Credits and Recognition

Performed by Kim Novak
Music and lyrics by Kim Novak. Guitar and vocals by Kim Novak. Ambient restaurant sample from sagetyrtle [restaurant2.wav])

In the red house
champagne notions

vinyl scratches

side long glances
from the bar

a lone witness

a tender touch
a cracked goodbye

He leaves the red house

Credits and Recognition

Performed by Kim Novak
Music and lyrics by Kim Novak. Keyboard and vocals by Kim Novak.

It’s all semantics, their conservative antics
They vote to defend it, but they really upend it.

When asked how it’s harmful all he can utter is
“You know, You know.” His mind in the gutter

Marriage is not love anymore
Marriage is not love
It’s a legislated concept that's coming undone

Winning one battle, he starts up another
He wants people in turmoil to stay with each other

To save one marriage is enough to appease him
At the sad expense of thousands of people

Marriage is not love anymore
Marriage is not love
It’s a legislated concept that's coming undone

Defending marriage, It's more than a word
Definitions can change when the lines get blurred

More important than tradition, it's a personal decision
It's not government's role to deny a union of souls

Marriage is not love anymore
Marriage is not love
It’s a legislated concept that's coming undone

Credits and Recognition

Performed by Kim Novak
Music by Kim Novak. Lyrics adapted from some e-mail at work. Keyboard and vocals by Kim Novak. Percussion from Cowbell Plus application on the iPod Touch.

I put a manual hold condition on region 'J' to wait for a call from Bill to release.

Credits and Recognition

Performed by Kim Novak
Music and lyrics written by Kim Novak. Bass, Keyboard and vocals by Kim Novak.

• Lady Bird Lake is not a lake.
• Vanilla Ice Cream, Chocolate Syrup and soda is not a Chocolate Ice Cream Soda.
• Store brand cola is not Coca Cola.
• A water pillow is not a water bed.
• A Salted Caramel Signature Hot Chocolate with espresso shots is not a Mocha with Whole Milk and Salted Caramel on top.
• Margarine is not butter and Cool Whip is not Whipped Cream.
• Soy Sauce is not Salt.
• When I told this to a beautiful girl, she replied, “Miracle Whip is not Mayonnaise.”

Credits and Recognition

Performed by Kim Novak
Music and lyrics written by Kim Novak. Guitar and vocals by Kim Novak.

Sugar Sugar Sugar
Sugar wears a white dress / Sugar’s a seductress
Sometimes Sugar wears a brown dress
That’s when she’s feeling kinda raw

Sugar Sugar Sugar
Sugar used to dance with Coke and Dr Pepper
But they dumped her for High Fructose Corn Syrup
Except in Mexico and Dublin, Texas

Sugar Sugar Sugar
She delivers up treats / making cookies and sweets
But Sugar’s got ulterior motives
Sugar makes people hyper and fat

Act II: Saccharin

Saccharin is over 100 years old
In 1908 her virtue doubted
Theodore Roosevelt defended her honor
I think the word he used was “idiot.”

She’s been a superhero since World War I
The diabetics rejoiced
She’s so sweet and low in her little pink dress
Did you know there’s no “e” in her name?

She doesn’t believe in that whole silent “e” thing.
Saccharin got a bad reputation
She doesn’t get along with rats
But even rats will tell you there’s too much of a good thing
Now some folks call her innocuous

Act III: Aspartame

Aspartame’s parents named him Aspartame
And all the kids called him Ass
So when his family moved, he changed his name
To ASPARTAME!! [applause]

You don’t want to make Aspartame mad
He gets toxic when he’s heated up
He doesn’t do well sitting alone for long
So sometimes he hangs out with Saccharin

Some folks call him a hero [diet coke addicts]
Some folks call him a villian [phenylketonurics]
Some folks think he merely has bad taste [me]
But in his blue suit he’s Equal.
In his blue suit he’s Equal.
In his blue suit he’s Equal.

Act IV: Sucralose

Sucralose, the sweetest, was almost born millennial
Born in the year of the U.S. bicentennial
He’s said to be 600 times sweeter than Sugar
With a swoopy “S” monogrammed on his yellow sweater.

Sucralose was raised by two men in London
It took a whole year to finish his adoption
The two men loved him and tried hard not to smother
But at times they truly didn’t understand each other

Rumor says that maybe Sugar is his momma
That claim created a fair amount of drama
Sugar’s family said he wasn’t naturally created
I think it hurt his feelings that his origin is debated

Act V: The Story

Now with our characters introduced and developed
This is where the action begins
Except that our storyteller’s sweet tooth is calling
So it’s going to prematurely end

Credits and Recognition

Performed by Kim Novak
Music and lyrics written by Kim Novak. Guitar, bass, vocals, egg/maraca, barking and meowing by Kim Novak.

TGIF
The weekend’s begun
Tomorrow's Saturday
I’ll get a lot done.

