Music and Lyrics: Dan Holmberg 1991
Arrangement, recording, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023
Song: Dan Holmberg 2019
Picture: Marie-Louise Berglund ( Facebook: Maja en glad amatörfotograf)

Lonely Heart - New Version 2023

Music: Dan Holmberg 1992
Song: Dan Holmberg 2008
Musical idea, arr. , mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023
Picture: Roses Michael Johansson 2014

Someone Else - New Version 2023

Music and Lyrics: Dan Holmberg 1992.
Song: Dan Holmberg
Arrangement, recordings, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2008, 2019and 2023.

A Simple Man (230131)

Music & Lyrics: Dan Holmberg
Song: Dan Holmberg 2007
Musical idea, arr, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2018

Picture: Beach man (plastic figure for model railways), Faller, Germany

Here I Go Again (230131)

Music: Dan Holmberg 2007
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 1977
Song: Dan Holmberg 2007

Arrangement, mixing & mastering: Michael Johansson 2007-2023

Plastic In Fire (Re-Mastered 230124)

Music: Dan Holmberg 2008
Song and lyrics: Michael Johansson 2009
Production & Arrangement: Michael Johansson 2009, 2019 & 2023

Whirlwind (230713)

Music: Dan Holmberg 2008
Lyrics: MichaelJohansson and Sarah Edwards
Song: Michael Johansson 2019
Arrangement: Michael Johansson 2019
New mix and master 2023
Photo: Michael Johansson - Skarpenberga, Vikbolandet, Sweden

Acre Chaser (230715)

Music: Dan Holmberg
Song: Michael Johansson
Musical idea, arrangement, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023
This song was first jammed out in 1987 when Dan Holmberg and I sat in his flat.

You Know That I Know 230717

Music & Lyrics: Dan Holmberg 1991
Song: Dan Holmberg 2008
Arrangement, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023

Anything But My Love - July 18th 2023

Music: Dan Holmberg 1981
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 1981
Song: Dan Holmberg 2008
Arrangement, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023

Photo: Mari-Louise Maja Berglund
FB: https://www.facebook.com/marilouisemaja.berglund

Butterfly (July 20 2023)

Tom Paxton 1969 and Fred Akerstrom with Swedish lyrics 1972
Song: Michael Johansson
Production: Michael Johansson

I Give You The Morning (cover Tom Paxton 1969, Fred Akerstrom 1972, Swedish lyrics)

Music & Lyrics: Dan Holmberg 1991
Song: Dan Holmberg recorded 2007
Musical idea, arrangement, mix and mastering: 
Michael Johansson 2023.
Photo: Torremolinos, Spain /Michael Johansson 2023
Any Words


First of July, I took a train
Tomorrow Paris and then Spain
On the news they said
It still rains at home

I try to escape down to the sun
Hope you´ll forgive me
For what I have done
I must have lost my mind
For I can´t find

Any words
Words that I can tell you
Got no words
So I can say that I need you

Any words
I love you deep in my heart
Got no words
So I can tell that I love you
Any words

On a card you smile at me
Tears in my eyes, I can´t let it be
I´m really a fool, who never saw
What you meant for me

I sing my songs for every stranger I meet
I sing my songs on every street
It doesn´t matter
There´s no retreat


Any words
Words that I can tell you
Got no words
So I can say that I need you

You cried that morning
When I packed my bags and went away
You begged me to stay
I had nothing to say
Except;  I´ll be back some day

Any words
Words that I can tell you
Got no words
So I can say that I need you

Any words
I love you deep in my heart
Got no words
So I can tell that I love you
Any words



Any words
Words that I can tell you
Got no words
So I can say that I need you

Any words
I love you deep in my heart
Got no words
So I can tell that I love you
Any words

Any Words (July 24th 2023) New Master

Music: Michael Johansson 2023
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 2023
Arrangement, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023
Photo: Michael Johansson 2012 -Dunnottar Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Everything I Need (Celtic Reel - But slow melody)

Music: Dan Holmberg 1991 and Michael Johansson 2002
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 1991
Song: Michael Johansson 2002
Production: Michael Johansson 2002
Picture: Olive Grove

