Ren Michael

Music and Lyrics by Ren Michael

Your white pearls glow in the candlelight
Your hair hair hangs low, shines in the night
Your eyes were mine, tell you I remember the time
Does he feel right tonight, yea does he know what you like?
Your hands they tremble as you look at me now
Like when you'd place them on my chest and feel my heart pound
Your laugh makes me smile, still the sweetest sound
Tell me what you see tonight when you look at me now
He can look you in the eyes and say its meant to be
He can hand you luxury but he can't set you free
Because deep inside you know he ain't me.

Do you remember when I sang for you when we first met?
Barefoot summer nights, how the grass was wet
We were young I know, we rose every sunset
Like vampires in the city, starstruck lovers no regrets
When you look in the mirror as the sun slowly falls
And the moon rises high over slow lifting fog
And he enters the room, you hear his voice call
Tell me does it move you any, honey?  Does it thrill you like our song?
He can call you his queen, yea he may rule the sea
But girl you know he ain't your destiny
He's a walking suit and tie.  He's a lie.  And he ain't me.

We both know love.  We both know pain
We know trust too well.  We've taken that train.
Over a river of fire, our eyes scream desire.  And you take me higher.

Well I can't take away all the things that I've done.
And I can't say for sure whether I'm a fortunate son.
But you and I both know that I'm truly the one.
So take my hand, hold it tight; he's got a golden gun, but I won't run.
Words were passed then that I can't take away.
Things left unsaid still that I've got to say.
They may claim I'm a stray, that I've got my own way.
But I move faster than a speed train.  I want you every night and every day.
When you breathe in the night and dance 'neath the trees
And he takes your hand over those fallen autumn leaves
He may claim he's your one and only but he ain't me
He can say he's your one and only but he ain't me
'Cause deep inside you know he ain't me.


He Ain't Me

Music and Lyrics by Ren Michael

Oh tell me, woman, have we met before?
In a dream maybe, strangers on a shore?
Your hands rest, caress your side
Your hair, black as night
You dance like a phantom
And you sway like firelight

Are you a ghost, dear woman, dancing in the dark?
Your voice, soft, so calm, like a meadow lark
A caribbean nymph you are
Arriving from the sea
I die tonight
Every time you look at me

Sway with me baby, tell me what you like
I'll play my guitar, lady, for you
Well through the night
Sing with me woman, won't you ease my worried mind
I feel that rhythm in your heart
The fire in your eyes

I was once a stranger, I'd say 'pay me no mind.'
I used to sail alone, you know, and marvel at the sky
Never thought I'd see the day
Where I'd fall back to the ground
But tonight I swear
I feel my soul falling down

Sway with me baby, tell me what you like
I'll play my guitar, lady, for you
Well through the night
Sing with me woman, won't you ease my worried mind?
I feel that rhythm in your heart
The fire in your eyes

Dark Dancer

Music and Lyrics by Ren Michael

When I see your lover baby
When I see your man
You know I'll never go under honey
Someday you'll understand
That I'm your boy
Not your toy
I walk both day and night
To even the score
More and more
Can't get you out of my mind, girl
I'm your boy

I tie my shoestring laces lady
The ones from the summer pond
You came to me with your graces baby
Tell me whose side you're on
Will you ever leave me?
Stop teasing me?
You smile and you keep me in
You're like a dream
Eternal queen
Can you calm the storm within?
Will you let me in?

Make a claim oh child
While the sun still shines for the day
Make a claim oh girl
You drive a man insane
I'm just a boy who's stuck on you 
And I've walked all these lonesome avenues
I've lied awake too many nights 'neath the light of the moon

I'll hold you close you know
I'll only take care of you
I ain't got much money to blow
But you know my word is true
And girl you know I
I'm your guy
What I got can't be destroyed
And through it all
I'll stand tall
A white knight who'll fight for you
Girl I'm your boy
Not your toy
I walk both day and night
To even the score
More and more
Can't get you out of my mind, girl
I'm your boy

Girl, I'm Your Boy

Music and Lyrics By Ren Michael

Like finding a river after walking through hills of sand,
I saw you girl, reached out to grab your hand.
When you stood surrounded by city shadow, how many knew your name?
You dancing child, city ghost, staring through the dark like a sacred flame?
I'm just a traveller, once saw a land where angels used to reside.
Might have just been a dream, I know, but tonight I see the light in your eyes.

