On and On

with my creative mind
i make art for art's sake
i tell you that it's all real
although i know it's all fake
i let my mind run free
and then i make my own trap
i try to fence myself in
every time you react

sailing on and on and on
this sea of angst goes on and on
i try to find my star
but the radio don't see that far
sailing on and on and on
this sea of angst goes on and on
i try to find my way
i find another reason to stay

and that is how i do it
it's just the thing that i do
my emotions in circles
a ship at sea without crew
i could stay here forever
or i could leave you today
just another extension
of my greatest mistake

sailing on and on and on
this sea of angst goes on and on
i try to find my star
but the radio don't see that far
sailing on and on and on
this sea of angst goes on and on
i try to find my way
i find another reason to stay

(200b db michel)

Stand and Deliver

don't need no anger
to color your songs
you have all that you’re needin'
you don't have to do wrong
you can run with the others
turn your words into fights
or you can stand and deliver
something so right

you have something special
i can hear when you sing
so you don't need to answer
when the trouble boys ring
you can swear like the others
with their four letter words
or you can stand and deliver
what they never could

(chorus)
and the coal dark of night calls the soul
come to me she says
it's better than you've been told
that sweet song of satan
fill you up with those lies...lies...lies
what do you know of heaven?
until you've been tried

don't need no suitcase
to get where you're goin'
if you ride with the bad man
that is all you'll be knowin'
you can be like the others
take a stance so tough
or you can stand and deliver
say enough is enough

(chorus)
and the coal dark of night calls the soul
come to me she says
it's better than you've been told
that sweet song of satan
fill you up with those lies...lies...lies
what do you know of heaven?
until you've been tried

(2008 db michel)

My Nobility

wouldn't change a thing
don't want to see a different face in the mirror
it's really all the same
each passing day
gets clearer and clearer

follow me
if you will...if you want to
follow me
up that higher hill
follow me
we can stand on the heights and look down
on my nobility

wouldn't cast a shine
on any other place in the matrix
i live it all the time
i see the hours
falling all over me

follow me
if you will...if you want to
follow me
up that higher hill
follow me
we can stand on the heights and look down
on my nobility

take away the veil of civility
take away the lie of the frame
take away the smart decorations
you'll see
whatever you see

follow me
if you will...if you want to
follow me
up that higher hill
follow me
we can stand on the heights and look down
on my nobility

(2008 db michel)

The Final Fly

The days are getting shorter
It’s a bitter dying light
As the final fly of summer
Takes a lonely winter flight
The things that once were lively
Are slowly finding death
The visitors are leaving
On the next train headed west
The coming days loom bitter
For the warmth forsaken soul
The closing theme is playing
In the lonely winter cold
Maybe some fine morning
Spring will come again
Till then darkness rules the winter
Goodbye to you my friend

(2007 db michel)

Saying Goodbye

feeling like i overstayed my welcome
feeling not good enough
i feel so out of place
i talk but i can't feel you listening
i get more feedback from the stars in outer space

(chorus)
don't wanna have to say
but i really feel this way
i'm too sad to try
so i'm saying goodbye
i was there when things were new
i'll always be a friend to you
but time passes by
now i'm saying goodbye

feeling like a stranger lost in heaven
feeling like someone else
should be standing in my place
i pretend that nothing really bothers me
'cause the truth feels so close to a slap upside my face

(chorus)
don't wanna have to say
but i really feel this way
i'm too sad to try
so i'm saying goodbye
i was there when things were new
i'll always be a friend to you
but time passes by
now i'm saying goodbye

(bridge)
there ain't no way i'm comin' over
i gave the best of me
gotta save the rest of me

(chorus)
don't wanna have to say
but i really feel this way
i'm too sad to try
so i'm saying goodbye
i was there when things were new
i'll always be a friend to you
but time passes by
now i'm saying goodbye

(2007 db michel)

Something Somehow

i take what you say
and try to dream around it
you say what you do
and i imagine that it's true
i wanna believe
break the walls down
set the spirit free
i know i shouldn't do it
but i think of you and me

and i see something somehow out of nothing
something real where dreams escape
something good that never was
but just might be if we create
something strong for us to cling to
when it seems that we might break
something in my heart just tells me
that i shouldn't hesitate

i hear with my soul
and try to write you in my story
you're just on the edge
of being in this crazy game
i wanna reach out
break the walls down
set the spirit free
i know i shouldn't do it
but i think of you and me

and i see something somehow out of nothing
something real where dreams escape
something good that never was
but just might be if we create
something strong for us to cling to
when it seems that we might break
something in my heart just tells me
that i shouldn't hesitate

but there's so far for us to go
the space and time and life between us
in case that you don't know
i want so bad just to believe it

and i see something somehow out of nothing
something real where dreams escape
something good that never was
but just might be if we create
something strong for us to cling to
when it seems that we might break
something in my heart just tells me
that i shouldn't hesitate

(2007 db michel)

Long Cold Day

we separate and fall away
haven't had too many things to say...lately
and it's a sad sad thing to see
time has had it's way with us...with you and me
the toll that life has taken on us
heaped the burden weight upon us
we can't see the light...that brought us together

and it's a long cold day in the afternoon
i remember a summer day
but it's gone away...died too soon
it's a long long way from the summer nights
we thought it would be alright
but it's gone away...died too soon

we live another day goes by
passes into another night...are we still friends?
it's a sad sad thing to think
that we're just gonna let it be...and let it end
the things that we have seen go down
are dead and buried in the ground
we can't feel the warmth...that brought us together

and it's a long cold day in the afternoon
i remember a summer day
but it's gone away...died too soon
it's a long long way from the summer nights
we thought it would be alright
but it's gone away...died too soon

