A Cloud of Ravens is an important transitional album for me.  It's the last recordings I would do with Nick Ryan in Denver Colorado (we may work together again but we hardly ever hear from each other due to life circumstances) and as it was, Ravens was recorded in Denver but I was in Omaha and had to drive back and forth - - actually a pleasant task, especially when I took my son Max with me the last time early summer, saw old Denver friends and well, for lack of a better term, said 'goodbye' to Denver and 13 years of my musical and personal life.  A Cloud of Ravens is mostly comprised of 'album versions' of home recorded stuff.  

A Cloud of Ravens (2010)

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)

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWLWAZA6q6E

Lyrics:
When you've got it down
You pass in to the rain
Mist growing morning fogs
Breathing out again

Passed by all those doorways
Faces poking through
Each dusty window
The street in silence grew

Dust under those fingernails
Boots are worn through
Each step that we take
A distant rider follows through

Thunder comes
Thunder comes
In the long swift sun

Thunder and lightening pass
Like old time friends
Each lit up diner full
Passes in the end

Silence of the whispering field
Waves to me now and then
Each dusty window
Is breathing out again

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Long Swift Sun - 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)

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.  : )