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Three Steps
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Three Steps
(2576 Lombard Street, June 20, 1989)
And you’re three steps behind her
And you’re fading with the twilight heat
And she’s all you’ve got looking out for you now
So you follow her from street to street, yeah
All the rhythm in this town
You brought a beat all of your own
But it’s three steps behind her
And you’re a slave to your hunger
And you thought your begging days were done
But you’re losing your sense of direction
Just to keep her rushing in your blood
Got to keep her rushing in your blood
Got to keep her rushing in your blood
Th is is you at your peak
Th is is you at lovers’ leap
Three steps behind her
So what is left then to fear?
No one has followed you here
Your destination is clear
You can’t reach it
You can’t reach it
You can’t reach it fast enough
And you’re three steps behind her
And you think you’re in a state of grace
at you’ve found Mother Mary and sanctuary
In a room with a view of the Golden Gate
Shed your sorrow, shed your clothes
And all tomorrow no longer holds
And you’re three steps behind her
Music & Lyrics by Id Guinness
Copyright 2010 Id Guinness/Rapid Transformation Music SOCAN
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Square One
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Square One
(overheard on Cordova Street, November 14, 2007)
She is home earlier than he expected
His voice was strange on the phone
When she called him
And there they were
Covers pulled up to their ears
She saw the future disappear
The body lives but the spirit’s flown
Say goodbye to the one that you trusted
Say goodbye to all the years that you gave him
These are days
For trying not to go insane
For trying to stop the mind replaying
Your childhood friend and your shining knight
Saying ‘ is is not what it looks like’
She said ‘Destiny, I don’t believe in destiny
Fate has made a fool of me
I’ve had it with the lie
Oh, all this time, how could I have been so blind?
What a veil I’ve lived behind
I don’t know who I am
In the far recesses of my soul
In the dark, angry corners
In the black holes
Is there anything worth saving here at all?’
In her dream she is halfway to Paris
Looking down on New England from the stratus
Some sweet taste
Is gone before it leaves a trace
What’s indefinable escapes
But she has seen another life
At the end of this dark night
Th ere is a shimmering white light
And this is not what it looks like
Music & Lyrics by Id Guinness
Copyright 2010 Id Guinness/Rapid Transformation Music SOCAN
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Back of My Hand
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Back of My Hand
(AH25, December 26, 2009)
Drove a crooked highway
To ease my crooked mind
Pulled onto a derelict beach
Where the tsunamis meet the sky
In time to see Andromeda
Spelling out your name
And the epsilon and beta stars
Point me back the way I came
But I know this road like the back of my hand
I hear your voice in the back of my mind
And the way we used to laugh before
I’ve been gone since ‘005
Emptied out, still alive
But it don’t matter anymore
It’s very clear, the view from here
Reflected in my side mirror
Haunts me and you’re always near
Banda Aceh are you weeping
Tears that never dry?
I came looking for the pieces
Of the year that wouldn’t die
While low and cinematic voices
Were formulating plans
I checked out and drove away
To where the bad dreams all began
Once she was mine
Once she was my world
Music & Lyrics by Id Guinness
Copyright 2010 Id Guinness/Rapid Transformation Music SOCAN
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Going to Burning Man
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Going to Burning Man
(overheard in Petaluma, August 22, 2007)
All of the Deadheads are moving on
See the caravans fading into the mist
She’s sitting on a tailgate blowing a kiss
Down on the beach my mind is quiet now
California, send your gypsies
Got a mind to re-write history
Going to Burning Man for to break these chains
Found a reason to lose myself again
You join a crusade to try and save yourself
And wake up in e Land of Nothing Left
e future and past fight to the death
In the bullet-scarred house the family’s quiet now
California, send your gypsies
Got a mind to re-write history
Going to Burning Man for to break these chains
Found a reason to lose myself again
What is done can’t be undone
Soldier comes home, hero unsung
Holy wars cannot be won
And what is done can’t be undone
California, all that’s left of me
Is in a plan to re-write history
Going to Burning Man to give my mind a feast
Change has come and I am heading east
Music by Id Guinness & Brian Black
Lyrics by Id Guinness
Copyright2010 Id Guinness/Rapid Transformation Music & Brian Black SOCAN
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Face the Sun
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Face the Sun
(Chuschi, May 17, 1980)
It’s the weight of the fear in her eyes
That’s kept me sleepless for so long
In the dawn I realized she’d given me
Everything I ever thought I’d own . . . but one strand
She said to me ‘You’re the luckiest one
With your winning grin, your killing charm
You could meet everyone’
But I fell to the bottom of the well
Cold and alone, I sank with the stone
She said ‘Don’t look that way, don‘t look, face the sun’
Oh and how I long to be there
In that shining place you see me
She said ‘Don’t look that way, don‘t look, face the sun’
Oh and how I long to be there
In that shining place you see me
And I can’t seem to shake off
is blanket of madness I’ve woven
I struggle in darkness
You say there’s a path
I can’t see it
She said ‘Don’t look that way, don‘t look, face the sun’
Music & Lyrics by Ledenhed
Copyright 2001 Allen Cholach BMI
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Guardians of the New Frontier
(111 Washington Avenue, March 9, 2008)
Guardians of the New Frontier
Keepers of the Gated Community
In a weak moment I threw away my keys
Can you let me in?
