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Introduction

In 2011, Monkeyman Productions put on a show called The Simian Showcase. They needed some musical acts and asked Errol and Debs separately. Debs didn’t have songs that were geeky. Errol didn’t have stage presence that had charisma. So they joined forces and put on a whirlwind show which was, to their surprise, well received.

They were asked for a CD, but having only been formed that night, they lacked one. Seeing the absence of any recorded material a huge hindrance in becoming a band, they set out to record their own. They fan funded their endeavour and were met with overwhelming support.

They contacted Erik Didriksen and asked him to mix the music. He spent many hours working with Debs. Errol feels sorry for him.

Once the songs were complete, they pulled in Aaron Tsang to do additional mixing and mastering.

Finally, they turned to Joseph, who worked for a CD Replication company.  The CDs were printed and much rejoicing was to be had!

And now it’s done. After countless hours, over 200 comics, and at least one bandmate ready to retire, the Debs & Errol Album, “Songs in the Key of Geek”, is complete.

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Thank You

Sincere thanks go to our collaborators, donors, and others who helped to make this project happen. We would particularly like to acknowledge Monkeyman Productions, the February Album Writing Month community, Bill Ivy and Darryl & Bonnie Reiter from Children’s Technology Workshop.

To our nearest and dearest, we are forever grateful for your love, encouragement and – in Errol’s case – tolerance. 😉

To our friends and fans, we owe our deepest thanks. A year ago at our very first show, you asked for this CD and here it is. We hope that you share and enjoy it!

Song Lyrics!

1. Geek Love Song

Lyrics and Music Written by Errol
Performed by Debs & Errol
Drum programming: Erik Didriksen

Errol first wrote this song for his wife with the help of Twitter and Wayne, Dominic, Don, Marty, Lindsey, Eugene, Michelle, Carina, Nelson, Ellen, Andrew, Sen, Jenny, Laura, Ben, Ryan, Sara, Ally and Abby!

He uploaded a vid of himself to Youtube on January 13, 2009. Some of his pronunciation was incorrect, so he corrected it and re-uploaded to a few days later, patching the vid to 1.1.

Realizing he had the incorrect language for Italian, but the correct language for Spanish, he patched the song to 1.2.

His youngest, Zoe, had learned the song by memory, and so he uploaded another video with her later in October. Errol changed the song to make it less creepy and it became version 1.3.

And now Geek Love Song is in it’s final incarnation, (hopefully) with Debs.

In 2012, Errol submitted it to a Valentine’s Day contest on CBC Radio, and it won 3rd place. It was the first time (but hopefully not last) Debs & Errol has been on the radio!

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So many ways to say “I Love You”
In different languages across the land
You haven’t heard them all so I’ll tell you
As only a true geek can

“Ich Liebe Dich” is German, geeky for their boardgames
In Latin (and Spanish) it is “Te amo”
“mi olin e sina” is the phrase in Toki Pona
“Mi amas vin” in Esperanto

“Linnon am meleth vin”
In Sindarin means “I sing because I love you”
“AG EE OO P” is what you type
For Alliance and the Horde to talk to

To stick with Elvish we have “Tye mela’ne”
Yet another language that Tolkien made.
“Usstan ssinssrigg ilta” spoken in Drowish
A DnD type of elf you played

“I Love You, I would date with you” by Tatewaki Kuno
Not a different language, but it’s good enough
“Hato daisuki” is japanese but geeky cuz
Otaku really love their weird stuff

“Eep Op Ork Ah Ah”‘
From Saturday morning cartoons
“Ie ovele ouye”
From way back when I was in grade 2

“Wani ra yana ro aisha” in Vulcan
In Klingon it’s “qaparHa” which sorta sounds like a threat
“I-jol au” is Romulan but not exactly canon
In case we make the fanboys upset

“Ni kar’tayli gar darasuum” is Mandalorian
In another galaxy, long gone by
If you speak in Huttese you say “Uma ji muna”
On Dagobah it’s, “Love you, do I”

“10 Print ‘I love you’ 20 Goto 10”
My first program, as a child
“I->love(you)”
I bet your hormones are going wild

“U CAN HAZ LUV, K THX BAI!”
I display LOLCat finery
“I Less Than Three U” and….
0110100101101100011011110111011001100101011110010110111101110101
I love you in binary!

