This work, words and music, is copyright Chris Vaisvil 1987 through 1990


Modern Clones


This is the first album I did after acquiring a Tascam Poorta Studio One 4-track cassette recorder.
Original Lyrics/Song Notes follow:



In Your Little World

    You start out with conversation
    Seemingly innocent enough
    No one see the concentration
    How the thoughts are in the rough....

In this little world
In this little world that 
Spins around inside your head

    You stare with the blankest eyes
    Behind which no humanity
    You feel safe with this disguise
    There lies the real insanity.....

In this little world
In this little world that 
Spins around inside your head

    You laugh as if on cue
    There's a stopwatch for all that you do
    Thinking there, Hmmm, how to snare me
    When all you get is you....

In this little world
In this little world that 
Spins around inside your head

    You feel time ticking away
    Must be to steal your way
    Ahh, ahh, how fragile things are
    When you know who you are....

In this little world
In this little world that 
Spins around inside your head

    In this little world ( repeat until exhaustion..)

Adlib drums, bass, and 'fuzz' guitar (in begining)
CZ-101 'organ' (left channel)
Moracca
Rythmn and lead guitar (as most of the tunes, MXR distortion+ and
Boss digital delay DD-2)
Vocals with digital delay
voice at begining and laugh via Casio SK-5 sampler
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Water Will Flow Everywhere

Various mixtures of:

        Water will flow anywhere/everywhere
        You must be crazy
        Break down the door
        ...and turning and turning....
        SK-5 laugh

Intro by Ben and Pete (SK-5 and PC game)

Drums on Casio MT-68
Bass on CZ-101
'Organ', CZ-101
Backwards guitar w/DD-2 (of course!)
Sorry, the E-bow was bought to _substitute_ for backwardness...
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My Heart is Broken

    Here lies my broken dream
    There goes my stolen things
        My heart lies broken,
        My heart is broken
    Here lies my broken dream
    There goes my stolen things
        My heart is broken

    Long ago, long ago,
    Longer than I care to remember!
    There was some thoughts I had
    But I didn't think them over!

    Long ago, long ago,
    When I first set eyes on you
    Long ago, long ago,
    How my heart melts

    Long ago, long ago,
    When I first fell on you
    Long ago, long ago,
    My heart was open, was open!

    Long ago, long ago,
    When I first set eyes on you
    Long ago, long ago,
    How my heart melts

    Long ago, long ago,
    When I first fell on you
    Long ago, long ago,
    My heart was open, was open!

(various voices [SK-5])

    My broken heart.....broken....broken....broken...
    (backwards too, of course!)
    I've been wrong..
    heart..

    My heart is broken.... (repeat until L.A. reverts to farmland,
    oh, and sing backwards too.)


I put drums, bass and 3 guitars on the 4-track and mixed to casette.
I then bounced the casette back to the 4-track and added vocals, lead
guitars and sampler to it. The vocals were recorded by bringing the 
tape speed down when recording. (I couldn't sing as high as I wanted to,
which is the sole reason I did it. As it turned out it added something to
the song.)
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When Will The World Turn Around

        Look out my window,
        They are at it again....
        Ahhh, Ahhh, Ahhh
        Ahhh, Ahhh, Ahhh

        I hear the fighting
        Hear the screaming
        Hear the pleading

        I see the fighting
        I don't understand
        Why...........
        Ahhh, Ahhh, Ahhh
        Ahhh, Ahhh, Ahhh

        When will the world the world turn around?  (* 5 or 6)

        I hear her screaming now
        I hear the things that hit the ground
        Ahhh, Ahhh, Ahhh
        Ahhh, Ahhh, Ahhh

        When will the world the world turn around?  (* 5 or 6)

CZ-101 'piano'
Elec. guitar rythmn and leads
Vocals
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Don't Throw Me Into The River

        Can you tell me what this is inside my hands?
        What this is?
        Can you tell me what this is inside my mind?
        Ohhh oh

        I Don't Feel
        Re_al_i_ty
        I Don't Feel
        All the things that been happening to me!

