Live performance of this entire album on YouTube Wednesday April 2, 2025 at 10pm EST https://www.youtube.com/live/nC55rauTYD4?si=DI4uKpIp3VaWdGc3

Heavy piano riffs combined with thick synths and truthful lyrics. An album of songs written and recorded by Mike Molino 2020 - 2022. I hope you enjoy my latest material on my new album "Metal Piano"

Metal Piano

the light fades behind the sky
soon the darkness will fill your eyes
I'll show you places most would rather ignore
ten thousand years will pass before we are sure 
what to do with this life quickly passing by you
gonna do something crazy tonight
I got a feeling tonight
free all the thoughts I've been trying to hide from this world
in the back of my mind
who unheeded their warning her wrath aims at you
your lines are attached to a weight sinking under its too late now to break free try to stand, lose your grip and just laugh as you think about all the reasons you had not to smile well how ironic to find you're gonna leave like you never arrived in the dead of the night
your roof is caving your walls crashing in
still I'm the fool wishing you'd let me in
and I can sense it this feeling within 
I know its gonna be closing in

Mike Molino: Piano, vocals, lyrics;  Dave Ferrairo: Guitar;   Greg Scappicchio: Bass;  Doug Melanson: Drums

Closing In

feeding from an empty plate
turn each stone and start the chase yeah
my tune is such a lonely sound false hope was strong before they found me 
not sure this is my saving grace
I'll be right back so save my place yeah
just thought I'd step aside and meet different faces down the line before I settle for you
what have I done
now what have I done
I took a seed and crossed an angel with the devil's son
found a fix in ecstasy 
my tongue is sore and I can't breath
like stopping on a dime I'm gonna make this spirit fly trail back then follow close behind free as a child swinging from this divine tree further than you ever thought I'd be yeah
on my knees in the desert planting angel seeds 
with all that I've done
whatever I become
not gonna give it up this dream of mine has just begun 
cause I'm not thinking about tomorrow denying what I do today god help the skeptics non-believers anyone that stands in the way
parched with a sand filled mouth when they finally found me

Mike Molino: Piano, vocals, lyrics;  Dave Ferrairo & David Schofield: Guitar;   Greg Scappicchio: Bass;  Doug Melanson: Drums

Angelseeds

I purposely placed this in front of the song "break" on my spotlight. If you listen to "prelude to break" please let it continue into "break" 
I know it will take an additional 5 minutes and 8 seconds of your time but I think / hope it will be worth it, thank you for listening!

Composed and performed by Mike Molino

Prelude to break

Video for this song you YouTube: https://youtu.be/tsfLYHK4lbA?si=M0LJ6iqxkvEdmk-c
take it from me its alive I have seen it
if you abuse me this time I will break
I'm not naive if you're wise you'll believe me
this is the light of a day that I have found
I've seen enough to break
we'll go as far as you can take me or until the time we start to break
falls from a distance she flies like a feather
I am the rock fell secure to my place
caught up in dreams of a chore I can't master 
chasing the light of a dark day I have lost
I've seen enough to break
Is that as far as you can take me? oh no, now we'll break

Mike Molino: Piano, keyboards, vocals, lyrics;  Dave Ferrairo & Leo Mellace: Guitar;   Greg Scappicchio: Bass;  Doug Melanson: Drums;

Break

I was loving you when you went away
No use trying to understand your crazy ways
While spitting up blood in the parking lot you're feeling washed up cause the crowd forgot your name, ain't that a shame
I was holding you but you're eyes were stray
Always looking to find a better place
While sniffing for food in the alley way you're hungry and rude cause the dogs won't let you play, when you've gone astray 
Who's gonna fill you up when you're dry
You're wrong is you're thinking that I might
Who's gonna fill me up 
After loving you concrete walls were made
I tried but could not break on through so for an open door I waited
I know you can't be satisfied with an open ride routine
Stray cat you're falling fast to where desperation leads
Who's gonna fill you up when you're dry
You're wrong is you're thinking that I might
Lose when the color runs from your eyes
When black misses purple the rainbow cries, No

