Trk1 Lucy

Inspired by the discovery of the half complete Australopithecus Aferensis skeleton found by Donald Johanson and Maurice Taieb in Ethiopia in 1974.The find was named Lucy after the Beatles tune Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds playing on the radio that night, and was dated at about 3 million years old. Whether or not Lucy is our direct ancestor or relative, she was at the time the first upright walking ape in our very sketchy archaeological records. Recent discoveries have suggested bipedalism originated much earlier, and so 5 million years was guessed for the lyric. Jim's Daughter is also Lucy, and responsible for the artwork on the CD. Vocals by Judy La Rose. This track was completely reworked from a previous incarnation on the Love Not Truth album. Additional Guitar parts by my nephew Dominic Heneghan (Submarine Monkey LINK).

Lyrics

Around 5 million years ago,

We were waling hand in hand unlike our mothers. and all the others,

Walking on all fours, scratching with their paws,

and then our minds began to grow.

Language from a bark, campfires after dark,

We learned to throw, and crops we got to sow,

Soon there was food for everyone,

Sitting in the sun, time to have more fun, more time to teach our young.

Oh Lucy, we could be, anything we wanted to become.

Walking in the park, TV after dark, there's a million games to play.

Reading writing books, experimental looks, yeah we're looking good this day.

Driving in our cars, reaching for the stars, maybe we'll get far away.

Sitting in our homes spending with our loans, Baby we'll get rich one day.

 

But lookout, because the last 100 years,

we've spilt more blood than any other since you,

and now our world appears to me to be so frail, since your discovery OH Lucy

Trk2

Lewontin Campbell About Lewontin Cambell's heuristic for change. The equation of evolution itself, but it also applies to many aspects of human culture Inc, Propaganda, Fascism etc .Central to the album concept, see above overview of Themes in Dawn To Dusk. Lead vocal by Terron from studiopros.com.

Lyrics

 

Lewontin Campbell's heuristic finds,

that for change there are just 3 things that you need.

In their equation they have described, evolution with all of its methods intertwined.

 

DIVERSITY, SELECTIVITY, and then RECOPY all the best you see.

From some amoebae to the chimpanzee, these 3 things we see advantageously.

 

Through adaptation, our genes refined, and we inherited the modern human's mind.

In populations of Dunbar's size, co operations of small groups could survive.

Associations would moderate, how any one of us could come to dominate.

 

and that's still who we are, though we drive in cars,

minds cant change that far in only 10 millennia.

Every one of us, had a role to play , in selecting how we could change our ways.

 

Civilization, changed everything, large populations with centralized planning.

Organization, complexities of interactions meant rules for you and me.

And from that moment in history, we lost 5 million years of meritocracy.

 

For security we endorsed monarchy, an aristocracy, and their hegemony.

Little diversity, no selectivity, but still recopy what we get to see,

-NO CHANGE!

Trk3 Probably Good

Song about a man who was probably good but lived in a deregulated consumerist society. The video is supposed to be satire but seems to have confused many people. I wanted to portray a repulsive arrogant oligarch who lives detached in his consumerist sexist Luxury world. The reference for most of the form is Citizen Kane using photos/ video clips to show the man at various stages of life, the mouth and sax playing were references to propaganda and the pied piper having everyone (us) dance to his tune & values. Some seem to have taken the video at face value thinking that is who I am, or that it is a sexist video when my intention was to parody that from common music videos. I thought the glass smashing the fat silhouette dance and the creepy line dance would be enough evidence of satirical intent.Lead vocal by Tara from studiopros.com.

LYRICS

 

Probably good, but man is infinitely corruptible,

and he would go far, to get a nice car.

Once on the hook, that man is constantly compliable,

and to feather his nest, he'd sell out all the rest.

 

Love cant change it,

Faith wont heal it,

truth's induced it,

and our law's infused it

Gall conceived it,

Zeal compelled it

Flaws produced it

and our leaders deregulated it.

 

Probably good, but he was entirely expendable,

so he did what he could, maybe not what he should.

Warning, there's a short circuit in the master plan.

Our only defence you see, was from within a community

for 5 million years , he was tempered by his peers,

Now he lives for his own, his wealth is overgrown

 

Chorus repeat

 

Did nothing wrong, Shining example of accomplishment.

A sure fire winning strategy, 'cept not for the vast majority.

Why are billionaires the ones who set our economic policies

Did shares in the arms industry, influence all the new wars we've seen

Probably good, One man is ultimately subvert able

and he would go far to get a nice car.

Trk 4 Premature Truth

Speculative musings on the reason for the delusional arrogance of the perception of truth to the individual the reasons for it in human psychology and its advantages in contributing to the melting pot. Lead Vocal by Jim Wellman

LYRICS 

There's a reason that I should think this way, that I've got things to say.