        I don't understand
        I don't thread the ground I step in sand!

        I Don't See The,
        Bright Light Shining!
        I Don't Feel That,
        I Can Live This Way!

        I don't see the Sky,
        or the Greatness,
        Just The Pain!

        I don't feel the Scars,
        or the Hatred,
        Just The Pain!

 Can you tell me where the sun has gone?
  Can you show me where heaven is?
 Can you tell what should happen to me?
  What should happen now......?

        AHHHHHHHHHHH....

        I see the sky
        Open Up
        I see that hand
        Coming Down

        And I feel His Finger
        Pointing at me!
        And I wonder...
        just where I should BE!

 Don't throw me into the River
  For I can not swim
 Please hold me carefully...
 This shell you see....it may break...

      Yes it may break!


        Show me the exit, show me the exit
        Show me the exit, show me the exit
        Show me the exit, show me the exit

        Please let me OUT!!

MT-68 drums thru the digital delay
Rythmn guitar, two lead guitars (either side) just whammy bar wild!
CZ-101 bass, piano (at end)
And of course vocals!
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Untitled Instrumental (A Little Guitar)

As it sounds, two clean, one fuzz guitar.
I did write this with you in mind! It echos some of my earliest
tapes also.
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My Whole Life Has Become

        I have all of these memories,
        that come on back to me.
        I don't know to do!
        I don't know what I should do with them...

        I don't know why they come to me,
                    -
        Like a Breaking Beam of Light!
        Like a Cloud Burst in the Night!
        Like the Sun coming UP upon the Ocean!

        What to do?
        What to do?
        What to do about these memories?
        What to do?

        Sometimes it is the hair,
        or the smell of perfume,
        someone's house or maybe someone's room,
        some place I can't put my finger on it....

        Like a flash it comes upon me....
                    -
        And I'm Held Captive!
        In this Beam of Light!
        And I Can't Let GO!
        Its my Whole Life!

        Revolves around these memories
        What to do?
        I don't know what to do about them...
        What to do about these memories...

        As if my whole life has become nothing but a memory
        Its my whole being....

MT-68 drums with digital delay
CZ-101 piano (serves as bass too)
Guitar w/flange
Vocal
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Without a Single Thought in Mind

        (time...time...time..)

        Without a,
        Without a single,
        Without a single thought in mind!

        And the World holds no Place,
        or a Thought.
        This World turns round...
        See the Despot!

        Desert Sand
        Covered
        See the Despot!
        See the Death Spot!

        AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
        Ohhhhh

        I
        I don't
        I don't understand
        I don't understand
        (muffeled prayer)

Sooo much stuff in here!
You got MT-68 drums with echo
Various CZ-101 percussion, choir, screaming instruments
Several vocals
A guitar from the depths of echomania!
Mummar got nothing on me! (dedicated to desert tin-gods everywhere!)
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On Top of The Mountain

            I see you on top the mountain
            And I wonder how you got up there!

            I feel myself standing at shotgun
            I feeling it moving under my feet
            I feel myself thinking sundown
            I feel lucky, it won't be me!

            I see you up on the mountain
            And I wonder how you got up there
            I don't understand the reasons
            I feel I'm gonna climb up to there!

            I see the tide is turning
            I guess maybe its something you don't know!
            I feel that my mind is burning
            With heartbeat and here comes the smell!

            Yeah!

            I don't understand it!

            I don't fit upon the mountain
            How did you get up there?
            I don't understand the mountain
            How did you get up there???

            I feel the tide is turning now!

            I'm up upon the moutain!
            Looking down upon the Earth!
            I'm up upon the mountain!
            This land that gave me birth!

Right channel backwards guitar throughout
Left, normal
Rythymn section is the MT-68 drums with CZ-101 added drums,
CZ-101 bass, and rythym guitar.
All guitars just digital delay and fuzz
Vocals of course!
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Something To Say To You

            I'm looking to say to you
            Some sort of message to get thru
            I'm looking for someplace to place to you
            Is there room in your mind?

