By Request: "Riding the Blunder Bus" Lyrics (tracks 1-6)

1. Niner Even Further - did have lyrics but lyrical version was not released

2. Day Job (Hard Labor) - did have lyrics but lyrical version was not released

3. Square Peg In A Round World - no lyrics

4. Mirrorshades - also had alternative lyrics that were not part of this release. I'm not sure what this song is about. Partly, it's about the "Machine" and how we can't live with it but we can't live without it either. Also, I was reading a lot of cyberpunk literature at the time. The name is taken from a cyberpunk short story collection of the same name.

MIRRORSHADES

A thousand networks keep you here
A thousand more keep you in fear
Mirrorshades and micro chords
Plug you in and watch you grow
Any seen my
Any seen my
Any seen my baby been?
Any seen my
Any seen my
Any seen my baby been?
Your my medicine
Your my metascene
Hold you up and keep you clean
Your my medicine

God is in the atmosphere
Hold Him close the end is near
Warm welcomes to the fold
Keep you sacred from the cold
Any seen my
Any seen my
Any seen my baby been?
Any seen my
Any seen my
Any seen my baby been?
Your my medicine
Your my metascene
Hold you up and keep you clean
Your my medicine
Any seen my
Any seen my
Any seen my baby been?
Any seen my
Any seen my
Any seen my baby been?
Your my medicine
Your my metascene
Hold you up and keep you clean
Your my medicine

5. At Least - was written when I was about to move out of my house, but it looked like I would have no way to get into another one. (This was about a year before the housing crash). Colorado Springs was and is heavily developed. It's a bloated housing market here really. This song is about a drive I would take with one of my friends out to the new suburbs, where there were thousands of new houses with no one who could afford to live in them (because wages are way lower than they should be, making Colorado Springs' cost of living roughly six times that of other comparable cities). Well, God is good! About a couple of months after I wrote this, I was in my new house and I realized that it was one of the houses that was out of mine and my roommates price range! It was a good song so I put it in the album although it doesn't have the same meaning for me anymore.

AT Least

I've walked alone but I'm not lonely
I feel like I could be somewhere
I've got some snow that keeps me plowing
God knows I feel that I can take care

At least my lungs are still burning
At least my heart is still pumping
At least my legs are still kicking
At least that's what I keep thinking

I feel no pressure no cage or prison
I can see the bars but they mean nothing
Can't lock me up 'cause I know freedom
The pain of life and death and living

I've driven through the empty suburbs
Seen all the cars and empty houses
Why can't we live here they're all empty
How long must I keep driving?

At least my brains keep on working
At least my legs keep on walking
At least my soul keeps on yearning
At least that's what I keep thinking

6. Peace - no lyrics