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Shadows, vol 1

by Dr. Lindyke

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1.
Save the World (free) 02:55
Save the World by Dr. Lindyke =========== I wish I had a day off I wish I had some time to myself Maybe I could kick my feet up Maybe I could take a book off the shelf Maybe I could watch some TV Maybe I could watch a movie all the way through I'd like to stop and write some poetry I know a million things that I'd rather do --- But I've got to save the world But didn't I save the world yesterday? I've got to save the world I thought I saved the world yesterday! But no! Some loony made a death ray Some other fool is trying to freeze D.C. Some villain wants everything his own way Some other only wants a piece of me Maybe I should've listened to my poppa Maybe helped the family business grow 'stead of playing universal copper 'stead of trying to vanquish some super foe... [Instrumental] Then I realize I'd be dead with everybody else If I didn't stick my neck out If I didn't take a chance If I didn't own the problem If I didn't dance the dance We'd be cinders on a cinder We'd be blood upon a lance --- So I'm going to save the world Though I saved the world yesterday I've got to save the world Got to save the world 'Cause nobody else is gonna do it, I might as well get to it Gonna save the world Though I saved the world yesterday I've got to save the world Got to save the world ... 'Cause nobody else is gonna do it, I might as well get to it I've got to save the world Got to save the world ... I've got to save the world Got to save the world ... I've got to save the world Got to save the world ...
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Minutes and Hours (free) 04:07
Minutes and Hours Lyrics by William Hoover [introduction, 6/4 time] [chorus, ¾ time] Minutes and hours keep me awake Minutes and hours allow me to say That which is ours shall never fade These minutes and hours at the end of my day. [verse, 4/4 time] Midnights bring showers as the sun falls away Lightning, like fire, produces, let's say Something like flowers, a beauty this night In minutes and hours may shed their last light. [instrumental bridge, 6/4 time] [chorus, ¾ time] Minutes and hours know I'm a friend. Kings and those higher say let's begin Finished, not tired, all things must end Together acquired, as it is, not has been. [verse, 4/4 time] Sweet and yet sour are the times of this life Bold, sometimes coward, I laugh to defy Minutes and hours, a long lost romance This time is ours, if only by chance [chorus, ¾ time] Minutes and hours keep me awake Minutes and hours allow me to say That which is ours shall never fade These minutes and hours at the end of the day. [instrumental, 6/4 time, with 4/4 in the final 3 measures]
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A Special Day (free) 03:16
A SPECIAL DAY ------------------- She has angel eyes You know, the kind that draw you in Of the deepest ocean blue And I realize As I look at her face and her careless grin She gets those things from you A year from now A year from then A cake of bittersweet I promise now, I will find a way To make this day a special day Just like the way I know you'd want it to be In the years ahead There will be things she's going to need to know I don't know what I'm going to do I always thought we'd see her Grow and love and someday wed I never thought it would be without you A year from now A year from then A cake of bittersweet I don't know how, but I will find a way To make this day A special day Just like the way I know you'd want it to be This day … A Special Day … Just like we dreamed it would be.
