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Prelude
00:27
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"Whoa, we’re back again
MOOOSE on the floor
We’re here to give a little more
Welcome my trusty friends
It’s the crew gettin’ down wid choo
Check out the second Gospel according to the MOOOSE
It’s gonna be a jam; put on your funky boots
If you’re looking for a sign ‘cause you rhythm’s outta line
You can absolutely find a purple friend in mind
Professor Funklove is the man who can see
Your natural sense of purple-ocity
So kick back, relax; you’re in safe hands
Let your feet start a tapping. Let the groove do what it can
We hope you dig the music and you do your funky do
But pay a little mind - there’s a message here too
In a world full of hate so much is in a mess
We’re preaching peace [hmm mmm] and spreading love [oh yeah]
Peace, Love and Funkiness"
It’s time to party.
Mooosefunk party.
Let’s have a party.
Peace and Love and Funkiness.
Do you really wanna?
C’mon over have a funk with me
Feel that funky flavour
Positive the only way to be
Peace the whole world over
That’s the planet we all wanna see
Love our only saviour
Peace, Love and Funkiness.
Later. We’ll see you later
Later. We’ll catch you later
Later. More P-Funk later
Later. We’ll see you later
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3. |
Are You Ready?
05:13
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Everywhere you go there are people feeling low discontented with the place their life is at.
So many it seems have lost belief in their dreams and resigned themselves to living an existence that is flat.
Put your doubts to one side, it’s up to you to decide to get your goals and ambitions back on track.
Whatever you conceive first you gotta believe then you gotta go, get on and act.
You can have anything you want for you but are you ready?
For dreams to come true you gotta believe in you.
You can do anything you want to do but are you ready?
Wotcha, wotcha wotcha gonna do?
We jeopardize our health cause all we want is wealth there’s so much more to life than cash.
Don’t be misled by what society said -
Happiness is not determined by the size of your stash.
You have to be true to the spirit in you.
Leave your fear behind you and move on
Get yourself on the road – select action mode. Hold your head up high, keep singing your song.
You can have anything you want for you but are you ready?
Are you getting prepared or are you running scared?
You can do anything you want to do but are you ready?
Who-ya, who-ya, who-ya wanna be?
Think what you wanna do
Choose what you wanna do
Say what you wanna do
Do what you wanna do.
Think who you wanna be
Choose who you wanna be
Say who you wanna be
Be who you wanna be.
You can have anything you want for you but are you ready?
Get close to the groove if you really wanna move.
You can do anything you want to do but are you ready?
If you don’t have the passion you won't get the action. How ya gonna find success?
You gotta get wise, prioritize. You gotta give it all you got – do nothing less.
Get up, get out, get to it. You may never get another chance.
Get on, get in, get down, get busy. The only thing that’s stopping you is ‘can’t!'
You can have anything you want for you but are you ready?
For dreams to come true you gotta believe in you.
You can do anything you want to do but are you ready?
Wotcha, wotcha wotcha gonna do?
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4. |
Cloud Nine
04:37
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There’s only love and fear
Create the best in here
Don’t never ever wanna stop.
I’ve got to make me whole
My faith, my life, my soul
I’m gonna give it all I got.
The way is long – goes on and on and on
May feel like givin’ in
C’mon be strong, no right, no wrong
The only way to win.
One destination
Through seventh heaven
I’m heading for Cloud Nine
(That’s my intention)
In one direction
Past level seven
I’m aiming for Cloud Nine
(My destination)
So now I think you’ll find
Aint gonna change my mind
I’ve set my goal - I’m gonna get it
I know it may take time
The sacrifice is mine
You know I know I won’t regret it.
A thousand miles and miles and miles and miles
Don’t want my ride to end
Movin’ on – I can’t go wrong
On me I can depend.
CHORUS
Sometimes this dream of mine
Feels like an uphill climb
Always my mind adds complications
If I stay true to me
The best that I can be
A life I love my inspiration.
I’m cruising high, could touch the sky, so high
Don’t ever wanna slow down
I know that we will never die
It’s my decision – I will wear the crown.
