Citizens For A Hard Work Free Society

I tell you, it's amazing
You're so lazy
Don't want to give it
What you got
What you've got is nothing
It's nothing

But that won't phase me
I'm not the one going crazy
Trying to keep up
With what they bought
'cause what they bought
Is nothing... it's nothing

Listen citizen babies
Society of daisies
Hard work has made me
What I'm not
A free and righteous robot
And roaming...

Listen/download Citizens For A Hard Work Free Society

Question

Early post... this week we're having a short-song double-whammy. Stay tuned!



I heard the sound of a question
Reaching for the other side
Of noise and tar
Trying a mischievous
Joke in possession
Declining every offer
To flame the spark since gone

Lean on my stripes and spots
Ask the question
Drag the cross
Beside a trusted to find
Be my guest just
Ignore any signs

(That is way off!)

One's been accused and arrested
Another's going to win the
Pillow plumber prize
Unless a drop from the roof top
Kills this rhyme, then
We'll hafta let funeral flowers decide

Take the sickle
Bring the cycle
To an end

Break the circle

Let the hypocrites dress you
For your own party

Listen/Download Question

Only Now

Ready for the kiss of the giraffes
G                  A
They were standing in the halls
           E
As if they weren't too tall
G
That's not their fault

Bmsus               Am
Yes, you have to do something
       Em                 A
If you want to feel better
              E
The world is waiting

Arms crossed
  G
A foot tapping the ground
A         E
It's only now
     G
It's only now

Bm          Am                 Em
Just when I thought that I was done
          A
They were singing "you have to
E               G
start all over again"
A              E
I don't listen to these men
G              Bm
This time I'm moving on

Am          Em
Even being alone
Bm              Am
You will always be remembered
    Em
For trees and flowers
Bm
Ships that sailed
   Am
Beyond these walls
   Em
To waterfalls
      A
Where we run out of
E
Things to say and 
G
Live for the moment

Bm                  Am
Yes, you have to do something
            Em
If you want life to be better
A                  E
You can't help but paint
          G
The world sweet and sour

Bm                  Am
Yes, you have to do something
       Em                 A
If you want to feel better
             E
The world is waiting

Arms crossed
G
A foot tapping the ground
A         E
It's only now…
G      Bm
Only now
Am Em A E G Bm Am Em
            (fade)

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Spiraling

When you feel down
Think of this spiral galaxy
You're in now
And you're spinning
Round and round
And round and round
It never ends despite this desperation

If the sun doesn't make it hot
It's just a bright dot
In your home spot
Another wave that says

Yohoo! Here I am!
You who? Here I am!

When you feel small
Ask what's this subatomic
Junk I never realized
Was here before

And it keeps jumping
Up and down and up and down
Up and down and up and down
It's never found
Drag you in
Don't have a cow
But look around
If time ever bends, it waves

Listen/Download Spiraling

Playing The Scar

I haven't found the people
I can't see
That's why I tell you the social life
Is not for me

I set these things in motion
Set them free
And use the rest of the magic
To put me to sleep

I come across the tragic
Fleeting as years
Still haven't found a solution
For my growing fears

We dissolve the reasons
Feelings appear
Blurred focus in anger
Knows who is here

At least I fought
Yeah, I fought
Now I'm playing the scar
Playing the scar inside

I haven't found the people
I can't see
It's not for me

I set these tricks/dreams in motion
As they love to be
Use the rest of the magic
To set me free

Hear/Download Playing The Scar

History

Now
Take back your crown
Put it down
Say it out loud
"I'm not so proud"
Of these words
Hear the wind
It's still
I was wrong

No clear thoughts or sounds
To adjust your history
You can be a leaf in the wind
Just to find your memories

Seize the moment
Or leave a hole
Inside your soul
The one you left behind
Is waiting for you
Come next time

No clear thoughts or sounds
To adjust your history
You can be a leaf in the wind
Just to find your memories

Life threw these
Choices before you
One leads to misery
The other, just the same
In a grateful way
What you know for sure
Is that something
Will work out
While something else
Goes wrong…
No clear thoughts or sounds
To adjust your history
You can be a leaf in the wind
Just to find your memories

No clear thoughts or sounds
To adjust your history
You can be a leaf in the wind
Just to find your memories

There is no mystery now
You're as sad as a lyric sheet
I would be a leaf in the wind
Just to find you a melody

You can be a leaf in the wind just to find your memories.
Listen to and download History (yes, all of it.)

Angled Truth

I could signify
Any mess in this room
Practice breaking rhyme
Swing a pendulum, too
I write plenty of letters
Read nothing new
Coming right on over
To relieve your doom
Need confetti and light
Need some record glue
Meter rhyme and sign
Pretend that I knew

Never mind
The damned have sinned in
Love that swam
Down in singles
I'll be silent
To prove that you don't know
Crawling out
Instead of sitting

Half-second loss
Trying to rescue my crew
If I connect the dots
Like it, too
Like it too much
Will I get through

Exactly now
An embellished tongue
Twists round you
When the seas are red
And the ships are blue

Nervous silence
Uhhh
Undecided
Swerve peel and slide
Undecided
Crossing through

Found a massive thread
Hugging tight the spool
Set sail south
Pin your hopes to my ears
It could change your life
Could burn it, too

From inside the track
An angled truth
In the aftermath
We have oil crude

We might decide
To take your side

(see you)
Ramble on that perspective.
Listen to and download Angled Truth

Losersillusion

Have some respect
For losers like me
We make all you cool kids
Look so free

Guess what?
It's just an illusion
Tricked
Just an illusion
You've been tricked
Loser's illusion

Got your own place
You're winning the race
Tattoos and scars
Gone so very far
I'll tell you what I think
We're all small fish

Guess what? I know something you don't know.
Listen to and download Losersillusion

Detach/Refute

Going from no destination to driving ruthlessly toward a target.
Listen to and download Detach/Refute

Release Destination

This beach never ends. It comes around.
Listen to and download Release Destination

Spectacle

Listen to and download Spectacle

What you see is what you judge? Critics and their fudge need not apply. Let you be, let me be.

Fear Infection

Jumbled thinking, f-ing lies. Confusion-busting desire for clarity. All or nothing. Now or never.

Listen to and download Fear Infection

Escape Velocity

 Against the ropes, letting go, long gone. Listen to and download Escape Velocity

Hesitate

 

Standing knee-deep in the river of indecision. Witnessing impossible events.

download Sober Zebra — "Hesitate" on iTunes

About the Sober Zebra Music Blog

This blog will feature music by the lo-fi, 197% indie home-recording project Sober Zebra.
Every week a stream for one song from the catalog will be posted with a one-line description.

Tracks are available for download from Sober Zebra's bandcamp site (some for free). You dig?