This material is copyrighted 1988Type of Work: Dramatic Work and Music; or Choreography
Registration Number / Date: PAu001099620 / 1988-03-08
Title: Rhapsody of love and music.
Description: 1 sound cassette.
Notes: An opera.
Copyright Claimant: Joseph Eric Bressman
Date of Creation: 1987
Authorship on Application: piano solo & opera: Joseph Eric Bressman.
(The rhapsody of love and music)/updates1996/2001/2008 JE Bressman all versions all variations each song, music and words, are the property of JE Bressman
Poems Songs Lyrics and Videos!!!!
The Hollywood Hero
Piano Version
Guitar Version The struggle for stardom is fought today
On some dammed Hollywood lot
That?s just behind the hit parade
And as our story opens somewhere back stage
Our hero is rambling in a drunken rage
I grew up in Hollywood
Seemed like most of my life
Hollywood streets are cold and mean
Its so hard to make it right
I never wanted to be anything special
I never wanted to be star
I always wanted to be a average kid
I guess I push a little too hard
But oh so much love is lost
Yea in the search for stardom
Its so hard to get to the top
And so easy to hit the bottom
But He's a Hollywood hero
He grew up to be a superstar
Yea He?s a Hollywood hero
Not just another shooting star
I?m so confused by all this attention
And to think I never dreamed
Id make honorable mention
The Hollywood hero just died of stage fright
At the opening to the story of his pitiful life
Yea the Hollywood hero is our star tonight
Standing in the middle of Hollywood blvd
Transfixed by the neon lights
JE Bressman ?1988,1994,2007,all versions
The American Blues
I saw a woman and a child walking down the road
I said hey lady do you need a ride
She said weve got no place left to go
I saw a man out on the streets
And he was wrenching his bottle
He said if you cant make it to the top
What have you to lose when you hit the bottom?
Ah thats just a part of my american dream
wrapped up rolling down and comming over
Life in america is not what it seems
But thats just the grand illusion
The story breaks and the press retakes it
And the truth is just like fiction
And in a crazy world of war
We wage our sins in a lost and forgotten benediction
and I still love you
After all these years
And I still think of you
Between the beers
as two lovers make love
they reflect the setting of the sun
taking place a thousand miles away
in another time another place another day
The day is over and the job is done
The stress of working is comming undone
As two lovers make love
They reflect the setting of the sun
Taking place a thousand miles away
In another time another place another day.....
JE Bressman ?1988,1994,2007,all versions
What is It?
It?s a miracle from heaven
It the light in your eye
It?s a spiritual obsession
Its a rainbow in the sky
It?s the hand of god
Its an act of the divine
It?s the passion of love
It?s the work of god
If there is a god is he god?
I mean will you define god will you?
If there is a god is he god?
I mean will you define god will you?
It?s the war in Iraq
It?s a highway of death
It?s a terrorist attack
It?s a jet plane crash
Its a million dollar first prize
It?s a sickening pack of lies
It?s a computer virus in disguise
Its bombs dropping from the air
Its a political campagn outdone
Its the law thats been out run
If heaven and hell are just ideas
Then how come we experince them everyday?
If heaven and hell are just concepts
Then how come you never know just when you will take your last breath?
JE Bressman ?1988,1994,2007,all versions
The Posion Pill
You swollowed the posion pill
Said it made you feel better still
Come on baby give me one more shot
This time give it all youve got
Your so polluted
And Im so misunderstood
Your so premeditating
And I just letter rip
Im just searching for some soul
On a saturday night
Your just feeding off of mine
And baby thats not right
We can do the shadow dance
We can fake our lost romance
We can love into the night
We can make whats wrong go right
We are all just posers and players
Fallen dancers and forgotten arrangers
We show the passion in our eyes
Paying for the delusions of our lie
Come unto the breast of our god
Repay the things that your forgot
Live a life in paradise
Without accepting the higher price
How can you just walk away
From the conviction in my eyes
How can you ever deny
The rumors that you bought
You swollowed the posion pill
Said it made you fell better still
Come on baby give me one more shot
This time give it all youve got
JE Bressman ?1988,1994,2007,all versions
Baby You're Everything
Baby youre everything
That I always wanted
If you can believe in me
I can believe in you
Well Love is soft
Darling tender and full
I can see the sun is shining
Deep with in your eyes
JE Bressman ?1988,1994,2007,all versions
Pretty Eyes (sexy legs!)
Pretty eyes sexy legs
Tight ass walks straight
Her hair flows softly
Tossed by her stride
Shes looking at me
Im looking at her
I lose my mind
When shes near me
JE Bressman ?1988,1994,2007,all versions
Present Theories of Past Wars
Present theories of past wars
Are forming on our new age
Generals new of times old
Are finding old thier new ways
The battles new for left and right
No time to live only time to fight
Mercenaries dying in the streets
American weapons kept very discreet
Cant you see that all Im saying
Is that its time we all start praying
Because killing me and killing you
Is just a fatalistic point of view
Is Uncle Sam digging a grave?