I’ll sweep the porch
and I'll shop for food
watch the big game
get my license renewed

I think I’ll
dust the shelves
and take a day trip
clean the garage
make a video clip

I think I’ll
take in a movie
bathe the dog
catch up on my TiVo
and write a song

all I wanna do is nap, nap, nap
my usual productivity is truly zapped
for all my good intentions, I feel like crap
and all I wanna do is nap, nap, nap

I think I’ll
wash the car
and plan a meal to cook
crop those pictures
read a book

The blog needs an entry
The dog needs a walk
The lawn needs mowing
The pantry needs stocked

I think I’ll rearrange the furniture
water the plants
vacuum up the furballs
and buy some good pants

All I wanna do is nap, nap, nap
my usual productivity is truly zapped
for all my good intentions, I feel like crap
and all I wanna do is nap, nap, nap

I think I’ll
plant some flowers
run a hundred yard dash (not)
replace the a/c filter
empty the trash

backup all my hard drives
play music with my friends
clean out my purse
and trim my split ends

catch up on e-mails
change the sheets on my bed
turn my LPs into MP3s
the projects never end

but all I wanna do is nap, nap, nap
my usual productivity is truly zapped
for all my good intentions, I feel like crap
and all I wanna do is nap, nap, nap

Thank goodness for Sunday, or I'd never get anything done.

Credits and Recognition

Performed by Kim Novak
Music and lyrics written by Kim Novak. Keyboard and vocals by Kim Novak.

There’s a spring locked in a cage
A small spout sets her free
Legend says de Soto drank there
And hung a man in a tree

In the 40s, there were murders
Young lovers in the park
A hooded, phantom figure
The Rangers never caught

At the lake with the leaning tree

We know Izzy loves Matt
Because it’s carved in the pier
There are red-winged blackbirds
It’s a frisky duck frontier

At the lake with the leaning tree

They say an evil scientist
Performs experiments on the ducks
Now some of them look like turkeys
But I really just made this up

Monkey bars on the lakeside
And swings where the girlfriends play
Under pine-filtered sunlight
I saw a fisherman’s daughter with beads in her braids

At the lake with the leaning tree

We know Izzy loves Matt
Because it’s carved in the pier
There are red-winged blackbirds
It’s a turtle head frontier

At the lake with the leaning tree

Credits and Recognition

Performed by Kim Novak
Music and lyrics written by Kim Novak. Guitar, bass, iPod tambourine and vocals by Kim Novak.

In a burnt orange haze
Thick from the liquor and beer
Reflecting on bulletins sent from the draft board
A wedding called off in fear

Grab the keys and they go
The groovers on one final jaunt
Gardner takes all of his friends on a quest
For a bottle of Dom Perignon

She's smiling now
She’s laughing now
But it’s all in a dream

The gas gauge points at ‘E’
Gives the groovers a stop for the night
In Marfa there’s jailbait and shooting off rockets
In a graveyard resembling a firefight

At Pecos Parachute School
From a challenge a deal is proposed
A groover must prove that his courage is true
With a parachute pack full of clothes

She’s frowning now
She’s worried now
She watches him go

At the end of the road
Reality always sinks in
No more excuses for breaking her heart
A plan for a wedding begins

A Fandango he calls
She’ll dance but avoids an embrace
He reflects on what is and on what could have been
And I cry at the look on his face

She’s married now
She’s happy now
He watches her go

Credits and Recognition

Performed by
Music and lyrics written by Kim Novak. Performed by Kim Novak.

It’s 11:11 and I should be sleeping, but I’m
wishing my dreams to come true.
The itch from a yearning that’s burning inside me, I’m
wishing that you feel it, too.

A self-proclaimed raggedy girl fills my mind
I wish for sweet kisses and fingers entwined
She’s an angel in flannel with a heart melting smile
I wish for the time I can hold her a while ….

[chorus]

I lie in my bed …. I should be dreaming
But I’m wishing again… for just one last chance, It’s so
Hard to believe she could care about me
I put faith on the clock and the wishes it grants.

[instrumental break]

[chorus]

She sings about sugar, tv and the past
I wish her attention and interest will last
These clocks are for wishing and God is for prayer
So whoever’s listening… please be aware that I’m
Closing my eyes and wishing tonight
That my prayers will be answered my prayers will be answered my prayers will be answered

[chorus]

Oh girl, do you feel it, too …
Girl

Credits and Recognition

Performed by Intrinsica
Music and lyrics written by Steve Wood

Music and boy vocals performed by Intrinsica (Steve Wood and Kim Novak)

When I’m lying here alone,
And my mind is free to roam,
You can be found,
You are all around

You will see me through the night,
Guide me with your golden light,
You are my own,
We are not alone

You are the dream,
You are the light,
You are the vision in the night

You are the love,
You are the glow,
You are the truth I seek to know

You are the weak,
You are the strong,
You are the music in my song

You are the then,
You are the now,
You are the why,
You are the how

Be it large,
Be it small,
You are the essence of it all

When you’re lying there alone,
And your mind is free to roam,
I can be found,
I am all around

I will see you through the night,
Guide you with my golden light,
I am your own,
We are not alone

I am the dream,
I am the light,
I am the vision in the night

I am the love,
I am the glow,
I am the truth you seek to know

I am the weak,
I am the strong,
I am the music in your song

I am the then,
I am the now,
I am the why,
I am the how

Be it large,
Be it small,
I am the essence of it all

You are the dream,
I am the dream,
You are the light,
I am the light,
You are the vision in the night
I am the vision in the night

You are the love,
I am the love,
You are the glow,
I am the glow,
You are the truth I seek to know
I am the truth you seek to know

You are the weak,
I am the weak,
You are the music in my song
I am the music in your song

You are the then,
I am the now,
You are the why,
I am the how
You are the thought
I am the thought