Daniel Mackler | Going Solo -- Album of Original Songs on Healing and Growth (by Daniel Mackler) @dmackler58 | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
00:00 Why Is It Hell to Be Honest?
04:49 I Can Hear It
07:27 My Valley Home
09:29 Pizza Parlor Song
11:57 How Long Can I Deny My Artistic Side?
14:32 My Heart’s Expanding
19:27 I Say Forget Them All
22:37 Back on My Track
25:26 If You Feel Like Singing
27:49 I Love You
32:07 I Wanna Laugh, I Wanna Sing
34:38 I Wanna Find a House to Live In
36:36 You’re Gonna Do Okay
If you're interested in buying/downloading the album or individual songs: danielmackler.bandcamp.com
My Website: wildtruth.net
My Patreon: patreon.com/danielmackler
If you wish to donate: wildtruth.net/donate
A few Lyrics:
Why Is It Hell to Be Honest?
Why is it hell to be honest?
Why is it hell to be real?
Why is it hell to go solo?
Why is it hell to feel?
What started all of the horror?
What was the root and the cause?
How do we get on a course back to truth?
And how did we get so lost?
The answers are so very simple
The answers are so very plain
The answers are such that a child could understand
And easily explain
So let me state them plainly
And simply from my heart
It’s not hard to comprehend them
It’s applying them that’s hard
It’s not about honoring mother
father, or culture, or state
It’s honoring the child that’s within you
Your basic, precious fate
It’s becoming your own parent
It’s becoming your own friend
It’s becoming your own mother
As the means to this dear end
And it’s hell because the world has gone crazy
And so very few want to know
And those with the need to be honest
Can just feel all alone
I Can Hear It
When the sunlight's out of the valleyand the sunlight's off of the lake
the water still keeps rollin
and the coldest waves still break
Cause i can hear it
i can hear it
when I listen
i can hear it
when the sunlight’s out of the forest
and the greens all fade to brown
and the birds all finish their singing
their heartbeats still make sounds
chorus
when the distance separates us
and the telephone lines are down
and there's no one left to love me
and keep me planted on the ground
chorus
when the morning air is freezing
and the firewood is wet
and my blistered feet are frozen
i'll make it homeward yet
chorus
My Valley Home
there's a land that i live in cross the bridge from where I've come
there's a land that i live in and it separates me from some
there's a land that i live in it's a world of life and love
a world joined up with others on quest to open up
to heal and still to feel all in a thousand different tongues
while the paths we take are each our own
they lead to a valley we call home
a common bond is one we've forged while traveling afar
alone and hungry no companions but our guiding stars
the common thread that we've all felt is the fabric of our land
woven of love and empathy for all our fellow man
the strength we hold is in our hearts we can't be torn apart
'cause the land beneath our feet has life and our footsteps make our art
there's a land that i live in cross the bridge from where I've come
i've come from blindness fear and darkness to face the rising sun
i can't go back and i won't go back cause i love my valley home
where the wind at night is cool and fresh
and the stars, they guide me when I roam
Pizza Parlor Song
[chorus] I wanna be a happy face
Behind the glass in a pizza parlor
Eating my pizza and laughing about the rain
I wanna be a love musician
Play my songs for all who’ll listen
Pick and sing from morning until night
But I am sort of noncommittal
All my plans are weak and brittle
Wandering through this razed and ravaged land
The only things I do with force
Are write and play guitar of course
Besides that I’m a feather in the wind
chorus
I called for an apartment out in Brooklyn
But someone else was already lookin
So I just shrugged and played some more guitar
But Life has got some plans in store
And come a month I’m out the door
So I had better kick this act in gear
chorus
How Long Can I Deny My Artistic Side?
verse
What’ll I turn into if I give in and go with the flow?
Who’s gonna want to spend their nights, keeping me warm from the snow?
Chorus 1
How long can I deny my artistic side?
How long can I deny my artistic side?
verse
It’s a strange new bed in a strange new city to try and call my own
Any two sheets to squeeze between to stop me when I roam
Chorus 2
it’s a struggle to play in the big leagues now that they’re phasing out the minors
it’s a struggle to play in the big leagues now that they’re phasing out the minors
verse
Bringing home the food and still feeding myself within
if that's not just the struggle of life then I don't know what is
chorus 1
00:00 Why Is It Hell to Be Honest?
