song for a winter night

song for a winter night

oh the orbs release their light
as their hydrogen ignites
and my love does wander by my side
and sits with me tonight

oh our hearts are filled with love
they are also filled with blood
and our lungs are filled with a winter chill
and also oxygen

mary-beatrice

mary-beatrice

mary the lovely bride to be happily planning the festivities for the gathering of family and friends
brides maids grooms men aunts uncles cousins
should we drink merlot or pinot
do we precess slow like zeno
photographers table clothes
tummy all tied in knots
distracted with our happy thoughts like la da la da la da da da

oooh mary beatrice you're so lovely in your white dress white dress
we may make lists but no we don't stress don't stress

soon you'll be man and wife
and soon man and dog will reunite
under one roof there will be two how are you's and one woof
it'll be so nice to come home and curl up with that slobbering beast
and it'll be nice to have the dog back too

oooh mary beatrice you're so lovely in your white dress white dress
we may make lists but no we don't stress don't stress

oooh mary beatrice you're so lovely in your white dress white dess
we may make lists but no we don't stress don't stress

H Trav's request:

who is the imagined singer
a bridesmaid

who is the intended listener
the lovely bride mary-beatrice

ask three questions
are you so excited for your wedding?
are you so excited to be married?
are you so excited to be getting your dog back from your parents??

describe your song in one word
top 40

a very wiggly winter

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a very wiggly winter

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a song for not quitting

a song for not quitting

misery you're no match for me
and i never leave a thing half complete
the seminary it'll wait a year
we're young life's long and we're needed here
to put grades on tests to put kids in desks
to put up with their worst and expect their best
so misery you're no match for me
and my friend cecily

goodbye settlers

goodbye settlers

we have a board
we have friends
we number 2 to 4
we are age 10 or more
get set clear the floor

we'll play the game
place our pieces
where the resources are made
and if we don't we'll have to trade
and when we've won we'll rearrange

we'll rearrange
where the hexagons are laid
and then we'll start again
but before we do we say

goodbye to settlers of ca
we'll miss you
the east coast isn't really far away
well that's not true
but we wish it were
goodbye settlers

we make a home
out of house
we make a child with a spouse
we return we move away
we loose a job we get a raise

we rearrange
despite the best plans we lay
but before you move away we say

goodbye to settlers of ca
we'll miss you
the east coast isn't really far away
it's not true
goodbye to settlers of ca
we'll miss you
the east coast isn't really far away
well that's not true
but we wish it were
goodbye settlers

goodbye to settlers of ca we'll miss you
the east coast isn't really far away
well that's not true
but we wish it were
goodbye settlers

we have a board
we have friends
we number 2 to 4
get set clear the floor

jenny's request

who is the imagined singer
You

who is the intended listener
friends who are parents who are moving far, far away

ask three questions
1. Can Settlers of Catan be played online with friends who move to the East Coast?
2. How can we best celebrate the final "new month" party on December 4?
3. How do you find time to do this AND teach?

describe your song in one word
goodbye

lone man and moped

lone man and moped go through ohio

lone man and moped go through ohio
hells bells du pre kills elgar's concerto
voices guided by know the devil between my toes
and my wife my step sons are my funny valentines
lone man and moped go through ohio

patti's request:

who is the imagined singer
neil young

who is the intended listener
Scott

ask three questions
how many concerts can a 50 yr old professor possibly attend?
Can your scooter really do 60 on the highway on your way to Case?
Do you realize how much your wife and step sons love you?

describe your song in one word
funny

each birthday is a victory (lizzy and mk)

each birthday is a victory (lizzy and mk)

backing vox throughout:
lizzy
lizzy and mk
each birthday
each birthday is a victory
but that ain't
it isn't, it wasn't what i meant to say
i mean to say
happy birthday

chris:
lizzy v and mk
you are presently with the ov in ca
as your emcee chirs v md
i recommend we proceed to party
can i get fifty cc's of hooray i'll need fifty cc's of hooray
i mean to say happy birthday

emilie:
we wear our shiny boots
we wear our panty hose
we wear our birthday suits
just beneath these clothes
and underneath all those we wear our flesh and bones
the sum of which compose our eternal souls
we grow old we grow old we wear our trousers rolled
but you know we know what the poet don't he meant to say happy birthday

jenny:
just do the shout and dance
and then turn around
then raise your hands
then put them down
and then make a face like your grading tests
and then tear them up
and now raise your fist
and just raise your voice
because we must be heard by the birthday boy and the birthday girl
we need to say happy birthday

robert:
we're going to rock it hard just to rock it soft
we're going to turn it on just to log it off
we're going to stand it up just to shut it down
we're going to right it just to turn it inside out
we're going to look it up to remove any doubt
we're going to hold it in and then we're going to shout it
what we mean to say happy birthday

the OV's request:

who is the imagined singer
A room full of people

who is the intended listener
lizzy and mk

ask three questions
we are having a birthday party for our dear friends lizzy and mk on 11/20/09. We would like a fist raising party anthem for the room to sing to them. we will get everyone to learn it!

