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A Thousand Blessings
04:16
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A Thousand Blessings
Music & Lyrics by Stavros
Woke up with you again,
and it felt just like it was.
Loneliness set in my bones,
and all our words were dust.
In the light of day,
ankles behind the sun.
Falling down on every one.
And everything is beautiful.
This was all just in my head.
You turned to me,
and made a joke;
a laughing smirk,
a raging note.
Such unease now between the sheets;
Hidden and incomplete.
I turn away, thinking how
all the shutters of your soul
are sealed so tight ://
Woke up with you again,
a heart-shaped gun
and a stone in your mouth.
When I think of you,
all the birds in your eyes
are locked within your house.
Curtains drawn.
A thudding bass pulse plays against the light
of a waxing moon;
beckons you to sing a song in tune
with another soul
that you've drawn into your temple of hair & bone.
Oh, so all alone!
Rage against the dying of the light.
You look at me and a thousand blessings
kiss the salty sea ://
A Thousand Blessings Kiss... ://
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2. |
The Last Inch of Peace
02:25
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The Last Inch of Peace
Music & Lyrics by Stavros
Hold Out for the Last Inch of Peace
Make a Strong Stand to the Bitter End
Take It With Your Heart
Livin' The Life
Never Back Down
Or Divide The Sky In Your Eyes
Because You Can Fly
All the bad times breaking you down
But you must rise beyond the simple hurt
Take It With Your Heart
Livin' The Life
Never Back Down
Or Divide The Sky In Your Eyes
Because You Can Fly
So High
When You Live Your Peace
Hold Out for the Last Inch of Peace
Make a Strong Stand to the Bitter End
Hold Out for the Last Inch of Peace
Make a Strong Stand to the Bitter End
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3. |
Shower Tunes
00:44
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The Spectacular Saga of Sweet Pea & Suzy Q
Music & Lyrics by Stavros
Holding out,
Holding on
Like Staring into the sun
Even now...
You shape me
You shape me
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5. |
Big Nothing
06:56
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Big Nothing
Music & Lyrics by Stavros
Touched by the sun of your curving grace
Wild flowers bake in a field without water
without water
Aching like a knife with no flesh to cut
Blood on tongue; hands full of hair, pulling
pulling, pulling, pulling you closer
Two hearts (two hearts)
So close is one
Further to reach you than the Earth is to the sun
I hold... a Big Nothing
You fade like a vapor
A lost little rag doll scared of your pride
Ashamed of your might, clinging to some high
You fall... Fall Away
Aching like a knife with no flesh to cut
Blood on my tongue; hands full of hair, pulling
pulling, pulling, pulling you closer
Two hearts (two hearts)
So close is one
Further to reach you than the Earth is to the sun
I hold... a Big Nothing
Big Nothing... Except You
Except You!
Ah! Except You!
AHH! Except You!
You, You... except you
I hold you, you, ah you!
Hold you... you... you...
Just you
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Conversations Over Breakfast
Music & Lyrics by Stavros
Days of Future
I Can See
Is It The Past
That's Leading Me?
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7. |
Tattoo Spider - Lines
03:07
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8. |
fightfuckstartareligion
02:44
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fightfuckstartareligion
Poem by Stavros (aka Poet 168)
Fight. Fuck. Start a religion.
We’re all going to die.
In a hundreds it won’t matter anyway.
New bastards w/ new faces
clinging to the same old cave skin
will rape consciousness all over again.
Fight. Fuck. Start a religion.
Tell yourself; sell your Self
make a Hollywood movie
billboard the internet with MySpace (& Facebook) Pornography
Record an album of gums chewing linen.
What difference does it make?
all this white noise is a temple of god light and dog shit.
Fight. Fuck. Start a religion.
Pray to the divine to save your ass,
‘cause you won’t.
Fight. Fuck. Start a religion.
Get a tax break to break your back
You slaves. You masters.
You are the destruction at the end of your day
and the cheap beer in your refrigerator.
Smoke pot. Take pills.
Channel surf to heaven.
Masturbate on public buses.
Water the lawn. Erect small statues.
Paint the mailbox. Pay the bills.
Spread your disease in restaurants and theaters.
Dance naked in the darkness as well as the light.
We’re ugly and beautiful and dying every second
aching for someone to ignore us or love us or just shut the hell up.
Spread the disease, called cash.
Spread your legs. Butter your toast.
hang dirt in expensive picture frames;
snapshot memories of the vertically challenged.
Laugh.
You are a virus of love.
Fight. Fuck. Start a religion.
Plaster your face on milk-cartons to fill landfills
Kill insects with wanton attitude; cum in the mouths of all your lovers.
