This project is something that flowed from Chimera (Evan Harrington's) pen
back in 1984, 85 and I have been putting music to the parts as the inspiration came.
We both hope you enjoy our efforts. The lyrics will give you a clue as to which
of the many musical styles were employed.
Chris Vaisvil aka Chris and the Clones

This work, words and music, is copyright Evan Harringtion and Chris Vaisvil 1984,1985,1996, 1997

Chimera on a Life


Chimera on a Life Part 1


Sitting on this window ledge
I can see my world so far below
Patch-marked streets,
They don't seem real
In hazey flow

Oh, how I could fall in love
With these imprisoning veins
Oh, how I could fall into
Anonymously vague remains

Back home to the heart of it
Pumped back out tomorrow
No use making sense of it
Wait to see what follows

(It's so ominous when the past is late!)

Marrow of these funny bones
Tell me how I laugh and weep
Pain seeks joy and joy compassion
How I'm fearful, then free

Marrow of these funny bones
You spray a mist of aerosol laughter
Your fear is of the great release
Far below, the hazey flow, is ever faster

The  grooves on my bones
Mark the position
I've counted on my fist
The times I've missed, missed the aim again!

Dark Donna tumbles in the nettles
And writes her blades of weeds
Years may past, each moment lingers
Attention all: we're life defying

We're breaking our legs
To enter the human race



Chimera on a Life Part 2


Morning brings the moment
Without which no tomorrow
fears may pass, while moments smolder
The can opener has left my mind...

Jagged at the edges, Oh the cutting edges!


And indeed it seems like yesterday,
or was it the day after?
When love pumped so heartlessly
When each wave spank the might rocks!

When earth shivered in full daylight
Play with the daylight!

In my mind,
For a moment,
My mind,
inside a while...

Tell it all again!

Waves and wells containing a thought
A small pail in very small hands
Extracted my thoughts from the ocean,
Once silent in depths of sea....

Thinking rose to currents
And waved across the daylight
To the shore!
To the shore....


Chimera on a Life Part 3


There's no shot like the big shot;
No boom like the death boom.
Tomorrow will have starved a million.

Like a daemon, and who is that daemon?
Who lives at their expense?

Riding down the highway, on the way to work,
Inventing new ways to make pollution.

Line up on the freeway - Join the de-ath squad!
Line up on your freeway.

Make your contribution, let's go to the beach,
We're the death squad...

Sunny days they're full of life,
Bathing in their wealth.

Polluted minds like the rivers,
of the death squad.

Polluted minds ambulating,
down the narrow isles of history

With impressive balance,
one foot before the other;

So amazed... at time...

The rivering squads of steelmobiles
bathing in the mirrored rays from precision-angled panes,

Structured after God's own Metapolis, the Omnimetropolis!
With embryonder hopes of embryou.

Tomorrow the sun will beam down mightly grand
upon the fresh lawns majestic.

Elegantly bordered by pavement, on which teeny skates home.
From the ice cream jingler...
wearing the jestures of pantomine.

Where is the truth serum?

Ambulating down the narrow isles of history,
history,
History!

Obfusucated in tunneled miles
Through people -
only people,
who are Earthlings...



Chimera on a Life Part 4


(Read all about the
Grotesque National Product!
News! Pollution!)

I never hard about the foreign war
Or read the lines or in between

The news-pollution 
The news-pollution

I only breathed the air,
Do they wish to breathe it all?

Fire breathes deeper.
Fire breathes quicker!

( Yeah! Yeah!)

Bomb-pollution
in the news-pollution.

The Grotesque National Product
 is up ten percent this year.
The Grotesque National Product
 is up ten percent this year.
The Grotesque National Product
 is up ten percent this year.

Ten percent!
Ten percent!

(G.N.P U.S.A M.O.U.S.E.!)
(G.N.P U.S.A M.O.U.S.E.!)
(G.N.P U.S.A M.O.U.S.E.!)
(G.N.P U.S.A M.O.U.S.E.!)
(G.N.P U.S.A M.O.U.S.E.!)

Something comes limping to my memory.
A pulse of pain moans
At the rain back screen
And cries like a pet.

Aaaaaghh!



Chimera on a Life Part 5


The opening and the closing of your eyes,
Between is a dream, between is but an instant when,
I am a beggar at your gates.

Stone city caged in walls,
The well bringing life to every member.

Open wide your gates that your life may expand.
Your flesh raised high to wall me out,
Can not contain you forever.

My ear is at your heart,
Send me your application for citizenship.


Chimera on a Life Part 6


How drew the sand,
from the rocks like water from a fountain?
An absent, empty mountian
Now warmly between my toes

And maybe I'm wrong,
but I'd just would like to know...
What are the Dimensions of Freedom?

My mind reaches peek, to peak,
but I do not understand.
And so, my mined mind,
you've thoughtfully shown:

That thought is out moded,
replaced by your yawn.
What are the Dimensions of Freedom?

On noisy, busy streets,
the organ grinders turn
to dust
and are swept with all the rest
I escaped to the Land!

I must have heard the grasses grow,
all in one in all...
What are the Dimensions of Freedom?

What are the Dimensions of Freedom?


Chimera on a Life Part 7


Tears fell
Tears fell
Tears fell
Tears fell

I saw a child
killed so dead
on a moped
across the way

Tears fell
Tears fell
Tears fell on a

Tears fell
Tears fell
Tears fell on a

Tears fell
Tears fell
Tears fell on a

bristly lawn
bristly lawn
bristly lawn each step
each step
each step
each step
each step
each step I push
I push the
I push
I push the
I push
I push the mower
mower 
mower
mower

Tears fell
Tears fell
Tears fell
Tears fell


Chimera on a Life Part 8


Death,
don't let its firm handshake
misguide you: the heart
is tender, gentle;
a close friend of life
and my pockets-
pockets I put my things in.


Chimera on a Life Part 9


I'll put the untied tastes of america
into a melting pot for you
	wonderful and terrible
	happily sad - terribly glad
	we're in america!

My hands are sticky
from my wishbone, still.
unchosen choices.
Fate-frozen finality.

But I'm terribly glad
On this puffed up cloud.
What shall I do for tea
But gather moisture?

My inspiration is expired now,
My expiration inspired by tragedy -
that fateful twist for morning tea,
bitter yellow for my sweetness.
makes me thankful not to worry.

What shall I do for a cloud?
Blow smoke rings from a stack?
How we tried to listen to warn us,
But we listened with that odd accent.


Chimera on a Life Part 10



Attention Squad!
Now we're on a bridge,
	don't fall off

Now we've come to a dead end.
	don't continue.

Copyrights:

Evan Harrington
1984,1985

Chris Vaisvil
1985, 1996, 1997