never to doubt now and always to know the play
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Peasant (Sung) 04:56
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A ghoul sits on a stool Makes a rule fit for a fool And so a tool cruelly makes off with your gold Proud ‘cause he’s allowed Legally endowed wrapped in a shroud You bowed and thanked him loudly for his cold shoulder A sheep asleep so deep You keep doing as you’re told After all it’s such a ball to be so utterly controlled By forces you can’t see who whisper it’s your luxury To be another in some bigger brother’s stranglehold And it’s hard to be a king in the clothing of a peasant Hard to see the future and be shackled in the present Hard to be so clear when everything else so clearly isn’t Oh Lord grant me safer passage Oh Lord grant me safer passage A pig he takes a swig he digs a fig and snaps a twig He’s a bigwig on his rig and don’t forget it You cry and think to lie but it’s his sty Why even try when you can spy it in his eye you’re going to get it? At 9 you wait in line to pay the fine and brave the swine Because the crime is the design’s designed against you It’s true it’s revenue The royal screw no matter what you do This crew don’t give a damn if they’ve incensed you Hell they laugh because they’ve already dispensed with you And it’s hard to be a king in the clothing of a peasant Hard to see the future and be shackled in the present Hard to be so clear when everything else so clearly isn’t Oh Lord grant me safer passage Oh Lord grant me safer passage What else is there to say about the M-E-D-I-A And the realities at play on television? Of course we disagree but why can’t everybody see That the obvious decree here is division? Everyone I know’s at odds An embarrassment of false gods With celebrity and gossip now religion This fake two party system just a twisted mechanism That tricks us into thinking we’re assisting a decision And it’s hard to be a king in the clothing of a peasant Hard to see the future and be shackled in the present Hard to be so clear when everything else so clearly isn’t Oh Lord grant me safer passage Oh Lord grant me safer passage Oh Lord grant me safer passage Oh Lord grant me safer passage
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The Right Key Out 03:55
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Tried to say it in a different way but the moon is still the moon Tried to play it in a different way but the tune is still the tune Trying to find me the right key out of this dark and lonely room Maybe it’s already here Let me out Let me out into the driving rain Let me out Let me out so I can try and explain Can’t escape this sinking feeling that all I’ve done is let you down Locked door in an endless wall with no key to get me through Broken window high above it all with no way to get the view Couldn’t feel this open heart or that any kind of love was true Man too wrapped up in fear Let me out Let me out into the driving rain Let me out Let me out so I can try and explain What’s the use in all this thinking when all it does is get you down? Down on yourself There must be something else Something else Something else Cell full of memories crouching in the dark Fumbling a thousand keys on a chain of disregard Trying to find me the right key out and I don’t know why it’s so hard Maybe it’s already here Let me out Let me out into the driving rain Let me out Let me out so I can try and explain What’s the use in all this drinking when all it does is let you drown? Drown in yourself I know there’s something else Tried to say it in a different way but the moon is still the moon Tried to play it in a different way but the tune is still the tune Trying to find me the right key out and maybe it’s coming soon Maybe it’s already here
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This Life 03:28
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Take your laughs where you can get ‘em Make your love where you can make it Place your bets where you can bet ‘em Treasure waits if you can take it Mind your risks where you see ‘em Eat your biscuits where you bake ‘em Every day it’s carpe diem Leaves are falling better rake ‘em ‘Cause this life don’t owe you nothin’ Don’t guarantee you shit If you put the work in and you’re lucky enough You can make something good out of it This life don’t owe you nothin’ This life don’t try to help Whatever you want whatever you need You gotta go get it yourself Yeah you find out who your friends are And you find out who they’re not Most the time that depends on What they have or haven’t got Log your memories as you travel May the road you’re on go so long Not too full of holes or gravel Either way be strong ‘Cause this life don’t owe you nothin’ Don’t guarantee you shit If you put the work in and you’re lucky enough You can make something good out of it This life don’t owe you nothin’ This life don’t try to help Whatever you want whatever you need You gotta go get it yourself You gotta go get it yourself You gotta go get it yourself