Mike Molino: piano, vocals, lyrics;   Dave Ferrairo: Guitar, Bass, Drums

Stray

Live performance of this song via this link timestamp 2:04:49 https://www.youtube.com/live/hxzZBfaY5eQ?feature=share
Try me in your darkest hour
when sniffing up glue can't hold yourself together, surprise
did you feel it, did he do it better
did you hear my soul cry love today, I'm moving from where you told me to stay
soon we all fall down
so dance until you hit the ground
Lucy, you're a lucid flower
but one think I can't understand, this bubblegum pop's still in demand
while genius screaming in the basements
gotta rise to reach the underground or ride a sell out corporation stellar bound
It’s a long time coming 
Don’t your wings just wanna fly
Reset your body free from mind 
I’ll pick you up if your tired
Won’t the world seem so unkind
if you don’t love me
So try me the flavor of the hour 
I’ll have life of luxury spread out before you realize 
That your helpless 
You should’ve never left us
Because a long time coming is worth the wait 
You’re gonna burn out long before we fade away
It’s been a long time coming

Mike Molino: Piano, vocals;   Dave Ferriaro: Guitar, Bass, Drums

Try Me

Watch me perform this song live on the piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4oC0Gn5R7g
there's been a lot of talk of armageddon coming with the way things are I'm not ashamed to count the days
Until the world stops from turning and we all fall off, end this game and let it take all that I got
sold out the soul once in control now dead against the role I'm playing
Fire in the hole about to blow maybe then you'll know this is not nonsense I'm portraying
Fears that haunted you in real life are coming true
If I grow old, before I die at least I know I'll try to prove to you 
the audience is the judge of me
And if I die before my time there'll be no wondering why I chose to
the audience was the death of me
But you will never now what we're about is so far away from what you're thinking its so much bigger
Its where the wind comes from and why the thunder rumbles we all came in peace why do you cause such god damn trouble
dreams that come to you in real life I'd never do
Fears made up by you in real life may become true
You're the reason I must live again
You're the reason I live for real life
You're the reason I must love again
You're the reason I pretend to love real life, that's my sacrifice

Mike Molino: Piano, Vocals, lyrics;   Dave Ferrairo: Guitar, Bass, Drums

Upcoming

Real Life

MASS SHOOTINGS IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES
There have been 385 mass shootings in the United States in 2024, including at Apalachee High School, following a near-record number of mass shootings in 2023. No other high-income country has suffered such a high death toll from gun violence. Every day, more than 120 Americans die at the end of a gun, including suicides and homicides, an average of 44,341 per year. According to the latest available analysis of data from 2015 to 2019, the US gun homicide rate was 26 times that of other high-income countries; its gun suicide rate was nearly 12 times higher. Mass shootings, defined as attacks in which at least four people are injured or killed excluding the shooter, have been on the rise since 2015, peaking at 686 incidents in 2021.
I cannot imagine what it must be like to lose someone suddenly from a random act of violence. I wrote this song from the perspective of someone who is grieving such a loss. Having a moment of peace only to be interrupted again by the grief which turns to anger and then some resolve at the end. Unfortunately I just heard about another shooting by another scumbag stranger. God bless the victims and their families. I wish the inspiration for this song never occurred, but it has.
Watch me perform this song live https://youtu.be/m0zv7Wa3zf4?si=FmBViDSdVQx9jXfr
“There are 400 million guns in this country.”  “If guns made us safer, we’d be the safest nation in the world.” - Shannon Watts
...but not a sound from anyone but Matthew...youtu.be/cJOw0XUyTQs
mass shootings is the biggest problem in the USA, but for some reason our political "leaders" do nothing about it and it just keeps happening. 
 
Live performance of this song is available on youtube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5xHOPtdrg

It's almost delightful despite the spiteful unrightful I write to tell you this hell you can fight in here when the worst sin sees light of day here and turns here to what no words have been invented to write here we can't bear or express clear the sight the sound the pain the feeling of despair it's beyond fear way out there a sound so far away that I can barely hear but your face dear its still here its all that I can see and now everywhere dear you're all I care every word swear is not enough to express all of my anger cause of a stranger scumbag stranger oh yeah right this hell I can fight

