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crooked

by Jaime Michaels

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maybe superman (jaime michaels & bruce donnola) i don't want to bend iron in two i don't need to be no superman i only want to be there with you trying to be the very best me i can i'm trying to be the very best me i can i don't want to set the world on fire i just need a little candlelight if i could have my one desire i'd be lying in your arm tonight just you and me in the candlelight i think too much i think you probably know i think i might not think if i could just let go of anything there's no bluebirds on my window sill i'm not inclined to be a happy guy come on darlin', givve me one last thrill before i jump off this ledge and die or maybe superman can learn to fly i wonder why we exist i wonder why the wind blows free i wonder who else you kissed ah, the beauty of mystery and what's a life without mystery? i think too much i think you know i think i might not think if i let go i don't want to bend iron in two i don't need to be no superman i only want to be there with you trying to be the very best me i can i don't want to set the world on fire i just need a little candlelight if i could have my one desire i'd be lying in your arm tonight just you and me in the candlelight maybe superman in your arms tonight © 2008 blue mole music/BMI & bruce donnola/BMI
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a momentary thing (jaime michaels & bruce donnola) i am the kid whose daddy drove the car with the holes in the floor so you had to drive around with the windows down even in the dead of winter and i am the kid whose mom yelled out the window at the top of her lungs "i can't live like this" but she lived like this pretty much forever i can not make that better i taught myself to sing i harbor no resentment that was a momentary thing i am the kid in the straight A's tie both hands on the wheel and starting to feel like it's time to move i've got breakout fever so i pull my left hand off the wheel stick it out the window point it west a sharp left turn i'm gone forever i can not make that better i taught myself to sing i harbor no resentment that was a momentary thing i figured anywhere where the deal was fair and far from that place that's the place for me long as i wind up winding up in some anywhere where i did not used to be i am the boy who married the girl with the full moon eyes and the wounded smile that could make you laugh despite the danger now we are the wones who laugh too much and we drink to much and we fight too much and when life gets strange we just get stranger and you can not make that better but you can teach yourself to sing harbor no resentment, kid that's just a momentary thing © 2009 blue mole music/BMI & bruce donnola/BMI
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crooked 04:27
crooked (jaime michaels) wouldn't it knock you on your ear? wouldn't it take you by surprise if suddenly everyone you knew turned up in a perfect new disguise? you wouldn't know your closest friend she couldn't see the friend she knew you'd have to listen for her laugh she'd have to laugh until you do wouldn't that knock you on your ear? wouldn't that knock you on your ear? do you believe in perfect days? or do you need something to go wrong? is there always that moment when you slip? does your moment of doubt last way too long? wouldn't you love to take your time and live with it anyway you please? spend a night howling at the moon spend a day drifting on a breeze wouldn't that knock you on your ear? (4 X's) sometimes i only want to listen i only want to listen to what the universe i saying the universe is saying doesn't it knock you on your ear? doesn't it spin your head around you hear the knowing in your voice you hear the wisdom in the sound but when you turn around to tell you can't remember why you turned so you just give the world a smile and hope there's a little less to learn doesn't that knock you on your ear? doesn't that knock you on your ear? wouldn't that knock you on your ear? wouldn't that knock you on your ear? © 2008 blue mole music/BMI
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minnesota 04:15
minnesota (chad elliott) way up in minnesota where the stars are frozen bright way up in minnesota where the stars are frozen bright i sing myself a love song cuz my love can't hear me tonight and i know i could have loved her forever and a day i know i could have loved her forever and a day she would have loved me in return if i hadn't lost my way there's something in the woods scared the daylights out of me there's something in the woods scared the daylights out of me i dropped my lantern when i ran away and now i cannot see lord, the wind she's howling across the prairie lands lord, the wind she's howling across the prairie lands and i'm still searching for that ribbon that the wind has taken out of my hands we spoke to one another each in our own dreams we spoke to one another each in our own dreams but now i can't fall back asleep i'm wide awake wondering what it means way up in minnesota way up in minnesote i sing myself a love song ©2009 chad elliott music/ASCAP
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one spectacular moon jaime michaels & jeff talmadge) that's one spectacular moon and that's one hell of a star it must be the way that girl looks in the light stops you right where you are that's one spectacular moon and that was one hell of a kiss a once in a lifetime right out of the blue left you silent like this you can't catch your breath she stole it away you know it ain't coming back soon all those words in your head and you've got nothing to say but that's one spectacular moon that's one incredible wish you thought could never come true a roll of the dice meant for somebody else never for you you can't catch your breath she stole it away you know it ain't coming back soon all those words in your head and you've got nothing to say but that's one spectacular moon this is one incredible time words are lost in the air there's no way to say what you feel there's nothing there but one spectacular moon © 2009 blue mole music/BMI & tot ziens music/BMI
