The Gits 2005

Chicago

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00:00:01The Gits, they're about addiction, they're about loss, they're about love.

00:00:05We became, I think, a real band of the people.

00:00:08People were indoctrinated, they came and they saw this band, and it opened some passageway up in them.

00:00:12There has not been anything like them since then.

00:00:15It's what I was doing, what I loved doing, and then we had to stop doing it.

00:00:19When Mia was murdered, that just destroyed us all.

00:00:22Everybody was just blown away and just stunned.

00:00:25Like, the world caved in, the fucking walls came tumbling down.

00:00:28It still makes me sad that there's so much more we could have done.

00:00:31What the fuck happened?

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00:01:50The story of Mia and the Gits!

00:01:56I started playing music when I was about 11

00:01:58I tried to be a jazz musician

00:02:00I really tried to

00:02:00I always kind of hated that fact

00:02:02That I couldn't get into jazz

00:02:04And couldn't really enjoy it

00:02:05Because I knew it was a better art form

00:02:06It was a better music

00:02:15I grew up in Jersey

00:02:17Spent a lot of Sunday afternoons at CBGB

00:02:19I started listening to bands like The Minutemen

00:02:20The Descendants and Minor Threat

00:02:23That's when I was inspired to start playing

00:02:29The neighborhood I grew up in was way out in Brooklyn

00:02:32It's like a neighborhood that time forgot

00:02:33My first guitar was actually like this toy guitar

00:02:36It had really, really light, cheap nylon strings

00:02:39It was more like kind of like a ukulele

00:02:52I knew I wanted Mia to sing with us

00:02:54In fact I remember literally crying

00:03:00One of the first times I heard her

00:03:02I was really happy because I knew that she was good

00:03:04I didn't know how good

00:03:14The story is that her father's family

00:03:16Is a distant descendant of Emiliano Zapata

00:03:19Who was the big revolutionary

00:03:21And so she kind of had that in her blood maybe

00:03:23That like kind of fighting spirit

00:03:25What I know of my daughter

00:03:27She was very quiet

00:03:30Very reserved

00:03:31Ultra, ultra shy

00:03:33The last person in the world

00:03:36Who would call attention to herself

00:03:38And yet put a microphone in her hand

00:03:40March her up on a stage

00:03:42And she was just magnetic

00:03:49Antioch College is in Ohio

00:03:51It's an old liberal arts school

00:03:53That was regarded highly a long time ago

00:03:55The Gits were formed in the fall of 1986

00:03:57After Matt Dresner came back from a co-op in San Francisco

00:04:00I went back to Antioch

00:04:01And I was really inspired to start a band

00:04:03I knew this guy Andy looked punk rock

00:04:06I want you to be the guitarist

00:04:08So I just said yeah sure

00:04:10You know whatever

00:04:10You know because I didn't take it seriously

00:04:13When I first met the members of the Gits

00:04:16I was into the Kinks

00:04:17And 60s rock and the Who

00:04:19And I loved the Ramones

00:04:21And some of those bands

00:04:22But really I really didn't know much about punk

00:04:23Because it just really didn't exist in Indiana

00:04:27Where I grew up

00:04:28You know a week and a half later

00:04:29We actually had a band

00:04:31We're practicing for hours every night

00:04:33Started jamming

00:04:34We jammed in this old abandoned dorm room

00:04:36At Antioch

00:04:36And once Mia started singing

00:04:37Everything just kind of came together

00:04:38And it was so much fun

00:04:39And it was this really soulful band

00:04:41The songs were really fast

00:04:43And furious

00:04:51I was in class with Mia

00:04:53And I remember I was always being kind of intimidated

00:04:55Like who is this woman

00:04:56I mean she just commanded

00:04:59Respect and interest immediately

00:05:01I was at this party

00:05:03And it was pretty late

00:05:04And everyone was drunk

00:05:05Especially Mia

00:05:06She just like jumped up on a table

00:05:07Out of the blue

00:05:08And started singing

00:05:09Like Bessie Smith blues

00:05:11Or something

00:05:11And it was like

00:05:13Blew everyone away

00:05:14It was really as if

00:05:15Like somebody pulled the plug

00:05:17Out of the wall

00:05:17Or something

00:05:18The room kind of stopped

00:05:32I think it was at that moment

00:05:33When Matt Dresner heard her sing

00:05:35That he was like

00:05:35I'm going to form a band with her

00:05:37Her natural performance

00:05:38Was just so beautiful

00:05:39I mean there was an awkwardness about her

00:05:41Because she would pull her knees together

00:05:43And you know

00:05:44She looked like a chicken

00:05:45I mean she did

00:05:46And it was awesome

00:05:48Because you're like

00:05:48Who is this lady

00:05:49Who sings like

00:05:51A heavy angel

00:05:53It was like

00:05:54Where is Ma Rainey

00:05:55And Bessie Smith

00:05:56Let's just like

00:05:57Power punch them

00:05:58And power pack them

00:05:59You know

00:06:00Inside this chicken woman

00:06:02Who's got a lot of heart

00:06:04You know

00:06:04What's going on here

00:06:08When we started the band

00:06:09We were called

00:06:10The Sniveling Little Rat-Faced Gits

00:06:11I wanted to change the name

00:06:13Of the fucking band

00:06:14But the other three people

00:06:15In the band

00:06:16Would not have it

00:06:17A git's like a moron

00:06:19A crackpot

00:06:20A git is a freak

00:06:21A git's a dork

00:06:23A git's a nerd

00:06:24It's from a Monty Python episode

00:06:26Darling

00:06:27These

00:06:28These are the gits

00:06:31The gits

00:06:32Band names are inherently stupid

00:06:33And they become

00:06:35Just a symbol of the band

00:06:37This is

00:06:39A sniveling little rat-faced git

00:06:41And this

00:06:42Is his wife

00:06:43Dreary fat boring old git

00:06:44It doesn't evoke anything

00:06:46The other three of them

00:06:47They were just like

00:06:48The gits

00:06:49We're the gits

00:06:54The gits shows

00:06:55At Antioch

00:06:56Were like

00:06:59Unparalleled

00:06:59Probably to anything

00:07:00That I've seen

00:07:01In a certain sense

00:07:12Each time

00:07:13If other pieces

00:07:14Are there more

00:07:15And further between

00:07:17And those pieces

00:07:18One hundred gills

00:07:20Of the guilt

00:07:20Built in your hair

00:07:22Well, I see you shake, I see the veins underneath your fingernails

00:07:28Scratching the walls, scratching the moment that brought you here

00:07:33Each time you thought you'd hold on, try to stay clean for someone

00:07:38Maybe you should just take a look inside of yourself

00:07:43Cause you create your own hell

00:07:47It was time for all of us to leave Antioch.

00:07:50We hadn't all graduated, but it was time to leave

00:07:53Andy and I knew we wanted to get as far away from the East Coast as we could

00:07:57So Seattle felt natural

00:07:58And we heard there was a little bit of a music scene burgeoning

00:08:00As soon as we arrived here, it just felt like home

00:08:17We all lived various places for a few months

00:08:20Until December, when a bunch of us moved into a big old rundown house that became the main center of

00:08:25our activities for the next several years

00:08:27We called it the Rat House

00:08:31This is 19th Street, and the Rat House is at 19th and Denny, which is just right on Capitol Hill

00:08:38It was owned by this guy who was a warlock

00:08:40And he told me that the crows used to all come and land on top of the house

00:08:45And the neighbors thought that he was a demon, so they spray painted a white cross on the front lawn

00:08:53He also said that it used to have cockroaches, but he made a cockroach stew

00:08:57And this was the guy that rented to us

00:08:59He made a cockroach stew and ate the stew

00:09:01And then from then on, all the cockroaches left

00:09:04And let's see, I haven't been here for a long time

00:09:06This Porsche wasn't here

00:09:07This was a beat-up 76 Dodge van that was falling apart

00:09:11And one time, the brakes gave way

00:09:13And it, like, drove down

00:09:14And we found it in the bushes, like, way down the street

00:09:17And miraculously, it didn't hit any other cars

00:09:19But just sort of drove itself and crashed down at the bottom

00:09:22When this fence wasn't there

00:09:23There's a porch there in front of the door

00:09:25And that's where we used to sit

00:09:26And, you know, talk about projects

00:09:28And drink and hang out

00:09:31Out of all of us, Mia had been the first one of us to become gainfully employed

00:09:35And she got a job as a waitress at the Frontier Room

00:09:38And she made about $4.25 an hour

00:09:41But it used to be toughest dive bar and nastiest greasy spoon restaurant in town

00:09:46And we were here every day

00:09:48Because she would feed us

00:09:49Because she would feed us and we didn't have much money

00:09:50And so I think we spent probably every day for about a year, year and a half

00:09:54At this waterfront dive

00:09:56See, that's where Mia used to live in that room back there

00:09:59I used to live up there

00:10:01In that top floor there

00:10:02Actually, I had the best friend

00:10:03And Carla and Julian lived in that bottom area

00:10:06Which used to be a church chapel, I guess

00:10:08And there was an altar in there

00:10:09Where the church used to be

00:10:10And they had their bed on the altar

00:10:12Which was kind of risque

00:10:14So beautiful

00:10:15I mean, it was just so nice to meet people

00:10:17I just kind of had your same mind

00:10:19That's the way we want to live our life, you know

00:10:21You had beer dripping off the wall, you know

00:10:23Because people were rowdy

00:10:24I mean, it was punk rock

00:10:25You know, what do you expect?

