The Hard Taco Project
is a Simple Concept

I will write and record one song a month,
every month, until I am dead



I have been doing this since
1993 and so far my health is good.

Hard Taco Radio

Roughhousing Robots

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From "Approach Approach Conflict"

Roughhousing Robots
Roughhousing Robots
The human child must be wrestled with
The human child must be wrestled with
Roughhousing Robots
Roughhousing Robots
The human child must be wrestled with
The human child must be wrestled with
Ooooooo.

Ladies and Gentlemen
Children of all ages
Welcome to the greatest show on Earth!

It was fun at first
In fact it's still fun now
But I always end up getting
My tongue bit somehow
It was fun at first
But now it's still fun
But someone always gets hurt
And I'm someone

But it was fun at first
In fact it's still fun now
But I always end up getting
My tongue bit somehow
It was fun at first
But now it's still fun
But someone always gets hurt
And I'm someone
Someone


How do you deactivate a Roughhousing Robot
How do you deactivate a Roughhousing Robot
Got to be a way
I know there has got to be a way to turn 'em off
Do I need to a get grown-up
To help me figure it out
Figure it out
Oo!
How do you deactivate a Roughhousing Robot
How do you deactivate a Roughhousing Robot
Deedle-ee doot doo
Beep bee doot doo
Bah bobby dooby dah
Doot bee doot doo
Giggity bop bah wah!


There is a way
You just have to say
Booplefissikerginanonnajonna.
Booplefissikerginanonnajonna.
Booplefissikerginanonnajonna.
No.
Booplefissikerginanonnajonna.
No, don't say that.
Booplefissikerginanonnajonna!
Booplefissikerginanonnajonna!
Booplefissikerginanonnajonna!
Booplefissikerginanonnajonna!
Booplefissikerginanonnajonna!
Those are very close to the words that deactivate us.
Erginanonna JONNA!
Erginanonna JONNA!
Erginanonna JONNA!
Erginanonna JONNA!
Close enough
Close enough
Close enough


Hey friends
Settle down
We're done
Horsing around
We were over-stimulated there
But now we're tuckered out

Hey friends
Settle down
We're done
Horsing around
We were over-stimulated there
But now we're tuckered out

Hey friends
Settle down
We're done
Horsing around
We were over-stimulated there
But now we're tuckered out

Hey friends
Settle down
We're done
Horsing around
We were over-stimulated there
But now we're tuckered out

(Greg Kutcher - additional guitars
Lauren London - vocals and percussion
Scarlett London - vocals
Russell Schwartz - vocals, percussion, saxophone)

Copyright 2009 Zach London

Rotisserie

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From "and then the training takes over..."

I'm feeling dizzy, feeling hot
Thought it was love, but it's not
Feeling dizzy, feeling hot
Thought it was love, but it's not
I'm just spinning on a rotisserie

Rotisserie
The fire's lit, I'm on the spit
And I'm cooking evenly
Feeling dizzy, feeling hot
Thought it was love, but it's not
I'm just spinning on a rotisserie

Rotisserie
From all the times I've been burned
You'd think I'd have learned
Not to let you shove a skewer through me
That must be why I feel so dizzy
And so damn hot
Thought it was love
But it's not
I'm just spinning on a rotisserie
Spinning on a rotisserie
Spinning on a rotisserie


(Geoffroy Sisk - additional vocals
Greg Kutcher - additional guitar)

Copyright 2008 Zach London

Rockslide

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Teacher, may I be excused
I've got love and like confused
So if I may
Blow this whole school away!
Break out to the forest glade
Grab my axe and tune the blade
My stage is a branch,
My audience an avalanche.
The flat old world's on override
And my ship is sailing off the side...
Rockslide! Rockslide, whoa.
Rockslide! Rockslide, whoa.

Mirror, Mirror on the tree
Could she love a guy like me
Who won't use coal,
And won't endorse the ozone hole
But once a poacher's girl, I've heard,
Well, the rest can be inferred
But what's in a name
That really hurts endangered game
But we can rock when the worlds collide
If you haven't then you haven't tried...
Rockslide! Rockslide, whoa.
Rockslide! Rockslide, whoa.
You've got to play your card, girl
Love or the family
'Cause Rockslide,
But rock's never lied to me!

Teacher, would you walk me home
I'm afraid to go alone
I wouldn't dare...
The poacher thugs are everywhere!
She's gone bad, I should have guessed
Before I went and got obsessed
Well, here's my glade, Teacher
Look at all the mess I've made
The flat old world's on override
And my ship is sailing off the side...
Rockslide! Rockslide, whoa.
Rockslide! Rockslide, whoa.


(David Fernandes - drums)

Copyright 1996 Zach London

Rockerfeller

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Son of a wealthy saltwater tycoon,
J.D. was born sucking a silvery spoon
And an empire stretched to the moon,
Equipped with both cunning and vim.

The people all said he would never succeed,
That money and influence can't buy you greed
And ambition is not what you need.
The naysayers all shouted "Nay!"

But though proud is my name
A man of high birth
Can increase what he's worth just the same.
And triumph I must
I'll build a new nation
Through consolidation and trust!

His advisors led him to conclude
The country had oil, but most of it crude.
A refiner sufficiently shrewd
Could build a monopoly true.

His profits shot up as his drills tunneled down
So boundless the treasures concealed underground
Soon he wore the petroleum crown
A baron, a magnate, a star.

But though proud is my name
A man of high birth
Can increase what he's worth just the same.
And triumph I must
I'll build a new nation
Through consolidation and trust!


(Jeff Bercovici - co-author
David Fernandes - drums)

Copyright 1997 Zach London

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