Waiting for the Good Guys to Win Again

It’s been so long I feel left out
A four year song from the Mudsling Tower

So lay it on me
Lay it on me
I’m not afraid, no
I’m not afraid

I’m waiting, waiting, waiting
For the good guys to win again
I’m waiting, waiting, waiting
For the good guys to win
I’m waiting, wait – stop waiting!

We talk of change and lend a helping hand
A screaming mob don’t make a band

So lay it on me
Lay it on me
I’m not afraid, no
I’m not afraid

I’m waiting, waiting, waiting
For the good guys to win again
I’m waiting, waiting, waiting
For the good guys to win
I’m waiting, wait – stop waiting!

There’s gotta be something left of
What I though we were building
So let me hear
It can’t all be debatable
Some things have got to be principles
So let me hear

I’m waiting, waiting, waiting
For the good guys to win again
I’m waiting, waiting, waiting
For the good guys to win
I’m waiting, waiting, waiting
For the good guys to win again
I’m waiting, wait – stop waiting!

Anthem for the Nerds

Figurines from movie scenes
Collectibles more than you have seen
Yeah, that’s me

Holding on was never wrong
Until you came along and smiled at me
Now I’m in retreat

Yeah, I’m givin’ it up for you, love
Yeah, I’m givin’ it all up
I’m givin’ it up for you, love
’Cause I don’t wanna break up
Yeah, I’m giving it up for you, love
Yeah, the hours that I’ve wasted
I’m givin’ it up for you, love
I’m givin’ it up
I’m givin’ it up now

So everytime you come around
I hide my superheroes in the couch
And my flix in the cloud

And everytime you’re telling me
My place is nice but somehow squeaky clean
It’s almost obscene

Yeah, I’m givin’ it up for you, love
Yeah, I’m givin’ it all up
I’m givin’ it up for you, love
’Cause I don’t wanna break up
Yeah, I’m giving it up for you, love
Yeah, the hours that I’ve wasted
I’m givin’ it up for you, love
I’m givin’ it up
I’m givin’ it up now

Wait! Can I get a word in?
I see you, so please be quiet now
Please! Let’s free your people
I can feel them everytime we kiss
No, I won’t miss
Thor’s hammer in my ribs

So from here on out my own self-doubt
And secrecy are no longer policy
This I’ll decree

Yeah, I’m givin’ it up for you, love
Yeah, I’m givin’ it all up
I’m givin’ it up for you, love
’Cause I don’t wanna break up
I’m giving it up for you, love
Yeah, the hours that I’ve wasted
I’m givin’ it up for you, love
I’m givin’ it up
I’m givin’ it up now

I’m givin’ it up now
I’m givin’ it up now
I’m givin’ it up now
I’m givin’ it up
I’m givin’ it up now

Stranglehold

I’m leaving like a bullet train
I’m leaving faster than you thought I’d make my way
And I’m guessing you’ll just stick around
I’m guessing you will be the last one outta town

This is easy
Easy-breezy
’Til you see me
Oh no Jon, you don’t!
Forget about our rigmarole?

You got a stranglehold
And you won’t let go
You got a stranglehold
On my leaving soul

But I’m leaving like the arrow flies
I’m leaving straight and narrow right between your spies
I will never be wholly rid of you
You will never be mine again tightening that noose

This is easy
Easy-breezy
’Til you see me
Oh no Jon, you don’t!
Forget about our rigmarole?

You got a stranglehold
On my leaving soul
You got a stranglehold
But you won’t let go

A stranglehold
On my leaving soul
No more stranglehold
’Cause you’re gon’ let go

Just Like Balloons

Now that we’re older
Yet no wiser still
The Earth has commanded us
To move in for the kill

So now I lay dying
After trying too hard
You place a bandaid
On my bruising heart
Just like a movie star

We’re fleeting just like balloons
We’re floating just like balloons

Under these skies I know not to want
I’ll pull you in closer, hone in on warmth

I’m prettiest sleeping
And most useful by far
I’ve stumbled to greatness
Right into your arms
Just like a movie star

We’re fleeting just like balloons
We’re floating just like balloons
We’re floating, just me and you

