1. |
So Far So Good
04:26
|
|
||
|
SO FAR SO GOOD
Words & Music by Rob Bender, Published by Bender Creative Group, BMI copyright 2022
Living in the city of angels
Raining bums and billionaires
So many chiefs, so many rules
Not enough time, too many fools
Make it or break it, moving too fast
Run like a dog, don’t wanna be last
Go on and rush around up and down the road, like there’s nothing to see
From crib to crypt, it’s slash n’ burn n’ run, from point A to point B
Pay & Obey. Sit! Drop It! Bad Boy! Stay!
It’s all cool, I’m doing fine, so far so good
Got your highs, got your lows, so far, so far-so good
Living in the city of angels
High tide rising everyday
Alternate viewpoints, science deniers, fantasy chasers, mudslides & fires
Internal combustion, stay in your lane
If you live in the river you better pray it don’t rain
Tweakers n’ geekers, imposters n’ Oscars, garbage flows to the sea
Guns in the car rack, drones on the tarmac, and they call this a sanctuary
Mega sale today, lose weight and keep it off, now for some late breaking news
Mary the virgin appeared on the internet, clutching NBA shoes
Have you crossed that bridge?
Have you lit that match?
Have you looked around behind you?
Seen the flames at your back?
Is your ship still sailing?
Are heavy seas prevailing?
Is your captain failing?
Have you started bailing?
Pay & Obey. Sit! Drop It! Bad Boy! Stay!
It’s all cool, I’m doing fine (so far so good)
It all comes and goes, ebbs and flows (so far so good)
Just cause you can, doesn’t mean that you should now (so far so good)
All good things must come to an end (so far so good)
|
||||
2. |
Shine Your Light
04:40
|
|
||
|
SHINE YOUR LIGHT
Words & Music by Rob Bender, Published by Bender Creative Group, BMI copyright 2020
I just keep walking, lit by moonlight
Lost my way again
You, just keep dancing, while the sun shines
All around
I, wish I knew you, seize the moment
When the stars are aligned
You, burn a flame now, in the sky now
In some other time
In the end, we will never meet,
We’re like meteors, for all I know
Parallels in the universe
It’s nice to dream, but you’re just a blur
I, found this moment, like a sonnet
But it’s not up to me
You, had the power, all the power
And you turned it away
We go along, at this lightening speed,
The path we choose, is in our head
In this place, and in this time
We choose our speed, we dance alone
So shine your light, bring it on to me
Before I turn and miss the time
When we met I was more naïve, than I am today
There’s no time to lose
I thought I knew me, but I didn’t
Have a clue at all
You, thought you found me, but in fact you
Let it slip on by
In the end, we will never meet,
We’re like meteors, for all I know
Parallels in the universe
It’s nice to dream, but you’re just a blur
We go along, at this lightening speed,
The path we choose, is in our heads
In this place, and in this time
We choose our speed, we dance alone
So shine your light, bring it on to me
Before I turn and miss the time
When we met I was more naïve, than I am today
There’s no time to lose
|
||||
3. |
Mighty Sparrow
06:06
|
|
||
|
MIGHTY SPARROW
Words & Music by Rob Bender, Published by Bender Creative Group, BMI copyright 2022
Take your place sparrow
Feed your soul sparrow
Strength will come sparrow
Mighty mite sparrow
I got the sparrow in my soul
I got the sparrow in my soul
Fly all through the night
Strong and steady flight
Wings of steel and golden lace
Primal force eternal grace
Sparrow please (come by)
When they try (come by)
To break me down (come by)
Show me how (come by)
be a sparrow cuz the…
Sparrow trumps (the hate)
The power lives (just wait)
Ancient force, never ends (be strong)
- Humble, enduring, tenacious, and steady (sparrow)
When the world’s in disarray
A light shines on, it’s here to stay
Everywhere and all the time
The small endure to rise and shine
I got the sparrow in my soul
I got the sparrow in my soul
Flying above
Riding the breeze
Up in the trees
Diving below
Got the sparrow (don’t let go)
Sparrow (in my soul)
Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Lee Cheuk-yan, Mahatma Gandhi
Hubert Reeves, Alexei Navalny, Greta Thunberg, Eirliani Abdul Rahman
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Rachael Maddow, Harvey Milk, John Lennon, Chico Mendes, Martin-Luther-King-Jr, Winona LaDuke, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Take my hand (some one)
Slow your pace (just breathe)
May not see (it come)
Step by step (it’s done)
- be a sparrow cuz it…
May not have (the size)
Hard to see (surprise)
Just might stay (alive)
A mighty mite (survive)
- the wind, the rain, the storm at night
Spirit sees (the light)
Then the dark (takes sight)
Dream about (strange things)
Heart awaits (its wings)
- for the mighty sparrow
Time goes on (and on)
Now is here (then gone)
First and last (unroll)
Parts become (the whole)
- forever, expanding, mighty sparrow
I got the sparrow (in my soul)
Sparrow (in my soul)
I got the sparrow (don’t let go)
Sparrow (in my soul)
Hey, everybody, hey!
