Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • Too Much On My Mind – Mike’s Musical Monday

    After John Lennon, my favorite songwriter is Ray Davies of the Kinks. This song was recorded for the album Face to Face, released in 1966. It’s a real gem of an album with classics like Sunny Afternoon and Dandy but it’s this one that’s become my theme song over the past few weeks. I love… Read more

  • The Immeasurable Treasure

    If I spent every moment of the rest of my life with you It wouldn’t be enough   If I knew everything there was to know about you It wouldn’t be enough If I tasted the flavor of you alone on my tongue I would always be starving for more If I could read every… Read more

  • Self-Portrait

    “It gets worse the older that you get There’s no escape from the state of confusion I’m in.” – Ray Davies It must be hard for even an egotist to look too closely at his face in the mirror, and I’m no egotist. Some people find it helpful to ask another to take a hard… Read more

  • Broken Angel

    “Either I’m too sensitive or else I’m getting soft.” – Bob Dylan One of the great themes of classical poetry is the damsel in distress. Any kind of suffering is bad enough but contemplating the suffering of someone dear to your heart is almost unbearable. Even more so when you’re unable to do anything to… Read more

  • Images of a Lunar Eclipse

    An astrophysicist friend of mine (don’t you love sentences that start like that?) told me on Tuesday night that there would be a lunar eclipse on Wednesday morning. She wasn’t kidding. I wound up waking up naturally a little before the event and you wouldn’t know it by the photo but the moon was large… Read more

  • The Mistress of Disguises

    Two years ago I wrote a play called Digging Up John Barrymore. At one point I considered a musical version and wrote a few songs for it. This one is called The Mistress of Disguise and here’s the relevant passage from the play (Barrymore’s deathbed scene) that leads into the song: Steve Izant and Julia… Read more