1. |
Love Said To Me
02:55
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LOVE SAID TO ME
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
Love said to me that our love was a lame miscalculation
And that's what it said to me
And that's bad information 'cause you know what you meant to me
Love said to me that our love was a swamp of aggravation
That's what is drowning me
I'm down by suffocation 'cause you know how you smother me
Love said to me that our love was a no-end hallucination
That's what you dropped on me
Your flashback infestation makes me cry out in misery
Love said to me that our love was a picture of black damnation
That's what it showed to me
Like a Goya illustration his "Dream Of Reason" mirrors me
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2. |
Reasons
03:30
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REASONS
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
I've got reasons, you've got reasons too?
I've got reasons, you've got reasons too?
Here it comes again
I've got reasons, what's your reasons too?
I've got reasons, what's your reasons too?
Here we go again
Here it comes
Shout it out
Yes, indeed
Scream and shout
Turn around
Here it comes
You and me, reasons
Disagreeing
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3. |
Apology
03:03
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APOLOGY
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
Here, I feel for you
I have gone too far
I'm hoping you can look to me
I give to you apologies
So, I broke your world
You broke my will
What's done is done
Who's to blame?
Love is war on your back door
What you've waited for
I've been thinking hard
Repeat my words alone for you
I'm selling out a stubborn boy who never gives apology
Who's to blame?
Love is war on your back door
What you've waited for
All dreams can't come true
Your perfect world is just a lie
I showed you how to break it down before you
I apologize
Gee
Apology
Apologize
Apology
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4. |
Steeplechase
01:51
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STEEPLECHASE
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
Many times our lives ride raging tides
We can't decide if we are the lonely people on a climbing endless steeplechase
Through it all we try to hide our feelings standing tall
But the most reclusive people climb a crying endless steeplechase
I know you know that I'm not the common man that you have come to know
Am I alone?
Do you hide behind a wall of secrets all your own?
What is pain and why does everybody know its name?
Clasping hands with one another trying to escape the steeplechase
Will it end when mankind pushes itself 'round the bend?
Or will ashes upon ashes swell upon the endless steeplechase?
I know you know that I'm not the common man that you have come to know
Am I alone?
Do you hide behind a wall of secrets all your own?
Many times our lives ride raging tides
We can't decide if we are the lonely people on a climbing endless steeplechase
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5. |
Night Writer
03:07
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NIGHT WRITER
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
I'm a night writer
You can be one too
I've got a plan that works for me
It's without company
I type it down, I tear it up
I have another coffee and I'm never giving up
I'm a night writer
You can be one too
I've got a girl
She's nice to me but I can't tell her things
So I compose so thoughtfully
A page of rhythmed stanzas of love philosophy
I'm a night writer
You can be one too
I hear some words come to my head
My pencil's full of lead
I sign them in a pocket book and bind them with a promise
If you want then have a look
I'm a night writer
You can be one too
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6. |
Down
02:53
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DOWN
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
I tried to sleep you were a dream
I couldn't sleep, it brought me down
You called me up to say hello - to cheer me up
It brought me down
Down on the dump again
Don't mean maybe
Lower than low again
'Cause my baby said that she loves me
But she won't stay with me
Down on the dump again
I am down
I heard a song on radio it sounds like you
It brought me down
I open books and find love words
You wrote to me it brings me down
I pray on my knees
Down
I am down
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7. |
Look
02:41
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LOOK
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
Look
Windsor's selling today
I wrote it down anyway
And it must be going 'round 'cause all my friends went underground
Look at them scurry away
Look
Was it always this way?
I was impressed that he came
And you must have heard the news - I fancy wearing Dylan's shoes
Look at them shuffle away
Try to understand
Elementary working girls get out of hand
Please don't get me wrong
Secondary Modern is a sing-along
Look (Look what you have done)
Early voices arrive (Look what you have done)
She had no one to decide
And it must be sleepy time
Remember that one word of mine
Look
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8. |
Circle Of Fools
03:28
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CIRCLE OF FOOLS
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
Look around now watch your back
You may be under attack
You think you've got it made
You think you save the day, but you don't
No, you don't
You talk a pretty game
You think that we're all the same, but I don't
No, I don't
Don't get caught in a circle of fools
(Like you, just like you)
You want me down for the count
You think you can put me out, but you don't
No you don't
You think the world around you revolves when you want it to
But it don't
And it won't
Don't get caught in a circle of fools
(Like you, just like you)
You possess a bleeding soul
Sold half and ran with the gold
That I know, yes I know
You always get what you want
One day your conscience will rot
Don't I hope?
