A story about trying to repair a drifting friendship. The singer notices moments of his friend's former self before being controlled by their spouse. Speaking to them in hopes that they break free and find true happiness for themselves.

Link to Download on Bandcamp: https://ctiganithebear5.bandcamp.com/track/remnant-of-you

Lyrics:

Verse 1: Burn that bridge when the structure's poor. Spare us both the pain.
I watched you travel out to sea with a young and gullible gaze.
You're lonely most with the one you love like living in a padded cell.
You won't confront when you've had enough even though you're miserable.

Chorus: You smile harder as the life's being stripped from you.
You feel lighter when she finally leaves the room.
Sullen eyes when I see you at your worst.
All you can is hope that she dies first.

Verse 2: Shopped and helped her pick your whip. Submit to being her bitch.
She bought you clothes to fit her needs because she wants to marry a prince.
Lavish gifts and gestures it still won't fill the void.
Bratty and entitled girl she'll leave your world destroyed.

Chorus

Bridge: I've been searching for the remnant of you. The one that used to laugh all the time.
I have beckoned for my dearest friend to try and pull him out of her tide.
Please just listen now. Won't you just hear me out? Please just think aloud. Won't you just acknowledge your doubts?
You didn't get what you wanted then. Are you getting what you wanted now ? [x4]

Chorus

Remnant Of You

Ghosting is too common in the dating world. This song expresses the narrator's frustration but also he is looking towards the future. With a sense of belief that there's someone out there for him.

Lyrics:

Verse 1: After twenty years, the wallowing expert’s still in fear. Rejected by another girl again.
I can’t recall what made you stray. I tried to deconstruct the day. The pieces of the problem led to you.
Your silence was my severance. I tried to split my heart from my head. To help forget the laughs, the tears, the texts.
Left alone in the battlefield, but there’s a break up in the clouds. If I stand tall, the light will shine on me.

Chorus: For all we know she’s on her way tonight. (Your opposite when she comes) 
We’ll take the first row to watch your own demise.

Verse 2:  I watch you post like you moved on. Another guy you decided to string along. Whatever you need to keep the fantasy.
You claim he’s the one you love the most, but a parasite simply needs its host. Attention whores they never feel secure.
I’m sorry I forgot that I’m supposed to be the nice guy. Giving you the compliments and boy advice. Find yourself another bitch to train.
I still take some comfort in knowing you have to carry out all your sins. 
You’ll never truly know what happy is.

Chorus: For all we know she’s on her way tonight. (Your opposite when she comes)
We’ll take the first row to watch your own demise. (‘Cause it’s greener grass with me)
Down the altar, we will start our lives. (Your opposite when she comes)
 Hope that our kiss leaves you dead inside.

Ghosting

A story about a man who longs to mend his relationship with a loved one after battling through years of alcoholism and surviving a near-death experience. 

Lyrics:

Verse 1: Keep me alive with your energy. Keep me out of the dark. 
Hoping that Death’s flight gets delayed. Cuz I don’t plan on burning out

Chorus: Well I wanna take a view from your lens. Cuz I hope that there’s still time to make amends.
Cuz the alcohol is bleeding out from my veins. And it’s given me the gift of clarity. No longer in need of charity.


Verse 2: Keep me alive with your energy. Keep me out of the hole.
I don’t know how I could convince myself that leaving you was your fault.

Chorus: Only a loser could live with that. To believe that he was wronged again.
Cursing God for all his circumstance. There’re not enough tears for my shame. But I’m here for you now and I am sure that the debt will be paid.


Bridge: I know I know I know I know you’ve got your doubts in me [x4]

Outro: Patching this up ain’t overnight  [x8]
(Keep me alive with your energy) [x4]

Patching

Behind the Lyrics and Song Meaning:


I saw a statistic in college in my social psychology about women not reporting domestic abuse enough to the police and the ones that did weren’t taken seriously. Viewed as a “personal matter.” So it inspired me to write from the perspective of an abuser having an epiphany about his behavior. Shedding light to the difficulties in today’s society and how we handle domestic abuse.

Lyrics:

Chorus 1: I won’t beat my woman anymore now. Because she’s on the ground.
Empathy is fueling me. Burning my pride. Because enough is enough.

Verse 1: I was comfortable making an excuse.  Acting out of anger. I took a day’s worth of stress and bashed it down into her skull.
My lioness never laid a claw. Her love was blinded to take every hit and insult as it was her fault. 

Chorus 2: I won’t beat my woman anymore now. Because she’s on her knees.
Empathy is fueling me. Burning my pride. Because enough is enough.

Verse 2: Fooled your friends with a marvelous charade. The bands were marching as I spoke empty words, tainted black, and promising change.
A macro mess to micromanage you. When you went off the grid. I found you at your mother’s house. You were crouched, terrified, knife positioned pointed at me.

Chorus 1

Bridge: We’re fighting a culture. A toxic masculinity. Can I break the pattern in my altruistic infancy?
A personal matter matters just like theft and rape. It’s a game of “he said”. Disregarding what she said. There’s no evidence. There’s only one witness. What will it take to handcuff me? What will it take to prosecute me?