describe your song in one word
do the shout and jump dance

baristakristaohladeelada

baristakristaohladeelada (wake up early version)

baristakristaohladeelada (stay up all night version)

hello friends pinned to black

dimly winking, i'm blinking back

what day is this, is this my leg

the morning quiet reminds me of snow days

baristakristaoohlaaoohlay

it must be cold in outer-space

and now the bean, and now the pot

no war is won without a shot

{and now the steam, and now the shot}

and now the cream which floats on top

baristakristaohladeeda

oh caffeine how you know my heart

and the part of me which can play a part will play

baristakristaohladeelada

and the part of me which can play a part will play

baristakristaohladeelada

Sherrie's request:

who is the imagined singer
sleepyhead 3am~
who is the intended listener
the morning stars~
ask three questions
why is the quiet morning so lovely?
why does the first cup always taste SO GOOD?
remind me again why I'm a barista?
describe your song in one word
dawn~

Let's Get Curious

Let's get curious

words and music by D.E. Healy.
mastered by pop master wide.

I got the flu
from Peggy-Sue
I got the measles from Steven
Nobody got that the sum of two odds is an even

I got a cold from Leopold
Got poison ivy from Rhoda
Nobody got St. Paul, capital of Minnesota

How'd you ever learn your ABCs?
Did someone think about letters and sneeze?

Let's get curious
Let's get serious
It's not impossible it's just mysterious

Yes, it's a stretch
but you can catch
up if you go home and practice
Don't look at me like I'm asking you to kiss a cactus

If you don't think
you need to sink your
teeth into this and start chewing
picture yourself in ten years, smell the job you'll be doing

You don't have to grow up overnight
but I expect you to put up a fight

Let's get curious
Let's get serious
It's not impossible it's just mysterious

Let's get curious
Let's get serious
It's not impossible it's just mysterious

Susan's request:

who is the imagined singer

A CW rock band

who is the intended listener

an ignorant, lazy middle school student

ask three questions

1. Who is a greater fool, the teacher who assigns homework she knows will never be done, or the student who consistently refuses to practice, and therefore to learn?
2. If you won't work when you are years behind in school at 14, is there any chance you will ever hold a job?
3. Can the love of learning be made contagious, and how?

describe your song in one word

hilarious

what's cut apart will be joined again

what's cut apart will be joined again

whoo

time is not illusory
it's just not what it seems to be
we can't travel to yesterday
we humans were not made that way

there is no severing
what's cut apart will be joined again
we can't travel to yesterday
we humans were not made that way

there is no severing
what's cut apart will be joined again
again again again again again

i cannot take you in
you are my symbiote
and though we seem separate
we are joined in larger sense

there is no severing
what's cut apart will be joined again
again again again again again

there is no severing
what's cut apart will be joined again
again again again again again

a's request:

who is the imagined singer

the voice in my head

who is the intended listener

the universe

ask three questions

1. if I cut myself in half would you take me in?
2. why do I always feel pregnant but never give birth? (these bc pills give me the creeps... )
3. why don't you let me time travel yesterday?

describe your song in one word

quietdespiration

underwater toot

underwater toot

sing adub between rub and tub my son
and tell me this should we splash or should we splish my kid

which is best the trough or the crest my freind
what's your wish should we splash or should we splish my prince

tell your father was that an underwater toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot

what's your wish should we splash or should we splish my prince
my prince
my prince

tell your father was that an underwater toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot toot

rubadub where's the duck in your tub my son
where's the duck
my son

kris's request:

who is the imagined singer:

Daddy

who is the intended listener:

Baby Boy

ask three questions:

1. Do you prefer to splish or splash?
2. Where is your rubber ducky?
3. Was that an underwater toot?

describe your song in one word:

Bubbly

rock-stars we make a stand

rock-stars we make a stand

we once jammed
we once rocked it 'till the AM with AM hits
and the gunslingers
they were rock-singers
making their stands in stadiums

management meets with the aflcio
outlaws flee all across this land
truckers speak to the CB radio
and rockstars we make a stand

a stand for freedom, a stand for cacophony, a stand for guitar amplifiers and excess and sexuality
and a stand for a heightened sense of personal irresponsibility
a stand in the land of the free

management meets with the aflcio
outlaws flee all across this land
truckers speak to the CB radio
and rockstars we make a stand

we once jammed
we once rocked it 'till the AM with AM hits
and the gunslingers
they were rock-singers
making their stands in stadiums
making their stands in stadiums

john's request:

who is the imagined singer

Don Henley

who is the intended listener

AM Radio Hits

ask three questions

1. Rock stars:gunslingers:: ?
2. What would the Eagles Desperado album sound like with synthesizers?
3. Do truckers still use CB radios?

describe your song in one word

outlaw

an eclectic instrumental

eclectic instrumental

...a false start on an upcoming song request!!!

i'm going to restart it. stay tuned for the revised song!

-twt

ommmm

ommmm

words and music by d. k. land

You're worrying again
The windmill in your head
Keeps turning, turning round
The whirring's getting loud, oh

Is there something you can do
To affect what's plaguing you?
If you have to answer "no"
Then Buddha says

"Let go, let go,
Just enjoy the moment, before it's gone."

