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Unidentified Funk Objective

by Rob Coonrod

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1.
The Bus 03:04
Take the steering wheel and hold on tight You'll make it through the night Just turn on the headlights. But ask yourself one question Are you on the bus (or) are you off the bus? So ask yourself one question Are you on the bus are you off the bus? There's a colorful road ahead of us, Are you on the bus are you off the bus? You're always welcome if you throw All your fears out the window The river keeps on going, flowing, Showing that all of us is driving this bus. Ever changing stream of line Dreams of blue and green and hues Of tangible flavor our mandibles savor the taste of place. A blizzard of lizards that change and adapt to the happenings of now Are how they are swirling out As they shout to the world of their origin, of their origin. So ask yourself one question Are you on the bus are you off the bus? So ask yourself one question Are you on the bus? are you off the bus? Rays of the trumpet call Waves with the hands of all Everyone who cares to gesture At a lonely romantic jester Take on the task of making the king laugh All his subjects will know who's really driving this bus. Tonal side effects lead my hairs To give a standing ovation For the facts of life The act of life the track of life The pact of life Honestly the tea is green And the limes are sweet As the heat of sixteen suns. So take the steering wheel Just like Neal Cassidy You'll make it through the night Just turn on the headlights And ask yourself one question...
2.
What are you without your mask? What am I without my cage? What are we to be without our current perspective? That's the unidentified funk objective. What are you going to see when your lights go out? What am I going to do when they try to put my fire out? How do we agree when the choice is collective? That's the unidentified funk objective. What are we doing here, flying around? Why do we need our shoes when our feet don't touch the ground? All these windows around me love to live in the unidentified funk objective. How can I go on talking like this? How can I go on singing like this is the last thing I will give? The world needs the unidentified funk objective. I don't know what they see in me I'm just a person with a personality I'm so sorry if you expected more from me But if you're tired of standing still, Just listen to the trees. How can I go on talking like this? How can I go on singing like this is the last day I will live? The world needs the unidentified funk objective.
3.
The Train 02:15
I find myself running behind the train That is carrying all of my dreams away from me. I wish this were a dream, and I wish that I could wake up To a nice hot meal on the train. But I'm constantly running behind the train And I can't stop stepping on the turtle shells That are slippery from the rain. I wish I had a chance to help this world advance But I'm useless if I can't catch up to that train. My friends all pass me by, Riding horses of green and white And I watch them dismount and step onto that train. And my girl is reaching out to me From a window that I cannot see But I slip again and fall Further behind the train. I'm desperately running behind the train. There's a band on the roof but I can't hear what they're playin' Through the wind and the thunder and the rain I see a silhouette in a flash of lightning And it looks an awful lot like a shadow of me. But I'm frantically running behind the train. It's too dark to see but I hear them calling my name. For that I can't give up, But I know I'm not fast enough, So now I'm just a fool that jumped off of that train. And my family is on that train, They have found their seats And are out of the rain And as they wonder where I am, I'm screaming behind the train. My future is on that train, It shot me in the back and ran off with my brain. But my debt I will collect if I can just get on that train. But I'm too weak from running behind the train. Every time I speak I only put myself to shame. And if there's a god in the skies, I'd like him to apologize, But in the end I know it's only me I have to blame. Here I am, running behind the train. It feels like my whole life has been lived in vain. I want my friends, I want my dreams I want my girl, I want my family But they're all on a train that my future stole away from me. I want my friends, I want my dreams I want my girl, I want my family But they're all on a train that my future stole away from me.
4.
