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Does It Suit You?

by Dan West

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Does It Suit You? 03:57
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DOES IT SUIT YOU? Does it suit you well? Does it make it right The more you shout and scream about the demons that do haunt your night Does it make you glad? Taking all we had Leaving only people who fight saying you are God’s great light Who stole your love? Take it out from above Took your pain and threw it in your face and now you’ve lost your grace You’re on top of the game While the world stays the same Lies become the truth no one knows Truth becomes lies someone throws Does it make you cry? Makes you die inside Knowing that eventually the peasants will storm your castles I want you to know We’re seeing through Swiping everything I own Just to have a place to call my own Hangin’ onto what’s yours Taking all of what’s mine Swimming in the dirty water running through the salt mine Not even time and a half And we can barely laugh Lying on the ground around the edges of the riff raff ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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I Was Never Here 03:53
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I WAS NEVER HERE Remember me as one who needed help girl The future never looked good like the past My pants are tight and so is the night Baby please don’t make me leave You have to give so you’ll receive I never went for obvious I’m gonna stay delirious Tell them: ‘I was never here….’ Blew up on the table, lent mirth to your fable about me You added so much of your own content Take my advice, don’t let me suffer Baby please don’t make me grieve Let go so I can believe Now I’m going obvious You’re gonna take me serious You run my soul right through your sin Just drop a name and you’ll begin Take away my oxygen I’m all about your medicine Now listen…. ‘I was never here…. ‘I was not, I was not here!!!!’ Baby please don’t make me leave You have to give so you’ll receive I never went for obvious I’m gonna stay delirious You run my soul right through your sin Just drop a name and you’ll begin Take away my oxygen I’m all about your medicine Now I’m runnin’ away, away, away You got me runnin’ away, away, away Now I’m runnin’ away, away, away ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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Distractions 04:44
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DISTRACTIONS The more I want to live The more I try to die Thoughts keep flowing in Through the hole inside me The more I try to win The more I’m gonna lose The less I want to see The devil beside me Is it the people or the life that I choose Keeps my head inside the greys and the blues Unwanted, haunted World is going by Haven’t got time to sigh Whenever I want to cry I’m closer to the day I die No matter how far I’ll be I’m never gonna let you go From the sun to the deep blue sea I’m never gonna let you go The more I see your face The more I find my space The more I want to feel You within me It’s dying then it grows Flowers on a dusty road Summer on a frozen page of winter Can’t look back at my inside or out When there’s never any reason to doubt My self needs help No matter who I will be I’m never gonna let you go High and low self esteem I’m never gonna let you go No matter how far you’ll be I’m never gonna let you go From the sun to the deep blue sea I’m never gonna let you go The more I hang around The less there is to say The more I want to lose All these distractions Looking back at my inside and out Now I know there’s no reason to doubt My self needs help My self needs help World is going by Haven’t got time to sigh Whenever I want to cry I’m never gonna let you go No matter how far I’ll be I’m never gonna let you go From the sun to the deep blue sea I’m never gonna let you go I’m never gonna let you go I’m never gonna let you go ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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Falling Upward 04:15
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FALLING UPWARD Grey clouds loom over the daylight I alone, walk in terribly Stagger around looking for mercy Who is the mayor of this haggard town? I feel safe in an obvious place like this Where so much negligence resides No matter where I try I’m way behind I won’t unwind Open container Cheap entertainer Fresh on your laptop Drunk on a stovetop I fell for you in shallow times My aching heart perverted Dinner at you manic table Feeds the uncomplicated Fuel for the trailer Food for the animals Milk and some protein Pleasing a magazine I miss my friends and free the enemy Who’s losing me again His frigid eyes and deadly ways Spectacular, obese Fuel for the trailer Food for the animals Milk and some protein Pleasing a magazine Grey clouds loom over the daylight I alone, walk in terribly Stagger around looking for mercy Who is the mayor of this haggard town? Open container Cheap entertainer Fresh on your laptop Drunk on a stovetop Fuel for the trailer Food for the animals Milk and some protein Pleasing a magazine ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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Make Tomorrow A Better Today 03:22