You're worrying again
And so I have a question:

Is there something you can do
To affect what's plaguing you?
If you have to answer "yes"
Then Buddha says

"Let's go get down to business
Let's go get this work done
For when our work is over
We can focus our minds on fun."

conor's request
Name Conor
who is the imagined singer the Buddha nature
who is the intended listener myself
provide three questions, decline to answer them
how can i free myself from unproductive thoughts?
what is the source of stressful feelings?
how can a restful state be achieved?
describe your song in one word peaceful
suggest a title for your song no wickedness for the rested

wanderlust

wanderlust




The pilgrim student
Packed her bags
And left
The new world for the old

In search of roguish adventure
And a scholarly equal to gold

And she sing!

Will anybody miss me or care that I'm not there?
I shall return in one year's time better for the wear

Auf nach Deutschland
übers Meer
She boarded a ship and waved Goodbye
Landed in Brugge in three weeks time
Where sat waiting a horse for her to ride

and she sings!

Will anybody miss me or care that I'm not there?
I shall return in one year's time better for the wear

Each library in Germany did she seek
Upon her mighty steed
But she could not cross Moselle, Main or Rhine
Without queuing for ID

And she sings!

Will anybody miss me or care that I'm not there
I shall return in one year's time better for the wear

Noch einmal!

Will anybody miss me or care that I'm not there
I shall return in one year's time from this bureaucratic nightmare!

CJ's request

Name: CJ
who is the imagined singer: student abroad
who is the intended listener: friends at home
ask three questions:
Do you miss me?
Is anybody else working on his/her dissertation?
How many individual ID's will German organizations make me get?
describe your song in one word: picaresque

just put me on the money supply

just put me on the money supply



my one life
my how wide the hudson
my one son, philip, how i loved him
and my how heavy the pistol that killed him

and you my opponent
i stand before in virtue
i won't hurt you
i offer my life, my liver, to your pistol
and your powder
i'm martyred for my country

my country tis of thee
sweet meritocracy
my god i'm in pain
land where my son died
land where i gave my life
just put me on the money supply
and let freedom reign

melamed's request

who is the imagined singer

alexander hamilton

who is the intended listener

aaron burr

ask three questions
1. where's the bucket?
2. can you see my belly?
3. f%#$ing aaron burr isn't on the money. know who is? alexander hamilton

describe your song in one word

autotune

my nature adores a vacuum

my nature adores a vacuum
words and music by D. E. Healy, block-bottom remix by t. w. tendrils



we have shelves
we stock ourselves
with the things we like to eat
with ingred-
ients we need
to call our recipes complete

a tea tin
a mason jar
a quarter cup
a cork
a soup can
a mixing bowl
a fork

rows and stacks
and in the cracks
in the spaces in between
secret spice-
s grains of rice
inscribed with name and date and scene

a tea tin
a mason jar
a quarter cup
a cork
a soup can
a mixing bowl
a fork

oh it spills
and runs together
oh i can't
remember whether
i need love
how much love i had
left over
whether it's gone bad

thrown together
from stained instructions
i'm a mess of vessels
and strange concoctions
thrown together
from stained instructions

a tea tin
a mason jar
a quarter cup
a cork
a soup can
a mixing bowl
a fork

Travis's request:
1) Travis
2) [redacted]
4) The love-child of Ben Gibbard (circa 2000) and Tom Waits (circa 1980), in that strange time between the awkwardness of teenage-hood and the confidence of manhood.
5) The unruly crowd anxious for the headlining act (and you're not it).
6) How do you measure the invisible workings of the human mind?
AND/OR
How do synapses, the empty spaces between cells, store our secrets, store our selves, our connections to others?
7) My nature adores a vacuum [please don't feel obligated to use this as the title]


Do Not Write Below This Line
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Okay.

lullibi

lullibi
words and music by rachelintrees




Nighttime
Time to lay our heads down again
I've lived through so few moons
1 or 2 compared to you
My loves
My loves

Daytime comes at the start of the day
And is followed by the night
I will grow older and so will you
But together we'll be all right
Together we'll be all right

Nighttime
Good Nighttime

I will ask you many things
Once I learn to talk
Like why must I take a bath or do math
Or take the dog for a walk
Or take the dog for a walk

Nighttime cannot come before day
And brown hair cannot come after gray
But all our lives we'll be able to say
That we are family
Mom, Dad, Nate and me

Nighttime
Good Nighttime

I can't wait to get older and see
What this world is all about
Now we are 4 where before you were 3
And I'm lucky to live no doubt
I'm lucky to live no doubt

Nighttime cannot come before day
And brown hair cannot come after gray
But all our lives we'll be able to say
That we are family
Mom, Dad, Nate and me
Mom, Dad, Nate and me

Nighttime
Time to lay our heads down again

bill's request:

Name bill
who is the imagined singer
christopher
who is the intended listener
nate + parents
provide three questions, decline to answer them
1. How can I sing if I can't even talk?
2. How much do I love my big brother Nate?
3. Why do I have to take a bath?
describe your song in one word
lullaby
suggest a title for your song
I can't wait to grow up!