Spoken: Lowercase. Without Spaces.

2. That’s What I Want in a Girl

Lyrics and Music Written by Errol and Jeff Rankine.
Performed by Debs & Errol

Back in 2008, Errol had a crazy idea: why not do a 30 day vlog of a fictitious geeky vampire that lived in his mom’s basement? And he did, and he titled it Basement Vampire. He got a few of his friends to join in, and in one of the videos, he needed a song. So he wrote this one.

Debs particularly likes singing it because she gets to insult Errol.

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VERSE 1:
I want her to walk, and to talk and to eat
To sleep and to live and to die (but not now)
To be made out of cells
Made of carbon themselves
To breathe in and breath out with a sigh

I want her to have eyes, to have fingers and toes
A head and some hair that she combs
When pricked she should bleed
When sick she should sneeze
And she should have two X chromosomes

CHORUS:
That’s what I want in a girl
One who’ll walk and who’ll jump and who’ll twirl
She can sit, she can stand
Should have feet and have hands
Cuz that’s what I want in a girl

VERSE 2 :
I’m not asking much
For her to smell, taste and touch
To be responsive to all stimuli
Produce carbon dioxide
Has blood on the inside
Have a mouth, nose and lungs and two eyes

She should leave her house to buy basic necessities
Shop for stuff at a local drug store
Maybe search for some sales
In that aisle for females
What are all those girl products for?

CHORUS :
That’s what I want in a girl
One who’s living, that’s all I prefer
And bathes to some degree
Uses toilets consistently
Oh that’s what I want in a girl

I really really really want a girl
Named Keren or Milton or Merle
Don’t care what she’ll be, just as long she likes me
And that’s what I want
Oh that’s what you want
Yes, that’s what I want in a girl

3. AT-ATs in the Snow

Lyrics written by Errol
Music written by Michael Skliar
Performed by Debs & Errol
Ukulele: Rob Szo

Errol has written many songs with Mike Skliar, which is surprising considering what Errol does to the songs Mike writes. Errol wanted to give out a children’s CD for Christmas, and he asked Mike to write him some songs. Mike gave him four instrumentals to play with, and because of his love for AT-ATs, Errol wrote this song. Mike didn’t know what they were, but he’s a good sport about it all. 😀

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VERSE 1:
They measure 22.5 meters tall
Attacked Echo base, causing it to fall
Having heavy durasteel armament
Demoralizing, they’re the rebel’s lament
AT-ATs in the snow….
(In the snow)

VERSE 2:
They’re super awesome, they have lasers and blasters (Pew x4)
Making rebellion squashing so much faster
Everyone you can suppress
Unless they hide in a dense forest
They’re AT-ATs
(AT-ATs in the snow)

CHORUS:
When your foes see an AT-AT, they lose hope
Impervious to laser fire, their defenses cannot cope
But really all they need …. is some rope

VERSE 3:
You would think if you saw these things, you’d attack their back
But they did a frontal assault and they got whacked
And so the Rebels fled for space
As Imperial walkers wrecked their base
They’re AT-ATs
(AT-ATs in the snow)

VERSE 4:
They’re not too fast, only sixty klicks per hour
Compact fusion drive system, they take a lot of power
They have a high center of gravity
And a weak spot in there underbelly
They’re AT-ATs
AT-ATs in the snow Pew Pew Pew
In the snow Pew Pew Pew
In the snow Pew Pew Pew
In – the – snow

4. I Wish Totoro Was My Neighbour

Lyrics written by Errol and Robyn MacKenzie
Music written by Robyn MacKenzie
Performed by Debs & Errol
Guitar: Robyn MacKenzie
Violin: Tanya Charles

When Robyn was watching some of Errol’s videos on youtube, her mom mentioned that she had found her soulmate. Errol has not let Robyn forget that fact, and stalks her. He found out she liked Totoro. And so they wrote this song together.

