The Moaning Sallys

lyrics from In the land of make believe

Stay The Course

You Only Text Me When You're High

(link to song coming soon)

You Can Pretend

the world is evil

you can pretend

we're all accountable

You make a choice

and pay the price for it

You work hard

make some money

Stay the course, and

don't fall down

Stay the course, and

don't fall down.

Buy a house, start a family

Stay the course, and don't look down

Help your children

stay out of trouble

Stay the course and don't fall down

What are you going to do when the wind blows?

You can try to keep standing

Stay on your feet despite the turbulence

Find out who is responsible

Make them pay for what they've done

You make a choice and pay the price for it

There are winners in this world

and there are losers

There is always someone to blame

What are you going to do when the wind blows/ rain comes/ flames won't stop/ rains won't come

Stay the course, and don't back down

You Only Text Me When You're High

(link to song coming soon)

I say hi to you on weekends

And sometimes when I’m at the store

I share with you interesting things

To all of which you don’t reply

I’m not sure you realize

How much it means to me

When I send you my hellos

That you acknowledge my existence

All too often you’re not there

But we both know that’s not the case

Your phone is with you everywhere

You can never not be there

And then I feel your big vibration!

And once again I feel alive!

We’re engaged in conversation!

But the things you say don’t make much sense…

There’s very little punctuation

It’s such a stupid conversation

I hang my head and wonder why

You only text me when you’re high

What you say is not important

You’re not paying much attention

There’s very little punctuation

It’s such a stupid conversation

You only text me when you’re high

What you say is not important

You’re not paying much attention

I am forced to wonder why

You only text me when you’re high

There’s very little punctuation

It’s such a stupid conversation

You only text me when you’re high

Don't Drink The Water

You Only Text Me When You're High

United We Sit (Reprise)

(link to song coming soon)

Don’t drink the water, you’ll go down, down, down

Don’t join the laughter you’ll go down, down, down

Don’t listen to the drunks, they go round and round

The religious nuts, they go round and round Don’t put your hand up, they’ll take you to the ground

Don’t drink the water D

on’t look at the sky, you’ll go blind, go blind Open your eyes and you’ll go blind, blind, blind

Don’t pay attention to the other side

Never mind what’s on the other side

Stay where you are for your peace of mind Don’t look up, you’ll go blind, you’ll go blind

Why take the time, Why make sacrifices? Why risk everything to the toss of the dice?

Don’t trust the rain, it’s all lies, it’s all lies Don’t listen to your brother and his words for the wise

Don’t use your voice, it’s too loud, it’s too loud You’re better off getting lost in the crowd Don’t ask questions, don’t play with fire

Don’t listen to the rain

Why spend the money, why build a case Why stay up all night running someone else’s race? Don’t fight the battle, it’s a winless war Nobody knows what they’re fighting for

Just shut out the lights and close the door Don’t let the neighbors in anymore

Don’t ask questions, don’t fan the flames

And don’t drink the water

United We Sit (Reprise)

Mountain Peaks and Waterfalls

United We Sit (Reprise)

(link to song coming soon)

Our eyes were wide

When they dropped the bait

Like an Adam and Eve We took the fruit and ate

We ate it all And it was good

One nation, United We Stood

It was on TV The rockets red glare

United we watched It was like we were there We bought it all From our country station

It was our mission To protect our nation

From the comfort of home Good Morning Iraq Good Evening Afghanistan Hope y’all come back

It was all so exciting It was all so much fun

All that desert warfare And soldiers and guns It was PG-13 They didn't show much blood Nobody saw any dying Just the occasional SCUD

And then the ratings tanked Just like that

And we got tired of standing So United We Sat

And to this day With our virtual ticket

We’re still here waiting United We Sit

Bad things happen All of the time

And we express our outrage To our friends online

United We Sit At home on our asses

Out in the streets Invisible masses

United We Sit At home on our asses

As the planet burns We clink our glasses United We Sit On our asses As democracy dies.. Another day passes

A system malfunction Why take it apart

This mishandled matter It's someone else's fault

Don't know who to trust these days

Don't know where to start

These misguided actions Must be someone else's fault

Mountain Peaks and Waterfalls

(Link to song coming soon)

Mountain peaks and waterfalls

deep inside your brain

and voices informing and noises of warning

blowing in the wind

Caffeine to wake up at dawn

Pills to sleep at night

The day is a hurricane with damaging floods

You put it all away

Another time, another place

to make this disappear

like skipping a chapter or changing the channel

out of sight and mind

Where will you be running to

or are you running away?

