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Burning Bridges
04:27
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Words and music ©2016-2017 Mario G. Di Sandro
Burning Bridges
I'm burning bridges for the very last time
No longer putting myself on the line
I'm crossing water just to reach dry land
No longer sinking below this quick sand
Don't need a match, cuz time is burning
No need for water, cuz I've been drowning
I'll steer this boat while it is sinking
Don't look back while the smoke is billowing
No longer leaving in the middle of the night
I'm seeing clearly now with my own sight
I'm leaving all my past so far be-hind
So tired of this nonsense in my mind
Don't need a match, cuz time is burning
No need for water, cuz I've been drowning
I'll steer this boat while it is sinking
Don't look back while the smoke is billowing
I'm keeping all my cards close to mine
No longer feeling overwhelmed by time
Come along and follow me on this ride
I've found a door that leads to the other side
Don't need a match, cuz time is burning
No need for water, cuz I've been drowning
I'll steer this boat while it is sinking
Don't look back while the smoke is billowing
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Writing In Cursive
04:15
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Writing in Cursive
Words and music © 2017 by Mario G. Di Sandro
We've forgotten our true selves
Who'll remember our past
Forgetting our own names
While reshuffling the deck
Like a concept revealed
A mystery understood
How can we understand
what we don't even know
Today's youth don't know the past
Words on a screen touching glass
Language unfounded to their brain
Picking up a pencil sounds insane
A lit-erary tool, so perversive
So I'll keep on, writing in cursive
The blinding light
will guide you on home
Death and destruction
Is ingrained in their bone
Look up all around you
So much truth to reveal
If but for a fraction
We're a mere percentage
Today's world don't know the truth
False promises of a life so dilute
Television screams out your name
The lives of before will never be the same
A society of fools, so subversive
Meanwhile I'll keep on, writing in cursive
I might be wrong
I could be wrong
But at least I know it
And at least I show it
Enough to make it through
Enough to face the truth
I imagine the world
Blowing up in flames
We are steering the boat
We are flying the planes
We have all of the knowledge
Yet we're so off track
Is it up to us?
To change our own course
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Stuck In My Ways
04:32
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Stuck In My Ways
Words and music ©2016-2017 by Mario G. Di Sandro
You sew the heart up, but it comes unhinged
You pull the thread and walk away
Spilling more than you can bear
You know this moment will come to pass
I see a change coming around the bend
I never wanted to, but you forced my hand
Now i’m still, stuck in my ways
Now i’m still, stuck in my ways
You’re a hit and run with no witness
You stick around just to see it through
You swim the ocean but you’re on your knees
Underwater, but breathing still
I feel a change coming around the bend
I didn’t want to, but you forced my hand
Now i’m still, stuck in my ways
Now i’m still, stuck in my ways…
I've been in love but it always ends
I've felt the heartaches and the pain it lends
I've been deceived, broken and bent
I've seen the hurt and the message it sends
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Wasted Stories
04:46
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Wasted Stories
Words and music ©2016-2017 Mario G. Di Sandro
Building up for nothing
Told you everything I knew
What's the point of recycling
These wasted stories with someone new
It all came falling
How was I to know?
That you'd stop calling
That you'd be someone that I used to know
Picking up the pieces
Of a yesterday
Never thought I'd see this
Ending up this way
But I know that I must walk on
But I know that I must move on
For this to fade
For this to fade
Running out of luck
Chancing them dice
Trying to see the world
Before it sees me looking back
What's a boy to do?
With this lonely heart
Left it out to dry
Tried to restart this broken machine
Picking up the pieces
Of a yesterday
Never thought I'd see this
Ending up this way
But I know that I must walk on
But I know that I must move on
For this to fade
For this to fade
It don't come easy
Starting from scratch
Fumbling on your words
Catching yourself getting caught in the act
Picking up the pieces
Of a yesterday
Never thought I'd see this
Ending up this way
But I know that I must walk on
But I know that I must move on
For this to fade
For this to fade
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I Killed A Spider
05:06
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I Killed A Spider
Words and music ©2016 by Mario G. Di Sandro
I killed a spider
But it don't know
Any better
Than I do
No longer suffering
But who am I
To decide on
Such a fate
How many lifetimes
Passed before it
So unbothered
Yet so free
To cast judgement
Ignorantly
Befalls humanity
And triggers a shift
Walk now lightly
For you will see
A world unsightly
Delivered unto thee
I killed a spider
Didn’t know it’s name
Or it’s story
Or where it came
Who gave the power
To take away
The hungry hour
Who said you may?
