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I'll Sing To Rebuild

from 2016 by mikey mo

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Taking it back again - 2003 - My first time to New York City as an adult. The city was still so broken from what had happened to it 2 years earlier. I sat there and stared at ground zero, in person, for my first time. I was distraught. A mess. Filled with so much emotion I never new a massive hole in the ground could possibly ever fill me with. I wished there was something I could do. I walked around a bit. Looked at memorials. Read stuff people posted on walls of neighboring buildings. Photos of the twin towers as we new them, not as what was left here as a broken symbol of what they use to be. I read something that day that really just stuck with me. The me, of 2003, int home and did what I felt best suited to do in order to give back. I wrote a song. I took what I found on the wall that day written in marker on a busted piece of metal on the side of the road and in as heartfelt a manner I could, injected the words of a street poet into my own story, my own music, my own song and creation. The words were:

Yo New York,
It's been a while. I'm sorry I haven't made it around.
I see your scar is healing. Just keep holding on.
Things will get better.


Goodnight Sweet City
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And with those words and the evening sun reflecting off the highest members of the remaining skyline, I felt a pain, and anger and a desire to see the city become so much more than it had been chopped down to be. So I wrote - and I sang. Not sure this song ever touched anyone in it's previous acoustic versions, but perhaps if you were around during the attack on Manhattan, the rebuilding or were even just touched by the disaster in anyway, this fresh recording finds a place and conveys the message I meant for it to years ago.

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So this is what we call embrace,
To know we won't forget these days,
Staring as the sun sets,
Bursting off the highest,
New York City skyline,
and now I whisper good night,
One more time...

Goodnight, sweet city.
I see your scar is healing.
And though I've only seen you for the first time,
Doesn't mean I know what it's like,
Doesn't mean I can't feel what it's like,
To be hurting by your side.

Rework, rebuild, re-establish what we knew,
And now we'll do our best just to,
Show them what we're made of,
Because when we fall we get back up.

Goodnight, sweet city.
I see your scar is healing.
And though I've only seen you for the first time,
Doesn't mean I know what it's like,
Doesn't mean I can't feel what it's like,
To be hurting by your side.

So now I'll sing this city to sleep,
In Hope of soothing, somewhat, something.
Hold on so tight, all through the night.
And thought you never sleep,
I'll still sing you to sleep tonight.
Goodnight sweet city.

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from 2016, released January 27, 2016

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mikey mo Golden, Colorado

Mikey Mo is a musician from Spotswood, New Jersey who proudly survived the late 90's and early 00's pop-punk rush that swept the nation. It's been years but Mikey is ready to start pumping the jams again in an attempt to once again have an outlet for creativity and a gateway to nostalgia at its finest. ... more

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