00:10:26So people would, like, break through windows

00:10:28You know, break things

00:10:30Fall over, dump their beer

00:10:32Throw their beer

00:10:33I mean, it was just incredible

00:10:34It was just totally insane

00:10:35Here we are in front of this hair salon

00:10:38That used to be the foremost live music venue in Seattle

00:10:42A club called The Vogue

00:10:43We were trying to get a gig there for, like, months

00:10:46And that no one would

00:10:47The guy wouldn't book us at all

00:10:50We actually bribed him with a dollar

00:10:52The first night at The Vogue

00:10:54The Vogue was our foot in the door in Seattle

00:10:56Hey, Jules

00:10:58Less vocals in his monitor and more guitar

00:11:01Maybe a little more clean

00:11:02We'll be right back to you

00:11:26We'll be right back to you

00:11:30We'll be right back to you

00:11:37You know, how many times do you go see a band

00:11:39That's like, oh, okay

00:11:41Start playing

00:11:42And, you know, something happens

00:11:44With them, it was like

00:11:46And, oh, fuck

00:11:48Touch and stare

00:11:49You never look in your eyes

00:11:50You're the truth

00:11:51Yeah, when it hits me

00:11:53I see you

00:11:53Here's a little heavy

00:11:56And yeah, when it's playing

00:11:57They're over

00:11:58Got the wide open

00:12:00They're bringing something else

00:12:01To the table

00:12:02That no one else around here has

00:12:09I remember

00:12:10I brought some friends

00:12:11To see their show

00:12:14And everybody just got along

00:12:16Really instantly

00:12:17You know

00:12:18Yeah, instantaneous

00:12:18They were just, like

00:12:20Immersed into this kind of

00:12:22Whole punk rock scene there

00:12:23A lot of people became very

00:12:25It was on the same

00:12:27Everybody was kind of on the same level

00:12:29Coming from the same place

00:12:30Down there is where we had

00:12:31Our rehearsal studio

00:12:32And Seven Year Bitch

00:12:33DC Beggars

00:12:34The Gits

00:12:35Big Brown House

00:12:36And all the bands

00:12:38Rehearsed down there

00:12:38And I can remember

00:12:39When Seven Year Bitch got started

00:12:41There was Valerie Agnew

00:12:43Who at the time

00:12:44Was Steve's girlfriend

00:12:45And Celine

00:12:47And Stephanie Sargent

00:12:48And Liz Davis

00:12:50And they were all

00:12:51Huge fans of music

00:12:52And huge fans of the Gits

00:12:53We so, you know

00:12:54Respected and admired

00:12:56And looked up to them

00:12:57And, you know

00:12:58Just thought they were the shit

00:12:58So when we first started playing

00:13:00It was like

00:13:02We had to borrow their gear

00:13:03I mean, we didn't know shit

00:13:04We didn't know what the hell

00:13:05We were doing

00:13:05So they just totally helped us

00:13:07And then listened to us

00:13:09Thrashing away

00:13:09Banging around down there

00:13:10I mean, I can't even imagine

00:13:12What it was like for them

00:13:13We would have to go

00:13:14And get like

00:13:16A half rack of beer

00:13:18To loosen up

00:13:19And get comfortable

00:13:20And just start playing

00:13:21Because we'd be like

00:13:22You guys go away

00:13:22Like go somewhere

00:13:23Yeah, just go away

00:13:24Don't listen to us

00:13:24Oh, get that fucking camera

00:13:26Out of my face

00:13:27God

00:13:27Jesus

00:13:28And we lighten up

00:13:29We did

00:13:29There was, you know

00:13:30Some, I think, encouragement

00:13:31Probably specifically from Mia

00:13:32To say

00:13:33You guys can do this

00:13:34You don't need to just

00:13:35Stand in the audience

00:13:35She's like

00:13:36No, you should be the singer

00:13:37And I'm like

00:13:38Okay

00:13:39And I was like

00:13:39I'll play drums

00:13:40My boyfriend plays drums

00:13:41Steve starts

00:13:42Showing her how to play drums

00:13:44We meet this other girl

00:13:45Elizabeth

00:13:46Who also worked in the market

00:13:47Oh, she's playing bass

00:13:48With, you know

00:13:48Let's have her come out there

00:13:50And drum with us

00:13:50Mia would always come up

00:13:51And be like

00:13:51What you're doing is good

00:13:52It's real

00:13:53It's true

00:13:53You guys sound really good

00:13:54And she's paid attention

00:13:55She like would pick out

00:13:56Certain things

00:13:58Like you knew

00:13:58She wasn't just

00:13:59Giving it lip service

00:13:59And I knew that her bedroom

00:14:01Was right above

00:14:02Our practice space

00:14:03And I was like

00:14:04Whoa, that was really

00:14:05Like intimidating, you know

00:14:12I realized that sort of

00:14:13Our ethic

00:14:14The reason we were doing it

00:14:16Fit more into the category

00:14:17Of punk than anything else

00:14:19We were bored

00:14:20We were young

00:14:21We were a little bit drunk

00:14:22A little bit angry

00:14:23And we had a lot of energy

00:14:25What we considered punk

00:14:26Was the whole

00:14:28Do-it-yourself ethic

00:14:29If you need to make

00:14:30Something happen

00:14:30You decided you were

00:14:31Going to do it

00:14:32And you started from scratch

00:14:33And you just did it

00:14:34And that's how we put out

00:14:36Our first record

00:14:36I mean we'd have

00:14:37These haphazard meetings

00:14:38Everybody's all

00:14:39Whatever

00:14:39We're gonna get

00:14:40The collective together

00:14:41We're gonna get serious

00:14:42So we're gonna put out

00:14:42This compilation

00:14:43And we're gonna do this

00:14:44So we pulled

00:14:45All the different people

00:14:46That were in bands

00:14:47And said hey

00:14:47You wanna put a cut

00:14:48On this record

00:14:48Give us a tape

00:14:49At a time

00:14:50Which we didn't even realize

00:14:51There was such a huge thing

00:14:53About to happen

00:14:54In that city

00:14:54We had no other family here

00:14:57So our family was

00:15:00Us

00:15:00The comet was like

00:15:01The bar they went to

00:15:03Most of the time

00:15:03And the comet knew

00:15:04That if there was a party

00:15:05At a red house

00:15:06Everybody was basically invited

00:15:07You know

00:15:08So it was many times

00:15:09That it's like

00:15:10People would just show up

00:15:11There was gonna be

00:15:12The big rat house party

00:15:14You know

00:15:14Gets were playing

00:15:15And the beggars

00:15:16And seven year bitch

00:15:17Just you know

00:15:18Let's go

00:15:19New year's

00:15:19New year's eve show

00:15:21That we did at the rat house

00:15:22Was all like

00:15:22You know

00:15:23I mean you see it

00:15:24With Mia

00:15:25And everybody

00:15:26Like no fucking war

00:15:27And we were all

00:15:27Just like really

00:15:28There was all that going on

00:15:30That was affecting

00:15:30Everybody's whole psyche

00:15:32And just whatever

00:15:37Fire fucking war

00:15:39Before there was

00:15:41A band

00:15:41Or before there was

00:15:42A show

00:15:42Or before there was

00:15:43A rehearsal

00:15:43There was our friendship

00:15:44And our loyalty

00:15:45To one another

00:15:46I think that was

00:15:47Kind of the spirit

00:15:48Of the rat house

00:15:49And like

00:15:49The thing that was

00:15:50Going on there

00:15:51It was just

00:15:52Easy

00:15:53And free

00:15:53And fun

00:15:56To one another

00:16:38From the get-go, this chemical thing where things would just sort of organically materialize and songs would happen more

00:16:46than be written.

00:16:47A few times I just messed around with some shit on guitar and the other guys were like, oh, is

00:16:53that a new song? And I'd be like, yeah, it is, even though it wasn't. But I would tell them

00:16:57that because the thing is when you're in a band, you get bored pretty easily.

00:17:00You constantly get bored of your shit and you want to do something new and you want to keep, and

00:17:04that's how bands get better and better from doing this.

00:17:06You know, a lot of songs too, I would just bring the entire song fully formed and show the band

00:17:10and they would arrange it.

00:17:11Other things I didn't have fully formed, I just had these parts, but I knew sort of the order.

00:17:15And then, you know, we would arrange it together as a group, you know, mostly me and Matt or me,

00:17:19Matt and Steve.

00:17:20Matt, he would come up with great bass lines. He had a really good ear. Andy could sort of describe

00:17:27what he wanted and Matt would turn it into something that was unique.

00:17:31Both Steve and Andy were just amazing players and trying to keep up with their musicianship forced me to learn

00:17:37very quickly.

00:17:38If the three of us were working on stuff or whatever, Mia would come down with a tape recorder and

00:17:42listen to it for a while.

00:17:43And then eventually, after she heard it a couple of times, she'd tape it and then bring it upstairs.

00:17:47And then we wouldn't hear from her about it for a while.

00:17:49And then we'd have a period where it was just the three of us pretty much working on stuff.

00:17:53And then we'd start hassling her, you know.

00:17:55So Zapata, where's our lyrics?

00:17:58Yeah, you'll get it eventually. You'll get it when I'm ready.

00:18:01Well, a lot of times she had these little journal books and a lot of times at the bar or

00:18:06wherever she was hanging out,

00:18:07if she was by herself, a lot of times she would just sit around and write in them.

00:18:10Hey, you walk in with another headache. I can tell by the lines in your face.

00:18:16You seem to think if you just remove the problem, the answers are what will come next.

00:18:23Another shot of whiskey and maybe I'll be ready.

00:18:26Watch out crying in your head.

00:18:29Never thinking that all the good times were walking with it.

00:18:35Don't know why we'd compromise ourselves.

