On Christmas Day

(Don’t look back) On The Road Ahead _ Words and Music By Mikeo
July 13, 2014

I still think of you, from time to time
You’re never far from my mind
I’m excepting what I can not change
And finding strength, along the way
 
There’s a new found man inside me now
I’m seeing hope, where I once had doubt
With every sunset that passes by 
I’ve put a thousand miles of you behind 

(Chorus)
I won’t look back, on the road ahead 
Can take back, what’s said is said
A part of you inside me still remains
But I won’t look back on yesterday

I’m walking a mile in new shoes
Searching for a new found truth
A hard dose of reality is setting in
But every day is like a new beginning

I won’t look back, on the road ahead 
Can take back, what’s said is said
A part of you inside me still remains
But I won’t look back on yesterday

(Bridge)
But each hour that passes by
It’s getting better all the time
Yeah it’s better all the time

I won’t look back, on the road ahead 
Can take back, what’s said is said
A part of you inside me still remains
But I won’t look back on yesterday


( I Won't Look Back) On Yesterday

I Get Lonely Too – Michael P. O’Neill

 
Waited all night, for your call
I guess it doesn’t matter, much at all
I sat around the house, with nothing much to do
Deep inside, I could never count on you

Chorus
I’ve been here before,
 And I’ll probably be here again, for you
Cause honey, sometimes I get lonely too
Yes Honey, Sometimes I get lonely too

I walk the streets, every now and then
Hoping maybe, I’d see you again
Took in another late night picture show
I’ve seen myself a dozen times or more

Chorus

The sun is rising on another day
Two weeks gone, with nothing much to say
There where times when loved you, times when I hated you
Ain’t that the god’s honest truth

Bridge
I’ve got one last cigarette and full pack of regret
Another 12 pack week night, but it’s almost daylight

Chorus
Yes I do 
Honey sometime I get lonely too


I Get Lonely Too

Cold Coffee
May 10th 2012


Alarm clock ringing, I’ve got a pounding in my head
I just want to lay here in bed
And the whole damn working thing is wearing thin

Put on my shoes, grab my coat and hat
I can make it to station in no time flat
But I’m running a bit late again

Chorus
Grab my coffee, and I’m making my way
In for another working day,
You can count me for being ½  in
Well its 10am and cold coffee again

Monday day mornings can drag you down
They got a retirement deal,  if ya just hang around
For 40 years, on a matching 401K

They say the time goes by fast
If you don’t drop first from a heart attack
Shy of that golden day
 
Chorus

Bridge
Crunching numbers on a data base
Working in a cube, like a rat in a caged
I’ve never had that much ambition anyway

Chorus



Cold Coffee

Summertime 
May 21, 2012

Well the summer time, is almost here
Hanging round drinking ice cold beer
Sitting back, in my easy chair

Life is good, life is fine
But it gets hot sometime
Keeping it cool, by the swimming pool

Summer time
I could lose my mind
Drifting off, under that willow tree
Just you and me and the summer time

Sitting back hanging low
Just watching the front lawn grow
Ain’t go nowhere we need to go

Waking down, by a cool stream
Got my fishing pole here with me
What ya catch, you’ll never know

Chorus

Sipping on  lemon aid
Here in the cool shade
Life's as good, as sweet tea

Tear up the radio
Got the AM  low fi  low
Ain’t those old songs sound sweet

Chorus


Summertime

Rosslare Road - Words by Mikeo
August 21, 2012 

A cold rainy day, I could wish it all way
It’s not that long until the leaves arel gone
The sun slowly dying and the winter will be here
And the skies will soon be cold and grey

Chorus 
Got to keep the fire burnin, deep inside your soul
Those winter nights can be so cold
Just you and me, and a life time of memories
You and me  on Rosslare Road

The sun is setting low, better days seem far away
I think back on all our yesteredayws
Just you and me talking and walking hand in hand
How I wish those days would lasted for ever

Chorus 
Got to keep the fire burnin, deep inside your soul
Those winter nights can be so cold
Just you and me, and a life time of memories
You and me  on Rosslare Road

When I’m old and tired, and in my dying day
I'll keep those memories alive, just to pass the time away
In my heart in my head whent there's nothing  left to say
I'll take those memories to my grave

