Circa 1978-81 "Mouth" Electronic Duo  Mike Papa Vocals and keyboards  Jim Purol Drums @ Rameys Show Bar Garden City Mi. on Middlebelt Rd.   Mr and Mrs. Bob Ramey  proprietors  💓

I am so grateful for all of the support I receive here on soundcloud. Thank you so much for sharing, streams, comments, and messages about this song. I am honored that you like it. This is a track from my upcoming album.

© 2024 Lyrics And Music By Brenda Doss

Lyrics:
In a room that you call your own     
Every day like the one before
What you left it was never home     
And the people now are gone

All your life in a twelve by ten     
And your dreams mostly in your head
Where's the love well it came and went     
And it's been away too long

This isn't where you thought you'd be     
Alone every night with your tv
A bottle of wine won't help     
What's missing in your life

I see the writing on the wall   
Do you think it's over?
I hear what you won't say    
What's always on your mind
Don't tell me you can't ever change     
'Cause I've seen you hopeful
Tell me you will think      
Of all that you can try

Ladada da da da da da ...     
       
In a room where it all began     
With your life there in plastic bags
You give up what you never had     
Cause everything has changed

All the years they get by somehow  
And the hope where you once were proud
Of the plans they were so profound     
But were humbled by the game

I see the writing on the wall    
Cause you think it's over
I know what's goin on    
When you say you're alright
You tell me you can't start again  
Nothin's left to hope for
I say that's not true     
There's so much you can try
If only you can try     
There's so much you can try

When you look out every morning in your life
Look ahead and not behind
You never know what tomorrow brings you

This isn't where I thought you'd stay
I'm down on my knees and now I pray
Cause what you're about to do  
There'll be no turning back
No  'cause I think it's over  

I saw the writing on the wall    
But I couldn't stop you
You said that you'd hold on    
And now I say goodbye

When I think I'm out of hope  
Nothin's left to live for
I can hear you say      
It's gonna be alright
If only you can try     
YEAH YEAH  if only you can try
If only you can try      
You can try, you can try

Ladada da da da da da ...

You Can Try

Thank you so much for listening and supporting this song. This is another track from my upcoming album. I hope you enjoy it.

© 2024 Lyrics And Music By Brenda Doss 

Lyrics:
How can I trust you 
When you're hiding in the dark
How can I love you 
When you shoot me in the heart
Bury the child 
Who was in the line of fire
Don't want to be numb
I want to feel love

How can I break through 
When you'd never let me in
How can I need you 
When you don't give anything
What's there to live for 
When there's too much not to feel
Don't want to be numb
I want to feel love

No wrong no right
Just a TV screen
Learn black and white
From a magazine
Confusing life much faster
Turn love to stone

How can you hear me
Over din of lead
How can you see me
Through all the blood I've shed
Am I to blame yeah,  
For every life you take
Don't want to be numb
I want to feel love

(No wrong or right)  
No wrong or right 
(Just black and white) 
(From a magazine)
Just black and white
Yeah yeah yeah
Confusing life much faster
Turn love to stone

No wrong no right
A stain of life
No truth inside this darkness
Nothing but stone
I want to feel love
I want to feel love
I want to feel love
I want to feel love!
Only love

Debut

Want To Feel Love

01/17/2025 There was a time I thought my little songs could actually "change the world"; that perhaps music could make us all more kind, compassionate, tolerant, empathic, less violent, less greedy, or at a minimum, happier. 

I have always hoped we could navigate our differences with words rather than weapons and that humanity could as a whole, truly practice reverence for the planet and all the living creatures who share it with us. 

But, I see now how absolutely naive I was. The despair, suffering, destruction, and apathy that continues now, many years after I wrote this song, has not changed. Some things, are better but many things, are not; however, I remain hopeful that humanity will eventually work things out and I, in any way that I can, will keep trying to make things better. And so I decided, I would finish producing this song and include it in my first album; an album which on many days might be the continuation of a journey, or on other days, the end of a journey.

Track 5 from my album. I hope you enjoy it.

© 2024 Lyrics, Music, Content By Brenda Doss

I should be happy  
With all of my life
I should be satisfied 
But I’m not
Why do I carry 
The weight of the world on my back
Why should I care
When no one else does

I am a slave 
To the thoughts that I have
I need to change the world
With these tired hands 
Don’t turn me off 
Don’t turn me down
Don’t shut me in 
Don’t throw me out
And I might go crazy
But you might come around
       
At the back door 
You will find me
And I might never leave
At the back door 
You will find me
These tired hands are bleeding
 
Should I worry
If it all goes to hell
Can I live my life in apathy
Like everybody else
Why am I here 
What can I change
These reckless times  
I’m not to blame
Isn’t anybody out there
Isn’t anyone afraid

At the back door 
You will find me
And I might never leave
At the back door 
You will find me
Begging on my knees
At the back door 
You will find me
These tired hands are bleeding

I’m your disease
I’m  your despair
I’m like a flea
I’m in your hair
I’m breeding in your conscience
When you don’t want me there

At the back door 
You will find me
And I might never leave
At the back door 
You will find me
Begging on my knees
At the back door 
You will find me
A wounded heart grieves
At the back door 
You will find me yeah yeah yeah

At the back door 
You will find me
And I might never leave
At the back door 
You will find me
Cause I'm begging on my knees
At the back door 
You will find me
A wounded heart grieves
At the back door 
You will find me
These tired hands are reaching

Back Door

Frequencies

I composed this track using the Casio PX-S3100 Stage Piano and strings and celesta from Spitifire Audio. My daughter took the photo in the art work.

Music and Art Work © 2025 Roger Hooper

TWO HEARTS IN WINTER

I composed "Seasons Change" using the #Casio #PX-S3100 Stage Piano. 

Art work @2025 Roger Hooper.

Seasons Change

SEASONS CHANGE (PIANO DAY 2025)

"MOUTH" Live recording of 2 pc electronic duo in Detroit. Mid 80's

Mike Papa: Wayne Mi. at time of recording. Presently So. Ca.
*Lead Vocals Keybds 
*ARP2600 Synthesizer/Bass
*Clavinet D6 Comp/Rhythm 
*Prophet V Synthesizer Sn.32, 
*Hohner C96 portable Organ.

Jim Purol: Livonia Mi.
Presently living in Missouri.
*Acoustic Drums
*Custom Synth  Drums/ARP2600 *Background Vocals.

Mouth: Synth Duo  Mike Papa: LD Vocals/Bass/Synths/Organ/Clav.  Jim Purol: Drums/BG vocals

The cold and the dark...with the new Firewood Piano (and strings) from Spitfire Audio. 

© 2020 Roger Hooper Music

Photo in the art work from Arcaion on Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/users/arcaion-2057886/

Dark Frost

My first track with the beautiful Mickleburgh Piano from pianobook.co.uk. Along with some LABs sounds from Spitfire Audio, I wanted to paint the picture of a cold day with the sun peaking through the grey clouds above the trees. The photo in the art work is by my daughter.

© 2021 Roger Hooper Music

Mouth: Synth Duo Mike Papa: LD Vocals/Bass/Synths/Organ/Clav. Jim Purol: Drums/BG vocals

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