I Hear Bagpipes
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath
DAW: Reason
Mix: Ozone 11

Lyrics

I hear bagpipes,
On this still night,
I hear them at this moment,
Can you hear them?

I hear bagpipes,
On this starry night,
I hear them in the shadows,
Can you hear them?

Chorus
I hear them playing,
From over the hill,
Coming for me,
then coming for you
Can you hear them, my friend,
Can you hear them?

Interlude

I hear bagpipes,
On this moonless night,
I hear them in the darkness,
Can you hear them?

I hear bagpipes,
On this quiet night,
I hear them from my future,
Can you hear them?

Chorus

Outro

I Hear Bagpipes

My Sunday Posting.  Another track for my bubblegum album.

Link to music video: https://youtu.be/5_RIhD2D1pM

I'm Here For Someone
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

I'm not here for you,
I'm not here for me,
I'm here for someone,
Someone you can't see,
Na na na na na (x4)

I'm not here for a him,
I'm not here for a her,
I'm here for a someone,
A someone who endures.
Na na na na na (x4)

I'm not here for that,
I'm not here for this,
I'm here for that someone,
That someone who is bliss,
Na na na na na (x4)

I'm Here for Someone

Bubblegum version of the original.

Let's Go Back
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

I want to go back
I need to go back
I gotta go back,
To when I first started
I need to go back
I want to go back
To the time
I still had youthful ambition

I need to go back
To the time
When I was just a little boy
And my dad said if you want
To be a musician,
You need to learn to play the piano
I’m not paying for lessons
If you never practice,
And I said I don’t wanna
Then I’m taking away the piano
I don’t care,
And he said you’ll regret it,
But now I regret it

I want to go back
I need to go back
I gotta go back,
Won’t you join me,
Let’s go back
To the time we had the opportunity.

I need to go back then when
I need to go back then when
I need to go back then when
Everything was groovy.

Let's Go Back

Bubblegum version of my original

I'm Singing Old Love Songs
Song and Lyrics by Mike Krath

Lyrics:

I'm singing old love songs,
cause I'm old, old,
About our love,
that really wasn't that long ago,
About the birds and the bees,
That are really the same so,
Not much has changed,
but the reflection of our faces, oh.

I'm singing old love songs,
About our love so,
It's gone on so long,
It's still new, oh,
I'm singing about you,
About the love we had when young,
It still is true, so,
The love,
that we have between us,
Still is young,
I'm singing old love songs,
that really don't feel so old.

I'm singing old love songs,
cause I'm old, old,
about the love we dreamed when young,
that came true, so,
But the love,
The love you gave me so,
still is young,
never grows old,
I'm singing old love songs,
that really don't feel so old.

Your love never grows old.

I'm Singing Old Love Songs

For my next bubblegum album.

Come On, Come On
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

On and on.
Our love goes on,
It's time to tell others,
Sing them our song,
come on, come on.
It's time (it's time, it's time),
To announce our love (to announce our love),
Still in our hearts (still in our hearts).
Oh, oh,
Come on (come on) (x6)

Interlude

On and on (on and on)
Our love goes on,
It's time to tell others (shout it),
Sing them our song.
come on, come on (come on, come on).
On and on (on).
Our love goes on (and on),
It's time to tell others (tell them),
Sing them our song,
come on, come on.

Come on, Come on (come on) (x8)

Come on, Come on

Sinner or a Saint
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

You're either a sinner or a saint,
in between you ain't,
its not that you can,
but cain't but help be one or the other
maybe a sinner who wants to pray
or a saint that's gone astray
but in the end it's all the same,
the sinner will have to pay,
for his sins done his way,
while the saint will receive
his reward, maybe small,
mercy and pardon,
Or not at all.

Sinner or a Saint

I into an 80's kick at the moment.  This is based on a short story idea where the man went blind only to discover his eyesight had all these years been dependent on a machine in his house.  After that, he had an issue trusting anyone around him since he didn't know who had turned off the machine in the first place.

Why Am I Here?
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

Happy, happy,
Why not,
So rich,
Money flows,
Life's a cinch.
No worries,
No cares,
Not like my servants,
All day waxing chairs.

Oh, oh, why am I here?
Need someone to lead me,
Someone who needs me,
Not those beneath me (no, no),
Someone who knows,
I've gone blind?
Oh, oh, oh (x5)

There's a machine
Down  the hall,
Turned off,
That's all,
Not broken, 
But now I can't see,
Oh, oh, oh
Who (who) did this?
Who (who) did this to me?
Who, who, who (x5)

Oh, oh, why am I here?
Need someone to lead me (don't want them),
Someone who needs me (don't trust them),
Not those beneath me (no, no),
Someone who knows (no trust),
I've gone blind?

