Free Song "Look At Me"

    

            free song ... my computer decided not to let me use my favorite font, so this is whatever...

wanted you to have this song.  hearts xoxo.  -me

"look at me"  by carey ott and ali sperry
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v06nf28ws38hdes/10%20Look%20At%20Me.mp3?dl=0


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p.s. here's the words to the song




Look at Me


A million distractions

What was that you said

I’m dancing alone here

I'm standing on my head 


Look at me

Look at me
Am I talking to myself

Pay attention to what I’m selling you

You don’t want nothing else  


I wanna impress ya
I wanna make you proud

But the message must be hazy

Cause you can’t make it out


Look at me

Look at me

Am I talking to myself

Pay attention to what I’m doing here

I don’t want nothing else



There’s nothing like you

Nothing I can see

And there’s no one who loves ya

Half as much as me


Look at me 

Look at me 

Am I talking to myself

Pay attention to what I’m telling you

I don’t want nothing else


Look at me 

Look at me 

Am I talking to myself

Pay attention to what I’m saying here

I don’t want nothing else

Cosmic Joke

We are Mankind.  The most arrogant and cocksure species on the planet, and yet, we know pretty much NOTHING.  This is high comedy.

If we're honest, all our words are little more than small mouth noises.  All our biggest ideas and grandest concepts and buildings and monuments are relative Lincoln Logs when compared to the wonder and awe inherent in nature.  

Lighten up.  Life is a movie.  And we don’t know how it’s gonna end.  No one does.  Not the End-Times-Christians or the Strip-Mall-Palm-Readers.  

No one knows, even though EVERYONE is pretending to.  

Life is a comedy-suspense-drama-sci-fi-political-espionage-horror-mockumentary-thriller.  

RELAX!  Enjoy the show.

The most important thing we can do as human beings is learn how to transform pain into joy and laughter.  

Laugh more.  Laugh at yourself.  But, please, don’t take any of it seriously.  How can you?  You don't know enough.

Now listen to my song “Cosmic Joke” at high volume, and the whole thing will become suddenly clear. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/l2gybwisc5vaz1j/05%20Cosmic%20Joke.mp3?dl=0

American Dream (Plan B)

Tom Petty is still doin it.  

He reminds me how stale and lame most music sounds these days.  

No songs.  No poetry.  Like having Lunchables for dinner.  Yuk.  There's a reason why most of my musical heroes are old or dead.

Tom Petty was sure alive and well last night at the local enormo-dome (Bridgestone Arena) here in Nashville.  The sound of those places is always shit, but it don't matter.  The songs are there.  And the Heartbreakers always deliver the goods.  

One of my earliest heroes, Tom Petty is still relevant after almost 40 years!  His career is as long as I am!  And the new album sounds rich and inspired.  Ageless.  My favorites from the new album, Hypnotic Eye, upon first listen:  Red River, Fault Lines, Forgotten Man, Sins Of My Youth, U Get Me High

Unlike many of today's rock stars, Tom Petty has a gift for crafting songs that move you, wherever and whoever you are.  He’s one of America’s great poets, so his songs don’t age, they mature like fine wine.

That’s what I've always aspired to do; write songs with that timeless quality.  It’s a long road to get your writing chops to that level.  You have to have some natural ability, sure, but mostly it’s just a whole lotta work, for a whole lotta years.  

But the music industry fleas won't tell you that.  Most labels and publishers don't believe in artist development.  They believe in cash grab-velopment.  

It's up to us (everyday people) to chip in and support the next Tom Petty, the next Bonnie Raitt, the next Bruce Springsteen, the next James Taylor, however and wherever we can.  They aren't being developed by the music biz anymore.  They're left to fend for themselves.  They're busking downtown.  They're working for peanuts in a coffee shop or bar near you. And corporate giants like Spotify and Viacom are skimming their hard-earned tips from the tip jar.

To all the hard-working, developing artists out there:

Don't ever give up on your dream.  Dig your heels in and keep pushing, keep creating, keep moving.  The mainstream ain't the only river that leads to the sea.  

Do What Scares Ya

I was at the Americana Music Association’s annual awards show Wednesday night at the Ryman Auditorium here in downtown Nashville.  As they kept saying that night, The Ryman is the “Mother Church” of Country Music, and there were some real memorable performances.  Taj Majal was explosive.  Loretta Lynn singing “Coal Miner’s Daughter” was timeless.  You could hear the years of experience in their voices and it was tremendous.  

Jason Isbell represented the younger generation well when he sang his full heart out on "Cover Me Up."  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaUCDqWzy1k  

During one of his award speeches he said it scared him to death to sing this one for his wife, whom he had written it for.  “Do what scares ya,” he said as he held up his guitar-shaped award.  That pretty much sums it all up in 5 words or less.  Do what scares ya.