The Days Roll By

i have a problem with doubt
i'm doubting me
don't know what i'm all about
and it bothers me
i'm just another stranger
like the ones i've known

i have some reasons to change
but i won't go
i keep 'em all on the shelf
just so i know
i'm just another slacker
i play wait and see

and the days roll by
like steamrollers runnin'
the engines...roaring
reaching for heaven
but the skies still cloudy
and the sun won't shine
it's the same damn thing
happenin' all the time

i never listen to me
so why should you?
so hey whatever i say
could not be true
i'm just another head
on the TV screen

and the days roll by
like steamrollers runnin'
the engines...roaring
reaching for heaven
but the skies still cloudy
and the sun won't shine
it's the same damn thing
happens all the time

(2008 db michel)

Crazy Dream Wedding

i went to sleep this afternoon
dog tired and full of my lunch
the fever took hold
and took me right under
and there i was dressed to the nines
there was a wedding in progress
the reception was right after that
when i saw the scene
if you know what i mean
i wouldn't want to do it like that

i had a crazy dream about a wedding
that nearly destroyed a luxury hotel
there was a door that went to nowhere
but down you would fall like a well
children threw tantrums at parents
who gave them whatever they wanted
people were dazed by the music
the song would play on and on

they had a big stone for bowling
aimed it at a big palm tree
it went down a big ramp
and then the tree went over
the press had a field day with that
there was a din of news helicopters
trying to get a good shot of the tree
yeah i saw it all
the palm tree did fall
then i saw it again on TV

i had a crazy dream about a wedding
that nearly destroyed a luxury hotel
there was a door that went to nowhere
but down if you would fall like a well
children threw tantrums at parents
who gave them whatever they wanted
people were dazed by the music
the song would play on and on

(2008 db michel)

I was trying to reconstruct a crazy dream i had this afternoon after i ate too much Bratwurst.

The King of Nothing

it's no longer a mystery...i found out today
i'm less than nothing...and that's how it will stay
look up and look over me...while i look down
you wear a smile...but i see a frown

and if there were to be a king
of this realm i know...if i know a thing
i should be the one at the the top
the top of the bottom is where the buck stops
and i'll be the king of nothing

so put on your dress clothes...and smile a fake smile
for those at the bottom...who are too tired to try
they'll never know it...you know that it's true
they don't aspire...to be someone like you

and if there were to be a king
of this realm i know...if i know a thing
i should be the one at the the top
the top of the bottom is where the buck stops
and i'll be the king of nothing

(bridge)
here with forgotten people
here with with their trampled dreams
i'll be the king of nothing
where nothing is everything

it's no longer a mystery...i found out today
i'm less than nothing...and that's how it will stay
look up and look over me...while i look down
you wear a smile...but i see a frown

and i'll be the king of nothing
i'll be the king of nothing

(2008 db michel)

The Roaring Silence

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If It's Over

An Original song (2008 db michel)

It's a Big Old Mountain

Lloyd Thaxton

What can be said?...He was the greatest.

Cigarette Smoke

you wake to cigarette smoke and whiskey vapors
you grab a cup of coffee...time to read the paper
the paper's late...so you go on-line again
nothing is real 'cause it's all a game
play it over and over...still it ends the same
the news is out...no one's gonna win

we have our trials
we have our doubts
we want it all
we do without
we cry to heaven
we want to try again

but it's the same old thing on a brand new day
we go on in the same old way
we look to the sky
and search for God again

(2008 db michel)

Fading Away

i can't feel the way you want me to
i can't be the one you want me to be
and you know it ain't easy

i can't stay until the bitter end
why hold out for a tearful scene for lies?
don't you know it ain't easy

i could stay another day
pretend there's nothing's wrong
but that won't change nothin'
'cause i'm fading away
one day you'll turn and see that i'm not there
by then you might not even care
so it won't matter

you won't even know that i have gone
until i've been gone most of a week
and it won't be easy

i'll skip the kiss and the last goodbye
hit the road and be gone tonight
but it won't be easy

i could stay another day
pretend there's nothing's wrong
but that won't change nothin'
'cause i'm fading away
one day you'll turn and see that i'm not there
by then you might not even care
so it won't matter


(2008 db michel)

Bad News

and i'm feeling down again
but i know it isn't over
i feel the pain again
but i won't walk out the door
i'm sitting here all by myself
i see my heart upon the shelf
i know tomorrow i'll be coming back for more

bad news is the kind of news that makes good news so much sweeter
like sunrise would be nothing without the long dark night
joy would be an empty thing...without the corresponding pain
if there were to be no darkness...how could we see the light?

and i'll find myself again
'cause i remember all that's happened
i'll be myself again
just like i was before
while the tears are falling down
dripping slowly down my frown
i know tomorrow they won't be there anymore

bad news is the kind of news that makes good news so much sweeter
like sunrise would be nothing without the long dark night
joy would be an empty thing...without the corresponding pain
if there were to be no darkness...how could we see the light?

(bridge)
daylight is calling me to answer
tomorrow's at my window
and soon sorrow's out the door

bad news is the kind of news that makes good news so much sweeter
like sunrise would be nothing without the long dark night
joy would be an empty thing...without the corresponding pain
if there were to be no darkness...how could we see the light?

