"TRANSFERENCE BLUES"
A song by Janet Laing
December 2003
Q: Wanda, what's the matter?
Wanda: Oh, it happened again! I fell in love with my doctor! Only this time he's my shrink!
Q: But Wanda, wait a minute, history's not supposed to repeat itself! Otherwise that's...
Said together: "REGRESSION!"
Monday's a special day when I cannot wait
You'd think I'm all spruced up to go on a date
But it's transference, counter-transference blues
Transference
Bring on those hot daddy blues
It's not reciprocal, but who cares?
I've got this fantasy and it's upstairs
It's transference
Counter-transference blues
Transference
I've got the transference blues
Incredulous look of his, so earnest and deep
I toss and turn at night, you know I can't sleep!
'Cause it's transference
Counter-transference blues
Transference
Counter transference blues
He thinks I'm twisted, but I know this is real!
I don't want daddy, I want someone to feel!
And it's transference
Counter-transference blues
Transference
Counter transference blues
I tell him everything: sex, secret stuff
And when the hour's through, he says, "That's enough!"
I got the transference
Counter-transference blues
Transference
Counter-transference blues
If only he would *(um) me blues!
"YOU DEVIL, YOU!"
A song by Janet Laing
March, 2005
I'm learning how to first love me
And that's the way that it's gotta be
You can be the most beautiful distraction
Someone to meet my needs
But I have to do this alone
Get my house in order, not roam
To convince myself I say:
Chorus:
You don't rent space in my head no more
You devil you
You don't rent space in my head no more
And that's the truth
Gotta reach out and tend to myself
'Cause wanting you is making me blue
Not acting out, I think and I stare
It's painful to be so aware
Trying not to act like a full-grown baby
My desire for you is so rare
But I have to do this alone
Get my house in order, not roam
To convince myself I say:
Repeat chorus
I'm changin' my dependence on men
Comin' to my own sense of self within
I have so many beautiful attributes
Things that come out, without gin!
I have to do this alone
Get my house in order, not roam
Knowing myself, I say:
You don't rent space in my head no more
You devil you
You don't rent space in my head no more
And that's the truth
Gonna reach out and tend to myself
Cause wanting you is making me blue
Yeah, wanting you
Taunting you...wanting you is making me blue...
"BONGO MACHITO DE LA VEGA"
A song by Janet Laing
2009
Del lado sur de la frontera viene Bongo
Machito de la Vega
Él es un gato puertorriqueño,
Con manchas mejicanas
Como la gente poderosa,
Él no tiene fronteras
Su país ha sido explotado
De granjas y empresas americanas
Donde los gatos son explotados
Pero no ha perdido su identidad
Le llaman Bongo Machito de la Vega
Él sabe que la educación es la respuesta
Pero el Hombre le sigue impidiendo cruzar la frontera
Él sigue escalando el camino de vuelta
Bongo Machito de la Vega
Bongo Machito de la Vega
Bongo Machito de la Vega
Out from south of the border comes Bongo
He is Puerto Rican with Mexican stripes
And like the ruling class
He has no boundaries
They call him Bongo Machito de la Vega
His homeland has been exploited
By American corporate farms and factories
Where his cats are used as wage slaves
But he has not lost his identity
They call him Bongo Machito de la Vega
He knows that education is the answer
But the Man keeps pushing him back
Way across the border
He keeps on clawing his way across
Because his name is Bongo Machito de la Vega
"INTERNATIONAL LOVE"
A song by Janet Laing
1992
Let's not throw
The baby out with
The bathwater
Let's just throw
Those dirty politicians
In the brink
Overthrow
So evolution
Will prevail
With love
War will be
A thing of the past
Chorus:
International love
We'll sing French, Spanish too!
International love
Brings me closer to you
Where I grew up
The grapes of wrath
Saw Caesar Chavez
Need to change
'Cause Mexicans are such a part of US
Fascism
Where libido is impaled
Scares me
We have got to fight for liberty
Chorus:
International love
We'll sing French, Spanish too!
International love
Brings me closer to you
"BEMSHI"
A song by Janet Laing
November 2006
(Two instrumental tags:
"She makes you think of all the loved ones that we lost")
When I think of Bemshi
Oh my sweet, sweet Bemshi
I remember your nose
All the way down to your toes
Your love you always showed me
With your funny antics
You could do the plop right on a drop!
Chorus:
When Bemshi sings the blues
When Bemshi sings the blues
She's so sorrowful
You wanna cry
When Bemshi sings the blues
When Bemshi sings the blues
She's so sorrowful
You wanna die
She makes you think of all
The loved ones that we lost
She makes you think of all
The loved ones that we lost
When I think of Bemshi
Oh my sweet, sweet Bemshi
I remember the day
When I took you for a stray
You had the strangest meow
Like some southern Creole
Your expression warmed my heart
Repeat chorus
Tag out
"ANNIVERSARY SONG"
By Janet Laing
October, 2007
CALL
It's our anniversary today
Look at good changes we have made
We prefer a life that's cohesive
Feelin' like our life is heaven-sent
ANSWER
We're sober and feisty
Not drinkin' and stinkin'
We'll stick together like glue!
Look at all that We did
We are finally free
Livin' our lives you and me
Can you dig it, we're all blessed!
Can you dig it, we're all blessed! …'Cause
It's our anniversary today
Look at good changes we have made
We prefer a life that's cohesive
Feelin' like our life is heaven-sent
I know what I'm doin'
And know who I'm screwin'!
Maybe someday We'll marry
Thank God, it's not scary!
We are finally free
Livin' our lives you and me
Can you dig it, we're all blessed!
Can you dig it, we're all blessed! .. .'Cause. . .repeat from the top
"GIVE IT TO GOD"
A song by Janet Laing
June 2008
When trouble appears
And I think I control things
I do the big pause
So I don't pull out my hair
That's when I need to
Realign my spirit
With God
Chorus:
Give it to God
Turn it over
Turn it over
You can only change yourself
When heartache burns me
And I feel so lonely
I do the big pause
So I don't feel so alone
That's when I need to
Realign my spirit
With God
Chorus:
Give it to God
Turn it over
Turn it over
You can only change yourself
When I get weary
And feel so useless
I do the big pause
Then realize my mission
That's when I need to
Realign my spirit
With God
Chorus:
Give it to God
Turn it over
Turn it over
You can only change yourself
"CRESCENT NOON"
The Carpenters
1970
Green September
Burned to October brown
Bare November
Led to December's frozen ground
The seasons stumbled round
Our drifting lives are bound
To a falling crescent noon
Feather clouds cry
A Vale of tears to earth
Morning breaks and
No one sees the quiet mountain bird
Dressed in a brand new day
The sun is on its way
To a falling crescent noon
Chorus:
Somewhere in a fairytale forest lies one answer that is waiting to heard.
You and I were
Born like the breaking day
All our seasons
All our green Septembers
Burn away
Slowly we'll fade into
A sea of midnight blue
And a falling crescent noon