So take my hand, won't you, be my baby?
Let me protect you from the light, you might just save me.
We'll go out tonight 'neath the stars across the desert
Come the rising day all shall know your name now and forever
Sweet Cassandra.

Motorcycle eyes.  Auburn hair.  Skin so white, a neck so bare.
You cold, baby girl?  I'll give you my jacket to wear.
When you ride with me to the cliffs on the sea, and you look me deep inside,
Let me see those secrets that whisper amongst the moonlight tide.
We'll lie here together, each an earth child, with your eyes greater than the sun.
When you're close to me, when I hear you breathe, I could live forever on the run.

So take my hand, won't you, be my baby?
Let me protect you from the light, girl, you might just save me.
We'll go out tonight, 'neath the stars and across the desert
Come the rising day, all shall know your name now and forever
Sweet Cassandra.

Should the time come soon, when across the eastern dune, 
Our night is broken by that screaming streak of blue;
Should the air grow warm and the tide subside, should night ever fade from the sky,
Know, baby girl, I shall remain by your side.
No, things may not last forever.  I cherish your every breath.
A child like you who conquers life, one day bows in the shadow of death.

So embrace the night.  I won't forget you baby.
You were mine tonight, oh honey you just saved me.
We'll go out tonight, ‘neath the stars and across the desert.
Come the rising day, all shall know your name now and forever
Sweet Cassandra.

Cassandra

Music and Lyrics By Ren Michael

I saw you standing there 'fore the mirror
You were putting your lipstick on
Your eyes were somewhere far
On the other side of dawn
This morning I think you know I feel a little restless
When you kiss me tonight, baby kiss me long and hold me tight
And leave me breathless

When we were young,
We fell for one another
And we died in the dawn
As you softly kissed my palm
But now I see you reflection honey, your cold emotionless stone
I awake before the rising sun and I bare witness to the holy ghost
And it leaves me breathless

I give you all I took from you
If you just give me some sign
So give me back my gun and my jewels
And I'll give you back all of your wine
Together we are divine
The fruit of the holy vine

Tonight we have the stars
Says there's gonna be a full moon
Tell me baby what you see
When I'm standing here looking at you
Do you see a thief, or a man? Am I alive or am I heartless?
When we dance in the evening trees, tell me baby, in the shadows do you see
The nights that left us breathless?

Breathless

Music and Lyrics by Ren Michael

Well I can’t sit still
Thinkin’ of you still
Walkin’ way from me
Way up on the hill
And I tried baby
Yea you know I tried.
You sent me a letter
Just the other day
How I done you wrong
I’d never find a way
You could not explain
When you said that I was gone.
So when you come back to this town
When you search around,
When you call for me baby
You know you won’t hear a sound.
Cause I’m gone baby, I’m gone
I’m breaking away searching for my dawn
No I won’t say that I’ve done you any wrong
Baby I’m gone. I’m gone.

Well I wear no disguise
Look into my eyes
You say I should apologize
And you demand your pay
Lay claim to what I owe
Is that some kind of joke?
No honey I’ve paid my dues
With this game I’m through
I’ve walked alone before
Done just fine, thank you
So go ahead flip your hair
I’m sure someone will care
Did you think that when you came back here
That things would be the same
No folks will talk of how I done cleared
And they’ll celebrate my name.
Cause I’m gone baby, I’m gone
I’m breaking away searching for my dawn
No I won’t say that I’ve done you any wrong
Baby I’m gone. I’m gone.

