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You Bought Me the Bhagavad Gita
You bought me the Bhagavad Gita
Ah Om, Ah Om
You bought me a copy of Caravan too
Ah Om, Ah Om
Illusions will be burnt along the way
light up the fire
Ah Om ahh Om
Brake out the muffins and tofu
Ah Om, Ah Om
Pass the elixir, the orange juice too
Ah Om Ah Om
Rise above the mediocrity
Light up the fire
Ah Om
Encircle the parameters
Spiraling inward
Let go of the limiters
Hey Allen Ginsberg
Drive into the stratosphere
Watch the ego disappear
Don’t get hung up and linear
Light the fire
The Krishna temple is open
Ah Om
They serve up a bad ass vindaloo and
Ah Om
Everything’s becoming clean and clear
Light up the fire
Ah Om
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Butterflies
02:21
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Butterflies
Butterflies fly in the sky
oh the friendly skies
oh the friendly skies
Butterflies fly in the sky
oh the friendly skies
you gave your love to me
and I’m high
Look at all birds on the hill
All the birds lying there still
Not ready to fly
Everyone you know will be gone
oh the friendly skies
oh the friendly skies
Everyone you know will be gone
oh don’t be surprised
but you gave your love to me
and I’m high
Everyone you know will be gone
Everyone is traveling along
And so will I
My butterflies
Dance with me if you will
I can feel the sun on my face
You and I float into space
like butterflies
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Atom LSD
04:11
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Atom LSD
Sitting on a bench, by a fence there’s a smiley thing or two
Flowers, evergreens, and Louise, and lovely shades of blue
Meet me in the morning near my pulsing sidewalk theme
And we’ll sail this rainbow dream
Do you follow what I’m thinking
Do you know what I’m drinking
Look in my eyes, they’re electric skies
I once was Adam B, but you can call me Atom LSD
No matter what you do, déjà vu, I think we’ve all been here before
The tears on your face, they erase, the misery behind that door
Like Pavoriiti crooning another universal tune
And it’s live from your bedroom
Chorus
Spaceship hipsters come take a ride
Mushrooms clouds removed my insides
Every word been changed from black and white
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Joe the Rainbow
04:17
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Joe the Rainbow
Oh Joe, won’t you be a rainbow (2x)
It’s been a crazy long lifetime
Let’s bid goodbye to all dividing lines
Let’s love who we want to love
Let’s love who we want to love
Let’s be like birds and fly
From sun up to sundown
Let the hate be swept away by clouds
Let’s be who we wanna be
Let’s be who we wanna be
Let your heart become unbound
We know the tears have flowed like rain
That all the raging rivers could contain
We’re gonna love who we want to love
We’re gonna love who we want to love
Let the alienated proclaim
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Where Have You Gone, Pete Brown?
Poets come and poets go
Words collide and cascade slow
Pete Brown
You took a laser to my head
And a greener field became my bed
Pete Brown, Pete Brown
Are you traveling on the wind or idling downtown
Are you laying low?
It seems I’m out of luck, bullets came I learned to duck real low
I don’t mean to bring you down
I don’t mean to bring you down
But we need you around
Where have you gone, Pete Brown?
Wedding bells and waterfalls
The undertaker waits on call
Pete Brown, Pete Brown
But we don’t care, we are so weird
Rainbows gather in our beard
Pete Brown Pete Brown
Are you resting through the cold, waiting blindfolded
inquiring ?
I’ve almost lost my head, everything you said makes me sing
I don’t mean to bring you down
I don’t mean to bring you down
But we need you around
Where have you gone, Pete Brown?
In the forest no one used, I’m searching for a clue
There must be something good to bring along
The piece of sun you left is spinning like a rotary at dawn
I don’t mean to bring you down
I don’t mean to bring you down
My ear’s pinned to the ground
Where have you gone, Pete Brown?
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Tree of Woe
02:06
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Tree of Woe
Outside my door tree of woe
Leaves cover the floor, tree of woe
Inside my mind, tree of woe
I can’t leave it behind, tree of woe
From where I stand, something has to give
Beings want to live free and easy
There is no wind tree of woe
Now is the time to begin
Tree of woe
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Fort Lee Skyline
03:46
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Fort Lee Skyline
Sometimes the sun can be quite blinding
It might take you by surprise
Sometimes you don’t know what your finding
Something’s we don’t recognize
Why not take a chance we’re moving
On a similar place in time
Life just needs a little tuning
Love’s just waiting on a sign
Oh to see the Fort Lee skyline
and Othmar’s majesty
Oh to see the Fort Lee skyline
When you’re sitting here with me
Won’t you sit with me?
I’ve been hoping we’d be lazy
Stroll the boulevard supreme
Let the greedy call us crazy
No need to try to swim upstream
Sometimes the sun can be quite blinding
Sometimes it’s all the light you need
Something’s are just mesmerizing
The love you give has been received
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Margie and the Marxist
06:33
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Margie and the Marxist (a mini mini opera)
The Marxist:
Margie’s from somewhere in Piscataway
She clearly knows something I don’t
She’s says
Margie:
I wonder why you’ve been dreaming your life away
Pay attention do I have to hit you right upside your head
The Marxist:
That’s Margie, Margie from somewhere
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And I am a Marxist, and I don’t regret what I have to say
Why is it always pay and pay?
