A spiky yet dreamy psychedelic instrumental for children, perhaps to be played before nap time. 

String Drop

Plastic that isn't even real? Babies in boxes? Lingerie that only costs a dollar? What's this world comin' to?!

MUMBLETY-PEG

Tender, tough times
Gloomy hometown picnic
Even the plastic is not real
Might be Tuesday if I’m in love
Are there babies in those boxes?

I’m not happy that you’re not happy that
I’m not happy that you’re not happy that
I’m not happy that you’re not happy that
I’m not happy that you’re not happy that
I am happy that you’re not happy that
I am happy that you are happy that
I am happy that you are happy that
I am

Black Cat cigarette
Cream soda martini
Round robin decay
Greek computers
Showing their age
Hi-tech squalor
Electrolysis preacher
Dismay

Rosie at the cashbar
Playin’ mumblety-peg
I was happiest in the cellar
She’d come and visit me
With lingerie
That cost a dollar
Cost a dollar
Cost a dollar

I am happy

Mumblety-peg

Freakin’ cheers!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

New year coming, can’t stop it coming
New year coming, put your shoulder to the wheel
New year coming, it won’t stop coming
New year coming, no such thing as a free meal

Paycheque to paycheque, pushing on a cold broom
Or answering to assholes stinking up the boardroom
Either way it’s painful staring down the doom and gloom
New year coming, what’s the big reveal?

Here comes the real test
Here it comes, here it comes
Here comes the real test
Here it comes, here it comes
Here comes the real test
(It’s a tasty test)
Here come the real test
(A big heaping bowl of garbage!)
Here it comes!

Happy New Year
(Music for my dog’s dinner)
Happy New year
Happy New year
Happy New Year
C’mon!
C’mon!

Happy New Year

Cold Cake is a music project run by John "Trout" Housez (guitars, bass, electric ukulele, vocals, digital chicanery, composing, recording, engineering, producing, mixing, mastering). His collaborator is Dave "Geezer" Liddell (vocals, clarinet, sax, major word snacks). John and Dave both live in Ontario, Canada.

Together they create psychedelic/jazzy/electronic pop weirdness/poetry madness/twisted good humour music. Influences include Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, The Beatles, IceJJFish, Devo, Butthole Surfers, Negativland, Boards of Canada, and The Residents.

Huge thanks to the very talented Derek Lea for the Cold Cake logo. See more of Derek's art here:
http://dereklea.com

© 2009-2025 John Housez and Dave Liddell

Contact: johntrout64@gmail.com

Happy New Year

Cold Cake

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