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VERSE 1:
I don’t live in a neighbourhood with any plants
I don’t live near any foliage
Greenery was bulldozed over
For sprawling suburban zonage

It’s not that I wrap my arms round campfir tree
To most plants I’m allergic
But if I travel to the forest
I want to meet one tree spirit
I wish Totoro was my neighbour

VERSE 2:
He’s big and he’s furry and he rides tops
That spins as he sails through the wind
He plays music on a seashell
And has an engulfing grin

CHORUS:
I wish Totoro was my neighbour
I wish Totoro was my neighbour
(and we can grow plants)
I wish Totoro was my neighbour
(by the light of the moon)
I wish Totoro was my neighbour
(plant giant oak trees)
And I’d like to ride, the cat bus too

VERSE 2:
My house isn’t old and rickety

it was built in 2005
and although it can get quite dusty
I haven’t seen one soot sprite

Every time I play hide and seek
I look into all the burroughs
But mostly what I find are weasels
and not sleepy Totoros

CHORUS:
I wish Totoro was my neighbour
I wish Totoro was my neighbour
(and we can grow plants)
I wish Totoro was my neighbour
(by the light of the moon)
I wish Totoro was my neighbour
(plant giant oak trees)
And I kinda think that the cat bus is cool

BRIDGE:
And if I ever saw him
At a bus stop in the rain
I would give him my umbrella
And we could fly around downtown, wheeeeee!

5. Walkthrough

Lyrics written by Errol
Music written and performed by Pifie
Performed by Debs & Errol

50/90 happens from July to September, and the challenge is to write 50 songs in 90 days. In 2009, Pifie wrote an instrumental and gave it to Errol to sing. And Errol was lost. He had no idea what to sing. He tried different melodies, he tried different ideas, and nothing came to him. So in the end, he decided he would sing a walkthrough: the solution to solving the text game Zork.

Phil Norman thought the song deserved to be on Boing Boing, and submitted it there and they posted it on their blog. Errol was so excited he couldn’t stop talking in all caps.

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“SOUTH”
“EAST”
“OPEN WINDOW”
“ENTER HOUSE”
“WEST”
“GET THE LAMP”
“MOVE THE RUG”
“OPEN THE TRAP DOOR”

“LIGHT THE LAMP”,”D”,”S”,”E”, “GET THE PAINTING”, “N”, “U”, “U”, “GET KNIFE AND ROPE”, “D”, “W”, “OPEN CASE”, “PUT PAINTING IN CASE”, “DROP KNIFE”, “GET SWORD”, “OPEN TRAP DOOR”, “D”, “N”, “KILL THE TROLL WITH SWORD”, “DROP SWORD”, “E”, “E”, “SE”, “E”, “TIE THE ROPE TO RAILING”, “CLIMB DOWN ROPE”, “S”, “E”, “GET COFFIN”, “W”, “S”, “PRAY”, “DOUSE LAMP”, “S”, “N”, “E”

“D” TO THE CANYON BOTTOM, “N”, “DROP COFFIN”, “OPEN COFFIN”, “GET SCEPTRE”,
“WAVE SCEPTRE”, “LOOK”, “GET GOLD AND COFFIN”, “SW”, “U” TO CANYON VIEW, “NW”, “W”, “ENTER HOUSE AND OPEN BAG”
“GET GARLIC”, “W”, “PUT COFFIN, SCEPTRE, AND GOLD IN CASE” “OPEN THE TRAP DOOR”, “AND LIGHT THE LAMP”,

(this maze is twisty)

“D”, “N”, “E”, “N”, “NE”, “E”, “N”, “GET THE MATCHES”, “N”, “GET WRENCH AND SCREWDRIVER”, “PUSH YELLOW BUTTON”,
“S”, “S”, “TURN THE BOLT WITH WRENCH”, “S”, “D”, “W”, “SE”, “E”, “CLIMB DOWN ROPE”, “GET TORCH”, “DOUSE LAMP”, AND “S”,

(this maze is twisty)

“GET THE BELL, BOOK, CANDLES”, “ENTER HOLE”, “D”, “RING THE BELL”, “LIGHT MATCH”, “LIGHT THE CANDLES WITH THE MATCH”,
“READ BOOK”, “DROP BOOK”, “S”, “GET SKULL”, “N”, “U”, “N”, “PUT OUT CANDLES”, “RUB MIRROR”,