(2008 db michel)

I Kissed You First

you been around and up and down
you been so many places
i don't know the faces
of the people that you see
we used to run together
but we really weren't together
it was over once it started
it was just a passing thing

but i kissed you first
bet you never thought i'd do it
i kissed you first
so you knew it wouldn't hurt
i know there's lots of other guys
who don't know i exist
i may have been the worst
but i was the one
who kissed you first

you been away from me so long
but that doesn't leave me troubled
i can't see those places
much too far for me to go
we had our thing together
it was just one day and over
i know for sure it's over
now it doesn't mean a thing

but i kissed you first
bet you never thought i'd do it
i kissed you first
so you knew it wouldn't hurt
i know there's lots of other guys
who don't know i exist
i may have been the worst
but i was the one
who kissed you first

life goes on for those who live it
i wouldn't miss the day i did it
but that was all it was
i still think of you because

yeah i kissed you first
bet you never thought i'd do it
i kissed you first
so you knew it wouldn't hurt
i know there's lots of other guys
who don't know i exist
i may have been the worst
but i was the one
who kissed you first

(2008 db michel)

Song Of My Life

if i could make a song of my life
would anybody care to listen?
would it be bright like a summer day?
should i send the truth to hide away?

if i could make a song of my life
would the lies outshine the music?
would it make me stop and wonder why?
could i hide the tears and fake the smile?

and it's a long, long, way
but i try to find my world
i've been searching for a long, long, time
has anybody seen my world?

if i could make a song of my life
could i paint the tears with music?
would the lyrics drip with empty lies?
would it be a waste of time?

and it's a long, long, way
but i try to find my world
i've been searching for a long, long, time
has anybody seen my world?

(2008 db michel)

I Can't Touch You There

and i know...what i know
but that's as far as i can go
there's no place...for the dream
in the waking world

and i feel...what i feel
but i can't believe that it is real
there's no place...for a heart
in the waking world

'cause i can't touch you there
all is get is psychic emotion
can't get beyond the door to the floor
or wherever it is you go
'cause i can't touch you there
spotlight would shine on the forbidden lovers
can't reach beyond the wall of my dreams
never know if it is what it seems

and i see...what i see
but that's as close as i can be
there's no place...for my thoughts
in the waking world

i hear...what i hear
but reality is what i fear
there's no place...for that sound
in the waking world

'cause i can't touch you there
all is get is psychic emotion
can't get beyond the door to the floor
or wherever it is you go
'cause i can't touch you there
spotlight would shine on the forbidden lovers
can't reach beyond the wall of my dreams
never know if it is what it seems

i'll have to wait for a day past forever
and even then never...will i know

'cause i can't touch you there
all is get is psychic emotion
can't get beyond the door to the floor
or wherever it is you go
'cause i can't touch you there
spotlight would shine on the forbidden lovers
can't reach beyond the wall of my dreams
never know if it is what it seems

(2008 db michel)

Stood In Your Rain

i see you in the corner
looks like you're waiting for something
what it is i don't really know
it's like your life is misdirection
you want to say
but the truth ain't no protection
so you live another day
feeling that way

(chorus)
i know your pain
i have stood in your rain
i've felt it before
and i didn't wanna face it
i've lived my life
ask once
deny twice
don't want to try anymore

it see you in the corner
seems like you've been waiting for someone
who it is i don't really know
it's like you want some information
you want to ask
but you don't want affirmation
so you live another day
feeling that way

(chorus)
i know your pain
i have stood in your rain
i've felt it before
and i didn't wanna face it
i've lived my life
ask once
deny twice
don't want to try anymore

(bridge)
and in the grand expanse of time
are we really all that different?
this pain is yours and it's mine
and it's hard to get over

(chorus)
i know your pain
i've stood in your rain
i've felt it before
and i didn't wanna face it
i've lived my life
ask once
deny twice
don't want to try anymore

(2008 db michel)

The Message (Empty Is My World)

empty is my world...
empty is my world
empty is my world
without you
empty is my world...
empty is my world
empty is my world
without you

somewhere in the stars
way out there past mars
there's a beacon in the sky
and it's callin'
sends it's best to you
all it says is true
when the time is right
they'll be comin'

empty is my world...
empty is my world
empty is my world
without you
empty is my world...
empty is my world
empty is my world
without you

tell it to your soul
the part of you that knows
that the voices in the sky
have been callin'
something we don't know
in the distant shadow glows
we are in their sights
they've been watchin'

empty is my world...
empty is my world
empty is my world
without you
empty is my world...
empty is my world
empty is my world
without you

(bridge)
in the silence of the night
when they reach out
gonna feel it in your bones
getting closer every day
without a doubt
hope is movin' in
will we be foe or friend?

empty is my world...
empty is my world
empty is my world
without you
empty is my world...
empty is my world
empty is my world
without you

(2008 db michel)

Btw...For those who may be curious...This was written as a take on what a friendly message from an extra-terrestrial intelligence might be if decoded...And human reflection on what such an experience might be like...The friendly and rather lonely alien message...Empty is my world...without you...