Many years later I looked myself up and down Through the rhythm I had found And in the memories I will surely come back around. Because I misplaced my shadow in the dead of the night I just hope it's alright I wonder if it remembers how to get back to my light. Everything in my past is buried deep I don't know how I can sleep I stand waiting for my bus in a cold and empty street. And every distant light I see I think is coming for me But when I put my thumb out It changes its course suddenly. Suddenly, I change my form And now I'm living for a sign in a world With a mind that recognizes timing In a way that's unseen, Everyone will see. You can ask me whatever you want But don't tell me what I need I made it all the way out here just to plant a seed. In the middle of a field beyond the burnt trees I know that there's a place for me The dark and light are balanced right And I won't ever have to leave. I won't ever have to leave. At my core I'm alone but when I'm at home There's a second tone spinning in my bones And I think they know me well On the other side. A double helixical structure Where history's displayed On a trillion television screens My memories got pushed up onto that stage And I don't care to watch reruns of my mistakes. I wish I could rip out the page. Suddenly, I change my form And now I'm living for a sign in a world With a mind that recognizes timing In a way that's unseen, Everyone will see.
5.
I'll do my best to make it quick and painless So you won't have time to dwell on the stainless necessities That you'll have to leave behind In the vacuum you'll get spun around Reunited with the hurricane of visible sound In the vacuum you can reach through the eye of the storm, Between thought and form. In the vacuum you were given all you need Like Johnny and his seed knew that growth is guaranteed Whatever you see, whoever you may be I'll make it easy to be free but you'll just have to trust me. I might be crazy but you'll just have to trust me. I know Im crazy but you'll just have to trust me. I've got to do it, I've got to go I've got to send all the spiders back home I've got to make my own web I've got to clear my head cause I've got a skin to shed. Every monkey's got a skin to shed You know every monkey's got to shed. In the vacuum you will never be alone, But you will always be on your own That's the overall tone of the feeling of home It's not the ringing of your phone, Or the flesh on your bone It's all about the zone right between your eyes Or rather in the skies, who needs a car when you can fly? In the vacuum you can see through all the dust And rearrange it as you must.
6.
There is a hill on the other side of the line One that I'm going to climb So far it seems, in the darkness her flashlight beams She's reaching out to me, as far as I see And I can't even name all the colors she illuminates In my life, in my life today. She walked in my room and thought, who could this be? And why do I feel I've been here previously? I wish I could be there today, maybe I am on my way, Soon it will be our day But I feel so far away from my home that I've known In so many other ways, That feeling will be here to stay, In my life today. She's like a bucket full of barrels with waterfalls in each Falling into an ocean of electrons That form into a beach She lights the fireworks hanging out of my ears And takes my blindfold off She puts out my cigarette And motions to call the firing squad off And I'll say to you, "You are who I am" And never again will I let it slip through my Hand in hand, we'll walk this land and kiss the ground for the hand that we found But I won't let go, no, no You emanate a brilliant glow so, What do you say, Be in my life today? She's like a bucket full of barrels with waterfalls in each Falling into an ocean of electrons That form into a beach She lights the dynamite hanging out of my ears And takes my blindfold off She puts out my cigarette And motions to call the firing squad off And I'll say to you...
7.
Don't look to me for answers You've got to listen for yourself You've got to know that there is something else Frenzy in the classroom Silence spells respect there must be diversity in the grades you collect Why must I fail, when I just set sail? I will tell a true tale to myself when I was young We will start to see when we slip on the ice and we bleed our story But you know that when we're dry We'll be light enough to fly What kind of animal are you? Are you a frog or a fish? Do you reside in a cage or in a crystal petri dish? I can almost see you You're pulling your own tail You've got to use it to steer while you sail. Why must I try if all I'm going to do is die? I'm writing songs to sing to myself when I was young We will be on the verge of so-called insanity And we will finally see All the things we were meant to see So floating on open water I get sunburned on my back I've got my sunglasses but I had no clothes to pack How can I keep my cool? I'm burning up all the time I've got to dive in to the ocean to get some peace of mind. Peace of mind... There is no failure but the failure to try And we will meet again when we are free to fly But until then, slipping on the ice again Be your own friend and help yourself up again You can see your reflection when you look through the end.
