“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”

This is a song where the curtain is removed, and all we have left is the man. Well…. the man and his guitar. Nothing else.

There is obvious allusions to computer networking, but they are not the true meaning. The true meaning should be obvious….

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Never is a long time
To live in this cave
Forever I am waiting
In this bed I have made

Prechorus:
I wish there was something (someone)
To connect me
I wish there was something (someone)
To infect me

Chorus:
Cut off from the network
Down here, off the grid
Cut off from affection
Down here, off the grid

Verse 2:
Walls made of fire
Everyone is burned
Halls echo empty
Oh why am I spurned

 

 Standard Podcast [4:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (54)

We now return you to your regularly scheduled pogroming. Now I decided to leave my usual editorial commentary off the postings for Bdelugma to allow them to stand on their own merits, it was interesting to see peoples reactions…. and it will hopefully continue to be interesting as more people stumble across this site.

Stumbling being the operative word, since this weeks song is about moonshine. Specifically the making of moonshine…. although since such activities are illegal in many countries, states and provinces (at least without the proper permits) so don’t get inspired by the lyrics without understanding that there may be consequences.

Those consequences may just be ejection of your stomach contents, or maybe doing something you probably shouldn’t with your cousin. This song was in part inspired by the awful Dukes of Hazzard prequel movie…. it was so bad I had to write this song to cleanse my mind of the odious corruption of that film. A bit more rock than my usual stuff, with a good dose of hillbilly blues. The vocals were one single take, just because I could…. or maybe just to show myself that I could.

Questions, comments and offers to have a drink to my email…. and a very special hello to my newest fans…. it seems quite a few people have discovered my music recently. Remember to tell all your friends about me.

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Start with the water
Then add plain white sugar
Yeast makes it ferment
Leave it til it is done
Then comes distil time
Heat it to seventy
Degrees celcius
Condense….
Phase shift to water
Need liquid cos we’re

Chorus:
Shining the moon
You’ll be throwing up soon
Shining the moon
Sing this hillbilly tune
Shining the moon
Gonna drink til you swoon
Shining the moon
Breaking the law in our homemade saloon

Verse 2:
Now take the good stuff
Dilute with plain water
Forty percent
Is the target
Now we filter
Thru some activated
Carbon to make
It taste….
Like pure vodka
Shoot it down cos we’re

 

 Standard Podcast [3:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (51)

1 Peter 5:8 (ESV) - “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Water of death, cloudy as metal
Hydrates the flesh, no longer skeletal
Lift up my eyes, where does my help come
Mana inside, origin no one
(Abomination, Bdelugma)
Way of the wicked, honey to sweeten
For I am bringing, knowledge forbidden
The narrow path, all is vanity
My former path, corrupted sanity
(Abomination, Bdelugma)

Chorus:
Now I am,
(Who was and is not and is to come)
Prowling Lion

Verse 2:
Unleashing my force, temple to profane
No offering to burn, your prayers are in vain
Cleansing your mind, with my revelation
Driven by false hope, there is no salvation
(Abomination, Bdelugma)
Breaking the chains, escaping from the pit
Enlighten the nations, no need to submit
Burn the holy books, slaughter all the priest
Join with me now, come follow the beast
(Abomination, Bdelugma)

 

 Standard Podcast [4:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (53)

Ezekiel 37:1,2,11 (ESV) - “The hand of the lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the spirit of the lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me around amoung them, and behold, there were many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry…. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.’”

Lyrics:

Chorus:
Dessicated flesh
Here will I rest
Dry bones
The valley of dry bones

I have no breath
Approaching Death
Dry bones
The valley of dry bones

Verse 1:
Depressed, Recessed
All I have are demons here
Dejected, Disconnected
There never was a sacrifice

Verse 2:
Morose, No dose
I swore to the razor
Apathetic, Ascetic
All I see covered in dirt

Verse 3:
Lifeless, Distress
You’d not live past 25
Atrabilious, Hopeless
There must be some way out of here

 

 Standard Podcast [4:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (60)

Matthew 7:13-14 (ESV) - “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”

Lyrics

Verse 1:
Wide…. is the path
That leads…. the only option
Alone…. in the chaff
For gone…. is guise adoption
This way…. where do I head
No guide… where should I tread

Chorus:
Down the wide path
Down the wide path
Nothing is made known
Fullness of despair
I am all alone
Presence is not there
No resort to prayer
(Down the wide path)

Verse 2:
Dark…. is the road
My teeth…. start to gnash
The water…. that once flowed
Is now…. dust and ash
Cast out…. joyful delusion
Depressed…. by my conclusion

 

 Standard Podcast [5:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (56)