Les Fradkin - Everything Is Wrong
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Reality (Single Version)
03:02
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Reality's you, reality's me
Reality's whatever yo wish it to be
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Everything Is Wrong
Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Fradkin
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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OBSOLETE
Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Fradkin
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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Who's gonna take care of me?
I just can't think too clear, but I know I can see
It's too much stress and pressure
It wasn't planned or meant
I'm in Rehearsals for Retirement
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Reality Check (Remix)
00:25
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Reality's you, Reality's me
So let the bells ring, gather all gather round,
The rebirth off hope, reality. bound!
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System Crash
04:55
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System Crash
Words & Music by Les Fradkin & Loretta Fradkin
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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Instrumental
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Together we'll all be one, one day
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Les Fradkin Colorado
Les Fradkin is a Producer and Composer / Multi Instrumentalist, Vocalist and One Man Band. Symphonic Progressive and Pop Rock for One Man Band from the Pioneer of MIDI Guitar.
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