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LOVE and HATE

by Mychael John Thomas

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1.
Wishful Thinkin' 05:00
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WISHFUL THINKIN’ I’m lost in denial…Much more than you know You put me through trials…I should let you go But there ain’t no sin…In tryin’ again… Baby come home (Wishful thinkin’…It was just a dream) You gave no excuses…One day you were gone But in spite of abuses…My heart believes on Don’t matter who’s right I’m all out of fight… Baby come home (Wishful thinkin’…It was just a dream) BRIDGE Bad confrontations just seemed to keep us apart Could we be gentle enough to have a new start? Love’s revelation can change everything we believe Making a difference in you…A difference in me SOLO BRIDGE 2 Pride is an evil that blinds to anything good Are we beginning to see the things that we should? Love is revealing…Flooding the darkness with light Suddenly everything wrong could turn out alright So please think it over before you let go And just see your lover who’s waiting with hope If we have a prayer…You know that I care… Baby come home (Wishful thinkin’…It was just a dream) TAG CHORUS It’s all up to you…Done all I can do Baby come home… (Wishful thinkin’…It was just Dream) Mm Baby come home… (Wishful thinkin’…Nothin’s what it seems) Aw darlin’ why don’t you just stay where you are… (Wishful thinkin’…Face reality) And I’ll play my guitar (Wishful thinkin’…Open your eyes and see) Ooh ooh ooh…Ooh oo-oo-ooh (2 times) Ah ah ah…Ah ah ah ah (2 times) © 2020 Mychael John Thomas
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The Road 03:41
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THE ROAD By Mychael John Thomas CHORUS (Damn the road) that brought me to this place (Damn the road)…When all I see is your face (So many destinations) I didn’t go (Damn the road) Aw damn the road I’m lookin’ back and I know it’s the truth It’s just the fault of my ignorant youth We make our choices regardless the cost But all is not lost It ain’t no good diggin’ up the past Only makes it harder to get over But I can’t help thinkin’ ’bout what we had I guess I need another lover…No no CHORUS (Damn the road) That brought me to this place (Damn the road)…When all I see is your face (So many destinations) I didn’t go (Damn the road)… Aw (Damn the road) I got a gift for just pickin’ ‘em bad I’m such a sucker for the hopeless and sad Ya can’t fix stupid…I guess that’s me Now how can it be? You might try but you can’t change the mind Of somebody else who’s had a hard time But I keep on tryin’ knowin’ I can’t win And so another new beginning…Oh no CHORUS (same as Chorus 2) BRIDGE (Shake it) like I (own it) ‘cause I (just don’t care) (There’s got to be true love out there) w lead V (GOD knows how many times I’ve tried) w lead V (Somebody’s got to see this heart inside) w lead V SOLO CHORUS (Damn the road) That brought me to this place (Damn the road)…When all I see is your face (So many destinations) I didn’t go Damn the road CHORUS (Damn the road) That brought me to this place (Damn the road)…When all I see is your face (So many destinations) I didn’t go Damn the road CHORUS (Damn the road) Guitar Solo (Damn the road) Guitar Solo (So many destinations) I didn’t go (Damn the road) w lead V (Damn the road) w lead V (Damn the road) w lead V © 2020 Mychael John Thomas, BMI
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Letting Go 05:54
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LETTING GO By Mychael John Thomas CHORUS Letting go…I have finally come to know I’ve got nothing left to show for our time Giving up…Only thought I knew someone And there is no hidden love for me to find I really wanted to believe But it’s finally time to leave My heart has all the hurt it can hold And so…I’m letting go… Everybody wants to take that chance And make a dream come true The same for me and you…Didn’t we? Then one day I just wake up And suddenly see the signs No matter how I try it won’t be And if I just keep holding on I’ll die some lonely dawn And still be all alone in the end I want to live again… CHORUS Letting go…I have finally come to know I’ve got nothing left to show for our time Giving up…Only thought I knew someone And there is no hidden love for me to find I really wanted to believe But it’s finally time to leave My heart has all the hurt it can hold And so…I’m letting go… BRIDGE Maybe now the healing starts If it’s one day at a time Count the hours and the minutes Every second dragging by The pain is in control It wants to steal your soul Only by the Grace of God Am I alive… SOLO Every moment is a precious gift And every breath a choice To hear internal voice…Or be blind There’s a path for all of us And each step is all our own But to walk it with someone is sublime And if we only serve yourselves Comes a day there’s nothing left Alone with no one else who can share It will be too late to care… CHORUS Letting go…Set the Spirit free to show Everything we need to know for our life Giving up…All the greed that’s killing us See the truth like shining sun…Love is light And if we’re longing to receive It’s the self we have to leave Fill the heart with all the peace it can hold And so…I’m letting go…Letting go… © 2020 Mychael John Thomas, BMI
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Choices 03:32