CHORUS
That’s where I’m going
This ride aint slowin
I’m Funkin’ on Cloud Nine
(That’s my intention)
My fear is fading
Anticipating
My expedition Cloud Nine
(My destination)
CHORUS
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5. |
It's All About Music
04:44
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Hear the music
Feel the music
Come naturally.
Gotta use it
Make the music
A part of me.
Feel the rhythm
Let the rhythm
Flow naturally
Dance desire
Takes you higher
Set your spirit free.
Have music in your heart
Can aid you to remember
To move and sing your part
Hand in hand we dance together
This music is my art
This rhythm is my saviour
Had music from the start
Let me sing and dance forever
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6. |
We Don't Want Your War
06:10
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"I'll finish just by saying this. War is an easy thing to talk about though not many people of the generation that remember it. The Right Honourable gentleman served... [?] and I never killed anyone but I wore a uniform. But I was in London in the blitz in 1940 living in the Millbank tower where I was born. Some different ideas have come in since. And er every night I went down to the shelter in Thames House. Every morning I saw Docklands burning. 500 people were killed in Westminster one night by a landmine. It was terrifying. Aren't Arabs terrified? Aren't Iraqi's terrified? Don't Arab and Iraqi women weep when their children die? Does bombing strengthen their determination? What fools we are to live in a generation for which war is a computer game for our children and just an interesting Channel 4 news item. Every member of Parliament tonight who votes for the government motion will be consciously and deliberately accepting there responsibility for the deaths of innocent people if the war begins as I fear it will."
Murder.
On Tuesday night I gave the order for British forces...
Murder.
...to take part in military action in Iraq. Tonight...
Murder.
...British Service men and women are engaged in air, land and sea. Their mission...
Murder.
....to remove Saddam Hussain from power and disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.
We don’t want your war [No, no, no, no]
We don’t want your war
We don’t want your war
We don’t want your war
Murder
War; what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
So many casualties: so many tragedies
So little sympathy for people caught in tyranny.
They have to take down an oppressive regime so hope invades with an M-16?
What about the human cost? How many lives lost?
Essential casualties to champion democracy?
Murder
Conflict, incursion, skirmish, invasion.
Legalised murder, truth assassination.
No such thing as a military solution.
The real deal is a population execution.
Sponsored by the corporate, committed by the government.
Supported by the ignorant, inflicted on the innocent.
We subsidise the arms trade making sure they get paid to fund another air raid for this bullshit terror crusade.
We don’t want your war [No, no, no, no]
Governmental misleaders
We don’t want your war
We see through your propaganda.
We don’t want your war
We uncover the true agenda
We don’t want your war
Murder
Politians - they just keep on lying.
Soldiers and their victims - they just keep on dying.
Manipulate the papers and the broadcast news,
Telling us of heroes who can never lose.
Speeches of support are no protection from an AK-47 or a suicide bomb.
Never at the front, all they wanna do instead is salute and pin a medal on our glorious dead.
Murder
Nationalistic Ha! Patriotic Ha!
Jingoistic Yeah! Xenophobic Yeah!
It aint about freedom. It aint about health.
It aint about justice. It’s all about wealth.
Wealth and power and greed and more.
They’re the only business that they’re fighting for.
War on terror, war on drugs.
Are we gonna wage war on the corporate thugs?
CHORUS
Politicians telling me this is the way it has to be.
So build more tanks and buy more guns to arm your daughters and your sons.
And pray the day will never come - A body bag for your loved one.
Did you get to say goodbye before that loved one had to die?
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7. |
Colour Blind?
04:38
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Does my skin mean that I’m going to rob you?
Does my hair mean that I’m gonna sell drugs to you?
What do you fear when I appear?
And who has told you what about me to scare you?
Does my tongue mean that I don’t understand you?
Does my faith mean that I’m going to bomb you?
Does it make sense that you get so tense?
Does everybody with a tan support the people with a plan to harm you?
I don’t believe in violence I’m a peaceful man.
Just another human living life the best that I can.
You say you’re being cautious but me don’t give a damn.
Don’t judge me as someone your fear tells you I am.
Eeyo-oh-oh-oh-oh
We see the prejudice in human kind
Eeyo-oh-oh-oh-oh
Are you programmed or are you colour blind?