Got no safe place left to hide
Got no offers of immunity
Stained the source of all my joy and pride
Can you let me in?
All my indiscretions
Tawdry Mayflower sessions
Hold no comfort for me now
Hell has got no fury
Like my judge and jury
I know I’ll have to face her soon but how?
What else then could I have done
To sate my morbid curiosity?
Trapped by my own conventions
I had to take my penchants underground
Scholars of the human mind
How about reverse engineering mine?
Find the primordial switch
Th at drove me into this ditch and turn it off
I see my future growing cold
See myself powerless, old
Slipping through a great divide
Don’t see no one there at all
Reaching out to break my fall
When I come out the other side
Yesterday I was really on my way
Yesterday had it all
Bombs away, the fallout’s never going away
Bombs away, watch it all fall
Leading off the evening news
Number Nine will soon be off the clock
Now the wolves are drawing near
Guardians of the New Frontier
What now?
Music & Lyrics by Id Guinness
Copyright 2010 Id Guinness/Rapid Transformation Music SOCAN
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How To Howl
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How to Howl
(41 Gransha Road, February 18, 1978)
Little survivor
It’s been a bloody war
You know your cause is lost
So what do you keep dying for?
I got caught up in the crossfire
I am down
You’re so rich in ruins
That I can’t repair
I’ve been sheltered, baby
And you make me scared
But it’s too late for me
I have fallen for you now
Now who will save you
From yourself tonight
And let you know that
Everything is gonna be all right?
All the light that I had left in me
I’ve burned for you
Take me to your gutter
When the clock strikes twelve
Watch me become a shadow
Of my former self
I am hungry to try
Something dangerous and new
Let me pick the bones
At your pauper’s feast
Teach me how to howl
Like a wounded beast
And I will worm my way
Into the heart of you
But who will save you
From yourself tonight
And let you know that
Everything is gonna be all right?
All the light that I had left in me
I’ve burned for you
Thought patterns
Take a fateful turn
The heart reacts
To what the mind confirms
These are lessons
Th at I‘ve never learned
Oh, won’t you take me down with you?
Take me down with you,
down with you
Music & Lyrics by Id Guinness
Copyright 2010 Id Guinness/Rapid Transformation Music SOCAN
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In Green and Blue Berets
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In Green and Blue Berets
(E-761, July 11, 1995)
Surface tranquility, underground heat
On sidewalk cafés, and cobblestone streets
Whispers of war, victory and defeat
Not so far away
Not so far away
National identity, refugee camps
Police everywhere, and beggar tramps
Young soldiers doing the salvation dance
In green and blue berets
Not so far away
Sitting in the sun, listening to the chatter
Casualties of hope, then nothing else matters
Hyperinflation, economy in tatters
One more cut in pay
Round marble tables, coffee or tea
From where I sit it's impossible to see
Why such a place needs an enemy
No one here can say
There seems more shock than there is blame
In the eyes of those whose homes were in flames
But for the ones in the easy part of the game
It’s just another day
Not so far away
Music by Id Guinness
Lyrics by Mookie Brando
Copyright 2010 Id Guinness/Rapid Transformation Music & Mookie Brando SOCAN
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Life As We Know It
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Life As We Know It
(70117, August 29, 2005)
Take these broken wings
Oh my fallen angel
A tank of gasoline
For this dead end road
Hang on to them baby
All these useless things
Th is covenant’s broken
But you know you still want to believe
Th at life as we know it
Is something that nobody’d dare
Steal away, steal away
Shelter from the storm
Th e shiny FEMA trailer
The hope we held out for
Th e promise we fell for
Hang on to it baby
Wear it like a ring
Th is covenant’s broken
Broken words that don’t mean anything
If life as we know it
Is something that nobody’d care
To steal away, steal away
Take a message to our loved ones
To our friends and daughters and sons
Death it may have silenced our tongues
But we have reached our higher ground
We are here, the souls unburied
Th e voices that do not carry
In this city we will tarry
Until these streets again have sound
As we know it
Music & Lyrics by Id Guinness
Copyright 2010 Id Guinness/Rapid Transformation Music SOCAN
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Annapurna
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Annapurna
(Nawanshahr, December 16, 2009)
Take me with you, oh my sister