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LIBERTY - WISH YOU WERE HERE by Dr. Lindyke and Denise Hudson Lady Liberty (outgoing phone message): -------------------------------------------------- "Greetings! You’ve reached Lady Liberty’s Lair. I can’t come to the phone right now, I’m off saving the populace from the dastardly clutches of random evildoers. But if you’ll leave your name, number, and a brief message – I’ll call you back as soon as justice has been restored. Have a SUPER day!” FIRST VOICEMAIL (spoken) ---------------------------------- “Hello, Liberty. This is your nemesis, Baron von Badass. I'm calling to inform you that I'll be on holiday this month, and I'm taking my minions with me. so if you haven't already made plans, now's the time. Oh, I know you'll miss me, but don't worry... I'll check in from time to time." LIBERTY ---------- How rude!  But what do I expect?? He always does things his way. He’s gonna say, what he’s gonna say So while he’s away, I’ll take some time for me I'll drink lots of ice tea, take some bubble baths Maybe work on my tan read a book or three … Let my hair down, go out on the town Maybe eat something fattening I’ll just clock out for now, take a little home vacation Cuz who needs him? ... that supervillan of a man, ... that supervillian of a man ... BARON VON BADASS (poorly faking a French accent) (PARIS - bal musette) --------------- Remember that day in Paris When we met on the Champs Elysee? On the Arc de Triomphe, the scorch marks are still visible. Though later we found them to be inadmissible When you couldn't quite pin them on me (ah, but you tried!) The City of Lights, Most romantic at night, Such amazing museums, You really must see them But now I must be on my way Bon jour, have a beautiful day.   LIBERTY ---------- I remember our little French scene I would call you delusional And yes I feel quite attitudinal   cuz it's hot and it's boring and I wish you were back don't take it that way i don't miss you, okay?   It's just that I'm alphabetizing my spice rack And I certainly miss kicking your butt But I scour the news for something to do finished three crosswords, my toenails are flawless I'd kill  for a tragedy or two BARON VON BADASS PAMPLONA (flamenco) ------------------- As I ran with the bulls, my machismo was apparent The streets of Pamplona were streaked with blood and fear The most exciting thing that I have ever done I felt that I had wings as I began to run And now and then, my dear, I'm wishing you were here In sultry, sunny Spain But then again I'm enjoying my privacy (if you know what I mean) LIBERTY ---------- You must be kidding me with that crap, mi amor You gotta give it a rest, señor Still I gotta admit I was pretty bored before..   Cuz I've been pulling weeds, and doing good deeds There ain't any kittens in any trees There's no crime as far as the eye can see   But you know ... There's a new bank down the street That you'd find kinda interesting I wonder what you'd do with that kinda thing ...  BARON VON BADASS  JAMAICA (reggae) -------------------------- In the sand, beneath the sun By the waters, crystal blue With my Margarite I Lay 'neath the palms thinking of you A bikini top lay limp And empty by my side Perhaps it will find its owner Before it's washed out by the tide. O-M-G this has to be The finest place I've ever been In the sunlight you can see To the bottom of the sea Take my advice, don't think twice Try the sugar and the spice Yes, the beaches here are nice In Jamaica Yes, I'm think of you here In Jamaica LIBERTY ----------  When you’re gone I enjoy my self in a daze    I sleep late, I stay in bed and have my cake and eat it too But when you’re gone I don't know what to do  There’s too much time I start to think There's too much on my mind I start to justify I think about the credit crisis I polish all my doorknobs to a shine And while my toenails dry I begin to hatch a plan so when you get back it won't be as quiet  as you thought you might find it ...    BARON VON BADASS NEW ORLEANS (zydeco) -------------------- [background song] Down in Louisiana Down in the Bayou There lives my baby and my baby's gonna try you On. My baby's gonna try you on. Yes, she knows her way around And she definitely wants to try you on. [drunken voiceover] Hello, Liberty? Liberty! This party is amazing! Wooo! I'm having the best time EVER! Look... I might not be back for another week or two so why don't you just visit some sick orphans or do whatever it is you do for fun, eh? Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. Got to go... PARTY CALLS! Wooooo! [abruptly ends as the phone hangs up and dial tone]    LIBERTY ---------- Really.. Really? A drunk dial …    …. whatEVER….. I don’t care about it you’re a sad sack of a man So Laissez les Bontemps roulez… You just have your day of it Guess what… I’ll get away with it, I’ll take everything I  won’t have to pay for it And while your sticky fingers were in the beignets Mine were a’planning my triumphant day of debut Into my world of organized crime I’ll excel at it too So much better than you I will take everything, and I will get my way I got the tricks of the trade I’ll take everything This is my lucky day So you just stay away I’ll take everything Like a real tiny small ninja I’ll make my escape I got a tete a tete with the bank I’ll take everything   BARON VON BADASS and LIBERTY ------------------------------------------ Liberty! You've gone too far! You've taken what is mine The gold is nothing... but my reputation as the King of Crime This is MY town! This is MY turf! You are NOTHING without me! If you want to play the villain game, perhaps you should pay the fee! Will you still love the excitement in a cell of five by ten? With a regemented schedule... how will you feel then? And it will be I, BARON VON BADASS, there to save the day To clap your hands in irons and sequester you away I will bring you to justice! I will bring you to justice.....! And if I can place this telephone call If you can hear my voice at all If your brain can hold a thought, consider this... I know where you live. I know where you live! 
