I'M THE ONE (lyrics by Peter Preston; music by Steve Davis & Rich Marcil) - from the Zen Fuse Box album Dogs in Helicopters
(CHORUS) Just another kind of free-form rock & roll –
Make you groove y’ soul & maybe want to tap y’ toe – (NX)
(SEGUE) “Woo yeah” (4X) :You get dealt a bad hand “Woo yeah”
Or you play your cards poor “Woo yeah” (2X):
“Institutionalized, I have been institutionalized
(RAP ONE) I’m the one you institutionalized
Comin’ at y’ drug-free head full of your lies
Got some military trainin’ in the last jihad
Done some prison time to get my body rock hard
I got a GED & a head full of God
Messages blarin’ from a stolen i-pod
I been to all the liquor bars hangin’ with the bar flies
Sunday school picnics with thin black ties, little white lies
Dig my short ‘do & my 4X4
My thrush tattoo & the girl next door
(CHORUS) (NX) (SEGUE) (1X)
RAP TWO: I’m the one that’s got a good thing goin’
Got a groove goin’ on & the words are flowin’
You don’t know you’re on a leash if you sit by the peg
If you get it all for free then you don’t got to beg
Where the beat’s at, there you’ll find me
With a big amplifier right behind me
Tryin’ to freak you out w/all the things I say
Why you tryin’ so hard to deny me?
I hate the man – rage against the machine
Can’t begin to tell you where all I been
It’s enough to make a grown man cuss
It’s got my hippocampus all caddywampus
(CHORUS) (NX)
RAP THREE: Zen Fuse Box music; absolutely relentless
It’ll have you questioning reality like “David After Dentist” (“Is this real life?”)
Hoopin’ and hollerin’ and writhin’ in pain
Beggin’ us to do it again and again
It hurts so good you’ll want it to linger
Like Charlie done did bit your finger (“Ow, Charlie”)
No need to fret, no need to fuss
‘cause we on the mother like Oedipus (“Bombalobombax!”)
Don’t mean to boast, don’t mean to brag
We’re rollin’ & rollin’ like…zig-zag, (“420”)
All the other rock bands will leave you wanting
Zen Fuse Box….it’s haunting.
Pete: Vocals
Steve: Bass, Drum Loops, Saxophone
Rich: Guitars
Special guest: Alan Stegeman, trumpet
Backing vox by the Daughters of Zen