band name

band name: "nolens volens"

phrase in latin for "willing or unwilling"

song titles

"a little birdie told me to clip your wings"
"lumbering jack"
"i know i'm neglecting you today"
"out-of-use tokens for the gloom turnpike"

"Couldn't Spend Half My Life at Heel"
"They Are Illusions"
"Let Me Try to Explain How I Feel"

song titles

"the day i became a god" or just simply "when i became a god"
"children show us"

"first kiss on mount olympus"
"shoestring valentine"

"Something Inside Me Knows" or "It's Something I've Learned to Live With"
"Keep Me Away (from Cincinnati")
"Wish It Didn't Feel Like Winter"

song titles

"the ambulance farm"
"morale mosquitos"
"mount lip service"

"The Seasons that you Preach"
"Car Wash Eclipse"
"And You Can Dream (So Dream Out Loud)"

"Sponge Pants"
"Maybe It Wasn't Ever Me"

song titles

"Up with Jupiter"
"The Sound of Dewdrops"
"When Worms Collide"

song titles

"Thogner and Twork"
"The Embulence of Tram"
"Polyplexic Atom Catcher No. 45"
"Running Blanks in the Etherwild"

"Dome"
"Symanxx, Vorhex, and Quot"
"Pink Exotracers"
"Quiloxx of the Gilded Phantatrope"

song titles

"sercret space"
"bra strap landmines"
"reptilian insertion"

concept album / song titles

concept album: "heavy metal day care"

"seek and destroy the tail on the donkey"
"old mcdonald had a thing that should not be"
"the dish ran away with the broken mirror"
"mary had a little anesthesia"
"little ms. muffet sat on the shortest straw"
"twas' the night before dyers eve"
"little bunny foo foo fighters"

song titles

"glass diaper"
"bed days"

"Paging Mr. Fruit"
"Stunted Crescendo"
"Don't Let Them Make the Rules"
"Raise the Hammer Gently"

"Messin' Around Behind the Glass Wall"
"Turbulence"
"Sinister Intent"
"Mysterious Fragrances"

"High on Paralysis"

song title / lyrics

"The Sheparding Moons"

The sheparding moons
All entangled in a mess
Misaligned to chase the phantoms out west
Entrapping earth beams in a can...

The sheparding moons
Down and out but not depressed
In echoes, summoning your will to confess
From hand to punctuated hand

(solo)

The sheparding moons
Extracting sunlight from a kiss
And annotating every will to exist
In piles of unread master plans

The sheparding moons
Cross-orbiting just for kicks
Descending from the sky all double helix-ed
Let's count the rays as they expand

song title / lyrics

"kansas creeps in"

mortuary sundown, chemical clouds
stethoscopes hang from sycamore trees

"all of 'em in!" cries,
a duel on the dew drops --
and Kansas creeps in....

a thousand years later in a ovulating cloud
chrome walls clang: "everyone down!"

thorns impede escape,
mental symbols intravenous --
and Kansas creeps in...

zombie at the customs counter counting his take
whiskers and roulette on Vasectomy Day

a 'couple screws loose
on the sleek electric skin -
and Kansas creeps in

tick tock ho hum on the grandfather clock
grandmother murmuring, swiveling in the room

close to ejection,
a barricade of ruin -
and Kansas creeps in...

children in a loop, top hat, and anemic
perched in a man-sized manatee trap

punch-drunk controller
driving steamroller -
and Kansas creeps in

and Kansas creeps in
and Kansas creeps in
and Kansas creeps in
and Kansas creeps in

song title / lyrics

"you don't need my affirmation"

you don't need my affirmation,
just a smile of deprecation to my fears

you don't to act peculiar, for
only time will be the ruler as it nears

you are aged in purple sunspots
and enraged in paniced whispers
that you sill can't escape

you don't need excoriation
just a place to build your nation on the page

you don't need to tell me gently
that the waves are incidentally howling wild

you don't need to tend the garden
but lean out to see how far away it flies

you've established prime dominions
you have crumbled tiny kingdoms into rings of dust

