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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of You Have 5000 Seconds 2 Turn Yourself In (Free LP 2023), Overwound (LP 2022), James Coburn Leitmotiv (Free Live LP 1974), Haven't Got A Clue (2-Track Single 2022), Nothing So Like Beating On A Box (2-Track Single 2022), Null Times in Zér0ville (LP 2021), Utterly Free Curios from the fLAtDiSk Catalogue (Free LP 1972-2021), Moondust & Particulates (LP 2019), and 6 more.
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Don't Have To Fake It
04:21
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Don't Have To Fake It
Music and Words by Rich La Bonté
Copyright © 2022 Rich La Bonté (BMI).
All Rights Reserved.
(SOLO IN)
The world seems evil to you sometimes dear
Don't let it get you down, just try to persevere
The devil lies to you most every day
Erase his ugly frown, eliminate the fear.
It's a hard life.
But you can make it.
Don't have to fake it if you
Take it in your stride.
Be nice to animals and also people kind
We're all just protoplasm, magically entwined
Our universe is theirs, we share it with them all
The riches of existence yours alone to find.
It's a hard life.
But you can make it.
Don't have to fake it
Just take it in your stride.
Some bullies have to hurt to pretend what they are
They want to seem someone of prominence and power
The judgement that will come will vanish all their names
They may win for a while, but none of them get far.
It's a hard life.
But you can make it.
Don't have to fake it
Just take it in your stride. (SOLO. Repeat 2.)
It's a hard life.
But you can make it.
Don't have to fake it
Just take it in your stride. (SOLO OUT)
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Haven't Got A Clue
02:55
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Haven't Got A Clue
Music and Words by Rich La Bonté
Copyright © 2022 Rich La Bonté (BMI). All Rights Reserved.
Funny how things always seem to go
You think you have the answer but you
Never really know.
Funny how things always fall apart
You think you've got the answer but you
Haven't got the heart.
Funny how things always never do
You think you found an answer but you
Haven't got a clue.
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Insidious
06:05
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Insidious
Music and Words by Rich La Bonté
Copyright © 2022 Rich La Bonté (BMI).
All Rights Reserved.
We know you think that you're so cool
Someone should tell you
You're such a tool!
We know you're proud you don't give a fuck
Someone should tell you
You're such a schmuck!
We know you think you have it all
Someone should tell you
You're not so tall
You'll be forgotten in the past
Let freedom ring
We'll kick your bad ass!
We know you think that you're the best
Someone should put you
Under arrest!
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An Old Man's Winter Night (1916)
by Robert Frost
All out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,
That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.
What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze
Was the lamp tilted near them in his hand.
What kept him from remembering what it was
That brought him to that creaking room was age.
He stood with barrels round him -- at a loss.
And having scared the cellar under him
In clomping there, he scared it once again
In clomping off; -- and scared the outer night,
Which has its sounds, familiar, like the roar
Of trees and crack of branches, common things,
But nothing so like beating on a box.
A light he was to no one but himself
Where now he sat, concerned with he knew what,
A quiet light, and then not even that.
He consigned to the moon, such as she was,
So late-arising, to the broken moon
As better than the sun in any case
For such a charge, his snow upon the roof,
His icicles along the wall to keep;
And slept. The log that shifted with a jolt
Once in the stove, disturbed him and he shifted,
And eased his heavy breathing, but still slept.
One aged man -- one man -- can't keep a house,
A farm, a countryside, or if he can,
It's thus he does it of a winter night.
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Instrumental ~ Inspired by Federico Fellini, Nino Rota and Eddra Gale (La Saraghina)
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Keep It Simple Stupid
06:00
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Keep It Simple Stupid
Music and Words by Rich La Bonté
Copyright © 2022 Rich La Bonté (BMI).
All Rights Reserved.
(INSTRU IN)
Some insane angry gangster
Is beating on his drum
And rolling out his complex plans for
Glory in the sun
He'll trample cross the fruited plain
Force order to the mud
And end like every war campaign
In chaos, pain and blood
CHORUS:
Keep it simple stupid
That's what we used to say
You don't need no manual
To make it through the day
Keep it user friendly
To make it better yet
Easy to remember, not so
Easy to forget.
When every march is thwarted
With patience and respect
War profiteers rewarded
With infamy and death
And each of us is recognized
For who, not what we are
The terrorists are terrified
To find their access barred.
(CHORUS)
(INSTRU) (INSTRU SOLO) (INSTRU)
Don't chorus with the rooters
For what they think is true
Don't join a line of looters
With nothing else to do
And if you think your neighbor wrong
Don't call the Thought Police
Faulty logic won't last long.
