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’.

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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.

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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.

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Here is to my realization that I am the only one that ‘values’ my original songs, poems, videos and projects.  So I am the Artist and the Buyer of my own material. 

I just can’t write songs about – boy meets girl and says, ‘let’s dance all night’.  Or songs where the words repeat over and over (and over).  I just don’t have it in me, even if that is where all the money seems to be.

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Frustration again at social barriers that are so…… ancient.  So last millennia.  Why do we still let the old-world patterns control us as ‘civilized’ people? 

Faith and religion have been hijacked by men with a vision of greed, power and indifference.  The rich seem to believe they are wealthy because they are special and deserve it, and that is also why YOU are poor. And so it continues.

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An internal glimpse again of the music industry.   Eight letters, sharps and flats; math in motion.  Creation after creation makes you happy but after so many they start to feel the same as all the others. 

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I consider the – blunt force trauma – concept of going from having more than you will ever need to absolutely nothing. 

We can feel safe, strong and invincible in our little worlds as long as we aren’t challenged!  Often we are not as strong when faced with the real tests in life, as we have become to see ourselves.

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So many people out there are just trying to live their lives with family and in their communities continue to face the impossible.  Culture, traditions, cast or class, put up barriers we can’t even see.

We find ourselves crushed by the gravity of the past we did not make.  When failure is all but certain, we need to find the energy to stop.

And then start all over again until we get it right.

MIDIMike