00:18:38I thought it was a common understanding

00:18:41With all I've tried to help with

00:18:44Well, tell me why

00:18:45We'll end up at the end

00:18:47Another drop up in one second at the bar

00:18:50And maybe I'll get in some ways

00:18:53Don't know why all the good times

00:18:56Have to turn up with the band

00:19:00And I thought she was she was a great lyricist. I thought she had some great words

00:19:06Andy's unusual mind was greatly like enhanced by his support that Mia would give him and there's a just this

00:19:15emotional link

00:19:16They were not lovers, you know, they weren't a romantic duo, they were an artistic duo, their depth of their

00:19:22connection was really in the music. It's a lyricist and a music writer who understand each other's rhythms

00:19:30Her and Andy, they brought the best out in each other. He kind of understood what she could sing and

00:19:34would push her to her limits

00:19:37The two just really created something that was bigger than the both of them as individuals

00:19:41She was really like my my soulmate as far as my music soulmate

00:19:47It's kind of a miracle to meet someone like that in this life

00:20:15Wingo Lamo that was always one of my favorites when I wrote the music to that I was in the

00:20:19rat house basement

00:20:20And it just came together really quickly and I just knew I just had a really good feeling about it

00:20:24It's funny because the chorus Mia says immobilized by the torment

00:20:28I didn't know what the words were because I hadn't read them

00:20:30I thought she was saying just like my father told me

00:20:33One time I asked her I was so Mia what are you saying about your father in that one song?

00:20:36Like I'm not saying just like my father told me you idiot

00:20:38But we always laughed at that you know when we play it live sometimes you just say just like my

00:20:42father told me

00:20:43Just like my father told me it ain't no other's nothing more I can take

00:20:48There's nothing good in yourself waiting around like it's somebody else

00:21:06Woo doggy!

00:21:08I say Steve Fitz Louisville

00:21:11The stuff that was getting all the publicity was basically the sub pop bands

00:21:17And this grunge thing which you know which was fine for whatever it was

00:21:21But we had nothing to do with it

00:21:35Here's to your fuck

00:21:50Here's to your fuck

00:21:51Obviously you know I stole the title from David Lynch from Blue Velvet you know

00:21:56Fuck this shit and fuck my health sucks or whatever you know

00:21:59Here's to your fuck

00:22:00Here's to your fuck Frank

00:22:10Here's to your fuck

00:22:29Here's to your fuck

00:22:36Yeah baby this is the fuck

00:22:38Cause you're gonna fuck the way you're making friends

00:22:44You're full of shit

00:22:45Just fuck

00:22:48Here's to your baby

00:22:49And you're fucked

00:23:16Mia was doing something that was unique in 1990s

00:23:21And it's unique today this raw pitch brilliant blues singer singing as this charismatic front to this whirlwind of a

00:23:33punk rock band

00:23:33I'm so lucky to have seen it

00:23:35She could have really sang in any type of band and she would have always been the spotlight

00:23:40The thing the point of focus

00:23:47Alright man I'd like to thank all these people and bands who came out tonight

00:23:51Support and help make us feel good coming back here

00:23:57She didn't give a shit and it totally came out

00:24:00Because she wasn't afraid of abrasiveness

00:24:03How sloppy you are in life

00:24:04There's a beauty to it

00:24:16There was a soulfulness that came out of Mia

00:24:20And there was a rawness

00:24:38The intensity within her was like something that was like both punk rock and blues

00:24:44And because it had that depth

00:24:46I mean you'd have to be a fucking zombie to not be affected

00:24:49That's what I said I don't have to trust in you

00:24:53When I thought I could see you

00:24:56And I ain't got nothing else

00:25:00And with all that you've taken over me

00:25:04Well don't answer that you sound

00:25:07I'm rude and I'm trying with me

00:25:10No don't, don't hear your lies

00:25:14Been calling some kind of truth

00:25:18Go ahead and walk me, walk me close

00:25:20It's gonna be right to the end

00:25:22Put that, put that, I don't feel

00:25:24I'll keep going back

00:25:25Flying and strove

00:25:27Despite the way I keep left

00:25:29I'm blessed

00:25:30Keep your twisted

00:25:31Keep your twisted

00:25:33But I'll keep breathing

00:25:35I'll keep breathing

00:25:44It never really sunk in that there was this tremendous following of fans

00:25:52And not to sound melodramatic

00:25:55But even people who worshipped the ground she walked

00:25:57I never thought of her as a star

00:25:59It's just my daughter

00:26:00You know, my daughter Mia Zapata

00:26:0227 years old and double jointed

00:26:04You know, that's who she was

00:26:06Who when we were on camping trips as a young kid

00:26:09Would get mosquitoes in her hair

00:26:11Flies in her hair

00:26:13Was always sitting around

00:26:14Trying to figure out how to get all these flies out of the knots in her hair

00:26:19My mother has this great idea that we're gonna go to the local bar in Sandpoint, Idaho

00:26:25And we go to this open mic night

00:26:28And I'm scared to death

00:26:29And of course we walk in

00:26:30And everybody's singing country songs

00:26:32And of course everybody's kind of looking at Mia

00:26:34You know, Mia beelines right for the guy

00:26:36Handling the thing

00:26:37And says, would you mind if I borrowed your guitar?

00:26:40Oh yeah, what are you gonna do?

00:26:41He says, well, she's like

00:26:42I'd like to sing a few songs

00:26:43And you know, she gets up there in her fur coat

00:26:46And their dreads and bleached out roots

00:26:48And she looks nuts

00:26:49She looks like she doesn't belong there

00:26:51She blew this room away

00:26:54The shots were being sent to the table

00:26:56Shaking hands

00:26:57And it was the introduction to Mia's talent that I never knew

00:27:01She didn't have your typical sense of humor

00:27:04And she couldn't tell a joke worth her life

00:27:06But somehow everything she said

00:27:08Had a sort of dry wit and bite to it

00:27:11We'd be driving along hour upon hour

00:27:14And there'd be some cows out in the pastures

00:27:17And every time we saw cows

00:27:19She would just go

00:27:19Those cows, they're outstanding in their field

00:27:23The worst part though

00:27:24Was when she tried to relate that humor on stage

00:27:27Mia would try to fill the gap

00:27:28By saying something funny

00:27:30To the boat

00:27:32We must go to the boat

00:27:34And no one ever got what she was saying

00:27:38She didn't know how to drive at all

00:27:39And she loved the idea of driving

00:27:41And she convinced someone else

00:27:42Who didn't know

00:27:43Who just assumed that she had a license

00:27:44And she was like

00:27:45Can I drive us back to the rat house

00:27:47From the comet?

00:27:47And he was like

00:27:48Yeah, sure

00:27:49And she's like

00:27:49You have your car, right?

00:27:50He's like

00:27:51Yeah

00:27:51And she's like

00:27:51Okay

00:27:52Hey Mia

00:27:52You know

00:27:53I don't really remember

00:27:54All these tall buildings

00:27:55Near your house

00:27:56She just turned around

00:27:58She's like

00:27:58Shut up

00:27:59I'm taking you the scenic route

00:28:05She would have been great

00:28:06If she was singing within acoustic guitar

00:28:07She would have been great

00:28:08If she was singing in a techno band

00:28:11As it happened

00:28:12She was singing in a punk rock band

00:28:15Second skin

00:28:16I was like

00:28:17I don't know

00:28:17I still

00:28:18Maybe I have a prejudice

00:28:19Because I put the single out

00:28:20But I thought it was their best song

00:28:22And I couldn't believe

00:28:23They picked me to put it out

00:28:24We were just kind of

00:28:26Playing around

00:28:27And all of a sudden

00:28:28This song evolved

00:28:30I imagine specifically

00:28:31Andy probably came up with a riff

00:28:33When we were doing second skin

00:28:34And recording that in the studio

00:28:37Everyone left

00:28:38And Mia did the vocals by herself

00:28:40And I was the first one to come back

00:28:41And I thought her vocal performance

00:28:43Was just

00:28:43Just really wonderful

00:28:45And Mia just looked at me

00:28:46And she said

00:28:47Yeah, it's

00:28:48It's real desperate

00:28:49It's more desperate sounding

00:28:50Than what we've been

00:28:51Coming up with

00:28:52Up until this point

00:28:53I mean, it had everything

00:28:56That we liked about music

00:28:57The driving force

00:29:00The emotions of Mia's lyrics

00:29:03And for the first time

00:29:04It was kind of catchy, too

00:29:20It takes all my breath

00:29:22Just to keep it calm

00:29:24I have to tell myself

00:29:26It's bad just to breathe

00:29:28Holding it intact

00:29:30Only have to do me in

00:29:32Each time I close my eyes

00:29:34I see another change

00:29:36It's what I can't forget

00:29:37Something I cannot break out of

00:29:40I need a second skip

00:29:41Something to overcome

00:29:43Can't seem to get out of this

00:29:45Oh, I'll touch my soul

00:29:46I'll touch my soul

00:29:49I'll touch my soul

00:29:54I'll touch my soul

00:29:56Just to wake up

00:29:56Tells me

00:29:57Hell, I must be brave

00:29:59It hits me like a drug

00:30:00Chirred into my face

00:30:02It's not as delightful

00:30:04Delightful of our pain

00:30:06In moralizing me

00:30:08Oh, I can't think I'm dead

00:30:10I need a second skip

00:30:12Something on the drug

00:30:14Can't do it all by your

00:30:16Sometimes I need

00:30:17Just a little more

00:30:17I've got that chance to give

00:30:20Every drop that's left in me

00:30:22I need a second skip

00:30:23Something I cannot break free of

00:30:41I just tell myself

00:30:42Girl, I'll just let it breathe

00:30:44There's a comment

00:30:46That I'm always searching for

00:30:48The dirt, it gets so heavy

00:30:50As it falls above my head

00:30:52It's even from on to my feet

00:30:54When drugs keep talking

00:30:55I can't keep up

00:30:56I need a second skip

00:30:58Something no one can do

00:31:00Can't do it on my own

00:31:01So fast I need

00:31:02Just a little more

00:31:03But I've got that chance to give

00:31:05Every drop that's left in me

00:31:07I need a second skip

00:31:09Something I cannot break free of

00:31:26Don't know what I'm saying to be easy

00:31:28You're one left to deny

00:31:30The choice ain't coming for you

00:31:31You're one left to survive

00:31:33Don't you know what to stand up against

00:31:35A world set to deceive

00:31:37Let's take the special strength

00:31:39I've got that second skip

00:31:41I've got that chance to give

00:31:43I've got the only way

00:31:44That I know how to live with it

00:31:46I need a second skip

00:31:48Something no one can come

00:31:50I need a second skip

00:31:52Something I cannot break free of

00:31:57God, I'll let you stand

00:31:58We're playing tomorrow night

00:31:59at the offering

00:32:00No kill time

00:32:04We get into the parking lot

00:32:06And she makes me promise

00:32:07That I will not make a scene

00:32:09In Tower Records

00:32:10And of course I immediately

00:32:11Go to this local section

00:32:13And there it is

00:32:14A GITS CD

00:32:16And so I'm

00:32:17Hey Mia, come over here

00:32:18Come over here

00:32:19She's dad, your voice is too loud

00:32:21Your voice is too loud

00:32:21Dad, you're making a scene

00:32:23You're making a scene

00:32:24I'm getting out of here

00:32:25No, come here

00:32:26Let me show you

00:32:27She's pulling on my sleeve

00:32:28And I'm pointing at the CD

00:32:30So finally I acquiesced

00:32:31And we leave the store

00:32:33She's saying, you know

00:32:34Why did you do that?