Oppression won't bring peace.
(CHORUS) (INSTRU)
(CHORUS) (INSTRU)
(REPEAT 3) (CHORUS)
(INSTRU SOLO OUT)
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Dancin' Thru L.A.
05:04
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Dancin' Thru L.A.
Music and Lyrics by Rich La Bonté (BMI).
Copyright © 2022. All Rights Reserved.
Solo in
City's a disaster
Pancakes in an earthquake
Aging plaster casters
Waiting for the big break
Robbery on the runway
Fistfights in the phone room
Gunshots on the freeway
Something better change soon
Mansion with a locked gate
Not what you expected
Cheap room with a roommate
Til the rent's collected
Sleepin' underpassing
Holy rollers prayin'
Nothing's everlasting
Cucarachas playin'
Solo
Jump up on the barstool
Clouds of smoke are rising
Drink to someone's death pool
Billowing horizon
Promise of a great gig
Hitchhike to the valley
Just another drug pig
Busted in the alley
Watching while the park scores
Singer with a guitar
Trees with little trap doors
Hauled off in a cop car
Santa Ana roastin'
Sirens scream on Sunset
Trying to make the most of
What little that we can get
Solo
Concrete hardens
Dancin' thru L.A.
Say that no one
Dance there nowadays
Hang on to the day job
Paying for rehearsal
Agent's got a hot rod
Success in reversal
Risks designed for taking
Bets are placed to favor
Contracts made for breaking
Hit you like a taser
Malibu at midnight
Swingers on a bear rug
Loaded in the moonlight
Ask you for a group hug
Playin' isn't winnin'
What is that expression?
Life ain't no audition
'Scuse me while I freshen
Winners, losers
Dancin' thru L.A.
Lose your soles
When you dancin' thru L.A.
Rock and roll polluter
Promising a deal dealt
Mean motor scooter
Now I know how he felt
Playin' isn't winnin'
What is that expression?
Life ain't no audition
'Scuse me while I freshen
Solo out
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A Tale Of A Tail
02:20
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A Tale Of A Tail
Music and Words by Rich La Bonté,
Copyright © 2022 Rich La Bonté (BMI). All Rights Reserved.
Old Scorpion hitch-hiking
At the water's edge
She asked the frog for a ride across
And here's what Froggy said
What do you take me for, great bug?
I'm no tadpole, fool!
I let you on my back, you sting me!
Kill me in the pool!
Old Scorpy laughed at his concern
She said: I can't sting you!
For if I did, while on your back
Why, then I would drown too!
Froggy he considered
What Old Scorpy said
Still he hesitated
Better safe than dead. (INSTRU)
You have my pledge of honor, sir
Old Scorpy reassured,
That you can travel safely
I hope you'll take my word.
And Froggy was won over
So chivalrous was he
Old Scorpy climbed up on his back
And they set off to sea. (INSTRU)
They rode together well enough
Across that gentle spring
Until the frog saw Scorpy's tail
About to do her sting. (INSTRU)
I'm sorry, my dear passenger,
Frog grabbed her with his tongue.
It is my nature! I eat bugs!
And swam off in the sun.
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Overwound
03:21
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Overwound
Music and Words by Rich La Bonté
Copyright © 2022 Rich La Bonté (BMI).
All Rights Reserved.
(Instru in)
You overwound, you workin' all night
You overwound, your collar chokin'
You overwound, your body strung tight
You overwound, your heart is smokin'
You gotta relax
You got to re lax
You overwound, you need a full stop
You overwound, don't let it blow your mind
You overwound, you want your brain to pop?
You overwound, you gotta unwind
You better relax, you overwound! Lay back now...
(Solo)
You gotta relax
You got to re lax
(Instru)
You overwound, you much too uptight
You overwound, don't let it be a thing
You overwound, you better get it right
You overwound, don't bust yer mainspring!
You gotta relax
You got to re lax
(Instru out)
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FLAtRich-Rich La Bonté New Jersey
Rich La Bonté (1946). American musician, digital artist, aka FLAtRich. 21st Century: 12 Bandcamp LPs. 20th Century: Seminal electronic Mayan Canals LP. Kim Fowley's Bad News from The Underworld. Bass & vocals Original Godspell casts NY & LA, cast & movie LPs. Mozart in Mark Rappaport's "Mozart in Love". Lead singer of the huns in Ithaca NY (1965). Get Absolutely Free stuff on his website! ... more
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