Oh, I hope
Don't get caught in a circle of fools
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9. |
Always You And Me
03:32
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ALWAYS YOU AND ME
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
It's a pity what they told me
All I know it's the same old story
And I am so worn and jaded like our love that's grown outdated
I can see just where you're going
You will end up feeling lonely
You want freedom, you can have it
Who am I to try and stop you?
It's just the kind of world that breaks you down
The love-lost jagged edge that cuts you down
The ever-present fear of all alone
It was always you and me
It's just the kind of world that breaks you down
The love-lost jagged edge that cuts you down
The ever-present fear of all alone
It was always you and me
It's a pity what they told me
All I know it's the same old story
And I am so worn and jaded like our love that's grown outdated
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10. |
Better Start Right Now
03:04
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BETTER START RIGHT NOW
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
Better start right now feeling sorry for the one you love
Better start right now feeling sorry for the one you love
Look at you
Why are you sentenced to one like me?
I can't tell if you're true
Does this mean love for free?
Better start right now feeling sorry for the one you love
Better start right now feeling sorry for the one you love
Well okay, I'll concede
Let's pretend you are me
Wouldn't you look at you?
Wonder why this won't die?
Nothing new, a lesser you
That's what this has reduced you to with me
Maybe soon the day will come when you'll stand up
Remember when there was no me
There was no me
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11. |
Monday Morning
02:47
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Monday Morning
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
Did I christen fascination into swinging operation being someone?
Should I offer explanation without floral animation selling someone?
Have you read the lectionary?
You are in there too
Sunning in the cemetery
I will follow you
Should I forge initiation without proper invitation finding someone?
Will I twist this aberration to the wind?
Imagination colors someone
Have you read the lectionary?
You are in there too
Sunning in the cemetery
I will follow you
I'll follow you
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12. |
Praises
03:13
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PRAISES
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
I have praises, preaching praises
Stealing phases - going down
Is my lover just a lover or another going down?
I've been thinking, hardly thinking
Am I sinking? Going down?
When I'm falling, falling, falling
You I'm calling going down
For this marvelous adventure
To this day on which I fail
I have ruined every pleasure
That's a measure of the sins I trail
I am guessing, second guessing
That your blessing's going down
I am human, sadly human
There's no room in going down
Going down
For this marvelous adventure
To this day in which I fail
I have ruined every pleasure
That's a measure of the sins I trail
I have praises, preaching praises
Stealing phases - going down
Is my lover just a lover or another going down?
Going down
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13. |
Music Sound Sensation
03:26
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MUSIC SOUND SENSATION
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
Remember when we walked The Village?
Disappearing in "The Pig"
I ordered something, cider on a tray
All the people sure looked different in their ghostly iridescence
It was thirty years ago today
Don't give up
It will never be the same
It will always be the same
Taxing by the tabled books and students wearing flannel swatches
Working workers gave us certain looks
In the breezes it got colder and the time a little older
Crystals made for songs along the way
Sullivan or Thompson
Oh, I don't remember where we stopped
And Christopher where boys held boys, hoo-ray
Oh you are my raving friend
Never forget the time we spend
Is here and now and maybe yesterday
Don't give up
It will never be the same
It will always be the same
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14. |
Waiting
03:31
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Waiting
(Words and music by Michael Mazzarella)
Send a line
I can't judge anymore
Where is mine?
All the time I have lost
And you dilate my eyes
In my tendency to paralyze
Every vine that is strung from your door
I decline to step back like before
And you dilate my eyes
I am waiting for you to arrive
Must you go?
May I flirt with your smile?
Oh, I wrote a short poem for you while you were kindling your eyes
In my search for words I realized
Don't be long
Or the madman remains
If you go he will sleep at your gate in a vigil for your eyes
And the only sight I memorize
I am waiting
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15. |
Glitter Best
03:30
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GLITTER BEST
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
Salute to you lucky number
I am bound to fall under
Haunt my mind
Are you listening?
Gaze the moon
It's unending
Glitter best
And you do like a diamond fire
Hail the wind - promise nothing
Turn your eyes - I am roving
Wonder what you will
Where have you been?
In my drinking, you woke in my dream
Know your way in the clearing
Feast the rain - I am nearing
Mingle long
Are you weeping?
Are you strong?
