"The Van Gogh Work Ethic" is album #4 recorded in Austin and Seattle during the first 6 weeks of 2010. Jose Gude and myself wrote and recorded a song per week for 6 weeks in a row with this being the result. This is the exact order they were created. http://thismichaelbrown.com Press times for tracks below!
0:00 The Tao
4:11 How Does it Feel? (by Jose Gude)
7:49 My Mind
11:37 Alone (by Jose Gude)
16:00 The Muse
22:14 Wedding (by Jose Gude)
24:02 Still Inside
29:02 Problem Reaction Solution (by Jose Gude)
35:28 Bough Breaks
40:25 Happy Elana (by Jose Gude)
44:05 Each Day of Life
49:47 Song for Alex (by Jose Gude)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngw9iLUmFSo
Final song for The Green Cave Album! Lyrics below....
Music starts here: 0:37
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"It’s Not Too Late"
There were some things that i learned as a young one
There was some things I knew
So many things to learn to Someone
Things I wish I knew
And days go by now
We learned to be Someone brand new
And time, it slips by now
We wonder that somehow
We didn’t take the time to learn….the things we wanted to
So here I sit and I write and I’m older
Learning things brand new
So many tools you can use a writer
Things I wish I knew
Ahhhhhh
Ahhhhh
Ahhhhhhh
3/4
True I wrote my First one at 17
Feeling around in the dark
And i’ve been blessed, with a life of many
The Muse lives in my heart
But there are times now,
I find a key that’s brand new.
And I wish I had
Taken more time
To work on the things that, my soul wanted to
But there are so many things to learn as a young one
Things I wish I knew
Ahhhh
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Its not too late to start again
Its not too late to start anew
Its not too late outside of time
Where our soul is always new
(Where we are always new)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twdM6HEx3A
Lyrics below:
"Light and Shadow"
From the Light
We all come from the Light
Why the dark
Why the dark
Turn on the TV, and it’s cold
Turn on the TV, feeling old
What could be worth all of this
What could be worth all of this
In the Light, feel the Light
Why the fight, why the fight
Find what's right, sleep tonight
Don’t hold tight, let go the fight
These phantoms are not worth having
Feel the Light
Now I don’t believe what were sold
And I’ve learned hard, the price of gold
Nothing to treasure, and I fold
Nothing is worth being controlled
Bridge
In the Light, feel the Light
Give up the fight, give up the fight
Find what's right, and sleep tonight
Don’t hold tight, don’t hold tight
These phantoms are not worth having
Feel the Light
These lies are not worth having
Feel the Light
Turn on the TV, and it’s cold
Turn off the TV, what we’re sold
What could be worth all of this
No THING is worth all of this
A note from Andrew Cavaseno:
Just wrote this again, off the cuff, wanted to try and go heavy and slow and utilize diff time signatures and textures. Using the Duality concept once again also quite a bit of "Foreboding "emotions and images .
" Where there is light, there is shadow,
A world inseparable,
wax and wane with the flow of moments,
Like waves in the open sea.
Where there is light, there is shadow,
Each a beauty in it’s own,
Do not search a world of light without shadows!
Try if you wish but you will not find it.
When you love the light in a person,
You also love the shadow in him,
Like a full moon,
It’s beauty will manifest in the darkness of the night,
and beautiful soft shadows thus formed by it’s golden light."
-spiritual seeker
also 9-22-2022- lost a brother to murder- RIP Ke'andre Williams
Written originally in 2020 -Drew Cavaseno and Cowritten and Re-Arranged Cavaseno/Brown 9-2023
Song lyrics: Brown
Bass/Keys - Cavaseno
Vox/Guitars/Piano - Brown
Drums - Watkins
Added drums - Occhipinti
Produced/engineered/mixed mastered etc - Brown
#Rickenbacker, Tama
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd8DJBv1CMo
Lyrics:
Johnny The Monkey
Once in a very dark time
A lonely frog, he sits and rhymes…
Johnny The Monkey, was up in his Tree, thinking about a song
Could everything that, they taught at The Pond, turn out to be so wrong
The First Tree War, The Second Tree war, The Third and The Fourth
When allegory’s, the only safe way, to bring an idea forth
So now go, go to The Jungle Floor, and share your song now, what you come here for
Now most of his heroes, and some of his friends, were quiet, dead or gone
Jesus and Gandhi, Lennon and King, the list goes on and on
One things for sure, there’s danger in saying, what you know loud and strong
Isolation’s the price, a monkey’s device, if you don’t go along
So now go, straight to The Jungle Floor, and sing your song now, so tired of war
I say go, Go Johnny Go, and play your part now, what you come here for
Now once, in a similar time
Tell us what is on your mind…
Thanks to the masterful rhythm section:
Paul Clement - Bass
Ant Occhipinnti - Drums
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5IZzPO18V0
My first green screen attempt....Includes couple of tunes.
Michael Brown sings ThisMichaelBrown....then Michael Brown sings The Beatles.
#greenscreen, #singer, #songwriter, #thismichaelbrown
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAeCkLjqMfE
Music starts here: 0:03 (lyrics below)
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"Still And Free"
Flippin through the channels
All those busy channels
Flippin through the channels
All those shiny channels
Now what was I going to say
Clicking through the pages
All those shiny pages
Clicking through the pages
All those crazy pages
Here at the end of my day
Looking for some relief, at the end of the day
Trying to find release, looking for a better way
It all slows down
When you shut It all down
A chance to sit and breathe
Some time just to be, Still and Free
Hey now look this way
Won’t you see things our way
There’s no need for you to say
Here’s some conflict and some doom
We’ll sell you things to fill your room
Don’t you dare look the other way
Now don’t look down
Here’s a pill, you’ll come around
It all slows down
When you shut It all down
A chance to sit and breathe
Some time just to be, Still and Free
It all slows down
When you shut It all down
A chance just to sit and breathe
Take some time, learn to be Still and Free
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKmT1vDxK64