Bubudiu

Angel of Mine

2007-02-24T10:30:00.000-08:00

When I first saw You I already knew
There was something inside of You
Something I thought that I would never find
Angel of mine

I look at You lookin' at me
Now I know why they say
the best things are free
I'm gonna love You boy, You are so fine
Angel of Mine

How You changed my world, You'll never know
I'm different now, You helped me grow
You came into my life sent from Above
When I lost all hope you showed me Love
I'm checkin' for Ya, boy You're right on time
Angel of Mine

Nothing means more to me than what we share
No one in this whole world can ever compare
Last night the way You moved
is still on my mind
Angel of Mine

What You mean to me You'll never know
Deep inside I need to show
You came into my life sent from Above
When I lost all hope, You showed me Love
I'm checkin' for Ya, boy You're right on time
Angel of Mine

I never knew I could feel these moments
As if they were new,
Every breath that I take,
the Love that we make
I only share it with You, You, You, You, You
When I first saw You I already knew
There was something inside of You
Something I thought that I would never find
Angel of Mine

You came into my life sent from Above
When I lost all hope You showed me Love
I'm checkin' for ya, boy You're right on time
Angel of Mine

How you changed my world You'll never know
I'm different now, You helped me grow

I look at You lookin' at me
Now I know why they say
the best things are free
I'm checkin' for Ya, boy You're right on time
Angel of Mine

The Naming of Cats

2006-11-16T11:37:00.000-08:00

SOLO:
There's a man over there with a look of surprise
As much as to say well now how about that?
Do I actually see with my own very eyes
A man who's not heard of a jellicle cat?

MAN:
What's a jellicle cat?

ALL (Echoing):
What's a jellicle cat?
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ALL (Whispering):
The naming of cats is a difficult matter
It isn't just one of your holiday games
You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter
When I tell you a cat must have three different names

First of all, there's the name that the family use daily
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey
All of them are sensible, everyday names

There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
But all of them sensible everyday names.

But I tell you a cat needs a name that's particular
A name that's peculiar and more dignified
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular?
Or spread out his whiskers or cherish his pride?

Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo or Coricopat
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum
Names that never belong to more than one cat

But above and beyond there's still one name left over
And that is the name that you will never guess
The name that no human research can discover
But the cat himself knows and will never confess

When you notice a cat in profound meditation
The reason, I tell you, is always the same
His mind is engaged in rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name

His ineffable, effable, effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name
Name, name, name, name, name, name

The Moments of Happiness

2006-11-16T11:36:00.000-08:00

SOLO:
The moments of happiness
We had the experience but missed the meaning
And approach to the meaning restores the experience
In a different form beyond any meaning

We can assign to happiness
The past experience revived in the meaning
Is not the experience of one life only
But of many generations
Not forgetting something that is probably quite ineffable

GRIZABELLA:
Moonlight
Turn your face to the moonlight
Let your memory lead you
Open up, enter in
If you find there the meaning of what happiness is
Then a new life will begin

Gus, the Theatre Cat

2006-11-16T11:31:00.000-08:00

SOLO:
Gus is the cat at the theatre door
His name, as I ought to have told you before
Is really Asparagus, and that's a fuss to pronounce
That we usually call him just Gus

His coat's very shabby, he's thin as a rake
And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake
Yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats
But no longer a terror to mice or to rats

For he isn't the cat that he was in his prime
Though his name was quite famous, he says, in his time
And whenever he joins his friends at their club
(Which takes place at the back of the neighboring pub)

He loves to regale them, if someone else pays
With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days
For he once was a star of the highest degree
He has acted with Irving, he's acted with Tree

And he likes to relate his success on the halls
Where the gallery once gave him seven cat calls
But his greatest creation as he loves to tell
Was Firefrorefiddle, the fiend of the fell
GUS:
I have played in my time every possible part
And I used to know seventy speeches by heart
I'd extemporize backchat, I knew how to gag
And I knew how to let the cat out of the bag

I knew how to act with my back and my tail
With an hour of rehearsal, I never could fail
I'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts
Whether I took the lead, or in character parts

I have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell
When the curfew was rung then I swung on the bell
In the pantomime season, I never fell flat
And I once understudied Dick Whittington's cat

But my grandest creation, as history will tell
was Firefrorefiddle, the fiend of the fell

SOLO:
Then, if someone will give him a toothful of gin
He will tell how he once played a part in East Lynne
At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat
When some actor suggested the need for a cat

GUS:
And I say now these kittens, they do not get trained
As we did in the days when Victoria reigned
They never get drilled in a regular troupe
And they think they are smart just to jump through a hoop

SOLO:
And he says as he scratches himself with his claws

GUS:
Well the theatre is certainly not what is was
These modern productions are all very well
But there's nothing to equal from what I hear tell

That moment of mystery when I made history
As Firefrorefiddle, the fiend of the fell

I once crossed the stage on the telegraph wire
To rescue a child when a house was on fire
And I think that I still can much better than most
Produce blood curdling noises to bring on the ghost

And I once played Growltiger
Could do it again, could do it again
Could do it again