“N”, “W”, “N”, “W”, “N”, “E”, “PUT THE TORCH IN BASKET”, “LIGHT THE LAMP”, “N”, “D”, “E”, “NE”, “SE”, “SW”, “D”, “D” TO THE LADDER BOTTOM. “S”, “GET COAL”, “N”, “U” TO LADDER TOP, “U”, “N”, “E”, “S”, “N”, “U”, “S”, “PUT THE COAL AND SCREWDRIVER IN BASKET”, “LOWER BASKET”, “N”, “D”, “E”, “NE”, “SE”, “SW”, “D”, “D”, “W”, “DROP ALL”, “ENTER CRACK”, “GET COAL, TORCH, AND SCREWDRIVER”, “S”, “OPEN LID”, “PUT COAL INTO MACHINE”, “CLOSE LID”, “TURN SWITCH WITH SCREWDRIVER”, “OPEN LID”, “GET DIAMOND”, “DROP SCREWDRIVER”, “N”, “PUT THE TORCH AND DIAMOND IN THE BASKET”, “E”, “E”

“GET SKULL, LAMP, AND GARLIC”, “E”, “N” TO THE LADDER BOTTOM, THROUGH THE COAL MINE TO THE GAS ROOM, “GET BRACELET”, “U”, “S”, “RAISE BASKET”, “GET THE TORCH AND DIAMOND”, “TURN OFF LAMP”, “W”, “GET JADE”, “S”, “E”, “S”, AND “ENTER SLIDE”, “U”,
“PUT DIAMOND, JADE, BRACELET, AND TORCH IN CASE”, “DROP GARLIC”, “TURN ON LAMP”, “N”, “E”, “N”, “NE”, “N”, “GET TRUNK”,

(it is pitch black)

“N”, “GET AIR PUMP”, “N”, “GET TRIDENT”, “S” TO RESERVOIR SOUTH, “E”, “E”, “INFLATE BOAT WITH PUMP”, “GET IN BOAT”, “SAY LAUNCH” “WAIT” wait wait “GET BUOY”, “E” TO THE BEACH”, “EXIT BOAT”, “GET THE SHOVEL”, “NE” “DIG WITH SHOVEL” Dig dig dig

(you are likely)

“DROP SHOVEL”, “GET THE SCARAB”, “SW”, “DROP BUOY”, “OPEN BUOY”, “GET EMERALD”, “S” TO THE FALLS, “CROSS RAINBOW”, “TURN OFF LAMP”,

(to be eaten)

“SW” TO CANYON BOTTOM, “U” TO CANYON VIEW”, GO BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE GO TO THE LIVING ROOM. “PUT CHEST, EMERALD, THE SCARAB, AND THE TRIDENT IN CASE”, “E”, “E”, “N”, “N”,

(by a grue)

“CLIMB THE TREE”, “GET EGG”, “CLIMB DOWN”, “S”, “E”,
BACK TO THE LIVING ROOM, “LIGHT LAMP”, “D”, “N” “W”, “S”, “U”, “TAKE COINS AND KEY”, “SW”, “E”, “S”, “SE” TO THE CYCLOPS ROOM.

“ODYSSEUS”

“U”, “GIVE EGG TO THIEF”, “D”, “E”, “PUT COINS IN CASE”, “GET KNIFE”, “W”, “U”,

“KILL THE THIEF WITH KNIFE”

“KILL THE THIEF WITH KNIFE”

“GET ALL”, “D”, “NW”, “S”, “W”, “U”, “D”, “NE”, “UNLOCK GRATE”, “OPEN GRATE”, “U”, “S”, “CLIMB TREE”, “WIND UP CANARY”, “CLIMB DOWN”, “GET BAUBLE”, GO BACK TO LIVING ROOM, “REMOVE CANARY FROM EGG”, “PUT EGG, CANARY, BAUBLE, STILETTO IN CASE”, “D”, “N”, “E” UNTIL YOU GET TO THE LOUD ROOM,

“ECHO”,

“GET BAR”, “W” TO THE TROLL ROOM, “S”, “U”,

“PUT ALL EXCEPT THE LAMP INTO THE CASE”

6. Gaming with You

Written by Errol
Performed by Debs & Errol

Errol wrote this for FAWM.org 2010. Or 2011. He really can’t remember. The song was written because he experiences this with his wife far too often. He doesn’t play games with her anymore. At least, not board games.

