first track on album 'spilt milk', but copyright shmoppyrights. right? rights.

and someone asked for the lyrics:  

drag your feet, keep your life strapped to your shoulders.

if you don't carve your age into your belt, you wont get any older

it's a mixed up masquerade, a penniless arcade

every face a frown, oh what a crazy town

hang your head, they'll steal the toes right off of your feet

you're lucky to count all ten, when you're living on the street

its a story thats been told, a body thats been sold

'round and around and around. oh what a crazy town

(see) joy around here comes in a little pink balloon

and if you got out of here yesterday it wouldn't be too soon

it's a cardboard palisade, a pocket change brigade

every way is down. oh what a crazy town

listened to lizzienrose's record and could not get it out of my head. picked up a few instruments (viola, drums, glockenspiel, etc) and had a little fun.

This isn't really what I had in mind when I was first inspired to play with this piece.  But I was somehow pulled in this direction, and since it felt like it was cooking, I took advantage of the opportunity to just have fun with it...As much as it's kinda unexpected dress in which to drape such a dark lyric.  

The ideas are pretty well formed, but it's by no means "done".  Like, it feels "over" before it should be, IMO...Despite the long ambient section at the end.

I'm putting it out today because I'm not sure I'll be able to spend more time with it in the next few days, and I might forget to otherwise : )  So yeah:  Feel free to add new sections, parts, or arrange the parts I've created differently.

I'll be putting up stems shortly.  Everything has been conformed to a consistent tempo, and even the non-drum part at the end is at tempo should you care to use it, so it should offer lots of possibilities.

A melancholy bit of music

I loved this piano piece so much by jstandifird so much, it's so beautiful and mysterious. Then I realized he wrote it for as a Self Identity piece so I decided to write lyrics to it. 

Lyrics:

Who Am I?

To find you

Who Am I?

To blind you, from what you see

Who Am I?

To define you

Who Am I?

To recognize you

Time to find yourself..

Just go away from me..

Time to find yourself..

Just go away from me..

Who Am I?

i don't know where i've been

i can't recall if i'm wearing thin

i don't mind if i'm lost

i don't mind if i'm tired and frail and lost

i left a man in my wake

resented him for what he had to say

i don't mind that i'm alone

i don't mind that my heart, it carries stones

my heart, it carries stones

i told it all, unedited

i told it all like i remembered it

they interlocked and then they fled

and met again, but the love they'd made was dead

i am no historian

i'm prone to error in the records i give

i am proud of what i feel

i am proud that my skin is tempered steel

my skin is tempered steel

Written by Johnny Jonab Burt aka Amatsu

I know Wirrow said he didn't like his singing on this track

but i thought it was beeeautiful. So I just sang along! 

I think it would be pretty if we got more soft singing on this

& made it like a chorus. 

<3

lyrics:

i ain't got a fuckin' cat.

i have no cats

i got no kitty litter

i have no cats

i have no ball of yarn

i have no cats

do you see a fuckin' cat?

i have no cats

do you see a fuckin' cat? 

I don't think so.

okay.

i admit it.

i have some cats.

but don't judge me!

they're my best friends!

oh i have some cats!

oh i may have some cats!

meowmeowmeowmeow

i have some cats

i don't know what they're doin'

i have some cats

they follow me into the bathroom

Alpal...who said to me, in no uncertain terms, that she has no cats. (and that she wasn't going to fart.)

I added a bass track.  This is a beautiful song : )

lava_tornado released a great rockin instrumental called Project 26.  Then Babbish sung her sun baked and neon lit lyrics onto it.  Here, I just added some backing vox.