megan coleman is going to make your website look fly

megan coleman is going to make your website look fly
words and music by t. w. tendrils and dj audio



megan coleman, she's going to make your website look fly

sometimes it seems like everyone is on the internet having fun
i know that i'd be happy there, but i'm just not sure what to wear

i need a website
megan coleman, she's going to make your website look fly
i need a website
megan coleman, she does freelance web design

i just don't know where to start
and i'm not sure what to ask
i need someone with more experience
a pro who's done this in the past

i need a website
megan coleman, she's going to make your website look fly
i need a website
megan coleman, she does freelance web design

i suspect, no i believe that there is someone out there on the internet
this moment searching
searching for the content i create, searching for me and my website

i need a website
megan coleman, she's going to make your website look fly
i need a website
megan coleman, she does freelance web design

W W W dot M E G A N C O L E M A N dot com

megan's request:

Name Megan Coleman
who is the imagined singer Someone who needs a website
who is the intended listener Me!
provide three questions, decline to answer them
1. Can you build me a website?
2. Why should I work with you?
3. Why do I need a good website?
describe your song in one word jingle!

love and zombies

love and zombies
words and music by t. w. tendrils and storm harp

men who are slender
men who are spry
men who are kinder
and gentler than i

men love their mrs
men love their pals
men love the kisses
they kiss on their gals

gals who are strapping
gals who are strong
gals who are laughing
and loafing along

gals love their movies
they love movie stars
they love ryan gosling
and ryan's loves are

zombies with brains
zombies with none
zombies undead
and chasing someone

zombies as metaphor
zombies as kitsch
zombies as spectacle
and escape from what is

Mathew's Request:

1.) Matthew
5.) a. Are men really THAT enamored with women?
b. Are women really THAT enamored with Ryan Gosling?
c. Is Ryan Gosling really THAT enamored with zombies?
6.) French.

life of pie

life of pie
words and music by t. w. tendrils and robert voyer

when i was dough
balled and ready to be rolled
i asked my baker please
what will i be
in time she replied
and said these words to me

ah, oh, mm, oo
ah, oh, mm, oo

when i was crust
stuffed and ready to be baked
with confections
and i'd question
how will i taste
and why am i a pie
why am i a pie

ah, oh, mm, oo
ah, oh, mm, oo

there once was a race of tiny men
lemon meringues were made by them
for each one among them loved a pie
they held such regard for their rolling pins
that they'd liken the things they loved most to them
their greatest of poets sounds like

ah, oh, mm, oo
ah, oh, mm, oo

ah

rachel's request:

imagined singer: a finished pie
intended listener: pie dough in a ball about to be rolled out
questions to consider: (1) who invented lemon meringue pie (2) who makes rolling pins (3) who doesn't like pie
one word description of song: tasty
title: life of pie

everything is as it should be

everything is as it should be

i prefer all times equally
morning noon or night do fine by me
for oh a song appears to me unexpectedly
as i appear to it curiously

i accept what's not and is equally
though my neighbors conversate raucously
i wouldn't change a thing, no everything
everything is as it should be
everything is as it should be

Emily's Questions:
dear songwriter,
during what times do you write?
do you prefer mornings, afternoons, evenings, or at night?
are your neighbors loud?
do you wish you could change that?
thank you!

the sweetest earth of summer's heat

the sweetest earth of summer's heat

the marionberry:
olallie of oregon
and chehalem
fell in love
as vines sometimes do

and of the affair we
ooo we may say
its taste
was the sweetest earth of summer's heat
for we know this fruit

Jeremy's Question:
1 -- why do blackberries taste better than marionberries, which are just blackberries without thorns?

the nature of limiting

the nature of limiting

two pears in a bag
bicycles side by side
and the moon split itself in two

indoors at long last
at the threshold we travel past
to the room "how do you do?"

i have nothing to say
strangely

the nature of limiting
to sever what is from what also is
the grounds of a simile
as oceans form continents

turn around i won't stare
laugh out loud i don't care

there's nothing to say
i'm strangely well contained

leif's questions:

1) What is the nature of limitation?
2) Is laughable laughable again?
3) May we serve out our time at long last?

approaching the unknowable

approaching the unknowable

lo! the unknowable approaches
it holds no discernible form
and our science is as our songs are
a useful metaphor

and we humans we look for patterns
patterns for that's our flaw
we're flawed in that we're fragments
of continuous irreducible infinite beautiful phenomena

and though we've named apoptosis and named the graviton
and we claim to know what folded time is
in truth all metaphors are wrong

and perhaps we're all awaiting judgement or perhaps we will repeat
perhaps we will be raptured, perhaps we'll simply cease
perhaps whatever happens
will be continuous irreducible infinite beautiful phenomena

Robert's Questions:
Why do cells die?
What is space-time? If there is a force (gravity) that causes an object to move towards another when within its gravitational field, what elements/particles are responsible for exerting this force?
Do you believe in hell? An afterlife? If so, any thoughts on what they're like?

cold war hot nights

cold war hot nights (mp3)

cold war hot nights
perestroika don't fight it
my unrequited love

show me what you got
glasnost i'd love to take it off
it's all i'm thinking of

RSVP decline the
redacted place and time
i say yes yet you say
nyet nyet nyet nyet nien

ooo why is love so cold

RSVP decline the
redacted place and time
please say yes and we
fest like 1989

RSVP decline the
redacted place and time
i say yes yet you say
nyet nyet nyet nyet

