Musical Lodge

Lance: And, what would you think about creating a DEN anthem?  If this is too big of an ask, just let me know.   

Lodge: I think a DEN anthem would be interesting.  What would you like it to say? 

Lance: I hate to keep asking about songs but the DEN anthem would be fantastic to have.  Here is a presentation that contains the key words and ideas, but I’d love to chat with you about it: DEN 

Lodge: Sounds great, all around. When do you have a few minutes to chat DEN repeaters?

Lance: Right now?  Or pretty much any time today or tomorrow.  

Download: We are the DEN.mp3

Don’t you want to be a Star
Known along the boulevard
For passing on how you believe
In educational technology
Be the support system
For using digital media
That’s our community
It’s no mystery

Chorus:
We are the DEN
We’re standing together
State of the art as we share with each other
A community connecting teacher to teacher
Online, in person, we’ll hear the call
We are the DEN
Yea, stronger than ever
The valuable resources are each other
My personal network binds us together
All for good, and good for all

You can be a DEN Star
Get free PD and webinars
Host a training on technology
Help us expand this community
Be the support system
For teachers old and young
Join up and you will see
The possibilities

Share what you know
Start those ideas and see them go
Plant best practices and watch them grow

Lyrics:

Been a poor dirt farmer for all of my life
I can’t afford to make you my wife
For I’ve got no money to buy you a ring
I have only labor my arms can still bring
A richer man can dress you in gold
And sanctify it until you get old
We can tame the fires through most of our days
And conceal this passion our essence it craves

Chorus:
When you take off all of your clothes – oh
Heaven will know  - oh
I’ll be forgiven, I suppose

Your father wrote saying he disapproves
A finer match he commands that you choose
For my family’s blood lacks in noble breeding
And no advancement can my promise bring
We could live together many years from now
You’d tend the cattle and I guide the plow
‘tis so foolish to dream of impossible things
We have only moments ‘til life tugs the strings

We vow in darkness to never part
In life or thereafter we’ll savor the heart
It’s a half day journey to the cliffs by the sea
Where we fall together our souls ever free

If you take off all of your clothes – oh
Whether fiction or prose oh
I’ll be forgiven, I suppose

When I get older I won’t lose my mind
I won’t be shattered when a girl defies
Oh baby sometimes the things you say
Could be delivered in a different way
Other than..

Chorus:
Lies, only lies
Ya don’t get your story straight
When you fantasize
And tell lies, it’s no surprise
Oh, yea the story’s good
But it’s my trust you compromise

When I get older I won’t lose my faith
In both the sinners and the saints escape
Oh baby sometimes you just can’t be wrong
And still you’re keeping it up so long
By telling…

Into the Wild

we’re waiting
waiting for the morning to come
waiting
for the light to break the dawn
amos asks for a flame
He’s bathed in his ashesand the rain

chorus:
ah, the rain it soaks me good
like a child, under the peasant moon
into the wild, into unsettled woods

we’re willing
willing for the moment to come
willing
to hear your debts are in the wrong
ellen, won’t ya pass me another name
It’s folded in a paper made of grain

Lyrics:

In biologicals we built a great big rocket
Called Jumpstart to help the plants
With our Innoculant
The phosphates are released
The plants like it
Better soil for better farming
Then the Novo BioScrub CP
Leaving good bacteria to fight bacteria
And Aquaculture-ing
‘Cause the shrimp don’t like their water green

Chorus:
We’re building rockets
Some made of fungus and yeast
A bunch of small ones
Pay for the big ones, Chief
That’s biobusiness
We’re thinking 2018
When we’ve reduced tons of CO2
And grown our rocket machine
We want our people thinking happy and clean

Ya, Biopharma
Make the recombinant albumin
Engineer the yeast
To stabilize and bulk the union
Increasing shelf life
And the time inside your body
Increase stability of the drug
Hyaluronic Acid – HA
Engineer bacteria to produce a friendly alternative
Or Fusion, Albumin
Increasing half life by design

So they can dream up new ideas
And take the dare to develop them
Finally testing their applications
Doing this over and over again

A future rocket
Anti microbial peptides
NZ21 – 14
A great big rocket
Funded by previous projects
We do because we dare to dream
A genetically engineered supreme
That works against resistant strains of bad bad bacteria
Yea, you know that it seems to me
That we’re the future of fighting disease

Pathetic are the tears
We’ve seen throughout the years
And the lame excuses
Like failed synthetic cures
While we make a wish
Of hope that disappears

A placebo, round of pills
meant to dial back these chills
And saline injections
To wear away the shields
Have all been used to keep us
Sad and healed

The story goes that lust turned into love
Our bodies wrecked in faith
Just showed the shape of two amateurs
That trailed into dust

Impartial are the stains
The show up around the shame
They remain like scars
Until we meet again
And pass on easy
While too dark to pretend

Hold me, don’t be cold my love
’cause I won’t see you soon
And you won’t see me soon

The story of the tears
We’ve heard throughout the years
Like lame excuses
And failed pathetic cures
While we made our wish
As hope, it disappears

wake up
is it time to fix your makeup?
you’re on TV fella
so don’t disappoint the crowd
just talk in your circles
and finish
what the dude before you replenished
it’s the age-old tale
of “I am the better one”
so hallelujah
old man
with the fake sprayed on tan
saying “yes I understand”
the many stresses
and problems of all you little people
hey, now vote is in your hand
lemme shake it, i’m a fan
gonna fix it all
with my newest program

fakin’ it
like a politician
and naked
as a jaybird singin’

oh, decisions
they’re just the politics of winnin’
i’ll be everywhere fella
to care and lend a friendly hand
without opinions
I did it
better believe i’ll take the credit
but turn your back and i’ve moved on
to the richer man
so hallelujah
a saint
with a legislative name
playing the “i can fix it” game
who won’t forget your problems
but wait
i can’t remember all I’m sayin
so i’ll promise it again
and do the same ole same
to get the win…

hey, mr. secretary i’ve lied
when i started out i tried
to make this world a better place
but we aint forward
we’re side to side
while we argue where to hide
and watch the world get older

wake up
is it time to fix your makeup?
you’re on TV fella
so don’t disappoint the crowd
just talk in your circles
and finish
what the dude before you replenished
it’s the age-old tale
of i was the bitter loser
who wrote the book on…
disgrace
of the public official race
after all, I was the one
who played it safe
and got shut down
hey…hear a rally cheering sounds
the next election comes to town
if ya’ll think I should run…
well I’ll be around

This is a duet featuring Kaitlin McKeown.

This is a song written almost three years ago.  The lyrics are partly from a poem that I read which was written by a friend of mine.  I finally found a style and reason to do up a recording of “all of me.”

This was recorded a few years ago at Overdub Lane in Durham…produced by the same guy who did one of the Squirrel Nut Zippers’ albums.  It’s supposed to be about a young boy with a healthy obsession with a famous, but local, musical artist…within reach, but not really.

Luke Miles created a few sample videos for the Bang J jingles

Reworking the lyrics with Peter Kazanjy, VMware. Here is version 2 of VMware fusion Unite!

VMware Fusion v2 lyrics

Unite lyrics