we were having a ball
naked as the day we were born
nobody saw
but that just ain't no fun at all
standing around
looking everywhere up and down
nothing's profound
when both your feet are strapped to the ground
i can't believe what you want doesn't include me this time of need
said it was me 
no use pretending i finally see

Mike Molino: Piano, vocals, lyrics;  Dave Ferrairo: Guitar, bass, drums

Time of Need

I'll feast off heaven's scraps
Leach the backs of beached repulsive candy
In all the time I wait for you girl
but prophets have all told you won't return
stand beside them laughing watch as I burn
give us all another day
another waste cause some will never learn
now among these fools you play 
a tick tack to match upon my face
try scrubbing off moves but you can't erase what you've done
oh no watch as I burn
why do you want to see me burn now baby
move ahead and then dragged right back
gather scraps left over curdled sweetness
left over not over don't ever surrender
get over your past

Mike Molino: Piano, strings, vocals, lyrics;  Greg Scappicchio: Bass;  Doug Melanson: Drums

Scraps

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

it's always something that we can't ignore this brand new vision you swear you've seen it before so loose so elated you know its fiction but it feels so real wish I could paint the horizon your purple name across the whole hemisphere then I'd be the reason for her glow and smile she's lying alone as this scene unfolds
and in my mind I'm so much more than what I was today
its not hard to find but still I fear I'm gonna loose my way
and in my mind she's still the one who never went away
oh its like going blind I'm losing touch with an illusion
and why I try to reach you with indirect excuses I'll never know how to please reality without the use of my natural chemical but its too simple to go that way just solve this puzzle it can be so much more but I'm still lying alone don't I feel so cold
running I'm running I'm running from you
running I'm running I'm running to you, again

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

Illusion

stop turn around I think we just passed my dream girl smoking grass waiting for a ride to nowhere
her eyes were dark as how I feel inside I know that she could heal let me out I gotta pick this flower to devour this lonely monster that's screaming inside of me inside me 
about two years ago I took a wrong turn, a wrong turn now that perpetrator's got what I need all I need
pull your sleeve back take a lick now the salt will surely stick hard alcohol persuades a bitter coward to ride down the tracks I laid to you plagued by a villain in a hero's suite I'm burning steam 200 miles an hour nothing's louder than a freight train crashing through a poor man's station of dreams as it seems I'm going nowhere fast after a wrong turn a wrong turn now this gotta be the worst that I'll see it's just gotta be
cut my mouth to fake a smile for you not even half of what I'd ever do to make you believe that we can get it right
so toss the salt make one last wish shoot it down and when the feeling hits fall to the floor an just drift away

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

Wrong Turn

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

watch me play this song live on the piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1CQ5js3axE&t=36s
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

Persistence

appropriate anger

Watch the live version piano and vocals here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uljEYt0k7k


8 days of madness nearly cost your mind 
a trip in over drive fit to be tied
by liquid poisoned when the rage arrived 
you let it out this time and crossed that line 
they found you standing with a deadly stare 
and in the other hand the cross you bare
finally at peace in touch with your own soul 
at last you've gained control so where to go from here
time and change luster fades what once was shiny and new faded in you
my hope is strained nothing's gained from wishing
detached I'm back then lost and gone again 
your dirty medicine can't cure my sweet addiction
In tact impact bent in the aftermath 
survived without a scratch no holding back 
I'm looking forward to the time we spent
8 days when I pretend come back again
What you've been told's not what you want to hear
Truth hides in liars ears feeds off the fears of fools
A colorful blaze that burned for 8 days sparked by a vision of you
such a beautiful view from where I stand spontaneity planned 
here comes that feeling again oh that summer
next to you hot as summer
lately I feel like I've written my final song my fucking feet are dragging on and on and on I watch the birds attacking garbage thrown from the wall be dominant or starve and I'm not feeling small at all
time and change luster fades what once was shining and new faded in you
my hope is strained nothing's gained here comes that feeling again 
oh that summer
next to you natural as ocean and sand hot as summer
a colorful blaze sparked by a vision of you such a beautiful view 
from where I stand spontaneity planned 
here comes that feeling again oh that summer
next to you natural as ocean and sand hot as summer
next to you here comes that feeling again oh that summer

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

8 Days

to feel for you would be the craziest thing I could ever do 
Because you feel beyond what I could never begin to touch
you're so beyond what lies beneath my soul
I'm so afraid to show you what lies beneath it all
hold me now and love me in the end though cold as the arctic ice I'm melting once again 
I need to find comfort in a friend as cold as the arctic ice I'm melting once again
hope what I've given to you meets what you've given to me I only wanted to love you why can't you let it be
hope what I've given to you meets what you've given to me I never wanted to hurt you like you did me
hope what I've given to you meets what you've given to me I only wanted to hold you through eternity
hope what I've given to you meets what you've given to me I only seem to be distant when you're beckoning me
I still loved you in the end and as cold as the arctic ice we melted once again 
I don't need your false comfort as a friend you're as cold as the arctic ice and I'm melting once again
When I need you don't need
When you need I don't need
hold me now and love me in the end as cold as the arctic ice I'm melting once again 
I need to find comfort in a friend as cold as the arctic ice I'm melting once again
hope what I've given to you meets what you've given to me I only wanted to love you why can't you let it be
hope what I've given to you meets what you've given to me I never wanted to hurt you like you did me
hope what I've given to you meets what you've given to me I only wanted to hold you through eternity
hope what I've given to you meets what you've given to me I only seem to be distant when you're beckoning me