Are you looking for a lover or just better weather on the other side?

Minotaurs and unicorns haunt you in your sleep

They're bucking and kicking, laughing and singing

and you are paralyzed

You're tired of the lemons, tired of the headwind

Tired of being sick when you used to be well

Tired of being tired in the middle of the day

You don't have the patience to feel this way

Tired of the demons and their unkept promises

tired of believing them and falling in their traps

Tired of waking up on the wrong side of the day

Something tells me it doesn't have to be this way

In The Land of Make Believe

Mountain Peaks and Waterfalls

(Link to song coming soon)

In the land of make believe nobody cares about anything

Why worry, What's the hurry?

The economy is strong, and the weather looks lovely

In the land of make believe, there's always something for everyone

Grab a beer, have no fear

There's enough to go around and around and around

In the land of make believe nobody needs to know anything

What we're aware of, it's taken care of

The whole world is happy and everyone is free

and everyone is free

Unless they don't wanna be

In the land of make believe

nobody tells you what to do

so spend your money

Go to Disney

but only if you want to

In the land of make believe

nobody cares about anything

Why worry, what's the hurry

The economy is strong, and the weather looks lovely

The economy is strong and the weather looks lovely

The economy is lovely

and the weather looks strong

All These Times

The Wall Around Your Conscience

When a child is afraid of unfamiliar terrain

She tells a story

with a triumphant outcome

When you fall asleep at night with worry in your heart

Your dreams tell a story

to keep you on your toes

A worried mind gets old and begins to decay

It tells you stories with the fragments that remain

All These Times when you're alone

The switchboard breaks down

You get these stories

sometimes they don't make sense at all

Take me back to that

one room apartment

loneliness was so simple

We would walk to the ocean

kick off your shoes and you're free

All These Times when you're alone The switchboard breaks down You get these stories sometimes they don't make sense at all

They don't make sense

They don't make sense at all

The Wall Around Your Conscience

The wall around your conscience

Is bigger than your soul

It keeps out all the facts and figures

You'll never want to know

\You ordered it on Amazon

It arrived the other day

Bought it with a gift card

And installed it earlier today

It's screwed into your frontal cortex

And weaves around your brain

It's a wall around your conscience

To fend off anxiety and pain

Except it also keeps out other things

With its thickness and it's height

Like will power and compassion

And a sense of wrong and right

You're jumping into a great big hole

With the wall around your conscience

Comes a money back guarantee

You won't ever have to think again

Or question authority

No scientific theory Or political nonfiction

Will ever help you navigate Your moral contradictions

Like school shootings and abortion

A new Star Wars movie every year

The NFL and climate change

And citrus flavored beer

So relax and feel secure

You're safe from the chaos and disorder

Every worry dispatched from your heart

Has been detained at the border

There's a wall around your conscience

It's bigger than your soul

There's a wall around your conscience

It's swallowing you whole

Inside the wall around your conscience They're busy digging a great big hole

Inside the wall around your conscience They're digging you a great big hole

You're jumping into a great big hole

Songs And lyrics from ACPR (2020)

Disease

Not Ever Gonna Give Up On You

I feel My Sorrow

Link to song on Bandcamp

Is there something I can get you?

Is the horse shit too tough?

There’s more where that came from

Have you eaten enough?

Don’t go to bed hungry

I can tell you’re not through

You say you’ve had plenty

We both know that’s not true!

You’re smiling on the outside

But I can see you’re not well

Something must be up my friend

You’re conflicted I can tell

Do you trust me enough with your keys

To unlock this secret disease?

Did you contract it traveling overseas

Or when you willfully got on your knees?

You know the first step is acceptance

Can you tell me where it aches?

Will you regain use of your head?

Tell me what will it take?

I know there’s no time like never

Just know I’m here if you need me

If you end up somewhere near

You know how to reach me

I could never fit in your shoes

I’ve never been through that kind of abuse

That does not give you the right to choose

To be willfully, chronically confused

There’s a towel in the bathroom

Clean sheets on the bed

There’s a light in the hallway

If you’re feeling out of your head

So until we meet again my friend

Let the show resume

Know when to say when

And be careful what you consume

I feel My Sorrow

Not Ever Gonna Give Up On You

I feel My Sorrow

Link to song on Bandcamp

I wonder where you are today

Or what you’ve become

Do you suffer the same frustrations

Or are there new ones

If I recall I was one of them

But you put me in my place

Never to be seen again

My profile would be erased

I must admit I thought of you

On some quiet nights

The way you touched me, the way you read me

Everything felt right

And then I see my own face

And I feel my own sorrow

I’ve made my mistakes

Will I ruin my tomorrow?