you don't need my affirmation
to construct the sad illusion of our love

- by the IOD

song title / lyrics

"this barmaid will be queen"

girl-child encased under neon lights
her tears reflected through the sad tip jar
faceless girl by day, faceless girl by night
empties out the trash underneath a thousand stars

but let me burrow through your blue mascara shield
and let me conquer you so the truth can be revealed:
it wasn't what it's meant to be --
this barmaid will be queen

motorbikes sit, propped, stacked up in a row
wipe the counter clean, throw the ashes in the sink
glasses fall to earth and smash on floor below
your jagged face refracted and you pause to stop and think

you think of hope renewed, of cylindrical towers
you dream of autumn leaves and the tyranny of hours:
take that step and be redeemed --
this barmaid will be queen

throw the apron down and storm out grinning
of clear celestial waters and of hoof prints on the ceiling
inhale the perfume from the sea --
this barmaid will be queen

- by the IOD

song title

"(the) shepherding moons"

song titles

"the inescapable trip"
"journey to your conscience"
"clean face, dirty mind"
"kissing jack frost"

"frostbitten once, but never shy"
"for fear of snow"
"frosty fingers welcome"
"love me (that's an order!)" or "love me or else"

"a robot once said that to me"
"i loved a robot once"
"i left my heart in the hard drive"
"you put my heart in your temp folder"

"megan's marbles" or "what about megan's marbles" or "don't knock
megan's marbles"

"no more churchyard kickball (father steve is dead)"
"gravity wins again"
"standing at the end of the web"
"barmaid queen" or "this barmaid will be queen"

song lyrics

"what about megan's marbles"

i said i love you via fax
and you kissed me in a page
in a voicemail i confessed
that i can't believe you're real
and you "shushed" me with a call
on my cordless telephone
but my voicemail just picked up
cuz they're aint' nobody home

concept album

Concept album: a dude is so cold that he won't even burn in hell.
He's not evil, per se, just cold.

COLD

song title / concept

"beer can"

a song with a repetitive, Q&A-style chorus ending in the words "beer can!"

"what can make you fly like a kite?
...BEER CAN!
what will make her go out on a date?
...BEER CAN!
what will make your next big raise?
...BEER CAN!
what can cure general malaise?
...BEER CAN!"

maybe as it progresses, the lyrics and delivery are more and more drunken and slurry and nonsensical...

"who can help me chose a car?
... BEER CAN!
what can help me mow the lawn?
... BEER CAN!
helps me vote for president?
... BEER CAN!
do i day i do to too-dee-loo
... BEER CAN!

so each "verse" is interspersed with an brief instumental section, possibly including a weak, very basic, solo/lick (which gets more sloppy each time), overdubbed with SFX of a beer being opened and chugged... followed by a key change, up one step on the scale... so as the person gets more drunk, they singing gets higher in the singers range, craking at the end, getting depsperate and out-of-breath...!

song titles

"i was lost in your tubes"
"it's hard to breathe in your shadow"
"she left me in her kitchen"

"trampoline confessional with father spazz"
"welcome to the tears of joy lounge"
"i bit off more than you can chew"

"keck observatory tuna pouch"
"son, your punishment is that i will call myself sally"
"these jeans are my home"

"hot cross buns in the devil's oven"
"it's catching up with me"
"you're the itch"

"wide awake island"
"tracy's robot teaparty"
"the frayed ends of hells leash"

song titles

"Whereby Ladies' Bright Sunbreath"
"My Son Controls The Winds"
"Teleport Junction"
"I Know it's too late"

"I Can Still Hear That Same Mournful Song"
"Advanced Life Support"
"Your Love's Latitude"
"Butter my Buns and Call me Harry"

"Buried in the Night"
"Still Waiting on Trudi Summers"
"Curious Stairwells and Circuitous Vestibules"
"If It Makes Sense (Don't Wear It)"
"The Color Fits the Oval"