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VERSE 1:
When I see you across the room
And I catch your eye
You give me a cryptic wink
You turn away so shy

Ignite that passion
Flame it anew
And so I search most earnestly
For a board game for two

CHORUS:
I want to spend the night

gaming with you
We’ll read our cards by candlelight
Gaming with you

VERSE 2:
Your turn takes some time again

And the candles burn down low
You seem to have won again
Is it me or is it cold

Set it up one more time
This is what I call romance
Lady Luck smiles down on you
Wait is that a jealous glance

CHORUS:
Moving pieces side by side

Gaming with you
You can beat me you just have to try
Gaming with you
That’s it I am done with this
Gaming with you
What? You’re going were not finished
Gaming with you

Come on won’t you play again
Gaming with you
If you want I can let you win
Gaming with you

Gaming with you
Please game with me

7. BSG

Written and performed by Debs
Guitar: Mark James
Bass and Drums: Paul “Hoopshank” Turrell

Debs found out that Errol didn’t watch all of BSG. She was so upset, she wrote him this song. This is all chronicled in the comic.

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VERSE 1
I thought I’d found a kindred spirit in you
Into all 33 odd things I was into
We formed a duo, bought the T-Shirts, I shared my Water with you
It was a dream for me, but sometimes dreams fall through

VERSE 2
Bastille Day and we were chatting on Google like we always do
I said something about the final 5, Errol you were so confused
I said where are you?
You said “the start of season 2”

CHORUS:
What do you mean?
How could you not have finished BSG?
I said “Frakk, frakk frakking frakking frakk!”
You said “What’s that, what’s that?”
I just can’t believe that you didn’t finish BSG
I said “Why, why, why?”
You said “I just got busy”

VERSE 3:
As Act of Contrition, watch them all now or You Can’t go Home Again
It’s a Litmus Test and if you don’t pass then it’s “Six Degrees of Separation”
You could Tigh me up, Tigh me down, you could burn me Flesh and Bone
I will bring down the Hand of God, ’cause the gauntlet has been thrown
Oh, oh oh….

CHORUS:
How can it be?
How could you not have finished BSG?
I said “Frakk, frakk frakking frakking frakk!”
You said “What’s that, what’s that?”
I just can’t believe that you didn’t finish BSG
I said “why, why, why!”
You said “I just got busy”

BRIDGE:
Now it’s Colonial Day, oh tell me, does that sound familiar?
Last Gleam of Kobol, you’ve seen that one, you must remember
How can you bear the thought of not knowing what happens after?
I’d tell who who the Cylons are but you’d insist no spoilers

CHORUS
Then just come clean
Just go ahead and finish BSG
I said, “Frakk, frakk frakking frakking frakk!”
You said “What’s that, what’s that?”
I just can’t believe you didn’t finish BSG 
I said “Why, why, why!”
You said you just got busy
You just got busy
You just got busy

8. My Pachelbel Song

Written by Errol
Performed by Debs & Errol

Errol had problems with this song. He wrote it in 2009, and Billy Ivy requested it for the CD. Errol had a horrible time singing it. He liked Debs part. Her part is cool.

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VERSE 1:
I have tried so many times to make a song for you
But I can never seem to find a tune unique and new
So I sit and think and really rack my brain
But all the songs I write just blur and
start to sound the same

CHORUS:
I would love to write a song that has that
Sense of joy you give to me
But all that ever seems to come out
Are simple tunes from the mid-80’s
I want to sing for you

VERSE 2:
You are worth a 1000 beautiful sung melodies
I wish I could fulfill
But I lack such talent to compose songs
So I fall back on our friend Pachelbel
You stir my mind and heart a joy I can’t conceal
But songs I pen can never tell you
How I truly feel

CHORUS:
I want to sing out loud
And dance so all can see my love within
I wish I could write you a song
So that all the world, would want to join in
I would tell you if I could express
My full feelings when I see you
But all I have is this simple song
With trite lyrics, and a couple of oohs
You know it’s just for you

INSTRUMENTAL: dooo dooo dooo dooo

CHORUS:
I will shout and gush out loud
To everyone about your perfection
Every chance that I should ever get
Will be public displays of wanton affection
I will tell you ad nauseum
There is nothing else that I will pursue.
The only thing people will remember
I’m that guy who really loves you
I really love you.
In case you never knew. I really love you

9. Narwhal Pet

Lyrics by Errol and Erin Morgan
Music by Erin Morgan
Performed by Debs & Errol

Again, Errol needed a song for his children’s CD. He knew that Erin could write songs, and so he asked her. She spat out the melody in an hour for him and they wrote these lyrics, because everyone needs a Narwhal song. Debs didn’t know what one was until she heard the song. A year later, she learned that they were real creatures.