Where someday all of us must soon lay?
He's selling bombs and selling jets
What do you mean you havent gotten 1 yet!
I can see what its going to be
Someday all of will be free
Floating in space like cosmic dust
With no one to remember us
JE Bressman ?1988,1994,2007,all versions
Life in The City
(Video comming soon)
I took a walk through the streets of the city
What lovely architecture
Dynamic panoramic views
All is well that ends well
Or so they say
Nothing is perfect even heaven
Im sure it rains and the wind blows
Yes I believe in the Almighty God
In Jesus Mohamad and Allah too
The Hell below and Heaven above
But most of all I believe in you
So whats it all mean
What am I trying to say
That maybe it doesnt hurt
To believe in things you dont understand
That maybe its ok to make the most of our lives
To live responsibily and ethicallly
And all those things
To care for our brothers and sisters
But then again who am I to preach anyway?
JE Bressman ?1988,1994,2007,all versions
songs being worked on with words and music yet not ready to go public
Pamela
(Video comming soon)
Pamela is in my nights
Giving love to make life right
Pamela oh Pamela
She makes love to me
She is a ray of staryy light
On a moonlit summer night
Pamela oh Pamela
She shines down on me
I lose my senses loving you
I shut the world right out
Pamela oh Pamela
Youre what loves about
JE Bressman ?1988,1994,2007,all versions
I Needed Love and You Were There
(Video comming soon)
Well how can I talk to you
In a way that youre gonna understand
To show you how I love you baby
All I can
Youve got your special style
Youre own kind of flair
I was down and needed love
Baby and you were there
With love love love
Deep down in your heart
The fire in your eyes will get me by baby
And get me high
Shes trying to be somebody
That she knows shell never be
Shes trying to love somebody
That she knows shell nener be
I cant understand her motivations
And I cant comprehend
The things that go around
JE Bressman ?1988,1994,2007,all versions
Joe's Songs (The Hollywood Hero and Amercian Blues)
MoMMY and DaDDy DeaReST
(written for Marilyn Manson band)
~mommy and daddy dearest~
~ah~
~mommy and daddy should fear us~
~ah~
~mommy and daddy cant hear us~
~ah~
~mommy and daddy dearest~
~Do you know the way out of here?~
~There?s no lock no key no door!~
~Can you see into my eyes~
~Shall we live or shall we die?~
refrain
~mommy and daddy dearest~
~mommy is a funny girl~
~shes always trying to change the world~
~shes never right and never wrong~
~sometimes I feel like I dont belong~
~daddy is a little boy~
~hes mommy?s little lover toy~
~they work as one against us kids~
~but never know just where weve been~
refrain
~the cutters die and bleed and run~
~they hurt themselves for sadistic "fun"~
~they dont belong to anyone~
~they hang themselves with children?s blood~
(scream)
"Dont they know they had it made?
With time to grow they could not wait!
So young so silly the precious minds!
Their young hearts filled with a false hate!"
refrain
~Do you know the way out of here?~
~There?s no lock no key no door!~
~Can you see into my eyes~
~Shall we live or shall we die?~
~Pandora?s box has closed on you!~
~With no way out well now your through.~
~No love no life no friends it seems.~
~Your not even human being!~
~Mommy can be such a whore~
~Daddy can be such a bore~
~Ive got it made and dont realize it~
~I guess Im drowning in my own shit~!
~Hitler wanst a nice guy~
~and jesus didnt have to die!~
~Some things in life are meant to be,~
~deep in my heart I dont feel free..~
~filled with hate I live a lie~
~but for now it gets me by...!~
(spoken)..(and screamed with real feeling)
!!Living in a closet of darkness with my irrational fears and usless contradictions!
I blame those innocent pathetic fools my parents for my life!
Yet Im just another lazy stupid pathetic *****... a god damned fool that is afraid to try!
~we are the world~
~we are the people~
~Michael Jackson?s a stupid faggot~
~and so is Marilyn Manson~
~Why dont you put some effort into to what you have before you go throwing your fucking pathetic godforsaken ass into the toilet?~
~yes mommy no mommy please mommy go mommy~
~yes daddy no daddy please daddy go daddy~
~you dont have to die a loser~
~you dont have to be a winner~
~you just have you get on by~
~to see tomorrows new sun rise~
~if its not fucking raining again!~
~song over you little bitch~
~but is it where your life begins?~
refrain
~Do you know the way out of here?~
~Theres no lock no key no door!~
~Can you see into my eyes~
~Shall we live or shall we die?~
refrain
In the end all in family dress as Hitlers,
then Jesuses,
all carry crosses.
video (and song) ends at kmart with "normal" family scene.
Then fade to crashing thunder and lightening scene.
As violent as possible as nature provides for effect..
JE Bressman@2005/2006