Cryst-All-Eyes

Performed on the occasion of my best friend Ashleigh's birthday!

Easter Sunday 4-11-2004


Easter Sunday
Hippity Hoppin
Mineking
Eggman
Sidewize
Rabbit Sees In
Cryst All Eyes
Dark Feast
This is the Future
Open the Door
The Promo
King of Kings
I've Come to Save the World
Legalize
Crucify Me
Gosh Darn It
Darkest Hemispheres
Back From the Dead
Transcendent
Stabilized
Here Comes the Son
Miracles

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Easter Sunday

Here's the 411
 Easter Sunday 2004
 Karmageddon's just 8 years away
 and we're going through the motions every single day
 Time for the Easter Bunny to come out and play!

On Easter Sunday
 behind the church
 all of the Catholic schoolgirls had an Easter egg hunt.
 What the priests and the nuns didn't realize
 is that there was a mischievous rabbit hiding out in the woods
 who liked to play tricks on the kids.
 Jewelie was always a troublesome child
 and today she found the special chocolates
 that the bunny had hidden especially for her
 she followed a trail of them through the woods
 to the rabbit hole
 and yelled inside to see if anyone was home

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Hippity Hoppin

 i'm hippie hop
 like the easter bunny
 i make my chocolates kinda funny
 getting kids spunny
 won't cost you any money honey
 we're just
hippity hoppin

if you told me to start
 i'll end up stoppin
 if you told me to drip
 you know i'll end up droppin
 if you order a pizza
 i'll get all the toppings
 if you do the hip-hop then we'll be
hippity hoppin

i'm from philly like schooly
 but you know i'm not a mouly
 i met a hippie named jewelie
 smelled just like patchouli 
 picked her up after schoolie
 we got a little bit unruly

beats pumpin
 bass throbbin
 feet tappin
 heads bobbin
 i'm batman
 and she's robin
 we were riding around town and we were
hippity hoppin

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MineKing

alright, so the rabbit takes her down into the rabbit hole
 and he tells her the secret that he discovered when he was digging the hole
 he found a cryst-all
 that contained the consciousness of God itself
 but after he found it, it disappeard
 and he's been looking for it ever since

i spent a whole life in the mine
 well
 i never should have wasted my time
 i tried so hard to dig
 it's a crime
 and now i think i'm losing what was left of my mind
 well i got a crystal bubble
 and it brought me lots of trouble
 found it buried in the rubble
 in the middle of the night
 i put it in my pocket
 and it took off like a rocket
 went right through my third eye socket
 and i thought i saw the light
 my vision was clear
 and i stood like a deer
 caught in the headlights
 after too many beers
 and it was like
-splat-
 on the windowpane
 i got funked in the brain
 like my dready lain
 that shit drove me completely insane
 and where were you when all this shit was going on?

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Sidewize

All right
 so this is based on a true story
 I was flying on a plane to the Phish concert in Las Vegas
 it just happened to be Easter Sunday
 and I'm getting high up above America
 and I drifted off
 and had the most incredible dream
 that I was a cross between the Easter Bunny and Jesus
 I wrote this song on the plane after I woke up from that strange dream 

i got fired
 up
 in the sky
 its a bird
 its a plane
 its an ordinary guy
 who learned how to fly
 i was tired
 fell asleep on the plane
 dreamt that i was bruce wayne
 or maybe bruce willis
 what doesn't make us stronger's gonna kill us
 are you jealous of my intellectual power
 you know it's never now or
 every single time
 i'll take a lemon and lime 
 with my cup of slime
 looking out the window pane
 i see clouds below
 they could be pouring rain
 for all i know
 i just gotta keep goin forward
 keep goin with the flow
 so what?
 that's the smallest sack of nuts i've ever seen
 looking at all the scenes
 it's obscene
 how little of it is still green
 you know what I mean?
 i fly sidewize through time
 i can stop on a dime
 reverse my mind's polarity
 gives me a greater clarity
 i couldn't do any of this without reason
 from propellerhead
 helicopters on my brain
 and when the rain comes
 you might as well be dead
 i think i'll live up high instead