RSVP decline the
redacted place and time
please say yes
please say yes

Thomas's Request:
(1) Your name.
Thomas
(2) Your email address.
[redacted]
(4) Provide a picture or description of the imagined singer (ascii acceptable).
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/d8a1b40b51553138_landing
(5) Provide a picture or description of the intended listener (ascii acceptable).
http://blog.ruderetro.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/communist_party_t.png
(6) Invent question 3, decline to answer it.
Decline.
(7) Suggest a title for your song, or describe the music video.
"Cold War, Hot Nights"
Do Not Write Below This Line
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it's ok that you bought the iphone

it's ok that you bought the iphone (mp3)

heat wave heat wave
believe me these days we won't always see them
the weather changes with each season
there's no reason

the heat waves they come with the season
like the seasons so we
we may change our minds for no reason
like for dinner audrey
and for dinner audrey: cheerios
oh!

heat wave heat wave

the heat wave it comes with the seasons
with the season it goes
we change our minds for no reason
reasons are always unknown
it's ok that you bought the iphone

Audrey's questions:
1. Is it okay that I just bought an iphone? (I always said I wouldn't)
2. What should I make for dinner?
3. Why is it so hot outside?

song for the cuyahoga river as sung by the columbus road lift bridge in the flats

song for the cuyahoga river as sung by the columbus road lift bridge in the flats (mp3)

i contain you
as you once contained
this nation of makers
by whom i was made
and you always new
reflect how i've aged
i contain you and you remain

i contain you
for i've measured your span
with wires with iron
over water and fires
i sustained those who traveled
the length of my spine
i contained you but now it's time

to withdraw my bridge
and lay on your surfaces

i contain you
but i can't explain
to the kids with their "milleni-hits"
they won't understand
you know ants build bridges
from the bodies of friends
i contain you and will 'till the end
i contain you for you are my friend

Gabe's Request:
(1) Your name.
Gabe
(2) Your email address.
[redacted]
(3) Provide a picture or description of the imagined singer (ascii acceptable).
http://blog.cleveland.com/plaindealer/2008/08/bridge-repair-flats.jpg
(4) Provide a picture or description of the intended listener (ascii acceptable).
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuyahoga_river_and_downtown_cleveland.jpg
(5) Invent 3 questions, decline to answer them.
1. what will they call the radio stations that focus on music from 2000-2009?
2. how young is water in a river at any given time?
3. do animals (besides people) ever been known to manufacture ways to cross water in the wild?
(6) Describe your song using only one word.
contented
(7) Suggest a title for your song, or describe the music video.
The video might be a small scale, naturally lit, outdoor, stop motion affair featuring erector sets and possibly fisher price little people, utilizing painted cardboard boxes for some of the larger set pieces.

i need soft serve

i need soft serve (mp3)

ah!
ah!
argh!

i don't want no pistachio
moose tracks send it back
i don't like tasting rum raison
i'm fickle about butter brickle
you say sorbet i say no way

soft serve soft serve i need soft serve
soft serve soft serve i scream for soft serve

soft serve in a cone or cup
soft serve with rainbow sprinkles on top

oh!

soft serve soft serve i need soft serve
soft serve soft serve i scream for soft serve

Emily's Question:
dear songwriter,
what is your favorite flavor of ice cream and why?
thank you!

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time for your transporter

time for your transporter (mp3)

airports are pretty
they're like portals on the sky
sometimes i make in ascii
what's missing from my life

it's time for your transporter

i should have never done that cloning
or built that time machine
what i need is a transporter
a transporter is what i need

it's time for your transporter
it's time for your transporter
it's time for your transporter
it's time for your transporter

Deirdre's Request:
(1) Your name: deirdre
(2) Your email address: [redacted]
(4) Provide a picture of the singer (ascii acceptable):
\o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/
(5) Provide a picture of the intended listener (ascii acceptable):
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\ | /
(6) Invent question 3, decline to answer it:
What would be lost?
(7) Suggest a title for your song, or describe the music video:
It's time for a teleporter

my love tastes like slugs

my love tastes like slugs (mp3)

T. W. TENDRILS: hi ms hedgehog

MS HEDGEHOG: hi tw

T. W. TENDRILS: what are you doing out so late

MS HEDGEHOG: i'm nocturnal and i lost my friend the snail

T. W. TENDRILS: oh man that's too bad where did you loose him

MS HEDGEHOG: someplace in the fog

T. W. TENDRILS: you know what might help, what if you tried singing a song. maybe he'd hear you.

MS HEDGEHOG: that's a good idea

MS HEDGEHOG (singing):
who is afraid of the owl or the fox
not me i've got spines and they're long and they're sharp
my love tastes like slugs
he does

T. W. TENDRILS: wow that is an unusual song

MS HEDGEHOG: thank you my friend rachel wrote it

T. W. TENDRILS: you know i think that might work would you mind if i sang with you next time

MS HEDGEHOG: no not at all

MS HEDGEHOG and T. W. TENDRILS (singing):
who is afraid of the owl or the fox
not me i've got spines and they're long and they're sharp
my love tastes like slugs
my world is a park
it tastes of a blue unusually dark
my love tastes like slugs
he (/she) does

