Written and composed by Katie Cookie
Katie Cookie on uke and female vocals.
Thomas Harrington on guitar, bass, and male vocals.

Intoxicated by You (updated version with guitar & bass)

After my trip to the ER I was shaky, disoriented, and my voice was weak and lower in pitch. I came back to this song partly because of the appropriateness of the first line: Let me see, are you well enough for this?

This was always a love song. I never imagined I'd be singing it to myself. I changed the last line in the moment from "My Ocean Floor can hold its own" to "should hold its own." As much as this is a song about forgiveness, it's still hard to accept my own weaknesses.

Ocean Floor (Post ER)

Rough piano-vocal demo of a song that's meant to be for a full rock band.

LYRICS:
Three words I can't say
Just like the pictures of you I threw away
You asked what I wanted
And then faded away, and now I'm haunted
I'd never know
In your ever-growing shadow
I'd never learn
If you were part of my tomorrow

I dance in a dangerous lie 
Where hope grows and truth dies 
See every moment with you
Where hope grows, and truth dies
See every moment with you
As if present and past waltzed eye to eye

Three words I can’t say
Just like the memories I’ve kept at bay
I held hands with a perfect ghost
I never dreamed what I wanted the most
Once the curtains drew back
And the chandeliers faded to black
You were onstage
You played a scene, Only lines from a page

I dance in a dangerous lie
Where hope grows and truth dies
See every moment with you
As if past and present waltzed eye to eye

Three words 
I can't say I miss you, I miss you
Three words I can't say
I miss you, I miss you

I dance in a dangerous lie
Where hope grows and truth dies
See every moment with you
As if past and present waltzed eye to eye

I dance in a dangerous lie
Where hope grows and truth dies
See every moment with you
As if past and present waltzed eye to eye
I miss you, I miss you

I dance in a dangerous lie
Where hope grows and truth dies
See every moment with you
As if past and present waltzed eye to eye
I miss you

Three words I can’t say
Three words I can’t say

Eye to Eye (Three Words I Can't Say)

Piano improvisation. Consonance doesn't mean what you think it does. Neither does dissonance. I'm not normal people when I play my feelings.

Improv #16 - Opposites

Piano/vocal cover of a Richard Marx song, one of my favorites.

Always on Your Mind (Richard Marx cover)

Improv #18 - Evolutionary Phasing

Songwriting Prompt #3 - 10/7/2020
Story prompt: How could he ever look back, with all that was standing in front of him?

VERSE 1
I don’t know what to do
Dmin                            D+6
Feels like I’ve never been without you
D+6                                                    
I don’t know what to say
Dmin                             D+6
Feels like I’m always gonna need you
D+6
But right now
Dmin
The world is in front of me, my dreams, my dreams are beckoning
F/C                                           Csus4            C
The stage will never wait, the time is getting late, I know, but then I hear you say
Gmin/Bb                             F/A                                    Csus2                       C (stop)

CHORUS
“Don’t think you’ll find me here when you get back, oh
Gmin   Dmin           C                                       Dmin        C
Don’t expect me to wait home while you live it up
Bb           F      C                                               Dmin      C
I thought that we were on this ride together
Gmin                                       F
You’re showing me you never wanted forever
               Csus2                                  C                       
Don’t expect to find me here...if you ever come home“
Bb      F                C                        C        A/C#          Dmin

VERSE 2
I don’t know what to think
I never thought that I could lose you
I don’t know what to feel
I think I’m always gonna love you
But right now
You’re holding me back from the one thing, the one thing
You know I have to choose, I’m gonna lose, either way, and still I hear you say

CHORUS - same

BRIDGE
Everyone wonders why I’m looking back on Sodom, turning to salt
Dmin        Gmin                 Dmin                          Bbmaj7(9)              A
Everything I want lies far in front of me
Gmin                              F                      C/E (d) C
How could I let you try to weigh me down with your guilt and shame?
C                    Gmin                F          C/E Dmin                 Bbmaj7(9) Gmin
How could you not want to let me fly? Still I hear you say
Ehalfdim7                                           A7         

“Don’t think you’ll find me here when you get back, oh
Don’t expect me to wait home while you live it up
Go on your own, take that ride all alone
You’re showing me how far apart we have grown
Don’t expect to find me here...if you ever---“

Don’t need to find you here, when I get back, no
Don’t expect you to wait home, while I live it up
I know that we can’t be in this together
Maybe it’s good that this isn’t forever
Don’t need to find you here...if I ever come home

If You Ever Come Home (demo)

Piano/vocal cover of Toad the Wet Sprocket's song "The Moment," from their 2013 album New Constellation.