Happy, happy,
Why not,
So rich,
Money flows,
Life's a cinch.
But I can't I trust myself,
to turn on my machine,
I don't I trust others,
oh, oh
I don't I trust them,
Oh, oh,
To turn on my machine
No, no,
oh, oh,
They turn me off.
Oh, oh, oh (x10)

Oh, oh, why am I here?
Need someone to lead me,
Someone who needs me,
Not those beneath me (no, no),
Someone who knows,
I've gone blind?

Oh, oh, oh (x20)

Why Am I Here?

Non-AI electronic instrumental created in Studio One 7 this morning using Arturia and Presonus instruments.

Holland High (Non-AI-Version)

AI cover of my electronic piece created this morning in Studio Pro 7 with non-AI lyrics added.  Lyrics derived from drama teacher talking about hard-core heroin addicts who, after all other veins fail, inject themselves in the eye.

Holland High
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

Wanna dance,
Wanna get high,
I have drugs,
Stick them in your eyes,
Get high, high, so high,
Holland high.
Holland high (yeah, yeah)

No future,
no regrets,
oh my,
my, my,
so high, 
so, so high,
Holland high (my, my, oh my).

Interlude

No need for wooden shoes,
Or tulips where we lie (no, no),
Not when you can fly (high, high)
Up to the windmill in the sky,
so high,
So high,
Holland High,
Holland High (so, so high).

Wanna dance,
Wanna get high,
I have drugs,
Stick them in your eyes,
Get high, high, so high,
Holland high.
Holland high (yeah, yeah)

So, so high,
Come on,
My, my,
Time to die,
Holland High,
Holland High,
Oh my, my,
Holland High (x20)

Don't do drugs.

Holland High (AI-Version)

Sand
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Well you see
All the craziness
Of the world is going away
Well you see
All the craziness
Of the world is going away
Well you see
All the craziness
Of the world is going away
Going away
Away
Today

Can I buy you a drink,
Sit out in the sun,
Burn to a crisp,
Oh what fun.
Do you burn, 
I'm your man, 
Lather you up,
Feed you with sand.

[Instrumental]

[Verse 2]
Well you see
All the craziness
Of the world is going away
Well you see
All the craziness
Of the world is going away
Well you see
All the craziness
Of the world is going away
It's going away
Away
Today

Sand

Link to video:
https://youtu.be/w85R9Fylyhc

Bubblegum Friday.

Oh, Your Smile
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

Oh, your smile,
when I'm sad,
Lifts me up,
makes me glad,
When you're around,
Never down,
I cry when you go,
want you so oh,
By my side,
Never say goodbye,
No, no, no,
bye, bye (x20)

Chilling,
Groovin’
What more can I say?
You lift me up, 
Please, please stay,
Never leave,
You've made my day,
Don't go, no, no,
No, no, no,,
No, no (x20)

I cry when you go,
want you so oh,
By my side,
Never say goodbye,
No, no, no,
bye, bye (x20)

Oh, Your Smile

Focusing on making songs for a summer album.

Twilight in Ibiza
Music: Mike Krath

Twilight in Ibiza

Reversed an old song of mine with vocals and made an AI cover.  If you reverse the AI, you get gibberish.

Backward Praise

An AI song created to go with an AI video. Recently been experimenting with AI videos.  Need a lot more to go to make AI video a useful tool.  Like adding screenplays.

Video link: https://youtu.be/mglrx0pktFE

Dancing to Heaven

Lyrics

Step by step
We’re moving high
Colors burst
They light the sky (ooh-yeah!)
Hands entwined
We feel the spark
Glowing bright
Even in the dark

[Prechorus]
Every spin
Every turn (spin and turn)
We can feel the fire burn (fire burn!)

[Chorus]
We’re dancing
Dancing to heaven (heaven, heaven!)
Every step
A stairway rising (rising, rising!)
Feel the rhythm
Feel the call
Dancing to heaven
We’ll have it all (all, all!)

[Verse 2]
Hundreds move
A sea of light
Costumes shining
Oh so bright (so bright!)
You and me
We lead the way
Dancing into a brighter day

[Prechorus]
Every leap
Every glide (leap and glide!)
Takes us closer
Side by side (side by side!)