MR SNAIL: oh there you all ms hedgehog i've been looking for you all night

MS HEDGEHOG: Mr Snail

MR SNAIL: that's a beautiful song you sang would you mind if i sang with you

T. W. TENDRILS: oh let's all sing

ALL (singing):
who is afraid of the owl or the fox
not me i've got spines and they're long and they're sharp
my love tastes like slugs
my world is a park
it tastes of a blue unusually dark
my love tastes like slugs
he (/she) does

Rachel's Request:
(1) Your name: Rachel
(2) Your email address: [redacted]
(4) Provide a picture of the singer (ascii acceptable): https://mvscience.wikispaces.com/file/view/european_hedgehog_1.jpg
(5) Provide a picture of the intended listener (ascii acceptable): http://www.gartenspaziergang.de/t_schnecke_5.html
(6) Invent question 3, decline to answer it:
1. Does love [have a] taste?
2. What is outside the universe?
3. How does blue feel?
(7) Suggest a title for your song, or describe the music video:
The music video would use animation that looks like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uWjxB2wymo

song for the love of argyle

song for the love of argyle (mp3)

stripes paisley plaid
solids checkers orange yellow red
i won't have them

polka-dots blue or grey
take them off and put them all away
i won't have it

argyle ooo
argyle ooo
argyle ooo
argyle ooo

snaps zippers clasps
hinges distance timing future past
these don't concern me

argyle ooo
argyle ooo
argyle ooo
argyle ooo

argyle ooo
argyle ooo
argyle ooo
argyle ooo

a joke i know

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a joke i told although it makes no sense it
holds an allegory as its premise
and in the story two are dreaming
a song they know although it's got no ending

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the marshmallow story

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once you left you left me in the room with it you did
and then then i wept i wept for it was tempting yes it is
oh my how oddly weighted light yet large
might i just slightly taste it
or might i wait for dividends
oh i can hardly wait yes i am near the end
surely you'll congregate before i give in
yet give in i did

the letter f

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if i make a grave mistake
then i'll pay, then i'll pay for it
sometimes it's for the best
if you fail and you learn from it

if you fall and break the skin
will you learn, will you learn from it
this is brought to you by letter f

will you try and learn from it
will you try and learn from it

the actuary's tale

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forsaking our language
how would we sing of anguish

as fruit seeds for gas masks
so too we need to bear witness

i read the actuary's tale
i hate it
i found exactly what i feared
so i named it

oh monsters fictitious
i name you i bear witness

i read the actuary's tale
i hate it
i found exactly what i feared
so i named it

i read the actuary's tale
i hate it
i found exactly what i feared
so i named it

we keep it clean

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we keep it clean, my friend and me
we bleep obscene obscenities
we turn our cheeks when enemies we meet
we keep it clean

i speak my peace honestly
i gain entry with my key
i do not sneak around stealthily not me
i keep it clean

we keep it clean biologically
we keep it clean philosophically
we keep it clean and also so obscene
we keep it clean

a lemon tree from lemon seeds
each lemon needs a little squeeze
a little squeeze metaphorically i mean
let's keep it clean

we keep it clean biologically
we keep it clean philosophically
we keep it clean and also so obscene
we keep it clean

we keep it clean biologically
we keep it clean philosophically
we keep it clean and also so obscene
we keep it clean

la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la ooo

we keep it clean biologically
we keep it clean philosophically
we keep it clean and also so obscene
we keep it clean

we keep it clean biologically
we keep it clean philosophically
we keep it clean now turn your other cheek
we keep it clean

a song before bed

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may two make one
and dipoles become
as dell dot is naught
as zeros sum

at once at once
may i know my will
and not just haunt
my haunted self

these arms each leg
my head's own heft
oh may it rest
and wake refreshed

the best of all worlds

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we are parts of the best of all worlds
let's remark at the mess of our births
and our reward ooooooh the multiverse

what is lost in our lives unobserved
what's the cost of the thoughts we discern
and our reward ooooooh the multiverse

one and one and one is three

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while we wait
while i'm noticing your face
pixilate
oh the days they conjugate
and i long to
long to
hold you

three more weeks
until you land in new jersey
here's the key
well one and one and one is three
oh i long
to long
to hold you

here's the key
well one and one and one is three

oh i long to
long to
oh i long to
oh i long to
oh i long to hold you

song for grocery shopping

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two cloth bags
and shopping list
i ought ask
my wife to add to it

feta cheese
turkey sausages
leafy greens
chick peas scallions

and granola and yogurt for my love

farm fresh eggs
potatoes by the bag
pita bread
tomatoes in the can

and maybe some red wine maybe none
tonight maybe white

mark the ground mark the lead

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mark the ground
mark the lead
mark the volts
in between
and the spark who's arc the path completes
mark the ground
mark the lead

does the grave
know her ghost
does the worm
know her host
can we compose as we decompose
does the ground
know her ghost

mark the man
mark his peace
mark where he
did overreach
and tomorrow i will physics teach
mark the ground
mark the lead

over pittsburgh pa

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light shaped as an "H"
over pittspurg pa
silent

