Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • Don’t Worry Baby

    This is my cover of the Beach Boy’s classic. Not that I’m one to criticize Brian Wilson who is an incredible songwriter (and a hell of a pitcher) but there’s one line that’s always bugged me and I changed it here. The last verse originally included the lines: …take along my love with you…nothing can… Read more

  • Because The Night

    I was turned onto this clip by my old bandmate Todd. It’s a great rendition of Springsteen’s song with Michael Stipe of REM taking lead vocals. https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/KOOmaBbqYBk&source=uds Take me now baby here as I amPull me close, try and understandDesire is hunger is the fire I breatheLove is a banquet on which we feed Come… Read more

  • Andrew – Fictional Humans of New York (FHONY) #7

    Andrew rubbed his eyes. They always bothered him these days. They burned and itched and teared up and dribbled down his sore red cheeks. It was hardly worth all the time and effort he put into breathing and eating and drinking and sleeping if he was going to have to put up with these eyes.… Read more

  • Stefan Zweig’s Moral Dilemma

    Last night I went to an event at The Center for Fiction for the release of a new biography of Stefan Zweig by George Prochnik. While it was a fascinating discussion in a lot of ways the thing that stuck in my mind was the moral dilemma posed by Zweig’s confrontation with the Nazis. At… Read more

  • Pain

    “Pain is largely a kind of need felt by the organism to acquaint itself with an unfamiliar state that is troubling it, to adjust its responses to that state.” Marcel Proust There are many kinds of pain: physical, emotional, psychological, and moral among them. There is the pain of loneliness as well as the pain… Read more

  • They Can’t Take That Away From Me – Mike’s Musical Monday

    I wrote this song in 2010 while I was with Late Model Humans but I never recorded it with the band. I swiped a little of Ira Gershwin‘s lyrics (in red below) from the song of the same title that he wrote with his brother George. The world is filled with burning towersBroken hearts and… Read more