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

Arcticice

Watch me perform this song live on youTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoSDlt_hEKc

don't try to figure out what she's whispering 
it's always all about what she's missing
a sweeter spice to taste a bitter life to waste
these walls you have outgrown now lock me in 
the place that you call home's without me its another space in time we left it all behind
go fly now you're home free into the night
can't help but feeling something ain't right
you're mind rejects believing a world of fright lingers in your head
but don't think twice, go, life is more beautiful in motion 
A smile to your eyes as I'm grieving
silent to your ears as I'm screaming everything is gonna work out, right?
I wrote a song after you left that day I called it beautiful in motion as a warm sun turned to shade and let the shadows drown
go fly now you're home free into the night
can't help but feeling something ain't right
you're just afraid of finding a world that might not be the same again
but don't think twice, go, life is more beautiful in motion
I wrote a song after you left that day I called it beautiful in motion as a warm sun turned to shade and let the shadows drown 
I wrote a song after you left that day I called it beautiful in motion as a warm sun turned to gray and let the shadows drown 
as it turned to gray and they drowned as it turned to gray
life is more beautiful in motion, motion, motion

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

Beautiful In Motion

Slow down your obnoxious talking 
one drop and I got my fill of you
In fickle flight is a bird not flocking
came back to life after falling from the coup
in search now for a sanctuary 
you get higher I settle upon the roof
A revolution my resolution 
this year is to rid myself of you, or never shine, I'll never shine
Do you really want it to be its so easy to find as wanting me its so easy
Do you really want it to be its so easy to find as wanting me
The clock is ticking I'm talking to myself
you stick around you might get to know me
you stick around I might get to know myself
what if you hate what you see can't keep it hidden what's your disposition
There's nothing troubling me crawl out of your shell to the warm sunshine 
you gotta shine, we gotta shine
Do you really want it to be its so easy to find as wanting me its so easy
Do you really want it to be its so easy to find as being alive
Define being alive
Alive is being in love
the declaration of your independence 
A separation that serves as a penance to me
her crystal ball has the answer to end this
the glass falls crystal crashed with a a vengeance what shall I do I can't tell 
against the floor the gypsy fell that's all I can tell 
Live for yourself and die alone I'm alone she said
Do you really want it to be its so easy to find as wanting me its so easy
Do you really want it to be its so easy to find as wanting me
so easy find as being alive

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

Easy To Find

I don't know what you've been told but you're on the brink of more
You've been searching with your good eye closed and feeling so insecure
so I'm the one who pushed you far beyond the dreams that you thought that you couldn't grab and when you realized that I'd be all you'll have you knew you had to go  
crazy kids you're gonna grow up tall and when you think you've seen it all
Its not exactly what you thought you'd find and you start to change your mind about what you believe about what you thought would be life how could you know what you're doing ain't right
It's only talk its only fascination either do it or you
Don't go, but if you go, go entirely and don't show but if you show who entirely
did you live entirely when you died inside of me only one for my love is who you still try to be
Don't go but if you go, go entirely
Don't show but if you show, show entirely
running around again, never to reach the end

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

Entirely

There's a feeling I get when she's near and when she is not I wish I could be there
Saw the moon rise on one side and stare back at the sun as it fell
just a man I am standing between heaven and hell, kindness and mean
Then the ocean waves crash as to call words to inspire but nothing at all
it takes a woman not just any woman
soft skin touchless but I still can feel such sweetness I must object to conceal
as she smiles to a new light that shines, shallow and smaller and dimmer than mine
She could light up my world with that smile, oh that smile lifts me
such a feeling that cannot be matched
the one thing in this world that's worth coming back for
it takes a woman, not just any woman
she's worth coming back for
she's the one thing that's worth coming back for, to try for, to live and breath and to die for this time I will try not to hide all these feelings inside that I tried to disguise from you all and that sadness you'll find is my hope and my drive cause I got a dream standing on broken ground I fell between and I'm not going back there again no one is owed like she is owed, my sweet flower

