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The MOP
03:39
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The MOP
clock in, clock out
time ticking out of me.
don’t got no MOP,
so I sell myself away.
working minimum wage,
no control over anything I create.
my mind’s so far away.
boss watchin’,
must extract every drop from me.
numb, divorced from
any sense of humanity.
working minimum wage,
no connection to anything that I make.
endless laboring days,
wishing I was anywhere but this damn place.
my mind’s so far away.
deep in debt,
keep my head down to keep working.
no union,
so no voice representing me.
why do we work this way?
let’s kick out the bosses and run it our way.
not for them, but for us,
seize control of the MOP and create a new way,
from each to all who need.
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2. |
Stereomad
04:35
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I have suffered in my cell,
convict myself
locked away, no key
I felt the waves of doubt
pressing down on top of me.
I was wandering in my self
I was lost, I was suffering
then I saw you standing there
shining full of sad beauty
when I opened my eyes now
saw you there, you were suffering
I felt awake, as though
I just woke up from a dream
I was suffering in my cell
but then I fell
into your arms, now free
we found a way, tore down
all those old false boundaries
I was waiting by myself
killing time, quixotically strangling
all the needs that maimed me, oh
left me numb with soul aching
I was heavy and so weighed down
again I felt somewhere lost in me
but you stood beside me, oh
I hope you know what it meant to me
I was struggling with myself
convinced that now, alone I’d always be
but you changed my mind
opened me to hope and love again
I was overwhelmed by your eyes,
transfixed in time
transported out of me
we both escape from all
of those old false boundaries
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3. |
Open Door
04:02
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I seek with my mind an open door,
I burn with a need to always be more
expanding
walk out of the shade into the light
yearn to disinfect myself with sunshine
oh, cleanse me.
I never sold my core, I’ll never sell you out
I fight the seductions that whisper to me rotten lies in a voice of gold
I never will back down from what I think is right
I’ll never sell the truth for my convenience or as a means to goals
I struggle to be a better me,
I open myself to life and learning
expanding
I guard against lazy slow decay
resisting the gravitation towards gray
and self-loathing
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4. |
Spidermazes
03:43
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Spidermazes
in the clouds
I can float now
in daydreams
raining down
imagination’s mystery
when those spidermazes
race within my brain
and the droning days
dissolve into a haze
I escape outside myself
and ride my dreams
taste the magical
always remarkable in form
just like ground
seeks the sound
of falling rain
heads need time
in the clouds
to be sane
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5. |
Soft
03:53
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sink into time,
riding lovely flowing sounds
meeting of minds,
knowing silence,
closing eyes
no need to speak,
don’t break the dream
opening wide,
and receiving transmissions now
deep in the void,
contradictions
feedback divine
no need to speak,
don’t break the dream
quietly glide,
harmonizing into life
thinking in song,
drifting inward,
flowing along
no need to speak,
don’t break the dream
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6. |
Hey Man
02:42
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Hey Man
hey man, where have you gone
after all this time?
wasting your life in your sorrows,
drowning in the dirt.
worried, panic’s parade,
paranoid refrain,
out of control, overwhelming
the soul shudders.
hey man, why don’t you ever relax
and take life as it comes in its way?
stop concern.
wake up, can you not see that it’s still waiting,
for you to revive from self-pity?
extinguish the burn.
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7. |
I Don't Know
03:47
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The same everyday
all those things that you say
but half believe
closer you step
the more complex it gets
can’t be certain
every event it has
multiple threads all
weaving in
but causes, effects
they don’t always connect
just like you think
and oh, how the days
they keep making their way
bitter and sweet
the forms that you make
they contribute in some way
can’t be certain
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8. |
Everywhere at Dawn
04:13
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Everywhere at Dawn
morning wakes and takes a yawn
dew drops glitter on the lawn
oh I soak
seeing everywhere at dawn
sitting just where I belong
oh I hope
coffee grains and cinnamon
swinging, honking of a horn
oh I woke
faces filing all along
smiling sadness with a yawn
oh I spoke
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9. |
Epicenter
03:18
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Epicenter
you leave me darling but I won’t let go
of all those memories that nourish my soul
I see you now with love looking down
I feel your strength encouraging me now.
you’re amazing positive beliefs
disinfect the darkness in me
you’re an epicenter of love,
sending out waves to wash over us
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10. |
Sidewalks
03:31
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pacing over me, once again you enter my dreams
rewind play again, all those years you walked beside me friend.
oh those sidewalks turning over now in my mind.
oh those sidewalks burning on and on in my mind.
wasted hours, regain their power
yet I hold on to when we were in song.
late night walks and grins, secret miles inside the bliss of skin
pain of absentness, curse of habits that no longer fit
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11. |
Bias
04:28
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neurons aligned to fire, shoot on sight
inhibit any message not in line
a will in place to not see, not think.
deification of fear and greed.
staring at the void inside your eyes
glazed over now by dark, cynical lies
go take your share and be somebody
go shopping now and be all you can be
will you see past what you have known?
will you ever question what you’re told?
every day a scene of dropping bombs
every way to find peace feels cut off
we share so much human hopes and dreams
love necessary to find meaning
scientists and poets ecstasy
child’s play and parents’ selfless deeds
the seeds are there to find a new way
just let the best of ourselves create
don’t you tell me there’s no love
don’t you tell me there’s no hope
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12. |
Right Way To Go
04:39
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Right Way To Go
hey, let’s go
those countless lives,
desperately strive
to see the sun
yearning for
what was lost before
when we were young
unconscious knowing,
never doubting
we belong
then the silence grows,
the void it moans
and on our own,
find the right way to go
seeking for
the meaning ever dancing
just beyond our reach
we glimpse it here and there
when we feel most at home
in friends and art and love,
but never stays for long
so we explore and discover more
and create our own, right way to go
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13. |
The Seal and Whale
04:03
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tripping on the ground beneath my feet
walking into walls in front of me
the hemisphere is gray, the rain is pounding hard
riding rollercoasters up and down
turning in my stomach, nausea
try to keep my head above dark waters gathering round me as I…
make my way alone again
I’ve been wrong as I can be
wanted more but I could never say
just what I want or what I need.
I wanna see
another way
lifted off the ground, into the air
everything around me disappears
happiness and satisfaction enclose me
but never find the way to stay too long
blazes through the mind and then it’s gone
tumbled off the trail and lost inside a thousand mazes
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THE WHEEL WORKERS Houston, Texas
The Wheel Workers are a Texas-based music collective that has been around since 2000.
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