Zombie Restaurant

You Can't Get Anything You Want...

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A Million Stars

warm summer night just me and the sky a million stars all in my eye at once and i'm missin' you i looked at all the places you go searching for you even the sky don't know yeah, i'm missin' you (bridge) sky full of stars one of them must be you if you see my heart tell me what i should do (chorus) 'cause right now, in the middle of the night got a crisis of the heart i gotta know, i need some kind of plan to get me back to you somehow, something just went wrong and i let you slip away and right now, amidst a million stars i hope you'll be okay lost summer dreams caught up in a lie a wounded heart how can i make you see? i need you here i've been through hell i made a mistake now i'm asking you can't you feel i'm real by now? and i'm missin' you (back to bridge...then chorus) (2004 db michel)

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The Fiddler On The Hill

I can hear the fiddler playing

high upon the hill

he watches fires burning

and he gets a secret thrill

he’ll keep on playing fiddle

all the lost night long

while the fires just keep on burning

to the fiddler’s song

where used to be a mansion

now stands a pile of ash

all that one was treasured

is now nothing more than trash

still the fiddler keeps on playing

all the lost night long

while the fires just keep on burning

to the fiddler’s song

who’s to bless and who’s to blame

and does it really matter?

To the fiddler on the hill

is he the only sane one

or is he madder than a hatter

the fires keep on burning

and the world just keeps on turning

what used to be a city

is now engulfed in fire

the people tried to fight it

but the flames kept burning higher

still the fiddler kept on playing

all the lost night long

while the fire just keeps on burning

to the fiddler’s song

(2006 db michel)

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Normal People

There's no such thing as "normal" people..."normal" people are just abnormal people with delusions of grandeur... dbm

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Remembering the Fall

remember when you never got the call?

remember all the helplessness?

remembering the fall

someday,

you'll understand it all

you're searching now the way you used to do

running in the darkness

for a feeling that you knew

someday,

you'll see one come through

(chorus)

you can be what you want to be

you can see what you want to see

and if sometime your aim is true

the good you plant will grow back up to you

an old friend looks and sees you walk away

he thinks that he knows you

but he don't know a thing

you know,

just how far you came

after all you take another look

pieces of your life

are like the pages of a book

someday,

they'll read you again

(back to chorus)

(2011 db michel)

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Away, Away

the storm is coming

away, away

the mountains warn us

away, away

the time is over

away, away

it's time for running

away, away

the stars are falling

away, away

no excuses

away, away

the ocean’s boiling

away, away

it's time for ending

away, away

(2005 db michel)

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We need love now...Instead of the senseless hate and bitterness that is ruining our world...It is so easy to do...Just do one good thing right now...and then do another...Then you will truly be on the way.

db michel

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paranoiac demon dances

paranoia scares

paranoia sells

paranoia burns and kills

it will kiss and tell

paranoia do anything

that you need it to

bring the people

to you

paranoia smiles

paranoia frowns

paranoia screams and shouts

it will bring you down

paranoia say anything

that you want it to

bring the people

to you

marching in the angry masses

whipped up in a ragged frenzy

paranoiac demon dances

evil words are necessary

vote for me i'll save our country

vote for him we all will die

vote for fear 'cause fear will save you

forget about the other side

paranoia loves

paranoia hates

paranoia twists the words

burns truth at the stake

paranoia be anything

that you want it to

bring the people

to you

marching in the angry masses

whipped up in a ragged frenzy

paranoiac demon dances

evil words are necessary

vote for me i'll save our country

vote for him we all will die

vote for fear 'cause fear will save you

forget about the other side

(2012 db michel)

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The Final Fly

The days are getting shorter

It’s a bitter dying light

As the final fly of summer

Takes a lonely winter flight

The things that once were lively

Are slowly finding death

The visitors are leaving

On the next train headed west

the coming days loom frigid

For the warmth forsaken soul

The closing theme is playing

In the lonely winter cold

Maybe some fine morning

Spring will come again

Till then darkness rules the winter

Goodbye to you my friend

(2007 db michel)

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A Poet

I once wrote a rhyme for you I meant it with my heart but sometimes when paths cross they are meant to split apart

(chorus) If something ever happens to your love if your love goes away maybe you can fall in love with a poet again someday

I once believed that love was true if I could see it with my eyes but I’ve been wrong enough to see that was a lie

(chorus) If something ever happens to your love if your love goes away maybe you can fall in love again with a poet someday