And I’m plagued by this sickness

That will not go away

No matter who I turn to

At the end of the day

And you will never know me

Or look at me again

And who else will you touch

And curse with your pen

And when I see my own face

Will it ruin my tomorrow?

Can I live with my mistakes?

What comes around goes around

And I’m still on my way

I know I’ll stumble and likely fall

And suffer many ugly days

I hope that you have found your way

And loosened up your grip

And let go of those useless battles

Before you sink another ship

Everyone is a little crazy we’ve all got our battle wounds

You’ve given me perspective

I am not immune

Not Ever Gonna Give Up On You

Link to song on Bandcamp

I’m not ever gonna give up on you

No matter what you say, no matter what you do

I’m not ever gonna give up on you

I don’t believe you for a second

I’m not threatened and your words do not offend

But I do wonder about your feelings

And from where your convictions descend

Because I don’t think it’s from a place of compassion

And I don’t think it’s your political fashion

And I know you you’re not stupid and I know you’ew not unlearned

Which brings us to this timely interaction

Some say we shouldn’t walk down that street

“They’ll tell lies,” they say, “and laugh at you and cheat,

And while you fill the air with righteousness and reason

They won’t listen to a single word you speak.”

Well I’m here to say I’m walking down that street

You may not speak my language or eat the food I eat

But we both have ears and eyes and a conscience

So I ask you to please take a seat

Lol, laughy-face, rotfl

I can’t force you to take a bitter pill

But I’ll say it anyway in case you hear it

Your disposition comes from fear and ignorance and not goodwill

No, I’m not ever gonna give up on you

I’m not ever gonna give up on you

No matter what you say, no matter what you do

I’m not ever gonna give up on you

No matter what you say, no matter what you do

I’m not ever gonna give up on you

No matter what you say, no matter what you do

I’m not ever gonna give up on you

Truck Flag

What Is Wrong With Me?

Not Ever Gonna Give Up On You

Link to song on Bandcamp

I can’t help but notice

The flag on your truck

Twitching out the back

Like a tail... like a tail on a duck

Leaves one to wonder

Is there a parade?

Something you want to say?

Or are you just… or are you just afraid?

Forgive my curiosity

If it seems out of place

But there’s something going on here

Is this something you embrace?

Who is your target audience?

Should I be laughing or amused

Or are you hoping to offend me?

Because mostly I’m confused

With your dumbass truck flag flapping

You fill your heart with confidence

Outspoken and anonymous

You educate the populace

I feel sorry for you

What Is Wrong With Me?

Link to song on Bandcamp

Sometimes I can’t figure out

What is wrong with me

I have trouble understanding

How I came to be

It’s a tangled up mess in side

Of rusted barbed wire

A reservoir of questions

And an endless quagmire

I want to let it go

Don’t know if I should

I went out to the west coast

And then I came back east

I went walking in the hills

And dove into the sea

And I still can’t clear my head

I can't clear my head

Won’t you please help me

I want to let it go

Don’t know if I could

When I get to thinking I go

Deep inside my head

I wander through the corridors

And find stacks of books unread

There’s so much to discover there

That I had never known

I need assistance from the help desk

Before I set out on my own

Won’t you please help me?

I want to let it go

I don’t know if I should

I want to let it go

I don’t know if I could

I Can Play My Music

What Is Wrong With Me?

Link to song on Bandcamp

I feel powerless

To stop the ruin

All this cowardice

Gone rogue

There’s not much that I can do

Nothing I can say to you

It’s gonna be ok

Some fucking day

But I can play my music

To occupy my mind

I find it therapeutic

To leave it all behind

I like presumptuous rock

Conscientious rock

I’m an elitist, completist

Defeatist fan of audacious rock

It’s complicated rock

It’s pretentious rock

It’s adult contemporary

Sedimentary rock

It’s not ridiculous talk

To like contemptuous rock

Do you like that vibe?

Then join my tribe!

