1. The Digger
Monster shadows burnt behind eyelids
Lightbulb lemon a stranger to all my friends
A new pollution weighing heavy like a whale bone
So dig your own way out of your hole
I like the sound of you beside me
The moon, the river and the lightning
Your touch electrical exciting
The open road and a good sense of timing
Jungle hunger heated heart defeated not
Wholesome raging with my skeletons in the dark
A dream so lucid a technicolor feature show
So dig your own way out of your hole
I like the sound of you beside me
The moon, the river and the lightning
Your touch, electrical exciting
The open road and a good sense of timing
I go in disguisery
Like a silhouette shimmers on the highway
Its you like a thunder bolt inside me
The open road goes winding winding on
Called by the moon, to ride in the waves of the black monsoon
Here where i stand, a volatile volcano man
Cause I like dynamite and lightning and she's got the diamonds in her eyes
Cause I like dynamite and lightning and she's got the diamonds in her eyes
Cause I like dynamite and lightning and she's got the diamonds in her eyes
With a good sense of timing, yeah
A good sense of timing
So dig your own way out of your hole
Dig your own way out of your hole
Alexander McCowan 2007
2. Ode to Lakewater
Water from the up high
Water from the sky
Coming down the mountain
Coming from the sky, Water from the sky
Born when the stone was alive and the gods were guilty of pride
Carved by the crush of ice that covered the earth at the time
Find myself
Alone to be
Insignificance
An Ode to Lakewater
Water that I'm feeling
Water make me clean
C'mon catch the feeling
Of water so fresh and so clean
Your legs go swimming like a rainbow trout as you pass on by
A place of reminiscing where all the lakemonsters can go and hide
Find myself
Alone to be
Insignificance
An Ode to Lakewater
Hear the calling of the loon break through the shadows of the pines
Make me want to rest my bones on the stones of the shoreline
A healthly looking moon stretches tall
As one with all
Connectedness
An Ode to Lakewater
Alexander McCowan 2009
3. Juste Comme Jacques Cousteau
Quand la mer est commence a s'elever
It got dusty and hot like a stovetop
The crops sont mort and the mosquitoes brought malaria
Nous etions dans de vilains drap
So I built you un bateau
Et juste comme Jacques Cousteau
We gonna s'adventurer ensemble
Avec ma belle et mon bateau
We gonna go where the warm winds blow
Carried on the shoulders of the rising sea
Le courant took us past calamity
Un homard, une huitre and une baleine become our friends
So dry your eyes we shall not go hungry
I caught soixante poissons for a feast tres manifique
And we'll live in mon bateau
Et juste comme Jacques Cousteau
We gonna s'adventurer ensemble
Avec ma belle et mon bateau
We gonna go where the warm winds blow
Carried on the shoulders of the rising sea
The waves they came down like rain
And it became sous marin
And we'll live in mon bateau
Et juste comme Jacques Cousteau
We gonna s'adventurer ensemble
Avec ma belle et mon bateau
We gonna go where the warm winds blow
Carried on the shoulders of the rising sea
Alexander McCowan 2008
5. Where the Wild Tigers Go
I found you sleeping where the wild tigers go to eat their young
I found you sleeping with the words of ancient song upon your tongue
Blue was the moon in your bottle of rum
Well, you're mother was a gunrunner for the rebels, your father was a poacher and a priest
Well, you're mother was a gunrunner for the rebels, your father had a secret life to keep
Well, scratch the lie and you will find the thief
And so we followed one another 'til we danced in three-four time
And so we followed one another 'til i was yours and you were mine
With a hunter's moon in the sky
Singing
How funny when love comes
How funny when love leaves
How funny like the blood thats running through your veins
How funny when love comes
How funny when love leaves
How funny like all your ghosts are singing in the tall trees
I'm trying to find a place to be
With you where the wild tigers go
Alexander McCowan 2009.
6. The GDP (So Be Somebody)
So try again the play the game with the D-N-A
What's your code name undercover C-I-A
You were caught on the spot you were R-E-D
Red on the hot spot, hands on the cash pot
But histories, centuries and the A-G-Es
Are passing through kung fu and democracy
While you were looking for your keys for your G-M-C
Truck out of luck, you were down never stuck
Cause the down side of up is just the up side of down
And its one more reason why the world go round
Cause it all comes around, it all goes around
Yeah, it all comes around
So 1-2-3 get yourself a J-O-B
Contribute to the G-D-P
Cause the A-B-Cs come before the P-H-Ds
So be somebody and go
4-5-6 get yourself a F-I-X
Cause if youre stuck in the mix
You better find yourself a reason to believe in times like this
So be somebody and go play
So try again, whats the game with the T-L-As
They were talking 'bout the swine flu and Y-2-K
They were talking 'bout Castro and J-F-K
Who by the way would of said
"You better seize the day"
U-F-O up above, down its H-I-V
What's the cause and effect of the G-D-P
The S-U-N is explosive like T-N-T
Dynamite, out of sight, out of mind
Well, it all takes time, a little bit of time
Yeah it all takes time, a little bit of time
And thats one more reason why the world go round
Thats one more reason why the world go round
Cause it all, it all comes around
Yeah it all goes around
So 1-2-3 get yourself a J-O-B
Contribute to the G-D-P
Cause the X-Y-Z will come after you D-I-E
And R-I-P and E-T-C
And in times like these
You better open up your E-Y-Es, your just a zeitgeist passing through an A-G-E too
So be somebody and go
So be somebody and go play and live your days
Your D-N-A is here and now, its not here to stay
You'll find you're way to re-arrange the game
By getting down to your W-O-R-K
It will pass you by, if you never even try
So bring it on home like a R-B-I
And just go be somebody
Working for a living in this G-A-M-E
And 1-2-3 get yourself a J-O-B
Contribute to the G-D-P
Cause the A-B-Cs come before the P-H-Ds
So be somebody and go
4-5-6 get yourself a F-I-X
Cause if you're stuck in the mix
You better find yourself a reason to believe in times like this
And in times like these open up your E-Y-Es
And learn a little something from your A-B-Cs too
So be somebody and go play
So be somebody and go play
Alexander McCowan 2009
7. Honeybee
I saw you standing so smooth
Illuminated inside this room
I caught your eye like an arrow
A symphony played our tune
I stepped beside your essense where life is just a melody
Your sweet lil charms took a hold of me
And yeah you got me spellbound, turned my whole world upsidedown
You've gone to running inside my head
So wear your blue dress now
Cause I can't get you out of my mind
We'll go out 'til the morning
Cause I can't get you out of my mind
No i can't get you out of my mind
So c'mon lets get together
C'mon lets steal the night away
We'll walk the streets like young lovers
We'll count the stars and call them our own
So yeah, I'm hooked I'm carving those mystic nights of our lovemaking
You sting so sweet like a honeybee
And there you are again, inside my head
You burn my heart again, with those words you said
Just to lay beside your essence, baby, life is such a mystery
C'mon sting me my honeybee
And we'll get away from this
So wear your blue dress now
Cause I can't get you out of my mind
We'll go out 'til the morning
Cause I can't get you out of my mind
No i can't get you out of my mind
C'mon now, lets get to living
C'mon now, feel the rhythm
C'mon lets go
And wear your blue dress now
Cause I can't get you out of my mind
We'll go out 'til the morning
Cause i can't get you out of my mind
No I can't get you out of my mind
Alexander McCowan 2006