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Rabbit  Sees In

So the rabbit pulled out a couple of crystals
 he said they were fragments that had fallen off of the crystal bubble he had found
 he put them in jewelie's eyes
 and he said, that's why you're called july!
 but i was called that before you put the crystals in my eyes!
 the rabbit said:
 that's what time is, an illusion!
 and she began to see life for what it truly is
 the rabbit began to look just like jesus
 then he turned into the buddha
 ganesha
 and all the other characters that she had grown up watching on tv
 then she began to see herself reflected in the rabbit's eyes
 and she began to realize
 that we're all the same

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Cryst  All Eyes

If I tell you something
 Promise not to laugh
 Your mind is just a needle
 & God's a phonograph
 We see all dimensions
 We see all of time
 We're all secret agents
 we're all super spies
 Can I tell you something
 Can you comprehend
 Your life is just beginning
 As it's about to end
 I can tell your fortune
 But you don't want to know
 What you have to do and
 Where you gotta go

Well you can look through time with cryst-all-eyes
 The reflection makes you realize
 Life is more than what you recognize
 People come in every shape & size
 Naked underneath those suits and ties
 But their minds got sort of mesmerized
 Old and stupid become young and wise
 When they look inside with cryst-all-eyes

We see
 for you
 We know
 what you want to do
 Did God make this puzzle
 Or is he in the game?
 No matter what the question
 The answer's still the same
 You can pray to Jesus
 or you can play with me
 I'm just a screwy wabbit
 who's weally wrascally
 Looking through this cryst-all
 You'll see many sights
 Cause life is a reflection
 Of the cryst-all's light
 If you have a question
 better ask it now
 we're with the spirit that
 lives inside a cow


Dark Feast

 Designed vines make strawberry wine
 and it tastes just like we made it with some gin & lime
 Supplied the line till they said it was a crime
 and they said that we just made to destroy your minds
 Near beer with a shot of everclear
 We produced a couple cases then they disappeared
 Weird ears wasn't like I couldn't hear
 But when I listened to it more clearly then I'm switching gears

I dimed the kind that stunk like porcupine
 and it felt like pins and needles up and down my spine
 Grind divine apply rye and we're flyin
 and you'll find that your perspective begins multiplying
 Revered beard wasn't bioengineered
 and it looked like it's been growing for a million years
 We're pioneers looking for a new career
 but I'm just volunteering on the new frontier

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This is the Future

This is The Future
 This is what you've been waiting for
 your whole life

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Open  the Door

Open the door
 We've got room for one more
 Some space left on the floor
 So open the door
 and walk right through
 We'll show you something new
 A double me
 and a triple you
 A yellow sky
 And a son who's blue
 He's in disguise
 with a fu manchu
 You recognize
 what you think's a clue
 Cause he's so wise
 but I thought you knew
 It's time to rise up
 with his crew


The Promo

 This is an important song
 about an important man
 who wrote an important book
 and the person who wrote the book
 he's the author the book
 the one
 the only
 the one who wrote the book
 he's the great and knowledgeble 
 the man
 who wrote the book
 he's the author
 of this incredible book
 read icculus
 all the kids are going completely ridiculous
 read the book
 because he wrote the book
 so when you read the book
 but you can't see the book
 because you look away
 i said you look away
 and when you read the book
 just read the book
 gotta read the book
 just read the book
 gotta
 read
 the
 book
 and
 when
 you
 read
 the book
 read the fucking book
 read the book
 you'd better look away

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King of Kings

King of Kings
 Lord of Lords
 The sun that rises
 every morning
 to crystalize
 the break of dawn
 digging potholes
 on my lawn
 potential eyes
 to see beyond
 the spirit lies
 within these songs

Will work for Buddha
 & he'll work for you
 for a bag of headies
 or a ball of goo