If you think it’s complicated

Then you’re probably gonna hate it

You gotta move to the polyrhythm

Calculate the algorithm

Feel it in your brain

Total sugarcane

But I can play my music

To occupy my mind

I find it therapeutic

To leave it all behind

I like presumptuous rock

Conscientious rock

I’m an elitist, completist

Defeatist fan of audacious rock

It’s complicated rock

It’s pretentious rock

It’s adult contemporary

Sedimentary rock

It’s not ridiculous talk

To like contemptuous rock

Do you like that vibe?

Then join my tribe!

If you think it’s complicated

Then you’re probably gonna hate it

You gotta move to the polyrhythm

Calculate the algorithm

I thought it, I saw it, I want it, I’m gonna get it

I’m on it, I bought it, I own it, I’m gonna use it

Tom Tom Drum

Sea Mammal Wanders Off Course, Gets Lost

Link to song on Bandcamp

I beat on the tom tom drum

I beat on a cheap snare drum

Until I come around

I beat on my little kick drum

Pick up a guitar and strum

Until I come down

Empty the head of all things

Is shoveling a bottomless pit

There’s no room for anything new

All these memories and broken feelings

You unlock the floodgates and let it

Come bursting on out

Waves breaking over the levee

Bystanders all stop to watch

Take a picture to file away

These memories and awful thoughts

Are bound to overflow and take out

Everything in their path

Sea Mammal Wanders Off Course, Gets Lost

Bandcamp link to song

The Whim of A Beast (2018)

The songs

The songs (see songs and lyrics below) from The Whim of a Beast were inspired by an environmental interpretation of the Book of Job, from the Hebrew Bible, and how humans respond to unexpected danger and adversity. When danger lurks, what is happening in the human brain?

The Moaning Sallys

The Moaning Sallys are an independent rock and roll band. The 2018 debut album, The Whim of a Beast, and the second album, out in December 2020, Adult Contemporary Pretentious Rock, can be streamed on your favorite digital platform.

The debut album

The Whim of a Beast was written and recorded during 2016 and 2017. It was mixed and mastered in 2018 by Jud Caswell, and released in May of 2018.

Welcome. This may be a different kind of listening experience...

Think of these songs as folk songs, or little musical stories that paint pictures of how human beings respond to adversity-- major life-changing events we cannot control. These include, but are not limited to, being born into a disadvantaged situation, becoming deathly ill or disabled, losing a loved one, losing a job, losing a home in a hurricane, or suddenly losing.. everything. Now imagine if you could go back in time and negotiate fate with the powerful entity that caused your dispossession (your boss? the government? a wild animal? God? the planet?). Would you be sly with your negotiations, or would you be careful?

What happens in our brain when really bad circumstances change everything? How does this affect our priorities? Our compassion for others?

Now, think of all of this from an environmental perspective. How does an animal respond to powerful natural occurrences? How does the human animal respond?

Songs and Lyrics from WOAB

There Is Nothing Left of Me

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/there-is-nothing-left-of-me

Hey, what can I say?

I don’t know what to think of all this

Grace, so late

I cannot say I trust you’re here to

Stay, or run away?

As if I got down on my knees and

Prayed to replace

Every single thing you took away from me

There is nothing

Left of me

No one home

To receive

Just a darkness

In a doorway

Where your presence

Used to be

Today is the day

I give up all that’s left I have to

Lay and decay

Let the creatures clean my flesh and bones

And wash away in the rain

Any evidence of all this life’s

Pain and start again

So a man might never make the same

Mistakes that I have made

And the stars will then shine down on a better place

There is nothing

Left of me

No one home

To receive

Just a darkness

In a doorway

Where your presence

Used to be

Accidental Theme Park

There Is Nothing Left of Me

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/accidental-theme-park

Some surprises are good

Some surprises are not so good

The rising sliver of a moon

Cradling Venus

And the red light from a cell tower

It can be life changing

Rain coming down now

And freezing on impact

Looks like a theme park

That destroys lives

Like magic

Some people say things happen

For a reason

But the reality is most things don’t

It can be life changing

It is like some type of insanity

Asking a question

When the answer is obvious

And some people say things happen

For a reason

But the reality is most things don’t

Still we ask why.

If a beggar asks for money

And a coward begs for mercy

He looks you in the eye

Do you believe him?

