Virtual Fame
(C) 2002 Robert Weigel All rights reserved
Hey hey little boy, is your mommy watching
Whats that stuff your typing acting like you're some authority
Your e-pals chuckle while you flame the latest spectacle
Your heart shrinks another size and your none wiser
Who invented this game? They should be living in a
mansion, but somehow I'll bet they're just regretting
all the wasted lives, growing up without a standard;
all the little boys and girls achieving their virtual fame.
Hey there Christian boy, is your savior watching
while you take a break, in this realm of anonymity
The church can't meet there since there really is no building
what do two or three in his name have to do with anything?
Who invented this game? They might be dying with a
millstone, sinking them down in the sea of
all the wasted lives, growing up without a standard;
all the little boys and girls achieving their virtual fame.
Don't you dare step outside someone might smash your pride
by introducing you to something known as reality
Just stay behind that screen until it rots your brain
don't let anyone interrupt your ascent to virtual fame.
In your presence
(C)2008 Robert Weigel all rights reserved
How can I even feel worthy,
To stand before a God so pure and holy?
And though you'd take my hand I still so easily stray
Oh Lord I pray, I need to stay
In your presence, where nothing else can touch me
In your presence, where your loving hand will guide me
In your presence, where I can stop my striving
And wait for you
I long for you
With my helpless, hopeless yet not abandoned heart
My helpless hopeless yet not abandoned heart.
Groping for Security
(C)2010 Robert Weigel all rights reserved
Checking in my baggage, Looking forward to the friendly skies
I hear it's e'n more friendly. Than the last time I gave this a try.
The lines are getting longer, I guess I'm gonna see what the attraction is
I now face the decision; I get irradiated or they give me the biz
We're groping, for security
Drives us to insanity
Groping for security
I say "Get your hands off me!"
Our president he promised, To stimulate our flailing e-conomy
But also he's concerened, to make sure we live in complete safety
Hey all you frequent fliers! Enjoy the radiation every time you're screened
Unless of course you prefer, a stimulus package that is so obscene!
We're groping, for security
Drives us to insanity
Groping for security
In the land of the once free.
I'm groping in the dark,
hoping to find a place to park where I won't get towed.
Groping, hoping to save enough
to be secure when things errupt!
I'm groping in my pride
I'll find the magic track inside
Spiralling in, where does it end
I hope somewhere near where it began
It was better then, better then.
I'm gonna just wear spandex. That way I can just stretch it for some guy to peek
But I wonder what they would do, if the entire flight just decided to streak!
Can anyone do math here? 150 million fly worldwide per year
The extra time we're takin', will cost more life hours than bombs in brassieres
We're groping for security
still impacted by the debris
groping for security
In the land of the once free
Groping for security
following like sheep blindly
groping for security
ignoring the one nailed to a tree
Feeding Frenzy
(C) 1993 Bob Weigel
All rights reserved
Bm A Bm/G D
There's a feeding frenzy in the flock today,
Bm A Bm/G D
The sheep are grazing like they plan to stay.
Bm A
Building up thieir store of treasure,
D G A
Isn't that the way we measure,
F# Bm A Bm/G D
how the Lord has blessed us for following his way.
Bm A Bm/G D
But there's a way that always seems right to a man
Bm A Bm/G D
Get a wife a home, nice cars, a boat, a tan.
Bm A Bm/G D
But in the end it only leads to death,
'cause it never got the spirit's breath.
[chorus]
Stand and preach your prosperity,
while hell makes room for its prize.
It's not that wealth is wrong,
unless it becomes the place you focus your eyes.
There's an anxious man, looking for his fortune.
He thinks he's going to become independant very soon.
He cannot see his own heart,
but still he thinks he's so smart,
because when he has enough he'll start a mission on the moon.
And as his funds acrue he manages his money so well.
He turns away from those in need, so someday he can tell,
those people of the love of God,
those people who can smell a fraud.
But a man of great means came to Jesus saying
"I have kept the commands since my youth, what still do I lack?"
And Jesus said "Give all you have to the poor and follow me;
all the things that you need in truth God will surely not hold back.
Or you can (Repeat Chorus)
All I came to Do
(C) 1993 Bob Weigel
All rights reserved
Find me one small token to take away with me tonight;
For a starving man who attends a feast and finds he's lost his appetite.