00:32:35You know, and I said

00:32:35I didn't do anything

00:32:36All I did was hold up your CD

00:32:38She says, it embarrasses me

00:32:40I said, why would it embarrass you?

00:32:42This is what you do for a living

00:32:44You don't think of it like that, dad

00:32:47It must have been stunning

00:32:49To feel that you were a part of a scene

00:32:52That the whole world was looking at

00:32:54Because everyone's eyes were on Seattle right then

00:32:56When the seven-year bitch got rolling

00:32:58Totally out of the basement of the rat house

00:33:01With so much help from them

00:33:02And when we started to get popular

00:33:04And then even to the point where

00:33:06You know, we were getting signs and stuff

00:33:09It was really weird

00:33:37We were a little envious

00:33:38You know, we were like

00:33:39Fuck, these guys going to New York

00:33:40And playing these shows

00:33:41We taught them how to play their instruments

00:33:43And they're playing in New York before us

00:33:45They got to be on the cover of The Rocket

00:33:47And we barely ever got them mentioned in that rag

00:34:04This is what happens, I suppose

00:34:06In an intense rock scene

00:34:07You either become rivals or you become friends

00:34:10And they were clearly friends

00:34:12There was a documentary filmmaker in town

00:34:14And he was working on a movie called Hype

00:34:17That was about the Seattle scene

00:34:19Seven-year bitch was asked to be a part of it

00:34:21And I think they asked Doug Prey, the filmmaker

00:34:24Have you guys talked to the kids yet?

00:34:25Because, like, if you haven't, get on it

00:34:28You know

00:34:28And eventually he contacted us

00:34:30And we were always a bit wary of film people

00:34:34We were always kind of like

00:34:35Yeah, I don't know about you

00:34:37We're going to have to think about this

00:34:40We're going to talk to you society people

00:34:42I don't know about you

00:35:12The only thing that's real is that amongst these walls

00:35:15I whisper to a fear that sleeps in my soul

00:35:18Waiting on my conscience

00:35:19But I think I know

00:35:21It hurts me to be angry

00:35:22It kills me to be kind

00:35:24But my own retortment is my own disguise

00:35:27Waiting on the favors

00:35:29They all have come to show

00:35:30There's not much in there for you to watch

00:35:33I heard about Mia Zapata kind of just through the scene.

00:35:36I knew Seven Year Bitch and Tad and Soundgarden

00:35:40And it was sort of like, oh, there's this really great singer

00:35:42You have to see her

00:35:43There's this really great singer

00:35:44You have to see her

00:35:45One of the guys from Sub Pop

00:35:46New Mia from the Frontier Room

00:35:48And had seen us at one of our very first shows

00:35:50And he asked us if we would be interested in playing

00:35:53Opening for Tad and Nirvana

00:35:55Nirvana was just break-in and Soundgarden

00:35:57And all these bands were becoming really trendy and hip in the U.S.

00:36:02But we were like, fuck it, let's go to Europe

00:36:10Though we were completely unknown at the time to the Europeans

00:36:13They treated us like royalty

00:36:14And we made many great friends and played some spectacular shows

00:36:18We played this place called the Ecstasy

00:36:21And it was this huge club

00:36:22And we ended up going on at 3 in the morning

00:36:24And the place was packed with people

00:36:26But at that point in time, like, Seattle bands were considered so hip

00:36:30And I remember one show in Denmark

00:36:32We were playing with this band called Life But How to Live It

00:36:34From Oslo, Norway

00:36:36And the singer from that band

00:36:38She was singing all the words to our songs

00:36:40And she just totally dug Mia's lyrics

00:36:43It was probably one of the best things that we did as a band

00:36:46We became, I think, a real band of the people

00:36:49You know, actually, someone said that to me

00:36:51And it was really true

00:37:00We got back home

00:37:02Seven Year Bitch had just played a real big show

00:37:04I think opening for the Chili Peppers

00:37:06The sort of fast success of Seven Year Bitch

00:37:09At that time, the momentum

00:37:11Became too much for Stephanie Sargent

00:37:13And she had been fighting a heroin addiction

00:37:17It snuck up and bit her in the ass

00:37:21Mia was especially crushed by Stephanie's death

00:37:26I'm criticizing the song to a great friend I

00:37:28Died one year today in front of me

00:37:32All those are left

00:37:33One year today in theliners

00:38:01And I look forward to their people

00:38:02The song that came in the ass

00:38:03To the peace that we know

00:38:05If I could take that premise in me

00:38:07I'd put up with all that you'd like

00:38:11When I was walking into the water

00:38:13And I was trying not to breathe

00:38:16Where I could feel the current one in

00:38:20And I'd just get that deeper

00:38:23Life's sick of the pain

00:38:24And you'll feel it now

00:38:26It's way to sound

00:38:29If I could erase it all within one

00:38:34I'll write your brushes around my soul

00:38:37And now you let me go

00:38:40And I'd be around as evil as man

00:38:44Penetrate the obstacle

00:38:45I feel this peewee creeping out of my skin

00:38:49It's like a monster that's reaching for me

00:38:52I've got passion and life I've got men

00:38:54I've got you that's exactly what I'm saying

00:38:58And one time I think it was me, Stephanie, and maybe Maria

00:39:00I remember seeing them all in the lake

00:39:02They were tangled up in a lot of seaweed

00:39:04And they were all like screaming and squawking

00:39:06And like wrestling and all this stuff in the water

00:39:08And it was just so funny

00:39:09Because although they were these total

00:39:10You know, like insane punk rock women

00:39:13And stuff, they looked like little girls

00:39:14You know, they were all like

00:39:16Screaming in the water

00:39:17And you could tell when one of them

00:39:18Would get caught in the seaweed

00:39:19Because they were totally like

00:39:21Even more than the other

00:39:22And trying to pull the others in it

00:39:24And stuff, and Mia told me that's

00:39:26From going into the seaweed like that

00:39:27You know, that's where she came up with the lyrics

00:39:29To seaweed

00:39:30But I'll go down on that seaweed

00:39:33To what before

00:39:35Now I ever want to live with

00:39:37And turn me to wake up the surface

00:39:39And my chest, let you go

00:39:42I'm sick of the pain that I feel

00:39:46Sweat me down

00:39:49If I could erase it all

00:39:51Within one fucking time

00:39:54Wrap the pressures around my soul

00:39:57And I'll let you go

00:40:00And I'm drowning the old man

00:40:03But I'm trying to feel like the girl

00:40:28We have CDs, tapes, records

00:40:32Got a compilation over there

00:40:33With all Seattle bands

00:40:35And San Francisco bands

00:40:37Steel-blow wet tubs

00:40:38And your bitch

00:40:39And then

00:40:41Fucking DC Bears gets a lot of people

00:40:43It's also so right there

00:40:45It just seemed to keep building and building

00:40:47And we had all kinds of tours

00:40:48That were being set up

00:40:49National tours

00:40:51Our first gig in New York

00:40:53Was set up

00:40:53And we were real looking forward to that

00:40:54Hey, Dad, this is Mia

00:40:56Well, I'm down here in L.A.

00:40:57And I'm in this fancy restaurant

00:40:59We're sitting there with these executives

00:41:01From this recording company

00:41:02And, well, they're, you know, making an awful lot of promises to us

00:41:06Of what can happen

00:41:08And how they can help us

00:41:09And all of that

00:41:10And I sat with them

00:41:11And at that moment

00:41:12I committed myself to the idea

00:41:15That I was going to sign this band

00:41:16That they were going to be on Atlantic Records

00:41:18One of the executives

00:41:19Was asking the group

00:41:22What their aspirations

00:41:24What their goals were

00:41:26And when they got to Mia

00:41:29She said, well, all I really want

00:41:31Is a cabin in the woods

00:41:34An English sheepdog

00:41:35And a Jeep

00:41:36And to be able to sit and write music

00:41:39And one of the executives said

00:41:40We can give you that right now

00:41:42I don't know whether they

00:41:43Had committed themselves to that idea

00:41:45But I decided that I was going to make them

00:41:47A firm offer to be on Atlantic

00:41:49And, in fact, this was

00:41:53June 1993

00:41:54This was the beginning, you know

00:41:56Of so much great stuff to come

00:41:58It was just a real

00:41:59Just totally creative group

00:42:02It was just so spontaneous that way

00:42:04When I woke up to tail

00:42:07It was dizzy in my brain

00:42:09It's not that I'd like to feel this way

00:42:13The wag is shaking

00:42:15And I feel it start to tilt

00:42:17And I just go tumbling

00:42:20Right back in a whirlwind

00:42:23Again, I find myself

00:42:25Again

00:42:28I see you coming

00:42:31Why can't I seem to hold on to a fucking song

00:42:34This whirlwind's got me

00:42:37And I'm racing out the door

00:42:39It's time for a while

00:42:41But when I try to focus

00:42:43All my convictions

00:42:45Starts crashing down around me

00:42:47Again

00:42:51Thinking up that I knew

00:42:53And I am again

00:42:57We were sitting at the corner end of the bar

00:42:59Nearest the door

00:43:00And Mia was in a really good mood

00:43:03Because she had just played a solo show in L.A.

