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S

  Sack Up, Santa
  Sarah Connor
  Sari in the Desert
  Scrapbooking
  Seasonal Affective
  Secret Chaver
  Senior Party Central
  Senseless Hate
  September Wedding
  Septuagenarian
  The Seventh Sea
  The Sewing Circle Kills Again
  A Sexy Chord Progression
  The Shag Patch
  Shake Yer Lulav
  Sharkopotamus Rex
  The Shepherd
  The Shepherd's Death
  The Shepherd's Father
  The Shot Heard Round the World
  Shy Away
  Sightings
  Sign of the Times
  Silent Movie
  Skipping Kindergarten
  Sleep Stages
  Sloppy
  Solid Maybe
  So Long
  Solstice Solstice
  Someone's Got the Zoomies
  Something Else
  Something More
  So So
  The Spaniard's Curse
  Spanish American War
  Spare Me
  Spinneret
  Spooky Monsters
  Stairwell of Bended Knees
  Stamp My Hand
  Steal a Man a Fish
  Steam Age Mutant Ninja Turtles
  Stegosaurus
  Stella
  Sticky Pickles
  Storey's Way
  Strain
  Such a Funny Story
  Suds
  Sugar Cookie
  Surfing Instructor from the 1960s
  Surfin' Savant
  Sushi Fun Song
  Sweetly Sleepy  
  Sweet Tooth Trollop

T

  Take a Dictation Ms. DiBella
  Take Me Home
  Tapalong
  Tarrytown
  Tears on These Chestnuts
  Teenage Dreamdate
  Tender is the Heart
  Tennessee
  That's the Way it Goes
  There There There
  The Thing Will Not Come to Pass
  This Library Isn't Big Enough
  TI-85s
  Tikeyah Sunrise
  Tikun Olam
  Tiny Hearted
  Toast
  Tonight the Rafters Roar
  Tribute to the Rhythm King
  Truer Than a Teardrop
  Turing Test
  Tumboolah
  Twitch
  Two and a Half Stars
  Twylla's Song

U-Z

  Ubble-a Dup Dup
  Ugly
  The Undead
  Unemployment Line
  The United States of Rock and Roll
  Unferth's Challenge
  Unwalked
  Variety Cheese
  Very Special Squirrel
  Victory
  Volcanoes!!
  Wa
  Waiting For Your Love to Grow
  The War for Ecopendence
  We All Die Young
  Welcome To the Placebo Arm
  What Has He Done, the Bear
  What's In the Vault?
  When I Smell the Barn
  Where Were You
  Why Won't You Cry?
  Wildflowers
  Wilt Chamberlain
  The Wind Cries Mead-Hall
  Wish I'd Spent More Time In the Office
  Won't Strike Yet
  Working On a Ship
  World War I
  World War II
  Worth the While
  Wrap the Babe in Damask
  Write His Name in Monster Trucks
  Write Your Own Book
  The Wrong Side of History
  XL@XS
  Your Best Emily Dickinson
  You've Ruined Misfit New Year's Eve

Breakwater

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Breakwater’s got to hold them highs
Breakwater’s got to hold them lows
God willing and the creek don’t rise
God willing and the sea wall holds
Tide gate, you better choke them tides
Tide gate, you better plug them holes
Old levee’s gonna save our hides
Old levee’s gonna save our souls

Save our souls
Save our souls
Save our souls
Save our souls

Breakwater’s got to hold them highs (hold them highs)
Breakwater’s got to hold them lows (hold them lows)
God willing and the creek don’t rise (creek don't rise)
God willing and the sea wall holds (sea wall holds)
Tide gate, you better choke them tides (choke them tides)
Tide gate, you better plug them holes (plug them holes)
Old levee’s gonna save our hides (save our hides)
Old levee’s gonna save our souls