Look inside the gift I have laid there beside your door;
Or do you think you are too rich to take a gift from one so poor.
There is a choice to be led by the flesh or spirit.
Why should a man preach to one who will not hear it?
[chorus]
All I came to do was talk to you my friend.
But you can think you know my motives and live that way again,
and completely close the door on all the good that I intend;
I love you.
So I plant a seed, and hope it grows to bear fruit without end.
Ezekiel was told by God so long ago,
Even now the people say 'let us go hear the word of the Lord'.
As a song of one who sings and plays well, you are so.
They hear my words but don't do them, nor turn their hearts toward, me
And when these things come to pass they'll know a prophet told them.
When they lie there cold and still, how will you console them?
(chorus)
(dialogue in intro)
child: "Mother there's a man over there with a cart of goodies...delightful yummies..can I have some mother? Can I?"
mother: "You don't just go up to a perfect stranger and start begging! Now mind your manners and let's talk to the man and find out if he's proper first!"
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Youre' an old hand, Newt Gingrich, who remembers what you've done?
From land grabs to debt ceiling, you're votes are so revealing
Mr. Gingrich, I wouldn't trust you to run a lemonaide stand even if it were economically feaseable
after the 400 dollar permit and possible fines from the FDA"
You're a globalist Newt Gingrich, You're into everything we fear.
First fairness doctrine and then NAFTA, and GATT and abortion right after
Mr. Gingrich, I wonder if you might not do more than play pinochle when you meet with those foreign officials and profiteers.
You're a sly one, Newt Gingrich, You sell access to yourself
you profit from position, might I make this inquisition
Mr. Gingrich, do you think you could possibly break this life long habit of capitalizing on everything in your grasp
if you give you the keys to the store?
You've been so swell, Newt Gingrich, left your wife when she was ill
You said she's not good lookin' 'nuf for plans that you've got cookin'
Mr. Gingrich, I sum you up in three little words and they are not necessarily in order of priority
SKIM, SCAM, SCUM,
(Look at the nice man mother..he's..changing right before our eyes)
Are you a changed one, Newt Gingrich? I hear words that sound so pure
I hear you got religion, but I have got this vision
Mr. Gingrich, I think a leopard can change it's spots more easily than you can change once you're that far over the top.
Washing your Windows (C)2011 Robert Weigel A.R.R.
I was tryin' to find a job where I could, interact with the masses
Didn't want to have to learn a bunch of stuff or, take a lot of classes
I saw the ad and saw myself getting some good exposure
Filled out the ap and handed it in and felt a sense of closure
And now I'm wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa WA WA WA WA washing your windows
Got my self a puppy dog who takes care of my need for friendship
On my affairs I kinda like to keep a fairly tight grip
I once knew a girl I thought could be man's best friend
Instead it seems she was tryin' to figure how far I would bend
So now I'm, wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa washing your windows
I'm, wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa washing your windows, washing your windows
with my squeegee and hose.
(C) 1998 Bob Weigel All Rights Reserved
Perfect Prosperity
Em Am
When I was in prison you comforted me,
B Em
by sending your book perfect prosperity
C B Em (Am B Em C B)
I read it again and again as they tortured me.
Em Am
I'm so glad you saw my situation,
B Em
as you look back from the television station
Am B
and didn't even insist I send the customary donation.
A humble poor broken soul am I,
will I have riches in this world when I die?
At least I won't go out wondering why.
(Chorus)
C D G
These things, I have learned from you
C
to give a tenth before it's spent
Am
and believe God's promise, true
B Em
that someday I'll drive nice cars and wear a rolex too.
C D G
These things, are now so far from me,
C Am
Perhaps it's just my lack of faith and insecurity.
B C
but as I close my eyes I thank the Lord for my sanity,
B [Em Am B ](x3)
And wonder when I'll find perfect prosperity.
You say I'll be rich in every way,
in spirit, health and things I can display,
if only I'll shut up and do what you say.
I wish the saints of old could have read your book,
maybe they'd have taken back all this world took,
and hung with guys in suits and ties
instead of from algerian hooks
[repeat 1st half of verse for solo]
Of these things, I am confident
that when it's over I'll do more than make the rent
when I hear God say well done my faithful servant
These things, now obscured from view
if you were here I think you'd see things different too
and not repeat the same embarrassing boo boo...