Chorus 1

I won't beat my woman [x3]
Anymore now because enough is enough.

A Personal Matter

If you like what you hear, this song is available for purchase on my bandcamp page at The Bear. Please follow the link https://ctiganithebear5.bandcamp.com/track/infection-of-war

Infection Of War

Panic Station (Live Acoustic Cover)

A softer tune that describes a person's path in life.

Lyrics:
Verse 1: In a few years’ time I shall be forced to go out into the world. (He shall be forced)
Will I prove worthy or live a long…..life as a vagabond. (Vagabond)
 I thought I rid my doubts but they still reside and chewing my insides. (Rid my doubts)
You cant think black or it’s what you’ll become, but I know I must. (Thinking Black)

Chorus: Honor thyself, you finally lead the way instead of staying in line.
Honor thyself, you should be proud ‘cause no one will recognize.

Verse 2: Stoned or clean there’s no guarantees I’m granted luxury. (Stoned or clean)
When all my efforts can be swept away, I’m left here to stray. (Left here to stray)
If’s there no road then you dig the dirt, and pave it out your own. (There’s no road)
It’s something we can walk along, and you won’t be lost. (We will walk.)

Chorus

Chorus [x2]

Link to Bandcamp for Download: https://ctiganithebear5.bandcamp.com/track/honor-thyself

Honor Thyself

An intimate folk tune.

Lyrics:
Verse 1: Amy. You’re always there for the kid that never got a break.
Amy. I’m sorry you’ve been caught in my misery
Patience. You seem to know just when and where to give.
Humility. You’ve always been the best but never strive to be.

Chorus: Oh, whoa oh, you’ve been the fan girl cheering me on
Oh, whoa oh, you are the light through all the fog.
Oh, whoa oh, you’ve got the world in the palm of your hand.
Oh whoa oh, you’re bringing life to all the of bland.

Verse 2: Amy. You’re not afraid to punch and whip me into shape.
Amy. You taught me how to dance and how to keep a beat.
You’re blowing up balloons because the two of us soon will be flying high.
We’re not ashamed of looking back, see the love and the loss that paved the path. 

Chorus

Bridge: You plead and promise me. You’ll never let my ship sink. I need to be reminded that the world has a place for me.
Because the thought of when I’ll die keeps me up at night. Please don’t ever let me write these words down.

Final Chorus: Without ink (You've been the fan girl cheering me on)
Without ink (You are the light through all of the fog)
Without ink (You've got the world in the palm of your hands)
Without ink (You're bringing life to all of the bland)

Two part song with a classical intro. The second song Pavement, a rock piece describing someone you cared for in the past trying to enter your life again.

Lyrics:
Verse 1: As it rained I became what you loathe. How dare you abstain just to break my bones?
You put them all together so that it’d make a sign, and you told it was a monument of how you tried.

Chorus:If irony should have its way
Then silence comes, and takes you away	
If all else fails then what prevails.
Your grandest scheme drifts with the gales.
 

Verse 2: I doubt you doubt my own desiccation. My catacombs collapse without hesitation.
Such a shame that your emotions quickly subside. Please rescue me from the rising tide.

Chorus 2: It’s so appalling that you want absolution
Im slowly reaching to obtain retribution
If all else fails at least I hit the pavement
It cushions me so I wont fall too hard again.

Final Chorus: If irony should have its way,
Then silence comes and takes you away.
If all else fails, then at least I hit the pavement.
It cushions me so I won’t fall too hard again.

Bandcamp Link for Download: https://ctiganithebear5.bandcamp.com/track/stampede-part-1-provoking-the-beast-pavement

Stampede Part 1: Provoking The Beast/Pavement

A song about trying to repair a romantic relationship.

Lyrics:
Verse 1: I never wanted this. You turn around and play pretend. I know it killed you then, to say your peace and leave it dead. A 3-round fight but you couldn’t make the final blow. Tell me darling what does it mean? You kept a box. You made a spare and mailed it here.  With memories I made it to your softest spot. A fire burns. It can be seen from out-of-state. Darling well you know what it means.

Chorus: Do you see? We are so lovely. Do you see? We are so lovely.

Verse 2: I never dreamt of this. I woke up numb and feeling scared. I dreamt of you. I saw apathy in your stare.  The sky was grey. A dullness back to my days. Could you rid my boredom please? I’m rid of debts. I did it for some self-respect. I took your words and put them into practice and faced the rain and let my sins wash away. Tell me darling what do you think? 

Chorus

Chorus [x2]

Bandcamp Link for Download: https://ctiganithebear5.bandcamp.com/track/fire-for-me-we-are-so-lovely

Fire For Me (We Are So Lovely)

Cary Tigani - Vocals and instruments 
Andy Tigani (Bones and the Bear Songs)- Vocals and Drums 

Find my music on bandcamp at https://ctiganithebear5.bandcamp.com/releases

...The Bear

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