10.
Trash 04:34
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Down on your knees with the fleas, the flies and roaches Digging in the dumpster as the pickup line approaches Five foot four of trash, two mountains busting out with fill You say you won’t go back there but we all know you will So much in a lather now, the drunken moment raw Kitty cats all gather ‘round, they scratch and hiss and claw Dish the dirt and spray the muddy water ‘cross your skin It even gets you off to know the mess you’re waking up in It’s trash and yet you like it Trash and still you go there Cheap and course and classless Always heading nowhere What the hell you’re doin’ man I’m sure I’ll never know Leading you to ruin man It’s trash and still you go Later at the party after Jager, shots and beer Hear the slurring words about there ain’t none left in here Her hand is in your pocket, finds the way to get some more And even when she’s lied and pissed the bed, you try to score It’s trash and yet you like it Trash and still you go there Cheap and course and classless Always heading nowhere What the hell you’re doin’ man I’m sure I’ll never know Leading you to ruin man It’s trash and still you go Down on your knees with the fleas, the flies and roaches Digging in the dumpster as the pickup line approaches Five foot four of trash, two mountains busting out with fill You say you won’t go back there but we all know you will It’s trash and yet you like it Trash and still you go there Cheap and course and classless Always heading nowhere What the hell you’re doin’ man Someday she’s gonna know Leading you to ruin man It’s trash and still you go It’s trash and yet you like it
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Westhampton 03:07
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Your mind is the sky but your daddy’s in flux Mouth is just a sewer in the rented black tuxedo Guy in a speedo running up and down the beach Some things should obviously stay way out of reach An infinite grasp upon nothing at all Drink is going fast with your back against the wall Every last bottle down the drainpipe of your throat Give her full throttle while you still have the motorboat Oh to be young To be young again Oh to be young To be young and to get right down to it Oh to be young To be young again Even if you could be How much different would you do it? How many people did he screw on the scheme? How many millions were flushed into the pipe dream? How many tears did he shed the day they caught him? How many years you think all that stolen freedom bought him? Nothing but a third wheel cramping up the fourth date Some people don’t have a clue how to appreciate Tired of these trivial exchanges over dinner Dad is just a gangster and mom is just a gold digger Oh to be young To be young again Oh to be young To be young and to get right down to it Oh to be young To be young again Even if you could be How much different would you do it? Oh to be young To be young again Oh to be young To be young again Oh to be young To be young again Even if you could be How much different would you do it? I hate to pour the salt None of it’s your fault But if you want the truth Youth is wasted on the youth I hate to pour the salt None of it is your fault But if you want the truth Youth is wasted on the youth
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What I No Longer Am 03:53
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Elijah sings Wisdom of youth Blood of a saint Grace of a sailor You would think in my position I’d be jealous But the truth is that I’m not This life is made of what you have and what you haven’t got And it’s ok On a beautiful day Hey I even found some kind of peace along the way With what I no longer am Or rather what I never really was Sure it stings Miss the parade Messiah you ain’t Trace of a failure You would think in that condition I’d have wilted But I stayed to write this song You’re allowed to get it right but you’re supposed to get it wrong And it’s ok On a beautiful day Hey I even found some kind of peace along the way With what I no longer am Or rather what I never really was It’s ok to be ok with yourself It’s ok to be ok with your life Getting through the day is a triumph in itself And even better getting through the night It’s ok to be ok with yourself It’s ok to be ok in your mind The challenge is the way we treat the others who need help And extra points for actually being kind

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Followup to STATE OF THE ONION.
Predecessor to 1994.

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released October 21, 2023

Written, Arranged, Produced & Performed by Stephen Bard.

Drums recorded by Ryan Ball at The Gearbox.

Copyright 2023. Dinosaur Music (ASCAP).
Daily Natural Alternative Records. DNA 026.

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