Mike,
didn't see this 'til last night, I have been swamped writing lately, but when I saw an opportunity to work with you on something I couldn't wait to wake thismorning and work something up. What I've done I tried to leave it a little open ended as to where the guy is, whether it's prison, war, deported, etc. so it has a wider audience base and script topics/settings that it could be used for...depending on where people are in their lives would determine how they interpret it, but personally my soul leads to to the soldiers, thus the pic I put up at soundclick for this song...my heart goes out to those guys who are over there defending our way of life...it must be hell some of the duty stints those guys have had to pull. This is great music, fun to listen to all by itself, I hope you don't mind I added a little twin part on guitar that just works it's way through the song as a sort of counter melody , keeping that cranked up rock feel to it...the vocals could certainly be better(and there are probably a couple of lyric tweaks if this happens to be the "one" that goes forward) but I think the melody is there for someone who can really nail it...whether I'm successful or not, it sure was fun playing to your tracks, if I had someone like you to work with no telling what could get done. Of course I'll work this with everyone in my network who has an appropriate pitch opp if we feel like we've got something to go forward with at some point, thanks for the chance...hope you're feeling a little better buddy...here's the link followed by the lyric...write great, be well...sorry about screwing your great mix all to hell...Moker

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6342145

Gonna Be Good

I think about your hair in the sunlight
I lie awake and think of our love all night

I wonder why life has taken me so far away
I feel the sand on my face as I wipe a single tear away

& I know that when I finally make it home
It's Gonna Be Good
when I get you in my arms, never let you go
If I can just hold on, & somehow get out of here alive
Gonna Be Good
It's all in my dreams, the reasons to survive

I'm thinking of you now,& I know you feel it too
that it's Gonna Be Good

I think about your struggles & how you're lonely
how we're forced from our one & only

I wonder why life has taken me so far away
I feel the sand on my face as I wipe a single tear away

& I know that when I finally make it home
It's Gonna Be Good
when I get you in my arms, never let you go
If I can just hold on, & somehow get out of here alive
Gonna Be Good
It's all in my dreams, the reasons to survive

I'm thinking of you now,& I know you feel it too
that it's Gonna Be Good

(C)2008 Mike Caro/Moker Jarrett

Say just what you feel and make it rhyme...(Walt Aldridge)

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