Some people say things happen

For a reason

But the reality is most things don’t

It can be life changing

And sometimes these things

They keep happening

Relentlessly

What Went Down

There Is Nothing Left of Me

What Went Down

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/what-went-down

Oh when the sun comes up

I’m gonna sow the seeds of hope

Oh when the rains come

I’m gonna watch the fields turn green

Oh when the wheat grows high (x3)

It’s gonna make the cattle fat

Oh but the sun is hot

Why it could dry up all the land

Oh if the rains don't come (x3)

We watch the earth go dry

Oh when the earth goes dry (x3)

We’re gonna wonder what went down, down

Day Breaks

Working Man

What Went Down

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/day-breaks

Day Breaks, the wind takes, the earth shakes, and you awake

And it gives you chills.

Too much at stake, your mind aches, your eyes make the snowflakes

Seem to sit still

The day brings its ugly things, the devil sings, and you’re pretending

To be okay

Your phone rings, the truth stings, hurts your feelings, and you’re beginning

To peel away

Pick a card now, any card

Let’s see what you get

Ace of spades or a 3 of hearts

How much you wanna bet

There’s a chance that you could win

There’s a chance that you could lose

Anything could happen, no matter what you choose

Come what may, find your way, bills to pay, their due today

But who cares

Keep away, there’s a storm at bay, a sea of gray, so down you lay

But you can’t do that

Paralyzed by doubt, you can’t set out, motivation drought, it’s all about

To fall apart

Man down on the ground won’t make a sound this broken town

Your engine won’t start

Pick a card now, any card

Let’s see what you get

Ace of spades or a 3 of hearts

How much you wanna bet

There’s a chance that you could win

There’s a chance that you could lose

Anything could happen, no matter what you choose

Repent

Working Man

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/repent

When I lay down at night

And I look up at the sky

And I think about the things I want to be

And I listen to the sound

Of the wind in the trees

And I think of what it all means to me

And when the silence gets me down

And things don't go my way

I bow my head down and I begin to pray

Please protect my land

Look after my family

Please bless my health and prosperity

And God says:

Don't fuck with me

Do your eyes even see

Despise thyself and repent in dust and ashes

Working Man

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/working-man

Middle aged

working man

set his bag

on the living room floor, the living room floor

Closed his eyes,

put his feet up

Another day’s work

is done

Another day’s work

is done

feels better than

a week at home, a week at home

The house is paid off

the kids are in college

One should get

a pat on the back

He worked hard

to get where he is

Before he was

a businessman, a businessman

He was a child

in a different world

He was a child

in a different world, a different world

He grew up

honest and sincere

Always thought

of other people first

and in the best

or the worst of times

he never let

another man down, another man down

He never once

did foresee

misfortune

or tragedy

He never once

did foresee

misfortune

or tragedy

Just as the sun

doesn’t shine eternally

that which defines you

sometimes defies you

Just as the day

gives way to night

somewhere, somebody

loses everything, loses everything

You only know if you live there

when surrender is

no longer a choice for

a working man

A working man

Becomes just a man

the only thing that matters

the only thing you feel

a wretched wound

too deep to heal

when a working man

becomes just a man, becomes just a man

you don’t care

what happens next

is a mystery

you don’t want to know

what happens next

is a mystery, a mystery

He never once

did foresee

misfortune

or tragedy

He never once

did foresee

misfortune

or tragedy

Lyrics, Continued

Look Out for Number One

Battle The Winds of Change

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/look-out-for-number-one

Listen to your brother

Stand up for your right to be right

You shouldn’t wait any longer

It’s time you put up some kind of fight

You'll be taken for a peasant

Beaten down and broken

Imprisoned and abandoned

Stolen from and left for dead

There’ll be nothing left to lose

You'll see your inaction will lead you to your end

Don’t let it come to that;

Stand up for your right to be right

Look out

For number one

Before your world

Has come undone

Just go stick it

To the boss

Don’t chalk up

Another loss

There’s no time

For meditation

When you risk

Annihilation

You gotta look out for number one

Look out for number one

Looks like bad weather

On the western horizon

Will you stay and get wet,

Or pack your bags and run?

Battle The Winds of Change

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/battle-the-winds-of-change

It’s a special kind of deflation

Self loathing, humiliation

Gone from a place of law and order

Dragged backwards across the border

Stranded out at the edge of a crisis

On that blinding summer day

We packed up and hauled away

Then the boat got turned around

You were nowhere to be found

I was left behind and everything

suddenly changed

Will you do this to me every time

Abandon all reason or rhyme

Slap your hand across my face

And disappear without a trace

You’re no different than any other guy

What is next upon your horizon

While you’ve got your brilliant disguise on?

