Some songs I wrote with various friends around the World.

Gen F.U.

Free Da Bud     Ranzero/Owen Burgess   Socan 2024 Canada

When he be smokin’   Master Blasta tokin’
It ain’t no jokin’   he ain’t no broken down clown – rappin
Scrapper  from the get go    King Kong of the easy flow
Eyes like headlights glow    showin’  us bright
Surprised delight   when he crack it open, crack open the night
White MF and a big hat trucker
MC  suckers be punch drunk – ruckus
Shuck us and jive      live to crtiticize
So  fly,   a big bud ally   Better burnt out than burnt alive

The needle I drop   your attention I got
Then it’s battle or flop
No diff made to your one last big shot
Tapped out at 420 but yer  joint’s  got you in jail
Ran outta money    sure ain’t funny
A baby on the way   a bitty blue eyed honey
If I had a credit card   I’d bang that plastic hard
Buy a trailer wit’ a yard   a dobbie  unchained on guard
But ya think it be all easy   In the cloud it be all fleecy

No affection for an abject nation   Livin’ under a rage you call inflation
An overblown word   you heard first hand
Standin’ wit’ your  hands out in the food bank line
No design of your mind brought me here
Where yer  handin’ out yer cans of spam an beans so dear
Sure I’ll eat my grief and to be brief
The program’s mis named when it’s  called relief
Homeless   roamless   more or less livin’ in a sleepin bag
Rag tag bag dad like some bugged out hermit
CHORUS
Amerika
Free the bud
Amerika
light one up with me
O say Amerika
Can you see
By the dawn's
Early burning weed
What so proudly we fuckin hailed
At twilight's last deal
On every city street
In Amerika!
Amerika 
Amerika
Free the bud in Amerika
Amerika
Light one up  Amerika
with me
Light it up Amerika
in Washington DC
Light one up  
Free the bud

Free Da Bud

JUST LIKE YOU SAID       Ranzero/Burgess SOCAN 2024

I was sad and blue
I was hungry too
But now that I found you
I can love again it’s true
 
I woke up and shivered 
Though the heat was turned on 
Nothing was delivered 
Another morning lost

Then I heard you speak   - And I answered so coldly
I was scared it was only  - A name that I dreamed
A name with a sting  - A name I heard screamed
A name that still rings in my head - An unwanted guest
 
Now I can’t dance or croon
No one says I’m cool
But I can face the truth
I am a fool for you
 
No more Netflix nights
With the TV turned off
Or thinking there’s no difference 
Between silence and talk

When I heard your voice - And I answered you slowly
I was afraid it was only  - an echo long lost
An echo that lies  - An echo that cried
An echo that tried to hide in my head - just like you said
 
Just like you said 
All life is blessed
So now I will get dressed
I think I passed the test
 
 I was sad and blue
I was hungry too
But now that I found you
I can love again it’s true
I can love again it’s true

Just like you said

Celebrity News Junkie  
Music by: Mike Bolwell and Michael Meredyth 
Words by: Mike Bolwell
All  "Hollywood Blvd."  guitars by Michael Meredyth of Boss Hominid https://www.facebook.com/Boss-Hominid-1442923065982485/?ref=settings

Celebrity News Junkie

Such a sweet and tender pop star
Discovered when you were only fourteen
Climbed the charts like nobody’s business
A washed up has been at only eighteen

You know more about Selena and The Weekend
Than  about  your very best friend
Don’t you know it’s all a sell  job
The gossip mill will never ever end

Think you know all about me
But where would you be without me
Just another stalkarazzo
Going wherever the stars go
You’re a Celebrity News Junky x 2

Couldn’t wait for the rehab bounce
To give us all your deep confessions
You  begged your boyfriend to make a sex tape
Vanity, petulance, tardiness – a few of your obsessions

I buy every single tabloid printed 
Try to watch every expose show
Don’t want to miss a minute of your downfall
Your trial, your death, you kept us all enthralled

 Bolwell - Meredyth SOCAN 2017

Celebrity News Junkie

CHASING STARS   Words and music by : Mick Ranzero Bolwell   Lead Guitar by: Michael  Meredyth of Boss Hominid and The Skinner Box   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-C8s-7_5p8
Bass by: Bob Heidrich of Torpedo Sunrise   https://www.facebook.com/rock4rent/
Chasing Stars
Take me out to the Mothership
I've been waiting my whole life
Just one smile from you is all it took
Heard you say it will be alright
Put me down for a cryo sleep
A hundred years of  bliss
I could try to live without you
But can’t imagine a sweeter kiss
Take me out of the Milky Way
Our earthly hosts left far behind
I'm leaving everything to the kids
Eyes in the viewports dull and blind
The Acolytes were singing
Hale Bop baby blue
Lots of room in the New Beginning
That’s a promise from me to you
Misery loves you company
Will you miss me when I’m gone?
I won’t miss the World at all
Cuz I know all of you just have it wrong

	        	Should I send a message on the next comet tail
                    	Will it drown out the sorrow when all those voices wail
                    	Should I whisper your name as the other Nebuli do
                    	Will we see all our friends out on Altair 42

Our paths will cross again
Hope my heart will mend
A light year from heaven
A long way for my love to send

SUPERMODELS INC.

Mick Bolwell: Toronto based Songwriter with over 500 songs filling up my bucket list so far. I started writing in the late 70's for the rock band Mick Slick among others . I have written songs for diverse bands like Freudian Slip, The 68's and Aural Sects. Along the way I wrote spots for radio, 3 musicals for Frolics.ca; a children's black light puppet theatre company, film and television and I collaborate with other musicians on Sony Music's AcidPlanet website, Kompoz.com and Bandlab.com. I have been a member of SOCAN.ca since 1979. I now spend my time working with the internet based band Boss Hominid. Our latest video (see below) can be seen on YouTube, called "Plastic." https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4ixhh_KQTPWeV-54eqiblPDppSDefZ0n