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7th Song I just wrote for my Covid Christmas Series. "Mean Old World" (Breen)

1/29/2021

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Mean Old World (Breen) 


What can I do   to make things better
What can I say  to make it ok
Even though   It ain’t gettin’ easier
I’m always here  every night and every day


CHORUS
‘cause you’re still my angel
Daddy’s little girl
heart full of kindness
In a mean old world


A long time ago   I’d put you on my shoulders 
we’d walk to the park  laughing all the way 
you’re mom would get mad but we’d just ignore her
that smile’s in my heart and it’ll never go away


CHORUS
‘cause you’re still my angel
Daddy’s little girl
heart full of kindness
In a mean old world


Harder times   well, I’ve never known them
You don’t want to talk   and that’s ok
But I’m always here, always hopin’
To see that smile   again someday


CHORUS
“cause you’re still my angel
Daddy’s little girl
heart full of kindness
In a mean old world


CHORUS
‘cause you’re still my angel
Daddy’s little girl
heart full of kindness
In a mean old world
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12 News segment on my covid music series!!! Click on photo to see.

1/22/2021

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Sixth #6 Song I just wrote for my Covid Christmas Series.  Here's one called "Just Hold On."

1/18/2021

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Just Hold On (Breen)


In the morning of our darkness and deliverance
the reckoning is clearly at hand
and the days that lay before us are on shifting sand
And the purpose of our time we don’t understand


So just hold on
just hold on
if you can


We can shine the light of truth across the atmosphere
we can try to open up their eyes to see
But the fog’s so thick and heavy and the water’s deep
and the light from the lighthouse is getting harder to see


So just hold on
just hold on
if you can


There are angels among us trying to save our lives
Battered and beaten as they watch us die
Frustrated by the ignorance
they hang their heads and cry
wondering if we’ll ever
awake from the big lie


Oh just hold on
just hold on
if you can
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Just Like Me (Breen, Dixon, Breen)

1/17/2021

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JUST LIKE ME (Breen, Dixon, Breen)

I saw a family beside the road
a sign in the father’s hand
it said “we are hungry will work for food
help if you think you can’


I thought about stopping to help them out 
but suddenly I was afraid
so many excuses came to mind
I ended up driving away

and when I look in the mirror 
their faces are all I can see
their sad eyes turn away 
and I hear them saying to m

CHORUS
You never know what’s gonna happen
the future’s not ours to see
one day you’re rollin’ in the clover
the next day you look just like me


We step into our sheltered homes
silently keeping us safe
we feast at the table of plenty
quietly saying our grace

Deep in the night our children dream
of cowboys and little bo peep
how in god’s name does a homeless child
dream when he can’t even sleep


with the way things are going 
it’s people like you and me
who way up some morning
lookin’ at life on the street


CHORUS
Oh…You never know what’s gonna happen
the future’s not ours to see
one day you’re rollin’ in the clover
the next day you look just like me


You never know what’s gonna happen
the future’s not ours to see
one day you’re rollin’ in the clover
the next day you look just like me

Mike Breen - guitar, mandolin and lead vocals
Kevin Stoller - piano
Kyle Harris - bass
Ron Rutowski - violin
Mike Barton - drums
Vickie Ray Jordan, Michelle Nicolo, Terry Thompson - background vocals
Produced by Bob "Willard" Henke
Recorded at Tim Hunnicutt's Studio
written by Mike Breen, Stacy Breen and Gigi Dixon


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A few reviews over the years...

 His vocal delivery is warm and inviting. His story lines are conversations about life and observations on its living moments. “Baby’s Comin’ in on a Plane” lets you feel the excitement of the guy at the gate whose heart beats a little faster with each departing passenger, “Cristina Valencia” slips south of the border to plead to the lady in the title for a little love light from her dark eyes and “Carnival Queen” walks the midway with love at your side."  -Alternate Root Magazine.
"It's always a pleasure to hear an independant CD that delivers the goods past the first cut and this release from Breen is such an example."   Sing Out Magazine
"A consistent quality rolls right through the third solo album and instro debut from singer-songwriter Mike Breen. On Mescal Mary & Other B Bender Guitar Instrumentals, Breen performs masterfully on the B and G bender guitar, a guitar device invented by one time Byrds guitarists Clarence White and Gene Parsons to resemble the sounds of the pedal steel guitar. Breen mixes his tasty electric work with his added banjo, mandolin and flatpicking guitar sounds."  " 20th Century Guitar by Robert Siverstein
"I wish all singer-songwriter albums were this rewarding."  Dirty Linen
"​Mike Breen may be an unfamiliar name but his songs have that warm. lived in quality that lodge themselves firmly within the subconscious..." John O'Regan - Rock-N-Reel
One of..."the best of the real indies..." Carolyn Adams - WDIY-FM

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