Fearless lover, immolated bride
I, all others have forsaken
My faith was shaken
It did not survive
Now your spirit haunts this place
In the dark I still see your face
Time, it never will erase what once was
In this sad house heavy with secrets
Still your fragrance fills the air
So long as my heart will keep beating
ere will be no peace here, I swear
Now your spirit haunts this place
In the dark I still see your face
Time, it never will erase what once was
I will wander unashamed
In the fields where we would lay
All for honour we have paid
Such a price
Music & Lyrics by Id Guinness
Copyright 2010 Id Guinness/Rapid Transformation Music SOCAN
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Free World
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Free World
(Milly-la-Forêt/Plascassier, October 11, 1963)
It’s all about me again
Now I am free again
Nothing is holding me back
Over the moon am I
High as the bright blue sky
I’m wiping my prints, erasing my tracks
I long for these things when I become unsharpened
I’m in a beautiful cloud as I sink to the carpet
I have taunted this tragedy, dared this disaster
I’ve come to believe
There is just one way out of this cage
Cold in the morning gloom
Th e one that I scurry from
Well, I’ve taken the bait
Now I’ve only got myself to blame
No cheap sentiment in this poetry filling my head
How strange, the remorse for playing the game
She said ‘I want you to know
Th at I’m here to support you
You can see all I offer, the doors I can open
I’m a patron of art and your foreign boy beauty’
I felt light as a feather
But I sang like a bird in a cage
Now an Aznavour song’s floating up from the parlour
Wisps of afterglow smoke are lacing the air
I can feel my youth draining away
Here in the free world
Well, I saw my chance
But I couldn’t get there from here
You can try but you can’t get there from here
You can try but you can’t get there from here
And I’ve tried but I can’t get there from here
Music by Id Guinness, Duane O’Kane, Graham Mason & Douglas Fitch
Lyrics by Id Guinness
Copyright 2010 Id Guinness/
Rapid Transformation Music, Duane O’Kane,
Graham Mason & Douglas Fitch SOCAN
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Atlas Drops the Ball
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Atlas Drops the Ball
(Dixia Cheng, 1969/2008)
Everybody’s going underground
They're cashing in, they’re digging down
‘Cause it took too long to make them understand
To pull their heads out of the sand
Now I’m going crazy from the heat
But here we are, so cling to me like cellophane
In your room down the hall
While Atlas drops the ball
Everyone pretended to be blind
They wouldn’t see the warning signs
So no one thought to take back all the fighting words they said
The lines are broken, the tribe has spoken
Now being there’s not what it used to be
Th e will to love, the thrill is gone
And I see ghosts that I never used to see
I used to count the stars
I once believed I was a small piece of the puzzle
A long note held on Ziggy’s red guitar
I used to see through you,
Th e colours that surround us,
All the energy, (dissolving now)
Th e unexploded view
I used to dream in blue
Music & Lyrics by Id Guinness
Copyright 2010 Id Guinness/Rapid Transformation Music SOCAN
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We've Been Legend Tripping
(Natchez, September 17, 2005)
Take a left turn at the light
Th ird house on the right
Th at’s where the waters parted
Th at’s where I took flight
From worry lines and rosaries
From shuttered minds and stifled needs
And good books filled with cautionary tales
To remind me
That anything can happen
Everything can change
Anything can happen if you go there
So don’t go there
I have fallen for a girl
Who’s seen her share of ghosts
We’ve been legend tripping
Up and down the gulf coast
Now there’s a scar across her mind
A neuron bent and misaligned, untreatable
But I’ve hung in long enough to believe
Anything can happen
Everything can change
Anything can happen
The one I was, the ones I left
Long ago before regret,
Dark rites of passage
Laid the poison on the path
They’ve disappeared
The boy has flown
Into the wild, blue unknown
Blown away, scattered like ash
Never to come back
Music & Lyrics by Id Guinness
Copyright 2010 Id Guinness/Rapid Transformation Music SOCAN
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Id Guinness Vancouver, British Columbia
Singer/songwriter/producer/keyboardist Id Guinness has performed and recorded with many Canadian and international artists
over the years and has released three full length solo albums.
In addition to his solo work, he performs with Vancouver band 'The Red Herring Collective.'
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