00:43:07And gotten paid for it

00:43:08And she was really psyched about it

00:43:10She was very loving

00:43:12And really like hugged us deeply

00:43:14And licked my face

00:43:16And did a Mia maneuver, you know

00:43:18And she left the bar

00:43:20And it was about midnight

00:43:21Maybe a little after

00:43:22And I got the call from Steve

00:43:23Saying that Mia was missing

00:43:27And he was hoping that it wasn't a repeat of Stephanie

00:43:29Which made me think drug related

00:43:34Which didn't make sense

00:43:36She said she was going to take a cab

00:43:37She was doing this

00:43:38She was doing that

00:43:39And we were just having like a regular night at the Comet

00:43:41Where like we would normally have

00:43:48Two of her roommates

00:43:50Finally broke down

00:43:51And called the morgue

00:43:54Where she

00:43:55Where she was

00:43:56And she was unidentified

00:43:58An unidentified victim at the morgue at that time

00:44:0627-year-old Mia Zapata

00:44:08Was a singer on the brink of making it big

00:44:11The band The Gits

00:44:12Had recently released a full-length CD

00:44:14National tour dates had just been finalized

00:44:17But it's all over now

00:44:18Zapata's body was found early Wednesday morning

00:44:21On a remote street in the central district

00:44:23Zapata had been strangled

00:44:25Police are investigating

00:44:26But so far they have no suspects or motives

00:44:29You can imagine how devastated I was

00:44:33When I learned about that

00:44:36And how angry I was

00:44:38You know

00:44:38That that could happen

00:44:39And I just remember feeling

00:44:41Like holy shit

00:44:44Like the world caved in

00:44:46The fucking walls came tumbling down

00:44:48You know

00:44:48It was just

00:44:49It was hard

00:44:50Out of all of us

00:44:51We were all so devastated

00:44:53But I think it was really

00:44:54Most difficult for my mother

00:44:55Because

00:44:56You know

00:44:57And then my father too

00:44:58I mean that was their little girl

00:45:00You know

00:45:00And

00:45:01And they were so proud of her

00:45:03Because

00:45:03She really paved her own road

00:45:06You think things are bad

00:45:08And they get so

00:45:09Much worse

00:45:10And

00:45:11And

00:45:12You

00:45:13You have to

00:45:14You have to handle it

00:45:15And you have to

00:45:16You have to deal

00:45:17Deal with it

00:45:17And you have to persevere

00:45:18And you have to carry on

00:45:19And you have to hold each other up

00:45:21And keep each other up

00:45:22But it was so hard

00:45:23It was like

00:45:23It was really a devastating thing

00:45:25Her

00:45:26Her death was

00:45:26There was no

00:45:27Rhyme

00:45:28Or reason to it

00:45:29It was so

00:45:30Definitely

00:45:31She

00:45:31She was there

00:45:32And she was gone

00:45:33She was missing in action

00:45:34It was just like

00:45:35She was just taken out

00:45:35Right

00:45:36Like so

00:45:38So violently

00:45:40There's no closure for that

00:45:42Cut my skin

00:45:43It makes me human

00:45:45The scar on your mind

00:45:46Don't just feel the pain

00:45:49Cause it's what

00:45:50Makes us teeming

00:45:52Yeah

00:45:53Keeps us all the same

00:45:55That was a

00:45:57That was a heavy time

00:45:59That was a heavy

00:46:02Lose a few people like that

00:46:04In your immediate life

00:46:06That's a big one

00:46:08We're all the same

00:46:10I think we were really

00:46:11Hittin' some strides

00:46:12Musically and in our writing

00:46:13When Mia was killed

00:46:16So

00:46:16It's really a shame

00:46:17Because we had so much lined up

00:46:19I mean Mia had started

00:46:20Writing music again

00:46:21And she had played me

00:46:21This piece on piano

00:46:23During a lunch break

00:46:24At the pizza place

00:46:25Where she worked

00:46:26And to me

00:46:26I just felt like

00:46:27This was

00:46:27This was the beginning

00:46:29You know

00:46:29Of so much

00:46:31Great stuff to come

00:46:33And it's just

00:46:33A real shame

00:46:34You know

00:46:35That obviously

00:46:36That it never got to be

00:46:37So

00:46:40Everybody was just

00:46:41Blown away

00:46:41And just stunned

00:46:42And just

00:46:43Grasping at anything

00:46:44And trying to figure it out

00:46:45And it was a mystery

00:46:46It was a grand mystery

00:46:48And I think that

00:46:50The main thing

00:46:52For me at that time

00:46:54Was

00:46:55That she was gone

00:46:56And that she was dead

00:46:57And that she had suffered

00:46:58That she had suffered

00:47:00And that was the hit

00:47:02That I kept getting

00:47:02Was like

00:47:03What did she go through

00:47:04What were her last moments like

00:47:05What the fuck happened

00:47:08We've got her

00:47:09Whereabouts

00:47:10Till about 2.15 in the morning

00:47:12And there's probably

00:47:13About a 1 hour

00:47:141 hour and 15 minute

00:47:15Time frame

00:47:16From the time she's last seen

00:47:17Till the time her body's found

00:47:19And we have no idea

00:47:20What happened at that time

00:47:22This is

00:47:23The area 24th and Yester

00:47:26This is where

00:47:26Mia's body was found

00:47:28At that time

00:47:29Was nothing like

00:47:29The way it is today

00:47:30It's kind of a field area

00:47:31It's somewhat isolated

00:47:32And there was a young lady

00:47:34Who was out

00:47:34She came across

00:47:36Mia's body

00:47:36And she ran across the street

00:47:38There's a fire station there

00:47:39And she woke up

00:47:40The firefighters

00:47:41They came out of here

00:47:42And called paramedics

00:47:43And like I said

00:47:44They tried to do

00:47:45The best they could

00:47:45But it was too late

00:47:46At that point

00:47:47Mia was already dead

00:47:48I remember

00:47:49That night

00:47:50When we were with her

00:47:52But then I don't

00:47:53Remember anything

00:47:53Until the funeral

00:47:54And you know

00:47:55Being at the funeral home

00:47:56With everybody

00:47:57Sticks in my head

00:47:58So vividly

00:47:59On the day of the wake

00:48:01I happened to look outside

00:48:02And the line kept

00:48:04Getting longer

00:48:05And now it was like

00:48:06A half a block long

00:48:07And all you could

00:48:08Come up with is

00:48:09Boy these are fans

00:48:10And friends of Mia's

00:48:11It blew my mind

00:48:13And how many people

00:48:15Knew Mia

00:48:16But Mia also knew them back

00:48:18We went over to the casket

00:48:20And laying in the casket

00:48:22Around Mia

00:48:24There were snips of hair

00:48:26There were rings

00:48:27Neck chains

00:48:29Labels

00:48:29And postcards

00:48:31Poems

00:48:32All laying

00:48:33Very respectfully

00:48:34Laying around her head

00:48:36And shoulders

00:48:37And on her chest

00:48:39And I mean

00:48:40It was just

00:48:41Absolutely

00:48:41Unbelievable

00:48:45There was a wake

00:48:46That her friends

00:48:48Her fans

00:48:49Was then holding

00:48:51That evening

00:48:51There were posters

00:48:53Scattered all over Seattle

00:48:54Announcing where this wake

00:48:56Was going to be held

00:48:57The only admission

00:48:58Was one yellow rose

00:48:59That's all you had to bring

00:49:01And the significance

00:49:02Of that was

00:49:03That Mia loved

00:49:04Yellow roses

00:49:05We as a family

00:49:07Were in my

00:49:08Car

00:49:09And we were driving

00:49:10To the street

00:49:11That the wake

00:49:12Was going to be held on

00:49:13In the building

00:49:14I made a couple

00:49:15Of wrong turns

00:49:15And at a certain point

00:49:18I said

00:49:19Wait a minute

00:49:19Look

00:49:20I don't know

00:49:21Exactly where we're going

00:49:23But if you'll notice

00:49:24On the streets

00:49:25There are people

00:49:26Carrying yellow roses

00:49:28And they are walking

00:49:30To

00:49:32Where the

00:49:33Location of this wake

00:49:35And we'll just

00:49:36Follow them

00:49:37She touched a lot

00:49:38Of people

00:49:39And a lot of people

00:49:39Considered

00:49:40Mia their best friend

00:49:42Because she probably

00:49:42Was

00:49:44Best friend

00:49:44To a lot of people

00:49:45Because she was

00:49:46A great friend

00:49:48People who never knew

00:49:49Mia often have

00:49:49A lot of misconceptions

00:49:50Of what she was like

00:49:52They often imagine

00:49:53That she was a real

00:49:54Tough girl

00:49:54Or that she was

00:49:55Some type of

00:49:56Selfless martyr

00:49:57Or saint

00:49:57I would say

00:49:58That those two things

00:49:59Are distortions

00:50:00Of qualities

00:50:01Which she did

00:50:01In fact possess

00:50:02But in reality

00:50:04She was a very

00:50:04Modest person

00:50:05She was extremely

00:50:06Affectionate

00:50:07And sincere

00:50:08Very very intelligent

00:50:10And really funny

00:50:11She was very private

00:50:12Very gentle

00:50:15Mia and I

00:50:16Were just

00:50:16Had a beautiful

00:50:19Relationship

00:50:19She was my best friend

00:50:20And just musically

00:50:22It was just

00:50:23Just amazing

00:50:24Amazing partnership

00:50:26I really felt like

00:50:27She was

00:50:28You know

00:50:29Part of me

00:50:30This is a painting

00:50:32It's on

00:50:33The albums

00:50:34That I did

00:50:34Of Mia

00:50:36It's actually

00:50:36Probably

00:50:38One of the most

00:50:39It probably

00:50:39Is the most difficult

00:50:40Painting I've ever done

00:50:42I did it

00:50:43The day that she died

00:50:45I don't know

00:50:46How many years ago

00:50:46It was today

00:50:47But it still makes me

00:50:48Really emotional

00:50:50Inside to talk about it

00:50:51But I mean

00:50:52I can't

00:50:54I don't know

00:50:54That's why

00:50:55I paint pictures

00:50:56She was on loan

00:50:58To me

00:50:59And

00:51:00And

00:51:01She now belongs

00:51:02To all of you

00:51:05And it's

00:51:07It's neat

00:51:09I like it

00:51:11I'm proud of her

00:51:26There are these things

00:51:28I want the most

00:51:31Usually I won't step

00:51:34Further from my reach

00:51:38But they always

00:51:40Stand close enough

00:51:42To take me

00:51:45To the next drain

00:51:49Cause when it cuts

00:51:51It's literally really tough

00:51:54My soul spills out the blood

00:51:59Don't know how long

00:52:01It's gonna take

00:52:02But I'm gonna need

00:52:03Need

00:52:04Need

00:52:04A little more

00:52:05One day

00:52:08Sometimes

00:52:09I just wanna know

00:52:12Faster than a train

00:52:15Is gonna roll

00:52:17Is it real?