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VERSE 1:
Monodon Monoceros, a marine mammal
That lives year-round in the arctic
Watching it swim and play makes me sentimental
I find it quite cathartic
It has one horn lives in the sea
Known commonly as a Narwhal
Would make a better pet then a kitty cat
Cause it doesn’t cough up hairballs

CHORUS:
(It’s a cross between a unicorn and a whale)
It’s better than a pupppy,’cause a puppy is so slobbery
It’s better than a llama,’cause the llama would just spit at me
It’s better than a pigeon, ’cause I know they always target me
It’s better than a cat who treats me with its snobby ennui
It’s the most amazing thing swimming in the arctic seas
If you wonder why I have this Narwhal Idiosyncrasy
It’s a cross be – tween a
unicorn and a whale

VERSE 2:
It likes to eat squid and fish and maybe rocks
But orcas – it detests.
I hope its horn is used to fight off pirate ships!
And repel Viking Conquests
You’ll find them near Northern Canada
A cooler whale there is no other
And soon there will be one in my house
Just have to convince my mother

CHORUS:
( It’s a cross between a unicorn and a whale )
It’s better than garden worm, ’cause they’re kinda squishy (and)
It’s better than bathroom mold,’cause that’s kind of icky
It’s better than a duck ’cause mom would put it in a fricasee
Better than a rat even if that made my sister scream
Riding on a narwhal and traversing all the seven seas
Is the coolest thing I’ll ever do, no hyperbole
It’s a cross be – tween a
unicorn and a whale!

10. Let’s Vomit Exclusively

Written by Debs and Tyler Goen
Performed by Debs & Errol
Instrumentation: Tyler Goen

This song is silly, and random. But Debs & Errol like it so they put it on the CD. This unexpected song spawned from a random remark from Tyler over Gmail chat on February 6, 2010. Proof that when it comes to February Album Writing Month the key is to be open to any and all inspiration.

1:22 PM Tyler: hey, wanna throw up?

Debs: omg! okay 😀 i’ll go right to the bathroom now

1:23 PM Tyler: yay. it’s a whole new internet community

Debs: let’s go for a stroll and vomit exclusively!
pick a bush and vomit unyieldingly!
see what you had for dinner last night.
pickled beans and salad? that’s right!

1:24 PM Tyler: wow. you are good.

Debs: …um. I can actually hear music for that.

C b a g f f e d E G G

1:25 PM great. now it’s a song. well done. oO

Tyler: Wooo! I can’t say I grasped the timing!

Debs: no, seriously. i hear it. it’s a song.

1:26 PM i’m recording for you now.

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VERSE 1:
Hey Sally
Yes Darryl?
I was wonderin’…well, you see…
If you’d do me the honour of going out with me
There’s this movie that I’m really into
With ponies and dinos and beer
They make shakes out of maggots
It killed Keanu’s career (that’s why I like it!)
And then we can go steady and superglue our hands
and stay for ever and always and ever like a whaler and her man

PRE-CHORUS:
Your odor pokes intrusively
I don’t dare act delusively
I can only spew out the truth
I say this with impunity
I’d rather puke exclusively
than spend exclusive time with you

CHORUS:
Let’s go for a stroll and vomit exclusively
“The call of the walrus!”
Pick a bush and vomit unyieldingly
“Wow! You’re good at that!”
Guess what I had for dinner last night
“An egg and turkey sandwich”
That’s right

VERSE 2:
Oh, Sally?
Yes, Darryl?
Your pavement pizza is divine
Would you do me
..the honour…
Oh, Sally, please be mine

We could move into a house
Ummm…
Impregnate you right away
And then spin around in circles
And stick on appliques
And then we could get married and cement ourselves at the hip
For always and ever and always, that’s what I call courtship

PRE-CHORUS:
I’d like to speak diffusively
About this opportunity
That you have so persuasively raised
I detest your jejunity
I’d rather chuck effusively
than come and share your personal space

(CHORUS)

“Pickled beans and salad?”
“Pickled beans and salad?”
“Pickled beans and salad?”
That’s right!