They’ll drag me down
From my stand
Push me aside
If they think they can

I’m heavy weight
But not dead yet
A headful of dreams
I’ve not put to bed

All I need
And all I want
Is you by my side
Against all odds
You are love

Just like balloons
We’re fleeting just like balloons
We’re floating just like balloons
We’re wrinkling just like balloons

Agents of the Change

One night in a dream in Florence, I saw a song
Pre-Pumpkin Billy strumming, with hair down long

No matter our struggle, we’ll rally behind
All the dreams we want to find

We’re all agents of the change
We’re all agents of the change

That night in a dream in Florence, I saw a hope
Born of the destitution of normal folk

No matter our struggle, we’ll rally behind
All the dreams we want to find

We’re all agents of the change
We’re all agents of the change
We’re united by a name
We’re all agents of the change

A change in the weather
A planet for the better
A change in our purses
An end to our curses
A change in our leaders
A god for believers
A change in myself now
’Cause we all need it, somehow

One night in a dream in Florence, I saw a song
Heard all the paintings talk

We’re all agents of the change
We’re all agents of the change
We’re united by a name
We’re all agents of the change

March of the Ghosts

Mmm…

Mother don’t leave me
Yeah, I’m waiting on the shore
The boats are all leaving
There ain’t nothing here no more

The ghosts are all here now
Pushing towards the sea
White sands turn to ashes
Under their wicked feet

Mmm…
Forgetful, forgetful
Don’t worry, I won’t be

Mmm…
Forgetful, forgetful
Don’t worry, I won’t be

Mother, I’m next now
’Less I push out to the waves
This land was our land
But now it’s all our graves

The ghosts are all reaching
But against them there’s no fight
Like all of my kinsmen
I must swallow all my pride

Mmm…
Forgetful, forgetful
Don’t worry, I won’t be

Mmm…
Forgetful, forgetful
Don’t worry, I won’t be

Mother don’t leave me
I’ve been waiting here for days
Mother I’m next now
’Less I push out to the waves

Mmm…
Forgetful, forgetful
I’m sorry, I won’t be

Mmm…
Forgetful, forgetful
I’m sorry, I won’t be

The Nature of Things

Oh-oh-oh-oh my love
You’re more beautiful than the rain
On a forest mountain range

And oh-oh-oh-oh, how you fly
Like fireflies in the night
Gone in the blink of an eye

I’ll crawl back in
Onto your skin
I’ll crawl back in
Into your loving arms again

Oh-oh-oh-oh, you’re the air
Flowing through my lungs
Upon which my songs are sung

And oh-oh-oh-oh, you’re here
Like a mountain standing tall
Echoes on your walls

I’ll crawl back in
Onto your skin
I’ll crawl back in
Into your loving arms again

Icicles

I’ve been meaning to talk to you
With all this static I can’t get through
I’ve been thinking you wanted this
Worlds apart, yet bound by kiss

But I got you on speaker phone
So everybody else will know
Behind the ice I’m seeing gold
Seeing gold, and a love foretold

I’m holding, I’m holding icicles
I’m clinging, I’m clinging to waterfalls

I fear you are what my friends have said
A pipe dream with a pretty head
I lost all of my self-control
To a few locks of gold

But I got you on speaker phone
So everybody else will know
Behind the ice I’m seeing gold
Seeing gold, and a love foretold

I’m holding, I’m holding icicles
I’m clinging, I’m clinging to waterfalls
I’m holding, I’m holding icicles
I’m clinging, I’m clinging to waterfalls

But I got you on speaker phone
So everybody else will know
Behind the ice I’m seeing gold
Seeing gold, and a love foretold

I’m holding, I’m holding icicles
I’m clinging, I’m clinging to waterfalls
I’m holding, I’m holding icicles
I’m clinging, I’m clinging to waterfalls

Soar

Everyone needs a hiding place
Everyone needs to feel safe
Found mine in a dream I had
Outside a world gone mad

So I’m loving my lie
And I’m willing myself to fly
And I’m breaking but I’m going out in style

But I was never meant to
I was never meant to soar
Above the buildings and the boring life I led before
No, I was never meant to
I was never meant to soar

