It's about lost love. When you're really into a girl and it seems she's into you. Only you find out that she's not. When things get real, she leaves real fast.

Runaway

It's a mid tempo rocker with some pop in it. This was written for a friend's wife. My friend wrote the lyrics and I wrote the music, melody and sang it.
My friend Mark wanted to give his wife a song for their anniversary. He had a poem he had written to her and from that I wrote the music and melody. One of the coolest projects I've been involved with. This proves the power of music.

Shelter

This is an angry breakup / cry in your beer song. I wrote the song after my ex broke up with me. She did a number on me. The good is this song came out as a result. Good Rock therapy.

Softer Side

04 - Nothin Left To Feel

This song is about loving someone when you're not sure if they or in my case she will love you back.

Stranded

Merlo is a singer/ songwriter from Atlanta Ga whose main instruments are piano + voice. He is a strong tenor vocalist with a penchant for writing pop/ rock songs with many different flavors from classical, to classic rock to jazz leanings. He has been writing, performing and producing music for over 20 years with 4 songs in 3 different independent movies. His debut album was a solo effort entitled "Songs From The Ground Up." His next album was a collaboration with good friend and local Atlanta musician, singer / songwriter Byro. The two collaborated to form FUSE and released a full length album entitled "Connection" in 2016. That album featured many diverse songs including "Fall Apart" which appeared the movie Sustained which is now available on Amazon Prime. Merlo is currently working on new solo material and his first single is Runaway which is on this page. He has more songs in the works and a new album on the way.