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Celebrating the 30th anniversary of greatFox music, here is a nice little album of 8 various styles, from synthpop to disco to reggae to rock ballad to jazz. Once again, I explore relationships, socio-political issues, Read more

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Love Feels Right 4:46

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Racing to the Next Red Light 5:04

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Divided By Three 4:23

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Inhabited 6:28

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Look Alive 5:37

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Pop Guns 5:06

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Machine Headed Man 5:18

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Synergistic 5:00

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LOVE FEELS RIGHT

What is it?
Is it lust?
Is it infatuation?
What is it?
Is it sex?
Is it the way you make me feel?

What’s the word I’m looking for?
I don’t know, I don’t know
What’s the thing I’m dreaming of?
I’m not sure about it but

Love feels right in my mouth

What is it?
Is it your mind?
Is it the way you make me laugh?
What is it?
Is it your touch?
Is it the way you make me feel?

What’s the word I’m looking for?
I don’t know, I don’t know
What’s the thing I’m dreaming of?
I’m not sure about it but

Love feels right in my mouth

Is it love after all….

Written by Todd Guilmette
Copyright 2023 by Todd Guilmette
12/8/23

RACING TO THE NEXT RED LIGHT

It’s a commuter’s nightmare
How am I supposed to get from here to there?
They’re stopping me from getting where I want to go
Why do I never get the green light?
I don’t know

It seems like I never get into second gear
I think I’ve been stuck at this light for a thousand years
Why do they have to stop me, my whole life on hold?
I hope this fucking light turns green before I get old

Racing to the next red light I swear I’ll make the next one
I gotta step on the gas, gotta get going fast
Racing to the next red light
Maybe I’ll get the next one
If I can pass this fellow, how much can I run this yellow?

It’s my everyday nightmare
Seeing other people living the dream without a single care
The system has been rigged, it’s all by design
Could I get to the express lane just one time?

What would it be like I wonder to blaze through every toll?
Everything comes up aces, good luck with every roll
I try to be fair and true with this life that I have led
One day I’ll be in the black and happy I ain’t in the red

Written by Todd Guilmette
Copyright 2024 by Todd Guilmette
3/12/24

DIVIDED BY THREE

Consider this a cautionary tale to the wise
There was no deception there will be no lies
I am to blame for everything, I caused my own demise
For I entered into all of this with naïve but open eyes

In my mind I saw somehow a vision of you and I
We got along so famously, I thought we’d won the prize
I think we’re at a roadblock, so let’s not agonize
I don’t think we can be friends like this, so I guess this is goodbye

I thought you were the one but you’re divided by three
The part that loves him and the part that loves me
And if I took you from him or he took you from me
There’d be nothing good left of you and nothing left for me

I’m blazing with anger but it’s not toward you
It’s my ruined expectations and unrealistic views
I really thought we had a chance to make something new
And all it took was one little excuse and now it’s all through

You don’t trust me, you don’t trust me anymore
I can feel it

Written by Todd Guilmette
Copyright 2024 by Todd Guilmette
10/15/24

INHABITED

You can feel me
I know you can touch me
I know you dream about me
in all of your fantasies

You can subjugate me
I know you can sedate me
I know you can medicate me away
with all of your sophistry

You can play this game
You repress your shame the more you brush me aside
I’ll come from the depths
I’ll snatch you right back and expose all of your lies

I inhabit this body but it doesn’t look like me
I look in the mirror I don’t believe it’s me
Everything I am is trapped inside
I will not be denied
Somebody get me out of here!

I can’t wait to let you out again
I can’t deny it anymore
I relinquish my hold on you
I give up, you can come out to play

You’re jealous of me
Can’t stand looking at me
You fancy yourself in my shoes
I can smell your envy
You only want to be free
So what have I got to lose?

Written by Todd Guilmette
Copyright 2024 by Todd Guilmette
10/16/2024

LOOK ALIVE!

You done fucked up this time -
Shot yourself right in the face
Your willful ignorance will be our downfall
Your greed will be the end of us all

You done fucked up this time -
Threw yourself under the bus
You’ve been led around for so long,
you don’t see the chains
Freedom and slavery
will all become the same

Oh no, hey you, look alive!
The hammer’s coming down on you
They’re looking at you
Oh no, hey you, look alive!
They’re aiming all their guns at you
They’re coming for you

You done fucked up this time -
Cut off your nose to spite your face
No one told you to value education
Now all the charlatans get a standing ovation

You done fucked up this time -
A leap of leopards eating your face
You wanted all of this and now you have it
Did you really think that you were safe?

Written by Todd Guilmette
Copyright 2024 by Todd Guilmette
11/12/2024

POP GUNS

Well the children like to battle and take different sides
They both think that they’re righteous and fully justified
You give them spears and pop guns, the good guys always win
Then back home to their daddies to absolve them of their sins

Cowboys have iron horses and the Sheriffs have their star
Indians with steel missiles and blessed holy bombs
It all seems so intractable when you look from afar
You’ll realize it’s all futile, they’ll never get along

I won’t be a part of the killing
Flying your flags, playing your games
Using my money, using your God, using my name
I won’t be a part of the killing
Flying your flags, playing your games
Using my people, using my name
It’s all the same, everybody is to blame

Tell them their life is nothing, only you can seal their fate
The enemy’s God is nothing, but theirs is just and great
Give them the promise of heaven and a detonator in their hands
They’ll gladly press the button in the name of God’s homeland

Written by Todd Guilmette
Copyright 2024 by Todd Guilmette
9/7/2024

MACHINE HEADED MAN

It’s the one thing that separates us from the animals -
From the dictators, kings and the cannibals
Without it, we’re nothing but mindless apes
Between the toil and hardship there’d be no escape

When I close my eyes I see it – imagination!
It’s my raison d'être – my salvation
My muse, it comes to me, I must answer the call
But the blessing, it’s not just for me - I want to share it with you all!

AI man
Machine head man (one more voice to slaughter)
Techno singularity -
Greed and jealousy

Anything at all that you create is something they can’t take
They approximate, calculate, aggregate and deep-fake
They can steal it away, destroy it, and leave flotsam in its wake
But they can only simulate something that we make

They can only make a parody, a travesty of thought!
With all the deafening data farms and power reactors they bought
But if you asked a computer to make a brand new piece of art
It wouldn’t know where to begin, it couldn’t even start!

Written without AI by Todd Guilmette
Copyright 2025 by Todd Guilmette
2/23/25

SYNERGISTIC

I’m never bored when I’m around you
There’s so very much I wanna talk about
I wanna know all about you
I know it can be unpredictable
Uncertainty can be hard to handle
We can work through it together

It’s synergistic!
When you figured me out, I’m amazed you came back around
It’s microcosmic!
(Came back around)

I’m always happy when I’m touching you
I don’t want you to spare a thing
I wanna be completely inside of you
Nothing is insurmountable
Although it seems like a lot to handle,
I want to do it all together

Written by Todd Guilmette
Copyright 2024 by Todd Guilmette
2/20/24