Everyone needs a fighting chance
Everyone needs a sword in their hands
Found strength in the dream I had
No gravity holding me back

So I’m loving my lie
And I’m willing myself to fly
And I’m breaking but I’m going out in style

But I was never meant to
I was never meant to soar
Above the buildings and the boring life I led before
No, I was never meant to
I was never meant to soar

Everyone needs a hiding place
Everyone needs a saving grace
Everyone needs to dig out a hole
But I was born with a restless soul

’Cause I was ever meant to
’Cause I was ever meant to soar
Above the buildings and the boring life I led before
Yeah, I was ever meant to
I was ever meant to soar
Above the buildings and the boring life I led before

The Ceiling

I wanna say I love it here 
I really do
But something’s got a hold on me
And it’s got me fooled
The way that things have changed for me
I should be in awe
But I can’t help but to feel estranged
And a little flawed

I can not reach the ceiling
From where I’m standing
Way above the crowd
So help me out
I can’t believe I’m grieving
Again for something
I no longer have
I should do the math
But it seems I can’t

I’m never neither here nor there
I’m always at odds
A struggle surging through my veins
But it never stops
The way that things have changed in me
I should be in awe
But I can’t help but to feel estranged
And a little flawed

I can not reach the ceiling
From where I’m standing
Way above the crowd
So help me out
I can’t believe I’m grieving
Again for something
I no longer have
I should do the math
But it seems I can’t

Breathe out
And you’ll breathe me in and out
Yeah that’s, that’s how we begin
To fall to what, whatever our hole
But now let’s dig ourselves out

From way above the crowd
So help me out
I can’t believe I’m grieving
Again for something
I no longer have
I should do the math
But it seems I can’t

The Courage of a Worm

Hold
Hold your head up high in the storm
And pray
Pray Poseidon shan’t claim us all

’Cause everything I’ve done for you
Is what a captain does for crew
But I’m not sure I’m man enough to fall

I got the courage of a worm
And it’s going down
All the courage I was learned
It’s long lost now
And everything I’ve earned
Is breaking down around me
Plunging into the sea

Wait until the light has gone
And hope
Hope will carry through this storm

’Cause everything I’ve done for you
Is what a captain does for crew
But I’m not sure I’m man enough to fall

I’ve the courage of a worm
And it’s going down
All the courage I was learned
It’s long lost now
And everything I’ve earned
It’s breaking down around me
Plunging into the sea

My better angels leave me be
I am a failure as you can see
I’ve just my love left and though it’s real
It can not save me from the sea

I’ve the courage of a worm
And it’s going down
All the courage I was learned
It’s long lost now
And everything I’ve earned
It’s breaking down around me
Plunging into the sea

Easy Come, Easy Go

Took my playbook right out of yours
To even the score
Took your compass and pointed it South
’Cause that’s where things are going now

All our love just came and went
Like those pop-up boutiques down the Seine
Maybe our love just wasn’t that real
It had a dusty Hollywood feel

All the love that wanted out
Well, it leaves me now
All the love I thought I’d found
Won’t come back ’round

Easy come, easy go
Easy come, easy go

Ménage à deux in the streets of Paris
And you thought I could be
A writer, a poet, a star
And break not only your heart

Charly, the way that things turned out
Is a joke on me and my doubt
You became all the things that you said
And I a rhyme in the back of your head

All the love that wanted out
Well, it leaves me now
All the love I thought I’d found
Won’t come back ’round

Easy come, easy go
Easy come, easy go
Easy come, easy go
Easy come, easy go

Easy come, easy go – are we happy now?
Easy come, easy go – are we wiser now?
Easy come, easy go – are we happy now?
Easy come, easy go – am I yours somehow?

Oh No!

Hold down the fort with me, will you please?
It’s all that we got left of family
Hold down the fort that’s keeping you
Under lock and key, unable to move

And oh no
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no

Raise that flag on high, man the battlements
The enemy’s at our gates and looks to be coming in
Why are you drinking to defeat?
Stand with your brother, sister, for family

And oh no
Oh no
But oh no
Oh no

And you finally raise a hand
But you use it just to strike me
And the foes come pouring in
And you kneel down beside me
Saying ”Please don’t hurt this man!”

