Thirty one white giants
Climb into the mists of Hana`ula
Wave their long arms
Try to catch the wind
Red eyes glowing brightly
Warning unsuspecting flying islands
Don’t you soar low
Or we will chop you up
I am sprinting down rocky paths
Through pastures of yellow grass
Racing the setting sun
Kaheawa
I’m stuck out here in the starlight
Hiking on a jagged lava trail
Without a flashlight
You’ve got fifty one million watts
Trapped in battered metal boxes
Fifty one million watts but you won’t share
Do you even care?
Traffic far below me
Insects on a quest for teriyaki
Climb down slowly
Shouldn’t hike alone
Suffer cuts and bruises
Try to pick my way through the kiawe
One more mile
Then biking quickly home
Caught up in harsh sun-baked beauty
Don’t give myself enough time to descend
Stumble down unstable paths
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SOLO
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You don't even care.
FYI: Kaheawa is a wind farm that cuts through the middle of one of my favorite hiking trails. I have been caught up there after sunset at least 3 times so that's a flaw in judgment.
Also, one million watts is called a megawatt, so that's two flaws right there
Mokulele - the word for airplane is literally "flying island". Kiawe is a thorny tree, like mesquite or acacia.
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She was a runner
Didn’t see the car coming
I got her legs before the ambulance arrived
He was pilot
In the mood for top gunning
We got a room and I
got out with his eyes
Cut the ass
Off a yoga tutor
In my lab with some
Copper suture and
I thought my beard
was a little uneven
So I faced off with a hipster named Steven
Back from the morgue
With a ziploc of armpits
My chest is as thick
As a bear rug carpet now
Sliced a stripper's
scepter of passion
In a tanker of mild acid and
There are faces I've re-membered
In my life
I always change
On a soft summer night
Rows of candyshell houses
And I walk the street
With the day’s remains...
You’re always in our minds
In our hearts and in our thoughts
Your light forever shines
With a million watts
Your body may be gone
But you’ll never be forgot
Your light is shining on
With a million watts
Picture this, a young kid - and I didn’t know him when he was younger -
But I’m told he had a fire, and I’m told he had a hunger
Engine gunning, mind running, like he’s running in a race
He was chasing after knowledge but he was also being chased
Kid discovers software, teaches himself to code
Soon there’s not a single programming language he doesn’t know
Graduates from high school getting six-figure offers,
But he wants to be a scholar, he decides to go to college
So he comes to my school, I’m a senior, he’s a freshman
His innocence, his intellect, they make an impression
His genius and his passion, they’re palpable, they’re visible
First month of classes, he joins every co-curricular
Like the school paper, yours truly is an editor
Joins my little team of writers, now I guess I’m like his mentor
He’s a genius, I told you, but he writes like a child
What I mean is, with a sense of wonder, eyes open wide
Reporting on his stories like they’re brand new discoveries
Buzzing round campus like a hyperactive bumblebee
So yeah, you can bet it took the legs out from under me
When some kids found his body back campus swinging from a tree
Have you noticed how grief is contagious?
Kids who’d never even met him have tear-stricken faces
We hold a memorial, the whole student body is crying
His parents are there too, they took the time to fly in
They say, “This was tragic but not wholly unexpected
See, our beautiful boy, he had a history of depression
So everyone who knew him kind of knew where this was headed
But it’s okay, ‘cause now he’s up in heaven.”
Wait - the heaven your religion erected?
The religion he explicitly rejected?
The church he never felt at home in, he always felt alone in,
But now that he’s dead, now he’s accepted?
Well forgive me, O Lord, for my disdain
For a church that only prays for souls already beyond the grave
But I’m not being fair, his parents cared, they were in pain
They lost their son, they said what they had to say
Anyway, I blamed myself for a while, sometimes I still do
I bet other folks who knew him probably do too
I wonder if I had known could I have changed how things would turn out
But a million watt bulb I guess is bound to burn out.
