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Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Fradkin
©2003, 2023 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music (ASCAP)
Chorus:
Reality's You, Reality's Me
Reality's whatever we wish it to be
Like life's falling rocks, a Surveyor who slips
Reality bumps like the longest of trips
Like a runaway truck Our thoughts can't be blocked
We stay in low gear to buffer the shock
A speed limit broken, we pass "45"
Down a long winding road finally feeling alive!
Chorus:
Reality's you, Reality's me,
Reality's whatever we want it to be
South West and North and East on new ground
Welcome the traveler, Reality bound!
Ascend up the mountain, thru sharp winding curves,
The Summit belongs to those who don't ever swerve
Thru glorious valleys, past Avalanche hills
Reality comes to those with more than the will
Chorus:
Reality's you, Reality's me,
Reality's whatever we see it to be
Still moving forward though some let us down
Love grows together, Reality bound!
Chorus:
Reality's you, Reality's me,
Reality's whatever we dream it to be,
So let the bells ring, Gather all gather round,
The Rebirth of Hope, Reality bound!
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Magic Attic
Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Pieper Fradkin
(C) 2003, 2021 Fradkin 2000 Music
Intro:
Magic Attic tell your tale,
take me back and let my mind set sail.....
Chorus:
Magic Attic tell your tale,
take me back and let my mind set sail.....
Let me take an afternoon exhale
Remembrance of a long lost trail
Verse 1:
All alone, all alone, open up the past that you’ve outgrown
Takes you back, makes contact
See the past thru the eyes of an old Kodak
(A picture you frame)
A picture framed in sepia tone
Reminder of the time I thought I’d known
(There’s a story)
There’s a story, partly told,
Thought I had the chance but I grew too old
Chorus:
Magic Attic tell your tale,
take me back and let my mind set sail.....
Let me take an afternoon exhale
Remembrance of a long lost trail
Verse 2:
Broken paths, photographs,
Tickets to a better life perhaps
Break away, life’s highway
Trapped illusions of a gold stairway
A box of memories, show and tell
Just a moment to recall it’s spell
Take the time leave behind,
A moment for a fond farewell...
Chorus:
Magic Attic tell your tale,
take me back and let my mind set sail.....
Let me take an afternoon exhale
Remembrance of a long lost trail
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You Can't Change Me
Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Pieper Fradkin
© 2003, 2022 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music
Extreme makeover, we're hooked on looks
We go to plastic surgeons, read our self help books
Are you looking in the Mirror at your wrinkled face
Do you tweeze between your eyebrows,
Watch your youth erase...
Take a look around, what do you see,
You can change everything but you can't change me..
Get a tummy tuck, try a breast implant
Lasik, laser, lypo, no one says you can't
Television tells you you can change your life
But you can't buck creation with the cut of a knife..
Hormone replacement therapy ,
You can change everything, but you can't change me
Think I'm gonna be a plastic surgeon,
I can always make a brand new version...
(Solo)
Workout everyday, new biceps in,
Gotta lose that weight, so you'll be thin
Take a pill to cure your ills, indulge your whim
Get a brand new smile and you could be him...
Nothing you alter has a guarantee,
You can change everything, but you can't change me
Nothing that you buy's got a warranty,
You can change everything, but you can't change me
Change everything, but you can't change me
Change everything, but you can't change me
Change everything, but you can't change me
Change everything, but you can't change me
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Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Fradkin
©2003 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music (ASCAP)
Chorus:
25 Women, So little time, 13 weeks to make up his mind
25 Women, beautiful and kind, Just one Bachelor
Deaf, dumb and blind...
There's a scratching Cat fight at the house
The girls compete to be his Spouse
They barely know his given name
But they all know it's a shot at fame
One girl really talks too much
She wears her past like a Film retouch
Another one sits in fleeting doubt...
If the Bachelor's ever gonna take her out
Chorus:
25 Women, So little time, 13 weeks to make up his mind
25 Women, beautiful and kind, Just one Bachelor
Deaf, dumb and blind...
Tina Fabulous's big tryout
A trip to Hawaii 'fore the flame burns out
Chris' personality just might hurt
She's just too much of an extrovert
Kirste';s got a secret to hide
But the Bachelor's brother knows she lied
Only one rose, one standout,
24 hearts will be left washed out!
Chorus:
15 Women, So little time, 12 more weeks to make up his mind,
15 Women, beautiful and kind, Just one Bachelor
Deaf, dumb and blind...
