Out The Door To Play In The GeniusLab Studio

Song Collaboration – Out The Door To Play

One of the most fun things that I do here in The GeniusLab Studio is write songs with people. Last week Norman Vaux II Executive Director of FinalCycles.org sent me a great story in lyric form and said, “Can you make this a song?” The theme is We’re Out The Door To Play!

I thought for a while …

Out The Door To Play In The GeniusLab Studio with Toby Christensen

I Grabbed My Guitar

The guitar jumped off the wall and I thought, what kind of energy do I feel when I read these lyrics?

A few chords began to take form and then all of a sudden, a fun powerful, and fun-filled chord progression came jumping from my fingers to the guitar.

And in no time, a song was borne.

Out The Door To Play In The GeniusLab with Toby Christensen

Out The Door To Play

“Out the door to play”

Intro / Chorus

It can’t be stopped

but you don’t think so.

It’s the eve of destruction

and you’re still on a roll.

There’s a better way

but you don’t care.

It’s your unconscious nature

that keeps you unaware.

Verse 1

It’s not your problem

but you really don’t know.

Out-of-site out-of-mind

is your natural flow.

Verse 2

The storm’s a comin’

But  you shelter in place

To hell with the others.

They can ask for grace.

Chorus

It can’t be stopped

but you don’t think so.

It’s the eve of destruction

and you’re still on a roll.

There’s a better way

but you don’t care.

It’s your unconscious nature

that keeps you unaware.

Verse 3

It’s the wake call

That you just don’t hear

cause your next acquisition 

is  fill-in up your ears.

Verse 4

So . . . go fuck yourself

we’ll find our own way

Your brains are for plastic  

we’re out the door to play.

Chorus x2

Here is the first pass version: