Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • Tripping Up The Stairs

    I’d like to admit up front that this was a perfectly fine tune when I met it and it wasn’t hurting anybody. I learned it as “Tripping Up The Stairs” from Bucky Reed’s excellent site for people interested in learning how to play such things. The tabs from his site are below the video if… Read more

  • I Savor The Pain You Cause Me – Circling The Drain

    Dizzy and down, feeling that sickly centripetal pull, circling the draindon’t let my weight pull you downI would walk to your door, kneel down on your floor, and beg you to take pity on me if pity was the medicine I needI don’t need foodI don’t need water I don’t need airI don’t need words When… Read more

  • Happy St. Patrick’s Day – Cooley’s Reel

    I wanted to learn a reel for St. Patrick’s Day and this was literally the first one to come up in a Google search. So I learned (more or less) how to play it (OK, less). The history of this reel, like many Irish things, is a little foggy. First, Joe Cooley may have stole… Read more

  • I Savor The Pain You Cause Me – Sand

    It starts early and it never stopsIf anything, it gets more intense over timeThere’s no avoiding this curseThere’s no escaping this blessingI’ve resigned to feed the flame until my fuel is spentFor you, childI pretend to be more than I amI believe every lie I canI wouldn’t know you if we met todayBut I would… Read more

  • Anti-Social Media

    “No longer riding on the merry-go-round I just had to let it go.”  – John Lennon It turns out I’m not a misanthrope after all, that I really like people. They’re just more abstract than I expect them to be – disorienting and playful, like dolphins. In real life. On social media, they get squeezed… Read more

  • I Savor The Pain You Cause Me – Sunsong

      There’s a blue light on the hills A cold wind is coming down from the north The river is rising The moon is full Cats are crying outside and in Crying to get in Crying to get out Or crying to hear the sound in their ears that matches the one ripping their hearts… Read more