The Hard Taco Project
is a Simple Concept

I will write and record one song a month,
every month, until I am dead



I have been doing this since
1993 and so far my health is good.

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Giant U-Shaped Magnet

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From "and then the training takes over..."

A giant U-shaped magnet
Giant U-shaped magnet
For to bring you back to me
You and some iron filings
Somewhere in these filings I'll find you
Filings and you
Filings and you


(Lauren London - vocals)

Copyright 2008 - Zach London

Frankenstein Overture

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From "Ground Beef"


To Ingoldstat Victor went,
His soul ripe with dreams.
Natural Science would bring him glory.
But humankind wasn't ready it seems.

He read the works of Agrippa,
Formulated his plan.
With cadavers and a spark
He would fashion a man.

But the man became a monster,
Hideous progeny denied.
The wretch's face his worst enemy,
All his hatred justified.

Victor Frankenstein!
Something's torked in your head.
You've been trying to raise the dead.
What spawned this obsession

Frankenstein!
To the lab you tread,
Blinded by bloodshed.
Way too much dissection!

Across the frozen wasteland,
Motivated by his anger,
The creature wandered blindly
In search of his creator.

At the peak of Montavert
Met the troubled nemeses.
The creature said, "Make me a woman!"
But this request Victor could not please.

]Woah Frankenstein!
Your cousin you will wed.
What a foxy redhead.
Disturbing misdirection!

Frankenstein!
The ancients you've misread.
Now you hope your beast drops dead.
Should've used more discretion!

Brother, wife, friend, and neighbor
All victims of the creature's wrath.
Fair Elizabeth was the last straw
That broke livid Vic's back.

The predatory scheme inverted,
As Frankenstein followed the fiend.
Near the North Pole the pursuit closed,
Where Walton and his crew intervened.

On the ship Victor breathed his last breath.
But to Walton his tale was told.
The monster burned on a pyre.
Now the story will unfold.

Hey Frankenstein!
Yourself you've mislead,
You're crazy in the head
Created life instead
Of God!

Frankenstein!
You're laying on your deathbed.
Still buy the things you've said
Or is it self deception
Frankenstein!
The ancients you've misread
Obsessed with trying to raise the dead
Yeah, or is it self deception,
Frankenstein


(Lyrics and most music by Ty Morse and Justin Perkinson)

Copyright 2001

Foundling Tokens

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Mrs. Coram:
Through our colonnade
A young and fallen maid
Oh, vexed and laden miss
We can help with this

Captain Coram:
With each of the children, the mother's enjoined
To furnish a token, a button or coin
And with it maternity true can be learned
Should one day the mother see fit to return
But none of the mothers has ever returned

Foundlings:
Castaways and foundlings, we
Waifs of Lamb's Conduit Field in Bloomsbury
Damn the locket you left me
Cap'n Coram is more merciful than thee
Castaways and foundlings, we
Waifs of Lamb's Conduit Field in Bloomsbury
Damn the locket you left me
Cap'n Coram is more merciful than thee

Feed the fires
Feed the fires
Feed the fires
With foundling tokens
Feed the fires
With foundling tokens

Mother:
Hush, my nursling star
Bastard that you are
Paper on the breast, and clout on the head
And I will come back for you once I am wed
I swear I'll come back for you some day

Foundlings:
Castaways and foundlings, we
Waifs of Lamb's Conduit Field in Bloomsbury
Damn the locket you left me
Cap'n Coram is more merciful than thee
Castaways and foundlings, we
Waifs of Lamb's Conduit Field in Bloomsbury
Damn the locket you left me
Cap'n Coram is more merciful than thee

Feed the fires
Feed the fires
Feed the fires
Stuff the stove, fill the graves
With foundling tokens
Feed the fires
Pave the streets, fill the Thames
With foundling tokens
Foundling tokens
Foundling tokens


(Victoria Gilbert - vocals
Aiden Kutcher - vocals
Greg Kutcher - electric guitar, mandolin, ukulele, dulcimer
Lauren London - vocals
Scarlett London - vocals
Lizzie Schmidt - vocals
Cathy Skutch - vocals
Allison Young - vocals)

Copyright 2010 Zach London

Fortress of Lovingkindness

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From "Jupiter the Balloon Horse"




Fortress of lovingkindness
Fortress of lovingkindness
Fortress of lovingkindness
Lovingkindness

Time to make a new friend
Let your compass of love point
North, South, East, West now
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Fortress of lovingkindness
Fortress of lovingkindness
Fortress of lovingkindness
Lovingkindness

Time to make a new friend
Let your compass of love point
North, South, East, West now
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Fortress of lovingkindness
Fortress of lovingkindness
Fortress of lovingkindness
Fortress of lovingkindness
Lovingkindness


(Sarah Carlson - vocals
Lauren London - vocals
Russell Schwartz - vocals, tenor saxophone
Geoffroy Sisk - vocals
Darin Zahuranec - trumpet)

Copyright 2008 Zach London

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