A Spanish Tale (Improved master with de-esser Aug 21st 2023)

River Of The Pearls

We´ve seen each other now
For some weeks, since the time we first met
And woke up our  feelings
We may go further – just to explore
What´s between us
I had my times – when I felt to retreat
As confusion stroke my thoughts
And I nearly gave you up
Emotions told me not to – leave it
You stirred me up

Come down tonight
To the river of the pearls
There´s a place for us – for us
To increase emotions
Come tonight
To the river of the pearls
Come down tonight
Yeah, come tonight

Our dates went on and on
And emotions got deeper
Our connections got stronger
What will love bring us
We don´t know – There are no answers
But I know
That there´s something going on
And there´s much more to discover
On this road we are walking 
What will love make us – baby
Listen to me now

Come down tonight
To the river of the pearls
There´s a place for us – for us
To increase emotions
Come tonight
To the river of the pearls
Come down tonight
Yeah, come tonigh

We´ve reached a new stage now
And we´re thinking about the future
Where will life bring us
Are we together – to spend our days
To share our lifetime
But we know 
It´s hard to be apart
And that it feels really pure
Of our giving and taking
Where will life take us – baby
Listen to me now

Come down tonight
To the river of the pearls
There´s a place for us – for us
To increase emotions
Come tonight
To the river of the pearls
Come down tonight
Yeah, come tonight
Yeah, come tonight

Music: Dan Holmberg 2008
Lyrics: Michael Johansson: 2009
Song: Michael Johansson 2023
Arrangement, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023
Photo: A lake outside Tucums, Latvia (Michael Johansson 2005)

River Of The Pearls (Aug 2nd - New mix n Ac Guit)

Music: Michael Johansson 2003
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 1989 and modified 2023
Song: Michael Johansson (July 31st 2023)
Arrangement, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023

Big Space Of Love (July 31st 2023 with chorus and phaser on some strings)

Normandy

Oh, Normandy
If I wish, then I could see
Your scenery
From the day named D

You, Normandy
When I walk upon your beach
I hope a war
Is out of reach

Yesterday´s calling
Out your name
History told me
You´ll never be the same
Yesterday´s calling
Out your name
Since then, you became one
In the Hall of Fame

Oh, Normandy
You say you´re
Wishing for the peace

Never, ever again
So, nations please

You, Normandy
When I walk upon your beach
I hope a war
Is out of reach

Yesterday´s calling
Out your name
History told me
You´ll never be the same
Yesterday´s calling
Out your name
Since then, you became one
In the Hall of Fame

Yesterday´s calling
Out your name
History told me
You´ll never be the same
Yesterday´s calling
Out your name
Since then, you became one
In the Hall of Fame
Yeah, in the Hall of Fame

Music: Dan Holmberg 2007
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 2023 (in Swedish 1989)
Song: Michael Johansson (Aug 8th 2023)
Arrangement,production, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson (Aug 16th 2023)
Picture: Airborn Museum, Sainte-Mere-Eglise, Normandy, France. South West of Utah Beach.
 (Anders Siljeholm "the motorbiker of Sweden 2023).

Normandy (Aug 16th Improved mix)

WARRIORS
Verse 1

Early in the morning light
The knights are ready for the fight
Hearts are beating
Soon begins the killing

Horses with their frightened eyes
Surrounded by busy flies
Esquirers put saddles on

Chorus

They are warriors, they are knights
Fighting for some king or church
Protected, armed and dubbed
To do the slaughter

Swords and lances held so tight
Blood and death in the name of God
As the battlefield, in fact
Becomes an inferno

SOLO

Verse 2

Rows of knights on top of hill
And the sky is arrow-filled
Defenders are shouting out
Their fear or anger

As the valley meets the sun
The mighty horses starts to run
There´ll be no return

Chorus

Chorus

Music: Dan Holmberg Lyrics: Michael Johansson.
Song: Dan Holmberg
Musical production, mixing and mastering: Michael Johansson (August 12th 2023)
Picture: Constructed by Henrik Johansson (my landlord).

