I Wish
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Song |
Links |
| 1. I Wish | |
| 2. Steam | |
| 3. Birdsong | |
| 4. One Neutrino to Go | |
| 5. Exercise | |
| 6. If the World is Beautiful | |
| 7. Bass | |
| 8. Light Bucket | |
| 9. Slag Pile | |
| 10. Proprietary Grit | |
| 11. Scientists |
I Wish - Lyrics
1. I Wish © 2010 by Bill Crozier
I wish I had a machine
I’d push it with my finger
It would capture all I’ve seen
And put it on a paper or a screen
Wish I had a box that I’d sit in, made of glass and shiny metal
It’d take me everywhere I’ve been, I’d push it with a pedal
and it spin
Imagine a world where this was so
I’d get up in the morning and I wouldn’t know where to go
A machine with little gears, I’d push with my finger
It would capture all I hear and put it on a speaker very clear
(Scat instrumental over electric piano)
Imagine a world where this was true
I’d get up in the morning and I wouldn’t know what to do
Wish I had the whole wide world at the tips of my fingers
Every boy and girl, finding all the answers
String of pearls
Wish I could sell the sunshine, who’d I have to thank
As I run it through the pipeline going to the bank a second time
Wish I could call across the sea on a pad with blinking lights
I could do it all for free jk :)
Imagine all the possibilities
I’d get up in the morning and sit a watch TV
It's a little engine
Show it to your friends
Give it to your kids for a toy
He don't know how to use it
Hero's confused
I could make music with the noise
Do you know what I mean?
I'm just blowing off steam
(Steam instrumental)
'Faut reflechier avant de batir
'Faut demander a l'eglise
Il est l'heure, machine a vapeur
Mille six cent quatrevint dix
Do you know what I mean? (chorus)
I'm just blowing off steam
Do you know what I mean?
Watt's his name, Watts his game
James drives a train round the world
With a better engine it’ll never end
Till we run out of oil
(repeat chorus)
If you can get the power from the water in the shower
Come stand next to me
It never really happened, or so they told the captain
As he brewed Texas tea
The captain’s a liar, sets your pants on fire
And tells you you're feeling OK
As you are foiled by oil with hydrogen added or boiled away
(repeat chorus, repeat first verse)
3. Birdsong © 2006 Bill Crozier
They follow me around, they see what happens
The swallows hear the 12 horse Briggs and Stratton
It’s once upon a time
I’m on the front line
I think it’s lunch time
I rush into the woods and shout, “Eureka!”
The thrush flew all the way from Costa Rica
I waited so long
For him to come along
And sing his theme song for me
In a cubic yard there’re a hundred bills (chorus)
I am wishing hard I am wishing still
It’s written in the stars, written in my will
Chickens in the yard, chickens on the grill
The hummingbird is back to smell the flowers
She’ll be back again in half an hour
She likes the red ones
She’s from a red sun
Turn your head once and she’s gone
(repeat chorus)
The turkey has a funny way to greet me
I bring him food, he tries to eat me
He would if he were able
Like in a turkey fable
But now he’s on the table in front of me
(repeat chorus, repeat first verse, repeat chorus)
Chickens in the yard, chickens on the grill
Chickens in the yard, chickens on the grill
4. One Neutrino to Go (with a Tomato) © 1998 Bill Crozier
One neutrino to go with a tomato
Use the adding machine to play the violo
The efficient problem solver doesn’t need a fist of dollars
It’s hard to stay in the lines with wide angle vision
Do everything all the time, but is that my decision?
If I think in three dimensions, I only go in one direction
One neutrino to go with a tomato
I use the adding machine to play the violo
“I know what is real,” says Mr. Science
“
I know how you feel,” says Mr. Compliance
I like a little knowledge but I ain’t gone back to college
One neutrino to go with a tomato
I use the adding machine to play the violo
If you asked me today, I’d say there’s no confusion
If they showed me the way or if it’s a transfusion
Is it one way or the other?