00:52:20Tell me

00:52:21Is it wrong

00:52:22Me to keep these dreams

00:52:24As strong as in my mind

00:52:31Our office was involved

00:52:32With the Seattle Police Department

00:52:34From the inception of the case

00:52:35We knew that we had a tough case

00:52:37On our hands

00:52:39There were things about the case

00:52:41That led to one scenario

00:52:43That is always bothersome

00:52:45From law enforcement perspective

00:52:46Which is

00:52:47If it's a relatively random

00:52:50Type of crime

00:52:52There's going to be less clues

00:52:54Less evidence

00:52:55To glean

00:52:57To collect

00:52:57The theory is

00:52:59And for the most part

00:53:00It works

00:53:01A female's gonna be killed

00:53:02By someone she knows

00:53:02When someone's murdered

00:53:04There are other victims

00:53:04There's collateral damage

00:53:05And it's the family

00:53:08And close friends

00:53:09And associates

00:53:10Because everybody assumes

00:53:12It's one of us

00:53:13And who is it?

00:53:15It broke it apart

00:53:16And it was never the same again

00:53:18A whole dark cloud

00:53:20Came over everything

00:53:21And stayed there

00:53:23When Mia was murdered

00:53:25You know

00:53:28That just destroyed us all

00:53:29All our friends' bands

00:53:31Just everyone just broke up

00:53:32We just pretty much lost it

00:53:33At the time

00:53:35A lot of our friends

00:53:36Were being questioned

00:53:37And being taken in

00:53:39To give samples and stuff

00:53:42Close friends of ours

00:53:43You know male friends and stuff

00:53:45And that were coming up to us

00:53:47And saying you know

00:53:49God I had to go down

00:53:50To the police station

00:53:51And be questioned

00:53:52And give them a sample

00:53:53And stuff

00:53:54And how harsh it was for them

00:53:55And how we were feeling

00:53:57It was like

00:53:58Because we didn't

00:53:58At the time

00:53:59Now we're back there

00:54:00At the time

00:54:00And it was bringing up

00:54:01All those feelings

00:54:02It was like

00:54:03Yeah you didn't know

00:54:04If it was the guy

00:54:05That was sitting across the bar

00:54:06From you every night

00:54:07We decided

00:54:08We decided two weeks

00:54:09After she was killed

00:54:09That the police

00:54:10Weren't doing enough

00:54:10And that we had to hire

00:54:11A private investigator

00:54:12By end of August

00:54:13We had started the investigation

00:54:14Then we started a campaign

00:54:16To raise money for it

00:54:17And we called on our friends

00:54:18That played in different bands

00:54:19To play benefit shows

00:54:21At different clubs around town

00:54:25Guys in the Gits

00:54:26Called

00:54:28To see if

00:54:29I would be interested

00:54:30They were doing some benefit stuff

00:54:32To raise money

00:54:33For a private eye

00:54:34It somehow came up

00:54:35In the studio with Joan

00:54:36And she's just like

00:54:37We gotta do something

00:54:38We gotta be involved

00:54:40I think somehow

00:54:41We got around to

00:54:42Talking about

00:54:43Playing some of the Gits songs

00:54:45Next thing you know

00:54:46She's like

00:54:47Singing

00:54:48The Gits songs

00:54:50With the surviving members

00:54:52Of the Gits

00:54:52The band that we created

00:54:55With the remaining Gits

00:54:56And myself

00:54:57We called Evil Stig

00:54:58Which means

00:54:59Gits live backwards

00:55:02Hey

00:55:03We'd like to thank you

00:55:04All right here real quick

00:55:05For coming out to

00:55:08Viva Zapata

00:55:10Thank you for supporting

00:55:13Awaken in a state

00:55:14Not my own

00:55:15The only thing that's for you

00:55:17That I love to dwell

00:55:19Always met to you

00:55:20Andy, Matt and Steve

00:55:21Were nothing but

00:55:23Beautiful souls to me

00:55:25I can't imagine

00:55:26What they were going through

00:55:28I mean I really can't

00:55:29I cannot imagine

00:55:30That happening

00:55:31And when you see the footage

00:55:33And you see how close

00:55:34They were

00:55:35And you see Andy

00:55:36And Mia joking on stage

00:55:38And you see this rapport

00:55:39And how close they were

00:55:41I mean

00:55:45It really had to be

00:55:48Devastating

00:55:49You know

00:55:50So I really

00:55:52Think

00:55:55It's admirable

00:55:56What they did

00:55:57And I think Mia

00:55:59Would be proud of them

00:56:00What they did

00:56:00The amount of bands

00:56:01That got involved

00:56:02Which was the Posies

00:56:04Presidents of the United States

00:56:06Nirvana

00:56:07When Kurt was alive

00:56:08Eddie Vedder

00:56:11Soundgarden

00:56:11And they all brought things

00:56:13I think Soundgarden

00:56:14Lent us

00:56:15Some of the equipment

00:56:16Like the drums

00:56:17And what not

00:56:17I wanted to do

00:56:18The music proud

00:56:19I wanted to do a good job

00:56:21I wanted to

00:56:22Raise a lot of money

00:56:23You know

00:56:24To make sure

00:56:25You know

00:56:25We were able to give

00:56:26The private eyes

00:56:27Something good

00:56:29And helpful

00:56:30So you know

00:56:31You just wanted to do

00:56:31Everything justice

00:56:32I suppose

00:56:33To actually get

00:56:34A huge group of people

00:56:35Like that together

00:56:36To come up with the money

00:56:38To hire a private investigator

00:56:39You know

00:56:40Because we didn't know

00:56:41What the Seattle police

00:56:42Was

00:56:43You know

00:56:44How far they were

00:56:45Going to take it

00:56:45You have to do something too

00:56:46You know

00:56:47Motherfuck

00:56:50Will there be

00:56:52Hundreds mourning for you

00:56:54Will they talk

00:56:56To the talent

00:56:56And inspirations

00:56:57You gain

00:57:00No

00:57:02Who beside your mother

00:57:04Will stand in sorrow

00:57:06At your grave

00:57:10Mother

00:57:11May I

00:57:13Mother

00:57:40In the end

00:57:41I think we raised

00:57:42Close to $50,000

00:57:43For the investigation

00:57:44And

00:57:45And

00:57:46Didn't come to anything

00:57:47We found out

00:57:48A lot of dirt

00:57:48About a lot of people

00:57:49But in the end

00:57:50We didn't find out

00:57:51Who killed her

00:57:52And we still haven't

00:57:52Looking back

00:57:53On all that stuff

00:57:54There's

00:57:56Really

00:57:58Creepy

00:57:59Foreshadowing

00:57:59In

00:58:01In their songs

00:58:02And

00:58:03Everywhere you look

00:58:06Everything don't make me

00:58:07The shit you try to pull

00:58:09Anything that kept me in

00:58:10And that kept me killed

00:58:12Go ahead

00:58:13Slash me up

00:58:13Spread me all across this town

00:58:15Cause you know you're the one

00:58:17That won't be found

00:58:19After she was killed

00:58:20It was very, very difficult

00:58:21To listen to that song

00:58:22Go ahead and slash me up

00:58:24Spread me all across this town

00:58:26Because you're the one

00:58:27That won't be found

00:58:28I mean, gosh

00:58:29How could you not equate that

00:58:31With what happened to her

00:58:32Then you make her

00:58:34You left her in the alleyway

00:58:36I know I'll ever see you

00:58:39And I'll think of you

00:58:40And try to cover

00:58:41After you

00:58:42I'd like to let her lyrics

00:58:44Speak for themselves

00:58:45And, you know, I have my own

00:58:46Interpretation

00:58:48Of what that was

00:58:49And I do know some of the stuff

00:58:51She was going through

00:58:51Personally at the time

00:58:52But I think lyrics

00:58:54Should be

00:58:56Taken in by everyone

00:58:57That hears them individually

00:58:59And looked at on

00:59:02A personal level

00:59:03From the listener

00:59:04My personal opinion

00:59:06Is that she was trying

00:59:07To make a serious song

00:59:08About violence against women

00:59:10The cops were telling us

00:59:14Don't tell anyone

00:59:16That Mia was raped

00:59:17And we were like

00:59:20Fuck that

00:59:21It could have been me

00:59:22It could have been anybody

00:59:23But it was Mia

00:59:24And she was so fierce

00:59:28And so street smart

00:59:30There was an incredible

00:59:31Sense of disempowerment

00:59:33After Mia was killed

00:59:34We didn't feel safe

00:59:36We were freaked out

00:59:37The whole city

00:59:38Was pretty freaked out

00:59:39The community

00:59:40Was freaked out

00:59:41The anger started

00:59:42Kicking in really hard

00:59:43But such intense anger

00:59:45And just fucking rage

00:59:46Valerie called me

00:59:48From the road

00:59:48And said

00:59:49We have to get together

00:59:50As soon as I get back

00:59:51We've got to do something

00:59:52She was just all

00:59:52Like freaked out

00:59:53We were just like

00:59:54Thinking in the modes

00:59:56Of self-defense

00:59:56Like, you know

00:59:58Wishing that we were all

00:59:59Fucking ninja bitches

01:00:00We didn't like feeling afraid

01:00:02We felt we don't

01:00:03We don't want to change

01:00:04The way we live

01:00:04I mean, we want to

01:00:05Be able to go out

01:00:07See shows

01:00:07Play shows

01:00:09Drink

01:00:10Have it be 2 o'clock

01:00:11In the morning

01:00:12And get home

01:00:12We just want to get home

01:00:13Without being fucked with

01:00:15And that's kind of

01:00:16The inception of Home Alive

01:00:17And it's still around

01:00:19It's still doing it

01:00:20And I think we've accomplished

01:00:21Our goals and beyond

01:00:22There was a sense

01:00:23Of we're all taking care of

01:00:25Ourselves and each other

01:00:26We're looking

01:00:27We're watching each other's backs

01:00:28At the same time

01:00:29It seemed like

01:00:30From Home Alive

01:00:31People are trying to make

01:00:32Something positive happen

01:00:34From something really horrible

01:00:36And I remember thinking

01:00:38Like, getting a lot of inspiration

01:00:40And hope from that

01:00:41Definitely for me

01:00:42Made it a little easier

01:00:43To deal with

01:00:45With the violence

01:00:46That she suffered

01:00:48After the gets ended

01:00:49We started the Dancing French

01:00:50Levels of 48

01:00:51It was really therapeutic

01:00:53Because it was a hardcore band

01:00:54And we played hard

01:00:55And we played fast

01:01:03And we rehearsed a lot

01:01:04And our goal was

01:01:05To be able to play

01:01:06At the record release party

01:01:09For our second album

01:01:10Which would be released

01:01:11Posthumously

01:01:11That was the record release party

01:01:13For Enter the Conquering Chicken

01:01:14And it was also really cool

01:01:16Finishing that album up

01:01:17After Mia had passed away

01:01:19Because we felt close to her

01:01:21Because we were able

01:01:21To hear her sing

01:01:22And listen to her

01:01:24Really doing her thing

01:01:26Nothing like pain

01:01:27To make you all the same

01:01:29God, I'm not a guitar player

01:01:30I'm sorry

01:01:33Alright, one more

01:01:36And we're going to get

01:01:37On to this night

01:01:38This is mine

01:01:42Adrian!

01:01:45I can tell you

01:01:46Yell anywhere, you dog

01:01:47Okay

01:01:49Matt!