Let it roll
It’s in your soul
In your soul
|
||||
4. |
Kiki Donk
06:04
|
|
||
|
KIKI DONK
Words & Music by Rob Bender, Published by Bender Creative Group, BMI copyright 2022
I’m falling my darling from heaven
I’m falling through memories you
I’m loosing this race for survival
My blue skies are turning so gray
Hey babe, you’ve grown, so cold
Hey babe, you’ve grown, so cold
It could have been just a phase at first your long distance gaze
Had me fooled, so I passed and played along by rules.
But now I know your true nature you’re a hunter, a chaser.
It’s more than absurd, deceit is too mild a word.
I know you’re lurking out there and I gotta beware,
You’re like a snake in the grass, that I gotta get past.
Release me, sweet daughter, of sorrow
Relinquish your hold over me
Oh I, yeah I’m so cold
And my hands, do tremble
And my feet have turned to stone
And our mansion (that one time dream)
Lies buried in the sand
Blue horses, blue horses
Carry me home
Oh there’d be rapture, if we’d recapture, what we had lost
Sweet salvation, a new relationship, give those chains a slip, rise on up
Now you tell me
Turn around there’s a bright day a’comin’ (I hear the sound)
Turn around there’s a bright day a’comin’ (I hear the sound)
Now you say I got nothin’ to fear you don’t bite,
But keep your hands in plain site
Cuz I know I’m fair game and you just out to get me
I’m apprehensive that way cuz I know I’m your prey
You’re too fast paced you got carnivorous tastes
I’m gonna hide in tall grasses till the huntin’ season passes
I’m hiding in vain from my darling
She’s baiting her hook with her smile
Disaster, comes after, the laughter
It’s faster than I could have known
I’m callin’ I’m callin’ so low
I’m callin’ fallin’ down slow
Kiki Donk!
Kiki Donk!
Kiki Donk!
Kiki Donk!
|
||||
5. |
Cloud Morning
07:01
|
|
||
6. |
A Comet's Tale
06:44
|
|
||
|
A COMET’S TALE
Words & Music by Rob Bender, Published by Bender Creative Group, BMI copyright 2022
Your face haunts me all through time
I went out to see the planets
I’d been wondering what all the talk was about
And I can tell you, yes I can tell you, all I can tell you is “wow!”
Some people get all bothered about Jupiter
And some people like Mars
I’ll tell you what buddy, I’ve got my sights set a lot further away
I’m likin’ Neptune, yeah yeah yeah
Oh I like what I’m seeing (I like it, I like it)
Oh I like what I’m seeing (very much so)
The planets, the moon, (looks like candy)
The stars in your eyes (twinkle twinkle stars in your eyes, baby yeah)
Now one thing I like about this whole situation
I can pick whatever planet I choose to like
And I can like that planet (like that planet, like that planet)
That’s what all the talk was about (like that planet
Choose which one you like
Your face haunts me all through time
Your face haunts me all through time
Oh, there goes Pluto (Presenting Pluto)
Oh, there goes Mars (Say hello to Mars)
Looking at Jupiter (Jupiter ladies and gentlemen)
There goes Mercury, yeah! (Let’s here it for Mercury)
Mercury yeah!