(bridge sometimes endings last forever and then again they don’t if you ever change your mind you won’t have to change alone

(chorus) If something ever happens to your love if your love goes away maybe you can fall in love again with a poet someday

I once wrote a rhyme for you I meant it with my heart but sometimes when paths cross they are meant to split apart

(2020 db michel)

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This Might Be My Year To Go To Mars

I don’t need a reason like I needed one before the earth I know is tired from far too many wars all the nervous humor is getting tired and old I can see it coming and I don’t have to be told

this might be yes this might be as good a time as there will ever be I’d like to see if I could go that far this might be my year to go to mars

changes blur the seasons from what they were before the places I remember are just pictures on the floor I won’t try to deny it the warm that should be cold I can see it coming and I don’t have to be told

this might be yes this might be as good a time as there will ever be I’d like to see if I could go that far this might be my year to go to mars

they ask me why I say why not there come’s a day to fly away from everything you’ve got

this might be yes this might be as good a time as there will ever be I’d like to see if I could go that far this might be my year to go to mars

(2020 db michel)

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The more you tighten your grip Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. - Princess Leia

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Wisdom is often born from pain...There are lessons that can only be learned in troubled times...Keep your eyes open looking for the light in the darkness.

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The Lies That Make You Die

You can’t believe in what you see misdirection spin leads you where they want you to be

you can’t break free and you won’t try you miss the evidence shining right in front of your eyes

while your busy hearing what you want to hear singing someone else’s tune the lies that make you die are messing up the world for you

while the truth is knocking at your door and you don’t want to know the lies that make you die will go ahead and make it so

they promise more and you get less those with way too much will never have to pass the test

you smile a lot like you don’t care resigned to your fate you’re not going anywhere

while your busy hearing what you want to hear singing someone else’s tune the lies that make you die are messing up the world for you

while the truth is knocking at your door and you don’t want to know the lies that make you die will go ahead and make it so

(2020 db michel)

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This Might Be My Year To Go To Mars

I don’t need a reason

like I needed one before

the earth I know is tired

from far too many wars

all the nervous humor

is getting tired and old

I can see it coming

and I don’t have to be told

this might be

yes this might be

as good a time

as there will ever be

I’d like to see

if I could go that far

this might be my year to go to mars

changes blur the seasons

from what they were before

the places I remember

are just pictures on the floor

I won’t try to deny it

the warm that should be cold

I can see it coming

and I don’t have to be told

this might be

yes this might be

as good a time

as there will ever be

I’d like to see

if I could go that far

this might be my year to go to mars

they ask me why

I say why not

there come’s a day

to fly away

from everything you’ve got

this might be

yes this might be

as good a time

as there will ever be

I’d like to see

if I could go that far

this might be my year to go to mars

(2020 db michel)

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I Know It Doesn’t Matter

guess i'm feelin' older now i done run outta things that i can do that won't get me criticized act your age unlike the way you do i could be like all the rest i could go but i don't know the way i'd be confessin' everything but since i quit drinkin' the words all run away

and i know it doesn't matter to anyone or anything but me that's all you're gonna get tonight so you and i would best just let it be

once upon a time i knew too little 'bout the world to give a damn could be that was my mistake made when i was lost in neverland i could write a boring book no one else but me would ever read i could tell it like it was i start to thinkin' it's not the way it seemed

and i know it doesn't matter to anyone or anything but me that's all your gonna get tonight so you and i would best just let it be

sing a song of sad regret sing it time and time again and that's all you'll ever sing turn it off and turn it on day or night it's never gone there just ain't no relief

and i know it doesn't matter to anyone or anything but me that's all your gonna get tonight so you and i would best just let it be

(2012 db michel)

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It Should Be Easier Than It Is

it should be easier than it is to give up the love i never knew no one but me ever knew that it was never knew that it was so it never came true

sometimes late at night in my dreams you tell me i'm right and then morning sweeps over and i awake all alone like before i do it over and over dreams are sweet till they break me

even though i'm not the only one to find in my dreams what i never knew is there someone like me who knows what it was who knows what it was and why it never came through

sometimes late at night in my dreams you tell me i'm right and then morning sweeps over and i awake all alone like before i do it over and over dreams are sweet till they break me

(2019 db michel)

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The Space

i cannot touch the space between us it is just there and that is all as hard as i try i'll never know why empty space is like a wall

i cannot hear the void that breaks us it's part of the world and it won't bend as hard as i try i'll never know why silent void is like the end (2018 db michel)