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CHOICES By Mychael John Thomas Sometime today (I realized) I have a say (In all of this) Crazy race they keep puttin’ in our face But no matter how it falls (Gonna be) Trouble for us all (Got to) Rise above division till I make my best decision CHORUS Choices in our lives…(Either way we’ll all survive) Maybe we could (all just get along) Do the most you can…(Try your best to understand) Every choice you make (if right or wrong)…Choices Beyond the fight (Maybe we all) Can get it right (If we just) Shine the light on the hate we feel inside If we don’t we’re gonna lose (Every) Right we have to choose (Take a look) What are we doin’?…Can you see? (a storm is brewing?) CHORUS BRIDGE Nowhere to run…Now the struggle has begun With the blade of a knife and a disregard for life (Opposite poles…In the end nobody knows Till we go before the Man…He will help us understand) SOLO Sometime today (I realized) I have a say (In this) Crazy race they keep puttin’ in our face (riff) CHORUS CHORUS © 2020 Mychael John Thomas, BMI
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For Today 05:21
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FOR TODAY By Mychael John Thomas How long can I walk beneath this burden? Can I stand in the face of this hate? You left me here…All alone and hurtin’ Something inside died and withered away I know the way I would like to feel But it’s hard to believe That anyone can be real CHORUS I just wanna love today…Like it was the first time You looked in my eyes and said I want to know your heart For today…Fulfillment of the promise You spoke to me…Now tell me who you are Or just let me go and go away If only for today So hard getting past all your deception I will forgive but I won’t trust again I never lied…Thought I found devotion But one thing is clear…Here I am at the end It’s not the way I wanted it to be But I have no reprieve There is no more you and me CHORUS BRIDGE We can only live in the moment we have The future is no one’s possession We can only give from the treasure we save In our hearts there must be connection SOLO I know the way that I’m supposed to feel But it’s hard to believe (Anyone can be real) CHORUS I just wanna love today…Like it was the first time You looked in my eyes and said I want to know your heart For today…Fulfillment of the promise You spoke to me…Now tell me who you are Or just let me go and go away Just let me go and go away Just let me go and go away If only for today…For today © 2020 Mychael John Thomas, BMI
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Love and Hate 05:25
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LOVE AND HATE By Mychael John Thomas CHORUS Love is a healing and healing is needed If we are to ever survive Hate is deceiving and just sends us reeling To question if we are alive Do you know which path you will take? ‘Cause it’s love or it’s hate Lost in this ocean of conflicting emotion Clearly no rescue in sight Endlessly floating…I can’t keep on holding To a lifeline that’s sinking tonight How on Earth can we find our way? Conflicts oppose us and cause us to stray In my mind I hear someone say… CHORUS I can remember that day in November I was a ten year old boy He was in Dallas, Texas…Nobody expected To witness the end of our joy So much anger as shots rang out The times just beginning of so many doubts Then I heard the voice like a shout… CHORUS BRIDGE A part of all of us died back then Innocence breathed her last breath Bloody Sundays would surely send An eminent curse of death SOLO How on Earth can we ever heal? So much division we cannot conceal But I know the voice is for real Keeps saying CHORUS Love is a healing and healing is needed (Loving is healing) (Needed if we are) If we are to ever survive (To ever survive) Hate is deceiving and just sends us reeling (Hate is deceiving) (Just sends us reeling) To question if we are alive (To question) Do you know which path you will take? We’ve only one choice we can make And it ain’t a thing you can fake ‘Cause it’s love or it’s hate...It’s love or it’s hate (Love or it's hate) Love or it's hate (Love or it's hate) Love or it's hate (Love or it's hate) Love or it's hate (Love or it's hate) Love or it's hate (Love or it's hate) Love or it's hate (Love or it's hate) Love or it's hate © 2020 Mychael John Thomas, BMI
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Vampyre Mourning 06:00
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VAMPYRE MOURNING By Mychael John Thomas I been up all night… It feels like a blade in my heart alright Don’t wanna close my eyes… ‘Cause sleep just torments me again I’d love to walk in the day… But somehow I just wasn’t built that way My life begins when the sunlight fades… In the world where I fit in CHORUS It’s just a (vampyre mourning)…I don’t wanna sleep But the (truth is dawning)…Away my time will creep My heart is pumpin’…I’m stalkin’ my prey While the beat is thumpin’…Nothing else to say It’s just a (vampyre mourning)…And that’s okay Been like this so long… Till I can’t remember how it all came on My memory was gone Now a dream world is all I know This is my reality… The darkness will shine…My normality That’s when the night lover runs with me Until I have to let go CHORUS BRIDGE Hey baby wanna go out for a bite? I know a little place that’s plain outta sight You can drink some wine…I’ll have a blood red steak So delicious…Makes my body shake shake shake SOLO CHORUS It’s just a (vampyre mourning…I don’t wanna sleep) Vampyre morning..I don’t wanna sleep no more (Truth is dawning…Away my time will creep Truth is dawning…Away my time will creep My heart is pumpin’…I’m stalkin’ my prey While the beat is thumpin’…Nothing else to say It’s just a (vampyre mourning…And that’s okay) Guitar Solo throughout (Vampyre mourning)…Hey hey hey (Vampyre mourning)…Run from the day (Vampyre mourning)…So delicious, You’re so delicious (Vampyre mourning)…Vampyre warning (Run from the day) You got to get away You got to get away get away get away Ooh ooh ooh © 2020 Mychael John Thomas
