I have so much of my music to share, with you. I thank you's so much for asking me about it. I can't begin tell you what that means to me.
May as well start with my last song first. Taking On Forever is my all instrumental CD's title track and the only song with vocals & lyrics. The CD took a few years to finish and this song was finally completed once I was able to interact and interject both my feelings about battles with my way too long health issues, and my professional songwriting career. Then combining them into one song, not easy to do. 

By the time I tracked this I had lost my physical ability to play the drums effectively.
So I got some help on this one. It features Jimmy Alveria on drums, Mina Shin on Violin.
And two of my favorite artists and people, Kacey Velazquez 15 at the time and Julia Gargano 13 at the time on backing vocals. Kacey took the ending of this song to another level. 
On this one I did vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered it.

I retired from songwriting for professional purposes upon completion of this album. And I personally passed the torch to my two young VERY talented friends Kacey & Julia whom I co-produce,mentor and both admire and love dearly. 

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did doing it LYRICS are below.
Sincerely
Mike

PS - Was remotely thinking about a comeback what do you's think?

Taking On Forever

Give me a rope I'm sinking
End of the road I'm thinking
I know it sounds absurd
But I can't find the words

I close my eyes one more day maybe tomorrow
Can't wait until tomorrow, it's time 

There's a road but it's to hard
I've lost the will to go
And that road won't come to me
There's a road but it's so long
If you got the wheels to go, 
Maybe you'll chauffeur me

There's a place I've never been
Outside the rules that keep me in
Never knowing all it's worth
It's the wanting that  hurts

What lies ahead moves in a way that I can't follow
No shame or blame to borrow, it's mine

There's a road but it's so hard
I've lost the way to go
And that road won't come to me
There's the road but it's so long
And the winding way it goes
Till somebody they'll know

And it's the road that brings you down
It breaks your heart and leaves you wondering

solo

There's a road but it's so hard
I've lost the way to go
And that road won't come to me
There's a road but it's so long
And the winding way it goes
Till somebody they'll no oh oh!

Mike Caro ©2011


Taking On Forever

This song was written in 2005 for Meatloaf and submitted by a rush deadline. That is why the demo production was geared this way. My feelings were still personal about total loss, divorce and endings & such. Yet they are very universal to make it so everyone could relate.  It is perhaps my personal favorite overall lyric. 
Due to politics and ya know the biz, it never made it on to Meatloaf's album.
A shame because the song was perfect for him. But I do it pretty okay too....

My older songs have now become my own reality, scary thought!

No Good In Goodbye

Tell me straight to my face
Look me right in the eye
You know it sounds a little cliche
To say it's gonna get better with time

When your world is destroyed,can't go on what's the point
Who's the villain,the victim, the fool
It's gonna take more that just time to forget about you
It's gonna take more that just time to forget about you

There's no good in goodbye
No right way to tell someone 
To move on with the rest of there life
Everyday people change
Can't explain it so I won't even try
There's no good in goodbye

Anyone can make a mistake
So many rules that we have to live by
We've only got two choices to make
And I don't wanna break your heart twice

If in a hell bent, heaven sent, desperate attempt
You take me back into your arms
But I can tell by the look in your eyes you were already gone
I can tell by the look in your eyes you were already gone

There's no good in goodbye
No right way to tell someone 
To move on with the rest of there life
Everyday people change
Can't explain it so I won't even try
There's no good in goodbye

Memories are the reason that you
Don't wanna leave, but you feel you have to
It's all swept away in the blink of eye
And no one said it was gonna be easy
Saying sorry has so little meaning now
You're lying awake and wondering why

There's no good in goodbye
No right way to tell someone 
To move on with the rest of there life
Everyday people change
Can't explain it so i won't even try
There's no good in goodbye

Tell me straight to my face
Look me right in the eye

No Good In Goodbye

Last one for now..This demo, was lost due to technical problems and never finished.
It was supposed to have a young kid singer on it to be more band like. Thank goodness I did a decent job on all the vocal in the meanwhile.

This is a definite personal favorite and how I  felt after someone I loved just let me go.  

If a young band was to ever pick it up, I wish the bass player luck cause I knocked this bass line out of the F-ing park LOL



I Don't See It

How am I supposed to learn how to accept
I’m so afraid of things that haven’t happened yet
I wont believe what I can’t see

I don’t see it in a photograph
Can’t picture me under the broken glass
Someday somebody’s gonna take my place
A different face in a heart shaped frame

I don’t see it in a restaurant
You deciding baby on what you want
Well it’s not on any menu
So just order what you’re/you used to

Cause I don’t see it with anybody else
Anybody else…. but me

How am I supposed to learn how to forget (I give up)
I runaway from things that haven’t happened yet

I wont believe what I can’t see

I don’t see it on the holidays
You telling everyone that you’re okay
Can’t keep pretending like I don’t exist
Got everybody but yourself convinced

And I don’t see it in the bedroom
The thought of someone laying next to you
Yeah call me crazy call me insecure
But these are feelings that I can’t ignore

And I don’t see it with anybody else
See it with anybody else but me… but me

(solo)

I wont believe what I can’t see

I don’t see it a photograph
Can’t picture me under the broken glass
Someday somebody’s gonna take my place
A different face in a heart shaped frame

I don’t see it in a restaurant
You deciding baby what you want
Well it’s not on any menu
So just order what you’re used to

I don’t see it on the holidays
Your telling everyone that you’re okay
Can’t keep pretending like I don’t exist
Got everybody but yourself convinced

And I don’t see it in the bedroom
The thought of someone laying next to you
Yeah call me crazy call me insecure
But these are feelings that I can’t ignore

And I don’t see it with anybody else
See it with anybody else but me, but me

©2006 Mike Caro

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