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shine 05:10
shine (amilia k spicer) interstate ten can make you believe you're leaving behind all the things you don't need half blown out tires sacrificed in the heat you say "that...will never...happen to me" close to el paso the sky split in half the storm on the right the sun on the left and i laughed cuz i knew what both sides meant it's all right...it's all right...it's all right shine won't you shine won't you shine a little while you ask me if i want you still still as in quiet or as in until or as in maybe someday i will when the fireflies light up the night cuz i think it's time to love like you mean it to just decide fear will not steal it from your lips to god's ears who finally hears it and says "it's all right...it's all right...it's all right" shine won't you shine won't you shine a little while and the truth of it is i want to fit in all of these rhymes but the hardest part of a broken heart is waiting sometimes to shine won't you shine won't you shine a little while © 2009 Walk To Your Own Music/ASCAP
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anything at all (jaime michaels) if it means anything at all it will mean everything and more you will hold it in your hand til it wants you to let go and you might never see it coming in the calm before the fall it will take everything you've got if it means anything at all if it means anything at all you may not fall so easily there might be walls around the walls around all that ancient history every whisper you remember every teardrop you recall it will take everything you've got if it means anything at all pick a moment to remember drink in the wonder of it all hold it closer than your heartbeat if it means anything at all if it means anything to you that would mean everything to me cuz i'd rather be a man that cares than the richest man in history some days you're reaching for the sun some times it's hard to care at all it will take everything you've got if it means anything at all if it means anything at all if it means anything if it means anything at all it will mean everything © 2003 blue mole music/BMI
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i wonder where you are tonight i wonder if you're driving on a winding concrete river on a raft of glass and steel darkness interrupted by a lonely bright oasis a full tank and some coffee and you're back behind the wheel long is the road that lies between us many are the days that you've been gone may the angel on your shoulder guide you safely through the night and may the concrete river bring you home may the concrete river bring you home i wonder where yu are tonight i wonder if you're sleeping and what melodies and visions glide across your silver screen maybe curled up in the back seat a few short hours til morning parked there at a rest stop on the interstate of dreams long is the road that lies between us many are the days that you've been gone may the angel on your shoulder guide you safely through the night and may the concrete river bring you home may the concrete river bring you home i wonder how you are tonight i wonder if you're happy i sing my little prayer and send it out across the miles i hope you have a special place an people there that love you and i hope you make it back to them before too long a while long is the road that lies between us many are the days that you've been gone may the angel on your shoulder guide you safely through the night and may the concrete river bring you home may the concrete river bring you home © 2009 walshire avenue music/ASCAP
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me and the cat (jaime michaels) up to my ears in kind of deep i know i'd dream about you if i only could sleep but i can't so i sit and ponder it all me and the cat and the clock on the wall i close my eyes and make a thousand plans a penny for my thoughts? hell, i'd be a rich man so i throw up my hands and we party in my head me and the cat and the ghosts in the bed i've got ghosts in the bed pretty pictures on the wall a rose in a jar yeah, the beauty in the world only goes so far so we howl at the moon to deal with the fear me and the cat and the clown in the mirror there's a clown in my mirror i tear out my hair stick out my lip i'm getting pissed off and you're fast asleep so we sit in the dark glaring at the bed me and the cat and the kid in my head he's a weird little kid pretty pictures on the wall a rose in a jar yeah, the beauty in the world only goes so far so we howl at the moon to deal with the fear me and the cat and the clown in the mirror there's a clown in my mirror up to my ears in kind of deep i know i'd dream about you if i only could sleep but i can't so i sit and ponder it all me and the cat and the clock on the wall it goes around and around and around © 1994 blue mole music/BMI
