Song One: Hassan I Sabbah

This is a link about Hassan I Sabbah
http://home.ca.inter.net/~giskhan/Hassan_Ibn_Sabbah.html

Ok, the first song "Hasaan I sabaah" has a waltz-y beat during the verse (plucked on the classical guitar), and then a hard rock-psychedelic chant during the chorus of "Hasaan I Sabaah". It was written, as it says, late one night (in early April or very late March) when my bro Fran has gone to bed, and goes on to ramble about a number of random things. The second verse of the song more directly rambles about Nick Feldman, my boss and a disabled man who owns his own business in home care. Hassan I Sabbah is better known as "The man on the Mountain" (google him to find out more). His influence in the song is a line that he supposedly coined, which I learned of from reading William S. Burroughs, "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." It has always stuck with me.

The lights are all out.
Frankie's gone to bed.
A million random thoughts
piling on my head.
Like; how to return
all the favor I get?
and when to pay out?
and who writes the checks?

The voice that I hear
in my head for this song,
I hear it so clear,
it's one David Byrne.
And it's wartime you know
and this ain't no disco,
so get on with the show.
What is your latest prediction?

Hasaan I Sabbah (2X)

Nothing is true.
Everything is permitted.
Business in red,
and living in the Tenderloin.
But nobody claimed
any profits or gain
for Daring to Dream
to fight the machine

So day after day
the crippled man chips away
at a wall made of clay.
He'll mold it someday.
If we make it that far,
If we live through the war,
If we don't wind up dead,
won't you give him slow head?

Hasaan I Sabbah (4X)

Nothing is true.
Everything is permitted.
(repeats)