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Photo Finish 03:32
PHOTO FINISH wmh 7.26.11 Two old horses have run the race Both aging but undiminished A little rusty, and lost of some spark But crossing the line in a photo finish I remember the past days like they are tomorrow As fresh as a meadow in spring Put out to pasture - no regrets and no sorrow Looking forward to the promise the future would bring Broken eyed - but not blind Both victims of the ages and sun But classic things never go out of style They just get recycled around and return Mettle or metal, which wins the battle Relics of the past, neither one with the will to survive Except into memories and fantasy And the history of what walks or what rides One dies a pauper- one retires to a museum There’re some who would say they’re the same Each of them sent to his own mausoleum Never again to run on the tracks of the game Broken eyed - but not blind Both victims of the ages and sun But classic things never go out of style They just get recycled around and return
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No Ordinary Day (demo) (free) 03:03
No Ordinary Day by Dr Lindyke I've thought of you a million times I think you've never left my mind And now here on Saint Valentine's You're there again I picture you as there with me On the sands of a shore of a distant sea Far from this boring destiny We're living in Any other day I second guess and fumble What I want to say And find it hard to start But now's a time Of roses red and holidays And "PLEASE BE MINE" On Conversation Hearts So I pretend it's not some ordinary day Where you won't look my way And I -- Once again find myself tongue-tied And I must believe Though I find it very hard If I send you this card You'll read it And fondly think of me... Then maybe... We can meet each other Maybe we'll go out together Maybe we'll find common ground together... (shrugs) It could happen I picture you as there with me On the sands of a shore of a distant sea Far from this boring destiny We're living in And through the lonely doldrums You're a gentle breeze blowing Smiling like you're knowing Many secrets unrevealed And I don't understand How you got me going And your quiet cool Reaction to it all So I pretend it's not some ordinary day Where you won't look my way And I -- Once again find myself tongue-tied And I must believe Though I find it very hard If I send you this card You'll read it And fondly think of me... Then maybe... We can love each other Maybe we'll move in together Maybe we'll find happiness forever... (shrugs) It could happen
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I made fun of them, too Just like you When they said the end was coming soon The celestial clock Ran out of room on the rock It's as simple as two plus two Now, I'm a skeptical geek Not some gullible freak I've got no room for that New Age woo... So imagine my surprise When I looked at the skies And saw a planetary bullet aimed right between my eyes... [chorus] Well, I'm gonna close shop at a quarter to five I'm gonna get drunk Gonna celebrate bein' alive I'm gonna get crazy, maybe grab me a girl And feel the passion rockin' at the end of the world... I'm gonna grab me a beer and have me some fun Until the clock strikes twelve on December 21 I'm gonna party my life away On a Mayan Holiday I've got a 401K Tucked away I thought that I was really smart I could've bought me a boat A house on the beach Or a Formula racing car Maybe indulge in a vice Yeah, that sounds nice Now that we know there's no consequence Meanwhile on Channel Nine The Bad Astronomy guy Is shrugging at the camera As Humanity ends... [repeat chorus]
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==================== Saturday night, More anxious than annoyed Sitting on pins and needles, Staring at my Droid Waiting for the tweet To tell me when and where To find where the place where songsters meet And face my challenge there. I read the post, it's W.T.F. My comfort zone is a burden, not a gift Rocky Balboa and the Karate Kid... I've gotta pump up like they did! Now it's my time to go Spin vinyl into gold I've got just eight short days And the real world in the way But it's my time to shine And give you something new I'm gonna spin a tune for you! Gotta get through... Gotta be in Spintown by the time the clock strikes zero... Or all that's left of me is gonna be my shadow... I read the post, it's W.T.F. My comfort zone is a burden, not a gift Eye of the Tiger, a Real American... I've got to do the best I can! Now it's my time to go Spin vinyl into gold I've got just eight short days And the real world in the way But it's my time to shine And give you something new I'm gonna spin a tune for you! Now it's my time to go Spin vinyl into gold I've got just eight short days And the real world in the way But it's my time to shine And give you something new I'm gonna spin a tune for you! A Tune for You....