You are shining
Glitter best
And you do like a diamond fire
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16. |
In A Pinwheel Spin
02:53
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IN A PINWHEEL SPIN
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
In a pinwheel spin depending where in the wind you are standing
You can rise or fall or feel nothing at all without landing
In a pinwheel spin, you can survive
In the sadness I drew, after all
It revolved around you, after all
In the sadness I knew, after all
It remained around you, after all
In a pinwheel spin depending where in the wind you are standing
You can rise or fall or feel nothing at all without landing
In a pinwheel spin, you can survive
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17. |
Colors
04:06
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Colors
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
I said green on my mind and I find every time that I'd rather without it
I went blue to my soul even though when alone I'm at odds with religion
And, I won't ever leave it
And, I won't ever have it
No, I won't ever prosper
I cried yellow inside
I can't hide the denied ever pleading forever
I wrote pink for awhile in a style selling Weill every note of contention
And, I won't ever leave it
And, I won't ever have it
No, I won't ever prosper
I said green on my mind and I find every time that I'd rather without it
I went blue to my soul even though when alone I'm at odds with religion
Colors are raining into turpentine
Colors are raining
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18. |
It's A Crying Shame
03:41
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It's A Crying Shame
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
Everyday it's something new
Fairy tales of me and you
They think that they have it straight
But we know it's second rate
It's a crying shame
They can hide their little notes
(And it's never fun)
And laugh at their inside jokes
(I hear everyone)
We'll just turn the other way
(Laugh while they still can)
Never care what people say
It's a crying shame
It's always been the same
I always hear my name
It sometimes gets to me
What do they want from me?
So I just walk away
Hoping they'll go away
I'd like to speak my mind, but then I don't
It has never been much fun
(I don't want to know)
Standing out from everyone
(So I'd better go)
Always check to find a stare
(Laugh while they still can)
And they come from everywhere
It's a crying shame
Sometimes I won't go out from fear I'll hear them shout
When whispers turn to screams, that's when it starts again
The paranoia game of being on display
I wish I could attack but I'm alone
I suppose the scene would change if I were a famous name
Then they would accept the look and have me sign their memory books
It's a crying shame
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19. |
House Of Fortune
03:55
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House Of Fortune
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
The full moon appeared and spread
I don't think twice
The hands of the clock went dead
I don't think twice
The poet wrote something wrong
I don't think twice
My sleeping went on too long
I don't think twice
In the market where they stare under porch and over there
And as fragrant as the jasmine can be
Offered in the public path in the noisy aftermath
Lips were quivering and penetrating me
This temple is overdone
I don't think twice
This circus has lost its fun
I don't think twice
All good things will come and fall
I don't think twice
I'm leaving here after all
I don't think twice
This temple is overdone
So don't think twice
This circus has lost its fun
So don't think twice
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20. |
War
03:04
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WAR
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
We fought a war
The way they fought the war at Valley Forge
It crippled and it maimed, we asked for more
We had no bayonets but words that tore the flesh around the heart completely
We crossed our swords, comparing wins and losses
The scoreboard was bloody from the night before the war
While tolling death-bell warnings soiled the floor with personal attacks exploding
Of mice and men, of love and hate and war and peace
The end is simply a white flag away
We knew no victory could be achieved but through the torture of each other we died
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21. |
Friends Of Mine
03:22
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FRIENDS OF MINE
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
Evangelia she's mine forever, hope she feels the same
And Loretta, she's feeling better, must be what she ate
I hide behind my eyes
I don't know, there you go
Who are these friends of mine?
I don't know
Kristin's reeling, she's so appealing to all the young boys
Nancy's busy everyone's dizzy - Friday is the scene
I hide behind my eyes
I don't know, there you go
Who are these friends of mine?
I don't know
Jackie's calling with a reminder of the sixth of May
And Mariah, I'd like to hire her for fun and games
Debby's reading the deck of reason with Alice In Wonderland
Carla's praying her session wages pull her through the week
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22. |
Christmas
02:42
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Christmas
(Words & music by Michael Mazzarella)
Hey oh, Christmas is here
Ain't been around since this time late last year
I get carried away dropping some change in the drunkard's beret
And it's always the same
Will he remember my name when Christmas time is here?
Hey oh, Christmas is here
What do we do with the homeless this year?
Some say don't look at me
Can't shut your eyes 'cause it won't go away
But it's always the same
Will we remember their names when Christmas time is here?
Merry Merry Christmas
Merry Merry Christmas
Hang on, promise is here
We've made a few so let's keep one this year
Don't get taken away
Give us a wink on this new Christmas day
Then it won't be the same
'Cause I'll remember your name when Christmas time is here
When Christmas time is here
When Christmas time is here
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Michael Mazzarella New York, New York
Songwriter.
Solo artist. Formerly of The Rooks, The Broken Hearts, & Sonic Blue Sound Revue.
Albums here on Bandcamp & 5-CD Songwriter set on Kool Kat Musik.
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