seen by my open eyes
through vertical blinds
flying

now counting six or seven
leveled around 45 degrees heading east
i believe

and all that remains
the impression it made
whitish

at our tiny dinner table

first deirdre and conor ep available at: beattheindiedrum.com

BTID is proud (or happy as a pig in…mud) to announce its latest netlabel release, At Our Tiny Dinner Table, brought to you by Philadelphia’s Deirdre and Conor. Readers of BTID’s previous incarnation might be familiar with Conor’s membership in Chicago’s now-defunct (but still appreciated!) First Coat, who we had the pleasure of saying a few words about here. Deirdre, no stranger to the Hyde Park scene herself, spent time in the Passerines. The two fell in love and found their paths leading them to the Philly area, where they recently married and began writing songs as a collective. At Our Tiny Dinner Table is their first official release together and hopefully not their last. Be sure to check out the video below for the first ’single’ off the EP!
The news that this would be arriving in my inbox this week set us off on a euphoric wave of glee. It feels great to be getting back into the ‘business’ of releasing music we enjoy and love. 3 years have passed since we had the opportunity to do so. Thank you for continuing to tune in and enjoy the EP + video!

i was a member of a set

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how hoard moves
the multitudes prove
how timing peels apart us humans
we would be healers, preists and teachers
but O the key turns somehow we're neither

but i was a member of set
i could be counted with the several at my back

as the self does what's less selfless
what am i to pay these bills with
and where's my woman because she'll bear witness
to wounds which bloodless bleed this business

i was a member of a set
i could be counted with the ones which i collect

i was a member of a set
i could be counted with the several at my back

hymn for lost wages

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miss liberty, strong to save
who's given me an honest wage
who's bidden each recession deep
it's own appointed limits keep
O hear me when i cry to thee
for our lost provisions
and all the perils we
face as a union

mister lincoln, abraham
who would become the president
who's own fourteenth amendment
made law beliefs self-evident
O hear me when i cry to thee
of all our divisions
and these inequalities
we bear as a union

O citizens, free and brave
O immigrants on the restless waves
O aliens who shelter seek
O foriegn lands O hear me
O hear me when i cry to thee
of all our good intentions
and the possibilities
we share as a union

smile where the rainbow fell down

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what's not clicking
did the stock ticker stop ticking
her tune
what's so unsettling
did our creditors remember our debts
are due

nothing but blue skies
blue skies from now on
with a smile where the rainbow fell down

we had a hunch
we should have known the dough it don't roll itself
--how true
and each adjustment
it's the sucker taking stock of himself
anew

nothing but blue skies
blue skies from now on
with a smile where the rainbow fell down

thy blind sky

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i might peek through key holes
i might creep to you up close
i might peer through telescopes
that i might see you

in thy blind sky
shining with a
cataractous eye
whirling in the night
my how lovely a blight
i do love you

do you know me and if i were known
would you foresee things that i don't
or with empathy would you grow to see
that we're equals

for my clear sight
perceiving here
the manefested sky
circling my eyes
my how lovely a life
that i might see you

in thy blind sky
shining with your
cataractous eye
whirling in the night
my how lovely a blight
i do love you

i do love you

where are my boys

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where are my boys
where are those ugly mutts i found
my dogs my pups my hounds
oh they've all grown old
and been put down

where are my boys
where can those homely boys be found
my lads my chaps my pals
oh the fell in love
they all moved out

ah ah ah

where is my wife
where is the love of my life my spouse my bride
oh she's right with me
she's at my side
oh she's right with me
she's at my side

i place this in your care

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secretly releasing memory
i believe that we were not all this way
so here i place this in your care
that you might use my life as you see fit
and then but then again
i surmise that we have had an understanding
and though we argue there's we nothing we could do
it's all unproved

come settle me my pilgrim

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come settle me my pilgrim i'm unsettled and i'm unfulfilled
i swear it where merits prevail i've failed
come careful wear frailties with shell or scales

come constantly occurring blurry i'll be sure to sight
were i to see a shade i'll raise and surely dowse the blinds
then unlace my eyes
while we kiss riddle me this for i'm unsure what it is

my first is foremost legally
my second circles outwardly
my third leads all in victory
my fourth twice ends a nominee

my first is foremost legally
my second circles outwardly
my third leads all in victory
my fourth twice ends a nominee

come settle me my pilgrim i'm unsettled and i'm unfulfilled

what birdies dream

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my bus was late today but i couldn't wait anymore
because i'd made a date with my one and only true love
so i resigned to run

the birdies on the wing
they that wish that they could run as far as we
and when they go to sleep
they dream of bobbling between A and B

and maybe they'll evolve
and grow a pair of arms
then they'd not look so bizarre
because it's creepy that they're armless as they are

the birdies on the wing
they that wish that they could run as far as we
and when they go to sleep
they dream of bobbling between A and B
and when they're in their trees
they that wish that they could run as far as we
and when they look for seed
they that wish that they could run as far as we
and when they scream their tweets
they that wish that they could run as far as we

they that wish that they could run as far as we

karen and hernan

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karen and hernan
oh man
we're so excited to attend
your wedding
it's best thing
hot damn
i'm gong to vouch right now for the institution
of marriage

love story in reverse

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lest our hearts unwind
and our stars misalign
and the rise of love in our hearts decline
as we part unaquatinted in time
let not our lovely love story run its course and rewind
and rewind

please please allay

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when my lady friend starts to drive me mad
with harmoniums from the interweb

