China Bay
Words: 05-20-1993
Music: 05-1993 with Kris Shine and Jon Strunk
What’s It All About?
I had some serious post-traumatic relationship stress going on in the middle of the nineties… songs like this helped me get some of that out.
Not much more I can say about it — the song isn’t about one instance, or even one relationship.
Kris came up with the guitar part, and the song was born from jamming around that riff. After I wrote the lyrics, he gave us the title, since I couldn’t come up with one.
This, like most of the PIGBAT tracks, was recorded live to four-track cassette during one of our last rehearsals.
Lyrics:
What say
You tonight?
Have you got the second sight?
What say
You today?
Pull me close push me away
One side
Of your mind
Warm and tender, soft and kind
One side
Of your mind
A tangled choking web of lies
But I
I will never be
All of the things
You wanted me to be
Think hard
And when you do
Try and find a shred of truth in you
It’s all
I can do
To keep the hate in me from killing you
For I
I will never be
Any thing you wanted out of me
Support Independent Music
The media files on this page are provided for your enjoyment — you can listen, and even download the MP3 files, and not pay a dime. I encourage you to share them with friends, provided no one changes or sells the files, and that you attribute them to me.
I do hope you’ll consider contributing an amount proportional to how much you like these songs. When you pay for music on this site, you declare yourself to be a patron of independent creative endeavors… and my supporter. That means a great deal, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Recommended price: $1.00
Listen and Download