You’re always in our minds
In our hearts and in our thoughts
Your light forever shines
With a million watts
Your body may be gone
But you’ll never be forgot
Your light is shining on
With a million watts
"you did a skillful job pulling off the sexy" - RangerDenni
I flick your switch
your tubes they glow
you're in stand by
now here we go
I'm double rectified
a voltage flowing through me
I'm feeling so alive
you can't begin to notice
I'm subtle tone control
to keep you in my basement
if you let it go
there is no time to waste
You wanna feel the power
come on over and pick up what you forgot
you want it every hour
keep on playing and use up a million watts
When life's a bitch
the circuits close
we amplify
the hurt we know
I'm never terrified
high tension wires screaming
I hear the hum
Flying by blue dreaming
You wanna feel the power
come on over and pick up what you forgot
you want it every hour
keep on playing and use up a million watts
If you catch my drift
you can sail away
take a ride on these waves
and leave this place
You wanna feel the power
come on over and pick up what you forgot
you want it every hour
keep on playing and use up a million watts
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V1: In a country that you don't know
Lived a man (or so we're told)
Built a wormhole in his mind
But doesn't know the day or time
V2: Made a spaceship out of brick
Some say he is a lunatic
Check all boards, all systems go
Leaves the launch pad, oh what a show
He's got a toy gun
That fits in his pocket
Goes off just like
A booster rocket
See the beams race
All across the sky
A million watt laser
In disguise
V3: Passes Mars, all the planets
Checks a gauge begins to panic
Travels cross the galaxy
Low on fuel, a tragedy
V4: Dead in space, no more power
Out of air, just one more hour
Looks around and finds his toy
There might be hope, he spins for joy
He's got a toy gun
That fits in his pocket
And goes off just like
A booster rocket
See the beams race
All across the sky
A million watt laser
In disguise
(Flaw in arrangement - Too few bars between each set of verses)
something's awful
something's wrong
haven't felt right in so long
and my mind is going dark
all my miserable thoughts
buzzing like a million watts
waiting for a tiny spark
it's like there's electricity
surrounding me
and I can't see
don't wanna be here anymore
I can usually hide
every impulse from inside
telling me to get away
something in my head that jolts
like a hundred-thousand volts
"it's just anxiety" they say
it's like there's electricity
surrounding me
and I can't see
don't wanna be here anymore
ahhhh
once this panic has begun
the inclination is to run
it takes everything to stay
but there's no escaping from
like a 60-cycle hum
this won't ever go away
it's like there's electricity
surrounding me
and I can't see
don't wanna be here anymore
An undergraduate degree
In civil engineering
Left me technologically proficient
But socially inept
Literate in the finer points of rugby and keg-tapping
But sadly lacking skills
To deal with the fairer sex
I know how to solve complex differential equations
But that is of little use in romantic situations
But when you came along the paradigm shifted forever
I’ve checked my spreadsheets but now I am not
Feeling all that clever
I want to build a bridge between us
I cantilever you alone
The suspension is killing me
I want to drive my pylon home
I’m ill equipped
To express my feelings
With the tools at my command
So let me try to lay out the parameters
In the only way I understand
It would take a million Watts
Ten thousand Faradays
Half a dozen Newtons
And an Einstein or two
To ever engineer something so aesthetically pleasing
Economically viable
And functional as you
It would take a million Hertz
Ten thousand Edisons
An Isambard Kingdom Brunel
And some Teslas for good measure
To ever possibly conceive
A work so fit for purpose
For providing me, efficiently
With so many hours of pleasure
It would take a million Joules
Ten thousand Stephen Hawkings
Certainly a Heisenberg
And some Aristotles too
To calculate the variables
Of this complex relationship
And describe my exponentially
Growing love for you
ghosts keep secrets
they only wish for us to know of them
what they want is proportional to what they’ll give
and you don’t know what you’ve received already
the power you hold in your hands
to open the door to new lands
wield it wisely!
don’t look down … don’t look back …
you have to know what you …
you truly want
it only takes a million watts to raise the dead!
(the dead
… a million watts to raise ..?)
The song ends with a question. Did I "screw up?" Do you know? Does it matter? You wonder which *THING* was it (not lyrical) and do you hear this strange thing ... and then the fade gets cut off at the neck! :O
"Really interesting how the point you’re making slowly emerges like Martin Sheen from the mud in Apocalypse Now..." ~j$
E G#m A B
Feels like lightning coursing through my body when we kiss
Touching you is a shock that gives me so much bliss
You transfer an awesome jolt of electricity
I never felt this sweet intensity
E B A B
Now i’m addicted to the feeling
A million watts leaves me reeling
And all I want is to kiss you
Feel the voltage coming from inside you
Give me all you got because I’m a transformer
We’re in undiscovered lands now let’s explore them
A A B B G# A E B
I feel the phenomena of your current through my blood
You make it hard to breathe
like I’ve got bad asthma
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You were always too smart
For your own good
Didn't see the line
Between can and should
Claiming a power you shouldn't have
Your greatest triumph
Your greatest mistake
A miracle of science
A product of faith
One million Watts
Pumping through his veins
Bloody vengeful thoughts
Flooding his brains
Thought you found a flaw
In God's design
The living and the dead
A great divide
Claiming a power you shouldn't have
Your greatest triumph
Your greatest mistake
A miracle of science
A product of faith
One million Watts
Pumping through his veins
Bloody vengeful thoughts
Flooding his brains
He started in pieces
You made him a man
Losing control was never
Part of your plan
You gave him a mind but neglected his heart
Your greatest triumph
Your greatest mistake
A miracle of science
A product of faith
One million Watts
Pumping through his veins
Bloody vengeful thoughts
Flooding his brains
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