1. |
It Just Gets Worse
03:57
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It Just Gets Worse
Keep your head down low
Watch your little phone glow
Afraid to look up
See someone you know
Are your memories
empty worlds?
Watch in disbelief, because
It just gets worse
Lie awake
In a terror state
A destined fate.
Night comes soon
For a fool, you see
What's killing you
Is killing me too
It can never be
A fair race
Chart your course
To a better place
Plastic sea
Of knockoff fakes
Acting tough
Is all it takes
You wait and wait
And the bubble bursts
And it just got worse
Night comes soon
For a fool like me
If you believe
In anything, anything
In an empty world
You're only free
To celebrate
Your misery
Lie awake
In a terror state
Of knockoff fakes
That's all it takes
You wait and wait
And the bubble bursts
And it Just Got Worse
The money curse!
Night comes soon
for a fool like me
If you believe
In anything, anything!
Path Of Desire
© Michael D'Amico SOCAN
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2. |
Lift Me Up
04:11
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Lift Me Up
I'm here when you call me call me I'm at home
I'm here while you watch me watch me like a sleeping stone
I'm just a camera waiting for the right light
taking a long look through the weary lens of daylight
Here when you saw me last I don't go out much any more
turning my hour glass over on the living room floor
- and again once more
I'm just a calendar passing through another day
- you'll see
just a tinkerer, a thinkerer
and apparently
Some day we're gonna die
Some day you'll wake
and won't have an alibi
Still, oh, we're gonna try,
but someday you'll wake
with a permanent smile
And I'm a songwriter
Floating on an endless sea
Lines from my left to right
Overhead and beneath my feet
Lift me up on this bed of words
This knowledge curse
Poetaster verse
Lift me up on this bed of words
I'm just a camera waiting for the right light
taking a long look
Through the weary lens
of daylight
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3. |
Follow Your Nose
03:28
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Follow Your Nose (© Michael D’Amico)
All the years
All the shit that goes down
And we're here
Squatting on sacred ground
When you follow your nose
And no one knows where to go
I'll follow you there, away
Away from sorrow
Real life will never do
Oh, they'll have a good time with you
They say all we need is a bigger gun
All we need is the power to reach the sun
And one voice is strong
Are we less or more?
Does the truth sound right?
Or is your money belt too tight?
When you follow your nose
Noone knows where to go
I'll follow you there (away)
Away from sorrow
(Soluble Songs publishing SOCAN)
Recorded in Toronto, Canada fall 2020
We acknowledge the land we live and meet on is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.
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4. |
Save Yourself
03:32
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Save Yourself
looking out
lost within
I dream to start over again
this world I don't really know
where innocence has come and gone
sipping the caffine
takin the medicine
drinkin the koolaid
on this last leg home
doing fine in recovery
still have a pulse
and you're on your way
to save yourself
hands apart always
waiting for a better run of luck
and arm your defenses (no not again)
while we wait we're truly stuck
gather the evidence
even minute crumbs
come to your senses
or we have none
chorus
don't sell your sweet heart
for your own sake
one hand on the mouse
lost in someone else's wake
save yourself
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Went to a rally where Nobody got hurt
Where Nobody's face was smashed into the dirt
I marched in a rally upset by the cost
of fake lakes and wars that end in tragic loss
I marched in a rally without any money and
they've spent millions on another G20
I went to express my plight:
"Feed those who need!", to protest is my right!
I went to a rally
I went to a rally where Nobody got blamed
Where Nobody was beaten and hundreds were detained
I witnessed police block the marcher's path
with shields and batons, a big fence and riot masks
I witnessed a call for aboriginal rights
A seat at the table? Instead we got a bloody fight!
I went to a rally prepared to stand my ground
Use my voice, shout MY government down
I went to a rally where Nobody got hurt
Where Nobody's face was smashed into the dirt
It's a time when bullies rule the world
It's a time when bullies rule the world
I'm Nobody's fool, Nobody's fool
I went to a rally where Nobody got hurt
where Nobody's face was smashed into the dirt
Shame, shame!
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6. |
My Routine
03:59
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My Routine
It's minus 24 degrees
They're still digging up my street
I'm not going anywhere
Not going out there
All night party creeps wont let me sleep
Broken water main still leaks
Not going down these stairs
Not going anywhere
Oh, I'm in soo deep,
As they tunnel below my feet
Yeah I'm in so deep, it's my routine!
my routine
I try not to shout when I speak
The best news is kinda' weak
My world is incomplete
Had enough of the backwards beep
Oh I'm in soo deep
There's trouble below my street
distress is a point of view
I'm destined for more abuse
It's my routine,
My routine
Path of Desire
Michael D'Amico Jan 17/14
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7. |
Press Play
01:20
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8. |
This Road of Pain
03:25
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This Road of Pain © Michael D’Amico, Feb. 2020
Tell me you're an ocean
Tell me something new
Everything you long for
Not every song is blue
Are your eyes wide open?
If you only knew
Of my sweet devotion
Destined to be true
Standing in still water
Wading into night
Before the tide moves quickly
And swallows up my light
Everything you long for
'Ain't always ready for you
Often ever slowly
An idea will slip through
Along the road of pain
Where we've already been
My love lies along
This road we're on
This road of pain
Tell me one secret,
I don't already know
The Future fades into,
A dog and pony show,
And the rain keeps on coming
Relentlessly slow
What keeps me from drowning
Is this creative flow
This road of pain we're on,
Somehow it feels the same
Where we've already been,
Along this road again
This road of pain
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9. |
Imagination Song
03:45
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Imagination Song
How can I find you?
Where have you gone?
To my dear memory
My imagination song
How can I find you?
Where have you gone?
There to remind me
Determined and strong
Have you flourished?
Have you changed?
Have you progeny?
To ease your way
And will I find you,
Determined and strong?
Have the years been kind too,
And helped you along?
And when I find you
Where you belong
To my dear memory
My imagination song
Until we sleep
Until we eat
Until we meet
Until
How can i find you?
Where have you gone?
There to remind me
Determined and strong
Path of Desire
2020, SOCAN
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10. |
Please Yourself
03:06
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Please Yourself
Take another look around you
Take another photograph too
take another when you run
to the country where you run
when you don't leave anybody
you don't bleed anybody dry
you don't need any money
you don't freeze and it's sunny
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Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell (crazy crow music © 1967)
Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I’ve looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I’ve looked at love that way
But now its just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away
I’ve looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It’s love’s illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all
Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say “I love you” right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I’ve looked at life that way
But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I’ve changed
Well something’s lost, but something’s gained
In living every day
I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
Its life’s illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all
I’ve looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s life’s illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all
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12. |
Requiem For The Planet
01:27
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Path of Desire Toronto, Ontario
Originally from St. Catharines Ontario, Canada (also home to polka King Walter Ostanek, the late great Neil Peart, swoony voiced songwriter Dallas Green and long- distance runner/poet Mohammed Ahmed to name a few names,), and based in Toronto where he is riding out pandemics, calamities and sunsets. ... more
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