i say please please please allay
history is dead and grows deader each day

like the manuscripts piled vertically
in the windowsill from the library

oh please please please allay
print it is dead and grows deader each day
but we're still alive in these compartments of skin

and if i'm driven to insanity
she will come to me and whisper gently

please please please allay

consider the necessity

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consider the
necessity
of miscellaneous
amenities

and absolutes
from partisans
which cultivate
exclusivity

please don't pretend
to make sense of it

deliberate
bring scrutiny
miscalculate
with certainty

please don't pretend
to make sense of it
when its bullshit

accountability
transparency
ingenuity
prosperity

please don't pretend
to make sense of it

the seahorse and shore

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when we walk she and i
our foot falls align
as we both stride
we may not say a word
we may talk in turns
so we're both heard

our feet release the ground
the earth falls far below
the heavens grow close
we relinquish control

and so it goes each morn
for the seahorse and shore
and were i to make our case
it would take the shape
of our embrace

our feet release the ground
we alter our hue
the heavens are near
we know what to do

our feet release the ground
it falls far below
our future grows close
we both know our role

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st martin of tours

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st martin rode on a horse
and he tore his coat
in two parts
and so i was made warm
and he
not less so

the stubbornness of an honest man

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oh i would have had a peaceful wedding day
if it were not the federal penitentiary
which let loose a killer who had vowed to shoot
my bridegroom

jesus tells us we should give up violence
but he never fell in love with my husband
oh god how can help but stand by him
in my defense

i had choose between god's perfect love
and the stubbornness of an honest man

i drew a colt on our pursuer
and blew a hole through his posterior
oh god what else could i have really done
but gun him down

muck with love you get gunned down

i found a flaw

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i found it best to count on our own
rational self-interest to regulate loans
but then i found a flaw
how could a market take on such risk
wasn't it obvious i wouldn't persist
i found a flaw oh god it's obvious now
i found a flaw please god just tell me
how does one lean on the wind
what if's and should of's and each second guess
so here's where i spill them the US congress
i found a flaw so what it's too late now

all the shiny things

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my legs partially subsided in a lake
as i lay back wondering what i ought to say
radiation fell out on all the shiny things
of creation with a bewilderment of waves
in the confusion everyone started choosing sides
reproducing each one according to its kind
oh oh my word so it was
and the story ended with galaxies which grow
like the fishes nibbling at my toes

who knew it was a tic

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the chorus we repeated
who knew it was a tic
the money we needed
we just blew through it
our neighbors oh they party
as if we don't exist
our money it's deleted
we must make do with less

a married woman

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my, my you were an impressive youth
so bright and blessed with unusual beauty too
oh time, time it has been kind so far
we're quite, quite a lot happier

and now a married woman oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
i'm proud, proud that i knew you when

the time, the time when i so dead wrong
you right maybe i'll just shut-up

and now a married woman oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
how about we never fall out of love

the pillow to her weight

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my love assumes my arm
leaning over on my shoulder
cheeks all flush and warm

soon her eyes will quake with sleep
and her limbs begin to twinge
involuntarily

and i am the pillow to her weight
and do my best to breath
so will not wake

so she dreams and I'm aware
this may be the sweetest thing
that we haven't shared

a heart divided

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human hearts divided into pieces
quartered from within
will not last
as is often said

should our part occur within a crisis
may we do our best
to make amends
until the crisis pass

should the horn of war join our chorus
oh god forbid
let it be said
that we did silence it

blue and grey our bodies lay out nightly
finally at rest
let us of pray of peace:
that we might learn it

amen

as i was out driving

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blood has a familial taste
as i was out driving
my wife was conspiring
i draw a knife from where it lies
i'm pretty sure she doesn't mind
once, once i drove my car to you
she draws a knife from where it lies
i didn't mind it was her right
words, words i save them all for you
love has a congenial way

hansel and gretel

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curse the birds
they're eating the breadcrumbs i lay
and worse we'll be devoured whole
by predators wild and strange
unless...
sweet providence
we discover a shelter of ginger
and the taste so delights our lips
let's honor our hostess
and praise her for keeping us safe
and plump

The midnight clearly

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dear we near the midnight clearly
our bodies are interned
our eyes delight upon the ceiling
they watch the windmill blur
as it turns and returns
and twirls upon the contour of a curve

so close you eyes and we'll go walking
if only in our minds
and should we lay attempt at something
you know it comes out right
every time that we try
we find our trepidations do subside

daybreak is on its way
there are keep sakes in the drawers
and though our worries lay in wait
they do not hold the floor
anymore we're a blur
and we lay upon the contour of a curve

Telescopes

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telescopes guide the ether from the heavens
as we all lie beneath her and look through our lenses
we learn to see by analogies alleluia
oh jesus please forgive me for i do not know ya
oh yes it might have been a momentary lapse
or happenstance
would you believe the moon is stealing her luminensence
would you concede our world is reeling through vast expanses
oh yes it might have been a momentary lapse
or happenstance

Song for the thrills of nuptials

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and now a pair we make
love and do partake
of the thrills of nuptials
upon our wedding day

so lets bind our hands with rings
lets tie our hearts with strings
and were they tuned and made to sway
oh i know the chord they'd play

Fight Song for Accountants