            I'm looking for something to be to you
            To be someone special in your mind
            I'm looking for something to say to you
            Something no one said before, before

            Echoed from the night 
            See the light
            That we've been here before

            I guess its one thing...
            Memories as strong
            As thinking gone astray...

            I'm looking to say to you
            Something new and different
            I'm looking for something to be to you
            Something that will last forever.....

            I'm looking for something to say to you
            Something I never said before
            I'm looking for someone to be to you
            Just what you wanted, ever more, ever more

Right channel Fender Rhodes ala CZ-101
Left elec. guitar
Fuzz lead w/digital delay ( the big blue + red fuzz)
MT-68 drums
CZ-101 Bass
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This Room

                Me,
                I try to see,
                out of the confines of this room.

                This room,
                has no windows,
                four blank walls,
                a ceiling and coke for company.
                That is want is left to me!

                I,
                plead,
                for help.
                For my only exit from here,
                I have no hope

                This room,
                has become,
                my home.
                Which you would polietly call hell.
                Oh, well!

                I don't know,
                how I came to be here.
                It seems to be just one of those things that I got,
                while I was on my way....
                on my way....

MT-68 drums
Elec. lead and rythym
CZ-101 bass
Vocal
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Fear In Our World

                There's changes in our world
                There's changes all the time

                And I get to see like you
                They all won this time!

                There's fear in our world
                There's fear in our world
                There's fear in our world
                Yes I fear the mili'try man!

                Yes there's fear in our world
                Yes there's fear in our world
                There is nothing we can do!
                Nothing we can do at all!

                There's fear in our world,
                and it comes around.
                It will come to my street,
                and will have begun.

                Yes I fear their black suits!
                Yes I fear their soft-spoken words!
                And I fear for revenge!
                Goin' to CUT IT! CUT IT OUT!

            See the sky,
            our homes are burning....

            See the sky,
            our homes are burning....

            See the sky,
            our homes are burning....

            See the sky,
            our homes are burning....

MT-68 drums (helped with CZ-101 percussion)
Lead and rythm guitars
CZ-101 bass
Vocal
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Christ Killers

            Take me in then villify
            We destroy all life
            We have no respect
            We destroy all life

            We are the Christ killers
            It is in our mind
            We are the Christ killers
            Deep in our own souls
            We are the Christ killers
            Deep within in our mind
            We are the Christ killers
            Deep within our souls

            We are hatred,
            and we are Judas,
            and we are painful,
            and we are hatred,
            and we are Judas,
            And we are.....

            We are the Christ killers
            Look inside our hearts
            We are the Christ killers
            Living down our parts
            We are the Christ killers
            Deep within our hearts

            We are Judas,
            and we are hatred,
            and we are painful,
            and we are Judas,
            and we are hatred,
            and we are painful,
            And we are.....

            We are the Christ killers
            Deep within our hearts
            We are the Christ killers
            That is we inside
            We are the Christ killers
            Revealling our parts
            We are the Christ killers
            Living deep inside
            We are the Christ killers
            Deep within in our hearts
            We are the Christ killers
            Deep within our souls

Backwards and forwards on the right channel
Rythym on the left
MT-68 drums (echo'd and CZ-101 assisted)
CZ-101 bass
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Rodney

            I don't know what's wrong with Rodney.
            But you best not mention a word!
            He sees things differently,
            and he doesn't understand...

            There's evil all around him....
            The world is filled with lust and greed!
            There's evil all around him...
            Something we conceed!*

            Rodney sees the picture,
            Of the Holy family.
            And he feels this pain inside,
            And this mystery must be free!*

            There's pain throught the world,
            And he wants to set it right!
            There's lust and greed throught this world,
            And he wants to make it right!

            One day Rodney finds a gun.
            He feels strength and comfort in its steel.
            He feels with this power,
            He can set the world to right!

            He can set the world to rights!

            Rodney....

