written by katherine
guitar/vox/instruments: katherine

lyrics:

While it felt like something in the sand was calling me
There was always something strangely poisonous near the sea
A darkness amidst the welcoming summer sun
Hiding in the waters blue, watching me while I looked for you 

on the west coast
Night is falling quickly
I pick up my pace and drop my wallet in my hurry
Brushing sand off my broken watch
Sea water got trapped inside
The minute hand is swimming and the hours just float on by

And as the long hands sweep across the face of the clock
Was it so wrong when I got to your place I forgot to knock?
I hold the knob, silently praying that the door’s unlocked
But then I stop

When I remember walking here a few autumns ago
Riding the 1 from LBC down the Pacific Coast
Your blue house with smiling windows was a black hole
That kept on sucking me in

So many empty rooms
The basement was flooded our sinking ship manifested
Holding my breath in the dark
The coppers are coming hope they don’t check the cupboard

On the west coast night is falling quickly
On the west coast you were falling for me
But on the west coast 
I was busy lost at sea

On The West Coast

written, performed, and recorded by katherine.
lyrics:
We've knocked down what we had built
the love we made on a pile of guilt
Memories of you they pour in
can't lay here all morning

I leave my room and clear my head
maybe I'll stay inside instead
Anxiously waiting near the phone
you don't ring and I turn to stone

In the bed I've made I've laid I've stayed
I assure you I've learned my lesson
From the way that I played I'm afraid I betrayed you
please forgive my transgression

you said that I lost my mind
But you're the one who fell behind
I ask again can we be friends
but you always tie your loose ends

I play this game each lonely night
there's no winner in sight
They say you need to cool off
While I say that we need to talk

In the bed I've made I've laid I've stayed
I assure you I've learned my lesson
From the way that I played I'm afraid I betrayed you
please forgive my transgression

in the bed I've made
in the bed I've made

I'm not your enemy, at least not yet
Though I'm filled with such regret
why did I choose such a bitter path
You could have done without my wrath

It's too late can't take it back
I seem to have found a knack
For burning every bridge I see
Each bridge connecting you to me

In the bed I've made I've laid I've stayed
I assure you I've learned my lesson
From the way that I played I'm afraid I betrayed you
please forgive my transgression

In the bed I've made I've laid I've stayed
I assure you I've learned my lesson
From the way that I played I'm afraid I betrayed you
please forgive my transgression

The Bed I've Made

25 Days of Christmas

Put the Lights On the Tree (Sufjan Stevens)

O Holy Night

Mamacita, Donde Esta Santa Claus

Let It Snow

Jingle Bell Rock

I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Come On! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance! (Sufjan Stevens)

Christmas Waltz

Solstice, Santa, and Song - A Christmas Themed Collection

Sister Winter (Sufjan Stevens cover)

Electric Groove (Lazerhawk Cover)

Dress (PJ Harvey Cover)

Combat Baby (Metric Cover)

piano/guitar/vocals performed by katherine
"American Dream" by james murphy (lcd soundsystem)

American Dream

American Dream (LCD Soundsystem Cover)

written by neko case.
performed, arranged, and recorded by katherine.

(read about what inspired this song here: https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/6306-neko-case/)



lyrics:
My true love drowned in a dirty old pan of oil
That did run from the block
Of a Falcon sedan 1969
The paper said '75
There were no survivors
None found alive

Trees break the sidewalk
And the sidewalk skins my knees
There's glass in my thermos
And blood on my jeans
Nickels and dimes of the Fourth of July
Roll off in a crooked line
To the chain-link lots where the red tails dive
Oh, how I forgot what it's like

Hey when she sings, when she sings
When she sings like she runs
Moves like she runs
Hey when she moves, when she moves
When she moves like she runs
Moves like she runs

Hey there, there's such deadly wolves 'round town tonight
'Round the town tonight
Hey there, there's such deadly wolves 'round town tonight
'Round the town tonight

"Hey pretty baby, get high with me
We can go to my sister's if we say we'll watch the baby"
The look on your face yanks my neck on the chain
And I would do anything (I would do anything)
To see you again
So I've fallen behind

Hey when she sings, when she sings
When she sings like she runs, moves like she runs
Hey when she moves, when she moves
When she moves like she runs, moves like she runs

Hey there, there's such deadly wolves 'round town tonight
'Round the town tonight
Hey there, there's such deadly wolves 'round town tonight
'Round the town tonight

Go on, go on and scream and cry
You're miles from where anyone will find you
This is nothing new, no television crew
They don't even put on the sirens
My nightgown sweeps the pavement, please
Don't let him die

Oh, how I forgot...
(...what it's like)

Star Witness (Neko Case Cover)

guitar/vox: katherine donovan
written by jenny lewis (acid tongue)

Pelican Bay (Jenny Lewis Cover)

guitar/vox: katherine
recorded during a stormy summer afternoon.

written by Jenny Lewis (Acid Tongue)

It wasn't me, I wasn't there
I was just watching from over here
And besides, I couldn't afford the bus fare
In Hollywood and Washington
They shake and smile through the harm they've done
But it's your little red wagon and you gotta pull it

It'll take a lifetime to clear your name
Under the bridges of fame it's always nighttime
It wasn't me, I wasn't there
I was stone drunk, it isn't clear
And it doesn't count cause I don't care
The years transform my memories
Of all the countless decades of greed
It was cut and run in '91