The Moment (Toad the Wet Sprocket cover - demo)

Piano/vocal demo of the finale from my rock opera, currently in progress. This is meant to be a duet between the protagonist and antagonist, set against piano, strings, guitar, bass, and drums.

LYRICS:

VERSE 1 [her]
Watching the lights move away
Sinking in the dark decay
Feeling my rage fade to gray beneath the waves
Watching myself drift away

VERSE 2 [her]
Surrounded in water, I close my eyes
Wrapped in the cold, I say goodbye
To memories and friends, to the earth, and to the sky
It's not for me to wonder why

CHORUS [him]
Whoever said that the dead can't hurt you; if you shut them out, they can't break through?
I was wrong, and I shouldn't have held onto you
I never learned how to breathe underwater, and you'd taken away my voice
Drowning with you, drowning with you

VERSE 3 [her]
All of the anger seems to fall
To the cold riverbed beneath us all
And now in the dark, I’m alone, I’m awake
From the nightmare my life just became

CHORUS [him]

SOLO

CHORUS [him - 1st half; her - 2nd half]

OUTRO [her]
I wake up screaming
I can't remember
What I was dreaming
So I surrender

Drowning With You (demo)

Part of my hair metal-influenced musical movie satire based on fictional Berklee band Rockscotch.
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Lyrics:

[Intro] 

Nineteen was a year for big dreams
A year for finding out just what the future means
Sometimes you can’t choose your path in life
The world is telling you what you should be

But five years have come and gone,
Now I’m still sitting here, hanging on
To a dream that seems as far off as the sun

So now it’s time, it’s the time for me to sing
To take the stage - I want everything
Now it’s time, it’s the time for me to find
The answers to the questions in my mind
Can I raise my voice above the noise?
Now’s the time for me to fly

High school was a time to follow rules
A place to try to play it safe and just be cool
This time, I’m leaving it all behind
Going to the city for a different point of view

‘Cause five years have come and gone
And I’m done sitting here, hanging on
To my few achievements that were so hard-won

And now it’s time, it’s the time for me to sing
To take the stage - I want everything
Now it’s time, it’s the time for me to find
The answers to the questions in my mind
Can I raise my voice above the noise?
Now’s the time for me to fly

[SOLO]

Now it’s time, gonna form a rock band, yeah
Now it’s time, gonna sing my song, I’m gonna
Fly
(Now’s the time, now’s the time)
Now’s the time
(Now’s the time, now’s the time)
Now’s the time
(Now’s the time, now’s the time)

Now it’s time, it’s the time for me to sing
To take the stage - I want everything
Now it’s time, it’s the time for me to find
The answers to the questions in my mind
Can I raise my voice above the noise?
Now’s the time for me to fly

[Outro]

Now It's Time (demo)

This is both a cover and mashup of two songs, Night Ranger's "Last Chance" and BBMak's "Ghost of You and Me." I couldn't stop hearing them bleed together in my head, so I figured, why not make it actually happen.

If you're not familiar with either song and you want to know what's what:
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[Night Ranger guitar intro]

[BBMak  verse lyrics/melody/harmony]

What am I supposed to do
With all these blues
Haunting me, everywhere, no matter what I do
Watching the candle flicker out in the evening glow
I can't let go
When will this night be over

[Night Ranger chorus lyrics/melody/harmony]

‘Cause this is the last chance, the last time
And it may never come again
This is the last chance, last ride
And it may never be the same

[Night Ranger guitar interlude]

[BBMak verse lyrics/melody/harmony]

Seen a lot of broken hearts go sailing by
Phantom ships, lost at sea
And one of them is mine
Raising my glass, I sing a toast to the midnight sky
I wonder why
The stars don't seem to guide me

[Night Ranger chorus lyrics/melody/harmony]

[BBMak bridge lyrics/melody/harmony]

The ghost of you and me
When will it set me free
I hear the voices call
Following footsteps down the hall
Trying to save what's left of my heart and soul

[Night Ranger verse 3 lyrics; BBMak chorus melody/harmony]

I couldn't see the colors of the sky
Years were just a flash before my eyes
I saw the future fade into the past
I saw your demons shatter you like glass [MODULATE HERE]

[Night Ranger  pre-chorus lyrics/melody/harmony]

The mooring lines were cast away
The sea began to rise
An angel flew above the waves
And now the wind's just right

[Night Ranger chorus lyrics/melody/harmony] x2

[BBmak guitar outro]

Ghost of a Last Chance (Night Ranger-BBMak mashup)

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