This is one I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. 
I think my first reaction to it was "F***ing Hell !!.."
Mrs Moag said that I could never do it as good as the original...
Anyway, The Irate Pirates were kind enough to play along :))..
More of their Fabulous music and words here :
https://soundcloud.com/gibson-j-4-5/123a

I should have realized you’d be here today 
Pouring on the lie, twinkle in your eye 
Pain follows you around, break another heart 
An idle little game, you’re something else again

Your world is a Hollywood parade 
Your world is a statement to be made 
Your world is a world where loves’ afraid

So sail on through your life, million dollar smile 
Bankrupt little heart, Mensa level smart 
Time doesn’t always heal, you never learned to feel 
Your idea of hurt is creases in your skirt

Your world is a Sunday magazine 
Your world is the sum of all you’ve seen 
Your world is a world without a dream

If I can’t tell you that I love you why do I try? 
If I can’t sell you my dream of Nebraska and all that sky 
Light it up, light up that smile of yours 
Before I disappear into the blue 
And tomorrow you’ll be free

Still you (en)slave me to your kiss 
So give that knife another twist 
Another cold goodbye 
And that twinkle in your eye.

mOag w/the Irate Pirates - twinkle in yOur eye

Witten by Lou Reed in 1968.
There’s some David Bowie in there as well.

White light - White light goin' messin' up my mind
White light - White light really making me go blind
White heat - White heat tickle me way down to my toes
White light - White light gonna kill me goodness knows

White light - White light gonna go straight to my eyes
White light - White light gonna fill me up with surprise
White heat - White heat goin' straight way into my brain
White light - White light messin' drivin’ me insane

Hmm hmm - White light 
Hmm hmm - White light 
Hmm hmm - White heat
Here she comes now
Hmm hmm - White light 

White light - White light goin' messin' up my mind
White light - White light really making me go blind
White heat - White heat goin' straight for my brain
White light - White light really drivin’ me insane

White light - White light make me sound like Lou Reed
White light - White light gonna fill my every need
White heat - White heat gonna fill me up with surprise
White light - White light killing me before your eyes

Hmm hmm - White light 
Hmm hmm - White light 
Hmm hmm - White heat 
Watch that side watch that side
Hmm hmm - White light

Hmm hmm - White light 
Hmm hmm - White light 
Hmm hmm - White heat 
Dead-end street
Hmm hmm - White light

Whie light - White heat
One foxy mama
Dead-end street
Speed freak - watch him go 
and make it every week
Dead-end street
Dead-end street

mOag - white light white heat [the Velvet UndergrOund cOver]

A song about a mate who wore himself out too soon.
Other than being the only "true" punk I've ever known, he was a brilliant writer/melody maker and performer. His friends called him... "Bottom".

The previous "electric" version is here : https://soundcloud.com/man-on-a-grill/the-bottom-line

Was this your final dance ?!!..
Like a fool I did not know
Like a fool I let it go
Now as you turn to leave the floor
sing how you love it when it rocks
and how all you really need
is one more match in the box

Was this our final chance ?!!..
Like a fool I did not know
Like a fool I let it go
Braving those cool December dawns
we dodged the Jackals and the Fuzz
Now to perform the next encore
Just one more itch... one more buzz

Pictures of a conversation
Some of love, some for frustration
Easy come... So easy go
Is this the showdown, the final blow
Music... so to save confusion
it’s rock’n’roll, there’s no illusion
Tell me what is on your mind
Tell me what is the bottom line
Please tell me the bottom line

Like a fool I did not know
Though if I did I let it go
This was the final chance
Well now I am haunted, I agreed 
to watch you burning down the stocks
not thinking that there were indeed
only 9 matches in each box

I have these
pictures of a conversation
Some of love, some for frustration
Easy come... So easy go
Now is this the showdown, your final blow
Music... so to save confusion
it’s rock’n’roll, there’s no illusion
Tell me what is on your mind
Now please tell me the bottom line

mOag - the bOttOm line [chOOchOO mix]

Music & Lyrics by Gelow Foster

I love EVERY Gelow song... this one struck me when I first started surfing the clouds. Surreal lyrics in a cry for nature and an outstanding structure. The BIG challenge was to maintain the energy that he puts into everything he does.
You'll understand ALL if you go here : https://soundcloud.com/gelow-foster
Cheers Sir Gelow for playing the collaborating game with me.
Thanks also to https://soundcloud.com/thomasbrunkard for guiding me through it when I was "slightly" lost :) !

Spiders 
Who cares ? Not them 
Whispers 
Who plays that game ? 

Is that so ? 
Is that so ? 

Who cares ? 
Who dares ?
To overtake rules with funny eels 

Who cares ? 
My friends 
A silly red ant on a table wine
A sparow and owl are in the red 
My optician jokes with funny moles 

Is that so ? 
Is that so ? 

Who cares ? 
Who dares ?
To overtake rules with lazy bees

Who cares ? 
My friends 
My grandfather's swan is a renegade 
He traveled as well on a butterfly
My grandmother, so ? She's a mohican

I ask the poor and the frog on the tree 
and they both answer so ?
We are just dancing with Helen of Troy 
Snobbery ? Is that so ?

Is that so ? 
Is that so ? 