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Lyrics (Latin) ========== Dolor et corporis infirmitate. Ego sum ​​imperfecti. Deo me vires exercere Deo me vires perseverare Lorem me perfectioris in conspectu tuo. Ubi tempus erit mihi Panem quotidianum. Lorem fame pereant, Ego comedent equum. Sum defessus satis mori. Ego accubare hic moriar. Vos me levare. Et me currere. Et me natare. Et me salire. Tunc me gerunt haec stolis maledictus. Volo ad gerunt BRACCIS Ego trucidare cibum IN VENERIS Vos me levare. Et me currere. Et me natare. Et me salire. ------------------------ contrapunctum: ------------------------ Gloria Patri Gloria Fili Spiritu Sancti Gloria Maria Gloria Deo Gloria Deo =============================== English Translation =============================== (Wracked with) pain and weakness of the body. I am an imperfect being. God give me strength to exercise God give me strength to persevere Please make me more perfect in thy sight. Soon it will be time for lunch. I'm hungry enough to eat a horse! I'm tired enough to die. I'm going to lie down here and die! You lift me up. And make me run. And make me swim. And make me leap. Then I wear these damned robes. And wish I had PANTS! I would kill for meat on Friday! You lift me up. And make me run. And make me swim. And make me leap. ------------------------ The counterpoint: ------------------------ Glory to the Father Glory to the Son, The Holy Spirit Glory to Mary Glory to God Glory to God!
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Mr. Nobody 06:15
The script and full song bio is available at http://music.cratchit.org/2012/07/mr-nobody.html WILLIAM I'm a missing person reported Last seen in a Photoshopped frame Though no one’s seen my face They all seem to know my name The imaginary alter ego Of your imaginary design A mostly ghostly creature Who comes and goes from time to time DAVE And though I've got some harmonies I sing your stories by choice And here's the fist of irony They only hear... my voice. But there'd be no “Mission” today There'd be no “Rats in the Kitchen” There'd be no “Far Away” Without your words... my inspiration. D: I need to use your words again W: You'll just change them anyway D: Now it's time to start again. W: I have these for you today D: It's a start... I need a pen W: Here it comes... DAVE We'll move this verse, and add a line Maybe we can change it to three-quarter time I think we need a little more internal rhyme Then we'll alliterate and syncopate And add a bridge and Just a smidge of Counterpoint and other shit Don't bother me, I'm workin' on it Oh-----! Then we'll drop a little Rock and Roll-----! Oh-----! Gonna drop a little Rock and Roll-----! W: That's not what I would say! D: But it scans better that way! W: But it's not what I would say! D: I'm so sorry. W: That's ok. WILLIAM There’s no lake, no flowers Even I may not believe I ever existed or lived in the towers Such is my invisibility D: But there'd be no “Summer Rain” W: I'm the Invisible Man D: ...no “Yesterday Hero” W: Claude Rains and his shadow D: ...no “Harvey Ray” W: They all seem to vanish D: It’s all there in the lines just listen W: Then appear again in the morning light W: I often wonder – was it you or was it me? D: Does it really matter who wrote down the line? D: It's our songs that people hear, and not our faces see W: Well, I'm sure whatever you decide is fine. DAVE: Lon Chaney had a thousand faces, none of them his own The art transcends the artist, at least that's what I understand BOTH: And you and I've a legacy to call our very own Conceived by an invisible hand Conceived by an invisible hand Behold the Invisible Man! Behold the Invisible Man! Behold the Invisible Man!