[Chorus]
We’re dancing
Dancing to heaven (heaven, heaven!)
Every step
A stairway rising (rising, rising!)
Feel the rhythm
Feel the call
Dancing to heaven
We’ll have it all (all, all!)

Dancing to Heaven

An AI cover of an original song with added non-AI lyrics to go with a new AI video.

Video link: https://youtu.be/NjlWfzOSOpA

Sweet, Sweet Detox
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

Come,
Come out,
Out of your box of forgotten dreams,
The rain has stopped,
Don't you see?

Time to say,
No to dope,
To a life of illusory hope.
To being a cardboard wetter,
Time to get better,
I can guarantee er,
You'll go far,
You'll get that car (va-room!),
You'll get that wealth (ka-ching),
You'll get that health (no more cough!),
See, see,
Hee, hee,
Out, out,
out of your box,
Wee, wee,
blah, blah, blah,
Time for sweet detox.

Come (happy),
come out of your box (happy, sweet detox),
come, come out of that box (x5)
Come baybay,
Out of your box detox, sweet detox,
baybay (x2)
Detox,
Detox, detox,
Detox,
Sweet detox,
Detox away,
Hip hip array!
Sweet, sweet, detox,
Baybay,
Sweet, sweet detox, baybay (x20)

Sweet, Sweet Detox

AI cover of original song with original lyrics.  Song made to go with an AI video. Link below. 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/lCTOmHIoND4

Rowing in the Dark
Music and Lyrics by Mike Krath

Lyrics

There are times someone shows you the right way to go,
But you ignore them and head for the common flow,
Preferring to be caught up in the stormy gale,
While waves batter against you to keep you still,
And then you only cry for help when you are sure no one is near,
A futile calling when there is none to hear.

Many times you’ve acted like you’ve wanted someone by your side,
Walking toward you on the water to make your storm subside,
But it was only pretend as you stayed on the wider route,
So you could row here and there and all about.

Rowing without direction is your preferred way,
To keep your lack of peace as a summer’s day,
And you ignore the waves flooding your boat as the end draws near,
Then have the audacity to sink with the look of fear.

Rowing in the dark is what it is all about,
Rowing in the dark is where your mind is at.

You row with no direction to go.
In a river that’s wide to make it so,
No rock in sight to keep you secure,
And even if seen, you always make that quick detour.
Rowing in the dark until the bitter end.
Rowing in the dark with your so-called friends.

Rowing in the Dark (Remix)

AI cover of original song with original lyrics.  Song made to go with an AI video. Link below. 

Video Link: https://youtu.be/n3IuqXQjj7w

I Saw a Man in the Dark
Music and Lyrics by Mike Krath

Lyrics

I saw a man in the dark
last night
It wasn’t me,
Couldn’t be,
Shouldn’t be,
Oh no.

I saw a man give in
to himself
It wasn’t me,
couldn’t be,
Shouldn’t be
oh no.

Days and days
And months between
And years and years
And no between
And what is left
But solid thoughts
Of wasted opportunities
And life goes on,
Keeps going on
When I just want to quit

Did I love my children,
their friends,
my spouse,
will my love be
in their memories
when I'm gone?

I saw a man in the dark
last night
It wasn’t me,
Couldn’t be,
Shouldn’t be,
Oh no.

I Saw a Man in the Dark (Remix)

Bubblegum Friday!

AI cover of original song with original lyrics. Song made to go with an AI video. Link below.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/nMIUtNifU84

Are Long Gone
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

Remember me,
I used to live here
When we were young,
When we had fun,
But those days,
I’m sad to say,
Are long gone.   

I used to be near,
When you weren’t strong
I was by your side
Even when you were wrong,

Was she as good to you
As I would’ve been?
Did she take all the dreams we had
And make them come true in the end

Or was what we had when we first begun
Nothing but a lie. 

Remember me,
I used to live here
When we were young,
When we had fun,
But those days,
I’m sad to say,
Are long gone.   

Are long gone (x5)

Are Long Gone

I created this track to add to an AI video.  It's my first time of making music solely to be the soundtrack of the video I was working on.

Link: https://youtu.be/uDDpj0HpP4A

Music created using mainly Spitfire and Orchestral Tools instruments.
DAW: Reason 13

An Elderly Tale (non-AI)

Bubblgum Friday

I took the piece I composed yesterday (An Elderly Tale) and changed it to a dance song.  