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MAKE TOMORROW A BETTER TODAY I may not always be the one who’s laughing last Think now that all our hatchets are buried in the past I may not always trust you when you fake a smile I will enjoy you no matter how smart you think you are You are a friend You are my confident It’s all irrelevant my life’s not the same without you Looking for understanding that sometimes isn’t there Put up a front when I act like I just don’t care Beating your drum while I play scales on my flute Chasing around because you tell me what to do I can’t pretend You are my sober vice We have an appetite and I’m not the same without you When I want you I know you’ll want me too Under each others’ skin Now I think we will Make tomorrow a better today, today Make tomorrow a better today (Make tomorrow a better today) Make tomorrow a better today (Make tomorrow a better today) Make tomorrow a better today (Make tomorrow a better today) ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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The Valley's Gone 03:30
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THE VALLEY’S GONE Over rock and over sand The general and his command Came to gain a distant land Armaments, battalions, field commanders Days and nights of forward march Battle lines were torn apart Stop and sip the waves of brutal sun Ohhhhhh Ohhhhhh Finally at the break of dawn The battalion stops to gaze upon The borders of the land they’ve come to own Inching closer, breathless halting Generals relentless marching Something’s wrong as the picture comes to view Ohhhhhh The valley’s gone Ohhhhhh The valley’s gone ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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Higher 04:02
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HIGHER There are so many people That you have relied on Who’s doorstep you’d cry on There are so many others Your sisters and brothers Were your Daddys and Mothers Now what was left of the ground fell away You lay down in dust filled disarray The martyr was no part to play But you keep getting higher Tangled up in your wires The people you had inspired Who ran with you to desire Grew old and retired Pain became so much pleasure Self loathing is measured By how one clings to this treasure Live in a craze of denial Kill the will for a while Hide behind a vague child Now that so little is left of the soul The rock has run out of your roll And the shock of what’s left leaves you cold You keep getting higher Tangled up in your wires What used to glitter and gleam Seems to have lost all its sheen You wake and there’s no more scene But you keep getting higher Tangled up in your wires The people you had inspired Who ran with you to desire Are now old and retired ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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The Garden Of Life 01:39
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We're Satisfied 04:07
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WE’RE SATISFIED I got real tired and I left the scene I couldn’t be who I wanted to be I didn’t know if what I saw was me I began to believe that there was nothing left to see I tried it all and it ran me down The lone survivor in a misery town An open heart and a person drowned Pianos falling all around No more interest Then I was sun kissed I Could not exist til I could give bliss You came radiant You were patient and, In a moment I’m satisfied We’re satisfied The windows opened to the stratosphere The future’s here and the mind is clear I’ve never held a person quite as dear Sincerely I am not the same The fading image of a man who’s lost Disappears beneath the fragrant moss There was no treason and there was no cost No rain will ever quiet the flame No more interest Then I was sun kissed I Could not exist til I could give bliss You came radiant You were patient and, In a moment I’m satisfied We’re satisfied The windows opened to the stratosphere The future’s here and the mind is clear I’ve never held a person quite as dear Sincerely I am not the same The fading image of a man who’s lost Disappears beneath the fragrant moss There was no treason and there was no cost No rain will ever quiet the flame ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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Krunkle Kanyon 05:08
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KRUNKLE KANYON Oh, oh, oh, oh no I’m in Krunkle Kanyon The unnatural byproduct of the thermonuclear age Oh, oh, oh, oh no I’m in Krunkle Kanyon Simi’s lyin’ to me and now I’m fillin’ up with rage He got a mayor and a lawyer and a state representative Signed off on the land now it’s liquor and a sedative Mixed with the strontium water Mission accomplished Condominium toxic Real estate agents With a nuclear fragrance Now Dewey’s makin’ the hard sell Oh oh oh oh no I’m in Krunkle Kanyon It’s the unatural byproduct of the thermonuclear age Oh oh oh oh no I’m in Krunkle Kanyon Simi’s lyin’ to me and now I’m fillin’ up with rage Visions of bliss and community Thought I could settle down with plenty of room to breath Rustic panoramas, preserved open spaces Nature, friends, family recreation Ol man Krunkle on a Chumash reservation Santa Susanna field lab contamination Open air testing, radionuclides Meltdown 1959 Despite reports of heightened radioactivity The Ventura commission made it part of the city of Simi Multiple units, city fathers satiated Deregulated, it should be confiscated Oh, oh, oh, oh no I’m in Krunkle Kanyon The unnatural byproduct of the thermonuclear age Oh, oh, oh, oh no I’m in Krunkle Kanyon Simi’s lyin’ to me and now I’m fillin’ up with rage ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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She Strikes A Pose 04:22
