took this down a couple years ago forgot all about it - Re-mastered it putting it back up - Rock on

February Day

Somewhere. Music by Leonard Bernstein. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. 
 Arranged, performed and recorded by Steven Pierce 1990.

Id At Large-Remastered

Somewhere

Song Sketch with basic vocal idea

Lyrics:

Love me like I'm leavin'
Because we both know I am
And I will love you back
With all the love that you can stand
Hold me like I'm screamin'
Even though there is no sound
For fear is sometimes silent
And often quite unfound

But I, I need you anyway
And I cry, when you can't stay
That's when I, need you so close
To tell me, it'll all be okay

See me as if I'm here
Although my figure's faint
But Baby please don't stare
When all my blood spills out like paint
The art we could've made
If we weren't so afraid to be
The parts we could've played
If we weren't hung up on bein' free

Still I, need you every day
And I lie, every time I run away
That's when I, I need you the most
To tell me, it'll all be okay

Even though
We both know
I must be on
My way

You're my inspiration
The one I love the most
Don't bother waitin' for explanation
I'm already headed for the coast

M. Mattice 2020

Love Me Like...

Brandon O'Donnell:  Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Double Bass, keys, percussion.
Jay Parrino: Vocals

"Rain Song" (feat. Jay Parrino)

Self Driving

All My Precious Things
Charlie H Russell
2020
Key=Ebm, Tempo 115, Length (m:s)=3:36

All My Precious Things

Edmund's mother would drive sometimes for days. Never going anywhere, just somewhere. Somewhere that wasn't there. Another burned out sign to a cheap motel; deep in the humid swamps of the bitter south. A time to stop and rest for a day, maybe two. This life inside her was wanting to see the world.
 Flames and retribution and shame, an archaic remnant to what wanted her to speak no more. Edmund was to be born that day in the swamps.  That day when the cicadas roared like a chorus through sweat and fire. The traveler was born at 3:33 pm

The Fold

The Fold./Ballad of a Traveler part 2

T O X I C

ORIGINAL LYRICS, MUSIC & VOCALS BY ARAPA MUSIC

I AM PLAYING ALL INSTRUMENTS EVEN MY PIANO ACCORDION.

HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY MY NEW STYLE OF MIXED GENRE


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TOXIC (Produced By ARAPA Music)

Snarky view of higher education Lawyers and politicians (most of them are really self-serving, apologies to those who are not) RE-tracked 09-24-2020
Something like this:
I met a paper person, he doesn’t like getting wet,
He got a piece of paper, hanging on his wall, he’s Bonafide paper person
It says he knows it all, all the paper people pleasers nod
Wooden man laughs at the paper people
Chorus: Paper people can't get wet, they don’t like fire, watch those matches son
Now he’s got a piece of paper, from other paper people, 
Paper people says 2+2=what they   want it to
Cuz’ I got this piece of Paper, hanging on my wall
It says: “this dude knows it all”

They can't get wet; they don’t like fire watch those matches
Now he’s got a piece of paper, from other paper people, 
Paper people says 2+2=what they   want it to

Paper people can make money out of nothing
Only paper people make the rules
So, unless you got paper, and even if you do,
You have to do what paper people pleaser's do!
Paper people make the rules, we pay their dues! 
This world exists for paper people 
You should be a paper people pleaser!
you an' you you you
The paper people, they are so angry, 
some people are not paper people pleaser's
like Spoiled Children, temper tantrums
n’er happy
Paper People pleaser's run, to throw a temper tantrum
All those dummies out there, they do not care sayin’
All the paper people pleaser's have made fools of us all.
Oh yes, paper people pleaser's pleasing paper people!

Paper People

Serpents

Of course inspired by the lesser known NY Dolls original. Off their debut album, produced by Todd Rundgren. While liked by the band and Mr. Rundgren, the song was ultimately left off the album. The record company felt the song was too sexist and might offend the mid-western preteen girls which made up the bulk of the bands fan base at the time. Later singer Carly Rae Jepsen, a NY Dolls superfan, released a new version of the track after hearing it on an underground bootleg recording. She actually had some success with it vindicating the band and Mr. Rundgren, lo, so many years later.

Call Me Maybe

Sometimes this life feels like a movie...so I guess the music I make is my personal soundtrack to it...Hope you enjoy... 
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Love Me Like...

mikemattice