I’ll ask my father, I’ll ask my mother
One neutrino to go with a tomato
I use the adding machine to play the violo
5. Exercise © 2010 by Bill Crozier
If you don’t meet your ambition
Change your method of addition
Or change your definition of velocity
Hold your speed around the bender
Never stop, never surrender
That’s not how I remember
My philosophy, but
If you don’t get your blood a flowing (chorus)
Go see your pastor
If you don’t like how fast you’re going
Go a little faster
Do the rounds I’ll take Victori-(a), I do Clark but not like Chloe
Would – I know which way I go, I know what I like
(Instro) (repeat chorus)
By the bridge is a man with a sandwich
Down by the sand and trees
I rode by the man with the sandwich
I bet it was ham with cheese
Do the rounds I’ll take Victori-(a), I do Clark but not like Chloe
Would – I know which way I go, I know what I like
Skiing, skating, running, rowing, swimming on the river flowing
I prefer the way I’m going, riding on my bike
I prefer the way I’m going
Riding on my bike
6. If the World is Beautiful © 2004 Bill Crozier
Fear no more, you'll be here still
If she calls, you hear the birdy sing
If the world is beautiful
It's because we kill off everything we don't like
Round up the weeds, round up the little seeds
Round up the squirrels, round up the little girls
You'll find what you need, butterfly or centipede
If the world, if the world is beautiful
Scare the crow and try to catch the sparrow in your hand
Save the sacred eagle while you try to kill the buzzard with your van
You try to kill the buzzard with your van
Away go the boats, no field no stream
You'll never know the way it used to be
Fill up the moat, you had your dream
There you go, to see a flower in the sand
(repeat chorus)
A burning bird falls from a wire
Sings an old song: the world's on fire
Amber grain through the window pane
Lay the stone before the rain starts to fall
(repeat chorus, repeat first verse)
Standing tall along the wall
Take it by the tail
Hang it on the rail
Hang it on the rail
It should be in the key of E
A song about a bass
Cut and drill and paste
Cut and drill and paste
I like this kind (chorus)
And I know it’s mine
When I cut on the dotted line
It’s the only one
Play it when it’s done
Like father like son
It’s what I could with a block of wood
If you tell me where to go
Michaelangelo
Michaelangelo
(bass instrumental)
Oh no, if I drop it on my toe
But I would feel no pain
When I see the grain
When I see the grain
(repeat chorus and second verse)
Into the night to see a bright red light
I dreamed about a bear and a square
I looked away and saw
the light of a million stars
Light bucket from Taiwan
Across the sea to Oregon
Now it’s on a truck to Jersey
so I can see the sky
North Bend to Roseburg
Up to Portland afterward
Now what’s the hurry?
I can tell you why
I want to see the moon (chorus)
I want to see Mars
I want to see Venus I want to see the stars
I follow it along the way
Will it run on Saturday
I could find a shorter way
if I was at the wheel
Get your coffee get your coffee mate
Get back on the interstate
Friday I can hardly wait
you know how I feel
(repeat chorus, with intro verse)
It’s on the road with all the cars
Where all the lights are double stars
It’s only going one way
So I can see the sky
Light bucket from Taiwan
Across the sea to Oregon
I was on the runway
When it was coming up the drive
I’m going to the moon
I’m going to Mars
I’m going to Venus
I’m going to the stars
(repeat and fade, with the intro verse mixed in)
9. Slag Pile © 2006 Bill Crozier
Slag pile ‘neath the shining moon
Like a scene in a movie thriller
Dug it up in the evening gloom
It broke the tines on the little tiller, little tiller
Slag pile in the dining room
Thought it looked like chocolate killer
Made me write this little tune
Now I gotta call up Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller
The dream American (chorus)
Heat it up in a metal can
Send it over to the salesman
Salesman, salesman
Slag pile in the dining room
Isn’t this some kind of filler?
Send it back to its sandy tomb
And make the call to Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller
(repeat chorus, instrumental)
Slag pile ‘neath the shining moon
10. Proprietary Grit © 2006 Bill Crozier
Instrumental
11. Scientists © 2005 Bill Crozier
Franklin plus or minus charge
Don’t try this in your backyard
Lightning strikes a flying key
Like charges flee
Lavoisier, what he say
Matter that you have today
Can never go away
Never go away
Proust, Joe, what he know
In compounds like H2O
All the elements will have
The same percent by mass
John Dalton rolled it all
Together in a little ball
From atoms everything is made
Everything is made
We should know these guys
not just to get an A (chorus)
They took a different way
to get us where we are today
Henri Becquerel could see
Radioactivity
Laying rocks upon a plate
To see the form they make
J.J. Thomson, what he done
Shot electrons from a gun
The shadow of a cross he cast
Found electrons, not the mass
Robert Millikan
Tiny drops from an oil can
He turned the power on
Found the charge of an electron
(chorus)
Ernest Rutherford he say
While shooting gold with alpha rays
In mostly empty space is stored
The atom’s tiny core
Just one more, Niels Bohr
Electrons spinning round the core
In orbits fixed they run
Like planets round the sun
(chorus)