Treat You Right

Black Hole

Future You And Future Me

Lost Boys

When I wrote this song at the end of 2020, I was staying in my childhood bedroom in Wisconsin, nursing the wounds of a terrible breakup. I felt completely alone, realizing that some of our mutual friends weren’t as close to me as I thought. (Later, when I booted up my computer, I found his iMessages synced to my iCloud and read some hurtful texts between him and “our friends.”) I was virtually homeless, having driven cross-country, feeling utterly abandoned when I received an email from him. His words lacked genuine accountability and only added salt to the wound, showing he still couldn’t see or acknowledge the pain he caused me. Sitting on my bedroom floor, I wanted to clap back in an email response, but I knew nothing would get through. My ex was no longer someone I could trust to hear me. I was angry and deeply hurt. I realized that no response was louder than any righteous response I could come up with, but I still needed an outlet…

Back in my childhood home, I had a private teenage rebellion. I got in touch with my teen angst, sneaking off to buy cigarettes and driving a town away, blasting Amy Winehouse, Fiona Apple, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow— the women who raised me in my teens. I would type out lyrics in my phone notes, order a coffee from the cafe I worked at in high school, and sit in the parking lot, highly caffeinated and chain-smoking cigarettes. And then with my travel guitar in the front seat of my Toyota Corolla, I wrote songs day after day until I had an entire album, showing all the stages of grief. This is just one of the songs from that album, representing the anger part of the process.

“White Flag” was his attempt at an olive branch. 🏳️🕊️ But I assure you, all I could see was Red. 🚩

White Flag

To The Top

Wrote,sung and produced 'City Boy With a Country Heart' In 1984.

Michale

City Boy With A Country Heart

This is from my 1984 album MICHALE.This song is 'Take Me Back' which I wrote,sung and produced with my co-producer Larry Nelson.

Take Me Back

You know I am an animal 
and that my bite is fatal
don't try to chain me to that fence
like an animal
cuz I've got a sixth sense
like an animal 

minding my business through the thick of the jungle
lions and tigers know they better be humble
didn't know I'd cause such a commotion
all the predators got a thirst for blood going

now they run run got em chasin my tail
get to close I'm gon' put put them in jail 
didn't know I'd cause such a commotion
all the predators got a thirst for blood going

nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah 

Eat sleep drink fuck
like an animal 
prey stalk hunt kill
like an animal

You know I am an animal 
and that my bite is fatal
don't try to chain me to that fence
like an animal
cuz I've got a sixth sense
like an animal 

you think you know how this is gonna go go go down down down 
that I'll submit and let you push me around round round round round
is it cuz you only see me as prey?
trust i'll bite cha if you get in my way 

nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah 

Eat sleep drink fuck
like an animal 
prey stalk hunt kill
like an animal

You know I am an animal 
and that my bite is fatal
don't try to chain me to that fence
like an animal
cuz I've got a sixth sense
like an animal 
You know I am an animal 
and that my sex is primal 
don't try to chain me to that fence
like an animal
cuz I've got a sixth sense
like an animal 

I am an animal 
I am an animal
I am an animal 
I am an animal
I am an animal 
I am an animal 
I am an animal 
I am an animal 
I am an animal 
I am an animal

White Flag

Mae Deline

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