Avocation of my thoughts this day, hereby I'll re convey.

In my mind, Ideas mull around inside my head,

and mix with all the things that I have read,

and that's the truth for me, which I'll then recopy, to anyone who'll listen

and though I've been wrong so many times before,

hear my song of premature truth.

 

(NARRATION)

(1st part)

In early man, cultural exchanges within social groups greatly enhanced the adaptive potential of the species and facilitated exploitation of every possible environmental niche.

As the knowledge base of mankind began to exceed the capacity of any individual to learn it all, people adopted specialisations within greater communities

In order to preserve the expertise acquired through individual specialisation, the modern human mind evolved over millions of years with 2 distinct mechanisms to drive replication of accumulated knowledge.

Firstly, individuals are born with an innate curiosity, an instinct for absorbing and processing information either retold or from personal experience.

Secondly, we are born with an instinct to express out thoughts to others, no matter how premature they might be, so that they become refined from the rebuttals or endorsements of others, but also so that ideas and experience become shared within the community.

(2nd Part)

No one ever know what the consequences of their ideas might be.

Only when bits and pieces of numerous existing ideas come together in the right way, is there's invention which changes the way we live.

The communal sharing and refinement of ideas has been of utmost importance to the advancement of mankind, but the individual is largely unaware of the process.

For society truth never exists. There is just a hypothetical set of best practices in use that constantly change

However to the individual the perception of truth is supremely motivational.

Although we know our truths are limited by much we don't know yet, and that our truths change over time, by design, there is still a delusional and illogical arrogance of personal truth in the individual ever leading their actions.To put it another way. Everyone has their reasons !

 

There's a reason that I should think this way, that I've got things to say.

No resignation of my role to play, in reviewing my world today.

try to find, the one thing that I'd change through all mankind.

the one thing that is utmost in my mind.

To find another way, to make a better day, for anyone who'll listen,

and though I've been wrong, so many times before,

hear my song of premature truth.

Trk 5 Feedback Loop

A short interlude track, grounding an overview of the album concept but also introducing the concept of dialogue in communications over the conventional narrator.

Trk 6 Night Of The Meme

Expanding on Richard Dawkins meme theory, the song references the animal kingdom and suggests how dangerous unprecedented and subversive mass communications are to human psychology. Vocals By Terron from studiopros.com.

LYRICS

What's a lion without it's pride,
Or a honeybee without a hive,
What's a monkey without it's tribe
maladjusted (wearing the clothes of a doll)
Propaganda invades our minds
a short circuit throughout mankind
and replaces ideas it finds
like a cuckoo chick evicts the young of another bird's nest
Forsaking all the rest
Believing it knows best.
When the plan's unseen,
How do you safeguard against the Night Of The Meme

Birds know what to sing
Frogs know their own croaking
and the wolves all know what to howl
for a while in an unsettling style]
[But when someone hears on the news
unbalanced un rebutted views
he assumes the thing to be true
like a Stepford wife taking the place of someone's inner mind
opinions realigned
Allegiances reassigned
To the plan's unseen
How do you safeguard against the Night Of The Meme

Trk 7 Red Or Blue.

Starting with a quote from Masque Of Anarchy (Shelly), and portraying the utter futility of the two party representative democracy and its inability to achieve change. The song was written before the interesting development of (possibly) anti establishment candidates in USA 2016, and Jeremy Corbyn (UK), the likelihood is still that these alternatives have little chance of achieving power and change. Lead vocal by Tara from studiopros.com.

LYRICS
Rise like lions from a slumber
in un vanquish able numbers
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
We are many they are few.
(End quote)
Red or blue, never gonna change a thing.
What they do is pretend that they've got our backing.
And then stop any progression or unravelling
Of their power base.

Power by representation's never democracy
And we'll never see Implementation
of the masses' wish through all the nation
and we'll never get the oversight that we all need.

Red or blue, are colours not policies
Get to choose someone else to make choices for me
And once in he has no accountability
For the things he said

Endless war and sophistry were never endorsed by me
And we'll never see an X factor
For anything that really matters
Just singin, dancin, dragons and apprenticees
Red or Blue

Why no votes on Question Time to see who we believed
No one wants to show what people really hope to see
So no reformation for our pseudo democracy
And we'll never see Implementation
of the masses' wish through all the nation
and we'll never get the oversight that we all need.

