My cynical look at the ‘job’ of being a drug dealer or loan shark, but not just the obvious snakes are included in this song. How far will any of us go just to make a buck?
Posts Tagged ‘#lyrics’
Another Day MSK 2016
Posted: January 17, 2023 in #poetry, PoetryTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #poem, #poet, #poetry, #poetrypod, #recording, #songwriter, #sound
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Dangerous Love
Posted: January 13, 2023 in PoetryTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #personal, #poem, #poet, #poetry, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
You don’t like that she started lookin’ around,
Checking out other men.
Maybe if you treated her right in the first place
This would never happen.
The first to whine about hunger, they’re starving to death
Haven’t swallowed their last bite.
They proclaim to be tired and exhausted
Never really worked or had a sleepless night.
Right on cue they start to blame a certain few
Things are bad because of them.
So what’s another knee on their neck?
We destroy cultures and display the gems.
I have it made because my family earned it
Taking from others like all men of power.
For my children, I will do anything
I will crush yours under the tower.
Beasts cannot choose their path.
Gamblers never do the math.
Someone is always watching
But no one ever sees.
You don’t like that she started lookin’ around,
Checking out other men.
Maybe if you treated her right in the first place
This would never happen.
Beasts cannot choose their path.
Gamblers never do the math.
Someone is always watching
But no one ever sees.
Alternatives MSK
Posted: January 10, 2023 in PoetryTags: #audio, #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #poem, #poet, #poetry, #poetrypod, #recording, #songwriter, #sound
I Landed Here
Posted: January 6, 2023 in PoetryTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #personal, #poem, #poetry, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
I don’t see a happy ending
Out of this yet.
There are too many things
I can’t forget.
It’s not like all that it takes
Is just one more year.
Just give it one more day
Then I landed here.
I landed here.
It was a crash landing but I don’t care.
I landed here.
And I’d rather be here than anywhere.
I landed here.
It would be so much easier
The rent has been paid.
It would be so much easier
To leave it unsaid.
I don’t see a happy ending
Out of this yet.
Too many things
I can’t forget.
All Night Long MSK 1991
Posted: January 3, 2023 in #poetry, PoetryTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #personal, #poem, #poet, #poetry, #poetrypod, #recording, #songwriter
These lyrics were made into a song in about 15 minutes. I was working on a simple piece that my wife Ellen could sing along with to get her confident when she sings. She likes ZZ Top, so I ripped off some of their ideas and came up with a similar beat and rhythm. The lyrics took no time but were from other lyrics. So when she sang about a girl we just kept it! The lyrics are short and sweet.
A Simple Gift POD MSK
Posted: December 27, 2022 in PoetryTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poetry, #poetrypod, #songwriter
A Part of Me POD
Posted: December 20, 2022 in PoetryTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poetry, #poetrypod, #songwriter
This is obviously my patriotic anthem. Just looking at some of my own ancestry and cultural histories I respect and have been blessed to experience. Kinda corny but I still get choked up reading these lyrics. This is one of those songs where I keep trying to make a good demo recording and it just never goes anywhere. Various arrangements, vocalists and instruments but nothing seems to fit correctly.
Baby, You’re so Beautiful
Posted: December 17, 2022 in My TunesTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #ovationguitars, #poetry, #recording, #recordingstudio, #singersongwriter, #songwriter, #vocalist
Going over old recordings I finally found one of my gems from 1977. Back then I was learning to play guitar and my friend TR would jam with me. I knew a few musicians even back then and on the weekends we would gather at my place for dinner and a fun evening.
We would have about a dozen friends come over and after meals and a few drinks we would inevitably pull out the guitars and other toys. I didn’t spend much time learning or playing cover songs. That happened, but most of the time we wrote our own material. Our songs ran the gambit between topics of the day and the humorous things in life. I recorded on state of the art technology in those days: reel-to-reel tape recorders. I had a Tascam (Teac) 4-track machine back then so we could record an AMAZING 4 tracks at one time!
This song is one of our funnier songs. It wasn’t like we were trying to be like the Smothers Brother’s Comedy Hour from 1967, but we enjoyed humor in our music. This take starts with TR vocals and Ovation guitar introducing the theme of the song as I join in with my Ovation 12 string guitar.
Here is the only recording of that song. It is just the two of us jamming late after most others had crashed or gone home or to work. I learned a lot about harmonies during these sessions and still get a kick listening to us making up the arrangement as we go along.
Enjoy a funny blast from the past and wait for the end of the song for the lyrical punch line.
A Few Shattered Lines POD MSK
Posted: December 13, 2022 in PoetryTags: #audio, #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #poem, #poet, #poetry, #poetrypod, #songwriter, #sound
Also called Reels of Tape. See original lyric post here
A Billion Snowflakes POD MSK 2-7-2018
Posted: December 6, 2022 in PoetryTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #personal, #poetry, #poetrypod, #songwriter
Thinking about the impossible you can get clouded by the odds. But with billions of choices swirling around, impossible things are actually inevitable. Like being one of a kind and meeting another one of a kind. Sometimes it is just a matter of perspective. Things that can’t be happen all the time. Now and then if you stop forcing and searching it will happen.
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