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gravedigger's boy (christopher smith) when the lamps are trimmed low and the fiddle plays sweet he stands in the corner, looks down at his feet as the partners take hands and glide 'cross the floor he's got no one to dance with, he don't ask any more he's the gravedigger's boy, the gravedigger's boy won't somebody dance with the gravedigger's boy he's got dirt on his shoes, got dust in his lungs and his face, it is brown from the cruel midday sun though he smiles only seldom, he's not as bleak as he seems he's got a love for that fiddle, he's got lazarus dreams he's the gravedigger's boy, the gravedigger's boy won't somebody dance with the gravedigger's boy? he could stand there forever so silent and still 'cuz he knows that in time every hole shall be filled sure as sickness steals in, long as cannons will roar the gravedigger's boy won't be done with hsi chores still he strolls out some evenings, past wrought ireon gates to the saturday social where he listens and waits he's the gravedigger's boy, the gravedigger's boy won't somebody dance with the gravedigger's boy he's the gravedigger's boy, the gravedigger's boy won't somebody dance with the gravedigger's boy? won't somebody dance with the gravedigger's boy? © 2007 christopher smith/BMI
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red western flyer (jaime michaels) from a story by kb marie there's a hill in nebraska it ain't much of a hill but when i close my eyes i can picture it still i'd ride straight to the top i could see the whole world that's a big enough mountain for a little town girl we were always together me and that bike i called her dolores just a name that i liked she had one rusty pedal and a little tin bell and a clanky old chain whose song i know well with the sun on my face and the wind in my hair it was me and dolores always headin' somewhere mile after mile day after day singing our song in our clankity way fat tires and a headlight that sometimes came on only one speed but that's enough to get gone for a brave little kid with a burning desire to go sailing the world on a red western flyer time has its own way of not standing still pretty soon childhood mountains are just left behind hills it's hard to imagine that you ever i'd feel all alone in these towers of concrete and steel yes, a big city sadness came to live in my eyes til one day as i wandered much to my surprise right there in a window with a big "for sale" sign was a brand new dolores i just know she was mine well, it goes without saying i found me a way to get me that flyer and get flying away and now me and dolores we're both doing fine changing this sad world one smile at a time fat tires and a headlight that sometimes came on only one speed but that's enough to get gone for a brave little kid with a burning desire to go sailing the world on a red western flyer i'm sailing the world on a red western flyer and it's a beautiful world on a red western flyer © 2008 blue mole music/BMI
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surrender 03:13
surrender (jaime michaels) corn didn't grow in the town i grew up in nothing grew there but heartache and sad faces nobody thought all that much about tomorrow there was none of that promise of wide open spaces buildings so big sky so small that the starts that you wished on had nowhere to fall there wasn't much magic near as i can recall nobody dreamed but the dreamers corn didn't grow in the town i grew up in it was all boarded up mills and busted out windows nothing much left to admire down on main street but to main street we'd fly cuz that's where the girls go and we's watch them stroll by noses high in the air in their cool summer dresses and their soft summer hair looking right through us like we weren't even there and the boys on the corner'd go crazy and surrender surrender so how many dreams do you choose to remember? do you choose to remember your dreams at all? when the world shoots you down are you right back up there flying? or do you just kill the time falling in love with the fall? do you surrender? surrender surrender © 2008 blue mole music/BMI
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first snow 03:13
first snow (jaime michaels) the dog is sleeping by the fire the red chair's in the corner leaves have fallen to the ground everything's in order i've ordered up this perfect night moon and stars and wine let's catch our breath and rest a bit tonight is yours and mine wind and moonlight kiss the hills in these hours before the snow breezes whisper secret things breezes always know seasons come seasons go seasons come again we learn the rhythms of the dance we dance as best we can every day is all or nothing every breath a solent prayer thanks the stars for what your given bless us all with what you share all the world beyond the window anchored deep in snow we will sleep into the morning nowhere we can go sleepy eyes and stolen time this simplest of dreams whan all stand still for just a moment all stands still for just a moment every day is all or nothing every breath a solent prayer thanks the stars for what your given bless us all with what you share the dog is sleeping by the fire the red chair's in the corner snow is falling all around everything's in order © 2006 blue mole music/BMI

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released August 18, 2009

produced by Jono Manson @ the Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
mastered by David Glasser @ Airshow Mastering.Boulder, CO

graphic design by Andrea Multari @ Whole Brain Design
cover photo by Raoul Iacometti
Big thanks to Mary Ray & BatKat Music

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Jaime Michaels Santa Fe, New Mexico

A venue operator in California referred to Jaime Michaels as a “songwriters’ songwriter.” He's teamed with award winning producer, Jono Manson for 9 of his11 albums. Jono and Jaime produced a new collection of originals called “if you fall” released in June of 2019 on Appaloosa Records. It’s being played on folk radio programs worldwide. His latest single" , "in my home" is out now. ... more

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