This hell I can fight

Watch me perform this song live on Metal Head Hippie W.A.R.P. show 11/15/22, time stamp 4:34 youtu.be/jcKIKlIJlyo
he was the only one who had a plan
nobody else knew where to go
care without fear of popular demand
that's what a leader's made of
now we're moving backwards
i can see it coming again
look around and soon you'll find your enemy's your only friend
does anybody remember laughter
was that carefree child really me? 
did you get what you were after? 
what was that and how did I turn to me?
We'll never reach our destination without a place to start
finger on the trigger back up against the wall
go ahead and take the first shot
or realize that my agenda benefits all
every destination needs a place to start
I'm not a destination but a place to
it would be so easy just to give up now
but I try, as I bleed, I must succeed
never could've done what I did if it wasn't for the ones I did it for
every destination needs a place to
every destination needs a place to start
hey mister sister why so much enraged
nobody wants to hear you...
spin like a twister pointing all this blame
when was the last time you did anything for someone else
one common goal one aspiration peace in all our hearts
we'll never reach that destination without a place to start
every destination needs a place to
every destination needs a place to start
everybody needs everybody

Mike Molino: Vocals, lyrics and music, Frank McCarthy: Drums
Mastered by Woods Studio - Check them out here on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/woods_studio

A Place To Start

Watch me perform this song live on Metal Head Hippie W.A.R.P. show 11/15/22, time stamp 2:39 youtu.be/jcKIKlIJlyo
Mastered by Woods Studio Free Mixing and Mastering. Check them out here on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/woods_studio
tired feet scuffing
all I see weighs on me catastrophically 
and the day turns to night 
then to day week month year its so clear so long as good as gone
crowded streets down in history
this can't be beat? must be fooling me
couldn't see the pavement through the crowd now an empty barren ground
who'd of thought that this would make it better's wrong as good as gone
let me take you for a ride
to forbidden places we weren't born to run and hide
vaccinate or lose your rights
block your toxic faces empty spaces locked in stasis to survive
"we are implementing a lock down for the entire global population"
"and what implications do you anticipate us facing if we do not take this drastic measure" 
"life as we know it could possibly be gone"
"With what you're suggestion we are as good as gone"
weighs on me catastrophically 
and the day turns to night
then to day week month year its so clear we are as good as gone
couldn't see the pavement through the crowd now an empty barren ground
who'd of thought that this would last forever's wrong as good as gone
let me take you for a ride to forbidden places run and hide
vaccinate or lose your rights toxic faces empty spaces locked in stasis to survive
let me take you for a ride to forbidden places we weren't born to run and hide
vaccinate or lose your rights break your stasis we weren't born to run and hide

Mike Molino: Vocals, lyrics, music, Eric Enos: Bass;  Performed on Roland Jupiter 80, endorsement please? No loops, everything played live

good as gone

Watch me perform this song live on Metal Head Hippie W.A.R.P. show 11/15/22, time stamp 3:07 youtu.be/jcKIKlIJlyo
And official video by Dominick Torregrossa: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn_Xff2jVY
Mastered by Woods Studio Free Mixing and Mastering. Check them out here on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/woods_studio
Entire song performed on a Roland Jupiter 80 keyboard #endorsement. Written and performed by Mike Molino. 
jump in and save her
she's the one you've been searching for
every time you fell asleep wanting more
well feast your eyes on the door
under the starlit sky
the universe couldn't tell me why
every time I call and you pass me by 
my love spills all over the floor
yeah in the motor car
yeah I couldn't get that far
yeah I'll take an aeroplane 
to find you wherever you may be in the world
to find you wherever you may be
so jump in and save her
she's losing her breath in the drowning pool
even if I were there would you know what to do? 
I can't provide you with more
only takes a moment just to throw it away
after a lifetime all your searching goes to waste 
cause you think you've been hurt before 
well feast your eyes on the door
yeah in the motor car
yeah I couldn't get that far
yeah I'll take an aeroplane 
to find you wherever you may be in the world
to find you wherever you may be in the world
if I knew wherever you could be in the world
if I knew wherever you could be

