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New Music Showcase

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by Daniel Mandel

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I want to have more opportunities to share the music that I'm working on and new songs that I'm writing. I hope you like this new format as a new way to get music out to you earlier!
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released 26 December 2009
For specific song credits - see the details of each song; but in general all of these songs are written by Daniel Mandel.
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tags: folk folk rock adult contemporary pop Oakland
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Music opens me up. Songs let me voice my puzzles and solve them. I wrote a song called, "Brave Open Love" trying to make ... more sense of the details of my life. I wrote a song called, "Hide" because I tend to. I fall in love too quickly! I write these songs to communicate my essential feelings and sensibilities. less

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Track Name: Treasure of Pleasure
The Treasure of Pleasure (Lyrics by Mark Mandel)

I tether you, dear, with a pleasure so near
so deeply within it can't be ignored
a treasure that weathers all that I fear

I never that treasure with everything mere
and bury my hope with passions restored
I tether you, dear, with a pleasure so near

I measure my pleasure in how I adhere
to a life that I live while hoping to hoard
a treasure that weathers all that I fear

but whether that treasure for me is right here
there's much that I find that I cannot afford
I tether you, dear, with a pleasure so near

my pleasure is feathered by what I revere
and haunted by all I haven't explored
a treasure that weathers all that I fear

in my leisure I treasure your every tear
and wonder, my love, if you're my reward
I tether you, dear, with a pleasure so near
a treasure that weathers all that I fear
Track Name: Possessed In Poses
Possessed in Poses

These shapes that Ana makes
the care that her attentions place
Poses she articulates
beautiful her body’s grace
are Evident upon her face

some semblance of symmetry
of line and look she models me
Asana of geometry
She sculpts herself so I can see

And what has she achieved
abstraction in relief
Idea in 3D
She holds a mirror up to me
Allowing me to see
me
Track Name: One Dark Night
One dark night you glanced at me
Just after I had spoke
I felt you'd seen something inside of me
and deep down it made you choke
I know you see me as a monster
with your queen trapped in my cage
but in this story no one ends up saved

No mirrors, no liars
I'm the one in charge here
No Joyous sweet melody
I'm the one that stays here

Biting bitter from this whole affair
like the first taste of bad wine
Your barrels should be filled with shame
for leaving her behind
There's nothing can be said to me
To vex my ear the more
You can't reach this monster any more
Track Name: When You're Ready
You can say goodbye
Don't say goodbye
When you're ready you'll know

Lay your head down

Close your eyes

Set your worries free

The end of suffering

I am so, so sorry
For any times that I have let you down
Any times that I have done you wrong
Put you out in the rain

I can show you your food
Your water is good
But I cannot show you how to die
Or where you might go
What you might do
How it might be
What you may find
Could be nothing at all

I can no longer comfort you
You can say goodbye
Don't say goodbye
When you're ready you'll know