Name: Good Enough [demo] by Michelle Held
Duration: 4 min 21 s
Description: For the broken down, the broken hearted, the writers, the lovers and the fighters, the artists of the world.

When I feel lost and alone, this song and voice brings me home.   Home is where my dog, Tony and I will be home for the night and rest calmly.    Thank you because you did this to us, gave us a calm night of sleep very good enough.

Nice. Hearing a bit of Carole King here. The world needs more of this..

fantastic. Outstanding voice, song, arrangement

Beautiful composition, subject and vocal. Thank you for the music. Go well, Amanda :-) p.s. I heard you on Mike Summerhays Music Reposts.

The voice and in person that gives me great inspiration.    Thank you.

Your voice is so pretty, reminds me of Joan Baez!! :))

On of the best song singers ever in 34 years of the Ann Arbor music experience.

For the broken down, the broken hearted, the writers, the lovers and the fighters, the artists of the world.

Good Enough [demo]

Hardship teaches the music only broken bones can learn.

Lyrics:
The last time I saw Sarah
She was wasted and wasting away
Seeking answers in a bottle
Her fall from grace made us say

Broke our hearts, broke her bones, Sarah
Took her dreams and threw them away
Broke our hearts, broke her bones
We hate to see her this way

And all the reasons she gave
And all the lies she told along the way
Broke our hearts, broke her bones
And took it all away

The weather's fine in Arizona
But recovery can be so slow
Brought her back in my Toyota
To all her friends that know

Don't break our hearts, break your bones, Sarah
Don't take your dreams and throw them away
Don't break our hearts, break your bones
Start living for today

And the last time I saw Sarah
She was sober since I don't know when
Broke our hearts, broke her bones
But she is back again

Sarah (subtitle Lose the Booze, original)

Let Me Go

Many years ago, the Mayor of Florence, the city where I was born, had ordered that all students could access without limits to the Uffizi Museum that is located around the corner from my house.
There was a time that I would go every day to admire the wonders of that gallery.
Among the hundreds of paintings exhibited one in particular I liked very much. I was 12 years and  I fell in love with Botticelli's Venus. Perhaps the recent loss of my mother took me to idealize that wonderful female figure. I was so fascinated by Venus that my stationed in front of that picture, one day after another came to the attention of  Roberto, a keeper of the museum, who wanted to give me a Polaroid photo, which he himself made me with the background of the beautiful blue-eyed Venus. I do not know where is now this photo that I cherished, but the memory of those afternoons will remain indelible in my mind.
I recommend everyone to see at least once in their life the works of the Uffizi ... there is no place in the world where there is such a concentration of beauty.
With this track, I have tried to interpret, in the first part, the wonder, the marvel of who enters for the first time in a magical place like the Uffizi Gallery, and in the second part, a tender and moving declaration of love "a little man" as I was, to an ideal woman / mother...!

Venus I will always love you !!!

Thanks for your attention …good listening!

Paolo…an hopeless romantic... 


Venus I Love You !

Rest Assured

Approximately 700,000 people applied for asylum throughout the EU during 2015, after what has been a sharp incline in claims over the past five years. This number is expected to swell in 2016 in the face of many closing borders. I think it's important to remember that every human alive today shares a common ancestor with someone who lived approximately two millennia ago. We are all one family, literally cousins, yet borders, politics, wealth, religion, creed, gender, sexuality, and more, continue to divide, and classify us. Just think, In only two millennia from now, all of humanity will share a common ancestor with just one person living today, and that person could be you. Everyone of us deserves a life free from poverty or war, a place to call home, a job to provide sustenance, and someone to love — Don't be afraid to be the change you want to see in the world, after all, it is ours to change. 

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Sales from this single will go towards making the documentary film "The Long Walk"
Release Date: TBC

People Get Ready (For Syria)

lucy's lucid dreams of lilac lilies/ are retold by her bald "shrink"/ thinking there's something deeply wrong/ with a sugar brained state. she prefers her own world of a mind/to his insulting offensive mediocrity...he plays a shadow like a monochrome mime/he didn't speak one word. It is hardly the lighthearted comedy he retells it to be/every night at his powder blue table/eating his slaughtered chicken roast on his shining china plate/ feeding off his wife's adoring eyes as they dilate at the confidence of his brash voice, and the grease and wealth on his face./ his boy wants to be just like him, his daughter wants to marry a man just like him, adoration of the dream.../chorus: oh, oh lucy x3, don't you believe in me?./ the next morning he listens to the most wonderful tale/ rows of sickly strong jasmine down a path to so called divinity and company/ only to be tricked and beaten and nearly bled to death/ as if reflecting a world within a world /truth wrapped up in a lie/but she knows.... she knows he laughed himself to sleep last night/the fact he is a paid man for hearing her "trouble".../robbing a family and promising she shall be healed/ a fucking messiah of the dead already, he is the dead already/except, lucy she's alive.../ (chorus)/ (outro thingo)

Lucy

Live demo recorded on an iPhone 4.

there's a yellow bird
on my back
always screeching
she says she loves me
even knows me
more than I

through old cigarette smoke
and empty beer cans
laying on the floor
there's a bag of weed
and a broken song
playing on my fingers
coming out wrong
and a paper heart
where my real one
used to kick
and just a ball of string
where my mind
used to dream

think i sunk
right below
the water table line

i will stay
but not for long
just enough to look round
and long enough to leave
i will climb
towards the sun
along the way we've come
i'll let my lion lead me there

there's a yellow bird
in my hand
she's awful quiet
i said i loved her
even meant it
all those times
there's no place
i'd rather be
than on top
i should leave her
right below
this water table line

i will stay
but not for long
just enough to look round
and long enough to leave
i will climb
towards the sun
along the way we've come
i'll let my lion lead me there

The Miner

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Renowned folk icon Tom Paxton said, “Two years ago, I told Michelle that I thought she had the gift. I am changing ‘thought’ to ‘know.’” Michelle Held has established herself as a cornerstone of the Michigan music scene with her emotionally resonant live performance and lyrical talent, earning her three consecutive Honorable Mentions in the prestigious Telluride Troubadour Contest. In November of 2023, Held made her long-awaited recording debut with the release of “The World Moves On,” a pandemic-inspired reflection on life’s fragile yet resilient nature, alongside a beautiful hand-drawn animated video. “This song presents a few opportunities for Michelle to share her memorably one-of-a-kind warble, a vocal texture that helps secure a spot in the listener’s memory and sets her apart from other singer-songwriters in and beyond the folk genre,” writes Geoff Wilbur’s Music Blog. Held is a gentle, thoughtful presence that offers listeners a warm space to appreciate beautiful vocals and genuine heartfelt narratives.

Good Enough [demo]

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