Chorus 
Got to keep the fire burnin, deep inside your soul
Those winter nights can be so cold
Just you and me, and a life time of memories
You and me  on Rosslare Road


Rosslare Road

Monday Blue :  Words and Music by Mikeo
September 4th 2012

Another day, Monday blue
I've been drinking all day with nothing to do
Another weekend passed me by
Hanging on to dreams, that never came true
Night fall is coming, but what ya gonna do
Sometime it feels like you’ll never win

Chorus
Another Monday just wasted away 
Couldn't get off my back all day
It’s just another Monday , Monday blue

Peeling labels empty bottles of hope
But without faith you’ll never see the dope
And without laith you’ll never see the light
The sun is rising on a Tuesday morning
Tired and tater and a lil wore
I hardly put up a fight

Chorus

Bridge
Sometimes I feel so down at 21
Tell me know where's the fun

Solo
Chorus

Another Tuesday  wasted away 
Couldn't get off my back all day
Another Tuesday just like Monday blue
Just another day , like Monday blue
Just another day , like Monday blue


Monday Blue

Please Come Home- Words and Music by Mikeo


The snow is falling in the canyon
It’s getting cold out side 
I been hoping and praying
 You’ll be back by  Christmas night


My nights just spent waiting
My days just pass me by
I‘ve been staring the window
For you to arrive

Chorus
So come  home for Christmas
I couldn’t stand another night alone
I’ve been waiting such a long long time
Won’t ya please come home, baby won’t please come home

The snow is piling on the roof top
Another year passes by
Your picture on the fire mantel
Just gets me through the night

Separated by distance
Ttears me up inside
The letters  sent back home
Of happier times

Chorus

Verse Solo

Chorus


Please Come Home (Christmas Song)

Mort's Acoustic Guitar Challenge

For this acoustic guitar challenge, I chose a Gibson J45. The J45 has a Spruce top and traditional mahogany back and side, you should fine it also has stronger mids than a Martin, or at least the Martins I own, which are a couple of 00016's and a MC28. The highs tend to be not as bright especially with old strings, and the bottom end is very strong, almost too strong at times. There is no eq-ing after the recording and the it's basically 3 mix blended to taste. The Sound hole mic was a Beyer Dynamic MC834, a second mic was placed near the fret board, which was a Beyer Dynamic M160 ribbon mic. I thought the tones sounded decent with the 2 mics, but since there is no reverb  on the recording, or compression, I placed a 3rd mic in the room about 6 feet away and this added a touch of natural reverb,. I wish I placed it further away and got more of the room sound, which is pretty dead for a cellar.  The bass end was big on my reference speakers and the second source of reference speaker the bass was not as thick and boomy. The boomy bass is something you need to worry with the J45 and some of the bigger Martins. 

My DBX tube pre amps where giving me some trouble after years of decent service. I stopped using a them and the pre amps are from a Soundcraft M8 mixer. The M8 has the same pre amps as there award winning Ghost mixing console.  All for about 500 bucks.

There's not gonna be any one sound that's probably best, but many great sounds. Depending on what tones you are looking for and how it is used in a recording

So give it a listen to and see what ya thing. I didn't run it though any mastering or level eq, so you  might have to turn up the volume a bit.

Thanks for listening to this 1 minute demo and some basic chords

Acoustic Guitar Challenge

Albuquerque –Words and Music by Michael P. O’Neill
January 9th 2013


There’s a north wind blowin in the desert sky
A sunset fading low
The night’s fallin and the moon is rising
On an open road

I was born a ramber 
Never could quite settle down
Someday If I ever get back here
I might just stick around

 I’ll stick around, in Albuquerque

Slept out underneath the stars
Too many times I lost count
Bedded down where I laid my head
On a soft pillow or sandy ground

Coyotes in the canyon
Howlin like my second wife
I hope she didn’t take it to hard
If you see her, say hello to her for me

If you’re ever anywhere, near Albuquerque


40 days, I’ve been wondering
In the mid day sun
I don’t walk to fast, anymore
but I sure can run


And if you ever see my taillights fadin
 out on the road 
Don’t slow me down
Just wave goodbye
I’m on a fast highway out

I’m on a fast highway out, of Albuquerque
I’m on a fast highway out, of Albuquerque
I’m on a fast highway out, of Albuquerque


Michael P. O'Neill

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