I see you clearly now
I see you walking out

And oh no
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no

Be more boldly you
See you shining though
Be more boldly you
Unleash what you can do!

Aaah…

Be more boldly you
See you shining though
Be more boldly you
Unleash what you can do!

Aaah…

Be more boldly you
See you shining though
Be more boldly you
Unleash what you can do!

Aaah…

Be more boldly you
See you shining though
Be more boldly you
Unleash what you can do…

Aaah…

Botify The People 

Don’t share the wealth 
You’ll share health 
Keep ‘em crawling, crawling further 
Up the ladder ’til the murder 

All of those lines 
Fine printed lines 
Keep ‘em happy not reading 
All the bullshit that we’re feeding 

Yes you are 
A star 
On a chart 
In a machine heart 

Lie after lie 
Time after time 
Make it look like we’re caring 
Your objective: get them sharing 

Big Data dumps 
Subscriber bumps 
We’re a business, not a pre-school 
Just tell them what I told you 

Yes you are 
A star 
On a chart 
In a machine heart 

We need to spotify all of the artists 
And shopify all of their guest lists 
No need to amplify our reasons 
When we can botify all of the people 

Kick up upstairs 
Like someone cares 
What we do with all the money 
Keep it close to, to you honey 

Yes you are 
A star 
On a chart 
In a machine heart 

We need to spotify all of the artists 
And shopify all of their guest lists 
No need to amplify our reasons 
When we can botify all of the people 

Don’t give me truth 
This is post-you 
Swear I’ll cut off all the branches 
Throw you back into the trenches 

And there you ‘ll be 
Just without me 
Back to crawing, crawling further 
Up the ladder til you murder

Scream into the Void 

I’m a guilty soul 
I though on my own 
I’d change where we’re going 

But here I still am 
Feeling all scammed 
Broke and still paying 

(Whistling) 

No Instagram Reels 
Or Facebook Lives 
Will get things rolling 

So I’m wondering 
If this is my thing 
And who am I fooling? 

I scream into the void 
I scream into the void 
Nobody answers 
Beholden to their masters 
The algorithms changing faster 
Another stillborn beauty voided again 
I scream into that void 

It’s not people I reach 
Just gatekeeper code 
Love with a price tag 

It’s funny and sad 
A code makes me mad 
And I forget what I came here for 

I scream into the void 
I scream into the void 
Nobody answers 
Beholden to their masters 
The algorithms changing faster 
Another stillborn beauty voided again 
I scream into that void 

Marketing tools 
For all of us foold 
Look at my trajectory 
It might be reversed 
At least I rehearsed 
And nail it later 

I scream into the void 
I scream into the void 
Nobody answers 
Beholden to their masters 
The algorithms changing faster 
Another stillborn beauty voided again 
I scream into that void 

Nobody answers 
Beholden to their masters 
The algorithms changing faster 
Another stillborn beauty voided again

Plastic 

I’m floating like a piece of plastic 
Floating through the air 
I don’t belong, I’m a pollutant 
Welcome nowhere 

I never knew how to make it 
I never knew how to take all of those turns 
In their world 

That’s why I’m turning 
My inside in now 
That’s why I’m burning 
My prison down now 

I wish I was as useful to myself as 
To machines 
I’m plastic like the most of us 
That never get seen 

I never knew how to make it 
I never knew how to take all of those turns 
In their world 

That’s why I’m turning 
My inside in now 
That’s why I’m burning 
My prison down now 

I never knew how to make it 
I never knew how to take all of those turns 
In their world 

I never knew how to fake it 
I never knew how to fake it, taking turns 
With all the world 

That’s why I’m turning 
My inside in now 
That’s why I’m burning 
My prison down now

Light the Liars on Fire 

Lately been feeling kind of vaguely 
Like I should start to say things 
Although I have no way in 

Bubbles causing all my troubles 
They burst not from my squabbles 
Just when I pay them double 

Now I can’t help to be 
The things they need from me 
I’m always one step off trend 

I’m never ahead of time 
No matter how early I’m 
Collateral, expendable 

Light the liars on fire 
Let them burn on the pyre 
All their promises made 
Vanish once they get paid 
After that it’s just me 
And the heaps of money 
I am unwittingly laying down at their feet 
I am unwittingly laying down at their feet 

