Pearl jam

Trying playlist

As far as I know (and I might be wrong) this'll be the end of the Roughs recordings, at least until I start recording on a home multi-track device again like the BOSS Digital 8-track I was using with Roughs 5.  The 'Roughs' end here because now I record with Pro-Tools at home and most of my work has been thrown in to The Doneofits, the band I am currently in with my wife Ashley.  At the time this was recorded, Ash and I were seeing each other but not married yet.  It was recorded on my BOSS in a tiny kitchen that was my 'girlfriend's' at first before we got married almost 2 years later.  Particularly, They Won't Find a Thing didn't go over very well with the neighbors sandwiched in along side our apartment.  I think they thought I was losing my mind.  Enjoy or destroy!  

Roughs #5 - Ashes and Rainbows (2011)

These are some songs I've written and recorded over the last ten years that somehow (sometimes on purpose but mostly by default) fall into the sinful songs category, not in the old Black Sabbath - Satan Worship thing the US government tried to use in the 80's to censor music, but rather an exploration into personal potentials for evil thoughts and acts.  This is how I deal with my own sense of evil: I write a song.    

Songs of Sin and Hellfire

These here songs are songs I shot videos for with two different cameras, both costing less than two full tanks of gas.  (I had to make a point of mentioning high gas prices because I never fill up my car without feeling like I'm losing my ass) (albeit the subject is completely unrelated to this song list) - - - as I go along with making videos for old songs and new, I'll be adding more to this list.  Enjoy or destroy.  ; )  

Trenhailean Songs With Trenhailean Videos

rony em paz

1 Ghosts I

Olha - Chico Buarque e Erasmo Carlos

Marcelo Camelo - Pois e

Gentileza - Gonzaguinha (ao Vivo)

Live Looping Session 
Guitar-Gregory Monoyios
Art -Chrissie Symeou

Gregory Monoyios--The Moonwalker

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)

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

Video: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4dn21nrP54

Lyrics:
It will come
Much like a begotten wounded thumb
Directed point blank 
At the clouds

Mysteries
Non stop and summer breeze
Wind choked heat and I sweat 
Under those clouds

Wondering why
Piece of white fluff floating by
Over rivers and streams 
Into those clouds

Into those clouds

No matter what
Season it is or what
Falls under the mysterious
Winding clouds

We prepare 
For all sorts of hell down here
Twisters and rain and all of those 
God damn clouds

Under those clouds

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Those Clouds (from Roughs #3 - Stitches and Wires)

Holy Train (from Roughs #4 - Happy Paint)

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


Two Dakotas (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)

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)

Pearljam cover (just breath) brad & ben

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

Chico Buarque - Retrato em Branco e Preto

I'm still here - Pearl Jam

A track from Mental 99's self-titled debut album. Features Joe Gore on guitar and Dawn Richardson on drums. Recorded live with no overdubs or prerecorded tracks via live looping.

More info at: 
www.mental99.com
www.joegore.com
www.dawnrichardson.com

Mental 99: "Slow Melt"

Ramon (VederVox) Guitar and Lead Vocal
Charlie Vox Bass and Back Vocal
Elifas in Cajon
Ricardo Batera in Guitar Solos

Only a Joy in a Beauty Friday

Record in a Android Xperia S !

Cover Pearl Jam Acoustic - Jeremy  and Black - 22/03/2013

PearlJam Tribute tracks compilation

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.  : )