Ideology, by Bob Gaulke

Ideology

by Bob Gaulke

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1.	Love + Vision 03:39	lyrics	buy track
Love and Vision You’re gonna sleep better Feel much younger Week of sunny weather Refund’s at your doorstep Wrote to say ‘sorry’ Calling after the party He’s been arrested On television You’re gonna feel good Despite whats going on You deserve more Than you got Gonna feel good All night long I’ll get you through With these songs From highest peaks of culture Deepest strands of knowledge Gonna wrap you like a baby In love and vision Recognize a future Will take our efforts Let’s make the moment Touch all potentials
2.	Forms of Compassion 03:04	lyrics	buy track
Forms of Compassion in Dm piece of chocolate  finds a home in your mouth your vacuuming robot  feels so much love that new kitten  making nights not so lonely donating to the cause  I was born yesterday forms of compassion  of various scales  masked altruism in functioning mammals forms of compassion  we exhale  twisting and stretching them  'til they cover our heads he sponsored his family out of obligation she insisted on volunteering  on exotic vacations they never wanted children  throwing themselves into work giving his inheritance  to his neighbor’s girls pledging their millions for a search for a cure spending his SSI  on beautiful prostitutes
3.	Unleash the Goats 03:14	lyrics	buy track
Unleash the Goats (in Em) as they rob the banks drain the pools cut the power melt the schools I’m hanging onto you x2 as they slit throats fill moats burn coats unleash the goats I say unleash the goats as we’re winning and losing come see me as we’re working and fighting make time for activities on barricades in airports on skateboards hit by ammunition they’ll bill us for in parking lots of mansions in decay through kitchens desserts we’ll taste chewing the back lawn eating the croquet a moment in the garage before it’s wrecked
4.	Dancing Check to Check 02:22	lyrics	buy track
Dancing check to check (C# Aeoiian) twenty left-make the list spaghetti sauce bananas glance at the fridge nothing left ketchup, mustard, soy sauce cancel plans social media no one argues with diarrhea set mode to “introvert” no one has to see you gotta have that gotta have this dancing check to check makes you happy gets you sex overdrafts take you there following steps representatives in Manila my credit score won’t buy a candy bar my English is perfect I promise I’ll change voices saying I got to save feelings won’t go away my stomach aches overtime won’t pay for it dancing check to check the world burns a crisp shipping next day air
5.	Civilization takes Two 04:04	lyrics	buy track
be lightning I’ll be slime be single-celled organisms I’ll be time be a reptile I’ll be the worm I’ll be feathers if you be a bird be the monkey I’ll be banana be a land bridge I’m Siberia be the sphinx I’ll be the nose Julius Cesar, what’s there to lose civilization takes two, my darling civilization takes two you might find the thought alarming but there’s nothing we can do be Guttenberg I’ll be depressed be Martin Luther while I’ll get undressed be Columbus I’ll be Taino be Montezuma or Cortes fighting you in bed I’ll let you win serve me instead with a slice of onion civilization takes two your highness civilization takes two pull back the covers what we find is civilization takes two fossil record missing link history abhors predictability play the declaration I’ll be redcoats be Abraham Lincoln not Jim Crow Be Susan Anthony I’ll be a corset be the Wright Brothers I’m a UFO civilization takes two, princess civilization takes two just be yourself, your highness off with my head with you
6.	Songs about Songs 03:30	lyrics	buy track
Song about songs (Am mostly) Give me a song to fill my head One I can sing all by myself When I’m down it lifts my mood Just like I feel when I see you Like ones they used to write In slightly different times Although their problems were worse They knew how to feel good Give me a melody to hum The kick of a drum Some sweet harmonies A chorus that repeats I don’t think I ever been this down Listen to the fridge how it hums Sounds like It’s missing you, too Holding on to that photo of you
7.	Boring History Shit 02:34	lyrics	buy track
Boring History Shit (C Persian) Someone’s gonna die tonight Someone’s paying the whole price For something we don’t understand To them it’s perfectly clear Someone’s fighting an invisible fight Making the ultimate sacrifice For a higher ideal Giving them reason to live We’ll read about it later Watch a tv special Maybe there’ll be a statue Or a day off school And kids will find it boring As teachers pass out a worksheet Yet one will be touched With feelings so deep When that darkness comes back again That one will make the stand And some lost part of our memory Will make us stand with them And a third are against it Another third don’t care That’s what history tells us About how things get better (x2)
8.	My Parents Went to Cancun 03:04	lyrics	buy track
you got a new bike all I got was love headstands on mountainsides all I ever got was love in a world of shiny things you’ve gone insane maybe I can help you in my own way you want everything past the point of embarrassing when jungles are burning up what is there left to want spinning your drink smoking the latest thing making enemies with people with the same needs dancing in your head my heart’s in the fridge quoting songs by prince about your pretty mess you got a new job all I got is love coming home to the floor maybe love’s enough not getting out of this alive doing what we can to survive putting aside differences stepping inside kisses

credits

released July 4, 2022

Vocals, Guitars- Me
Bass- Paulo LePetit
Keyboards- Leon Gruenbaum
Drums + Bones- Kevin Cerovich
Backiing Vocals- Emilia Cataldo
Mixed & Mastered by Martin Scian
Cover by Bernardo Navarro Tomas

1. Love + VIsion
2. Forms of Compassion
3. Unleash the Goats
4. Dancing Check to Check
5. Civilization takes Two
6. Songs about Songs
7. Boring History Shit
8. My Parents Went To Cancun