Hell Slide (from Roughs #2 - Home Again)

Well I walked outside that old highway sign
The sky burst open purple and red
I swear to God it wasn't in my head

Just then the wind picked up and scrawled
It's evidence in torn up leaves 
About this time to my amazement 
I turned to what had happened

What had been done
What had happened 
Was I the only one

A driver with a face unseen
Had a soothing voice and quiet mean
Let out his hand from a newly upholstered 8 cylinder

Well I scratched my chin, I stroked my jaw
I looked up to the sky with awe
And I laughed and laughed at the dark
Over what had happened

What had been done
What had happened 
Was I the only one

A praying mantis well he does beg
And spits into his wiry claws
His eyes are motionless green and cold

This I thought as I did unlatch
The car door opened and screamed with rust
About this time the wind
Picked uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuppppppppppp

Over what had happened
What had been done
What had happened 
Was I the only one

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What Had Happened - version 2(Roughs #2 - Home Again)

Trail Blazing (from Roughs #2 - Home Again)

Railroad Ties (from Roughs #3 - Stitches and Wires)

Bury This Whole Town - album version (from A Cloud of Ravens)

Video: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TZxJ5oMrTM


Two Dakotas (from A Cloud of Ravens)

Railroad Ties - album version (from A Cloud of Ravens)

Lyrics:
By the pricking of their thumbs
Something wicked their way comes
It has my name, my rain
And thunder

Wolves in packs moving through
A black night blizzard through the trees
Breath in clouds
Stormy red eyes thorny shoulders
And the sleepy town below
Hears me holler

Town to town place to place
A multitude of window frames
Breath in time 
Blood on my hands from under

Biting time my insect will
Faces everyone with nails
Never will that town 
With all its dreams pull me asunder
I am the wave the sudden squall 
The rain and booming thunder.

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Something Wicked (from A Cloud of Ravens)

Ribbons - album version (from A Cloud of Ravens)

Lay Me Down - album version (from A Cloud of Ravens)

Burning - album version (from A Cloud of Ravens)

Video to the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0boS9wJcB0&list=UUboad5fKGW9YYgLvEw-tdqQ

Lyrics:
After throwing all the bodies in a well I had
Come to life like a flurry frozen stream (oh no)
Too fast for the ice to start its freeze
Stood on ground that will someday cover me

Wait to dark that turns into a mist because it
Seems to me that no one ever finds a thing got my
Shovel and my pitchfork with my name etched in (uh huh)
Work up a sweat as the holy church bells ring

They won't find a thing
They won't find a thing 
They won't find a thing

Years of ice age and I'm numb here in my head (oh ho)
Squelched out and padded over like the earth (uh huh)
Mission orange in the tail lights that I dread
Every time I leave this place it's like a birth

They won't find a thing
They won't find a thing
They won't find a thing

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They Won't Find a Thing (from Roughs #5 - Ashes and Rainbows)

Could It Be (from Roughs #5 - Ashes and Rainbows)

Under the Sky (from Roughs #5 - Ashes and Rainbows)

Lyrics:
Come out now the holy shroud
Has fallen to the floor
The sunshine in the west
Has fallen

March that lonesome cavalry
While the loathsome jeer and spit at me
I stand within the pathway
As they pass

Barely a rhyme and no time 
Just calluses on my fingers
Unused neglected older than
The hills

A rip off is that golden day 
When sunlight has no power 
You stand beside a
Prisoner of love

Watch me go away

She was an angel had come to me
When I was drowning in a lake
Of whiskey trash that
Littered up my floor

When it became a funeral dirge 
I was that used up dog of hers
She clawed out my eyes and screamed out
'This means war!'

Well I climb blank up three suns
And thousands of those silver moons 
All screaming out like diamonds 
On the ground

A lone soul it seems I am
And I'm biting at that bit of man
And I pay the price within the walls
Of love

Watch me go away
Watch me go away forever
 


Watch Me Go Away (from Roughs #5 - Ashes and Rainbows)

Recorded in 2013.  This is a sneak preview of a solo album to be released in the summer of this year. 

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqFB-0lZ524

Check out the 'first draft' of this song on youtube:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhU0BhfnWko

Lyrics:
The lights have all gone down
All over the town
I'm lost in the dark
With pieces of leaves
The wind is rumbling 
The leaves are tumbling my song

Slant of the wind chimes
Sparkling dust rhyme
Step on the gas 
Head out into nowhere
No destination according 
      to where I belong 

I stand on those bridges
Surrounded by chain link
I dry heave in alleys like
One of the displaced
Displaced from the plastice
Machine of this town

All the cold barking of 
Dogs in the midnight
Urgency settles into my skin
Don't know why all the church
Bells chime in the fog

Ohhhhhhhhhh (etc.)

Love is a mystery 
That nearly has killed me
It makes all the stars 
Demons in sky 
And what I would give 
To see her smile 
And sway

Life of the short skirt 
Heat up in to her 
Gravity weighs down 
The whole room 
It's not her but I 
Knitting the course of our 
              doom.

I wake in the morning
I tremble by evening 
I must be insane 
I'm hearing voices from heaven
Calling me down here 
On this cold cold earth

The lights have all gone down
All over the town
I'm lost in the dark
With pieces of leaves
The wind is rumbling 
The leaves are tumbling 
My song

Ohhhhhh  (etc.)

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Move

Originally the first track to Incident at the Hatfields - I just found the damn thing after all this time.  Enjoy!  : )

Lyrics:
Watch the cold moon
Spit out its children
Into the dust
Coating the stairwell
Dust under this cold hell

Dust of the cold moon
Dust of the cold moon

Doctor the will
'Till it is drowning
In shallow pools 
Puddles and bullets in spines
Underneath the pines

Cold are the priests
Bent to their alters
Preachin' unheard
Filling the silence with blank
Don't know who to thank

Dust of the cold moon
Dust of the cold moon

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Moondust (from Incident at the Hatfields)

Troll Song in the Morning

I'm Michael Trenhaile, songwriter hailing from Omaha Nebraska, member of The Doneofits.  Reflected on this page are home and studio recordings of my own music for the last ten years, songs that survived extreme life changes and 30 something year old trials and tribulations, short bouts of extreme alcoholism plus living in both inner city and middle class shit holes in both Denver, Colorado and Omaha, Nebraska.  I'm big into lyrics and words so feel free to also check out my Scrawls tab (my poetry and 'rant' blog) just below.  Enjoy tunes and check out The Doneofits on Soundcloud.  Also, everything on this page is downloadable.  Feel free to start your own collection as I will be adding more tunes as time goes on.  : )

Michael Trenhaile

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