Savior

Live performance of this song available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZYzcQ69Fic
Mastered by Woods Studio Free Mixing and Mastering. Check them out here on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/woods_studio
Entire song performed on a Roland Jupiter 80 keyboard #endorsement. Written and performed by Mike Molino. 
It still can be done
It still can be won
I'm not the only one who believes son
Take this it was mine
for such a long time
be at your best never question your own mind
if I fall always carry this proudly I did it for you and now that they found me 
I really should go but I'm here to stay to see it all through all of the way
am I out of my head now? 
am I better off dead now? 
am I a liar trying to be who I'm not just like you
running in circles
filling in deep holes
against a tide that abides to no strongholds 
final retreat to where I can meet you 
I will survive its a lie I still need you
so truth be told
the truth is bold
my truth is sold
engrossed in gold
no one will know how far I'll go to win my last attack against the rats
am I out of my head now
am I better off dead now
am I liar trying to be who I'm not just like you
am I out of my head now
am I better off dead now
am I out of my head now
am I better off dead now
am I liar trying to believe that I'm not just like you

in late December 2015 my father-in-law was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and moved in with me, my wife and 3 children. For the next 15 months I witnessed a man fight like I've never seen a man fight before. With all odds against him, doctors telling him he had weeks to live, he pressed on and proved them wrong. I wrote this song during that time that he lived with us. I look back now and realize how much I admired his perseverance, his will to live, his belief that he would beat it "when I'm done with this cancer" he'd say. I didn't realize that this song was about that until after he passed in March of 2017. That's what I love most about writing music. We miss you Rick!

notJustLikeyou

metalPiano

Watch me perform this song live on Metal Head Hippie W.A.R.P. show 11/15/22, time stamp 4:40 youtu.be/jcKIKlIJlyo

Its not you Its not me adjust the scene
I’ve been on a chainsaw fantasy 
High and low extreme no in between
Just left side right side red or green
So long you tired blues
So long we got the strength to choose
Who to be what to see so set your scene
a teaser, pleaser whatever you want to be
Just not a full time lover, that’s much too clean I’m fixing on a whole new scene
Think I finally found my better song that’s what they called it that’s what they called it
How’d it take so long to get where you belong hate when I fade away love when I come back 
Not a crime to live out fantasies
She can eat your cake but save your pie for me 
Now we’re on the scene that makes you scream
There’s no restriction just keep coming back to me
So strong we’ll never lose
So wrong we’re breaking all the rules
All the things we want or thought we’d need
If less is more we’ll have it all so come with me
And be a full time lover who’s not that clean and beat me at my own damn scene
Think I finally found my better song that’s what they called it that’s what they called it
How’d it take so long to get where you belong hate when I fade away love when I come back
Think I finally found my better song 
How’d it take so long to get where you belong hate when I fade away love when I come back to you
I’m not a full time lover that’s much too clean I’m fixing on a whole new scene
Think I finally found my better song that’s what they called it that’s what they called it
How’d it take so long to get where you belong hate when I fade away love when I come back
Think I finally found my better song 
How’d it take so long to get where you belong hate when I fade away love when I come back to you

Adjust The Scene

Watch the live performance of this song here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY4BWb-D4b8

Nobody’s hanging around
Been looking all over town, for you
Nothing’s popped up on my phone
Should not have left you alone
How could I have known
That you would run away
Oh I listen to my Playlist seems so dark today wish I could make it brighter 
gonna write a happy song
Everyone’s contagious nobody can save us I can make it brighter gonna write a
happy song
Just then a knock at my door
We still haven’t found a cure, you know
But if you wear one of these
You can go out to the store
This has become such a bore
I’d rather die than waste away
Oh I listen to my Playlist seems so dark today wish I could make it brighter
 gonna write a happy song
Everyone’s contagious nobody can save us I can make it brighter gonna write a happy song
And you know, it’s not as bad as what they sell us on TV
It’s big business making lies reality
They make it hard to be the best that we can be
a roller coaster fiction ride we’ve got to always question why            
spoon fed soon dead get the fuck out of my head
This has become such a bore
We can no longer ignore
Healthily wasting away
Oh I listen to my Playlist seems so dark today wish
News says everyone’s contagious nobody can save us 
Oh I listen to my Playlist seems so dark today wish I could make it brighter
 gonna write a happy song
News says everyone’s contagious nobody can save us I can make it brighter gonna write a happy song
Music & Lyrics by Mike Molino; Guitar Dominick Torregrossa check him out here on SC https://soundcloud.com/d-torregrossa-373706580      
Mastered by Woods Studio Free Mixing and Mastering. Check them out here on Soundcloud - @woods_studio

