Robby Berman—lead and background vocals, electric guitars, claps, drums, Wurlitzer, bass, toy lute, synthesizer
(All instruments in italics are software instruments played from a keyboard.)
© 2009 Robby Berman
Kicking and screaming
That’s how I roll
I’m really okay
With the devil I know
So come on please
And let it go
You say to be flexible
But I don’t know.
The truth is I don’t know
What awaits us ahead
Trouble or worse
Or heaven on earth
But if you say jump
I’ll jump with you
Keep an open mind
And see what we can do.
Face it
Everything changes
Eternally strange is
The way it must be
Adieu
To what you’ve been into
It’s in with the brand-new
Inevitably.
Just when I think
I’m finally cool
It hits the old fan
With a change in the rules.
So climb onboard
Go back to school
And learn a new trick or two
To fool the fools.
Oh, such a budding swami
I think that I am
Eye on the prize
Growing so wise
But if I’m so full
Of cosmic goo
Maybe I can pull
A rabbit from the blue.
Face it
Everything changes
Eternally strange is
The way it must be
Swirling clouds of starlings
In December skies
Remind me how our lives
Can seem to stabilize
The moment that they settle down
It’s off they go
Whirling and careening
Across the world below.
If I could stop the clock
At the way I feel now
All in one piece
It’d be so sweet.
But back at Plan B
I’ll play along
Trying not to blink
Whatever comes along.
Face it
Everything changes
Eternally strange is
The way it must be
Adieu
To what you’ve been into
It’s in with the brand-new
Inevitably.