"Beach Blanket Cockfighting"
"...And Bring Along Your Magic Monkey-Friend"
"Which One Will You Choose?"
"I'm Gonna Help You Find Yourself"
"Winter Snapping At Your Heels"

- by the IOD

song titles

"i'd smack jesus for a dollar"
"for hyperbole's sake"
"the virtues of drinking and camping"
"perhaps slaps"

"reunite me with the pod"
"you can't untie a flower"
"most snowflakes are wishes"
"the porn time machine"

"roasted glen"
"jeff cakes"
"trixie bisque"
"shannon pie"
"saute'd ricky"
"mark mc waffles"
"sallly sundae"
"cliff stew"
"mickey chips"

"God Spoke to Tara"
"Stranded on the Platform (in Plasma Junction)"
"Sir Puddington, Viceroy of Lethe"
"Melody is not in the equation"

"my shadow will still be stuck to the wall"
"build a bunker and bury you guns"
"albeit cloudy"
"brains in jars in robots"

song titles

dank cookies"
"the last beer i will ever have"
"bottle cap rage"

song titles

"glove box constitution"
"bobble-head day at the vatican"
"the complexities of sock selection"
"i'd like to smack james joyce"

song titles

"panama love affair"
"g string theory"
"could it all just be a hologram?"
"fell on my face for love"

"bridge freezes before roadway"
"on my knees for this last shoeshine"
"when god beats the drum of the sky"
"milk fits" or "milk patch"

"you can never outsmart your twin"
"love at first sight at the union tolls"
"i'm not what they say i am, my love"
"i just wish i could buy your love"

song titles

"for every cross you make"
"staring across the table at yourself"
"hail mary overdose"
"rosary withdrawl"

"church hymn refraction"
"hidden eucharist detox room"
"true cross termites"
"i'm walking around in the air"

"hold your hand up (and the storm will pass)"
"butter my rectum with fire"
"gee, what love can do"
"briadal suite of the heartbreak hotel"

"i'll shrink you"
"next, the grim reaper with your local weather"
"popcorn tears"
"hot spicy mustard laugh"

song title / lyrics

"when you married me"

when you married me
you were plastered,
you looked like an ass
you put the pastor in a cast
you cut the cake with broken glass
and smashed the waiter with his tray
but what can i say?
i said 'i do' anyway.

song titles

"maternity ward waiting room card tricks"
"borne of a board room projector"
"a stroll in the white board gardens"
"keynote speaker at the lonely laundromat equonox"

"midnight lights flicker; and I wait, an empty ATM"
"the gift of silence"
"but i see your badge"
"get out of my house"

"my little black book of germs"
"anonymous backrub boutique"
"bathroom mirror bordeaux"
"but i'm still on lime-green time"

"ship bottom shark talk"
"gasping to despair"
"i slept on wet coal for you"
"don't point your horn at me"

"i was lost in your tubes"
"band-aid creeps"
"we all think we're special for a while"
"pissed off peg leg preacher"

"thermal bib"
"in the house of the hunted"
"(that's) just like you"
"a plan to eat a man, a cannibal in panama"

song title / idea

"there you go again, dissecting the frog in my throat"

(hence, reading into my hoarseness, my temporarily inability to
respond, thinking it signifies something when it is merely that i
needed to clear my throat.)

song titles

"you don't need my affirmation"
"the fool on the bridge"
"kansas creeps in"

"they will walk away"
"tear the beards"
"force god's hand"

song titles

"the subtle sound of genius"
"sheer will sunblock"
"steel wool serenade"
"fear is the pin in the grenade of trust"

"always wearing a ghost ring"
"the altar of st. patricide"
"the whore at the gate"
"playing discus with glances"

"shot put this heavy heart"
"relief from my greed"
"a glass of tomorrow"
"at the site of fangs, a sigh" or "a sigh at the sight of fangs"

song titles

"pretty bird, but a bit of a pity"
"inferior olive"
"clouds in my coffee"
"you threw your pigeon"

"wife of a coxswain"
"a distant call"
"see you at the shrine"
"fix your dolly" or "i'll fix your dolly for free"

"do not disturb the doorknob surgeon"
"you (just) can't prune my iron garden"
"blind man's curtains"
"the triumph of flatware"

song titles

"the illegible west"
"run from the broken sun"
"light is a joke"
"coin-operated art installation, or an eccentric appliance?"

