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My Life Is Great
Ah, Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen, my name's uh-
Sighted Apple Washington.
I'm the happiest musician, slash man, alive.
And uh, I wrote-ah this song- it's about my life- I think people like you need to
hear about it. It might help you, inspire you, and oh, just lift you up a little bit.
Here it goes, a little somethin' like this.
"My life is great… I can't complain… That's why this song is over!"
Applause
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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DOORS HAD OPENED
03:20
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DOORS HAD OPENED
I met a girl that I knew before…Doors had opened.
She gave me love and I gave her more…Doors had closed.
I've seen her face in the rain.
She walks around in everyone…Doors had opened.
Feels so good. Know I would.
From thy sunlight falling down. In my eyes , a golden crown.
You and me have no end. In my mind it's over now.
Doors had opened.
Feels so good. Know I would.
I met a dog who lived on the sun…Doors had opened.
She ran around, burning everyone…Doors had closed.
In space it's plain- Fire is trained.
Look in a river and you'll know it's true.
Doors had opened.
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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FORWARD THINKING MAN
03:19
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Forward Thinking Man
I told my feet we had to fight, I kept my body moving in the night-
Lord knows how long I'm bound to stay alive.
I beat my lungs to heat the cold, drove the flies so I won't get old-
Spirit in a train, rolling to the sun.
I want to go, I need to go
Mother Compass on my left, Father Shield upon my right.
I learned to read by firefly, worked my hands in a moonlit sky,
escaped shadows who tried to tie me down.
I kept the flame from growing low, drank from a river and I pissed the snow,
Holding on a wing from the other side.
I want to go, I need to go
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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ANI IN OPEN SEA
03:24
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Ani In Open Sea
Tears have fallen on the ground, Ocean puddles draw you down,
Ani, you make a wholesome sound when you get it right, when you get it wrong.
Test the balance in your hand, blind you are yet in command,
the suns will make another god of you, better in this life than the next one.
Oh- Ani, I know you're right. The fall will never take you.
Fear of death and being found, drop my bones to wear the crown,
release the hidden part of you til' you get it right and they call you home.
Pomegranate on your tongue, takes you back- where you come from,
in the Ocean and the Sky above, I belong to you…you belong to love.
Oh- Ani, I know you're right. The fall will never take you.
Ani, your feet are made of gold.
The fall will never take you.
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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LIVIN' A DREAM
01:31
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Livin' A Dream
I made a livin' slangin' a poison, mixin' it up and turn it into boysen-
bury in an open field.. Livin' a dream(3x)
I found myself livin' in a hamburger- turnin' it up and dishin' out my anger.
Livin' on the Ocean floor, where the animals are vigorous, carnivorous
and openly vociferous… Livin' a dream(4x)
I tried walkin' on the surface of the sun,
where the girls are made of fire and the lovin' is fun...
Livin' a dream, livin' a dream…
Now, I'm cookin' while I'm bookin' and my B-boy rhymes
are still Wookie-in'.
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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SELKET
04:18
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Selket
All have fallen in your room.
Take me over, fill my lungs, lay me down on my head
'cause it isn't the first time I've dealt with a lack of breath.
I'm living on a holy ground with a memory delivering through the sound.
You've wasted your poison… Let my eardrums go.
Lay me down once again.
Electricity's pulling on the back of my right-head.
Digging like a mole in a holy ground and a diamond eye found laying around-
doesn't cry but I find- there's a time in the night when it glows.
Lay it down on it's head.
Call to the Woman that can save you when you're dead.
When you're dead…
Selket, you raise the dead, then you bring the pain.
Selket, you raise the dead. Send them back again.
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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WORDS CONFUSE AND DENY
04:48
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Words Confuse And Deny
Words confuse and deny.
All the letters in the world can't reveal my mind.
I've seen myself among the fallen angels,
just to leave and let them crawl behind.
Ocean tide and distant light, far from anyone you know
draws the breath of life. I've run so far, I've become one with fire
and I long for return to the sun.
