The Opinion Machine???

#412 I Watch You, You Watch Me, We’re A Nosy Fam-i-ly…Fun In A Surveillance State.

#411 Conservative Men, Your Job Is To TAME Liberal Women. Do That & Not 1 More Fauci Rises To Power.

#410 There Goes The Neighborhood. Aka White People Are A Gift To Humanity

Time Machine

2024 Clements/Merkley

I vi7

Everybody dies in the end.

V IV

Nobody lives without a friend.

I

Money can’t buy love

vi7

& time is all I can spend

V

maybe we can pretend

IV

we bought a time machine

V7

to transcend

IV

Why do we live like this

I

living each day like the rest

bVII

when time is running out

vi7

& time ain’t no liar.

IV

What is our time on earth?

I

When do we find what it’s worth?

bVII

Time ain’t for sale

vi7

no matter the buyer.

If I could do this over

I’d choose to grow older.

then do it all again

& have more time to spend

on you

watch the decades fade

& every record we played

in a Time Machine,

we’d have it made

Why do we live like this

living each day like the rest

when time is running out

& time is no liar.

What is our time on earth?

When do we find what it’s worth?

Time ain’t for sale

no matter the buyer.

Time ain’t for sale

& time ain’t no liar.

Everybody dies in the end.

Nobody lives without a friend.

Money can't buy love,

and time is all I can spend

but time ain't for sale.

Time ain’t my friend.

like you.

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Try To Smile

2025 clements/merkley

I

You know you can't be used

vi7

if you're useless

IV V7

homeless, harmless, toothless

You know you won't win friends

if you're angry,

grumbly, mumbly, hungry

ii7 V7

If you’re gonna lay down & die

ii7 V7

will anyone even cry-y-y-y-y

I vi7

Can you try

IV V7

try-y-y to smile,

I

try to walk a mile from your troubles,

vi7

try bursting all your bubbles,

IV V7

can you try being useful for a while.

I

Can you try to smile?

You know you change your world

when you're grateful

there's beauty, abundance,

a plate full.

You know you won’t walk alone

if you’re humble

so crumble, fumble & stumble.

You’ll fall before you can fly.

you know you'll never know why.

Can you try,

try-y-y to smile,

try to walk a mile from your troubles,

try bursting all your bubbles,

can you try being useful for a while,

can you try to smile?

Try to smile

Try to smile

Try to smile

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Let Me Have My Peace

2025 clements/merkley

I IV

I see the wrinkles on my face

ii7 V7

like an old leather book in a case

I IV

the words disappear from the page

ii7 V7

guess that’s something that comes with age

I

When do I start believing

vi7

time isn't on my side

V

the winds & rains ain’t receding

IV V7

& my mountain is starting to slide

I VIs2

Please, let me have my peace

IV V7

I'm begging, I don't want to leave

I see the twinkling of the stars

somehow they don’t seem so far

My world disappears from space

I can barely remember that place

when will my train be leaving

I don’t want to wave goodbye

My body and mind are failing

I feel my spirit is starting to fly

Please, let me have my peace

I'm begging, I don't want to leave

Please, let me have my peace

I'm begging, let me have my peace

let me have my peace.

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#406 Rick Beato Sold Out In The Most Embarrassing White Guy Way

#405 Communists Are Ruining Everything & Carrie Brownstein Just Ruined Portlandia

#404 My Non-White Friends Get More Of My Attention Than My White Ones.

Crumbling

2024 merkley/clements

I VII+

The walls are bulging,

I VII+

the floor is crumbling,

I VII+

my house is plunging

IV bVI6

into the sea.

I VII+

The beams are buckling,

I VII+

my heart is mumbling,

I VII+

when hens start clucking,

IV V7

far away I’ll be.

vi7

In my dream

ii7

I see one scene

V I

in-between the walls.

vi7

You’re standing there,

ii7

oh so bare,

V I

beneath the waterfall.

ii7 bIIM7

Then I lose it all,

vi7

I lose it all.

The waves are crashing

The clouds are clapping

My mind is cracking

please hear my plea

vi7 iv

come back to me

vi7 iv

come back to me

ii7 bVI6

hear my plea

I vi7 IV iv

come back to me.

I

come back to me

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