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

It Takes A Woman

go here we go oh no 
Free yourself don't wait for nobody else to take you to the place you're dreaming of
Ask yourself inside you'll find the answer that your looking for
If you've been dealt a rotten hand from the gods its up to you to turn it back around
no one else can let you see the things you need to show
I can't take my time takes a lifetime to get to you 
I'm a bomb that's already been shot out there's nothing you can do
I can't take my time while exploiting yours you be wasting mine
I'm never gonna stop until we're laughing at the top 'till then I'll never let myself decay and rot
What you felt while you were down in a hole is what the people really want to know
You can't have wealth and fame without a little bit of trauma 
Got to free myself I've been drowned out and stuck in a realm of plastic faced and medicated souls
Do what I say poor boy and you'll be on your way to stardom
I can't take my time takes a lifetime to get to you 
I'm a bomb that's already been shot out there's nothing you can do
I can't take my time while exploiting yours you be wasting mine
I'm never gonna stop until we're laughing at the top 'till then I'll never let myself decay and rot next to you yeah 
Here's the face you need to show to be on your way to stardom

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

Lifetime

watch me play this song live on the piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP1tRu4sbKw
ooo crazy me again I find what I want and just set it free
you say go out enjoy have fun and live a little please
and don't come back until you're socially up to speed
A cold world a thirsting need
Can't set your mind on how to acquire your riches and fulfillment spiritually 
I walk alone window shopping lifting down a dead end street
Just empty shelves victims of a local access world where people speak but very seldom meet in such a false reality 
how's it gonna be when I can't even find myself got no direction only see my best in your reflection I know all I'm gonna see with out you's misery
That's why I hold you to blame, I hold you to blame, I'm going insane 
I lost heart a faithful soul
as she described her idea of a perfect mate I recognized like someone I know
and now I don't really feel like dying I don't even want to go home
I think I finally found somebody think I finally found someone who finally found me
Live video performance of this song available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC41KqtVVCdC7L4zHRhUQksw

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

No Direction

Who's been lying in my bed I haven't been around
He's a liar 
He's a cheater
and I've been tortured myself
but I won't use excuses for raising such hell
I'm not trying to confuse you 
I know you much too well to believe in the heroes built up in the stories you tell
I crossed the winds of a hurricane with just the thought that you might come across my name beneath a bold headline about a man who went insane
Lived through the teen years without a tragedy and then the world closes in you're lost at 23 can ask the good lord why but life remains such a mystery, such mystery
Sick of trying not to need you just fooling myself
Still taste you still you feel you still crave your sweet love
If I raise up my hands as I fall to my knees wearing nothing but rags at seventeen degrees I can stand it as long as your love is with me
One touch of your hand used to make me believe that its not such a waste to waste what you need I can stand it as long as you're wasting with me

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

Sick Of Trying

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

Check out the live performance of this song here: https://youtu.be/1pmOA6X0RAY

come forth come hear I'll speak the truth
we're growing old within our youth
for a time lets celebrate and laugh
I'll speak the words hold up your glass
To all who fought and died for US, you're in our thoughts and in our hearts
We'll fight until the dept is paid, justice done and freedom saved
It's triumph to try on for everyday
Motivation is taken then given away
It was we who desired peace but would not retreat
When it's gone wrong we must be strong and defeat
There's cheer behind your eyes I say
It's good to know you turned out ok
I've yet to find my look of cheer but I'll smile to you as if I care
If too bold I apologize, If too shy won't you sympathize
I'll make it clear both shy and bold then shrive and drink until we fold
It's triumph to try on for everyday
Motivation is taken then given away
It was we who desired peace but would not retreat
When it's long gone we must be strong and believe, I believe

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

Triumphant Motivation

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

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 perspective 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. 
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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elu_kVdjm2M
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

Check out the live version of this song at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32nMSehToG0
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

Live performance of this song available on youtube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL5CxXaSq7Y&t=1s
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

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 where 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

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
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Calling

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Just want my songs to be heard, thank you for listening. mikemolino@comcast.net
With a little help from my friends: Dave Ferrairo: guitar, bass, drums on Real Life; Try Me; Triumphant Motivation; Stray; Sick of Trying; No Direction; Lifetime; It Takes A Women; Easy to Find; Beautiful in Motion; Arcticice; 8 Days, Time of Need
Dave Ferrairo Guitar: Illusion; so fine; 7476; Breaking me in; Angelseeds;   Closing In
Greg Scapicchio Bass: Sick of Trying; No Direction; Scraps; Closing in; Angelseeds; Breaking me in; Bleed; 7476; so fine; Illusion; Wrong Turn; Break
Doug Melanson (rip) Drums: Sick of Trying; No Direction; Scraps; Closing in; Angelseeds; Breaking me in; Bleed; 7476; so fine; Illusion; Wrong Turn; Break
Leo Mellace Guitar: Bleed; Wrong Turn; Break; acoustic guitar Angelseeds
Dave Schofield acoustic guitar on breaking me in; wha-wha on Angelseeds
Frank McCarthy Drums: A place to start
Eric Enos Bass: Good as Gone
Dominick Torregrossa Guitar: Happy Song.
Mastered by Woods Studio Free Mixing and Mastering: notJustLikeyou, good as gone, savior; Happy Song, Calling, A place to start: . Check them out here on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/woods_studio
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©1999 AngelSeed Michael Molino
©2001 AngelSeed All Things Considered Michael Molino David Ferrairo 
©2021 Michael Molino
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