Who else will you destroy?

What tactics will you employ

To demonstrate your lack of compassion

How can you expect such loyalty

When you strip away the royalties

Of every brick and every stone

One lays when one is all alone

To eliminate any evidence of shame?

Will you reconcile or reappear?

Are you far away or are you near?

Will there ever be another day

When the house is not in disarray?

Are you listening to what I am saying?

What’s left from our fertile land

Out in the windblown dust and sand

Are the flesh and bones left from your violence

And the screaming voices trapped in the silence

Do you remember me?

Out of the Blue

Battle The Winds of Change

Out of the Blue

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/out-of-the-blue

Oh, figured it out

You were gone all this time

And now your

Call, out of the blue

Or am I hearing things?

How can I

Know, what is your plan for me?

Are you waiting for me to

Get down on my knees, and beg for mercy

And forgiveness, I couldn’t possibly

Why do you torture me so?

You can never make up your mind

Til you’ve shaken me

Cold and left out to dry

But you hung on by a thread

And never let

Go and what should I do?

Wait for you to call my number?

I couldn’t possibly

Oh, I’m on my own now

Oh, I will suffer and die

Oh, leave me alone

Let the ground swallow me (whole)

Be on your merry way

This bird has long since flown

I am nothing, just a

Stone, weathering down

Soon I will disappear and be

Blown into the wind

And then where will I be?

You will have swallowed me

Reborn

Hindsight (Consequential Folk Remedy No. 1)

Out of the Blue

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/reborn

I’m not so emotional about the things I lost

I’ve got a hole inside and the rest has been tossed

I’ve still got options as long as there’s oxygen

Just a relic of my old self, an ego out of control

You can try to educate me, medicate me, evaluate me

Humiliate me, castigate me, bring me to my knees

But you might as well give up, because the damage has been done

No therapy or remedy can undo what I’ve become

I like to be at home, gives me peace of mind

Put my ducks all in a row, get my forces organized

Now that I’ve been reborn, I surrendered all my trust

In anything and everything I will never realize

Like a dog that won’t stop barking, I will not go away

The more you try to push me back, the longer I will stay

And I will not understand, I will not try to see your side

I cannot compromise what is left of my precious pride

Once upon a time there was peace in my neighborhood

But then a bolt of lightning came and shook me where I stood

There was nobody I could blame, no one I could go to

So I built myself a bunker and emerged anew

Hindsight (Consequential Folk Remedy No. 1)

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/hindsight-consequential-folk-remedy-no-1

Hold out; there's a reason

Declare; your position

Relax; make them listen

Litigate; play the system

There’s an incentive at the end of the road

A well intended kick to help you carry the load

Watch out; they mean business

Keep talking; go the distance

Defend… your indifference

Pretend… it's almost Christmas

Anything to make them sign their willpower away

Make them laugh at you, tell them what they want you to say

Midnight sound byte

Have trouble seeing in the daylight

I'm not alright

When I look back in hindsight

Insist… on an answer

Resist… the necromancer

Seek and… demand evidence

Depend… on your intelligence

Something's bound to give if you refuse to let go

A catastrophic ending to a puppet show

Stay focused; confuse the people

Don't worry… if it's illegal

Hire backup… in case it's peaceful

Conduct… big upheaval

Blow it all to pieces at the end of the day

Everything that dies comes back to life anyway

Midnight sound byte

Have trouble seeing in the daylight

I'm not alright

When I look back in hindsight

Complicated Mind

Hindsight (Consequential Folk Remedy No. 1)

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/complicated-mind

Inside the complicated mind of a tortured man

a dilapidated, mismanaged factory

And in among the belts and the ceiling fans

A single neuron has a plan to make it history

While the others took their place on the assembly line

This one listens to a different rhythm

He watches how the others seem to blindly comply

And perpetrate the very condition that kills them

A martyr by any moral standard

A terrorist in the eyes of the law

If one had only seen and heard

And witnessed the only tragic flaw

It’s time to put a stop to the madness

Nature has a way of reaping revenge

The whole operation has been a mess

This problematic journey has come to an end

Let it rest (ah..)