11. Beastmaster’s Cry (A Familiar Refrain)

Lyrics by D.J. Sylvis
Music by Debs
Performed by Debs & Errol
Beastmaster Combatants: Alina Isaac, Chris Adams, D.J. Sylvis, Erik Didriksen, Judy Chung, Kristian Børresen & Grete Børresen Hope, Peter Watkinson, Susan Sergeant, Tamara Hecht.

Back in 2008, doing a “Thing-a-Week” was all the rage.  D.J. was writing weekly through a project that he called Monkey, Monster or Spaceman. Debs, who had painstakingly written her first songs in February 2007 and then wrote absolutely nothing for the rest of the year decided to launch “Monday’s Music”, with the goal of writing and recording one song every week in 2008. This was way easier said than done. D.J. got tired of her lamenting about the creative process and offered to help her by writing her some lyrics.

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It was Graduation Day at the Wizardry School,
The students stood, waiting a-shiver
For the Beastmaster and the familiars he’d brought,
None knew just what he might deliver:

To an earnest young lass at the head of the class
He provided a young pseudodragon;
To another, a bat; one proud boy a black cat,
Then a white wolf with his tail a-waggin’

He cried: “Ho, hee, now listen to me,
A familiar’s much more than a friend –
Fur, feather, or scale,
To the tip of your tale,
They’re the ones you stick with to the end.

As he moved to the midst of the Wizardry list
The familiars were more variegated:
Griffin, serpent and roc, raven (“nevermore”), weasel
or hawk,
Child and creature were interrelated,

He cried, “La, lee, now listen to me,
You’ll be closer than husband and wife –
From the legs of your frog
To the hair of your dog,
You’ve a match for the rest of your life.

Near the end of the line he was heard to opine,
“I’d not known the class size had inflated,”
He turned for these mages to the furthermost cages
Where the strangest bestiary awaited:

A young boy with red hair he led to an Owlbear,
To another he handed an Illithid,
Delver, Flail Snail and Grick, Monkey Bee and Mimic,
Giant Beaver and a small Shocking Lizard,

He cried, “Woe is me, now you cubs let me be!
‘Tis these beasts you’ll be bound to for aye,
You may find as you grow,
Best the tentacle you know,
Now you’re joined ’til the day that you die.

On that Graduation Day at the Wizardry School,
Then they gathered the class in a round,

Each one clutching, or clutched by, a familiar their own,
And the chimes for the combat did sound:

 

(Spoken: “And may the best beast win!
“Aaaah! That thing has my Fluffy!”

“Not fair! Not fair! They have REAL monsters!”
— musical interlude with monster noises, slowly fading)

At the end rose a rube on a Gelatinous Cube,
Splashed with crimson and green and vermillion,
And as he rode away to the last light of day
They all said, “His was the Most Familiar.”

12. Cuz He’s a Geek Guy

Lyrics by Errol
Music by Debbie Ohi
Performed by Debs & Errol
Guitar: Mark James

Errol was running his first house filk ever! And he knew that Debbie Ohi would be there and he wanted to parody a song of hers, “Cuz He’s a Guy”. He would have sang it, but he felt that he didn’t fit the guy stereotype very well.

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VERSE 1:
I cannot keep the house clean
Undergarments on the floor
My once annoying habits
Now you can’t ignore
I’m up all night playing games
In bed I steal the sheets
I burp so proudly when outside
I cannot be discrete

CHORUS:
‘Cause He’s a geek guy
(Hon, where’d all my DVD’s go?)
‘Cause He’s a geek guy
(Wait I’m almost at the save point!)
‘Cause He’s a geek guy
(Trust me, you’ll LOVE Spamalot )
Cuz I’m a… I’m a…

VERSE 2:
My specialty is toast
But I can never find the butter
Dishes by the console
Where’s my stuff amongst the clutter
Always on the internet downloading anime
Don’t like the sun, it makes me sweat
Can’t stand the light of day

CHORUS :
‘Cause He’s a geek guy
(But we went outside last week!)
‘Cause He’s a geek guy
(Look, you can join me in co-op mode!)