"(take) the purple way out"
"our love is like a patent dispute"
"hairline air intake"
"bleeding from your window"

"why i can't fly"
"i dropped my god"
"stirring trouble in a bottle of summer"
"god is the worm in the apple"

song titles

"secret flood"
"kitchen lightning"
"promcicles"
"glass and amber"

"(the) salem witch book ends"
"this particular formation"
"(and) that's why god made lawyers"
"daylight devils"

"when the trees come marching in"
"i used to scream"
"it's not worth one pope"
"staring down the drain"

song titles

"another lonely stove night"
"kitchen sink thought collection"
"morris mildew and other corrorlaries"

"i had a feeling it was you"
"meet me at my trouble spot"
"portrait with fragrant blooms"

"captain kangaroo police state"
"sesame street gangland turf wars"
"hold onto your halo"

song titles

"riding on an apostle's smile"
"our ears enjoy the warm embrace of echoing laughter"

song titles

"when the smell of buttered popcorn kicks you in the face"
"the simple question of why"
"under the sand"
"if i could i would crown you"

song title

"note to self: destroy superman"

song title

"let's talk about dunkin donuts upside down"

song titles

"i don't think i can do this"
"public batroom stress test"
"the odor honor guard"
"the children of the ice"

song title

"and then i wished for a spider web"

song titles

"Dave of the Salamanders"
"Titties and Neigh"
"Emerald Scone Isthmus"
"By the Sweat of His Brow"
"Oval Iris"
"Feigning Urgency"
"Pinwheel"
"A Most Priest-Like Nuzzle"
"Wake Me, Shake Me, Shitake Me"

song titles

"the unraveling of deborah"
"cathy's peach skin climb"
"the outdoor shower cult, revived"

song title

"reclining canoe stargazers"
"bridge over the ravine of appearances"
"the tip toe tigers"
"me vs. the air vent"
"stop making excuses for joan rivers"

song titles

"god's worm" or "worm of god"

"angels caught speeding on radar-partolled heavenly highways"

song title

"moonlight bath" or "bathing in moonlight"

song title

"oh yes, this will hasten my death"
or
"yes, this hastens my death"

song title

"coughing saved-up whispers"

song titles

"cliff dive prayer" or "quick prayer before a cliff dive"
"adopt a pair of icy cold hands"
"coat room poets"

song titles

"i'm late for my migraine"
"death shroud mini-skirts"
"drop dead on a dime"
"crop circle jerk"

song lyrics

"in heaven i'm not myself,
in heaven it's not the same"

(either a repetitive two-line chorus, or the first two lines of a
four-line chorus, for a song near the end of the 'collafterlife'
album.)

song title

"mr. blue persuasion"

song title

"you broke my tools, not my heart"

song title

"spooks in the kitchen"

song titles

"stellar nancy"
"portable girl"
"drift of affection" or "drift affections"
"souvenir skull log jam"

song titles

"take flight on frothy wings"
"my current altitude is 6 beers"
"mach 3, 5 G's, 80 proof"

song title / lyrics

"my dentist the lush"

my dentist the lush
sweeps away the dust of broken memories
with brooms of lust, gin and faded cavities

my dentish the lush
smells like rum and fucks me up
makes me cry with his drunken scraper thing

my dentist the lush
feels up my mom waiting in the lobby
getting fucked up his his favorite hobbby

my denist the lush
cries in my arms like a newborn babe
gets me liquored up and gets me laid

by the IOD