Written by Amy O'Bryan and Sarah Gilbert
Artwork by Aaron Blanton

Lyrics:

He used to say I had lemon lips,
Hard to resist my bitter kiss,
Spent hours staring into my eyes,
Didn't bother to say goodbye.

He put our love on trial,
Black-out drinking was his style,
The Maker's Mark was the judge,
I chaperoned, but held no grudge.

Our love was like a broken vase,
The one he threw at my face,
Tore off my panties that very night,
And I never felt more alive.

Chorus:

We could really hurt each other, but...
We had enough passion to start the place on fire,
The love we made drowned me in desire.
If I had known the fortune I found in you,
I would have thought twice, before I was untrue.

Invited out for drinks with a friend,
So much more, I can't pretend,
Nothing waiting at home for me,
Only silence and misery.

Made a mistake, I can't take it back,
Thought he had everything that you lack,
Now I can see I was such a fool,
Threw it away and broke the rule.

You're gone forever I can't amend,
Left this world, we weren't even friends,
Wish we could talk one more time,
Only see you in my mind.

Repeat Chorus

I wish I could call you, but you can't pick up,
Your house key still hangs by the key to my truck,
I see all your paintings every time that I wake up,
Still wear all the t-shirts that you didn't pack up.

Repeat Chorus

He used to say I had lemon lips,
Hard to resist my bitter kiss,
Spent hours staring into my eyes, 
Never got (didn't bother) to say goodbye...

Dreaming Outloud

Bitter Kiss

Bitter Kiss (feat. Sarah Gilbert)

MusikLogo GinMillWoman LD02135 BiaB 02.Apr.2021
You may think, that this is a cover from 
Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones)

However, uplift the volume and feel fine :-)

GinMillWoman

Canned Heat really caught my attention with this. I was completely unprepared for "On The Road Again". Previously to its release in 1968, I'd erroneously classified "The Blues" as slow and dreary stuff, done by trad jazz bands. 

"On The Road Again" was an education for me: "Vamos a ver!" That should be my motto.

"On The Road Again" achieved No. 8 in the UK Hit Parade and, thank goodness, that was enough to justify several TV appearances, which got me hooked on blues and more off-the-radar music for a whole lifetime.

I've done something a bit free and new with the song, which I hope you will forgive; maybe like? 

Please let me know. I thrive on your comments.

On The Road Again (after Canned Heat)

A Song about Longing to be close to somebody!

Be My Friend

I had the great pleasure of collaborating with Martin Hirsch.  Martin is a recording genius and I was along for the ride.  Thank you Martin!  I hope you enjoy our track.

@martin-hirsch-656665916

Take Me Back To St. Augustine w/Martin Hirsch

My first imagined song for an imagined Broadway play.  I have lyrics in mind, just too lazy so far to put them down. In this scene, a man and a woman are going separately to the Justice of the Peace to be married.  The man proposed on a bet and a woman accepted. The two are now slowly walking and reflecting on what they are doing.

My Imagined Broadway Song

All The Craziness Of The World Is Going Away

Watch this video showing New York City during a rainy night (Go Pro walk) and listen to this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FugJWc_Q7ws

Multiple Souls in my Mind

Hold me
For I've no memory
Gone giddy at the knees
Don't know when you're beat

Falling
like bags in the breeze
Two souls in scene
stuck on repeat

We're waiting for something
that's never enough you see
Just fill up your lungs
Sing to someone
and the stars will keep

So long
adrift in the sea
A boat with a leak
So just let me dream

Waiting for something
that's never enough you see
Just fill up your lungs
Sing to someone
and the stars will keep

Long
so long
just a bittersweet heart

Just fill up your lungs
Sing to someone
and the stars will keep

Bags in the Breeze

Arright! Last one off this album. If you haven't snagged already, the full thing is available for free on Bandcamp: https://mayorofdonutville.bandcamp.com/album/perpendicularism

A couple of notes:
This is the track where, when I got done recording, I looked at myself in the mirror and said, "Am I that much of a Monkees fan?" And the answer is yes. I am that much of a Monkees fan. I particularly like Nesmith's writing, but to be honest, the more time goes on, the more I'm totally okay with the whole catalog. Mickey had some pipes, and he wrote at least one banger. Pete had some weird stuff that I can get behind. Davy? Davy? That was the hard sell for me the whole time, but believe it or not, I'm warming to him. If you haven't watched their bizarre Jack Nicholson acid trip movie, Head, I highly recommend it. Yes, you will say "What the heck was that?" when it's over. But you'll have some laughs along the way, and you'll maybe better appreciate how THEY felt about being a fake band. 

Ok. Monkees Rant is complete. 

Next, I need to re-up my apology on being a bad SC friend. I have only been popping on for a few minutes here and there, and when I go to dig in to someone's catalog, I realize how long it's been since I've listened proper. I suck, and I apologize. 

The NEXT PROJECT: Apart from working on some still way overdue collabs (sorry Austin and Micah) I am fully-entrenched in what I consider to be the best thing I have ever worked on. That's the joke, I guess. Whatever I'm working on HAS to be the best thing I've ever worked on, otherwise, why bother? Right? This one, though... It has the heavy guitars. I've been getting a real workout. Like the Wren Hollow project, it's also a selection of very old writings that never got finished, only it lives in a different place from Wren Hollow. It's got the memory interpolation. Really stoked to share. I'm probably gonna drop those tracks on the Mayor profile, and I'm considering dropping a couple early, because I'm just eager to share. Also considered making a whole new profile for it, but I think my memory for accounts is officially at capacity. Recordingwise, I'm at 7/10 complete, 2/10 instrumentally complete, and 1/10 totally not started. You might think it'd be easy to track out older stuff, but I have a fun little thing I do where I record all the instruments in the wrong key TWICE. lol. 

I hope you all are well. Thank you for the support.

Perpendicularism

Downcast the Clouds

Dark, internal, and heavy.
The part of you that sinks before it rises.

04-- Buried Away

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.

All The Craziness Of The World Is Going Away

Mike Krath