  Music & Lyrics by Mike Molino; Guitar Dominick Torregrossa check him out here on SC https://soundcloud.com/d-torregrossa-373706580

Happy Song

happy song

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Video for this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEKuA5KUYc

cold winds high above my head
tell me things better left unsaid
i write it down but it makes no sense
was with you for a moment and been lost ever since
no sound as the light grows dim
face down mud upon his chin
nobody knows if ignorance is a sin
why does one have to end to let another begin
do you think there's something wrong
do you think you could be wrong
black cloud high above my head
tries to tell me what's already been said
to reiterate all the hate from the love you mistake for a chance to grow
now all we have left is the pain we suppress never want to express so nobody will know, but they know
and i just want to give it away
but i could never give it away
i wish i could give you away
but i could never give you away

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Check out my live performance of this song here: https://youtu.be/UrxER-yfKqE

Babe, wake up it's a beautiful day
Feel the sun bring a smile to your face
I've been alone for so long
Can't get a hold of you
Screaming but nobody's home
Calling but I'm getting nothing from you
time made us older still fight like a soldier I'm not giving up on the truth
I'm getting nothing from you
Head full of dreams we'll have all that we need I am not gonna stop until we do
wasn't thunder was a bomb just a bomb there's
No time to wonder what went wrong it went wrong move on, move on, move on move on
That wasn't thunder just a bomb just a bomb baby
No time to wonder what went wrong it went wrong move on, move on, move on move on
Babe, wake up it's a beautiful day
Feel the sun bring a smile to your face
I've been alone for so long
Can't get a hold of you
Screaming but nobody's home
Calling but I'm getting nothing from you
time made us older still fight like a soldier I'm not giving up on the truth
I'm getting nothing from you
Head full of dreams we'll have all that we need I am not gonna stop until we do
Babe, wake up it's a beautiful day
Feel the sun put a smile on your face
I've been alone so long
Can't get a hold of you
Screaming but nobody's home
Calling but I'm getting nothing from you
time made us older still fight like a soldier I'm not giving up on the truth
I'm getting nothing from you
Head full of dreams we'll have all that we need I am not gonna stop until we do
Not gonna stop until we do
Not giving up on the truth
Not gonna give up on you
Not giving up on the truth never give up on you
Original 3/3 chord progression written by Dave Ferrairo
Mike Molino vocals, piano, drums, bass, guitar, synth, lyrics 
Mike: Dave sent me this 3/3 chord progression that he came up with on acoustic guitar. I had it in my playlist for about a year. One day while sitting in my car waiting for my daughter to come out of Lacrosse practice it came on and I started singing "Calling but I'm getting nothing from you". I went home and played it on the piano. Had to add the D G C part at the end of the chorus to fit the vocal melody. And if you want to really get musician nerdy I had to go to the F# a measure early for "I've been alone for so long" for it to land on "long". I didn't want it to stay slow throughout the entire song so I added the 4/4 part after the first chorus "wasn't thunder was a bomb...." and that brought me back to the verse but more up tempo and still 4/4. I had to cut that off to get back to 3/3 chorus so I created "screaming but nobody's home" which allowed me to stop making it easy to pick up with the 3/3 chorus
Mastered by Woods Studio Free Mixing and Mastering. Check them out here on Soundcloud - @woods_studio

Calling

...but not a sound from anyone but Matthew...https://youtu.be/cJOw0XUyTQs
mass shootings is the biggest problem in the USA

but nothing is being done to prevent the next one, and it sadly just keeps happening. Live performance in conjunction with This hell I can fight - https://youtu.be/m0zv7Wa3zf4?si=FmBViDSdVQx9jXfr
Lyrics: 
they can't handle it lack of self control won't get away with it
reincarnation is calling on beautiful souls must put a stop to it
if I was warrior I would've taken it out before it had the chance
scum of the earth if I could have just gotten there first their lives would still remain
"leaders" are leading us to self destruction
heating and cooling since dinosaurs fucked up the earth
I want to dance with you underneath the trees before they get blown down
I want to take you to dinner across the street before the place burns down
my motorcycle just created a cloud
look twice for me I'm swerving inside and out
my music hits the chords and says the words that are not allowed
keep moving speed is soothing
birth of the oceans deep
I can't tell you but man if you only knew
not a thing we have done or that we can do
all this change is the same it ain't nothing new
since the birth of the oceans it has been true
damn rioters of the streets should have risen for the souls of the children, but not a sound, from anyone but Matthew (https://youtu.be/cJOw0XUyTQs), oh how horrific it must have been for them
keep moving speed is soothing
birth of the oceans deep
I can't tell you but man if you only knew
not a thing we have done or that we can do
all this change is the same it ain't nothing new
since the birth of the oceans it has been true
"leaders" are leading us to self destruction
heating and cooling since birth of the oceans
"leaders" are leading us to self destruction
heating and cooling since dinosaurs fucked up the earth