High up in the heat vents there emits an odor

If it’s toxic no one cares and if it stops they don’t notice

They concentrate to maintain a functioning motor

He watches it unfold from the executive office

He locks himself inside, one dendrite on the lever

100 billion workers, their lives on the line

To keep them from misery, he had to be clever,

A hero to save them from their dreadful decline

The workforce below begins to stutter and slow

Poison seeps into their unsuspecting nuclei

The engines shut down, the lights all go out

An innocently executed suicide

A martyr by any moral standard

A terrorist in the eyes of the law

If one had only seen and heard

And witnessed the only tragic flaw

It’s time to put a stop to the madness

Nature has a way of reaping revenge

The whole operation has been a mess

This problematic journey has come to an end

Let it rest (ah..)

Lyrics, Continued

Era of Uncertainty

Slumber (Consequential Folk Remedy No. 2)

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/era-of-uncertainty

Everybody's looking

At the sky tonight

And if I'm not mistaken

You know it doesn't feel quite right

Something’s out of place it seems

about the stars tonight

And though it might be in my head,

We might be better off keeping them in sight

Did you hear about the elder generation

They’re meeting in an undisclosed location

And you know what they’re saying

the winds are different today

Will you remember what they said

When you’re on your own one day

There’s been a change in direction

We’re gonna have to turn the other way

The veil is lifted, The planet shifted!

And things are gonna be a little different now

That’s what the old man said

We’re entering an era of significant uncertainty

Slumber (Consequential Folk Remedy No. 2)

https://themoaningsallys.bandcamp.com/track/slumber-consequential-folk-remedy-no-2

Wake Up from your Slumber
Shake off your midnight fantasies
Open the blinds and let the daylight in
and then tell me what you see

Wake up from your slumber
Lift up your weary head
Open the door and let some oxygen in
and have a listen to what's been said

They say some people were angry
Nobody listened to their plight
But this time it was different

The only ones complaining were white

No the situation is not that simple
It's not some kind of Jesus revolution
when the savior that you've chosen is a symbol
of hate and greed and fear and exclusion (of ignorance and hatred and exclusion)

and you expect us to remain silent
It’s like I’ve been sentenced to prison
You place all your trust in a tyrant
Because he knows how to tell is like it isn't

You might want to ask this question
Now that everyone is all upset
with a long tradition of oppression
is this an outcome that we could not prevent?

In the land of make believe (2022). The moaning sallys 3rd album. Out now.

lyrics from In the land of make believe

Stay The Course

You Only Text Me When You're High

You Only Text Me When You're High

You Only Text Me When You're High

You Only Text Me When You're High

You Only Text Me When You're High

Don't Drink The Water

You Only Text Me When You're High

United We Sit (Reprise)

United We Sit (Reprise)

Mountain Peaks and Waterfalls

United We Sit (Reprise)

Mountain Peaks and Waterfalls

Mountain Peaks and Waterfalls

Mountain Peaks and Waterfalls

In The Land of Make Believe

Mountain Peaks and Waterfalls

Mountain Peaks and Waterfalls

All These Times

The Wall Around Your Conscience

The Wall Around Your Conscience

The Wall Around Your Conscience

The Wall Around Your Conscience

The Wall Around Your Conscience

Songs And lyrics from ACPR (2020)

Disease

Not Ever Gonna Give Up On You

I feel My Sorrow

I feel My Sorrow

Not Ever Gonna Give Up On You

I feel My Sorrow

Not Ever Gonna Give Up On You

Not Ever Gonna Give Up On You

Not Ever Gonna Give Up On You

Truck Flag

What Is Wrong With Me?

Not Ever Gonna Give Up On You

What Is Wrong With Me?

What Is Wrong With Me?

What Is Wrong With Me?

I Can Play My Music

What Is Wrong With Me?

What Is Wrong With Me?

Tom Tom Drum

Sea Mammal Wanders Off Course, Gets Lost

Sea Mammal Wanders Off Course, Gets Lost

Sea Mammal Wanders Off Course, Gets Lost

Sea Mammal Wanders Off Course, Gets Lost

Sea Mammal Wanders Off Course, Gets Lost

The Whim of A Beast (2018)

The songs

The Moaning Sallys

The debut album

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Below are the songs and lyrics from the debut album, The Whim of a Beast.

Songs and Lyrics from WOAB

There Is Nothing Left of Me

There Is Nothing Left of Me

There Is Nothing Left of Me

Accidental Theme Park

There Is Nothing Left of Me

There Is Nothing Left of Me

What Went Down

There Is Nothing Left of Me

What Went Down

Day Breaks

Working Man

What Went Down

Repent

Working Man

Working Man

Working Man

Working Man

Working Man

Lyrics, Continued