Save our souls
Save our souls
Save our souls
Save our souls

Save our souls (save our souls)
Save our souls (save our souls)
Save our souls
Save our souls (save our souls)
Save our souls (save our souls)
Save our souls
Save our souls (save our souls)
Save our souls (save our souls)
Save our souls
Save our souls (save our souls)
Save our souls (save our souls)
Save our souls


Jon Greenlee - drums
Scarlett London - backup vocals

Copyright 2016 Zach London

All Manner of Lovely Things

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Someone shouted, “Road trip!”
Someone said we must pick
Somewhere sort of rustic
Off the beaten path
And on to beatin’ pathological fear
Burn a couple tanks of gas
At last, we’re here

Past the “Welcome” doormat
On the creaky floor
Antiquey decor and
Bumpy China
Stippled with a floral motif in lavender paint
Suffocating, old-world charm
And deadly quaint

All manner of lovely things
All manner of lovely things

Breathless, we collapse and
Twenty years elapse and
We awake as saucers,
Whittled bits of driftwood and as
Mantel tops and chandelier arms
Suffocating, deadly quaint
And old world charm

Visitors are wary
Very quick to think it’s
Haunted by the trinkets
Rarely do they shrink and turn to coffee cups
And calico rugs
But we will wait for evermore
As Toby mugs

All manner of lovely things
All manner of lovely things
All manner of lovely things
All manner of lovely things


Lauren London - lead vocals

Copyright 2016 - Zach London

Danny Devito

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Mercy me, Mercy Mercy me
Mercy me, Mercy Mercy me
Danny Devito
Galloping round the gym
Wearing a Speedo
Danny Devito
I want to be like him
A hairy mosquito hung like a Howitzer
Mercy me, now it’s a

Pop quiz:
Who is the White Stallion
Who is the face of, the face of the franchise
Pop quiz:
Who is the Italian rapscallion
Leaving no trace of, no trace of the French fries

Mercy me, Mercy Mercy me
Mercy me, Mercy Mercy me

Danny Devito
Galloping round the gym
Wearing a Speedo
Danny Devito
I want to be like him
A vegan burrito
A treat that's indulgently
Meatless and bulging and

Pop quiz:
Who is the White Stallion
Who is the face of, the face of the franchise
Pop quiz:
Who is the Italian rapscallion
Leaving no trace of, no trace of the French fries

Globetrotting is too slow
Globetrotting is too low caliber
Danny’s a true globe-galloper
After the lights go
After the lights go down

Danny Devito
Galloping round the gym
Danny Devito
I want to be like him

Lauren London - vocals

Copyright 2016 - Zach London

The Cross-Examination of the Bee

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Prosecutor:
Red leather, yellow lea…
Red leather, yell.. re…
Yo.
Mr. Bee

Bee:
That’s me

Prosecutor:
Hello, there.
Be a dear and help a fellow out and tell us if you’ve ever been to Delaware

Bee:
Sure, we’re there now

Prosecutor:
Sir, share now, if you will,
Did you kill an elephant

Bee:
A what

Prosecutor:
An elephant

Bee:
A what

Prosecutor:
An elephant when you were over there

Bee:
Over where

Prosecutor:
Dover, Delaware.
The law is firm
Elegant and firm
When you attack a pack of elephants
And whack a pachyderm
You are subject to subject to subject to a sentence> Defense Attorney:
I object!

Prosecutor
Commensurate with the deed and your repentance

Defense Attorney:
I don’t mean to be indelicate, Your Honor, but how the hell…

Judge:
Counsel, why are you yelling

Defense Attorney:
Sorry, how is this relevant You can't lead like that, can you

Judge:
Overruled. Continue.