The smaller the action
The bigger the fate
Have we forgotten
Or is it too late?
Soon there’ll be nothing
But scraps at the gate
Clawing for something
No one to populate
Talk now, lightly
For you will hear
A world revolting
A hell amongst this Earth
Act now politely
For you will be
A slave of freedom
A soul with no dignity
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6. |
Walk A Mile
05:56
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Walk A Mile
Words and music ©2008, 2016-2017 by Mario G. Di Sandro
Walk a mile in my shoes
Come along and sing these blues
Find the darkness inside of you
Walk a mile in my shoes
Won't find it on the front page news
Always battling those post-love blues
Never looking for the perfect excuse
Always paying his hard-workin' dues
Fighting off these post-war blues
See it playing on the breaking news
Take awhile and see it through
Singing these working man blues
You never know just what is going
On in other people’s lives
Walk a mile in their shoes
Might come away, singing the blues
But we judge, much too quick, so take a moment, and reflect
Walk a mile in my shoes
Come along and sing these blues
Find the darkness inside of you
Walk a mile in my shoes
See it happen right in front of you
Feel the pain rip right thru
It’s in a song singing to you
Feel the sadness surrounding you
See me sinking when I think of you
All these feelings, don’t know what to do
Take a moment to find the truth
Ain’t changing, only staying true
You never know just what is going
On in other people’s lives
Walk a mile in their shoes
Might come away, singing the blues
But we judge, much too quick, so take a moment, and reflect
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7. |
Highs And Lows
05:40
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Highs and Lows
Words and music ©2017 by Mario G. Di Sandro
Everywhere I go
I lose control
I just don't know
Which me will show
I just want... to run away
Oh, and I'll come back, I'll find my way.... I'll find my way
Sick and down again
How long will I last? How long will I last this time
All these highs and lows
Won't let me go
Even I don't know
If it'll let me go
I move so slow
My energy dips low
It comes on real slow
It surrounds my soul
It holds my breath real low
Forced beneath the undertow
And at once it's gone
It never stays too long
All these highs and lows
Won't let me go
Even I don't know
If it'll let me go
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8. |
Putting Out The Fire
04:24
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Putting Out The Fire
Words and music ©2016-2017 by Mario G. Di Sandro
Putting out the fire
In my heart and all desire
Blowing in the wind
Confessing all my sin
Facing all the demons
Changing with the seasons
Of my past and present
Of my name I represent
I'll raise the blade
Unto the arm
That holds me down
And strangles life from me
I'll choose to live
I'll fight the will
I'm going home
To the place I've always known
Meanings take to choices
In my head there's noises
They lead me to my spirit
With a crushing blow I defeat it
Feeding into my hunger
Giving into wonder
Setting out my own path
Living thru the aftermath
I'll raise the blade
Unto the arm
That holds me down
And strangles life from me
I'll choose to live
I'll fight the will
I'm going home
To the place I've always known
Putting out the fire...
Putting out the fire...
Putting out the fire...
Putting out the fire...