Do my clothes or my style mean I aint gonna respect ya?
Or does my name mean that I’m Al-Qaeda?
You wonder why it makes me cry
And still I try to calm you.
When you see me approaching do you really see me?
They say that the bad guys could be anybody
But because of how I look a suspect I could be
Is this the way to live in harmony?
CHORUS
"Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, aged 27, was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder at Stockwell tube station in south London on Friday night. Tony Blair said he was desperately sorry an innocent man had lost his life."
"Sohail Ashraf and Khurram Zeb were taken off a Monarch holiday flight after some passengers became hysterical and mistook them for suicide bombers. Said Suhail, "These are nervous times and we can see why people are panicked. All I would say to people is please don't be paranoid and don't judge every book by its cover."
Is it real the government’s war on terror?
How do you feel when people get shot in error?
The press declare they’re everywhere
This racist propaganda the media sells ya.
Negative images on television creating rumours causing chain reaction.
Neighbour against neighbour causing racial tension, and then distrust becomes an institution.
So I call Mr Policeman and him really don’t care.
Then I call in the council and them really don’t care.
I call up the government – they really don’t care.
I call the Prime Minister – him REALLY don’t care.
CHORUS
CHORUS
Who am i? Who am I?
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8. |
Mister Funk
04:20
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Mister Smoothie, Mister Funk
The groovy Mister Funk.
The grandest version of the
The greatest vision that he
He always ever had about himself.
Sophisticated
Emancipated
If love was cash he’d have enormous wealth.
Lives life with passion
In his own fashion
He is an endless possibility
He never loses
He always chooses
That way he sees the opportunity.
Mister Smoothie, Mister Funk
The groovy Mister Funk
He aint no colour
In fact don’t bother
To try to put him in a category
He hears the music
Knows how to use it
His rhythm’s with him walking down the street.
Don’t need religion
Makes his decisions
Based on his highest inspiration.
He aint no sinner (oh no no no)
He is a winner
He knows aint no such thing as purgatory.
CHORUS
Everything around him seems to go his way
He never ever seems to have a negative day
He always seems to pick the perfect notes to play
The most exquisite words to say
CHORUS
Communication
Just aint no problem
He speaks his truth with love and honesty.
He’s so decisive
Clear and incisive
You know exactly who he wants to be.
His heart is open
He’s softly spoken
He sees the funk inside of all of us.
He’s dedicated
To be related
The type of person you can always trust.
CHORUS’
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9. |
Hoodoo Funk
06:22
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"Now go do that Hoodoo that you do so well."
Way down deep in the underground
In the place where the weirdo’s and the freaks are found
Souls reconnecting with an ancient sound
No place for non-believers
Glistening in the heat of the midnight sun, ‘cause they’re
Moving to the fever of a native drum
Tuned in synchronistic modulation
These Hoodoo Funk receivers
Soaked in passion, skin on skin
Feral instincts let ‘em in
Feeding on expression of a funkified obsession living in a sweet sensation.
Never call it sin.
Pushing all the limits of convention
Knockin’ on the door to rebellion
Feeling on the floor – give a little more
So hit me Hoodoo Funk.
Gotta let the rhythm get to you
Let the funky vibe pass through you
Open up your mind to Hoodoo (ha ha)
Leaves your body craving more.
Can’t resist the need for getting intimate
This mystical phenomenon is all it took
If you wanna flirt with supernatural just stay put
This Hoodoo Funk will get yer
Nothing ‘bout this energy is too complex
If you get it right it gets like sex
It’s sacred - related
Everybody get naked
There’s no escape - remember
This Hoodoo Voodoo splendour
Just let your mind surrender
Give in to Hoodoo Funk
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10. |
Situation Critical
04:31
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Situation critical
Situation critical
Situation critical
Warning!
We’ve been telling you for years. Signs of warning everywhere.
Now you see we’re dancing down the road of self destruction.
The sun will always shine so the planet will be fine
It’s just the human race that will be fucked.
Situation critical
Situation critical
Situation critical
Warning!
Our future’s looking grim - survival chances getting slim.
Tearing up the planet that will keep us breathing.
Pollution in the air. Changing seasons everywhere
With global warming we had better learn to swim.