Casio MT-68 drums thru echo
CZ-101 bass (sounds pretty good on this don't it! _I'm_ proud of it.
I have found that the 'sound' has as much to do with 'playing' the 
sound like a real instrument as much as the timbre.)
Left channel rythym on left, fuzz and echo,
Lead on right, sometimes clean, sometimes with fuzz.
(lousy leads....eh?)
* too garbled to really make out confidently.
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All I Can do is Try

            Move towards my window,
            try to get out.
            It will not open,
            I got a clue what it's about.

            I have it on good authority,
            I may not be the best of company.
            And the purpose of this little song,
            Is to make you feel sorry for me.

            All I can do is try....
            All I can do is try....
            All I can do is try....
            All I can do is try....

            There's people everywhere,
            Talking about love and harmony.
            They seem will do, do what they can
            As long as it doesn't affect me.

            I've been searching for the answer,
            I'm lost inside a dream.
            And sometimes the dream become a nightmare,
            Not too surprised if I scream.

            All I can do is try....
            All I can do is try....
            All I can do is try....
            All I can do is try....

            All I can do is try....

MT-68 'organ' and drums
CZ-101 bass with 'tied' string sound
Two guitars, lead and rythym as needed.
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Conflict of Spirit

            Just a conflict of spirit
            Just a conflict of spirit
            Just a conflict of spirit

            You can't escape yourself

            Just a conflict of spirit!

            This fight is as real as any
            that I've seen on TV!

            Just a conflict of spirit!

            And the worse thing about this is
            how it involves me!

            Just a conflict of spirit!

            If I were to state one rule 
            I would say it was to compete!

            Just a conflict of spirit!

            In the most profoundest sense they
            justify Darwin......

            You can't escape yourself!

MT-68 drums/percussion
CZ-101 bass
3 guitars  left,center and right
1 buried backwards guitar
Echo 'slurs' on vocals (changing delay rate)
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No Escape From This World

            There's no escape from this world

            People claiming to be peace makers
            To soothe the people on the streets
            They hide their own lit cards
            Annouce its for the free!

            There's no escape from this world

            The leaders believe in witchcaft
            Don't tell me there's no prophesy
            And now the time has come to me
            And now there's fear inside of me!

            ITS TIME!

Adlib drums, percussion, organ, bass and synths
Two rythym guitars, and of course vocals.
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A Fool's Paradise

            They say, Hey Look! 
            The armies are receeding!
            Times are changing
            Can't you feel it in the air?

            Its Just Fool's Paradise...

            Changes in all the world
            Changes all for the good
            That we should, should, 
            should, should

            Its Just Fool's Paradise...

        The Cloak of Peace
        Before Our Eyes
        It is the Wool

        Are you the fool?
        Are you the fool?
        Are you the fool?
        Are you the fool?

        A Fool's Paradise!

            Only down hill away from here:
            The deepest part of....
            The deepest part of my fear!
            Only time will tell...

        The Cloak of Peace
        Before Your Eyes
        It is the Wool

        Are you the fool?
        Are you the fool?
        Are you the fool?
        Are you the fool?

        A Fool's Paradise!

            They say, Hey!
            The missles are receeding...
            Look at the paper fly!
            From the capital to the capital...
            nearly every day...

        The Cloak of Peace
        Before Your Eyes
        It is the Wool

        Are you the fool?
        Are you the fool?
        Are you the fool?
        Are you the fool?

        A Fool's Paradise!

Adlib drums and bass
slide guitar, in the begining,
three guitars, the center one backwards, at the end
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Save the World

            I want to take the world
            Put it in my arms
            Give it a big hug!
            Give it all my love

            The World!

            I want to take the world
            Put it in my arms
            Give it a big hug!
            Give it all my love

            Wanna Save The World!
            Wanna Save The World!
            Wanna Save The World!
            Wanna Save The World!

Just Adlib and Vocals...
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____Christopher J. Vaisvil, 8/29/90__________________________________________


Entrance Number 1



Instrumental
Chris guitar
Evan  guitar
Mike  keyboard
Steve bass
Paul  drums
(by the above listed musicians)

Chris Vaisvil
1987, 1990