I've Come to Save the World

i've come to save the world tonight
 i've come to save the world without a fight
 i've come to save the world right now
 i've come to save the world i'll show you how
 i've come to save the world you see
 i've come to save the world that's me
 i've come to save the world it's true it's true
 i've come to save the world didn't you

now savin the world is a serious task
 we've got some in the present and some in the past
 savin the world is a serious thing
 because whatever you take is whatever you bring

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Crucify  Me 

all good things must come to an end
 there's always someone there to rain on your parade
 to tell you that
 you can't save the world!
 I don't care if it's the Jews Romans
 the Pharoah, the Queen of Hearts
 there's always someone there
 trying to tell you to see things their way
 so the rabbit had been using the crystals as an antenna
 to transmit the cryst-all-consciousness throughout the land
 and of course this angered the people who were trying to keep
 the truth about god and the world secret

I said we're only trying to get us some peace
 Christ you know it ain't easy
 You know how hard it can be
 The way things are going
 They're gonna crucify me
 

Gosh Darn It!

Well Gosh Darn It!
 I'm just a dog gone varmint!
 Well Dag nab it!
 I'm just a silly rabbit
 who's got a couple of bad habits

They were like:
 Gotta take that shit to the lab
 it's some kind of crystal gel
 well that doesn't ring a bell
 but we'll put you in a cell
 then you're going straight to hell
 gonna wish you never fell
 down that crazy rabbit's well
 but if you think that well was deep
 wait until you fall asleep
 in your dreams we're gonna creep
 while you're busy counting sheep
 that look like marshmallow peeps

well I learned a trick or two
 making many out of few
 he had shown me what to do
 every chimney has a flue
 so i acted like a mole
 and i dug myself a hole
 i felt like a gummy worm
 but then the earth began to burn
 it put my dreadies in a perm
 i must have made a wrong left turn
 in albaquerqy

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Darkest Hemispheres

 IN THE DARKEST HEMISPHERES
 Far away places
 Lies the master of darkness
 Constructor of empty spaces
 Separator of races
 Consumer of lost souls
 Has many names and ever changing faces
 Highly contagious
 He must form the basis
 Of the brutality of life
 Oh for goodness gracious
 let me be free from the darkness
 let me find an oasis of light
 If I can just put up a fight
 Then every little thing's gonna be alright
 It takes just a little light
 Just takes one star to make a wish
 But the star's so hot 
 it'll make you burn if you're selfish
 It may be hard to accomplish
 But I'll go to hell trying
 I'm not afraid of dying
 Devil & God are going to be vying for my soul
 You know it's gonna be a cold day in hell
 When I step my foot into that place again
 I was there once and lived to tell
 To warn the human race
 One look at me 
 and I froze the devil's face into a smile
 He looked as happy as a child
 And I was just using the mildest part of my power
 Just wait another hour
 and i'll have him trading in his pitchfork for a flower
 Gonna make him run & cower
 Beneath the ground
 I'm bound to take his sorry ass down
 Without taking a sound
 and i've found that the devil don't take kindly to destruction
 I followed my instructions
 it's simply just a function of living proper
 dropping bombs from the helicopter
 cause old mother earth
 is coming back to claim her turf
 and nothing's gonna stop her
 so you might as well just rock her

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Back From the Dead

So like Moses from the mountaintop
 or Jesus back from the Dead
 our hero returned from the depths of hell
 where he had confronted Satan himself
 and made him crack a quick smile
 he had won the battle but not the war
 to do that he needs your help
 we've got to all come together
 we've all got to fight for what's right in our hearts
 Jesus did it
 Moses did it
 and we all have the power to do it too

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Transcendent

Clearly
 I saw the light disappear before my eyes
 And to my surprise
 I realized if you feel the vibes
 You'll get one last chance to stay alive
 I recognized that the kind is a state of mind
 and I survived