Liz is looking for true love, but her voice is a fist in a velvet glove
Andrea's religion blocks her way, 12 short weeks to a love payday
One girl emerges from the pack, looks like she's on the Spouse fast track,
Cool, compressed, we hope she'll win
A new heroine whose name is Jen...
Chorus:
10 more women, So little time,
10 more weeks to make up his mind,
10 more women, beautiful and kind, Just one Bachelor
Deaf, dumb and blind...
Bridge:
13 weeks, so little time, Just one Bachelor, make up his mind!
We got a new Bachelor and Bob's his name,
Conventional love's not his winning game,
All next season in a female fix, 13 weeks to see if it clicks,
Let her meet the family, run around crazed,
It's the way that we date nowadays,
13 weeks, you gotta guess right...
If you make a mistake you can kiss it goodnight!
If you wanna get married it's not too late,
Get hooked up with a Bachelor date,
Even if you don't make the final stay,
Your fame will serve as your resume,
Guys from near and far and wide,
Will clamor for you to be their bride,
A guy looks good but he';s still untried...
Take your time and then decide...
Chorus:
2 more women, So little time, 1 more week to make up his mind
2 more women, beautiful and kind, Just one Bachelor
Deaf, dumb and blind...
1 more woman, no more time, 1 more woman, he's made up his mind
1 more woman beautiful and kind,
Just one Bachelor, made up his mind
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Words & Music by Les Fradkin and Loretta Fradkin
©2003 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music (ASCAP)
Finding a millionaire is quite a task,
When there's only personality behind the mask
Simon sits in judgement as we bare our souls
Millions try to make it
fore they get too old
Chorus:
Reality Idol, just watch me sing
Reality Idol, let freedom ring!
Look in Country Music's got a great format
If you haven't got the talent wear a Cowboy hat
Bottle it with Twang make sure to wash your hair
And if you can write a song you just might get somewhere
Chorus:
Reality Idol, just watch me sing
Reality Idol, let freedom ring!
Bridge:
Do you think I'm good enough
Paying dues is just too tough
Find yourself a Bachelor or a Bachelorette
Get the partners that you need from your TV set
Don't forget to pause to think there's lots at stake
You've got only 20 Seconds it's your Big Fat Break!
Chorus:
Reality Idol, just watch me sing
Reality Idol, let freedom ring!
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Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Fradkin
©2003, 2020 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music (ASCAP)
Chorus:
It's Plastic, buys fantastic, an Orgiastic spending spree
We're shopping, till we're dropping,
Just one problem it isn't free...
Spend a hundred clams, buy everything in sight
Race around like Christmas Elves,
You'd think the price was right
With Plastic in my pocket, there's nothing can't be bought
You'd think the bill would make me ill
A lesson never taught
Chorus:
It's Plastic, buys fantastic, an Orgiastic spending spree
We're shopping, till we're dropping,
Just one problem it isn't free...
The endless offers I receive each Friday in the mail
Contribute to consumer debt with every Advert sale
Pick a card any card, put off when to pay
And take a trip around the World-their gift your holiday
Chorus:
It's Plastic, buys fantastic, an Orgiastic spending spree
We're shopping, till we're dropping,
Just one problem it isn't free...
Bridge:
See the sights, stay out all night
Take Spring Break, a big thick steak
Live your dreams, burst the seams,
Anything can happen when your Plastic starts a flappin'
And if they come a knocking with large collection bills
A Chapter 7 or 11 surely cures your ills
Pretend you're rich and famous, or even if your not
Roll the dice collect the ice cause when your hot you're hot!
Chorus:
It's Plastic, buys fantastic, an Orgiastic spending spree
We're shopping, till we're dropping,
Just one problem it isn't free...
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Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Pieper Fradkin
(C) 2003, 2021 Fradkin 2000 Music
(A Rock Opera inside of a single song)
Intro:
Gone, gone, gone, gone
Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
Let it tick, let it tick, let it tick....
Chorus:
Here Today Gone Tomorrow,
Don’t let those good things slip right thru your hands
Just remember, someone is watching,
Life is what happens when you’re making other plans
Let it tick, Plan for tomorrow
let it tick, no time to borrow
Verse 1:
Fame, family, fortune and things
Music, laughter, dreams that fly on wings
Heroes, fans and maybe a wife
That’s what you could miss
If you skate right thru your life
Chorus:
Here Today Gone Tomorrow,
Don’t let those good things slip right thru your hands
Just remember, someone is watching,
Life is what happens when you’re making other plans
Let it tick, Plan for tomorrow
let it tick, no time to borrow
Verse 2:
Values, honor, loyalty, truth,
These are the things that you learn in your youth
Caring, sharing, and a future that’s bright,
That’s what you could miss, if you waste away your life
Chorus:
Here Today Gone Tomorrow,
Don’t let those good things slip right thru your hands
Just remember, someone is watching,
Life is what happens when you’re making other plans
Let it tick, Plan for tomorrow
let it tick, no time to borrow
Bridge:
If I can dream of a time where nothing was wrong
(Everything always was wrong)
I’d always seem to prevail and I always felt strong
(Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone)
Is it your head is it your head, is it your head, Gotta go to bed
Is it your head is it your head, is it your head, Gotta go to bed
Let’s hold on to all that is dear
Why do we give up all we love without shedding a tear?
