A Mike status update, #1

Well, screw video for now I'll get it to work later. Exciting events in the musical life of Mike? I finally bought an acoustic guitar about a week or so ago, and my gods its as if some floodgate has opened up. I've been writing like mad, touched by the poetic madness of the Runewinner no doubt.

I played on the radio last saturday (Dec. 6th) with varying degrees of success. I had planned on it sooner or later once I had some more solid originals, but Brock and Blake pushed me to do it THAT NIGHT, so we'll see how it went when I get a recording back. This was the set:

Folsom Prison (Cash) & Our Human Material (orig.)
On A Monday (Leadbelly) & An Empty Hall (orig.)
Cold, Cold Heart (Hank I) & Big River (Cash)
Home of the Blues (Cash), Give My Love to Rose (Cash) & Goodnight Irene (Leadbelly)

Yeah, I know, a lot of covers. Suck it, it's all I had at the time. It probably didn't help that I slammed 6 pints of Busch in under an hour, not counting the 3 Rockstars too...heh... Folsom was twice the speed and 5 times the intoxicated, holy shit. Maybe I'll try to post the originals up here somehow, maybe with a Gydget or something.

But for now, here's a song I've yet to demo! (there's just not enough damn time for all these things) It's what this blog was named after, do enjoy.

LATE NIGHT, RED DAWN-M.Magnusson

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As day turns to night

a certain madness we fight

Slip the knives from your pillow

and be gone

--late night, red dawn

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A wasteland of an empty man

whose gaze surveys the sky

He sighs and looks back to realize

that time does fly

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He is chained to the earth

with no measure of worth--

remove the petals from your eyes

and move on

--late night, red dawn

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As night turns to day

and our lives float away

raise your hands to the sky

and retire...

--late night, red dawn

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