01:01:50You scum

01:01:58Well, I don't need your social love

01:02:01No

01:02:01If you miss read enough

01:02:04And what hails me

01:02:06Is the fact that you're smiling

01:02:07Walking on by

01:02:09Walking on by

01:02:11And yeah, when it hits me

01:02:12I see you still get kind of heavy

01:02:17And yeah, when it's laying there

01:02:19Over

01:02:19It's wide open and red

01:02:30And yeah, when it hits me

01:02:37To see you still get kind of heavy

01:02:40And yeah, when it's laying down

01:02:42It's fucking wide open and red

01:02:45Well, I don't need your social crap

01:02:48You wear your sleep

01:02:49Boys, I can't see

01:02:50What hails me

01:02:51Is your protective stay

01:02:52And never look when it hits me

01:02:53In the ten years that have passed

01:02:56Since the crime

01:03:00Her true goodness has come out

01:03:03After the tragedy of Mia's death

01:03:05I think it's really amazing

01:03:09That we have, you know, all of these recordings

01:03:13And so many people took photographs

01:03:15And there's film that you guys have compiled

01:03:17And it's all there

01:03:18And I'm glad that's there

01:03:21But it still makes me sad

01:03:22That there's so much more we could have done

01:03:24If anything, I like to discuss more things

01:03:27That are positive about the Gits

01:03:29And the musical legacy

01:03:30And the artistic legacy that Mia left

01:03:33Probably if the Gits had some kind of

01:03:36Mission or quest or something

01:03:37It was to kind of put some soul back

01:03:41Into that kind of music

01:03:42And I think we did

01:03:43And that's why I still

01:03:45I think people respond to it

01:03:47And care about it

01:03:49And why it continues to matter to people

01:03:52Oftentimes in the history of popular music

01:03:55Women artists take a while

01:03:57For really their influence to be felt

01:03:59And I think it's a ripe time

01:04:02For the Gits' influence to be felt

01:04:03And Mia's influence

01:04:04Because a new generation of artists

01:04:06Like the Ya Ya Ya's and the Distillers

01:04:08Are taking from Mia

01:04:09Without even knowing they're taking from Mia

01:04:11What she was about

01:04:13And that type of life force

01:04:15That seemed unique

01:04:16And to think that that was

01:04:18Just strangled away from all of us

01:04:21Is just very sad

01:04:23Every hour that goes by after a crime

01:04:25It gets harder to solve

01:04:27But doesn't mean it won't be

01:04:28It's always

01:04:29It's always going to be

01:04:31Always will be

01:04:32In the back of your head

01:04:34I tried to keep

01:04:35Those guys' hopes up

01:04:38That we would find

01:04:40A killer

01:04:40But it was terribly disheartening

01:04:42In any case

01:04:43We never saw the file

01:04:44So we don't know

01:04:45If there's any evidence

01:04:45Basically we don't know anything

01:04:47And that's how it's been

01:04:48And that's how it still is

01:04:49For short of somebody

01:04:50Turning someone else in

01:04:51Or somebody confessing

01:04:53We're fucked

01:04:54We're still in the dark

01:04:55As far as

01:04:56And that person is still out there

01:04:58Obviously

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01:05:06Game 5 news at 5

01:05:08A local murder mystery

01:05:09Dating back a decade

01:05:11May be solved tonight

01:05:12Police in Florida

01:05:12Arrest a suspect

01:05:13Somebody they believe

01:05:15Killed Seattle gruntsinger

01:05:16Mia Zapata

01:05:17It was a horrific

01:05:18Unsolved murder case

01:05:20That shocked Seattle's music scene

01:05:21And now

01:05:22A documentary is being made

01:05:24About the band The Gits

01:05:25Its success

01:05:26And its demise

01:05:27But this documentary

01:05:28Will now have

01:05:29A different ending

01:05:31I got a call

01:05:32On my cell phone

01:05:33From King 5

01:05:35The TV station

01:05:36And they said

01:05:38We want to be the first

01:05:39To interview you

01:05:40About this indictment

01:05:43And I said

01:05:44Okay

01:05:45You can do that

01:05:47But first

01:05:47You've got to show me proof

01:05:48Van pulls up

01:05:49A woman gets out

01:05:50And gives me a piece of paper

01:05:52And it's a fax

01:05:52From the Miami Police Department

01:05:54Saying that they have

01:05:55Someone in custody

01:05:56I'll still never forget the day

01:05:58I got a phone call

01:06:00From Steve

01:06:01Moriarty

01:06:03No hello

01:06:04No nothing

01:06:05We got him

01:06:22It's sort of

01:06:23The next chapter

01:06:25In this awful story

01:06:26I'm glad

01:06:28I'm glad they finally

01:06:28Caught this guy

01:06:29It doesn't change

01:06:32Anything about the band

01:06:34Anything about

01:06:35The music we've made

01:06:36The key to the break

01:06:38In this case

01:06:38After 10 years

01:06:39DNA evidence

01:06:4010 years ago

01:06:41Detectives saved

01:06:42From DNA evidence

01:06:43From the crime scene

01:06:44And that finally

01:06:45Led to an arrest

01:06:46In Florida

01:06:47Mia was

01:06:48Viciously

01:06:49Raped

01:06:50There was no semen

01:06:52But their attacker

01:06:55Left saliva on their breast

01:06:57And so when we probably

01:06:58Reopened the case

01:06:59We started looking

01:06:59At the evidence

01:07:00We said hey

01:07:01We've got saliva samples

01:07:03We sent the gauze in

01:07:04And we were able

01:07:05To get a profile

01:07:05Just one month ago

01:07:07Detectives finally

01:07:08Got a computer hit

01:07:09It led them across the country

01:07:11To Marathon, Florida

01:07:12Where last night

01:07:13Officers arrested this man

01:07:1548 year old

01:07:16Jesus Makeda

01:07:17He's a recently

01:07:18Convected Florida felon

01:07:20Whose profile

01:07:20Was newly entered

01:07:21In a database

01:07:22The suspect

01:07:23Jesus Mesquilla

01:07:24Was 39 years old

01:07:25When Mia Zapata

01:07:26Was murdered

01:07:27The investigation revealed

01:07:29He lived in Seattle

01:07:30At the time of the murder

01:07:31Last month

01:07:32A DNA match

01:07:33Was made

01:07:33From the Florida felon

01:07:34Database

01:07:35From a newly entered profile

01:07:37Nobody knew this guy

01:07:39We were on the wrong

01:07:40Track the whole time

01:07:41She was at the wrong place

01:07:42At the wrong time

01:07:42And he was out

01:07:43Like a hunter

01:07:45Trying to find game

01:07:46When it all came about

01:07:48It was really a shock

01:07:49To everybody's system

01:07:50It was just like

01:07:52Whirlwind

01:07:52Kind of

01:07:53Up, down

01:07:53Like euphoric

01:07:54Like fucking

01:07:55Piece of shit

01:07:56Is caught

01:07:57Seeing the man's face

01:08:00For

01:08:01For the first time

01:08:02Was um

01:08:03A truly evil experience

01:08:05Like

01:08:07The dam just broke

01:08:08You know

01:08:08It was just like

01:08:09Oh my god

01:08:10This is the last person

01:08:12That she saw

01:08:14She was looking

01:08:15Into this guy's eyes

01:08:16I felt disgust

01:08:17And hate

01:08:17For the guy

01:08:18To the point

01:08:18That I pitied him

01:08:21That I pitied him

01:08:22That I hated him

01:08:23So much

01:08:25When we got back

01:08:26From Florida

01:08:29My sergeant

01:08:29Called me

01:08:30On the weekend

01:08:30She said

01:08:30Can you call

01:08:31Richard Zapata

01:08:31Tell him what's going on

01:08:33And I called him

01:08:34And I talked for Richard

01:08:35For about a half hour

01:08:37And I'll tell you what

01:08:38Through all this stuff

01:08:39He's thanking us

01:08:41He's telling me

01:08:42That you guys

01:08:42Are saints

01:08:43From what you did

01:08:43And I couldn't believe

01:08:44I thought

01:08:45Jesus

01:08:45I mean

01:08:45You know

01:08:46We did our job

01:08:48And I remember

01:08:49Walking down the stairs

01:08:50And I was up

01:08:51In the bedroom

01:08:51Talking

01:08:52And I walked

01:08:52Down the stairs

01:08:53And my wife

01:08:55Saw how to go

01:08:55And I just started crying

01:08:58And I said

01:08:59Jesus

01:08:59The guy's

01:09:00Incredible

01:09:01I can see why

01:09:01Mia was the way

01:09:02She was

01:09:11The time

01:09:12That it took

01:09:12To solve this case

01:09:13To gather enough

01:09:16Evidence

01:09:17To support

01:09:17Charging

01:09:18And hopefully

01:09:19A conviction

01:09:19Later on