Put yourselves in a straightjacket
But when you plead insane
It's no cheaper than humiliation
That's free
That's free
That's free

I've gone and quit my worshipping
Of the false gods and golden sins
Cause we've made love in the Tower of Babel and it fell down

It wasn't me, I wasn't there
That was not my love affair
That is not my lover, that's not even my friend
It wasn't me, I wasn't there
I was stone drunk, it isn't clear
And it doesn't count cause I don't care

But I'll use a pop song to clear my name
Under the bridges of fame it's always nighttime
I'll end with a closer and say goodnight

It's Wasn't Me (Jenny Lewis Cover)

vox/guitar by katherine.
"dark saturday" by metric 
(Songwriters: Emily Haines Haines / James Shaw / Joules Scott-Key / Joshua Winstead)

Somewhere in the south of France
Or the Caribbean sea
She said "I don't need to make a living"
"Fake donors got nothing on me"
I meet her in the world below
She's a tourist of the world beneath
I said "everything, I've built from nothing"
She said "I'm so rich, everything's free"
So dark it ain't so dark
So dark it ain't so dark
Forever and ever
A torch in search of a flame
To be good, get better
Well I've been feeling this way
Forever and ever
A night in search of a day
As anxious as ever
In search of dark, dark, dark saturday
What's he getting away from?
While I'm worth your weight in gold
While we lie here in the sun
The whole wide world's about to explode
Now our bodies intertwine
And the truth is plain to see
I said "everything, I've built from nothing"
She said "don't you blame your problems on me"
So dark it ain't so dark
So dark it ain't so dark
So dark it ain't so dark
Forever and ever
A torch in search of a flame
To be good, get better
I'll change by staying the same
Forever and ever
A night in search of a day
As anxious as ever
It gets so, dark, dark, dark
Shine a light my way
Shine a light my way
Having such a dark, dark, dark, dark saturday
Shine a light my way
In search of
Dark, dark, dark dark, dark, dark
Dark, dark, dark, dark, dark saturday
Dark, dark, dark dark, dark, dark
Dark, dark, dark, dark, dark Saturday
Dark, dark, dark dark, dark, dark
Dark, dark, dark
Dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark Saturday

Dark Saturday (Metric Cover)

written by Tim Heidecker
vox/guitars/mixing: katherine

Tobin and the Judge
KEY OF D
CAPO 2 - C, F, Am, G

Intro:
C F C F
C		  F		    C	    F
Lifting weights at Timmy’s House so long ago 
C	        F 		    C
Hanging out with Tobin and the judge 
C	        F 		    C
Hanging out with Tobin and the judge
C	        F 		    C
Hanging out with Tobin and the judge

C F 

C	       F	   
Summertime and country clubs
C	       F	     
drinking beer and throwing up 
C	       F
Another brewski in my cup 
C	       F
Mmmmm-mmmmmm-mmmmm
C	       F
Beach week is all blocked out 
C	       F
Got a crew with all the clout
C	       F
Caddy shack without a doubt
C	       F
Mmmmm-mmmmmm-mmmmm

C	        F 		    C
Watching it with Tobin and the judge 
C	        F 		    C
Watching it with Tobin and the judge
C	        F 		    C
Watching it with Tobin and the judge

C F Am

Am    F	   G        C	
Basketball it beats all except 
F		     C
lifting weights with Timmy 
F             C
partying with Tobin 
     F       	     G
and getting blackout drunk
          C
with the judge
C F C F
C F C F
[Whistling)
C F C F
[Whistling)
C F C F
[Whistling)
C F C F
[Whistling)


C	    F 		    
My dad says I should keep track of it
C		F
get a calendar write it down 
C		F
get a calendar write it down
C		F 
get a calendar write it down
C		F 
get a calendar write it down
C		F 
get a calendar write it down
C F
(Strumming)
C		  F
Too many nights I can’t recall 
C                F
too many girls, forgot em all 
C                F
They get away run down the hall 
C                F
Ohhh
C                F
Doing what I do with the judge
C                F
Doing what I do with the judge
C                F
Doing what I do with the judge

End on C

Tobin & The Judge (Tim Heidecker Cover)

Katherine is a musician and a photographer living in Austin, Texas. She writes lyrics, composes and arranges songs, sings, and plays guitar. She also mixes and masters her music. Her lyrics are inspired by a number of things: love, the fragile beauty of the Earth, and the follies of human nature, to name a few.
REVIEWS:
"I love Katherine's music - such pretty songs, a strong voice and good ideas. I came across her through her photography, which is also excellent - full of sunshine and sunflowers, a warm hugging California, but the quality of her songwriting was a pleasant surprise. Songs about toy animals, little oblong citrus fruits and lighting matches - small tender, subtle and beautiful." 
-Jon (http://southcoasting.blogspot.com)
"Ah the marriage of photography and music, such a classic and effective marriage. And no better is this bond between the two art forms displayed than in Katherine's songs. The musician/photographer is working towards her M.A. in music. Not that she needs a degree or anything to whip out some phenomenal mellow tunes."
- Randy Haddock (http://randyhaddock.com)
"Katherine's voice is lovely, and her sound is simple, classic and pure. "
-Johnny Miller (http://johnnymiller.org)
PROFILE PICTURE: Edmund Dansart
HEADER PICTURE: Arina B. Photography

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