(Let there be happiness)
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
Your face haunts me all through time
Your face haunts me all through time
Your face haunts me all through time
Your face haunts me all through time
Harvest Moon, there you are
Jupistre ciruculorum compestrum
Blue moon blue moon homage
Gemini’s secret
Who knew
|
||||
7. |
Down The Road
04:04
|
|
||
|
DOWN THE ROAD
Words & Music by Rob Bender, Published by Bender Creative Group, BMI copyright 2022
Riding down the road, it’s clear sailin’
The day is young, the sky is blue
Can’t see the future, but I know
Today it just feels right to, let it flow
Let it flow, let it flow
Riding down the road, no expectations
Gonna layback, goin’ wayback
Makin’ time, cuz it feels right
Take it in, and lettin’ it flow
Down the road, down the road
Let it flow, let it flow
Feeling like I, just can’t sit still
Leavin’ today
Hookin’ up with a, fresh air slipstream
Time to fly away
Rolling down, the open highway
Floating so free
Nothing to prove, light as a feather
Defying gravity
Down the road, Down the road
Funny thing happened
Amidst the noise and distraction
Heard this inner voice
And got some better traction
Gonna pack my bags
Erase my passwords
Say goodbye
And stop wakin’ backwards
Down the road, down the road, let it flow
Gonna pack my bags
Erase my passwords
Say goodbye
And stop walkin’ backwards (all the way home)
Down the road…
Let it flow…
|
||||
8. |
Never Give Up
04:28
|
|
||
|
NEVER GIVE UP
Words by Rob Bender & Laurie Geltman, Music by Rob Bender
Published by Bender Creative Group, BMI & Rosebloom Music, BMI ©2020
You know it’s not easy
To climb up the mountain
Stand on top
And reach for the sun
You fall down, you get up
Go at your own pace
Find a way through it
Keep moving on
And you never give up
You just keep going
Yeah you never give up
Just keep going
And you never give up
You just keep going
Yeah you never give up
Just keep going
It’s not easy to walk up
Stand in the spotlight
And bathe in the glory
Star in the show
To get to the bright lights
You gotta push go
Gotta declare it
Let the world know
And you never give up
You just keep going
Yeah you never give up
Just keep going
You followed the blueprints, gotta taste and a small glimpse
Of what lies beyond the next door
Now is the moment to leave fear behind you
You’re closer than ever before
And you never give up (never give up)
You just keep going (just keep going)
And you never give up (never give up)
You just keep going, going
So-oh, oh easy, so-oh, oh easy
So-oh, oh easy (Don’t you know it’s not easy)
Don’t you know it’s not easy (Think it’d be easy)
To climb up the mountain (Climb that mountain)
Stand on the top (It’s not easy)
Reach for the sun (It’s not easy)
You fall down you get up (Got to get up)
Get on through it (You got to get up)
Keep moving on (Got to get up)
Get up!
Don’t you know it’s not easy
To get where you’re going
To follow a dream
To be who you are
You fall down, you get up
Go at your own pace
Find a way through it
Keep moving on
Don’t you know it’s not easy
To climb up the mountain
To stand on the top
To reach for the sun
You fall down you get up
You go at your own pace
You find a way through it
You keep moving on
And you never get up (oh yeah)
You just keep going (oh oh)
And you never get up (oh yeah)
You just keep going (oh oh)
And you never give up (and you never give up)
You just keep going (Yeah you just keep going)
Yeah you never give up (Never give up)
You just keep going (You just keep going)
Just keep going, just keep going
Don’t you know it’s not easy
Don’t you know it’s not easy
And you never give up!
|
||||
Rob Bender Los Angeles, California
Rob Bender has played with and formed groups in the Pacific Northwest, Madison, WI, New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. He now resides in Los Angeles, CA where he writes & records original music.
If you like Rob Bender, you may also like:
The Art Of Losing
by The Anchoress
The second release from Welsh artist The Anchoress is a devastating and powerful meditation on loss.
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 1, 2016
go to album
Cardiff band Red Telephone can't disguise the pure pop sensibility in their blistering alt-rock songs.
go to album
Staring at Clocks
by Bitch Falcon
The debut album from Dublin group Bitch Falcon is a balance of dream pop and grunge.
go to album
Too Prickly For This World
by Wife Patrol
Wife Patrol make instantly catchy alt rock with streaks of punk, new wave, and metal, overlaid with Bangles-esque harmonies.
go to album
Your Church On My Bonfire
by PAWS
The trio’s fourth LP confronts failed relationships and personal loss head-on.
go to album
No Arts, No Crafts
by No Crafts
Catchy and upbeat Spanish garage pop with new wave flourishes and English lyrics.
go to album