8.
Not Unarmed 03:14
I'd like to sit and watch As the Earth sets In the horizon of the sun. I'd like to run around With my bare feet Burning from the sandy ground. I'd like to sound the fire alarm So that everyone can hear That we're not unarmed There's no reason to be alarmed. No reason to be alarmed No reason to be alarmed... Well I sat down Sunday Forgot about Monday Into space I flew away But that's just what they say Everything can be summed up Into one little... One day we will hear them say Do you want to come and play? But something's in the way Of playing today. We're playing today. Playing today... We've come too far To give it up now So live it up somehow... Moth wings, Buddha balls Bells ring in elephant halls The shell sings for ocean walls Encasing the toothless whale call Look me straight in the ear And listen to what I hear Here and there. Here and there Here and there We've come too far To give it up now So live it up somehow...
9.
Coonrato 03:09
"Coonrato" by Rob Coonrod (Originally entitled, Makrasticantastico) Saorento aclimento Compamaste puataraste Kisho sa panto Makrasticantastico Makrasticantastico Benat Pentak e mantesecuella Kirim narta Cabre o peya Peya peya Zhisko zhisko leratacanto Kisko kisko mekracasanto Zhisko leratacanto Kisko mekracasanto There must be a way In this pivotal current of space. A way to the next, expectationless Level of contacting self. So put the books on the shelf, Tell yourself to let go of the words, Send them burning Turning out the learning of what you have. Lightning hits as grandma knits While a camel spits in an abalone garden. A clever putting together Of the words that seem to tether Our minds to the couch of pleather So turn the mind on. Spiral on, spiral in, spiral out, Spin, spiral, spin! Spiral on, spiral out, spiral in, Spin, spiral, spin! Spin spiral spin Nips larips nips Sembol e mak Chefuenya keratanizu Shuego navitas correta gambalanizu Caprigo sero talomas Tilatnikan so ra Zhikimi lerotanta Javetina carenina Sembrosenia Javetina carenina Sembrosenia Javetina carenina Sembrosenia Javetina carenina Sembrosenia.
10.
Trust me I've been there before, but I've never been here til now... It will always go unsaid, and I don't want to see you shake your head Or mutter under your breath things you should've said Let's go to the places we don't know And leave all this confusion behind [Behind] your eyelids lie blueprints of the pyramids Examine them well, while you are out of your cell. I met an old man who accepts that the further in you go the bigger it gets He lets the river call his name [His name] is no matter but the alien voice of this modern mad-hatter He wore his hat well. Eloquently defining time, he fearlessly shared his mind The truth is all about how nature had to take him out. How can I ever clear my head by thinking of things I should have said When my thoughts were right and not misled Into the rabbit hole with a flickering light of self control I need to shed some light to see my goal To be the fire inside of me I only want to be amused by what I see Is the form of an old man being born Out of our world, and into a new one. I'm all mixed up but I'm not confused By the way I see, by the way I'm used So help me if you can cause I'm not the best I am So stop staring at your feet Because this mountain has no peak. I've been here, I've been here before But I've never been here til now. Finally I've found a page that somehow keeps my mind engaged And releases the sound of the alpha wave [Wave] to me and I'll find you across the sea To see what we can be [Believe] Leave with me, eternity's where we're free Out of this time game, Time frame, ear plane, no one will ever be the same Trust me I've been there before but I've never been here til now.

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All songs were written and performed by Rob Coonrod.

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released May 16, 2013

Unidentified Funk Objective was engineered, mixed and mastered by Jeremy Fogel in May 2013

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Rob Coonrod Los Angeles, California

Rob “Fire” Coonrod is a guitarist, singer and songwriter hailing from Interlochen, MI. He studied Classical and Jazz guitar at Interlochen Arts Academy and then at CalArts and has taken influences from his many travels abroad to Europe and South America. Rob is currently living in Los Angeles playing acoustic rock shows and rocking out with his band, Three Trees. ... more

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