Putting out, putting out
Putting out, putting out
Putting out, putting out
Putting out, putting out
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She'll Never Be Alone
05:13
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She’ll Never Be Alone
Words and Music ©2016-2017 by Mario G. Di Sandro
There she was again
Sitting all alone
You know which one
She’s like a setting sun
She moves so fast
Almost calculated
Like she’s being watched
At a table reading
She always wears it well
Been through such hell
But she doesn’t show it
But she knows it
She’ll never be alone… But her heart is made of stone
She’s at the bar
She smiles your way now
While she waiting
Her boyfriend is paying
Her hair’s pulled up
And jeans are faded
like a magazine ad has
Been recreated
Her chiseled face
Your brain can’t re-place
You’ll get her number
But she’ll leave you in wonder
She’ll never be alone… But her heart is made of stone
She’s got tattooed arm
Some have faded
Like her memories
Are her only enemies
Her piercings shine
Off the dashboard radio
She’s got the time
To be anywhere now
Her radiant smile
Will drive you crazy
You’ll book the next plane home
And she’ll leave you lazy
She’ll never be alone… But her heart is made of stone
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10. |
Give A Mouse A Cookie
04:16
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Give a Mouse a Cookie
Words and music ©2016-2017 by Mario G. Di Sandro
Honing in the skills to survive
Coming to age and feeling alive
Chance and opportunity knock
It's your path to take and walk
A solitary man takes his time
To shape his path on down the line
A peaceful, but lonely existence
Can lead some to resistance
Humans wish they had taken, their last step first
Leaving them with an, unquenchable thirst
If you let them in the door, no, they won't leave
Asking for more, a complexity we did weave
You're given choices to move this tide
Or you'll be living on the other side
Shuffling past the future on the street
Play your cards right and you'll have a seat
Breathing wisdom, he offers a line
A noble life with no papers to sign
Staring off deep past the ocean
His world is constantly in motion
Humans wish they had taken, their last step first
Leaving them with an, unquenchable thirst
If you let them in the door, no, they won't leave
Asking for more, a complexity we did weave
If you give
A mouse a cookie
Then it will
Ask for some milk
If you continue
Down this path
Nothing will ever
Ever last
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Deconstructing A Bomb
05:34
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Deconstructing a Bomb
Words and music ©2016-2017 by Mario G. Di Sandro
We
are flying high on
better days now
crashing low
in other ways
Believe
Circumstance can be
a moment in time
Left better for dead
On the side of the road
Truth
Can't be told in lies
Disrespect the laws
of Human condition
Are you ready for this?
Thoughts are things
So don't let them live
Things manifest
Thoughts don’t rest
Just let them breathe
Or you'll be
Spending your time
De-constructing a bomb
Old
And growin' towards death
A vision is kept
Underneath the guise
of youth, I suspect
Life
Staring down a ledge
A different point of view
From the many who
silently suffer
Time
Ruminates on ghosts
An elaborate hoax
This existence we are
given, to run wild and free
Thoughts are things
So don't let them live
Things manifest
Thoughts don’t rest
Just let them breathe
Or you'll be
Spending your time
De-constructing a bomb
Hurt
the aching heart
Pounds a mile away
thru the chambers
Of now your poisoned blood
Sin
You’re praying too hard
For the chosen ones
Forgotten daughters and sons
Equal but not the same
Death
Is kneeling too close
To wicked thoughts
Flying towards the sun
Melting all your wax
Thoughts are things
So don't let them live
Things manifest
Thoughts don’t rest
Just let them breathe
Or you'll be
Spending your time
De-constructing a bomb
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Out In The Universe
04:28
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Out In The Universe
Words and music ©2016-2017 by Mario G. Di Sandro
If, if you can breathe
Then why can't you see that
It's out in the universe
For us, to be, in harmony
So, if we can live
Here on this Earth only
With all that she's given to us
But we, must, give up our greed
Say, say what you want
It will not change my thoughts on
All that the world has taught me
But we, have, so much to learn
Well, if you do try
Try with your might and
You can be anything that
You'd like, it's all up to you
Live, live for each day
Like it's your last stand
Go and see everything that
There is, don't let, your life go past
Love, love with your heart
remove all the doubt and
see that forever leaves you
with a, piece, for you to hold
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13. |
The Long Swim
06:21
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The Long Swim
Words and music ©2017 Mario G. Di Sandro
You, don’t know, just how it feels to be
So, a-lone, and waiting for the day
For, the pain, to fin-ally disappear
Then, and only, then will I find my peace
I won’t, give up
Livin’ on the edge of the world
I won’t, give in
Not going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
Love, is felt, but can’t compete with it
Dark, and down, making my way back up
Only, to fall, down all the steps i’ve taken
Sand, like time, erases all you’ve done
I won’t, give up
Livin’ on the edge of the world
I won’t, give in
Not going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
Heart, is heavy, from carrying all the burden
Breath, is slow, feeling so par-a-lyzed
I won’t, give up
Livin’ on the edge of the world
I won’t, give in
Not going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
Going for the long swim
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Mario Di Sandro Los Angeles, California
Mario Di Sandro is a Singer-Songwriter from Chicago. Amassing a few hundred original songs in his personal repertoire since setting sail for the West Coast in 2011. Now living in Los Angeles, he has written hundreds more and has since released 12 studio albums in 12 years. Mario draws his songwriting influences from the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Wilco, and Tom Petty. ... more
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