SOME DAYS

Featuring 16 brand new songs. Recorded in 2005.

LYRICS

THE SONGS

Lyrics by Peter with Lou's help, music by Lou with Peter's help. All songs © L&P Berryman.

1. CHRISTMAS LETTER ©2004
   Based on an actual Christmas letter that Peter and his wife Kristi sent out, but don't tell anybody.
2. THE VULTURE ©2004
   A Halloweeny klezmerlike bird waltz, this eventually comes to the defense of snoring.
3. SOME DAYS ©2005
   We all probably have times like this. Ours seem to happen on those days which contain the letter "y".
4. HOMELESSNESS ©2004
   Written for a transitional housing benefit concert in Madison. The next homeless face you see could be the surprised kisser in the mirror.
5. HAVING BEEN DONE ©2005
   Among our musical heroes are John Roberts and Tony Barrand, whose renditions of British folk songs inspired this chanty, but with an American ending.
6. ACCORDION TO ZITHER ©2005
   An alphabet song, influenced by Edward Gorey and Martha Stewart, and dedicated to inveterate home crafters and artistic recycling fanatics.
7. DEM DEER ©2005
   Penned on a twilight drive through mid Wisconsin, as a tool for keeping one's mind on watching out for Bambi.
8. ELDERLYVILLE ©2005
   The government making moves to destroy social security gave us visions of makeshift retirement shantytowns springing up in the near future.
9. LEXICAL DUDE ©2004
   We love jazz ballads by Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Billie Holiday, and try to imitate their harmony, style and structure in this nerd-love song.
10. BUT I'M DOWN ©2004
    This is a double bummer song, concerning not only being blue, but feeling guilty about it.
11. BEST LAID PLANS ©2004
    It only takes one prick to pop an otherwise perfect balloon. This was originally for four singers, written for a show with the great Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen.
12. SOME BIRDS ©2005
    Rewritten often over the years, this was kept alive by the encouragement of the incomparable singer and songwriter Anne Hills. With its current ending, she may regret it.
13. DUST THE PIANO ©2005
    In our families, tensions were relieved creatively. Here Lou plays the accordion like someone dusting the piano like someone putting out a fire.
14. WAUBESA STREET ©2002
    Warning: contains a mnemonic device. Peter made up this song while he was walking his dog Izzie. It's a song about Peter walking his dog Izzie.
15. HOUSEHOLD FLUIDS ©2004
    Have you ever walked through the bathroom, kitchen, and basement of your house, marveling at your containers of fluid? Some of them even rhyme.
16. WE DON'T DO IT ©2003
    It may be that the consequences of not accomplishing everything it is humanly possible to accomplish are mild. The two of us are in the forefront of this research.