Solo
Verse 3:
Seasons, nature, freedom and friends,
Health and wealth, chances never end,
Lovers who bond to a future so bright
That’s what you’ll find if you make time in your life
Chorus:
Here Today Gone Tomorrow,
Don’t let those good things slip right thru your hands
Just remember, someone is watching,
Life is what happens when you’re making other plans
Let it tick, Plan for tomorrow
let it tick, no time to borrow
Let it tick!
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Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Fradkin
©2003, 2020 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music (ASCAP)
In Japan, they treat a man, with a long term 50 year plan
Get reward, without a sword,
Loyalty encouraged with a Corporate fan,
But in the States, no one relates,
Board members argue, and stock holders debate,
Promoting rot, a gordian knot,
Lawyers and accountants, and God knows what!
Raise the stakes and turn the screw,
It's only words, unless they're true!
Everything Is Wrong, Nothing's really right
Can we ever win in a fixed game fight
Everybody knows, Corporate power grows,
Something's gotta change, fore the whole thing blows
Endless drone, wake up alone,
Driving in the dark to work, you're never home,
Another resume, you while the day away,
Fire up the Internet, no work or play,
A shallow shell, a living hell,
Alert the Corporation with a mission bell,
Heed the call, before you fall,
Lost your motivation, used to stand so tall,
Wave your wand, reverse the spell,
and change the drill, you know so well
Everything Is Wrong, nothing's really right
Can we ever win in a fixed game fight
Everybody knows, Corporate power grows,
Something's gotta change, fore the whole thing blows
At the coffee machine, the gossip stays clean,
Complain about the boss, but never say what you mean,
Fight for praise, another raise,
Do what you gotta do to brave the Corporate maze,
People sweat and slave, plying their trade,
Others get rich off the work that they made,
Nothing really works, false hope perks,
Just around the corner, a new world lurks
Marriages destroyed, people stay annoyed,
Families fall apart, too many unemployed,
Speeches on TV, "A Job For You And Me!"
Nothing ever fixes the void that we see,
Someday I've got a hunch, the roles will be reversed
And we'll do lunch in another Universe,
Compassion will rule, You'll be in OUR school,
Then somebody else will get to play the fool,
Stand up and fight, get out of your chair
And wash that brain, right out of your hair,
Everything Is Wrong, nothing's really right
Can we ever win in a fixed game fight
Everybody knows, Corporate power grows,
Something's gotta change, fore the whole thing blows
©2003 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Fradkin
©2003 ,2020 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music
CHORUS:
Obsolete, their life felt so complete
And now they can't compete, Obsolete
Verse 1:
There's an old soda jerk, who now works as a clerk
A processor of words, not of sweets
There's a concert hall, that takes a wrecking ball
They'll be nothing left but silence in those seats!
Verse 2:
There's an old rock band
who played Dick Clark's Banstand
Nobody buys their records anymore
I hear they're washing cars
They used to be big stars
The music changed and now they know the score
CHORUS (Repeat)
Verse 3:
Machines, they took his place
He's lost his only space
He's left without a trace, of what he owns
The customer support, is falling very short
It makes us want to never leave our homes
CHORUS (Repeat)
BRIDGE:
Ballparks, landmarks, bracelet charms,
Each one falls to change
Stocks and bonds, and old family farms
Even my own home on the range....
VERSE 4:
Well known secrets told, like gossip growing old
We've heard that there's escape to be found
Laying undisturbed, lies the town of Cedarburg
Reminder of those days of solid ground
BRIDGE 2:
Be careful what you wish for, your wishes might come true
Cause if yoiu don't wish hard enough,
The Axe might fall on you
Just because we've changed it, doesn't mean we should
I'd put it back the way it was,
If I only could...
VERSE 5:
There's a new recruit, who tries to wear a suit
We used to wear them every Sunday morn
Small paying jobs,
A CEO who robs
A disappearing world being born
A disappearing world being born
Obsolete, our life felt so complete
And now we can't compete, Obsolete!