Trk 8 Happy Song

A plea for all artists in popular culture to take on responsibility with prominence and express relevant opinions on behalf of the vast majority of citizens who have no representation within the dysfunctional western political system. Vocals by Tara from studiopros.com, and Jim Wellman

LYRICS
Tyranny comes with a happy song,
I'm hearing it all through the day.
All clap along to our happy song
as evil's returning, and buildings are burning
false flags unfurling , new wars occurring
and media spread rhetoric throughout the day
Tyranny comes with a happy song,
to counter our fears as we pray
Its our culture it's not what we've minds for,
So let's hear opinions so they weigh,
and let's hear what everyone has to say

Aint sayin it's wrong to write happy songs,
that invoke truth in a time of confusion,
but if you're using your band to put heads in the sand
then I'm not conducive,
the truth's too elusive
when media's mentored, and dissent is censored
and culture's dumbed down to laughing at clowns in their play
Tyranny comes with a happy song,
to counter our fears as we pray.
Meaningless culture is not what we've minds for
it's role is too important to betray
Tyranny came with a happy song today.

Trk 9 For The First Time.

A plea for the preservation of net neutrality and more modern forms of progressive democracy possible for the first time ever with modern connectivity. It is much better fit for the LC heuristic than  representative democracy, this is our best hope of achieving real change, which in itself will makes it the prime target of the status quo for 'reformation'. Lead vocal by Terron from studiopros.com.

LYRICS
I'll concede, that leadership had merit,
and I'll have to give some credit, that it brought stability.
But with mass communications,
They got ideas above their stations,
and then assumed oligarchy
made an ass of you and me.

But for the first time , ever in history
A possibility, of restoring what we once did have,A meritocracy
A new ubiquity, of a great diversity, and general selectivity
Though some say, the technology's not liberating,
It is in fact debilitating, harshest control we've ever seen.
But we could make some new revisions
And with some open sourced precision
A bit congress there could be
A commons for humanity

Cos for the first time ever in history
The future's ours to seize my friends
within this technology.
Don't be no Wylie Coyote, and just give up so easily
Don't be persuaded by the fears they have, of our net neutrality

Beware of new deceptions,
They'll play on our perceptions
And they'll attempt to intervene.
Because they can't project their memes

For the first time, ever in history
No editors for what is newsworthy
a view from all sides at the scene
Unlimited discussion, of all possible repercussions
A new ubiquity, A possibility

Trk 10 Cynical Century

This century was the bloodiest and most environmentally damaging since our ancestors first stood up 5 million years ago. This was also the first century of mass communications in the exclusive hands of an elite oligarchy. Lead vocal by Jim Wellman.

LYRICS

Cynical Century,
Barbarous captaincy.
Exceptionality
Delusional

There was a time, when the laws of physics applied,
When love was supreme in my mind, reciprocity,.
Now I see, that Bernays has neutralised me,
and in all our redundancy, lies inhumanity,
Cynical Century.

Pseudo Democracy
Arcane authority
Revolving doors,
Society is no more,

I crippled my epistemology
when the official narrative leads to impossibility
and though we've seen, the freefall and heat in the scene
our views are now just as extreme
as a terrorist or a pacifist

Enlighten us
Enable us
Further us
Cynical Century

Trickledown fallacy
Nepotic economies
Mendacity Inefficiency

And so we've seen
that war's still the health of the state,
and the sophistry just won't abate, its perfidious,
Divide and rule, adversity always applies
to destabilise unified cries for humanity.
From Ludlow to Allende's Grave,
MH17 now paves the way to accusatory elusivity

Enlighten Us
Enable us
Further us
Cynical Century

Trk 11 Let The People Rule Ya

Ensemble curtain call to this musical of dissent, this track suggests some of many possible changes we could make if only change itself was an option within western politics. For Jim Wellman, if change is ever possible, the first priority should be to include the people in politics by adding an initially small amount of legislative votes to all citizens through an e voting system on issues. The first change must be to open a pathway to the possibility of further change.

LYRICS

Let the people rule ya

Disengagement constantly spreading
Lack of confidence in the new schemes
5 per cent of votes to e-voting
Increase participation then let's see
Persuade our politicians to comply
Right/left paradigm no longer flies.
Lobbying wont buy us with a bribe.
Couldn't be more flawed so why not try

Education, innovation, embracing diversity
Party funding regulated , Obscene wealth eliminated.
Discretion in consumerism,
Choose your products with cognition
Cost of bombs redistributed
Would resolve most conflicts that are disputed
Peer to peer, mesh networking, maybe Axiomity
Profit sharing companies , fair trade not monopolies
Open source the human might,
Crowd funding not copyrights
Chaos the means to preserve the reins
Nothing to fear except lack of change

Let the people rule ya

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are moulded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind"

Edward  Bernays, Propaganda