Looking at retirement and the final stages of my active life. What can I get into now that I am literally being paid to do nothing?
Hobbies? Volunteer? Travel?
MIDIMike
Posts Tagged ‘#songwriter’
What Can I Do? MSK 2011
Posted: August 12, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
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We’re Doing Fine MSK 2021
Posted: August 5, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
Covid pandemic and the holidays in mind here. The verses are about most people dealing with the challenges they faced. The chorus is from a fictitious wealthy person’s point of view: who cares as long as it’s not me?
If the rest of the world weren’t so stupid and lazy they would be doing fine too.
MIDIMike
We Could Have Had It All MSK 2018
Posted: July 29, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
Think of being part of a team with a goal. Plans are made and big steps taken, with all the resources in place, the game begins.
Only to find your team mate is not helping or doing their part. Everything crumbles into a slowly cascading tragedy. The fact that you love what you were aiming for confirms what the pain is telling you.
You could have had it all.
MIDIMike
Watching the Clock MSK 2016
Posted: July 22, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
Do you dedicate your life to achieving success and fortune or stop and smell the roses? Are you accumulating money and wealth while losing friends and everything else in the world? You can be anything if nothing else matters.
MIDIMike
Was It Worth It? MSK
Posted: July 15, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
Do you dedicate your life to achieving success and fortune or stop and smell the roses? Are you accumulating money and wealth while losing friends and everything else in the world? You can be anything if nothing else matters.
MIDIMike
Waiting MSK 2016
Posted: July 8, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
I often wonder what society is waiting for. When will we finally be equal? When will we finally do something about the environment, education, resources allocation and discrimination?
I can’t keep waiting without saying what needs to be said to everyone.
You can wait. You can hope. You can pray.
But now is the time to scream out loud.
MIDIMike
No Thing
Posted: July 5, 2025 in My TunesTags: #electronicinstrumental, #korgnautilus, #localbands, #michaelskennedy, #MIDI keyboard, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #musicvideo, #original songs, #original video, #personal, #songwriter, #syncopps, #synthesizer
I have an instrumental piece to share. More of a soundscape than a song. For fun, I also made a short YouTube video to play. Headphones help.
More coming soon!
MIDIMike
No Thing
Posted: July 4, 2025 in My TunesTags: #electronicmusic, #gold8, #keyboardplayers, #korgnautilus, #michaelskennedy, #Midi, #MIDI keyboard, #midicontroller, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #songwriter, #Soundengineer, #soundtrack, #studio, #studioengineer, #StudioOne+, #tannoy
I thought I would share this little piece with you. I am just experimenting with new sounds to see what I come up with. There is no real structure or drum tracks to speak of. Just a bunch of cool textures and visions of other worlds. Or, maybe it is this one in the future?
MIDIMike
Upside Down MSK 2014
Posted: July 1, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
A response to a bumper sticker that mocks good students I used to see (like – my son can beat up your honor student…) I thought of each religion pitting their god against the others like high school sports. Unfortunately, we have faith and god turned Upside Down, but at least my god is better than yours.
MIDIMike
Lyrics for ‘First Move’
Posted: June 27, 2025 in #poetry, My TunesTags: #acoustic, #beforethechase, #closerlook, #easysong, #firstmove, #folk, #localbands, #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #msk, #music, #musician, #ovationguitars, #poem, #poetry, #progressivefolk, #recordingstudio, #singersongwriter, #songwriter, #Soundengineer, #syncopps, #takeacloserlook, #thechase, #vocalist
For a bit of prospect work, I wrote lyrics to an old 12 sting guitar jam of mine. I released ‘First Move’ as an instrumental track on my cd ‘Before The Chase‘ on February 25th, 2016.
(As a side note, one of the great cover/original bands I performed with live was ‘The Chase’. I also released a title called ‘After The Chase‘ in 2017. In both cases, auto-spelling correction wants to make the title : Before the Chase and After the Chase. Some on-line distributors would not accept the capitalized version in their listing. The reference to my former band mates does not jump out if it has a lower case ‘t’ for the. Now, back to my previous train of thought).
I really like the way the tempo and the groove combine to make an interesting driving-sports-workout jam. I use open tuning for the guitar, and that allows me to get those really clear harmonics to stand out. The lyrics reference the many people in my life that are truly amazing. Dedicated, hard working, dependable friends and strangers in the background making the world a better place for others. Doing the right thing – for no real reward and little recognition. Heroes are all around, they just don’t make that much noise.
“Take a Closer Look” © MSK 6/25/2025 (First Move)
It’s difficult to get going
Usually, it’s too hard to stop.
Heroes rise up against the wind
In spite of the inevitable drop.
Everyone has their place in life
But can not see it most of the time.
Not all of us become astronauts
Or Sherlock with the unsolvable crime.
Take A Closer Look
And you will see.
They guard over you silently
Yet never seem to get in the way.
Easy not to see them at first
But they are always ready to play.
One of them might be an artist
Musicians you truly understand.
A friend who has never failed you
Or strangers that gave you a helping hand.
Take A Closer Look
Take A Closer Look and you will see.
MIDIMike
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