Whisper obscenities at the feet of mice.
Scream prayers at passing airplanes.
Never answer multiple choice questions again.
Erect a paragon of #2 pencils until God divides our tongues.
Stay Drunk.
Never wake.
Create great art for someone else to write about.
Give a stranger something to think.
Buy meat.
Eat.
Spread the disease, called cash.
Didn’t you know...
I love you.
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9. |
Live It Up
04:01
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Live It Up
Music & Lyrics by Stavros
Life's too short for bad whiskey
Warm beer and your lies
Life's too short for all your bullshit
You better realize
No one needs more damage
Down here in the grime
Live It Up
Live It Up
Live It Up
Life's too short to be stressin'
Dig an early grave
One foot buried next to the other
Boots up in spades
Don't play the hand your dealt with
You gotta kick some ass
Take the shot
Roll the dice
Live It Up
Live It Up
Live It Up
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Live It Up
Live It Up
Live It Up
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
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Death Smiles on the She Beast of Nightmare Castle
Music & Lyrics by Stavros
Spanish Translation by Samantha Klotz
English Samples from: The She Beast: 1966, Leith Productions; Death Smiles on a Murderer: 1973, Dany Films; Nightmare Castle: 1965, Cinematografica Emmeci
I'm going to rid you of your vulgar ways And replace them with others much more subtle and refined.
Te amo Get undressed I'd like to spend the night with you Oh, Shut Up! Pero es pilgroso!
You're a monster! Te quiero… (Mi amor.) You don't know the hate I have inside.
If you could see it you'd be terrified. Es que yo soy el monstruo. (Monstro) You're just in time for Tea. (Que miedo… Que miedo) You'd kill me at once! Oh, yes. You can kill my body But I'll never leave you in peace. Never! NEVER! Para siempre. (Siempre… siempre) Estoy enamorado contigo. Pero no deberia hacer.
Me has hechizado. Pero debo dejarte. Has puesto mi corazón en llamas. The Power Over Life and Death. You Can't Destroy Flesh The Power Over Life and Death. No More Than You Can Kill Love or Hate The Power Over Life and Death. No More Than You Can Kill Love or Hate So many corpses And every death...a mystery. Go Now and Find Her, Destroy the Witch! Desgraciada!
If I tell you will you kill her? Yes, I'll kill her. If I tell you will you kill her? Yes, I'll kill her. Come forth and meet thy avenging God. Thy Avenging God! Come Forth... Yo soy el monstro…
(Monstro) Yo soy dios…
(Dios) Yo soy diablo…
(Diablo) Yo soy bruja…
(Bruja) Yo soy amor…
(Amor) Yo soy amor…
Thy Avenging God! Those who will die... Come to the Lord! I Want To Live. I Want To Live. Amar es rendirse el poder y el control! Sweet innocent heart From whom fair sleep was stolen Sleep now in the arbors of the angels. I've asked you before.. Don't Touch me! No! NO! Let Me Go! Not to come down to my laboratory... LET ME GO! Don't Touch Me! No! NO! While I'm conducting my experiments. NOOOOOO! Capitalist Dog! Ay le quiero mucho.
Pero es peligroso
Me siento como un monstruo.
Pero solo estas enamorada
Thy Avenging God!
Enamorada para siempre.
Y para siempre.
Pero nada es para siempre Es deficil saber el amor del odio.
Amar es odiar
Capitalist Dog!
Es un hechizo vicioso.
Y crea un corazón encantado ?Pero se siente tan bueno
Si, cierto.
Thy Avenging God! I was watching the birds in the cages. They seem so happy. So carefree and lighthearted. But are they really? And for a minute I felt just like one of them. A prisoner of something that is preying on me. Something, or someone, that has a hold on me. I don't know. Sometimes, it seems as if I'm in its power. You are still in love with that Witch! As far as witches are concerned You are no one to talk.
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11. |
Tattoo Spider - Ink
01:12
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12. |
Murder of Crows
06:23
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Murder of Crows
Lyrics by Stavros
Music by Stavros & Samantha Klotz
A murder of crows
What do they know
A lit to the sky
Blocking the sun
In your eyes, in your eyes
Feathers like rain
Stick into the sand
As fingers entwined
In your hands, in your hands, in your hands
Black crow flies
Along the side of the road
Picking up blue shells
For a beautiful, beautiful,
Raven-haired girl, raven-haired girl
Picking up blue shells
In your eyes
A murder of crows
Raven-haired girl
Strong as the sky
Feathers for skin
With love in her eyes
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13. |
Tattoo Spider - Color
02:07
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14. |
The Freedom in my Fist
02:32
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the freedom in my fist
the greatest goal in my life is
to sleep with my palms open
sometimes i wake up
my fists clenched so tight
they can not hold a prayer.