Birth Of The Oceans

Live performance of this song you YouTube: https://youtu.be/OJq2PmSBs2U
Mastered by Woods Studio Mixing and Mastering. Check them out here on Soundcloud - @woods_studio
Who’s losing now
Who’s passed out on the floor
So lost since we’ve been found
The love is here no more 
Dizzy over hang
The in between’s a blur
I swear I was not wrong 
The fruit we ate was pure 
She was an angel
She was an angel strangled tempted by the demons’ escape 
I can’t breathe I break with every move you make
I can’t breathe I break with every sip you take 
I can’t breathe I break each vile a mistake
I can’t breathe I break it’s all that I can take the demons escape
I know, where does time go walked for miles passed right by ohhh she was an angel 
Who’s losing now 
The love is here no more

Mastered by Woods Studio Mixing and Mastering. Check them out here on Soundcloud - @woods_studio

Demons Escape

A cover of Aerosmith's Sick as a Dog from their album Rocks. 
David Ferrairo Jr. Guitar & Bass - https://soundcloud.com/dynajack1
Mike Molino Vocals

Sick As A Dog - Aerosmith cover

Watch me perform this song live on GMAY's SHINEFEST www.youtube.com/live/fKb21owkOV4?…=FfrG-q582eHRw5si
This song is also the victim of my first video attempt - I have a lot to learn about making videos but you can check it out here: https://youtu.be/nTNOSvoCp1U?si=k23Rfdpvul4YtGbI
Take our time in the road
cause we ain't got nowhere to go
but only up from here after an all time low and if I thought you'd care I'd say I love you but we'll just close our eyes and let go
Leave me baby
Hold me maybe
Either way we'll learn to grow survive and find our road home and make it up from here
I'll lead the way and if you don't follow you'll still find your road home and make it up from here
Hatred breeding out of control
while blessed with what some will never know
Can't take that back after what you say when its in the past you'll regret someday and give anything to be here again
Leave me baby
Hold me maybe
Either way we'll learn to grow survive and find our road home and make it up from here
I'll lead the way and if you don't follow you'll still find your road home and make it up from here
Hold me baby you drive me crazy
I'm not going anywhere but if you want to leave you can go right now
Either way we'll learn to grow survive and find our road home and make it up from here
I'll lead the way and if you don't follow you'll still find your road home and make it up from here
Mastered by Woods Studio Free Mixing and Mastering: https://soundcloud.com/woods_studio       
All of the music on this song performed on Roland Jupiter 80 - endorsement please.

8/11/23

Up From Here

Official video via this link: 

https://youtu.be/hTVqDsQmymU?si=gREErNDuCOFMVDI2

music & drums performed on Roland Jupiter 80 
Written & produced by Mike Molino, Mastered at @woods_studio
Wolf photo courtesy of michaelsongs visit their YouTube page here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaKGeO4yHBqhe2nu9TTFOZA

Ran to the mountain top but still not high or far enough away 
I still could hear them call my name 
Chocking on soda pop it fizzled to my tired and worried brain 
For a moment I forgot their pain 
Love, Used to hold each other when the day was done
Love, Now we duck and cover cause we can’t outrun 
My girl is beautiful sharp mind hot body personality 
She brings to life my wildest dreams 
My mind is hijacked thinking real is fake 
now true and fantasy is on a collision course full steam 
Love, Acting like a stranger but I know you well
Love, Waving to each other from across the cell 
deja vu  I lose my mind just thinking bout you
But then it’s 
Holy smokes when you come around here 
Oh yeah 
Believe in me like I believe in you 
She has a softer side when showcased on the full sized movie screen
But when the lights go down oh no
From far away the hurricane looks like a pillow in the blue 
The silver lining hides the truth 
Love, Used to hold each other when the day was done
Love, Now we duck and cover cause we can’t outrun 
Love, Acting like a stranger but I know you well
Love, waving to each other from across the cell
I used to get real scared just thinking bout it WWIII 
now psychopathic thugs have got nothing on me
But still it’s 
Holy smokes when you come around here

