I've set up a
June 10, 2007 blog category so you can see the all the songs in one place. Zips available soon too...

Special thanks to a friend of mine that talked me into including this song in my set.
(You know who you are :-)

I almost pulled it the day before -- and it ended up being one of the best songs of the night.

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Slipping Away
Words by Lisa Rein - Music by Lisa Rein and Ron Taylor
As Performed and Played by Lisa Rein June 10, 2007

Lately, I can't seem to unwind
I'd put my feet in the air
But there's too much on my mind
And I'm just
Traveling with my face in a jar
I got one foot in the door
And things are fine how they are

But sometimes I think
I got it made in the shade
And then, starts a feeling like it's slipping away
In my mind

But everything seems ok
Everything seems ok

Dying
I'm dying to win
And I'll be killing myself
To be born over again
Are you lying?
I ain't too sure who you are
You're just a traveling salesman with your face in a jar

It's always when I think that something's coming my way
Then I get that funny feeling like it's slipping away
For the last time

But everything seems ok
Everything seems ok
Yeah

It's always when I think that something's coming my way
Then I get that funny feeling that it's slipping away
In my mind

But everything seems ok
Everything seems ok
Yeah everything seems ok
Everything seems ok
Yeah everything

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I've set up a
June 10, 2007 blog category so you can see the all the songs in one place. Zips available soon too...

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Tyrant
Words and Music by Lisa Rein
As Performed June 10, 2007

There's a tyrant coming soon
Thinking 'bout the afternoon
There's a monster that you love
There's an angel

There's a monster coming soon
There's a tyrant
And it's you
Tell me what you gonna do about it

Oh there's a place I used to know
Things would come and things would go on around me

Like I wasn't there at all
Saw the writing on the wall
Guess I didn't see you fall away

There's a monster in the dark
There's a ghost in central park
Tell me who you really are
I ask you

Oh there's a place I used to know
Things would come and things would go right around me
Oh won't you come on out and play
Don't leave me alone today

Tell me what you gonna do?
There's a tyrant and it's you
There's a guilded golden cage
There's that face won't go away

You've been lying to yourself
Ain't been listen to the bells
No more stories left to tell that matter

Tyrant in your head
Curled up next to you in your bed
There's a memory in your mind
Slipping through the sands of time
There's a jingle in your head
Of everything you never said
Tell me
What you gonna do about it?

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A little double of political ditties just in time for the 4th!

A perfect bitter pair of tunes on what it feels like to be an American today...

I've set up a
June 10, 2007 blog category so you can see the all the songs in one place. Zips available soon too...

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James Brown Died on Christmas/Improving
Words and Music by Lisa Rein
As Performed June 10, 2007

James Brown died on christmas
They found him in the morning
It came without a warning

It seems like only last december
I was looking up his police record
To settle a trivial family battle

And I don't mean no disrespect
And I'm not saying anything at all
Cause nothing's ever written on the wall
But I hope that he's in a better place
In a better place

It was the first thing I heard on christmas morning
I saw it on the tele
It was a holiday of tragedy and tyranny

When only a few days later
We were hanging a dictator
As a symbol of democracy

And I'm not saying anything
Cause no one's even listening anymore
And there's not much I really know for sure
But I know that he's in a better place
In a better place

(Improving starts here)

Cut off the power lines my friend
Shut off the water too
The benefits will never end
When we're done bringing this to you

We're just improving
improving yeah yeah yeah
improving
improving yeah yeah yeah

Kill off your family one by one
but we'll give you some rights when we're all done
yeah
It's such a drag
but it's not us!
If you can tough it out
You'll make it.

improving
improving yeah yeah yeah
improving
improving yeah yeah yeah

improving
improving yeah yeah yeah
improving
improving yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah

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This song's not about anyone in particular. Just a feeling. I think we've all been there :-)

I've set up a
June 10, 2007 blog category so you can see the all the songs in one place.

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No More Of You
Words and Music by Lisa Rein
As Performed June 10, 2007

Great to see ya baby
ya know it's been a long long time
Got a minute baby?
I got something on my mind

Seems like I should be kissing you
the whole night through
and now you'll never know the things
that i was gonna do
and it's making me blue
that I ain't getting no more of you
it's making me blue
that I ain't getting no more of you

Thinking bout cha lately
seems you're always on my brain
I try to find some piece of mind
but it's driving me insane

So say it isn't over
even if it isn't true
cause there don't seem to be no way of getting over you
and it's making me blue
that I ain't getting no more of you

So tell me that you love me
even if it's not true
cause i just wanna hear it one more time
and I wanna hear it from you
it's making me blue
that I ain't getting no more of you
it's making me blue
that I ain't getting no more of you

it's making me blue
that I ain't getting
no more of
you

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archive of songs from this show.

Update! - New! MP3 of this song:

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Last Digression
Words and Music by Lisa Rein
As Performed June 10, 2007

In my mind
In my head
I can't seem to find
the answers to my questions
I can see them
I can hear in their direction
through the darkness
and the madness
and the emptyness
getting closer to
a vacuum-filled unconsciousness
a false impression
of my very last digression

by my side
in your bed
you will never find
the secret to your laughter
and you don't seem to mind
that you cannot find an answer
to the darkness and the madness
ad the emptyness
getting closer to the memory
of your consciousness
a fool's procession towards your very last

digression
a confession in my mind
to your lighter side
that's hiding all the answers

second chances
heavy breathers breathing one last breath
surrounded
confounded by the sounding of a warning
a confession
vivisection of your memories
and they seduce me

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archive of songs from this show.

This one's called "Futurama." I just wrote it a few weeks ago.
Update 07-02-07. New! MP3 available:

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I'm trying to figure out how to generate mp3s easily...Now that stupid Itunes generates mp4s instead of mp3's from my .mov clips (like it used to - quite conveniently).
Update: 7/02/07 - just decided to extract audio in iMovie and then use itunes...

I'll set up another blog post with the whole show in it too...

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Futurama
Words and Music by Lisa Rein
As performed at Ireland's 32, June 10, 2007

You, must think I'm a fool
I wanna reach over and tell you something

You I barely know you
and now you got me here sitting and staring at nothing

Well I don't know what's happening
But I know that something is
And I don't know what the future will bring
But it's bringing something for me

You, don't know about you
ya you're just over there working
making something from nothing

You, feels like I know you
Though it couldn't be true
I only know one thing

That I don't know what's happening
But I know that something is
And I may not know what the future may bring
But it's bringing something for me
Something for me

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