bath water slips through the ocean
unnoticed like civilizations slip
through their time on this planet
looking back, looking forward
clenched so tight in their ruts of earth
destiny eludes them.
the statue of liberty was made from pennies
david copperfeild croissants hailing
freedoms that never really existed
white drinking fountains, black drinking fountains
women propertyless, voiceless, shoeless.
but, the old gal made her way to new york
her fists clenched so tight
around her torch and book
perhaps she was inspiration for
countless book burnings
slipped through the ocean of time.
freedom is still cheap and easy
as opening a fist
passing water through the ocean
lying to a great number of people
clenching oneself within dreams
waking up isolated in neighborhoods.
freedom is in my cell phone
the book i’m always writing
the movie i’m still watching
the woman i try to love
the children i read to sleep.
traffic jams are always somebody’s fault
slipped through one inch at a time
they are never at the scene
fender to fender, looking back,
looking forward, hating now.
my grandmother is afraid to leave the house
tells me about parking lot car jackings,
a.t.m. line jackings, gas station shootings,
grocery bag stealings, apartment break ins;
she lives in washington, dc.
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15. |
ÜberStank
03:07
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ÜberStank
Music & Lyric by Stavros
Aw Shucks, ya'll, Gettin' bent over this wall
Don't you know that the puppet needs his play?
To keep our minds trapped, stuck in the grind
Of a normal day to day.
So the Peeps in the Tower, the ones with real power
Pulling the strings like the wizard Oz
Can do what they want, this ain't some Lefty taunt
You're a slave; what else is there to say.
... Yeah, That's an ÜberStank
Ladies & Gentlemen, put your hands together
for the one and only beat Poet 168
In this groove master debate, spittin' fate
Can you dig it?
Yeah!
Can you dig it?
Yeah!
Big Orange is boring, a Twitter Nazi snoring
Flippin' the script like a Grand Wazoo
But what's really going on, the secret in this song
Is that Power is gonna do what they do
Like casino poker, the cards are fixed
The house is gonna win
America rises on Godzilla thighs
A whore and an addict to boot
We're all slaves to cash; Need a cable fix fast
To give Power more time
And sew it up, hem us all in
With some new commercial rhyme
Big Money - Big Money
Big Money - Big Money
Big Money - Big Money
Woe-O!
Big Money - Big Money
Big Money - Big Money
Big Money - Big Money
Woe-O!
Big Money - Big Money
Big Money - Big Money
Big Money - We Sold Our Souls!
Big Money - Big Money
Big Money - Big Money
Oh, Hell No!
This Godzilla super-power is gettin' dumber by the hour
Like plants need electrolytes
So, we gotta stay focused, teach truth not hocus pocus
Or listen to the gospel news
We gotta shape our minds while we're doin' soft time
Or else this world might explode
Forget the guns, that's a setting sun
On the shadows of our tombs
We gotta rise with knowledge; Kill the Electoral Collage
One Voice, One Vote, One Kill
Do what's right! We, The People, Have gotta fight
Or else we die by our ills
A government "for the people by the people"
can not, and will not, be represented by an oligarchic body
that usurped democracy by a slave-minded hegemony.
We don't need Bread & Circus!
We need truth - YEAH!
We don't need Bread & Circus!
We need truth - YEAH!
We Need.... Truth
We Need... Truth
We Need...
All you fat cat bastards in Congress & the House
To represent the American people, instead of yourselves.
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16. |
Kill All Monsters
05:18
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Kill All Monsters
Music & Lyrics by Stavros
Hi. I'm your darkest
Fear and I will show
Everybody
What you don't
Want them to know; -
They'll Know
The tide will rise and crush.
Hi. I'm your Light,
Beauty pushed down
So your dark may come
And swallow you whole.
Don't let it be right
You know, it can't ride
In your soul, unless you're blind
To your own strength
Be your own light
Set fire to the night
And feed, the beast
In your soul, the one of truth,
Strength and Will
Let it rise
Becoming light,
To burn...
Burn away.
This fire inside
Forms a knife
To kill
All Your
Monsters
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Cherokee Starlight Albuquerque, New Mexico
Music is! It's the language of my heart, my mind, and Spirit. It is the language of our Earth, the stars; it is life. Every vibration that moves within us, around us, and through us, can be heard, felt, and played. I play with the sounds of Folk, Rock, Punk, Funk, Hip Hop, Spoken Word, and Jazz to explore the journey of this odd flesh suitcase traveling down this organic ghetto. ... more
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