Warriors (August 12th 2023)

LOVE CONQUERS ALL
Some say they love
Some say they don´t
But, now I know - that love conquers all

Some say they will
And some say they won´t
Oh, if thy knew that - real love conquers all

It´s our world - but filled with hate
We will live together in peace
When love conquers all - that´s a belief

Some say they hate
And some believe in faith
But, they will soon know that - LOVE CONQUERS ALL

Music and Song: Dan Holmberg 2009.
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 2009
Arrangement, recordings, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2009 and re-mastered 2019, equalized 2023.
Picture: Stand up for Ucraina (emoji) and Hitler with Putin (***)

Love Conquers All

Music: Dan Holmberg 1982
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 1982
Song: Dan Holmberg 2007
Arrangement, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 230818
Picture: "Seagulls at sunset" Henrik Johansson 230816

Fly High (Dreaming is a human right)

Sophisticated Girl
Candles on a table
In a restaurant
Sitting in front of me
Quite nonchalant
Cigarette smoke 
And glittering eyes
Her behaviour 
Made me realize

That she´s too fine 
For me
Much too fine
So, cool as 
A girl can be
Now I know 
I´m not in love
Not at all
I do not fit
In her glove

Look at her face
But, what is behind
She´s really pretty
What´s on her mind
She went so cool
After awhile
A lot of smoke
Sophisticated smile
That she´s too fine 
For me
Much too fine
So, cool as 
A girl can be
Now I know 
I´m not in love
Not at all
I do not fit
In her glove

She likes  living
Like a movie star
Dying for clothes
And a brand new car
That´s not the things
I´m living for
Not at all
She would try to
Get more and more,
More and more

That she´s too fine 
For me
Much too fine
So, cool as 
A girl can be
Now I know 
I´m not in love
Not at all
I do not fit
In her glove

Solo

That she´s too fine 
For me
Much too fine
So, cool as 
A girl can be
Now I know 
I´m not in love
Not at all
I do not fit
In her glove

Melody: Dan Holmberg 1979
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 1979
Song: Michael Johansson 2023
Musical idea, arrangement, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023

Sophisticated Girl  (October 17th 2023)

WHITE CROSS
Me and my best friends are out tonight
We´ve got to celebrate that we survived
It´s a wonder to be alive
And we´re so greatful now
That we´re back in our hometown

There´s no white cross
Some above – let us go
Too many around us, where taken care of
And gently – swept in a flag

No,
There were no cross
Made of the government for us
So, now we sit here with tankards,
Feeling so good and smokes on a fag

We were soldiers, who fought the war
And now we´re thinking…was it right
Is that the way of making peace
If there´s another way
We will stand – in the front-line

Music: Dan Holmberg 2008
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 2008
Song: Michael Johansson 2023
Musical idea, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023

White Cross (October 20th 2023)

FOLLOW ME
To stay were you belong
Is what you are told
Is that O´key?
I know that you´ve got dreams
But, when you think further
You don´t dare
And as years makes you older
You´ve got
A hundred walls to get over

There´s no mountain high enough to climb
Let us start with the hill on the moore
Oooooh
Oh, come follow me now
Not to hard if you dare
Follow me


When days always get dark

That´s no life
You think everything´s hopeless
And only a wonder
May help you out
But, you´ve got the power
Inside you
I know that you can
Let´s start

Music: Dan Holmberg 2009 and Song October 21st 2023
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 2009
Musical idea, arrangement, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023

Follow Me (October 21st 2023)

Lost in the wind

		She came my way a misty day
		It was a start of something new
		And all my troubles seemed to fade
		And the light lit life again
		When she came my way

		It was the best time of my life
		I didn´t think it was able to hurt me
		How could I be so wrong
		But, now I know for sure
		It´s all too much
		For a man to take

		It was lost in the wind
		Gone by the wind
		This dream I had 
		About a life with her
		And all the things it could bring
		To have her near
		But, now she´s gone
		By a ship,
		It sailed away

and so on...and...
                Gone by the wind...

