Memoirs in a Song...
Stories, Stones and Bones is a name given to me in a dream some 10+ years ago. I used the title for my first book of lyrics when I sent it to be copywritten... This blog is a compendium of my book of lyrics, from 1996 to present.
The name holds a sense of ancient wisdom, which I hope begins to seep thru my songs: What are the stories the earth tells, that are written on our ancestral bones? What is the deeper pool of knowledge that we can drink from as we birth ourselves into creative evolutionary beings? Where are our roots? What is the journey we have taken, personally and collectively?...
And so begins the story, woven in song, as fallen through the lyrics of my music...
More lyrics will be coming soon (I've written well over 100 songs!)... In the meantime, I hope you enjoy!
[Please note that you will want to read from bottom to top (in reverse). The "archive by date" list on the lefthand side will help your journey - which begins in March of 1996, when the first song flew out of my lips... You can also search by THEMES: the songs which I like a lot or are in current performance rotation are in the theme of *favorites*]
Ha ha haaaa!!! Oh my gawd - this one is just soooo funny. You have to realize that it's a headbanger song, first off. And secondly, that I wrote it in Canyonlands, Utah. What?! Well, my friends' research was a little off, and the canyon we chose to camp in allowed 4x4 vehicles! So several times a day we'd hear these demonic dirt-bikes digging through the sacred beauty of the canyon. This is my humorous response...
I am dug in, drugged out, draggin’ through the soil
On this concrete I toil
Cuz I’m a gearhead, yeah a motorbrain
Call me insane, I’m just a part of the machine, yeah!
I’m boxed in, bugged out, blazing through the maze
Don’t stop me, I’m crazed
Cuz I’m a gearhead, yeah a motorbrain
Call me insane, I’m just a part of the machine, yeah!
I’m plugged in, pissed off, poisoning the earth
Give me a wide berth
Cuz I’m a corporate head, yeah a business brain
Call me insane, I’m just a part of the machine, yeah!
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© May 1999, Canyonlands, UT
Hi, Ariana. This is Loren. We are friends, but total strangers. Anyway, reminds me of Rob Zombie lyrics, in terms of rhythm...I hope you don't consider that offensive -- I have high regard for him as an artist, as I do you.
ReplyDeleteDo you approach Sanskrit differently?...Take the text, and use it in your music?...Do you, 'free write', that is, (as I might imagine it), write words in English, and translate to Sanskrit?
I've admired your music on Myspace. I myself, while fully engaged in a project, hope to take on an opera in Sanskrit. I was so disappointed, when I found that Glass had written an opera in Sanskrit -- but then, there is no reason to suppose that there isn't room for another.