Lonesome Rider's blog: "No Name"

  It all started simply enough, I'm walking through Borders not really looking at anything in peticular when I get a text message from my good friend Steve Brown that states "We want you to say something at our upcoming show." It would've been so easy to say no but then I wouldn't be writting this. I told him I would be glad to do it. Now I had to do something I haven't done in a long time and thats be creative. So now I'm wandering around the store with my mind going a mile a minute looking for a peice of inspiration anything to spark the creative process, and then I found it sitting on the self almost like fate a new Mick Foley book. For those of you not fimillar with Foley he is with out a doubt one of the most creative minds I have ever seen. A professional wrestler that can work a crowd like no other and here it is in my little hands more of his knowledge and if need be something to blantally rip off as I've done in the past.

   Anyways the day of that show have come and gone and i chose just to keep things short and simple as I didn't want to take focus away from my friends band. It went well and we all had a good time. Now if I had only said no because what happened next is the real kicker. I have been asked to join there band Dead Before Dawn as the new bass player and once again I said yes. This however puts me in a weird situtation because it is not something I have really done before. I've been a singer for many years but for the most part I've considered myself more or less retired. I'm going to be 33 I'm pretty much out of shape and maybe have a thimbful of musical talent and I'm starting a come back doing something new to me, and if that is not enough I decided to write about it. So here it is the intro to this whole sorry little mess if your interested there will be more to come and if anything it will be pretty dam entertaning.

                                                                                                                                                             Thank you for taking the time to read this

                                                                                                                                                               Mike

I'm not here for forgivness

I don't want redemption

My crimes are my own

That's why I stand alone

For every bullet you shoot at me

I've got four more for you

Didn't you think I would see this through

All my demons are long dead

Now it's just me and you

So watch closelly as I take your head

For my whole life

I was the one that was

Writting myself off

No more running

I'm not going to hide

Once and for all

We need to settle this

Once and for all

This needs to end

I'm fighting this all in my mind

Bound an gagged On the basement floor Kick me like the dog I am And I beg for more Rats chew my finger tips I feel My blood drain The outside world Never got me Playing hide and seek With my sanity It burns the eyes When you haven't seen the sun In such a long time These may be the dark times My light no longer shines