‘Cause He’s a geek guy
( Waddaya mean it’s boring? It’s awesome!)
Cuz I’m a… I’m a…

VERSE 3 :
Gotta come to my gaming group
Trust me It’ll be swell
Just don’t you leave like last time
complaining ’bout the smell
Like to collect, read, watch and play
That is my confession
There ain’t a single hobby, that isn’t an obsession

CHORUS :
Cuz He’s a geek guy
(No, I didn’t pay a lot for this…)
Cuz He’s a geek guy
(They aren’t toys! They’re collector items!)
Cuz He’s a geek guy
(You’re the only girl that talks to me)
Cuz I’m a game-playin’, quote-saying, couch-staying,
zombie-slayin’ geek guy
(“Do or do not. There is no try”)

13. Double Rainbow/More Than That

Cover of Double Rainbow Song
Lyrics by Paul Vasquez
Music by the Gregory Brothers
Extra lyrics by Errol
Performed by Debs & Errol
Drum programming: Erik Didriksen

 

This was a favourite meme of Debs, and she just had to sing it. But the song wasn’t long enough, so Errol added in verses from another song he wrote a few years back. Errol still has troubles singing this live.

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VERSE 1:
Whoa, that’s a full rainbow all the way
Double rainbow, oh my god, double rainbow
It’s a double rainbow all the way down
It’s a double rainbow all the way down, oh my god
What does it mean? It’s so bright, so vivid
Double rainbow, double rainbow, it’s so intense
What does it mean?
It’s startin to look like a triple rainbow
That’s a whole rainbow

CHORUS:
Double rainbow all the way across the sky
Yeah, yeeeeaaaaah, so intense
Double rainbow all the way across the sky
Wow, wow, oh my god, look at that rainbow

VERSE 2:
I love to play a lot of 
Games are great you’ll find me up all 
Nightmare before Christmas fun to 
Watchmen is a brilliant graphic 
Novel writing in a month is 
Mad magazine with Alfred E. Neu 
Mandarin I’d like to under 
Stand by me with Wil Wheaton and 
River is that girl from Fire 
Fly me to the moon and we can 
Living on a prayer set on re 
Peter Sellers starred as Jacque Clou
Social networks and Web 2 point 
Oregon Trail you’d die of dissen 
Treebeard helped to take down Isen 
Guardian swarms look awesome in SC2

(Do You See That Rainbow)

Our attic has eight bins of LE 
Go mighty orbots they’re joining 
Together Forever and Never
Ending Story had Atrey 
YouTube helped me research the 
Linerider was an addicting web 
Toy Story with Woody and Buzz 
Aldrin punched some guy in the
Facebook has me blocking every 
Apple and PC wars very stu 
Pity the fool who messed with T
Rex is so cool and so are rap 
torrents fill up my hard drive 
Space 2001and Blue Da 
Noobs to pick on when they type all 
Capture me a rainbow

CHORUS x2
Double rainbow all the way across the sky
Yeah, Yeeeeaaaaah, so intense
Double rainbow all the way across the sky
Wow, wow, oh my God, look at that rainbow

14. Timmy the Combat Wombat

Lyrics by Errol
Music by Debs
Performed by Debs & Errol
Midi programming: Erik Didriksen

We had a song title contest, and the readers suggested titles and then we all voted on it. Eric August won and here is the resulting song!

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VERSE 1:
He was wild, solitary, they would whisper his name
Nocturnal shadows, he would wait at the top of his game
Poor souls in his sights never saw the light of day
He’s Timmy, yeah…

CHORUS:
Very brutal but too casual
Near invisible, the deadliest marsupial
He’s Timmy…

A fearless mercenary, a ruthless gun for hire
Small dark and hairy, this mammal never tires
As a target, you should be wary…

CHORUS:
Very brutal but too casual
near invisible, the deadliest marsupial
he’s Timmy, yeah…
he’s Timmy, yeah…
He’s Timmy, Timmy the combat wombat.

6 Responses to All About Our Album!

  1. Errol! So glad to see your silly endeavors coming to a palpable and delightful conclusion. Here’s to hoping you make more wonderful albums!

    And Debs, I don’t know you, but you have an excellent voice!

    (PS you might not remember Errol, but we met on B.net forums almost 8 years ago :0)

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