come around here

This is a live take of 11 song set list for an upcoming performance on 8/3/24
1. Closing in 
2. Adjust the scene
3. Up from here
4. A place to start
5. Demons escape
6. Savior
7. No direction
8. Sick of trying
9. Beautiful in Motion
10. Triumphant Motivation
11. Good as Gone

Live practice session for 8/3/24

this is a recording of a live performance of 12 original songs, piano and vocals.
Live video via YouTube link - https://youtu.be/vNWWxwTwmEo?si=VC9kcw1mVFJ6Oa38
1. Real Life
2. Adjust the Scene
3. Up from here
4. A place to start
5. Demons escape
6. Savior
7. Come around here
8. This hell I can fight
9. notJustLikeyou
10. Beautiful in motion
11. Triumphant Motivation
12. Good as gone

Live Recording 12 original songs

Video for this song: https://youtu.be/_pqTpZuy8vM?feature=shared

Time fades away they say
But I can't afford to fade away
I can never be the same again
Not enough songs to play
So the silence stays the page is blank 
Another day for us to thank for none
I'm back after racing around the world
With a clock and a post when you're trying the most
Calling on ghosts just to help you get through the ordeal
Isn't it great to be alive they say 
the easy way means someone's doing all the work himself, just like me
Too much time away from you 
you know it's gonna get me Down
No more trouble with the blues
Since I found my way with you I know you're never gonna let me down
Always thought we'd make it through everything is ours to lose
You know I'm never gonna let you down
Smokin bubble gum with booze doesn't satisfy the muse
You know its only gonna get you down
Now I struggle with the truth sugar coated just for you
I know it's only gonna get you down
Too much time away from you
You know its gonna get me down
Still racing around the world
Great to be alive they say
but the easy way means someone else is doing all the dirty work himself

music & drums performed on Roland Jupiter 80
Written & produced by Mike Molino, Mastered at @woods_studio

Down

Birth of the Oceans - TrippSideBrown Demo
Myles Tripp - Guitars
Mike Woodside - Bass
Billy Brown - Drums
Mike Molino - Keys / vocals

they can't handle it lack of self control won't get away with it
reincarnation is calling on beautiful souls must put a stop to it
if I was warrior I would've taken it out before it had the chance
scum of the earth if I could have just gotten there first their lives would still remain
"leaders" are leading us to self destruction
heating and cooling since dinosaurs fucked up the earth
I want to dance with you underneath the trees before they get blown down
I want to take you to dinner across a the street before the place burns down
my motorcycle just created a cloud
look twice for me I'm swerving inside and out
my music hits the chords and says the words that are not allowed
keep moving speed is soothing
birth of the oceans deep
I can't tell you but man if you only knew
not a thing we have done or that we can do
all this change is the same it ain't nothing new
since the birth of the oceans it has been true
damn rioters of the streets should have risen for the souls of the children, but not a sound, from anyone but Matthew (https://youtu.be/cJOw0XUyTQs), oh how horrific it must have been for them
keep moving speed is soothing
birth of the oceans deep
I can't tell you but man if you only knew
not a thing we have done or that we can do
all this change is the same it ain't nothing new
since the birth of the oceans it has been true
"leaders" are leading us to self destruction
heating and cooling since birth of the oceans
"leaders" are leading us to self destruction
heating and cooling since dinosaurs fucked up the earth

Birth Of The Oceans - TrippSideBrown

First Draft Demo of original song "Come around here" performed by TrippSideBrown 
Mike Molino - Keys & Vocals
Myles Tripp - Guitar
Mike Woodside - Bass 
Billy Brown - Drums

