Diggy-Kat: vocals,guitar,bass,drums
INFO: this was written through the eyes of a friend and trying to give them a much needed wake up call
LYRICS: verse: anytime now,your eyes and mine now seem to look so deep/i wonder why now,that somehow i used to sleep/ chorus: with all the bad demons circling in my head/with all the catastrophic things that you once said/ verse: if i could love you one time now,my life's complete/i wouldn't complain,i wouldn't moan or whine 'bout my endless sleep/ chorus: of days i've lost in my youth,i can not get them back/although i try not to remember those things which i lack/like days i've spent wasted away instead of living life/it seems like all my days are masked deeply in strife/ but i will not be held down by what's in my past/i have been living this long and my life will last/stronger wills are waking up,i see the sun ahead/it's time for me to live my life and not stay in my bed/ verse: now i am transforming into a better me/which means i am getting rid of all my misery/ chorus: i shed myself of my skin/i want to breathe again/i still have my hopes and dreams that i will fulfill,i will fulfill
9."WHAT A LOVELY DAY" lyrics and music by Diggy-Kat 13 April 2003
Diggy-Kat: vocals,guitar,bass,drums
INFO: this was written around a bass line i came across while jamming. this particular story,although is self-explanatory,is still fiction. this was written and recorded the same day as Savannah By My Car
LYRICS: verse: i saw you the other day when you walked my way/i stood still till you passed then i glanced your way/ chorus: i don't know why i'm not so bold not to go up to you and say hey what a lovely day"/ verse: you walked on by then you stopped and kinda looked/you caught my eye and now it's time to return that look/ chorus:/ bridge: when i see you it gets me down/with all these thoughts spinning around/how do i go up to you without me sounding like a fool/ verse: we keep watch on ourselves in the park after dark/we still pretend we don't know one another when we talk/ chorus:
10."SOMETHING'S WRONG" lyrics by Nick-Nack and Diggy-Kat,music by Diggy-Kat
written November 1999
Diggy-Kat: vocals,guitar,bass,drums
Nick-Nack: vocals
INFO: this was written about an ex-bandmembers girlfriend at the time who was living next door to me. this is the first song Nick-Nack helped write
LYRICS: verse: stop staring at me/just go away and let me be/stop staring at me and maybe you will see how much you really annoy me/looking at me everynight and to your eyes i'm a delight/looking at me everyday/pleading that you go away/ chorus: get lost,go somewhere and don't tell me when you get there/get going,get out,go ahead i have no doubt/ verse: sweeping off your shed/can't you get it through you head/you're always around unless you're on the ground getting it on with my bandmember's mom/what ya doin' with her/how ya doin' her/something's wrong here/ chorus:/ verse: just get out of my face/just get out of your window/just get out of the race
11."MOUSE TRAP BLUES" lyrics and music by Diggy-Kat written December 1995
Diggy-Kat: vocals,guitar,bass,drums
INFO: this was re-recorded the same day as Don't Want,opting to use an acoustic guitar instead of the original versions intended for the CD using an electric guitar.
LYRICS: verse: there was a mouse/there was a trap/there was a mouse,trap and a fat cat/the mouse said hey where am i at/i smell cheese but i ain't no sap/take me home,leave me be/my senses are confused and i'm angry/ chorus: what do you want me to do/ verse: there was this mouse,he had the blues/he saw his cousin in a trap,uh-ho,bad news/there he lay,with a broken neck/that poor mouse,he went through heck/that there mouse went to a mousey shrink/no good was done,he was dipped in ink/caviar and mousey-souffle,all the while in the trap he laid/ chorus:
12."DOWN AISLES WAY" lyrics and music by Diggy-Kat written 9 January 2003
Diggy-Kat: vocals,piano
INFO: written on the piano and recorded the same day,another self-explanatory but fiction song.
LYRICS: verse: in a time where love was mine/i drift away for a few days/pleading only for the love you make/in the sunlight,near the water/i glanced over then i saw her,loving her,kissing her face/ chorus: in the time,you were mine/it felt fine for our kind/ verse: in a town,wedding bells sounds/the bride and grrom walk in a room,the priest he smiles,stroll down aisles way/he looks loving at his girl/he knows that she is his world/the ring is placed,kiss to her face and smile/ chorus:
13."DANCE OF THE LITTLE FLY" music by Diggy-Kat written March 2003
Diggy-Kat: 12 string guitar,baby upright grand piano,banjo
INFO: this was intentionally written for the record as one of the instrumentals. it was later pulled from the songlist only to be added back on near the last minute.
14."FROST COVERED BEAMS" lyrics by Diggy-Kat,music by Diggy-Kat and Thunder Boy
music written December 2001/lyrics written 14 March 2003
Diggy-Kat: vocals,piano
Thunder Boy: guitar
INFO: i had found this piece of music that T-Boy and I had been experimenting around with and i thought it would work well on the CD,so i hastly jotted down poem-like lyrics to add.
LYRICS: strangest things happen in the middle of my dreams/barren land with frost covered beams/a sight to behold from the depths of an earth/from the grave is your birth/a light does cast from a single star/ever so close yet ever so far/it lights the way before i leave/it lifts me up to not grieve/it hands me down a piece of the sky/touches me softly before i fly/i soar into what seems to be an everlasting life all for free/bring me now to your land/allow me to take your hand/lead me into the light of day so i may forever follow the things you say.
15."CELLARDOOR" lyrics and music by Diggy-Kat written 15/17 February 2003
Diggy-Kat: vocals,guitar,drums
INFO: on valentine's 2003,Nick-Nack came over and to show me the film "Donnie Darko" and it inspired this song. interesting note: Penguin's father was one of the many behind-the-scene workers on that film.
LYRICS: verse: did ya ever think about the time that you had to change the course of the course that you were on/did you ever think about the time that you spent in a time when time was young/everything seems so different now/everything is somehow messed up and wrong now/still i travel on,travel on/wait,catastrophic fate/my eyes dialate to the sun as it rises above the moon/straight,i hear those sounds/it's pulling me down to the ground as i watch my life drain/ chorus: you know i don't need this/everytime i run it seems to pull me down/i don't want this/everytime i run it seems to pull me down/can't have this,don't want this,leave it be/ verse: life,it disagrees when on knees,you start to beg and wonder why/sky,i see the sky,i start to cry,the monster in me starts to breathe/everything seems so different now/everything is somehow/i can hardly stand this,realize my fate/i see the cellardoor,it's making me hate/ chorus:/ verse: cellardoor,it begs me for more/cellardoor,life as it seems just fades away/cellardoor,i do not want more of this cellardoor/it breaks me and starts to play.