Spiders 
Who cares ? Not them 
Whispers 
Who plays that game ? 

After the snow we read a book 
After the Pole 'bout rock and roll 
I ask the poor and the frog on the tree 
And they both answer so ?
We are just dancing with Helen of Troy 
Snobbery ? Is that so ? 

Is that so ? 
Is that so ? 

mOag w/GelOw fOster - Is that sO ?

Don't blame ME, blame Mrs MOAG.

24000 Baci (Adriano Celentano / Lucio Fulci / Piero Vivarelli - 1961)

Amami
Ti voglio bene 

Con venti quatro mila baci 
oggi saprei perché l'amore 
un ogni tanto mille baci 
mille carezze vuole all'ora

Con venti quatro mila baci
felici corrono le ore
un giorno splendido perché
ogni secondo bacio te

Niente bugie meravigliose 
frasi di amore appassionate 
ma solo baci che do a te 
ye ye ye ye ye ye ye

Con venti quatro mila baci
felici corrono le ore
In questo giorno di follia
ogni minuto è tutto mio

Niente bugie meravigliose
Frasi di amore appassionate
Ma solo baci che do a te 
ye ye ye ye ye ye ye

Con venti quatro mila baci
così frenetico è l'amore
in questo giorno di follia
ogni minuto è tutto mio

Con venti quatro mila baci
felici corrono le ore 
un giorno splendido perché

Con venti quatro mila baci
mi hai portato alla follia 
Con venti quatro mila baci  
ogni minuto è tutto mio 
Con venti quatro mila baci 
ogni secondo bacio te

Mr & Mrs mOag - 24ooo baci [AdrianO CelentanO cOver]

I found this early raw acoustic mix.
The Queen of this show is STILL here : @chris-okunbor
The electric (kinda finished) version is here : https://soundcloud.com/man-on-a-grill/dontpushbabe

chris O & mOag - dOn't push babe [rOOt mix]

... super heroes never die.

"Hang On To Yourself" 
written by David Bowie in 1971

Ooo you’re a tongue-twisting storm 
Come to the show tonight
Praying to the light machine

You want my honey not my money 
You’re a funky-thigh collector
Layin' on electric dreams

Well come on, oh come on 
we've really got a good thing going
Well come on, oh come on
If you think we're gonna make it
You better hang on to yourself

We can't dance, we don't talk much
We just ball and play
But we move like tigers on vaseline

Well the bitter 
comes out better on a stolen guitar
You're the blessed, I’m a Spider from Mars 

So come on, come on 
we've really got a good thing going
Well come on, well come on
If you think we're gonna make it
You better hang on to yourself

Come on - Ah
Come on - Ah
Come on - Ah...

mOag - hang On tO yOurself [David BOwie cOver]

It was great to have a song revisited by ALL SmILes https://soundcloud.com/james-cagle-7. I thought it would be fun to go "full circle" and cover his interpretation of it. This is certainly, at the very least, his song as much as it is mine. 
We both play and sing here :)

I MAY BE SMILING NOW 

Like a thing on a string
lay in bed wait for 
the clock to ring
I may be silent now
I may be silent now
This clock is running late
Miss the bus I have to 
be there by eight      
If only I could think 
like a thing on a string
Now under the tower
Goin’ up I could do 
with a shower
I may smiling now
I may smiling now

Go go go keep up 
that flow oh oh 
Gonna let them know
I can’t do that again
Row row row push for
that doe oh oh
Gonna let them know
that I‘m not one of them
As they think to thrill me 
that is when they kill me most
one day sometime when ?

Switch onto full power 
Wake up you’ll be 
home in fourteen hours
I may smiling now
I may smiling now
The clean machine could break
This job is giving me 
A killing headache
If only I could think 
like a thing on a string
Like a thing on a string
lay in bed wait for 
the clock to ring
I may be silent now
I may be silent now

mOag w/ALL SmiLes - I may be SmiLling nOw

MAKE ME SMILE (Come Up And See Me)
written by Steve Harley in 1975

You've done it all, you've broken every code
And pulled the rebel to the floor
You spoiled the game, no matter what you say
For only metal, what a bore

Blue eyes, blue eyes
How can you tell so many lies ?

Come up and see me, make me smile
Or do what you want, running wild

There's nothing left, all gone and run away
Maybe you'll tarry for a while
It's just a test, a game for us to play
Win or lose, it's hard to smile

Resist, resist
It's from yourself you have to hide, oh

Come up and see me, to make a-me smile, oh
Or do what you want, run on wild

There ain't no more, you've taken everything
From my belief in Mother Earth
Can you ignore my faith in everything ?
'Cause I know what faith is and what it's worth

Away, away
And don't say maybe you'll try, oh oh oh

To come up and see me to make a-me smile
Or do what you want, just run on wild

Come up and see me, make me smile
Or do what you want, running wild

Come up and see me, make me smile
Or do what you want, running wild

mOag - make me smile [Steve Harley & COckney Rebel cOver]

I played a bass part for our cover of Tom Waits' "Bad As Me" but it didn't seem to quite fit. 
Then Mo sent me a present to cheer me up with what I had done.

Maureen da ROsa w/mOag - Bad As MO

[more or less] acoustic 
covers of songs I love
and revisits of songs I made.

Tracks by the acOustic grill