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Post Post Modernist Man (2008)

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:23:19 GMT

Here's a song from the In Dog's Country CD Release Party back in January 2008. Billy Dechand and Friends: Joe Winze, Shawn Hartung, and Scott Rockwood of Madahoochi, with Dan Ingenthron on bass. Off Broadway, St Louis, January 2008.
I wonder if it's still relevant?

Post Post Modernist Man
Words and music by Billy Dechand © 2006 Bucktooth Music (ASCAP)

I figured it out – up is down
What once was old is young again now
I’m a physical man in a spiritual world
A modern man in a post-modern world

I’m a post-post modernist man
In a post-post-post-modernist world
I’m a post-post-post-modernist man
In a post-post-post-post-modernist world

That is one heck of a gain
One whale of an oil stain

A mechanical man in an electrical world
I’m a space age man in a digital world
A windblown man in a static world
I’m a solar man in a nuclear world

I’m a post-post modernist man
In a post-post-post-modernist world
I’m a post-post-post-modernist man
In a post-post-post-post-modernist world

When The Sand Is Dry

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:04:10 GMT

A song for the change of seasons.

WHEN THE SAND IS DRY
And the sun is high
Time blows by

When the tide is low
And footprints stay
Wind slows down

Everything you need is where you are
Just park your car and go
It's all the same you still remain

From The Billy Dechand Band's 2001 release, "World Famous In Chapel Hill".
Musicians: Billy Dechand, Vito di Bona, Mike Yanoski.

Beautiful

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:58:07 GMT

Words and music by Billy Dechand, © 2003 Bucktooth Music (ASCAP)

You say you never had a better lover
Whether he was clever or a fool
You stay, breaking all the records for keeping it together
You’re fine, you’re so cool, and beautiful

They say, "Hey hey, look at those two
What can we do to be like you?
You’re fine, you’re so cool, and beautiful"

I say I love you, you know it’s true
You say you love me, I know it’s true
It’s true, I know, I know
Yeah, I know I know it’s true

I say, "Whatever I imagined as a fantasizing adolescent never
Could have added up to this kind of romance
I never knew
Who knew it could be so cool, and beautiful"

From the Muss My Hair CD, Hold On

Hold On

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:51:57 GMT

Hold On

Hold on, find another day to cry
Hold on, we need this time

No, don’t deny your feelings
More so, hold them close

Hold my hand
I need you here to keep me
Bold and strong
So I can keep what I hold dear

On this live version, Dan Ingenthron plays piano.

It Never Rains On My Birthday

Thu, 28 May 2009 12:22:37 GMT

It Never Rains On My Birthday
© 2008, words and music by Billy Dechand

I was born between falling stars
Our bothers, preachers and bootleggers sons
Oh, it hurt when they fell
I was so small I hardly knew
They came to do good and did well

My father, he liked his things
Mother loved to sing
Brother mastered his art
Sister knew how to party
Everyone's happy in Spring
It never rains...

No, it never rains on my birthday
The sun always shines
It never rains

All through the years
Oh so many tears
Love come and gone
Hoping for better days
Sometimes there's even parades
It never rains...

No, it never rains on my birthday
The sun always shines
It never rains

The Man In The Suit

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:48:14 GMT

From 1998 Billy Dechand CD Pop Another Cork.

Seems the wiser
Varies with age

Takes the time to
Change his mind
Walks through the swarm

The venom of his enemy is wine
A stranger in silver
Steals from the queen
Painless and generous
The drones replace the gold
The spoils of his honey gift spread,
And word gets round

He takes chances
There's no danger

Even stronger
The sting endured
The poison is the cure

The venom of his enemy is wine
A stranger in silver
Steals from the queen
Painless and generous
The drones replace the gold
The spoils of his honey gift spread,
And word gets round

The Last Time

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:58:09 GMT

Here are the lyrics from "The Last Time", the first track on my first CD, Pop Another Cork.

The Last Time
Words & music by Kate Lovelady & Billy Dechand, 1997, Bucktooth Music (ASCAP)

He said the first thing to come to your mind,
the little prick proves you're awake, alone
again, these are your hands this is your bed,
its lonely frontiers wide and cold.

Bandaged thick with sheets and sleep
and unreasonable dreams . . .
get up, tear the pictures down,
scrub their shadows from the walls,
you'll never look at them again

(like) it's the last time

You thought because he was dancing close
(that) he was dancing with you
you've nailed every dip and turn,
learn the steps to exit gracefully.

Flickers of hope, blaze a maze
you've followed him in so long . . .
only a bitch forgets cleanly
once the memories are aired from every shirt and sheet
and beaten from the pillow.

This is the last time, just like
just like the second last time, . . .

He was the first man she ever trusted
he was the second man she ever trusted
she's had it now she says this is
the next-to-last time,
the very next-to-last time.

Just like the last time
like the second last time
like the third last time
Just like...

Hey Jake

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:52:37 GMT

This song is also from the musical In Dog's Country. Mal, the bad dog (played by Ruth Keating of The Malarkies), tries to convince Jake, the good dog (Billy D) to attack the squirrel Ada, on whom Jake has a crush. Mal explains that dogs shouldn't love squirrels; instead, they should hunt them. Jake's confusion gets pretty emotional...

Hey Jake

Mal:	Hey Jake, don't get it wrong
	Your attraction, that’s not love 
	You’re a hunter, and squirrels are meant to be caught
	Don’t give a thought to how she’ll suffer

Jake:	OK, maybe you're right; it's not true puppy love 
	Maybe this craving's for the hunt instead 
 
Mal:	Yes Jake, you are a dog
	Who lives and eats and breathes 
	You should be hunting like a real live dog
	Do you dare to fetch your meal rare? 

Jake:	Hey little squirrel look out here I come
	I think I got a deep down hunger for my teeth in yer bones 
        I’m coming to your home

        You’re so beautifully fluffy and seeing you’s making me jones  
        I can’t tell if it’s blood or it’s love that’s making me crazy 
        You're so fluffy...

In Dog's Country
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Hey Jake (You're So Fluffy) (w/...

I've Got It All

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:04:07 GMT

Now that my web site is fresh and different, I'm gonna post song lyrics from time to time. This is the first installment. Requests encouraged.
This one is from In Dog's Country, a musical about two dogs, a cat, a squirrel, and The Man. This one is sung by Frisky, the cat, who lives a privileged life style. Matt Sutton, front man for The Malarkies, sings lead.
I've Got It All
Words and music by Billy Dechand, © 2007 Bucktooth Music

I was born a kitten
Now I'm a kitty cat
I've got some kind of freedom
From The Man who keeps me fat

The Man makes the rules
But I keep my cool
He's still feeding me
Even when I'm cruel

He's a fascist, so I scratch him
Then I'm impassive, then I'm absent
When he's gone or away I never cry
He lets me go, he lets me stay
I love to be alone; I never cry

I've got it all right here
I'm far too smooth to ever try
I've got the touch
My food is never dry
I train my Man
Once a week I join him sleeping
That's all it takes to make him feel
He needs to make me meals
Then I turn my tail
I'm on my own again

The Man makes the rules
But I keep my cool
Sometimes I make a wish
Then he feeds me fish!

I've got it all right here
I'm far too smooth to ever try
I've got the touch
My food is never dry
I train my Man
Once a week I join him sleeping
That's all it takes to make him feel
He needs to make me meals
Then I turn my tail
I'm on my own again

In Dog's Country
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I’ve Got It All (w/ Matt Sutto...