NORMAN SPINRAD SINGS ONLY CHAOS IS REAL AT CIRQUE ELECTRIQUE IN PARIS

ONLY CHAOS IS REAL PERFORMANCE


Not that I'm planning to ever give up my day job, but I've had a long slow minor career with music, something around a dozen songs written or co-written, something less than  that creating and recording, occasional live performances too such as this one, my best I think.

ONLY CHAOS IS REAL is the title song of a Heldon album, lyrics by my me, music by Richard Pinhas.  Something of a success, but I didn't sing it on the record, the melody was not quite what was in my head, so I always wanted to sing it live myself before an audience and this is it.

                                 Here are the full lyrics:
                                     
                             ONLY CHAOS IS REAL
                                       
     
           CHORUS:
     
           Matter is illusion
           Energy is illusion
           We are illusion
           Only chaos is real
           Only chaos is real
     
           ALTERNATE CHORUS:
         
           Space is illusion
           Time is illusion
           We are illusion
           Only chaos is real
           Only chaos is real
     
           CHORUS
     
           In the womb of the perfect night
           Comes the dawning of the light 
           And the band begins to play
           Dancing the dark away
         
                CHORUS
           Shadows in the cave
           Ride the curl of the quantum wave
           Surfing the interface
           Of mind and time and space
              CHORUS
           And the music moves through the spheres
           And the walls of the worlds grow ears
           And down from the trees we come
           To the beat of the talking drum
           And the talking in our brain
           Becomes a runaway train
                CHORUS
           To the garden of earthly delights
           To the abyss of nuclear frights 
           To become Venus, to become Mars
           To the void and to the stars
           Shiva in world-breaking wrath
           Buddha of the nine-fold path
           For better and for worse
           Masters of the universe
                 CHORUS
          The only gods there be

           Are schmucks like you and me

           Whistling Dixie in the dark
           So cruel, so cold, so stark
         
               CHORUS
             And the face on the bar-room floor
           Was always there before
           Was born with a great Big Bang
           As the song that the atoms sang
           From the cradle to the grave
           In the curl  of the quantum wave....
                        
            Matter is illusion
           Energy is illusion
           We are illusion
           Only chaos is real
           Only chaos is realre
     
           ALTERNATE CHORUS:
         
           Space is illusion
           Time is illusion
           We are illusion
           Only chaos is real
           Only chaos is real
     
       While posting these lyrics it occurred to me that it might be interesting to post a sample of the lyrics of some other of my songs, especially those with interesting stories, so...

   Cyborg Sally, Rock and Roll Machine, and Little Heroes were written for my novel LITTLE HEROES (in English, ROCK MACHINE in France) so the book ended up with two title songs! LITTLE HEROES the song was always my favorite before I wrote ONLY CHAOS IS REAL, so much so that I paid to produce a sample with Fred Myro.  Any one who heard it loved it, but somehow it never resulted in  release.

    CYBORG SALLY


 I'm Cyborg Sally
    Flesh and wire 
   The blazing bytes
     Of your meat's desire
     
     Yes I'm Cyborg Sally
    I'm your sex machine
     My crystal chips 
     Gonna make you cream
     Laser lips bring you to your knees
     Darkling sparkling ecstasy
     Lick my flashing circuitry
     As I bite your flesh
     As you taste my wire
     No father's son
     Ever flashed such fire     
     
     I'm Cyborg Sally
     I'm flesh and wire
     I'm the Queen of Heat
     I'm a funeral pyre

      I'm Cyborg Sally
     I've got legs of steel
     Wrap around you
     Makea dead man squeel                        

      I'm Cyborg Sally
     I'm your blood-hot wire
     I'm the blazing bytes
     Of your meat's desire

      I'm Cyborg Sally  
     And I've never been
     Plug into me 
     And I'll make you scream
     With my heart of ice
     And my ring of fire
     No living soul
     Gonna take you higher
     No mother's child
     Turn you on so wild

      I'm Cyborg Sally
     I'm your blood-hot wire
     I'm  a dead man squeel
     Rock your roll
     In my electric chair
     It's looking for you
     And it's loaded for bear
Š     Comin' to dance
     And I'm comin' tonight
     Comin' in crytal and neon light
     Comin', comin', you just can't hide
     Comin', comin', comin' deep inside
     Comin', comin,' comin' so free      
     Comin' right atcha
     Come along... come along... come along...
     Come along with me!