Music: Dan Holmberg 2007
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 2007
Song: Michael Johansson 2009
Musical idea, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023

Lost In The Wind (October 23rd 2023)

Music & Lyrics: Dan Holmberg 1991
Song: Dan Holmberg 2007
Musical idea, mixing and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023

We Are No Longer Friends (October 25th 2023)

Music: Dan Holmberg 2009
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 2019
Song: Michael Johansson 2019
Musical idea, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023

Misunderstandings (October 28th 2023)

When She Called My Name

It´s been a hard life
For so many years
I fought to hold my head up 
And cried without tears

I never thought that I´d give up
Or drown myself into wine
I just laid my hope to you
But, that secret was   mine

You where my dream 
Every day and night
And held the light 
In the night 
You gave me warmth
When I was cold
Or when I had the needs

When she called my name
For the first time
She was the one 
Who gave me everything

She could hardly know
What she meant to me
She´s the light of the darkest night
From the day when she called my name

Now, it seems so bright
She´d appeared in my life
And, then she just asked 
If she could be my wife

Music: Michael Johansson 2005
Song: Michael Johansson 2023
Musical idea, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023

When She Called My Name (November 1st 2023)

Music: Dan Holmberg
Lyrics: Dan Holmberg
Song: Dan Holmberg 2023
Musical idea, mix and mastering: Michael Johansson 2023

Do You Belong To Me? (November 11th 2023)

Melody, song and chordprogression: Dan Holmberg 2008 
Lyrics, arrangement and production: Michael Johansson 2008
LET IT BE GREEN
I see
Your smile
I feel
That you´re the one for me
It´s sad
That you
Hesitate what you see in me
Now I need
To get a straight answer from you
So tell – me - what you want
Chorus
Let it be green
Let me in to your life for good
It´s fair for us to sort this out
So, we can go were we´d like
Turn off your red light

Let it be green
Let me in to your life for good
It´s fair for us to sort this out
So, we can do what we want
Turn off your red light
Verse 2
You say
You´re not
So sure
That I´m the one for you
You´ve had
A man
You don´t know if it´s over
But, babe
Leave it behind and go with me
It
Won´t  - be bad at all

Chorus

Solo

Chorus
Ending: Turn off your red light now
Digital Dan-a-Mic Orchestra:
Dan Holmberg
Michael Johansson   2008

Let It Be Green

Music: Dan Holmberg 1988
Lyrics: Michael Johansson 1988
Song: Dan Holmberg January 5th 2019
Arrangement, production and mastering: Michael Johansson 2007 and remixed with song recording  2019

Never Let Any Man (To Putin and other idiots)

Melody and Lyrics: Dan Holmberg 1998
Song: Dan Holmberg 2007
Musical idea, arr, mix & mastering: Michael Johansson 2019

Someone For You

Picture: Bronze Age Rock Carvings at "Heaven´s Sacrificing Grove" (Himmelstalund), Norrkoping, Sweden (Michael Johansson 2023). 

Dan and I have been writing songs since 1977. All songs are written the guitar based way with an acoustic guitar, pen and paper, even if the secondary construction is made with digital tools and programmes.  
Now it is the first time that we will get a bit more official. We do not have any particular genre, because we believe that the feel of the melody will lead you to the genre. So after a while you will hear Pop, Rock, Country, Crossover, Symphonic Rock, Ethnic, Ballads and more.
All instruments are digital (mostly VST-instruments). I do not know if that is good or bad, but it is the only way for us to make this happen.
My favourite bands/artists are QUEEN (early albums),Roxy Music, Styx, Barclay James Harvest, Supertramp, David Bowie, Babe Ruth, Pavlov´s Dog. Procol Harum,  Echo and the Bunnymen and Crowded House. Amongst individual artists I love Clifford T. Ward, Rupert Holmes, Al Stewart and Chris De Burgh.
Dan is inpired of Eagles and Pink Floyd and many of the hardrock bands from the seventies.
Music production: Cubase 12 Pro (Steinberg), Waveform 9 (Tracktion), Band-in-a-Box 2023 (PG Music), T-Racks 5 Mastering Suite (IK Multimedia)
Some VST-plugins: Sampletank 3 and Miroslav Philharmonik 2 (IK Multimedia), Real Guitars (Music Labs), Amplitube 3 (IK Multimedia)
 /Michael J

PS! WE HAVE GOT MORE THAN 130 SONGS

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