It's straight ahead. It's straight ahead.
Fill your hands, control your eye.
Wash your feathers in the light, dry them on the ground.
The day when Man had learned of ebb and flowing-
took the moon and set it in the sky.
It's straight ahead. It's straight ahead.
It's straight ahead.
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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ROCKABILLY MIDEAST JAM
00:56
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Rockabilly Mid-East Jam
Mama - show me how to brush my teeth, comb my hair
fluff and fold my underwear, make a sandwich in no-time.
Daddy - give a piggyback ride to Timbuktu
got any fears about what to do? Keep my toes upon the line.
Brother - baseball cards and bubble gum
You're like a baby with a gun, whose diaper's caught on fire.
Woman - Shake-ah your fruit-ah make-ah lemonade
spank-a-the-monkey and he'll be your slave.
Jigglin' on my mind.
OH-OH-OH…HO-HO-HO…WHOA…WHOA…WHOA…
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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KASH RIP
02:19
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DAMNED IF I DEVOLVE
01:29
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Damned If I Devolve
I woke up laying on the side of the road, but I'm alright.
My shoes were hanging on the telephone wire, but I'm ok.
Look and smell like a zombie.
Gotta find some pants and filthify my hands
at the Subatomic Space Rocket Factory.
Run run run run…Away away away away (4x)
Women and children staring through my skull like I'm a holy man.
Got my brain tested at the laboratory, turns out I'm an alien.
Don't buy products from thespians.
Werewolf, Shatterproof, Scatterbrain, Chicken Change, Seerriooou!
Run run run run…Away away away away (4x)
I'm the one that's gotta die when it's time for me to die,
so let me live my life the way I want to.
Swim on, Fish…Chew on, Gum.
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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HOLY ROLLERS
02:53
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Holy Rollers
From your mind given to the ground
For the Spy sleeping on a cloud
Of doubt
Cut all the trees in the forrest and the reasons why
Breathing on a land mine with my silver eye
Eye
Holy rollers commit to the sky
I know I'm young and I'll never die
The road I had chosen had covered my eyes
I set my clock ten past military time
Holy rollers, come down from on high
How far you fall from your satellite
The world you have stolen will cover your eye
Come lay your head in the never ending night
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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SEASHELL STARLIGHT
04:45
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Seashell Starlight
Seashell Starlight, too much to take for one eye-
you forgive the sun for penetrating through your mind.
When you've reached the threshold of day
and there's nothing left to say,
you'll remember when you were nothing at all.
Ah…....
Ocean Star-child, the moon that takes the sun's smile-
you forgive the one for penetrating through your mind.
When you've reached the morning of day
and there's nothing left to say,
you'll remember when you were nothing at all.
Ah…….
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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STAIRCASE BUCKLE
02:20
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Staircase Buckle
Thinking on words you said, caused the leaves to fall again.
Thinking on everything, caused the leaves to fall.
And, if you wake tomorrow, I know you'll know.
And, if you're feeling sorrow, Life comes Life goes.
I know you'll know.
Turning from green to red caused the leaves to fall again.
Wishing on grains of sand, Human Beings - they fall.
From the Earth moving slowly, I know you'll know.
Through the air down below, time flies, time flows
I know you'll know.
In the wind whispering all the names you've known before-
alive beyond inside me when the leaves- they fall.
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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GOLDEN ARROW
02:17
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Golden Arrow
I know that you call my name.
When the leaves have fallen, I'll come again.
Open your eyes. Open your drowning eyes and…..
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Time flows through the evening glow.
Like a golden arrow, I let it go.
Written by: Bryan Kertenian
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Bryan Kertenian recommends:
Jeff Martin = genius, wizard, multi-instrumentalist, mentor. Deeply introspective music that will keep you in the light, Idaho's extensive discography will keep you from sonic malnutrition!
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Multi-instrumentalist Davin Givan is a genius wizard whose music will deliver his listener to higher planes of consciousness where only children and cats frolic! I love playing in this band, dagnabit!
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