Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This

Wasn’t supposed to be like this
The world’s changed and gone to piss
Had so much hope to start anew
Packed for a life I thought I knew 

Thanks to a friend, I got a space
Thinking finally, oh this is the place 
Had so much hope for the human race
Holding cards, won’t show my ace 

Sometimes the unexpected arrives
Sometimes tidal waves they rise 
Sometimes all you can do is sigh
Sometimes your dreams they go to die
Sometimes balance is restored
Sometimes nature cannot be ignored 

Blue skies and always sunny days
Found me a job that finally pays 
Was making changes to my old ways
Traded all for a life of play 

You never know when things’ll go to shit
Every time I think I’m at the end of my wit
The world comes and tells me to sit
With all these thoughts just for a bit

Sometimes the unexpected arrives
Sometimes tidal waves they rise 
Sometimes all you can do is sigh
Sometimes your dreams they go to die
Sometimes balance is restored
Sometimes nature cannot be ignored 

©️Copyright 2020 Cover The Brake Publishing and Dog n’ a Half Records

Pándēmos

Wasn't Supposed To Be Like This

Mario Di Sandro is a singer-songwriter originally from Chicago, who is now back living in LA after a quick stint in Seattle (2024-2025) after leaving Los Angeles in mid-2024 (2020-2024), and had previously lived in the Bay Area from 2011-2020.

Mario has been writing lyrics ever since he stopped paying attention during class in high school. In 2000 he started putting those lyrics to music and in 2001 he formed his first band Bad Frequency. Various hiatuses and 7 drummers later, they reformed in 2005 and again in 2008 as On The Lam. He has since played solo and formed bands for live shows to perform his vast catalog of songs.

Amassing several hundred original songs in his personal repertoire and hundreds of covers. He has since recorded and released 12 solo studio albums, 2 live albums, 1 covers album in a short 13 year period; Lessons (Learned) [2011], Give and Take [2013], Loneliness [2014], Things Since You [2015], You Are a Stranger Here, But Once… [2015], Forsaken and Forlorn [2015], World Gone Mad [2016], Under the Cover (covers album) [2016], Walk a Mile [2017], Watch It All Burn Down [2018]. Break Free [2020] was released just as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world. Busy with a lot of extra free time that year, he released another album Pándēmos [2020]. Currently working on the 12th album tentatively titled Quandary [2025]’.