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SHE STRIKES A POSE Happiness goes wherever she strikes a pose A utility entrancing Air so fresh that it threatens my nose Makes me lazy from my head to my toes Moldy figs tryin’ to wear new wigs Keeps the operator benevolent Cleaning it up, try to dig it all out As the honeymoon turns malevolent Shifting again wait until before and beyond the murky oceans rising Wanting to stay but then the sun and the day and away he runs out crying Someone goes where nobody knows And they become the exception Tattooed stars in fragrant bars The conversation is septic Sullen minds that fell behind Making nature a unanimous free for all Savoring scraps, empty the taps Yeah this product demands a recall Raging again in an age of a place filled with space And a wealth of exhausted travelers Fading to grey then to black don’t make waves getting paid And laid to rest in obscurity No security An eternity Of impurity Shifting again wait until before and beyond the murky oceans rising Wanting to stay but then the sun and the day and away he runs out crying Raging again in an age of a place filled with space And a wealth of exhausted travelers Fading to grey then to black don’t make waves getting paid And laid to rest in obscurity No security An eternity Of impurity A divinity A totality A society Of anxiety ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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Digging Into You 04:20
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Digging Into You spent so many years trying to find a way to elevate my stilted mind kicked the habit of the dirty kind relishing in glorious wunderkind you dig this I dig that too digging into you, so true digging what makes us do and undoing what made us blue And now my eyes no longer blind Open from a soul no more resigned Turn off the phone and close the blinds Ecstatic in our love divine You dig this I dig that too Naked in the water that reflects you Digging everything you want me to do undoing what made us blue Words by Dan West & Azalia Snail ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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Azalia's In Bloom 02:56
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AZALIA’S IN BLOOM I’m feeling rather nervous Like a magnet I am drawn The sun is setting over downtown The grass is greener now as we both kiss Azaleas, ride on the sea Back and forth gliding you to me In a rapture, I try to capture All the love that you send to me Baby I’m afraid to tell you How my heart explodes inside I know I have to take a deep breath Every time I see your brilliant smile Naked flower, I want you opened wide Feel you there when I close my eyes Merge into you, trouble undo It’s almost here what a lovely surprise ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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Never Thought I'd Find 05:06
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NEVER THOUGHT I’D FIND Transparent dusk through my window pane Your laughter dances in wind swept waves My empty room once spoke of solemn moods Dust in the corners of an afternoon And when you leave my heart is delicate The patterns on your dress were intricate My solemn mood will return again Begging day as the night descends I never thought I’d find Something so familiar that it haunts time Riding the crest of your every nuance Lose myself on the path of your existence I float above the midnight skies Ecstatic in the shimmering light My dreams are all that’s left tonight A solemn note, a sudden flight I never thought I’d find I never thought I’d find I never thought I’d find The one who’s now left me behind ©Professor Sci Fi Music, ASCAP All rights reserved
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Gregorian Byrds 04:30
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My latest collection of nick-nacks and curios and the unofficial/official follow up to my 1st solo album 'Hot Corners'. Styles range from 1960's garage rock to 1920's jazz band. There are also moments of Hip Hop and experimental Folk. Enjoy!

"A pop stylist of rare quality, one whose originality and intimate involvement with music guarantees any listener soul-deep satisfaction"
- Jonny Whiteside, LA Times

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released March 25, 2014

Dan West - all instruments
Produced by Dan West
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Victory Way, Burbank California
Cover Art: Azalia Snail
Many thanks to Shaftner and Stewart for their lovely home and spirit.

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