& up in the sky
 an angel started to fly

She disappeared
 with the light of the moon

I was hanging out with this old school kid
 He said that Dark Side sucks compared to Syd
 He said if there's one thing I learned in this crazy world
 it's stay the hell away from those Jersey girls
 Well I found a couple more that crazy night
 I guess I'll blame it on the lack of the moon-light

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Stabilized

I've been stabilized
 more times than I'd realized 
 They steal lives
 They stole mine
 Got a notion of time
 Come meet a pal of mine
 Show you all the signs
 To make up our mind
 Now I'm feeling fine
 Cause we redesigned
 Then we realigned
 And we redefined
 Up and down our spine
 I feel like cryin out to the whole world
 I've been stabilized

When you get up
 You know you gotta come down
 My head in the clouds
 I got my feet on the ground
 Watch the whole world
 as it goes spinning around
 Wearing a crown
 Although I feel like a clown
 Trying so hard to
 Turn that frown upside-down

 Just another Monday morning
 and I'm still up from last night
 see the first rays of sunlight
 and you know i'm feelin alright
 Just another Sunday yawnin
 And I'm still moving along
 Trying to write the words to this song
 Take another hit of the bong
 Just another lonely sunrise
 I think the whole world's still in bed
 Shoot those headies into my head
 Probably should be taking my meds


Miracles

So the next day
 there's a knock on the door of the church
 "The Easter egg hunt was yesterday
 we couldn't wait"
 "duh did you see the easter bunny?
 which way did he go george which way did he go"
 just kidding
 It was my boy
 he's always showing up fashionably late
 On the very next day he arrived
 His very first day alive
 I don't know how he's even survived
 The legend
 the one
 always the most spun
 having the most fun
 I even shot him with a gun in a book that I've done
 I believe in miracles
 Mitesh
 you sexy thing
 I never thought I'd be thanking Jesus
 but thanks, Jesus!
 I'd like to give a shout out to God
 He had something to do with this too
 Moses of course
 and the crystals in my computer that made this all possible
 Ashleigh, Happy fucking birthday!
 You too Mitesh! 
 And all my other Aries brothers and sisters:
 (and my mom)
 Marcus, Beth, Jenny, Mandy, there's too many to remember
 and Dani, you inspired this more than anyone
 and Megan I still haven't seen you since that eclipse
 Jewelie thanks for lending me your name
 Peace to KK and LL as well hell
 & Janelle, born on the first day of spring
 and all of the people in my neighborhood
 and all over the world
 PEACE
 I believe in miracles

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Much love to The Beatles, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, The Beastie Boys, 
 Jefferson Airplane, The Perfume, Grant Morrison, 
 Phish, Funkadelic, Hot Chocolate, Lewis Carroll, Bugs Bunny,
 and anyone else whose words and sounds I borrowed!

Notes: (http://www.hippiehop.com/annotations.html)