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Uncle Darwin, can you see What is happening to me? Evolutionarily We're starting over Things have been heating up for years The rampant greenhouse of our fears And though the Third World said they didn't start the fires They fueled them with their sweat and tears Now on the shore We say goodbye To withered hills And dust-laden sky And it's getting hard to breathe We're going to the sea In the ocean depths we'll dwell Fins and gills will do just swell And whether we'll return to see the light of day Only Time can truly tell [musical interlude] Here on Everest Island I write our wisdom in the sand So you may know of us, and the measure of our worth Before the tide reclaims the land Now on the shore We say goodbye To withered hills And dust-laden sky And it's getting hard to breathe We're going to the sea
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IT'S A JOKE, NOT A DICK (don't take it so hard) ==================== Some folks are educated at the School of Hard Knocks. But Lindyke studied letters where the athletes are called Cocks. And we protest most strongly on behalf of our beloved jocks And all of their adoring fans Spread out to many distant lands By crass attempts at judge's hands to besmirch their reputations It seems that multiculturalism Is excluded by the prism They employ to spread the jism of their lamentations (We say "jism" in the sense of "seed" They spew in hopes that we should heed Ideas that very honestLY Are widely "off the reservation") You see, football is a game in which The rules REQUIRE we force our way past Our opponent's strong defence And thusly penetrate the end zone. They call this scoring; Not to be boring, But it's the difference between warring And a friendly past time played between some well-informed adults. And if you find it bears some passing similarity to rape That's an unfortunate coincidence we simply can't escape Since the context is quite distinct The two can't seriously be linked And must be analyzed with very different results. "They said no but they meant yes" Are lyrics in our song invention Some got it but as for the rest We'll spell it out, to allay contention When the Line defends their rear The "NO!" they cry in their frustration Is their part to play within the game for which they seek ovation, But of their own accord they freely chose to play this game, Thus the "YES!" that is contained in our refrain! To make it very clear that we intended this to be We enlisted Cherry Pi to cry enthusiastically So you might know that this is simply welcome fun Instead of concluding it was rape and jumping to your gun. We simply cannot meekly take such nasty, vicious libel So take a long walk on a short pier and go there to thump your Bible. Though a scientific mind like yours might not be quite so tribal (You know, it must be very sad to be an atheist AND a prude You'd have nothing of your own to thump -- oh wait, I guess you do.) And to answer one more question (to our minds, the very best one) No, we never get tired of sexy fun; if we did we'd be doing it wrong. But we don't, and that is why we keep it UP so very long.
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HDR 02:54
HDR ==== I've got a digital eye I bought it from a guy Selling excitement in a blue shirt at Best Buy I'm gonna capture me Bits of eternity I'll freeze some life so I can have a life for all to see The world is so drab and boring Hey, but not for me, 'Cause I've got god-like powers, A telephoto lens - a Photoshop license key And I know how to HDR Don't have to deal with things as they are Supersaturated hues I've got the bluest blues In a sky that looks like the sea - yeah It looks just like the sea - yeah [instrumental bridge] I'll make a day-glo sunburst morning It's my ticket to a new world dawning I'll recreate the world I see Electronically, electronically, yeah! And I know how to HDR Don't have to deal with things as they are Supersaturated hues I've got the bluest blues The bluest blues! Yeah! The world is mine, I'll seize it! You'll see it as I please it! With every masterpiece My Flickr fans will worship me. Yeah! The world is mine, I'll seize it! You'll see it as I please it! With every masterpiece My Flickr fans will worship me! Yeah... They'll worship me! Yeah... I've got a digital eye They’ll worship me! I've got a digital eye They’ll worship me! I've got a digital eye They’ll worship me!

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released July 6, 2012

Album photo by *Micky: www.flickr.com/photos/emzee/313906252/

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"Dr. Lindyke" is the nom de plume of William Hoover and Dave Leigh. William writes lyrics; Dave writes music. Though we write a lot, neither of us are really performers, and we LOVE it when people cover our songs. Please do.

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