When I was a boy
Fresh out of school
You held out your hand
And gave me all your rules
Now here you stand
Tell me what you think I am.
So go ahead lay down your rose
And wear your best clothes
And keep calm your fire
May you never tire
May you dream baby
Of all your sweet desires
But when you wake up in the morn’
When you look up to the sky
The gods may hear you loud and clear
But you know I won’t be near.
Cause I’m gone baby, I’m gone
I’m breaking away searching for my dawn
No I won’t say that I’ve done you any wrong
Baby I’m gone. I’m gone.

I'm Gone

Music and Lyrics by Ren Michael

Tonight I fly but I'm feeling numb
My eyes are open wide I can hardly see
I wonder why tonight as I walk these streets
Though your miles behind, I feel you loomin' over me

We were kids I know when I saw you last
I knew right then and there I'd never see you again
So tell me how then with every fortune that I come across
Does it so easily slip right through my hands

Oh Sherri you're the evil kind
I heard about you in a dream I had before
How you'd curse young men and poison their feeble minds
The moment they took one step outside your door

I'm just a brown-eyed boy from Louisiana town
Touch was all I wanted, love was all I prized
Though I hope that it's all masked in some strange disguise
Baby you are proof that love has a dark, dark side

Oh Sherri you're the evil kind
I heard about you in a dream I had before
How you'd curse young men and poison their feeble minds
The moment they took one step outside your door

Oh Sherri!

Music and Lyrics by Ren Michael

Nothing satisfies these eyes of mine
As I stare into the night. 
Thoughts fade away and spirits are bent, 
All is bleak and deceit is the night, 
As I search for you 
And all I see is hollow pine 
And I think of you 
Think we'll meet again, somewhere, sometime. 

When we met all was young, soft and bare 
And you struck me like a knife. 
To the heavens we danced, suspended in the air 
Nothing lie in the mist of your eyes. 
Yea I'd searched for you 
Felt like you'd come just in time 
Felt like I'd dreamed of you 
And you smiled wide, closed your eyes 

Like the final descent of the youthful moon, 
We held each other upon white sand. 
Whether all had come too slow, too soon, 
Who knew?  Maybe we were in another land. 
But I can't speak for you. 
In that now, I wonder, was I alone? 
‘Fore the stars, I'd searched for the truth. 
‘Neath the same moon, tonight I roam. 

Every day is beauty and heaven lies in night, 
And no other lovers ever walk by. 
A new mist arrives, the lonesome delight, 
In the twenty-first century sky. 
And I search for you 
Maybe a dream, it was a dream on the fly 
Wonder if I ever held you. 
If I'll have you someday down the line. 

Yea I still search for you 
For when we meet for the very first time 
And I think of you
Think we’ll meet again somewhere, sometime. 


Tonight I Roam

boxcar yards: a man with a guitar
wearing a suit and putting out pictures

he's talking films
from a cafe, secluded

in the shadows
over rainsoaked
streets in Vienna

a violin’s heard up the way
‘cross the river,
black and still
as night reigns
in the early 21st century

a new
_primordial dawn
fast approaching

on the move, songs capture the raw. main influences include cinema, the natural world and many sounds of the city. The songs are never done as each recording is a snapshot of life in constant motion.

for fun he walks (with his dogs) road trips and catches old tv shows, baseball games and comic books. 

POEM pieced together 25 August, 2022_

The idea 
for this SoundCloud 
soundstage is 
that of an open workshop 
where listeners 
will be able to listen 
to sounds 
images 
and concepts 
being worked on (shopped) 
and some of them 
may be finished 
while others may not 
but they are being born 
continuously and 
they can make of it whatever 
they choose, but 
may it haunt their houses pleasantly 
for the idea of creativity 
to me is that nothing 
is ever really done
but only constantly being made  
for the greatest thing about music 
is that it can’t be pinned down and is open 
to greater interpretation than the other forms 
and even lyrics written 
by the greatest lyricist 
can be altered and moved around 
to give it a more varied dynamic 

but anyway in talking about the occasional 
blood on the tracks 
I am getting slightly off track 

so what I really mean to say friends 
and newcomers alike 
is welcome 
we’ve got popcorn 
sandwiches 
beer, red wine 
and ice-cold water 
salud.

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Your friend,
Ren Michael