When business men they get away
with business crimes that ruin my day
What do you say?
Margie:
You’re just a middle class boy from Brooklyn town
a middle class boy from New York
You’re just a middle class boy from Brooklyn town
The Marxist:
No I am a Marxist, why keep all it to yourself
When food is scarce on many a shelf
You live alone with no one else
I have one and you have twelve
What do you say? (3x)
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Margie:
Go read a Buddhist text and be nonviolent
Maybe take up painting and you’ve gone silent
Be the one domino, that cant be tumbled
Be like a stone you know
Instrumental
The Choir: Don’t be fooled by the soul lobbyists, get the real thing (2x)
Margie:
The home in your heart is rent stabilized
We’re gonna be there a while
Til you see through that bad disguise
Get the real thing
The Marxist:
I need the real thing
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My bass explodes like TNT
Oh yeah my bass explodes
I saw your face looking back at me
Oh yeah my bass explodes
Both: Like burning suns in outer space
The Marxist:
Margie’s from somewhere in Piscataway
She clearly knows something I don’t
She’s says
Margie:
I wonder why you’re here
Are you here?
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Purple Bongs and Stairways
Wont you meet me at the gates where it all goes down
Pack up your belongings, let go of this town
Parking lot or stairway, you won’t need a sign
There’s sunshine round the bend ignore the dotted line
We’ll dance away the static lift the veil again
You’ll be so ecstatic like dancing in the rain
You’ll be cinematic you know what I mean
when we reconvene
Obstacles will vanish we’ll whistle up a tune
Laughing with the sun, calling on the moon
We’ll toast into the morning, let me paraphrase
Purple bongs and stairways
We walk familiar roads, little looks the same
I barely know the places that I have been
No blinding beams or street lights hide the stars tonight
Is it just the start of something going right?
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One Brain Cell Left
03:22
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One Brain Cell Left
One brain cell left
Lou was a bit a fool, no one knows what to do
Citizens were bereft
Perhaps we’ll call clouds of blue
Perhaps we try something new
Call the translator, prepare the texts
Bid goodbye to knowing what comes next
Let a real sense of love come down
Be a real gift of love
Let a real sense of love come down
around you
Summon the mystics, ice the brew
Call buddhas and masters of Kung Fu
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39th Dimension
04:25
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39th Dimension
Every blade of grass is alive
Can’t you see?
Look down the road awhile
Every day of mine intertwines
You and me we’ll never say goodbye
Every blade of grass is alive
Can’t you see, when you roll the dice
If we’re going downtown
Take a short cut around to the 39th dimension
When your love flows endlessly
You know I’ll be
Somewhere close nearby
When you tell me all that you know
Perhaps I’ll go and have another try
When your love is flowing endlessly
Can’t you see, won’t you take a chance
If we’re going downtown
Take a short cut around to the 39th dimension
Soon the sun and moon will be gone
But for now we know that we belong
Every blade of grass is alive
Can’t you see, when you roll the dice
If we’re going downtown
Take a short cut around to the 39th dimension
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tiny black bikini and mermaid tattoo
I came out of the waves with my lips bright blue
I’m moving like the ocean as I come into view
I live in Luna Park, a Coney Island freak
Surfing after dark, boy you wanna another peek
I’m not your average girl walking down on your street
Another summers day
tiny black bikini and mermaid tattoo
Eating cherry candy from the bottom of my knapsack
Thinking bout a boy but you can't really go back
Ruined my flip-flops, on the Boulevard
Waiting for a break in a Brooklyn backyard
A wonder wheel ride won't get you too far
Chorus
Drinking tea with Madame Katya she's gonna try to read my leaves
But I don't wanna to know what she believes
Gonna give my hand to the tattoo man
Get the North star on my palm, split the scene and the sand
I live in Luna Park, a Coney Island freak
In a brand new dress from vintage boutique
I'm not your average girl walking down on your street
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Acid Dickens
02:46
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You Make Me Dance the Cha Cha
Love is like a rainbow; love is like rain
When you came around, like love I became
Cause you’re overflowing
Like the Cauto in Cuba
You’re like New Orleans on Mardi Gras
You make me dance the cha cha
You make me dance the way I feel
You make me dance the cha cha
Your love is real
You make me move like Fred Astaire
Like the Nicholas brothers on those stairs
Like I’m floating on air, in this magic love affair
You make me dance the cha cha
Love is like an ocean, weightless in waves
Love will flow around us, the rest of our days
Just in case you’re wondering, who lit the sky
Most likely its the sunshine in you and I
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Adam Bernstein Brooklyn, New York
"..regardless of format, AB is a brilliant tunesmith whose colorful vibes blind the shady music industry." - Home News
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