©2003 ,2020 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music
All Rights Reserved.
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Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Fradkin
©2003, 2020 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music (ASCAP)
Wall Street swallowed my dreams,
That dot com stock was not what it seems
Tried to get rich quick, I angered my honey
There’s too much month at the end of our money
Who’s gonna take care of me
I just can’t think too clear, but I know I can see
There’s too much stress and pressure
It wasn’t planned or meant
I’m in Rehearsals For Retirement
At 50, I’m changing careers,
Uprooting my family and all I hold dear
Another bite at the Apple, a jump in the ring
No matter what happens, it still makes me sing...
Who’s gonna take care of me
I just can’t think too clear, but I know I can see
There’s too much stress and pressure
It wasn’t planned or meant
I’m in Rehearsals For Retirement
I’m in a sandwich generation where a buck is not a buck
All we’re eating is inflation, and my family’s out of luck
Who’s gonna take care of me
I just can’t think too clear, but I know I can see
There’s too much stress and pressure
It wasn’t planned or meant
I’m in Rehearsals For Retirement
Who’s gonna take care of me
Who’s gonna take care of me
Who’s gonna take care of me
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Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Fradkin
©2003, 2020 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music (ASCAP)
Reality’s you, reality’s me
Reality’s whatever we dream it to be
So let the bells ring, Gather all gather round
The Rebirth of Hope, Reality bound
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Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Fradkin
©2003, 2020 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music (ASCAP)
Someday in a dim twilight find an old flashlight get new eyesight someday
Someday when the time is right claim an old birthright get new hindsight someday
Sometime when we grow to know, gotta make a change things move too slow
System Crash, they stole all our hope now we got no cash
System failed, large dreams died they were bought wholesale
Lost control, beat us to the punch found an old loophole
Someday if it's not too late, gotta find a way to a system update
Back then when we gained some ground, conscience could be found
We were outward bound back then
Someone closed an old playground, ran a cause around
Drove it underground back when
Some folks like the status quo, other ones see through a new rainbow
System Crash, they stole all our hope now we got no cash
System failed, large dreams died they were bought wholesale
Lost control, beat us to the punch found an old loophole
Someday if it's not too late, gotta find a way to a system update
Listen to the people sing, we're not afraid new plans are made now
Gotta move fast upswing cadence cascade, not retrograde now
It's crashed gotta fix it, it's crashed gotta fix it
It's crashed gotta fix it, gotta find a way to a system update
It's crashed gotta fix it (It's really crashed), it's crashed gotta fix (it's really crashed)
It's crashed gotta fix it, gotta find a way out now....
Someday at an awful cost, we'll be found not lost, at a new outpost someday
Someday when we walk across the surface gloss of a God-like Boss someway
Someday in a future time, others won't prosper from their crime
System Crash, they stole all our hope now we got no cash
System failed, large dreams died they were bought wholesale
Lost control, beat us to the punch found an old loophole
Someday if it's not too late, gotta find a way to a system update
It's crashed gotta fix it, it's crashed gotta fix it
It's crashed gotta fix it, gotta find a way to a system update
It's crashed gotta fix it, it's crashed gotta fix it
It's crashed gotta fix it, gotta find a way to a system update!
©2003, 2020 RRO Entertainment
All Rights Reserved. Used by permission
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Words & Music by Les Fradkin and Loretta Fradkin
©2003, 2023 RRO Entertainment OBO Fradkin 2000 Music (ASCAP)
Chorus:
Together, Together, there's no more war,
Together, together, there'll be no poor
Together, together, our day will come...
Together, we'll all be one... one day
Verse 1:
We've been using, confusing, lying and denying
Skirting and hurting, abusing, terrorizing
There's no winning, beginning, if we're still sinning
Together, we'll all be one one day
Verse 2:
We've been screaming and scheming, Stealing and revealing
Inspecting, disrespecting, but never genuflecting...
But even though there's looting, I'm still rooting
Together, we'll all be one.. one day
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge:
They're turning on the squeeze, they'll bring us to our knees
So everybody please, sing along with me...
(Repeat Chorus)
Verse 3:
We've been taking, heartbreaking, faking and mistaking
Cruising, not choosing, everybody's losing
Teaming, achieving, is how you start believing
Together, we'll all be one one day
Verse 4:
We can educate, still relate, don't waste time let's not debate
Just be strong, it won't be long, raise your head, get out of bed
Though it's tough, you gotta see, to be free takes you and me
Together, we'll all be one.. one day
(Repeat Chorus)
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