M.D.T.N., by mdTN

M.D.T.N.

by mdTN

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1.	struggle with me 03:31	lyrics	buy track
Struggle with me – mdTN Music and lyrics by Clay B Jones and Michael Dollan All rights reserved ©2021 Everyone Wants some love But no one wants you No one wants work No one struggles I am waiting, No one struggles I am waiting, But everyone I am waiting. Wants some love I can wait. Oh oh oh… Oh oh oh… Oh oh oh… Oh oh oh oh oh… Screen shot - this time with preferences. Believe it or not, I got my references. Lonely, can't seem to find the blend. Hold on, I'm reaching out again. I am waiting, Oh oh oh… I am waiting, Oh oh oh… I am waiting. Oh oh oh… I can wait. Oh oh oh oh oh… Everyone Wants some joy Life’s a toy I play rough You’re so tough I am waiting, I don’t know I am waiting, I don’t know I am waiting. Like the mind I can wait. Everyone Wants a little somethin I just left With all of my nothin Take your hands Steal from the basket Everyone wants a little somethin Closed mind, your basket’s no bread in it. Get up and go with unsteadiness. Stride out, stumble. Your readiness all gone. I’m reaching out again I am waiting, Oh oh oh… I am waiting, Oh oh oh… I am waiting. Oh oh oh… I can wait. Oh oh oh oh oh… Everyone Wants some love I just want All your light All our fights All our fights I am waiting, All those nights I am waiting, I am waiting. Oh oh oh… I can wait.
2.	it's cold outside 06:11	lyrics	buy track
Drivin' 64 on a 70 and all I ask for is some company. It’s lonely out here when I’m by myself, it’s lonely out here when my life has gone away. Cigarette burns on your alabaster skin, I wonder if it’s cuz your father hates his kids? Sitting in my bed wondering... How much longer till I pull the switch? Now baby I told you, I’m not right, I wear my belts way too tight. I can’t live here anymore... I can’t live here anymore... I can’t live here anymore... I can’t live here anymore... Ooh it’s cold outside... Ooh it’s cold outside... I just want you to spend the night with me. Let me explain all the the things I did... Ooh it’s cold outside... Ooh it’s cold outside... It’s raining on the road when I come back home, I struggle like a man that has no soul. But baby i know it’s you, I can’t even call to let you know that everything I’ve done is all a blow, call me later or i don’t know? I can’t live here anymore... I can’t live here anymore ... This is News-Eleven with all your news, traffic, and weather updates. We're breaking in now with the latest on this horrific storm pattern making its way through the area in these early morning hours, and long into the evening. Residents are urged to stay off the roads and seek shelter immediately. Please use extreme caution and secure all doors and windows as damaging winds and heavy rains are expected. Remember folks, this storm will pass and we will make it out together. Our Traffic-Eleven team reports multiple vehicle crashes near the downtown area, alternate routes are suggetsed. I can’t live here anymore... I can’t live here anymore... I can’t live here anymore... I can’t live here anymore... Ooh it’s cold outside... Ooh it’s cold outside... Maybe I’ll give it another try? Maybe it’ll give me a peace of mind? Ooh it’s cold outside... Ooh it’s cold outside...
3.	all for me 03:47	lyrics	buy track
It’s all for me. Everything. (I called last week and I was trying to get back to you because I wanted you to know that I’m not the only one that acts like this, you do it too and… It’s unfair. Everything is unfair.) Though I’m comfy and nurtured, I’ll still wait and I’ll see If that hole that I fill, fills the whole yet of me. See it nags and it gnaws, and it thirsts and it greeds, Round pegs fit in square holes, just not properly. I’m comical like an alien Measure me to the trailing end I haven’t friends for mailing men It’s not truth, it’s not science, nor silence, nor dream. Words hid behind actions, techno-memory. Sent outwards, turned inwards, highlight and delete. Where texture’s desired, instead meet glass sheet. Housing him like a feeble hymn While struggling to reach at sin Everyone has an everything But I am like a fairy being Come not the morning, languid breath in dis-ease Disturbed and disturbing, ectopic and brief. Eyes open, closed vacant… weird syncope, And the whole isn’t dream, and the dream isn’t deep. Pennies for the richer man And dollars for the homeless Speaking loudly for a crowd That wishes it was empty Chorus of nonsense, eyes open asleep. There’s a story forgotten, imperatively. Import action - inaction, export health, export sleep. Anathematic? The payment? It is but the fee. And I don’t know how long I’ll be But I don’t care just leave me be I don’t know how long I’ll be But you can stay just for me It’s all for me… Everything…
4.	this is the end 05:15	lyrics	buy track
this is the end it’s time for bed I feel so dead this is the end I don’t know how it came this quick I’ve reached the end nothing to do floating upstream it’s all just dreams this is the end this is the end I’m glad I found you… confusion reigns with long strings of words... ideas take flight, and soar like they're birds... some fall before they fly, sometimes they fall and die, but you just have to try... my luck is drawn I can’t complain taken for granted all of the things just put me down now just put me down now I’m way too loud drain through clouds fears are for rain don’t complicate our earth is full of so much hatred I can't calm down confusion reigns with long strings of words... ideas take flight, and soar like they're birds... some fall before they fly, sometimes they fall and die, but you just have to try... you hit the peak I can’t compete wow stuck in your head I’m scared to see I can’t calm down the world's on fire life seems so bleak I can’t calm down I can’t calm down the world's on fire the world's on fire with all of the hatred

about

This EP is the result of a collaboration between michael dollan and Tennessee based artist MNTN.

We met on an international musician's network Facebook page, and loved each other's work - so decided to collaborate. Despite the fact MNTN is based in Tenessee, and I am in the UK, a great collaboration, and new friendship began.

Both of us feel this is amongst the best music we have ever made, and for me it contains without doubt the best piece of music I have ever written - the second track here. We couldn't choose a lead track, which is why there are two 🙂

Both of us also make videos, and we chose to use the same brief for both - but to make it our own within that. MNTN takes care of the first - struggle with me -, and I take care of the second - this is the end.

But this isn't the end of this collaboration - you'll see the first release of many here, and given the start we are off to - well, we're both very excited about what's to come.

credits

released July 2, 2021

All songs individually credited.
synths, beats and vocals performed by MNTN
guitars, bass, keys, synths, beats and programming by michael dollan

lyrics by mdTN (each vocalist wrote their own lyrics)

music by mdTN other than 'it's cold outside' and 'this is the end' where music is by michael dollan

MNTN vocal and fx mixed by MNTN
Tracks mixed and mastered by michael dollan except 'this is the end' - mixed by michael dollan and mastered by michael dollan and TwinsighT

(c) mdTN 2021 all rights reserved

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michael dollan Hebden Bridge, UK

Out now is my debut album 'our own unique patch of sky'...

I'm a Geordie musician now living in Hebden Bridge.
I've spent the best part of 30 years in various bands as a bass player, or singer/guitarist. I've also performed numerous times as an acoustic singer songwriter, and have sung in several a capella choirs.
For last 20 years I've worked as a Community Musician and Arts Manager. ... more

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