Prosecutor:
So did you do it

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
Did you did you do it

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
Did you did you

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
Did you did you do it

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
I’ve got to keep pressing unless you confess and say yes, so
Did you do it
D-did you d-do do it

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
Oh. Hmm.
Very well, in that event
It's indelibly a felony that you killed this elephant
But more compelling than that is this development
In Dover, moreover
If you sell an elephant
And you’re overt or covert but you’re overheard
With your criminal element
You will be thrown in the pen
When
Then and there
If you touch a tusk, as such, or so much as sell a hair
Little black and yellow fellow there
You’ll get the chair
‘Cause poaching is a capital offense in Delaware
And we’re in Delaware

Jury:
As you’re well aware

Prosecutor:
Right.
So did you do it

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
Did you did you do it

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
Did you did you

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
Did you did you do it

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
I’ve got to keep pressing unless you confess and say yes, so
Did you do it
D-did you d-do do it

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Mr. Bee

Bee:
No! Yes!

Prosecutor:
You are a bee, yes

Bee:
I guess

Prosecutor:
But is it true they call you El Capitan

Bee:
True, some do

Prosecutor:
Who

Bee:
I have a crew of scrappy, slaphappy men I call The Cavalry
Sometimes they call me El Capitan,
It’s a crappy analogy

Prosecutor:
Huh.
Well the victim had an allergy to bees, El Capitan
A disease, where he would sneeze and wheeze, El Capitan
This crew of yours, this Cavalry
Knew, of course, of this allergy
So you, of course, took measures to seize his EpiPen
An unhappy end for your victim, you tricked him and then
While he was anaphylaxing
Did you just relax in your beeswax
With your bees knees
Tell us, bee, why
Do you deny all of these facts, please

Bee:
Aw, Jeez

Prosecutor:
Aw, Smack!
Check it, Bee’s about to bumble
Here's the part where he cracks!
So did you do it

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
Did you did you do it

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
Did you did you

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
Did you did you do it

Bee:
No

Prosecutor:
I’ve got to keep pressing unless you confess and say yes
So did you do it

Bee:
Aw, screw it
Alright, I confess!

Prosecutor:
Boom!

Bee:
Damn right I did!

Defense attorney:
But he’s such a bright eyed kid!

Bee:
If it’s verboten and forbidden
To get rid of that hypocritical critter
Then consider me guilty, I did it,
I admit I’d do it again. What can I say I confess!

Judge:
Bailiff, take him away

Prosecutor:
Your Honor, the prosecution rests
So, sort of surprising because I had another verse planned. I was going to be like, you know, “Frankly, your lack of candor is getting up my dander, and…” Something like that. Yeah, but then he, he already confessed, so…

Judge:
He already confessed

Prosecutor:
Save it for next time, I guess.

Judge:
Yeah, use that line next time.


Lauren London - Bee
Malcolm London - Judge
Scarlett London - Defense Attorney

Copyright 2016 Zach London

Dang

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Baby's got her name
On the big rock down on Washtenaw
She's gone too far
She's gone too far
Baby's got her name
On the big rock down on Washtenaw
She's gone too far
She's gone too far

And presidents and favorite teams
Run hot and cold like prayers and dreams
Presidents and favorite teams
Run hot and cold like prayers and dreams
Presidents and favorite teams
Run hot and cold and hot and cold so
Come on, way oh, nana nana
Come on, way oh, nana nana

Dang!
Think I'm gonna start a fight
Think I'm gonna start a fight
Dang!
Think I'm gonna start a fight
Think I'm gonna start a fight

Babys got her face
On the brick wall down on Liberty
She's in too deep
She's in too deep
Babys got her face
On the brick wall down on Liberty
She's in too deep
She's in too deep

And presidents and favorite teams
Run hot and cold like prayers and dreams
Presidents and favorite teams
Run hot and cold like prayers and dreams
Presidents and favorite teams
Run hot and cold and hot and cold so
Come on, way oh, nana nana
Come on, way oh, nana nana

Dang! Think I'm gonna start a fight
Think I'm gonna start a fight
Dang!
Think I'm gonna start a fight
Think I'm gonna start a fight
Dang!
Think I'm gonna start a fight
Think I'm gonna start a fight
Dang!
Think I'm gonna start a fight
Think I'm gonna start a fight


Lauren London - additional vocals

Copyright 2016 - Zach London

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