Dance, Baby, Dance
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

One thing,
I ask of you (just you),
will you hear me out,
Baby,
Dance,
Dance, Baby, dance (x5)

One thing,
I want of you (just you),
Is to be mine,
Will you?
And dance baby,
Dance,
Dance, baby, Dance (x5)

Dance all night, oh, oh,
Dance all night, oh, oh,
With you (just you),
and dance baby, dance,
dance, baby dance (x5)

Dance, Baby, Dance

Just another AI dance cover.  Created a beat track using Studio One 7. Uploaded the mixed track to the AI engine then added some not-too-spectacular dance lyrics.

Dance
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

Oh yeah,
My foot,
Look out steps,
oh, oh,
look at them feet,
fly,
yeah!
dance,
yeah,
dance,
oh, oh,
dance, dance (x10)
Look at me dance!
Woh!
Dance

Dance

An AI cover of one of my non-AI instrumentals. Non-AI lyrics added.

Where Did Our Love Go
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

Where did our love go,
It's no longer here,
I don't see it on our TV,
I don't feel it in our sleep,
I don't hear it in our talk,
Can you tell me,
If it was ever real.

Oh baby (baby)
Time to wake (wake up)
And discuss where we went wrong,
Went wrong,
Oh baby (baby)
Talk to me,
Talk to me, baby (x 20)
Let's talk again,
As if love is still here.

Oh baby (baby) (x10)

Where Did Our Love Go

Happy 70s Friday! Another AI rendition of a previously released non-AI instrumental with added non-AI lyrics.  Video link below is my continued attempt to make AI music videos.

Lunar Drive
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath
Video Link: https://youtu.be/GcKdZvIhVlo

Lyrics

Is it okay to fly,
Down the streets of Lunar Drive
With empty loves,
All around.
Is it okay to cry,
On the streets of Lunar Drive,
Whizzing by ex-lovers
in the sand.

Is it okay,
Is it okay,
Oh, oh.

Is it okay to drive,
Down those streets of retold lies.
Passing men,
I thought I knew.
Is it okay to fly,
Down those streets of Lunar Drive
Without your dreams,
and hopes.

Oh, oh,
Is it okay to be lost,
and gone,
Like you,
All gone,
All gone (x10)

Lunar Drive

AI cover of an analog instrumental I composed in 1988 with my Yamaha DX7IIFD and various rack mounts.

Shake It Baby
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

Don't you know,
our love (oh, oh)
our love should be on the radio (crank it up)
Where we (what?)
Where we (what?)
Hear it all day long (I've gone deaf)

Playing we shouldn't argue (no),
Playing we both are wrong (forgive me).
Playing our love can keep us (oh yeah),
Playing it's the thing that keeps us strong (oh yeah, baby, oh yeah). 

Our love should be heard in those dim streets (you turned me on),
Where we met a month not so long ago (I'll never forget),
Playing our love will keep us (oh, oh),
Playing our love will never go wrong (no, no baby). 

Shake it,
shake it baby,
Show me your loving ways,
Shake it. 
shake it baby (shake baby),
give me another shaking day.

Our love should be on the radio
Where we hear it all day long (all long, tell it). 
Playing we shouldn't argue (no, no)
Plahying we both were wrong (forgive me).

Shake it,
shake it baby (come on, shake it baby)
Shake your tears aways (wipe them),
Shake it (oh, oh). 
shake it baby (baby, shake it),
our love is here to stay.

Love, baby, love baby.
No goodbyes today,
 (x20)

Shake It Baby

A pop AI cover of my non-AI instrumental with added non-AI lyrics.  

On the Level
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

I want to tell you on the level, 
You're something special,
Like the best part of a song,
If you let me, I will take you,
To a place,
Where we dance alone.
La di dah, di dah (x2)

Somewhere without moonlight,
a night without stars,
Where you'll be my light,
Bright from afar.
Where every lah will be a dee,
And every dee will be a dah.
La di dah, di dah.

I want to dance with you so very bad,
Love not wasted,
Love not sad,
Just go out,
So rad,
So rad.
La di dah, di dah.

Dance with me in the moonlight,
under the shimmering stars,
See how some are bright,
But you're the brightest by far.

La di da, di dah,
A shine on your face,
A beauty to embrace,
La di da, di dah.

On the Level

Composed this last week and used the music for an AI cover.

Nine Six Twenty Five (non-AI)

I completed a non-AI instrumental this weekend, but the temptation was too great to do an AI cover and add lyrics.  I fell asleep as I was working on the lyrics.  My wife heard the unfinished lyrics being sung and woke me to tell me to keep writing.

You're Not Seeing Me
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

I awake without you by my side,
As though what we did was left behind,
Were you really here last night,
Or was that just in my mind,
And when I prod myself to remember,
I don't think what we did was that tender.
Oh no, no, no,
Oh no, no, no.

