All songs © W.D. Neely

Billions of Brain Cells Ago
On the subject of attrition.
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Cheney’s Arrival
Dick’s first day at his new job. Expectations are high.
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Dance of the Knee-Jerk Reactionaries
A selection from the National Security Council Songbook. Updated frequently.
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Father Abraham
An anti-draft song set during the Civil War era.
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Happy in Bananaland
An escapist fantasy set in the tropics.
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Ho-Hum Road
A rural reverie. Musings of an urban exile in deepest Brooklyn.
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Media Ecology (Nothing Ever Goes Away)
Be advised: our indiscretions and miscalculations are preserved forever in cyberspace.
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Mere Mortals
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make expendable.
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New Beatitudes
Version 2.0 of this perennial favorite: enhancements and bug fixes.
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No Harm Done
A lullaby for our noncommittal zeitgeist.
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No Hurry
All God’s children run a little bit late.
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Now Now
We’re all a bit Götterdämmerung-out.
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Pollyanna in Exile
Biding her time. Plotting her comeback.
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Resistance
A good-old-fashioned protest song. There is a demand for this sort of thing these days.
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Roughshod
Memo to the boss: Might be time to retrofit your brand.
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Rubicon
On the futility of trying to dodge your destiny.
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Science & Technology (You Owe Us An Apology)
Come down from your cloud, and say it out loud.
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Skeptic’s Lullaby
Dubito Ergo Sum: (I doubt, therefore I am).
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Tedium
What boredom sounds like.
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The Cautionary Tale
How we can profit from the misfortunes of others.
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The Here and Now
The case against deferred gratification.
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Thru Askin. A simple, heartfelt plea for a more civil society.
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Toothache
Love is like a toothache: Pearly whites as white as snow, but those gums have got to go.
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Two Cheers for Moderation
In praise of self-restraint. But let’s not go overboard.
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What Would I Do?
Anticipating the loss of a loved one.
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Deep-Dive Archive

A Big Mistake
An apocryphal gospel song; one more secondhand account from an unreliable narrator.
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A Far Cry
In defense of a maligned generation.
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AlGoreRhythm
Submitted to Al Gore’s people for consideration as a campaign song in 2000. They declined but who knows if it might have tipped the scales?
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Eine Kleine Weltschmerz
French may be the language of love, but German is definitely the language of angst.
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I’m With You
Till the trumpet calls, my dear.
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Maybe I Lied
How are you gonna prove it?
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Mobian Waltz
A rare instrumental from Left Field.
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Out-to-Lunch in Love With You
Smitten.
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Say It Ain’t So, Sam
Prompted by Ronald Reagan’s initial assault on the safety net that began more than 30 years ago. For some reason this song manages to stay current…
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Times Like These
Optimism misplaced.
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Until Just Now
On trying to swim clear of the wreckage.
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