Posts Tagged ‘#lyrics’

Another set of lyrics about my wife’s unpleasant personality traits.  All so well hidden until the closets are full and nowhere to stuff all the garbage.  Eventually it all falls out in the open.  The bitterness remains.

MIDIMike

Talking to a coworker laying down tracks,
Says he doesn’t need all of them facts.
He started yelling, then looked at me and spat
When he couldn’t convince me the world was flat.

Only A Fool
Only A Fool would still say that.

During mass I overheard someone at church:
‘Mankind was placed on the highest perch.
The Earth is no more than a few thousand years old
Evolution is all garbage so I’ve been told’.

Only A Fool
Only A Fool could believe that.
It’s something ‘Only A Fool’ says these days.   
But they keep reading it in that book.
If you want to know where the fool is
Give it another look.

The sun races across the sky every day.
Hard to view it any other way.
So easy to believe you are the center.
Hard to leave it behind once you enter.

Only A Fool
Only A Fool would repeat that

The first time I heard it, it caught my breath;
If your wife commits adultery, stone her to death.
Want to hear what I believe to be truth?
Faith is believing in fairy tales without any proof.

It’s something ‘Only A Fool’ says these days.   
But they keep reading it in that book.
If you want to know where the fool is
Give it another look.

MIDIMike

The first time I heard it, it caught my breath;

If your wife commits adultery, stone her to death.

Want to hear what I believe to be truth?

Faith is believing in fairy tales without any proof.

MIDIMike

The sun races across the sky every day.

Hard to view it any other way.

So easy to believe you are the center.

Hard to leave it behind once you enter.

MIDIMike

During mass I overheard someone at church:

‘Mankind was placed on the highest perch.

The Earth is no more than a few thousand years old

Evolution is all garbage so I’ve been told’.

MIDIMike

Lots of things happened in 1981 evidently.  Another song from that time and this one is based on a romanticized minor traffic accident of all things.  I really did run into the car in front of me on the Arlington Heights exit, but there was no attractive woman in sight!  ACD stood for Assured Clear Distance back then.

MIDIMike

Another song where I refer to my personal musical giants and creative genius.  I have always appreciated female vocalists and their style since I first heard Billie Holiday singing on the radio when I was a kid. 

She is among many female artists that have shaped my musical world.  Bjork is another artist I have more than respect for over the decades.  This song is a ‘thanks’ to all of them.

These women might be beautiful, but that is not my attraction to their music.  From The First Time I heard them sing, I was already ‘in love’.

MIDIMike

I posted lyrics earlier for this new song and I have a mix of the music ready for “It Only Takes One

I am working on the vocals now and will have some ‘filler’ tracks to add at some point. I used drum loops (edited and a bit tortured at times!) for the rhythm tracks. I play all the guitar tracks and added a MIDI bass guitar part from my keyboards ……. until the band can make it in for a session.

But for now, here is the instrumental version.

Happy New Year!

Waking up and trying to remember a dream I was having gave me inspiration for this song.  Trying to capture the moments transitioning from dream state to awake.  Things blend and merge so quickly.  But maybe this dream is not the dream.

MIDIMike

Personal relationships can be compared to icebergs floating in the ocean quite easily.  When you travel so far that nothing looks familiar, you have really lost your way.

One thing for sure; you risk your life getting too close to the iceberg, and you never want to see what is at the bottom.  What’s underneath will sink all your hopes forever.

MIDIMike