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This is the title track and final on my new CD which is now completed finally after nearly three years. It is the only song with vocals on the CD. Almost didn't make it on there.
The musical idea started so long ago I can't even remember perhaps 15 years or so. But I never set words to it. In recent years the absolute draining experiences with the music BUSINESS had set the tone for the lyrics of the song. But still I could not clamp it down. Then the other impossible task of finding a diagnosis and or help for my health issues was even more frustrating and unbelievable then anything musical I'd ever encountered.

Once combining the two, the message started coming through much clearer.

I asked two young singer/songwriters who we mentor and produce
here two sing on this with me, for one I couldn't see having a CD without them on it. And two - I wanted too pass the torch on too them. They have what it takes in all regards, I could sense that from the day I met them. While they said to me "Are you really retiring like we heard, not making music anymore"?
I told them I'll always make music I HAVE too. But as far as the game and what it takes to get back to where I was and beyond is too much now. It's a young and healthy persons game, and these kids can do it.

They as writers even as young as they are 15 & 13 new upon hearing the line "I can't find the words" that double meaning was there and all over this song. Yes I am tired of trying to come up with lyrics... I have nothing to say anymore. I think 61 doctors can do that too you

TAKING ON FOREVER PART B (Mike Caro ©2011)
http://soundcloud.com/substudio/taking-on-forever

Taking On Forever

Give me a rope I'm sinking
End of the road I'm thinking
I know it sounds absurd
But I can't find the words

I close my eyes
One more day maybe tomorrow
Can't wait until tomorrow it's time

There's the road
But it's so hard
I've lost the will to go
And that road won't come to me
There's the road
But it's so long
If you got the wheels to go
Then maybe you'll chauffeur me

There's a place I've never been
It's outside the rules that keep me in
Never knowing all it's worth
It's the wanting that hurts

What lies ahead
Moves in a way that I can't follow
No shame or blame to borrow it's mine

There's the road
But it's so hard
I've lost the way to go
And that road wont come to me
There's a road but it's so long
And the winding way it goes
To some day the'll know

It's the road that brings you down
Breaks your heart, and leaves you wondering

Solo

There's the road
But it's so hard
I've lost the way to go
And that road wont come to me
There's a road but it's so long
And the winding way it goes
Too some day the'll know ooh oooooooh

There's the road

Mi Na Shin - Violins
Jimmy Alvera - Drums
Kacey 15 - Backing Vocal & end solo vocal
Julia 13 - Backing Vocal & bridge vocal
Mike Caro - All instruments & vocal

Produced By Mike Caro

So it's a personal song but put some headphones on and listen as I put everything in the house in the song. Put my heart & soul into my Les Paul during the solo. And 15 year old Kacey takes an epic ending and vocally OWNS it.. with passion and heart.