04:49 I Can Hear It
07:27 My Valley Home
09:29 Pizza Parlor Song
11:57 How Long Can I Deny My Artistic Side?
14:32 My Heart’s Expanding
19:27 I Say Forget Them All
22:37 Back on My Track
25:26 If You Feel Like Singing
27:49 I Love You
32:07 I Wanna Laugh, I Wanna Sing
34:38 I Wanna Find a House to Live In
36:36 You’re Gonna Do Okay
If you're interested in buying/downloading the album or individual songs: danielmackler.bandcamp.com
My Website: wildtruth.net
My Patreon: patreon.com/danielmackler
If you wish to donate: wildtruth.net/donate
A few Lyrics:
Why Is It Hell to Be Honest?
Why is it hell to be honest?
Why is it hell to be real?
Why is it hell to go solo?
Why is it hell to feel?
What started all of the horror?
What was the root and the cause?
How do we get on a course back to truth?
And how did we get so lost?
The answers are so very simple
The answers are so very plain
The answers are such that a child could understand
And easily explain
So let me state them plainly
And simply from my heart
It’s not hard to comprehend them
It’s applying them that’s hard
It’s not about honoring mother
father, or culture, or state
It’s honoring the child that’s within you
Your basic, precious fate
It’s becoming your own parent
It’s becoming your own friend
It’s becoming your own mother
As the means to this dear end
And it’s hell because the world has gone crazy
And so very few want to know
And those with the need to be honest
Can just feel all alone
I Can Hear It
When the sunlight's out of the valleyand the sunlight's off of the lake
the water still keeps rollin
and the coldest waves still break
Cause i can hear it
i can hear it
when I listen
i can hear it
when the sunlight’s out of the forest
and the greens all fade to brown
and the birds all finish their singing
their heartbeats still make sounds
chorus
when the distance separates us
and the telephone lines are down
and there's no one left to love me
and keep me planted on the ground
chorus
when the morning air is freezing
and the firewood is wet
and my blistered feet are frozen
i'll make it homeward yet
chorus
My Valley Home
there's a land that i live in cross the bridge from where I've come
there's a land that i live in and it separates me from some
there's a land that i live in it's a world of life and love
a world joined up with others on quest to open up
to heal and still to feel all in a thousand different tongues
while the paths we take are each our own
they lead to a valley we call home
a common bond is one we've forged while traveling afar
alone and hungry no companions but our guiding stars
the common thread that we've all felt is the fabric of our land
woven of love and empathy for all our fellow man
the strength we hold is in our hearts we can't be torn apart
'cause the land beneath our feet has life and our footsteps make our art
there's a land that i live in cross the bridge from where I've come
i've come from blindness fear and darkness to face the rising sun
i can't go back and i won't go back cause i love my valley home
where the wind at night is cool and fresh
and the stars, they guide me when I roam
Pizza Parlor Song
[chorus] I wanna be a happy face
Behind the glass in a pizza parlor
Eating my pizza and laughing about the rain
I wanna be a love musician
Play my songs for all who’ll listen
Pick and sing from morning until night
But I am sort of noncommittal
All my plans are weak and brittle
Wandering through this razed and ravaged land
The only things I do with force
Are write and play guitar of course
Besides that I’m a feather in the wind
chorus
I called for an apartment out in Brooklyn
But someone else was already lookin
So I just shrugged and played some more guitar
But Life has got some plans in store
And come a month I’m out the door
So I had better kick this act in gear
chorus
How Long Can I Deny My Artistic Side?
verse
What’ll I turn into if I give in and go with the flow?
Who’s gonna want to spend their nights, keeping me warm from the snow?
Chorus 1
How long can I deny my artistic side?
How long can I deny my artistic side?
verse
It’s a strange new bed in a strange new city to try and call my own
Any two sheets to squeeze between to stop me when I roam
Chorus 2
it’s a struggle to play in the big leagues now that they’re phasing out the minors
it’s a struggle to play in the big leagues now that they’re phasing out the minors
verse
Bringing home the food and still feeding myself within
if that's not just the struggle of life then I don't know what is
chorus 1