Heatwave in the winter – what we gonna do?
Now there’s flooding rains in the summer
Is it getting through to you?
Have we got a clue?
Situation critical
Situation critical
Situation critical
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11. |
Somethin's Missing
05:34
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Looking without seeing
Touching without feeling
Hearing without listening
Somethin’s missing
Somethin’s missing
Existing without really living
Making love, making love, making love without being in love
Moving down that road without groovin’
Somethin’s missing
Somethin’s missing
They stir up insecurities and everyday I see
More war, more death, more violence
More love is what we need
Disturbed by inhumanity
It makes me wanna cry
Diamonds are worth more than Hearts
You have to wonder why.
Trying and not believing
Desiring and not achieving
Living and not loving
Somethin’s missing
Somethin’s missing
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12. |
I Believe In Love
01:01
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Hold on to your love. I’m a believer.
I believe in love. Ain’t gonna deceive ya.
I know life is expressing what love is and
I know my heart will be true.
The power that I possess for Peace, Love and Funkiness
A passion for living my life loving you.
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"This one goes out to all of us. Especially those of us who are wrestling with doubts and fears and maybe have lost sight of the passion of who we really are.
Life is not about what we can’t or should do it’s about what we can and could do – you know what I mean?
Don’t let the negativity and cynicism in the world around you dampen your precious spirit because your candle could be the spark that lights up the world."
It’s a journey
Searching for the meaning of reality
Waiting on the moments of clarity
Struggling to see the bigger scenery
It’s down to me.
Need assistance
Trust your higher self to overcome resistance
Negativity we keep it at a distance
Happiness the product of persistence of love.
Be open
Choosing your experience of evolution
Seek to get in touch with your perfection
Hell is just a figment of religion – it aint real
Forgive yourself
Be assured that sincerely you’ve done nothing wrong
But life begins at the edge of your comfort zone
Relax in the knowledge that you’re not alone – we’re all human.
Who are you?
Have the courage to be the human you wanna see
Who are you?
Make it your goal to be at peace with your soul
Who are you?
It’s time to decide to free the hero inside
Who are you?
In spite of what they tell you I think you’ll find
Fear is the enemy of all mankind
Politicians and the media inciting mass hysteria
Beware of them telling you beware.
It may seem unclear with all this death, war and fear
The best position by far – we’re free to choose who we are, just by
Thinking it, knowing it, doing it, being it
The inspiration we wanna be.
Be a bringer of light. Be a star shining bright
Be a calmer of fears. Be a healer of tears
Be a saviour of hope. Help the hopeless to cope
Be generous to extreme. A fulfiller of dreams
Be a beacon of love. Be a force from above
Be your own Jedi Knight – against oppression we fight
Be unstoppable. Do the impossible
Be authentic and true, the best possible you.
It aint easy, it aint easy, it aint easy. You're gonna make it baby.
You can be who you wanna be
Follow the dream
Be true
It’s no lie. Believe me when I
Say I believe in you
You can be who you wanna be
Happy and free
Believe
We can have it everyday in any way
Believe
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14. |
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Later. This here is later.
Later, We're now at later.
Later. Welcome to later.
Later, We're now at later.
Later. This here is later.
Later. Welcome to later.
"So. There you go; we’ve had a good time
We sincerely hope you people had a good time too.
We’d like to thank you for lending us your mind,
For this purple opportunity to funk with you.
If you like this here collection then invite you friends
To listen to this album so we can do it again
And we hope you’ve been inspired by what you’ve heard
If so go out and party and spread the word
We wish you big love and prosperity and all that is best.
Go live in peace and love and funkiness."
Peace, Love and Funkiness
Peace, Love and Funkiness
Peace, Love and Funkiness
Peace, Love and Funkiness
Peace, the promise land - that’s where we gotta go.
Love, indispensable love, is how we’re gonna get there.
Add a generous hump of that mystic funk, revolutionize and rehumanize.
We are Peace, Love and Funkiness
I want to stay with you, play with you
Take me home with you funky road.
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MOOOSE Brighton, New York
MOOOSE are a band committed to spreading the word of peace, love and funky music - Music to inspire happiness, dancing and perhaps a little thought.
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