01:09:21Is how it tracked

01:09:22With the evolution

01:09:23Of DNA itself

01:09:24Because in the early 90s

01:09:26DNA was just being

01:09:27Ushered into the courtrooms

01:09:28Evidence such as saliva

01:09:30Could not yield a result

01:09:31At that time

01:09:32But then

01:09:32Some 9, 10 years later

01:09:34The lab now

01:09:36Is able to take

01:09:36A very small sample

01:09:38And render a reliable

01:09:41Result

01:09:41And a genetic profile

01:09:42The discoverer

01:09:44Of that process

01:09:45I received

01:09:45The Nobel Prize

01:09:46And I think

01:09:49I wanted to be there

01:09:50My sister wanted to be there

01:09:52My father of course

01:09:53Was definitely

01:09:53Going to be there

01:09:55But my mother

01:09:57She had a tough time

01:09:58She just really

01:10:00I think she wanted

01:10:01To be there

01:10:01But she just

01:10:02Didn't feel like

01:10:03She could be

01:10:04She felt like

01:10:05It would just hurt

01:10:07Too much

01:10:08She didn't want

01:10:09To have a face

01:10:10She didn't want

01:10:11To know details

01:10:12She didn't want

01:10:13To relive it

01:10:14The trial

01:10:15The trial

01:10:16It was different

01:10:16Things

01:10:17Different people

01:10:17Saw it differently

01:10:18The people in

01:10:18Capitol Hill

01:10:19The music industry

01:10:21It was their day

01:10:22I mean

01:10:22It was finally

01:10:24Redemption

01:10:24It had really shaken up

01:10:26That community

01:10:27It really hit them hard

01:10:29And to them

01:10:30It was almost like

01:10:31The day of deliverance

01:10:37Good morning

01:10:38Please be seated

01:10:45Has the jury

01:10:45Reached a verdict

01:10:46Yes your honor

01:10:47We have

01:10:49Would the clerk

01:10:50Please read the verdict

01:10:55Verdict form A

01:10:56We the jury

01:10:57Finding the defendant

01:10:58Jesus Mesquilla

01:10:59Guilty of the crime

01:11:01Of felony murder

01:11:02In the first degree

01:11:03As alternatively charged

01:11:05As charged

01:11:06In count one

01:11:07Juror number one

01:11:08Is this your

01:11:09Individual verdict

01:11:10And is it the

01:11:11Verdict of the jury

01:11:12Juror number two

01:11:13Is this your

01:11:14Individual verdict

01:11:15And is it the

01:11:16Verdict of the jury

01:11:17Juror number three

01:11:18Is this your

01:11:19Individual verdict

01:11:19And is it the

01:11:21Verdict of the jury

01:11:22Juror number four

01:11:23Is this your

01:11:23Individual verdict

01:11:24And is it the

01:11:25Verdict of the jury

01:11:27Juror number five

01:11:28Is this your

01:11:28Individual verdict

01:11:29And is it the

01:11:30Verdict of the jury

01:11:31Juror number six

01:11:32Is this your

01:11:33Individual verdict

01:11:34And is it the

01:11:35Verdict of the jury

01:11:36Yes.

01:11:36Juror number seven, is this your individual verdict?

01:11:39Yes.

01:11:39And is it the verdict of the jury?

01:11:41Yes.

01:11:41Juror number eight.

01:11:51Cut my skin, it makes me a human.

01:11:55The score in your mind, won't you feel the pain?

01:11:58Cause it's what makes us human.

01:12:02Yeah, it keeps us all the same.

01:12:05You lose your head and you're a chosen trip.

01:12:09The side of your blood might lose your skin.

01:12:12But a broken heart turns to sin.

01:12:15Well, when the word is open, we're all the same.

01:12:20Cut my skin, it makes me a human.

01:12:23The score in your mind, I feel the pain.

01:12:27You're looking at pain and you're looking at truth.

01:12:30There's nothing like pain, it makes us all the same.

01:12:36Just hearing the jury pronounce him guilty of all charges completely and totally satisfied me.

01:12:47I got my whole life ahead of me because essentially I was here, you know, living with that on my

01:12:54mind for the last 12 years.

01:12:56I was really not able to find any peace until I saw this day and, you know, I always held

01:13:03out hope that I would see this day, but sometimes I really didn't think so.

01:13:06For a long time, it's like, I haven't been able to listen to the Gits because it was always so

01:13:11painful.

01:13:12After this happened and we were over there just the other night and we put it on and it was

01:13:16the first time that I felt like, you know, happy again.

01:13:19I still love listening to our music, although it makes me sad, it makes me miss Mia.

01:13:25Their legacy is what it is and, you know, it's seen differently by different people, but for me it's just

01:13:31my personal memories of the time I spent with those guys.

01:13:34It matters to me very much that people still care about the Gits and, you know, the music especially.

01:13:43It's very moving, you know, when I hear that people care and that they get something from it because, I

01:13:51mean, after all, that's why we did it to begin with, you know.

01:13:54You know, we experienced a really dramatic, intense lives together, you know, and we lost our sister together.

01:14:05We'll always be brothers, you know, we'll live probably in different parts of the country or different parts of the

01:14:10world, but, you know, they'll still be Gits, you know, just like Mia's will still be a Git.

01:14:46There are these things that I want the most

01:14:51But they usually are one step furthest from my reach

01:14:56Oh, but they always stand close enough

01:15:01To take me to the next fucking dream

01:15:08Cause when it comes to the dark

01:15:13My soul is filled with blood

01:15:17Yeah, yeah

01:15:19And how long it's gonna take

01:15:21But I'm gonna need, need, need

01:15:24A little more one day

01:15:27For sometimes

01:15:29I just wanna know

01:15:32Better than my precious blood

01:15:35Will let me roll

01:15:37Is it real?

01:15:39Or tell me

01:15:41Is it wrong?

01:15:42Me to keep these dreams

01:15:44The song gets in my mind

01:15:49Cause when it drops

01:15:50It just gets deeper

01:15:52Yeah, yeah

01:15:54And I'm one of those talks to

01:15:56You're the farthest from me

01:15:58Yeah, yeah

01:16:00That long it's gonna take

01:16:02But I'm gonna get, get, get, get

01:16:05A little more one day

01:16:08Oh, it's laying tight in me

01:16:12Cause when I see it there

01:16:14It makes me wanna

01:16:20And oh, it's laying tight in me

01:16:23And oh, it's laying tight in me

01:16:24Cause when I see it there

01:16:26It's all I can do to stand in the face

01:16:29Just to get through

01:16:31Just to get through this hell

01:16:32Weaving

01:16:37Even the owls

01:16:39They hold heavy on me

01:16:42Even the owls

01:16:44They just hold the pain

01:16:47Even the time

01:16:49They get heavy a little weak

01:16:52Even the owls

01:16:54They just hold the blame

01:16:56There is no gain

01:16:59Oh, it all

01:17:01It comes back to me

01:17:25There's a motion of deadly silence

01:17:28It's a yes that's running around my head

01:17:31I need to listen to my conscience

01:17:33The world puts me down instead

01:17:36I have to walk in there

01:17:38To watch me

01:17:39The blankness jumps right off the face

01:17:41I figure I try to do the paper

01:17:44And the moment is almost dead

01:17:48It's almost dead

01:17:52Come on, take my hand

01:17:54Call out, tell all my bad

01:17:55And when they tell

01:17:57They wait for all that I'm for

01:18:00And they take my only breath

01:18:03And they leave it

01:18:05Not down for

01:18:07A lady dream

01:18:09And I know my business is out of my house

01:18:12I feel a beating of the heartbreak

01:18:15I feel a beating of the sun

01:18:18And I'm getting made it closer

01:18:21And I'm more than four of you

01:18:25And I'm more than four of you

01:18:26And I'm in this place

01:18:27I feel a beating of the sun

01:18:29Come on, take my hand

01:18:30Come on, tell all my bad

01:18:32And when they sell

01:18:34Wait for all that I'm for

01:18:36And they take my only breath

01:18:39And I know that so much

01:18:41I will take

01:18:42Better than if it's my rage

01:18:45They wait for all that I'm for

01:18:47And they take empty air

01:19:00Down

01:19:01Now let's take them down

01:19:04One mile, one day

01:19:06Not the moment

01:19:07And just sit down

01:19:10Slow it down

01:19:11Let's hit them down

01:19:15Slow it down

01:19:18Thank you

01:19:20These are nice people here

01:19:22Thank you

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