I want to forget as I'm able,
This love that's been so painful,
A love not real,  just a fable,
Nothing's left on the table,
Never stay, all about,
One foot in, one foot out.
oh, oh.

When you're here, 
You're not here with me,
When you look into my eyes,
You're not seeing me,
When you touch my lips.
You're not kissing me,
Your love's with her, I know,
You've hurt me so,
Oh, oh.

I want to forget as I'm able,
This love that's been so painful,
A love not real,  just a fable,
Nothing's left on the table,
Never stay, all about,
One foot in, one foot out.
Oh no, no, no, 
Oh no, no, no.

Oh, no, no, no (x20)

You're Not Seeing Me

Nostalgia

Lyrics

I said no
No
No
Not tonight
Under the flashing neon light
You reached for me
I turned away
Didn’t know what I’d feel someday

(Ooh-yeah!) I see it now
So clear
(Ooh-yeah!) I wish you were here


Nostalgia
No
No
No
I let you go
Go
Go
Wish I’d said yes
Yes
Yes
Now I’m left with this mess
Nostalgia
No
No
No
Why’d I say no
No
No?

You asked once
You asked twice
I gave you cold
Cold ice
The music played
The night was long
I never joined your favorite song

(Ooh-yeah!) Regret’s a heavy beat
(Ooh-yeah!) I’m stuck on repeat

Nostalgia
No
No
No
I let you go
Go
Go
Wish I’d said yes
Yes
Yes
Now I’m left with this mess
Nostalgia
No
No
No
Why’d I say no
No
No?

Nostalgia

AI cover of one of my imagined broadway tunes.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/4eD0TXpj1NI

Heartfelt Tune
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

I don’t want to,  
expose myself in a bad song.
So anyone who hears
Now knows my wrongs.

I don’t want to,
Expose myself on the radio,
Where everyone will smile
When I'm so low. 

I don’t want to,
expose myself through a heartfelt tune,
When anyone who hears,
Can mock my love sick views.

I don’t want to,
expose myself in a sad love song.
So anyone I'm near,
Can laugh at me all day long. .

I don't want to hear my ups and downs
When I'm in town,
Singing from lips of strangers,
Reminding me she’s not around.

No, no, (x5)

I don’t want to,  
expose myself where I lose,
It’s hard enough,
knowing she's the reason for this tune.

No, no, no, no  (x20)

Heartfelt Tune

Video Link: https://youtu.be/byI7tMf1Vo4

Nostalgia 2

Lyrics

Back in the day
Oh
The songs would play (ooh-yeah!)
Lights would flash
We'd sway
We'd sway
Every beat
It held my heart
Spinning fast
A world apart

[Chorus]
Nostalgia
Oh
It calls my name
Nostalgia
Takes me back again
To the rhythm
To the glow
Where my heart learned to know
Nostalgia
Oh
Nostalgia

First love's touch
A melody (oh-oh!)
Every note
It set me free
Vinyl spins
The night would glow
Dreams were born in stereo

And the sound
It lingers still
A memory
A thrill
A thrill

Nostalgia
Oh
It calls my name
Nostalgia
Takes me back again
To the rhythm
To the glow
Where my heart learned to know
Nostalgia
Oh
Nostalgia

Time rewinds
In my mind
Oh
It's clear (so clear!)
Every song whispers love in my ear
Dancing
Laughing
The moments we made
Oh
Nostalgia
It will never fade

Nostalgia 2

This is a hybrid project combining both non-AI and AI covers. The track starts with analog, then AI is used to enhance, like using Splice.  Audio is midified and used with Ujam strings. Analog is later gated prior to fading.

La La LaLaLaLa (Hybrid AI/non-AI)

I’m a song-writer who enjoys creating music of any genre.

My son recently introduced me to A.I. and taught me how to do covers of my previously released non-A.I. music. Since I've never considered myself a performer (except playing with worship bands at church or solo-piano at a rehab center) using A.I. is right up my alley.

Since I've  exhausted using my previously released music for A.I. covers, I now compose music in a DAW, rip to a wave file, and make an A.I. cover of this wave file. I then write lyrics to the A.I. music. It takes around 100 A.I. iterations to complete the lyrics and get a style I'm happy with.  

Brief Bio: Lived more than a quarter of my life overseas (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan). Each country gave me an appreciation for different types of music plus probably why I get bored easily in sticking with one genre or another.

Mike Krath

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