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Lady in White

from Lady in White EP by Dignitary

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I am sick of hearing this song but I will forever defend it. This is one of our best songs. And no one agrees with me! It’s about Peggy Entwistle who killed herself by jumping off the Hollywood sign. People see her ghost and she’s dressed in white. The chorus paraphrases her suicide note.

I really want to do a whole album based off old Hollywood celebrity deaths. This was my intention when I wrote this song. I just got sidetracked with the tunes that appear on the upcoming As We Part – that’s a whole ‘nother concept album… a more personal thing. But I’ll come back to it.

“Lady in White” used to be shorter. Gabe extended it for his solo at the end – one of his best contributions. So we did some rearranging. When recording Fallon’s vocals – back when she was playing keys in the band – she started yodeling around in the background during the chorus, just fooling around, impersonating both Siouxsie and Adam Ant. I said, “Do that! Do that again!” And so we made her yodeling part of the chorus.

We re-recorded this track for Full Moon in Vertigo without the Liberator on drums. It’s tighter, more polished but I feel this one has a lot of heart to it. It’s more powerful, and so that other one was scrapped.

- Michael Cuenca

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Boarding SS Philldelphia Peggy’s New York City bound.
She wants nothing more than fame. She only wants to be found.

“You say you love me but you’re married, why didn’t you say at once.
Well, I’ve brought this poison in a cup and my dreams are all but crushed.”

Entwistle, this bundle, she abandoned.
H for home, homebound, she leaps.

Peggy from Whales climbs the steps, turning at the view she laughs,
“I want nothing more than death. I want nothing more than death.

I am afraid I am a coward. I’m sorry for everything.
If I would have done this a long time ago I could have saved your pain.”

Entwistle, this bundle, she abandoned.
H for home, homebound, she leaps.

Lady in white, has she failed to gain respect.
Lady in white, hit and run to you again.
Lady in white, am I frail to you the same?
Lady in white, hit and run.
Hit and run.
Hit and run to you again.
To you again.
Do you pretend?
To you again.
Again.

With a hit and run, hit and run, again and again and again.

“You say you love me but you’re married.
Well, I’ve brought this poison in a cup.”



Written by Michael Cuenca

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from Lady in White EP, released September 6, 2016
Michael Cuenca - vocals, guitar, keys
Fallon Scherzinger - bass, vocals
Gabriel Huerta - guitars, vocals
Stacy Fratelli - keys, vocals
Nick Liberatore - drums

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Dignitary employs high energy reverb alongside crooning vocal harmonies to create two-to-three minute long hook-filled pop songs. Songs about heartbreak, failure, and the unknown; a healthy obsession with all things supernatural and occult, yet with a dark sense of humor. ... more

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