Easter Sunday 
I actually wrote most of the music for this song on Easter Sunday 2003, and it seemed to work well as an introduction. 4-11 is of course the number you dial for information when you don't know how to connect to a number. So this Easter we had to dial 4-11 to begin to understand Cryst. 
Hippity Hoppin 
The less I explain this song the better. Let's just say that this is based on a true story and leave it at that.
Mineking 
This song was supposed to be part of a Grateful Dead type of epic about mining, boozing, gambling, etc, but it ended up working much better as a story about how the rabbit was digging his hole and found the cryst-all.
Eggman 
There are a few lines from the Beastie Boys song on top of the intro, then I chant the "This is your brain" which was an anti-drug commercial while I was growing up, where they fried an egg and said, "this is your brain on drugs."
Sidewize 
This is where we escape the story, was it all a dream? Actually I didn't even go to Vegas, so this is the part that is least true out of any of this so far. This is obviously just the basic stuff you think about on an airplane...the props to Propellerhead are because I use the program Reason to make all of this, which is simply an amazing wonderful blessing that I have been given. 
Rabbit Sees In 
This will be much cooler when I do it live!
Cryst All Eyes 
This song reveals that we are all trying to figure out a puzzle where every person is a facet on a crystal. The spirit that lives inside a cow is of course a holy spirit that can be transmitted in many ways, and helps to open our cryst all eyes. The spoken word stuff is from Grant Morrison's Invisibles comic, which everyone should read!
Dark Feast 
This is the Mad Tea Party or Last Supper or whatever you want to call it. Just a ton of crazy concoctions until everyone is wasted.
This is the Future 
Now that Jewelie is in the proper mind state, she is instructed in the ways of the white rabbit. If time is an illusion, aren't we already in the future? So why keep waiting for it to arrive?
Open the Door 
Come on in, the party's just getting started. Triple you is one of the letters in the secret alphabet in The Invisibles, and of course, it's also a reference to seeing yourself in the Cryst-All. "The sky was yellow and the sun was blue" is a line from Scarlet Begonias by the Grateful Dead, and fits in with the Alice in Wonderland logical problems, as well as the fact that before being resurrected, the son was sort of blue too. The fu manchu is a reference to The Perfume song "Digital Buddha coming for you, with a big old belly and a fu manchu" and the "in disguise" part is because Jesus, Buddha, etc are the Cryst-All, but it's hidden in the puzzle.
The Promo 
This is "Icculus" by Phish, which is about how Icculus, Phish's version of Jesus/Moses wrote "The Helping Friendly Book." Phish's Gamehendge saga is a huge influence on this work, so I had to give props to Icculus, especially since it's the perfect way to advertise my book, look away, which is actually part of another phish song. Tom Marshall, who wrote the song "Walls of the Cave" got a copy of my book around the time he wrote that song. Hmmm...we're all reflecting each other!
King of Kings 
This has my parody version of The Perfume's Digital Buddha at the end. (now you know why I don't call it a Biscuits song)
I've Come to Save the World 
Didn't you?
Legalize 
This is of course the end of I am the Walrus, where I take the "smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot" chant from the original song and segue into Legalize it by Peter Tosh, and of course Legalize rhymes with Cryst-All-Eyes so it works out great! Some day I'll do the other verse of the Beatles song.
Crucify Me 
Another Beatles tune. We are going to be performing at times as a Beatles cover band called "Lucy in Disguise" so that's why there's so many songs from them on here.
Gosh Darn It 
This song is weird because it switches between the rabbit, the law, and the girl...but that's what happens when you look through crystall eyes, we all become confused as to where one person ends and another begins. Basically this song is about getting caught and digging a hole to escape. But they dug the hole too far and ended up in the nasty part of town.
Darkest Hemispheres 
This is the only song I didn't write the music for. Actually I have a new version but I like this one a lot! It's a Funkadelic sample and I did this song many years ago. I think it's in mono. This shit is old skool.
Back From the Dead 
I'm just disguising the titles at this point, so they aren't revealed in the contents. This is the Bob Marley song Exodus, but just the groove. I'll probably do the whole thing live some day.
Transcendent 
This song is really about how my last best friend left my life. She flew on a plane during the lunar eclipse! That night I was hanging out with the Jersey girl who directly inspired this project (more like demanded!) 
Stabilized 
Back to reality. Monday morning...still up from last night! uh ho!
Here Comes the Son 
I tried to sing this but I figured I'd spare you all the agony. Someday, maybe...
Miracles 
Props to my moremellow peeps. This track is based on a joke that the Disco Biscuits made. It all falls together so nicely. Here's the 4-11: My best friend Ashleigh's birthday was Easter Sunday this year. My other best friend Mitesh's birthday is the next day, 4-12. Mitesh is always late for everything! He is a complete freak, and one day he jumped on the stage a Biscuits show (actually Triscuits) and Jon the Barber, who plays guitar, starts singing "I believe in miracles, Mitesh, you sexy thang!" So he is pretty famous for that. Plus everyone who knows me knows that i'm always at the shows looking for a miracle. Sorry if I didn't thank someone, I tried to keep it to my Aries friends and people who very directly inspired the songs.