      Cyborg Sally!
     Flesh and wire!
     Queen of Heat!
     Electric fire!
     Blazing bytes!
     Meat's desire!
     Rockin' rollin' sex machine!
     Plug your self in
     And scream, scream , SCREAM!     
                                   ROCK MACHINE
  (chorus)
I make more of you
You make more of me
You make more of me
I make more of you

 I'm the you they always told me
That I could bever be
I'm thee crown of your creation
In you  wizard dreams
Let me dance into yout dreamtime
I'm your rock and roll machine

 (chorus)

 Book me up and boogie
Sez this ghost in your machine
I've been sealed up in your circuits
I've been nowhere to be seen
But npow I'm here to tell you
Raise up your voice ans scream
You and me together
We're a rock and roll machine

 (chorus)

 You're stasnding here beside me
Just where I've always been
You've been hiding right beside me
We're thre ghost in the machine
We may be bits and bites and programs
But we ain't Mister Clean

 (chorus)

 Red ripe anarchy
For all the world to see
What will the Fat men do?
You make more of me
I make more of you!

LITTLE HEROES

 LITTLE HERO IN THE NIGHT
LITTLE CREATURE FULL OF FRIGHT
FEAR NOT THE CALL 
TO TRUST YOUR HEART TO BATTLE
THOUGH YOU THINK YOU'RE FAR FROM HOME
AND YOU'RE OUT HERE ALL ALONE
NEVER LET YOUR SONG SING SURRENDER

 THOUGH THE DARK IS DEEP AND LONG
AND YOU MAY NEVER SEE THE DAWN
NEVER WILL YOUR SPIRIT BE FORGOTTEN
FOR EVERY LITTLE LIFE
IS A CANDLE BURNING BRIGHT
IN THE STORY OF OURSELVES
WE ALL ARE HEROES

 LITTLE HERO IN THE NIGHT
LITTLE BEACON OF THE LIGHT
STAND BESIDE ME AND UNFURL 
YOUR FREEDOM'S BANNER

I AM JUST THE SAME AS YOU
ONLY YOU TO SEE ME THROUGH
BUT TOGETHER WE ARE ALL THAT MATTERS
THE WORLD IS IN OUR LOVERS' ARMS
WE MUST KEEP US SAFE FROM HARM

  THERE'S NO ONE ELSE  
TO KEEP THIS SONG A-SINGING
 SO LET EVERY LITTLE LIFE
 STAND TOGETHER IN THE NIGHT
 LET'S ALL BECOME OUR STORIES'
LITTLE HEROES
LITTLE HEROES


 REDNECK NAZI BITCHES
Was written just for the hell of it. Joe Cady played and I sang it in the street, never got anywhere, but at least we got away with it.

 Those redneck bitches
They're too big for your britches
  They'll throw you in the ocean
And hang you out to dry
They know just what you're thinking 
So don't you even try

      Those redneck nazi bitches
  They'll scratch it where it itches
They'll get just what they came for
Or know the reason why

 Those redneck nazi bitches
They're too big for your britches
They're coming there to get you
Keep a close watch on the sky

 Those redneck nazi bitches
They keep themselves in stitches
Flipping you on the griddle 
And watching how you fry

    Them redneck nazi bitches
Those heavy metal witches
   You give them coke and roses
And they spit right in your eye

 Those redneck nazi bitches
They don't need your riches
They got all the boy-toys
That money just can't buy

   Those redneck nazi bitches
They're too big for your britchs
They'll turn your pecker yellow
And they won't even cry


    PASSING THROUGH THE FLAME was written for the novel of the same name before I had a title for the book.
  
      Running throught the fire, Lord
Passing through the flame
The whole world is on fire, Lord
Passing through the flame
     
     Weep  not for this maya, Lord
You are not to blame
   We are laughing children, Lord
Passing through the flame

 Laughing in your rain
Dancing in the flame
The whole world is on fire, Lord
Passing through the flame
We are sons of fire, children
  We live and die in agony
Dancing in the the flame

 Dancing in the flame

 For each of us is destiny
Passing through the flame
And each of us is ecstasy
  Laughing in the rain
Dancing in the flame
Passing through the flame
Dancing in the flame
       TU MADRE TAMBIEN
was also written for LITTLE HEROES.  I wondered if I would have the cojones to post it, but....call it chuzpah---
      Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN
      Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN
      Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN"
      Somos cholos in the night
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      Con color and you are white
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      So besa me pica
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      And ponga me your sister
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      Better call me Mister
      Y TU MADRE TAMBIEN!   
      Nostros soy gigantes
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      Cojones de elephantes
      (Tu mad -dre TAMBIEN)
      So pull down all your panties
      Y TU MADRE TAMBIEN!
      Your sisters and your aunties          
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      Chocharicas elegantes
     (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      Don't want no gay romantics
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      They all want macho mucho
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      Mucho Muchacho
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      So get out there and hustle
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN
      Use your mojo muscle       
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      Get it while you can
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      From a red hot macho man
      (Tu ma -dre TAMBIEN)
      We all remember when
      Y TU MADRE TAMBIEN!

More to come....









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