(2007 db michel)

The Sea and the Deep Blue Me

when i think about the times i've failed
there's plenty to think of
there's so much in the emptiness
can't remember what it was

i tried to keep an even keel
be what i am...say what i feel
but now i know...that's not enough
you say goodbye...and that's too tough

but that's the way it goes
sailing on this lonely sea
i'll make my way alone
the shore is hard to see
there's nothing there for my eyes
just the sea and the deep blue me

when i think about the times i've tried
and how it all went wrong
now all have is promises
buried in a song

i tried to take the easy way
don't get too close...just push away
now here i am...lost in the smoke
you locked your door...now there's no hope

but that's the way it goes
sailing on this lonely sea
i'll make my way alone
the shore is hard to see
there's nothing there for my eyes
just the sea and the deep blue me

(2007 db michel)

All Things End

the nature of time...unavoidable
the creations of man...slowly fading to grey
the time once so long...so indestructible
is leaving this place...just a little more plain

what can we do?
where do we go from here?
all things end
and when they disappear

fade into endless night
crossover time and space
leaving behind the light
emptiness in it's place
hold on for kingdom come
stay around for the end of days
what has been done is done
in the ashes of what we made

(2007 db michel)

Time Will Carry Me On

it's easy to forget about the people you met on the way
just saw 'em for a day...and then they're gone
it's easy to think this moment will live on and on
but when the morning has come
it's another day

it's hard to remember about the bad times gone good
when you misunderstood...and then forget
it's hard to think this day is just like the rest
just another sunset
it's another night

oooohh...time will carry me on
time will set me free
time will imprison me
oooooh...days and nights go past
they come so fast
and pass just like the breeze

it's funny to think back then that you thought that i would
you said we'd be so good...for an endless age
it's funny to think that i knew you would go
from rain into snow
it's another place

ooooh...time will carry me on
time will set me free
time will imprison me
ooooh...days and nights go past
they come so fast
and pass just like the breeze

2007 db michel

Love Survives

At the end of all these days
The times we call our lives
We may look upon them
With fire still in our eyes
The flame of passion burning
We remember how we tried
When we close the book forever
Somehow love survives

(2007 db michel)

Memories Of You

i still recall the good times
time spent dreamin' what we'd do
in a fantasy world of hope i never knew
i recall the laughter
and a funny joke or two
In solitary recollection
of my memories of you

i knew that time would pass us by
but i lived a lie so the real world was denied
i knew there was only so far we could go
but gettin' to that place
was better than the show

i still recall the twinkling
of your eyes so deep and blue
they lit the way to a place i never knew
i recall you smiling
so desperate for the truth
in solitary recollection
of my memories of you

i knew that time would pass us by
but i lived a lie so the real world was denied
i knew there was only so far we could go
but gettin' to that place
was better than the show

in solitary recollection
of my memories of you
sitting in the darkness
with my memories of you
i still recall the good times
in my memories of you

(2007 db michel)

100% Chance of Rain

A little piece of hell on Earth

The heat and drought continues in southern Illinois...Daytime high temps have been between 95 and 101 for the last two weeks...So i thought i'd bring back something i wrote during similar weather August 15th 2 years ago...which i have re-written a little since then...

"100% Chance of Rain"

been, dry as a bone out there
the withered plants bleached in the sun
a little piece of hell on earth
kind of makes me wonder, what we've done
grapes are dying, on the vine
you got no grapes, you get no wine

(chorus)
there's 100 percent chance of rain, someday
yeah someday the dry will give way
to puddles on the ground
100 percent chance things will be better, someday
and then i'll be glad i had the faith to stick around

been, tired of the heat out there
the summer heat stays beyond the day
sweat beads up on my brow
everywhere i go it, feels the same
crops are dying, beans and corn
you don't get paid, you just get warm

(chorus)
there's 100 percent chance of rain, someday
yeah someday the dry will give way
to puddles on the ground
100 percent chance things will be better someday
and then i'll be glad i had to the faith to stick around

(bridge)
i feel relief is out there somewhere
waiting for just the right time to come in
i can feel that hope is out there someday
you know the winners get their way
but even losers have their day

(chorus)
there's 100 percent chance of rain, someday
yeah someday the dry will give way
to puddles on the ground
100 percent chance things will be better someday
and then i'll be glad i had the faith to stick around

8-15-2005 dburr13

Choose Life

I'm on vocals...My friend Ed is on Guitar...Special thanks to Aleksandar and Timmy...Some of the pics are old ones of me and and my little bro.

Fishing With You

beside the little pond, the weeping willows
frame the water with an understated green
i hear a bullfrog there who croaks
i see a bulldog there who mopes
as i sit upon the dock in summer breeze
and if i had a chance to go to somewhere
to a place that i remember from my youth
i would go back there
to a world that was more fair
and i would be there fishing with you

the sheep were like an army in the distance
but up close they were as scared as they could be
the ducks and geese would squawk
as you and i would talk
as we sat upon the dock in summer breeze
back then when i was young and oh, so foolish
i thought those days would never see an end
but now those days are gone
but the memories live on
of the days i would go fishing with you

(bridge)
now i haven't gone fishing for years
and remembering those old days can bring a tear
but for every tear i cry
i remember how i smiled
when i would go fishing with you

(ending)
someday we will meet way up in heaven
and God will ask me what i want to do
the choice won't be too hard
i won't have to leave the yard
and i'll be up there fishing with you
yes i'll be up there fishing with you

(2005 D. B. MICHEL)