LIFE; THE MUSICAL

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#		Title	Length
1		A Happy Sea	4:14
2		You're Not Near	2:11
3		A Sad Song	2:47
4		Your Magazine	3:01
5		A Song For Two Friends	3:35
6		I'll Make You Happy If I Can	3:18
7		What Are You Doing ?	2:11
8		Without You I'm No One	2:14
9		Flowers (Painted On The Wall)	4:00
10		Soldiers Of Peace	1:48
11		Ain't It A Shame?	2:50
12		Who Can I Be?	5:03
13		Illegitimate Peace	2:24

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The worlds a mess.

Yes, youve seen these words before, but Michael Bonanno thinks that the mess starts at the personal level.

Love songs, or more accurately, love lost songs are just a microcosm of the macrocosm. It starts when lovers dont see things eye to eye and, instead of talking it out, make the ultimate decision to go their own way.

A Happy Sea, A Sad Song and Without You Im No One contain sad lyrics, accompanied by sad music. Do these couples have to break up? You decide. At any rate, something went wrong and they make the ultimate move, they end their relationship.

Michaels mastery over the crying slide guitar slide in A Happy Sea and Without You Im No One merely emphasizes the heartache felt when lovers part.

Michael never breaks away from his social commentary. Although LIFE; THE MUSICAL is not the theme album that Flameland is, Michael still reminds us of the macrocosm. Soldiers Of Peace, which is also found on Flameland, shows the hypocrisy of The Regime. After all, The Front Man, Bush, once said, In order to have peace, you have to have war. This statement is right out of Orwells 1984.

Michael answers The Front Man with Illegitimate Peace because thats the only kind of peace that results from war.

What Are You Doing? is Michaels way of asking Are you f***ing crazy!

Michael basically lays it all out in Aint It A Shame? Whats going on in the world today and, in some cases, whats not happening is, indeed, a shame.

Michael talks about escaping the craziness with the introspective Flowers (Painted On The Wall) and Who Can I Be? How does one escape the craziness? The eeriness of the music, especially in Flowers, leaves the answer up for interpretation.

As always, theres hope in LIFE; THE MUSICAL. Ill Make You Happy If I Can is one persons assurance that not all men are the same. Some men actually have a heart and can give love with the best of em.

Michael wrote A Song For Two Friends for two of his best friends who, as their wedding day approached, were having second thoughts. Michael likes to think A Song For Two Friends helped them on their way to many years of beautiful marital bliss.

While in college, Michael lay in bed one evening reading a popular magazine and wondered how anyone could want a subscription to the rag. Showing a sense of humor, Michael wrote Your Magazine and had fun recording it. What you hear on "LIFE; THE MUSICAL" comes directly from the reel-to-reel tape recorder used the night Michael made up "Your Magazine". In fact, what you hear is Michael making up "Your Magazine".

LIFE; THE MUSICAL showcases Michaels musical talent as well as his musical production talent.

LIFE; THE MUSICAL cant be really called an all encompassing synopsis of life, but Michael definitely tries to hit some of the high, and low, points.