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Soul Surrender 03:53
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SOUL SURRENDER By Mychael John Thomas (Do you wanna live forever?) Yes I do…But I don’t want to live alone (Do you think that you’re so clever?) I don’t know…But my only choice is carry on… There has to be a Higher Power That I can look up to Until I reach the final hour There’s only one thing left for me to do CHORUS (I make a soul surrender) To the author of love…Ruling Heaven above (I ain’t no pretender) This is really me…Now I’m truly free (In my heart I will always remember) My soul surrender (Do you wanna live the blessing?) If it’s mine…I would gladly give my life to know (See the truth and stop your guessing) I will try…But I’m sure only time will show… You’ll have to teach me how to find You As I walk day by day And though I haven’t any right to I’m calling on Your wisdom to light my way CHORUS CHORUS TAG (My soul surrender)…I ain’t no pretender (Soul surrender)…This I really me…Now I’m truly free (Bop bada dop…Bop bada dop) Yeah…Soul surrender © 2020 Mychael John Thomas, BMI
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Holding On 05:01
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HOLDING ON By Mychael John Thomas In this time of violence and hate The still voice says (“Remember”) We haven’t always been this way But I think we can be (forgiven) If we take a look inside And see the best in us all ‘Cause only living for pride Will be our downfall CHORUS I’m still (Holding on) To the hope there’s something better Just keep (Holding on) Surely we can come together When hate is no more…Love will forever Decide who we are…Children of the Savior (A light shines above)…So I’m (holding On…To Love) In this time of darkness and spite The still voice says (“Be stronger”) We may be close to getting it right But it’s gonna take (a little longer) When you think you’re giving in Is when you can’t let go It ain’t how you feel in the end It’s what you know CHORUS BRIDGE (Don’t get excited…Heaven has decided) We can turn the tide…Truth is on our side (We won’t concede it…Evil is defeated) Our victory is when we choose to see (Don’t get excited…Heaven has decided) Every night and day you got to keep the faith (We won’t concede it…Evil is defeated) Keep looking up and holding on to love SOLO (Do doot do doot…Do doot do doot) (Do doot do doot…Do doot do doot…Ooh oo ooh) If we take a look inside And see there’s good in us all We can put an end to pride And avoid the fall CHORUS I’m still (Holding on) To the hope there’s something better Just keep (Holding on) Surely we can come together (When hate is no more)…Love will forever (Decide who we are)…Children of the Savior (A light shines above)…So I’m holding On…To Love BRIDGE BRIDGE (GUITAR SOLO throughout) (Don’t get excited…Heaven has decided) (We won’t concede it…Evil is defeated) (Don’t get excited…Heaven has decided) (We won’t concede it…Evil is defeated) (Do doot do doot…Do doot do doot) (Do doot do doot…Do doot do doot) © 2020 Mychael John Thomas, BMI
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In America 05:13
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In America By Mychael John Thomas This is a special song from me to you I hope you will feel the same before it’s through You are America the land of the free Home of the people and free spirits like me Thank God I can see for myself In America You are the people who have cheered me on Because of my love for you I sing this song To thank you America you’re proud and you’re brave You are the reason I can stand up and say Thank God I can play my songs In America This is a time and place for us to share The reasons to give us hope…To sing and care Care for America the land of the dream A fortress for you and me and spirits set free Thank God we can be ourselves In America…In America STAR SPANGLED BANNER * In America (c) 1978/2020 Mychael John Thomas BMI Star Spangled Bannder * By Francis Scott Key, P.D.

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This is my artistic impression of the polarization we are seeing in the world today. It affects our lives, relationships, and our spiritual course...We always have a choice...

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released November 6, 2020

Written, Arranged, Performed, Engineered, Produced & Mastered
by Mychael John Thomas
All songs (c) 2020 Mychael John Thomas, BMI
Recorded at Thomastone Studio July to November 2020
Cover design and photo by MJT
(c)(p) 2020 Thomastone Records, Inc.

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Mychael is originally from Nashville, TN. He has been in the music industry for 40 plus years as recording artst, songwriter, musician and producer. He composed, performed, engineered and produced all of his solo bandcamp releases.

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