Ran to the mountain top but still not high or far enough away 
I still could hear them call my name 
Chocking on soda pop it fizzled to my tired and worried brain 
For a moment I forgot their pain 
Love, Used to hold each other when the day was done
Love, Now we duck and cover cause we can’t outrun 
My girl is beautiful sharp mind hot body personality 
She brings to life my wildest dreams 
My mind is hijacked thinking real is fake 
now true and fantasy is on a collision course full steam 
Love, Acting like a stranger but I know you well
Love, Waving to each other from across the cell 
deja vu  I lose my mind just thinking bout you
But then it’s 
Holy smokes when you come around here 
Oh yeah 
Believe in me like I believe in you 
She has a softer side when showcased on the full sized movie screen
But when the lights go down oh no
From far away the hurricane looks like a pillow in the blue 
The silver lining hides the truth 
Love, Used to hold each other when the day was done
Love, Now we duck and cover cause we can’t outrun 
Love, Acting like a stranger but I know you well
Love, waving to each other from across the cell
I used to get real scared just thinking bout it WWIII 
now psychopathic thugs have got nothing on me
But still it’s 
Holy smokes when you come around here

Come Around Here - TrippSideBrown - Demo

Official video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9pJy54HEL4E?si=R-525w_GK5TTe9aX

Remember the days when we were young
Let out of the cage but we were only freshman
Every problem up to us to solve
Protesting everything while understanding nothing always turn it into something so tragic 
Shouting in unison... This is all that matters
Way too fast around the bend blame it on the president of your freedom
Just because you can don't mean you should
Where this is not allowed they'll feed you to the crowd ain't it something to be proud of nothing but thought it was everything
This is all that matters

All That Matters

Original song by TrippSideBrown: www.youtube.com/@MikeWoodside-sv9gr
he was the only one who had a plan
nobody else knew where to go
care without fear of popular demand
that's what a leader's made of
now we're moving backwards
i can see it coming again
look around and soon you'll find your enemy's your only friend
does anybody remember laughter
was that carefree child really me? 
did you get what you were after? 
what was that and how did I turn to me?
We'll never reach our destination without a place to start
finger on the trigger back up against the wall
go ahead and take the first shot
or realize that my agenda benefits all
every destination needs a place to start
I'm not a destination but a place to
it would be so easy just to give up now
but I try, as I bleed, I must succeed
never could've done what I did if it wasn't for the ones I did it for
every destination needs a place to
every destination needs a place to start
hey mister sister why so much enraged
nobody wants to hear you...
spin like a twister pointing all this blame
when was the last time you did anything for someone else
one common goal one aspiration peace in all our hearts
we'll never reach that destination without a place to start
every destination needs a place to
every destination needs a place to start
everybody needs everybody

Billy Brown drums
Mike Woodside bass
Myles Tripp Guitar 
Mike Molino keys / vocals - www.youtube.com/@mikemolino1919

A Place To Start - TrippSideBrown

Offical video for this song: https://youtu.be/4oGesFRIZIA?si=F_fDGoDRGx79HHhL
Watch me perform this song live on a recent livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/wqFFBKk25gU?si=JMNkgDrdKqsHBphn
time stamp 2:08:37
I wrote this song in late July 2025 while preparing for my oldest daughter's departure to college. 
Get comfortable pull up a chair I got a feeling that we're gonna be stuck down here for a long time
So much has happened all throughout our years the days passed like lightening through the atmosphere as it flies by, rock a bye bye
Searching to find looking for you across the hay field down to the bungalow blue
She said it looked like someone else's tattoo because it's been there forever and time will never catch up to you
So keep on running just as fast  as you can
Chase after something that might never happen
The drive is more fun than the destination 
Search and Find then desire something new
The dust has settled and the smoke has cleared we're still down here staring at a rope and stairs that we won't climb, and I don't mind 'cause I'll always be loving you
So keep on running just as fast  as you can
Chase after something that might never happen
The drive is more fun than the destination 
Search and Find then desire something new

search and find

“Gritty, poetic, melancholy indie rock with raw piano and a weathered voice.” I make alternative piano songs for the tired, the tender, and the quietly rebellious.
Raw vocals, and a little bit of darkness in every line.
Watch my latest live performances on YouTube via this link: https://www.youtube.com/live/W_YAGXXWTVg?si=qwBM9s-mue-ydj9O
Booking and info: mikemolino@comcast.net
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