Archive for the ‘My Tunes’ Category

I added vocals and a few finishing touches so now I have a mix for ‘It’s About Time’. The LYRICS posted earlier can be found using the link above.

2025 was quite a productive year for me musically and personally. I am hoping 2026 will leave last year and all it’s political and environmental disasters in the past.

I will be sharing a lot of original music with you soon, including new tunes from my band mates. I will also be posting a collection of some of our favorite cover tunes performed by my band, ‘The Merchants’.

“It’s About Time by Michael S Kennedy

Enjoy the holidays, stay safe and prepare for a great year.

MIDIMike

It’s About Time
For good things to come my way.
It’s About Time
To see a better day.

It’s About Time
For investments to pay off.
It’s About Time
Crippling bills get paid off.

It’s About Time
To right things that are so wrong.
It’s About Time
I’ve been waiting far too long.

It’s About Time
Voices for change will be heard.
It’s About Time
I’ve opened my cage.
I’m a wild bird.

It’s About Time
It’s About Time

It’s About Time
For good things to come my way.
It’s About Time
To live life a better way.

Music will follow shortly. Stay untuned!

MIDIMike

As promised, here is the instrumental version:

Stay untuned for a full mix with vocals.

Retirement is kind of fun.

MIDIMike

Extra time without sleep

Posted: November 26, 2025 in My Tunes
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If you didn’t need sleep, what would you do with all the extra time?

I don’t sleep more than four hours a night.  For decades and decades.  With that time I have always had a full time job and career, raised children and grandchildren, played in cover bands and ran sound, produced music and commercial videos, wrote and recorded three hundred songs, took thousands of band photos and helped people when I could.

I have always been amazed how other people sleep so much of their life.

MIDIMike

Clichés are common.
Your life is pretty much a bore.
You would be a hero in another world
Where you could be so much more.

Lies are pollution.
They all direct you to The Store.
The whole world is out there for you to command.
You’ll have to go door-to-door.

Rotten Fruit and twisted vines.
Parasitic voyagers, fatal canary mines.
Symbols became battle cries.
It really doesn’t matter, because everyone dies.

Can’t depend upon
The people that rely on you.
Each of the failures witnessed in this life
Their causes come to haunt you.

Rotten Fruit and twisted vines.
Parasitic voyagers, fatal canary mines.
Symbols became battle cries.
It really doesn’t matter, because everyone dies.

Time to say, ‘Good Night’.
Even though you wish it was true.
This time if I’m given the choice to wake up;
I’d much rather be with you.

I’d much rather be with you.
I’d much rather be with you.

Rotten Fruit and twisted vines.
Parasitic voyagers, fatal canary mines.
Symbols became battle cries.
It really doesn’t matter, because everyone dies.

MIDIMike

I’ve had sex.
I’ve had great sex.
Not that I’m counting
But I have been disappointed
As often as I have been disappointing.

Sex can be wonderful
Way too often it’s just push and shove.
But there’s nothing like sharing your body
With someone you love.

Get more sex.
Get more than sex.
It starts with flirting
But once the web of lies begins
It’s meaningless if you lose the beginning.

Sex can be wonderful
No deep meaning, just push and shove.
But there’s nothing like sharing your body
With someone you love.

Sex can be wonderful
Sometimes more than just push and shove.
But there’s nothing like sharing your body
With someone you love.

MIDIMike

If you are looking for the answer in life to know if you are in love look no further.  If you answer `yes` to any of them, guess what?

MIDIMike

Words are swords. They are powerful and can last forever. A doorway to understanding. But the source of their power lies more in the Voice. The Sound. The Meaning. I listen.

MIDIMike

How much would you pay to go to the moon?

Not nearly as much as I would pay to send some people there!

I know I talk about music and great artists I have worked and played with over the decades. During all that time I had my share of more-than full time jobs. I started with plastics and the injecting molding industry. I went from being a ‘hopper boy’ to a plant manager. Later I got into sales – service – and managing with a few other trades thrown in there.

I retired from work a bout 4 years ago. Now it is time I retired from the music business as well….

I have gathered all my recording gear. Packed up my vintage keyboards and guitars and have the drums all torn down and headed toward shipping boxes. I will keep my songwriting instruments and gear I can’t part with yet. I will list the rest of the gear for sale on Sweetwater’s Exchange platform.

If you know a musician give them the link below. They might thank you for it!

https://www.sweetwater.com/used/storefront/midimike

I will thank you now. lol

I have had the link up for one day and I have sold two items already. I will be adding more for a few weeks.

On the Sweetwater Exchange site, just search for the MIDIMike store!

So now I leave you with a musical joke. You can fill in the blank, but the joke works the same!

Q: What do you call a Drummer (guitar player, singer______) that broke up with his girlfriend?

A: Homeless!

MIDIMike