I hope that all you are 
Is a glitch between our stars 
I hope that all you’ll be 
Is a fleeting memory 

But sadly there’s no way that time-traveling 
Is any way of answering what here and now are asking 

I’m tired of trying to topple giants 
A faceless mob of tyrants but honestly just liars 

Let them burn on the pyre 
All their promises made 
Vanish once they get paid 
After that it’s just me 
And the heaps of money 
I am unwittingly laying down at their feet 
I am unwittingly laying down at their feet 

I hope that all you are 
Is a glitch between our stars 
I hope that all you’ll be 
Is a fleeting memory 
I hope that all I am 
Is a strike right through your plans

Conversations with an Algorithm 

All day locked up in my home 
Staring down my endless phone 
Trying to crack that secret code 
Trying to squeeze into that, into that, into that mold 

We’re searching for life 
On our mobile device 
Oh lo and behold, it’s a conversation 
You can’t win, win ‘gainst the algorithm 
Oh lo and behold, it’s a conversation 
You can’t win, win ‘gainst the algorithm 

All night wide awake in bed 
Lettting the world into my head 
Trying so hard ot let things slide 
Knowing full well it’ll cut me, it’ll cut me, cut me of this life 

We’re searching for life 
On our mobile device 
Oh lo and behold, it’s a conversation 
You can’t win, win ‘gainst the algorithm 
Oh lo and behold, it’s a conversation 
You can’t win, win ‘gainst the algorithm 

You change your song 
And I try changing along 

We’re searching for life 
On our mobile device 
Oh lo and behold, it’s a conversation 
You can’t win, win ‘gainst the algorithm 
Oh lo and behold, it’s a conversation 
You can’t win, win ‘gainst the algorithm 

Oh lo and behold 
That’s how we go 
Oh lo and behold 
That’s how we go

Faith in the System 

I can not love 
What I can not touch 

I can not feel 
Something pre-meditated 

Why am I here? 
Am I only to please? 

Faith, faith 
Why don’t I have a little faith, faith 
In the system and it’s ways? 
‘Stead I scream mindfuck and rape, rape 
I’m too crass for goodness sakes, sakes 
Why can’t I be a litle slave 
To the system and it’s perfect ways? 

I can not see 
A person by watching their feed 

I can not talk 
Through someone’s business mind warp 

Is it just me? 
Should I bow to the machine? 

Faith, faith 
Why don’t I have a little faith, faith 
In the system and it’s ways? 
‘Stead I scream mindfuck and rape, rape 
I’m too crass for goodness sakes, sakes 
Why can’t I be a litle slave 
To the system and it’s perfect ways? 

My need to feel 
Just a dying scream here 

Faith, faith 
Why don’t I have an ounce of faith, faith 
In the system and it’s ways? 
‘Stead I scream mindfuck and rape, rape 
I’m too crass for goodness sakes, sakes 
Why can’t I be a litle slave 
To the system and it’s perfect ways?

But the Boy is Dead! 

I feel so strung out on my own 
No pulse, no vital signs to show 
All my tax returns I’m ready to burn 
Of the universe I’m trying to learn 
Just got this inkling in my head 

Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 

I feel my fuse is about to blow 
Got all this love that needs to grow 
You look at me weird all because of my beard 
Let out a sigh, take out the pruning shears 
While I lay naked on my bed 

Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
Snip-snip-snip, chip away at the life of me 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
Snip-snip-snip, get a line inside of me 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
Snip-snip-snip, get that clickbait into me 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
Snip-snip-snip, suck the life right out of me 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 

I feel so strung out on my own 
No pulse, no vital signs to show 
Oh my CEO are you ready to dance? 
You flash some bling, I soil my pants 
Don’t be a stiff is what you said 

Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
That sure don’t mean that he don’t dance 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
That sure don’t mean that he can’t dance 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
Everybody’s gotta do the dance 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
So don’t give me attitude, just dance 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 

KIA 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
Do it my way 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
Spotify-a 
Oh, my word, but the boy is dead! 
You are… 
Oh, my word, but the boy is… dead!