The Hybrid Way
Michael Lutz-paap @ 2025
Verse 1
I understand your point of view
You live in ten thousand hertz
I like where the bass is free
A place for the kick to rest
Verse 2
In a zone where shadows meet
Common ground beneath our feet
You are red and I am blue
In the middle both sides are true
Middle
Let’s get together on neutral land
Sit around the campfire in the sand
Talk about our grievances, resolve our differences
War is not the answer……………………………………………
Two voices that meet in the center
Will strike a chord to remember…………...
Not one or the other but to love one another
The hybrid way
Not one or the other but to love one another….
Face to face you are my brother (and my sister too
One voice; one hope one love no fences
Talk about peace and make it endless…
Verse 3
I drive on the left side
You drive on the right side
My roots are in the soil
Your wings are in the clouds
2nd Middle.
Both sides are true
Just a little sacrifice
Help the world to make things right
Both sides are true
More than kings or lawmakers
Blessed are the peacemakers
A Simple Man
Chorus.
I am a Simple Man and I have a simple plan.
We got to love one another like we love ourselves
Verse 1
When the Children are playing in the playground
They see no color no, they see no enemies
They see no handicap, they see no prejudice
Unlike their mothers and fathers who have their Tainted opinions
They teach them hostility
They preach animosity
That one race is superior to another
They teach them sexism
Teach them racism
That one group is superior to another
Chorus.
Verse 2
When the fishermen fight on the same boat
It is the fish that win as they swim on by
When the husband-and-wife yell at it other
It is the kids who feel it the most
They see two parents behaving like fools
Destroying their sense of security
We say we are grown ups
And are sophisticated
But we have nothing on our children
We say we are grownups,
Mostly educated
But we have nothing on our children
Fair Weather family
Michael Lutz-paap @2024
Verse 1
Pixels on a screen, milk and frosted flakes
Roller coasters in a garden full of rakes
Like a video game, rise and play again
Cotton ball promises flying in the wind
Chorus
Fairweather family
Where water is thicker than blood
Fair weather family
Like leaves drifting in a flood
Verse 2
Dinner followed by sweet and sour laughter
What are these family ghosts really after?
Black magic wrapped in sweet sweet chocolate
Juju doctors, flying on broomsticks
Chorus
Fairweather family
Deception from those who care
Fair weather family
Scars deeper than the heart can bear
Alright look, it’s pretty easy to imagine this
Picture every single cousin you can fathom
Get to admin ‘em, bout a dozen of ‘em packing in
Add a couple friends who say they got your back and it’s
A family now, but that aint even half of it
Now imagine if they hated on your rapping
Never seen a mic check, but checking on you cashing in
Claiming now, they always were so passionate
But the fact of it is they were never down for it
In the dark days covered by the cloud storming
Just you, the only one around for it
Umbrella not in sight with it down pouring
Now the sun is coming up and you have found glory
Everyone you ever met, in the crowd for it
Coming for a pound of flesh and they proud of it
Looking down knowing they won’t get an ounce of it
All This Nonsense.
Copyright. Michael Lutz-paap 2022
Chorus
All this Nonsense
All this craziness-- Craziness
All this Madness
Will never end until
We learn from history
And end our misery
For a better world— One Love, One heart, One Law for all of us
All this nonsense
All this craziness
All this madness
Will never end until
We learn from history
And stand in unity
For a better world— One Love, One heart, One Law for all of us
Verse 1- The human race is reeling
New diseases are killing
Our leaders are misleading
Some are creating division
Put these things together
Who’s to blame for this Nonsense?
Verse 2- Me
How can we trust our politicians?
Long noses in disguise
The left and right institutions
Never want to compromise
Are they to blame
Or are we the cause of this nonsense
Verse 3-Me
Some Whites say Blacks are monkeys
Some Blacks say Whites are pigs
Who made the Blacks and Whites?
Who made the Monkeys and Pigs?
Is he to blame
Or are we the cause of this nonsense
Chorus
Middle/Bridge
So why don’t we try and sing in unison
Feels so much better than hostility
Let’s bring all our happy notes down to this bridge
And mix them together
No matter what the weather
Let’s dance and sing in Harmony
And mix them together
In any kind of weather
Let’s dance and sing in Harmony …DRMFSLTD
Chorus to end
Time Keeps on Changing
c. Michael Lutz-paap. (2006, 2022)
The wheels of fortune turn round and round
They keep spinning till hope if found
Some find it by morning some find it by night
A stab in the dark out of sight
I keep on searching but I can’t find – Harmonize to “Keep on walking, but I get nowhere”
Keep on looking as if I am blind
Keep on listening but I can’t hear
Keep on walking but I get nowhere
Wisdom and humility
Them a sacrifice with iniquity
Poverty is the brother to disgrace
So hard, only love can replace
(Harmony)
I keep on searching but I can’t find Harmonize all the way down to” find your one and only”
Keep on looking as if I am blind
Keep on listening but I can’t hear
Keep on walking but I get nowhere
Time a keeps on changing
Time a rearranging
When your luck say never never
Gonna be better better
Time a keeps on changing
Time a rearranging
When you are sad and lonely lonely
Find your one and only only
Wild and Beautiful
Copyright .Michael Lutz-paap 2022
Chorus
Wild and beautiful, Holiday woman
Why you thrill me so
Wild and beautiful, every woman
Why you kill me so.
Verse 1
I went to the Island of Jamaica for a holiday, Oh Yeah (backing Harmony)
Leaving behind me all the hustle and rush of a working day, oh yeah (Backing Harmony)
Sound of music playing
Bodies gently swaying
Muscle men displaying
Right on the beach
It was hypnotizing, mesmerizing, enticing
But it was all a dream
Chorus
I took a break from the rat race for a holiday oh yeah (backing harmonies)
Leaving behind me all the puzzle and stress of a dreadful day oh yeah (Backing harmonies)
A shot of straight tequila
Moving like Shakira
Boys drink rum and cola
Hello everyone –HOLA!!!!!
Hypnotizing, mesmerizing, enticing
But it was all a dream
A shot of straight tequila
Moving like Shakira
Boys drink rum and cola
Hello everyone –HOLA!!!!!
You Sent Me an Angel.
Copyright Michael Lutz-paap 2022
Been praying hard to the Lord
To help me out of my dire circumstance
Hungry for a bite
A widow's mite
A little rock weeping up in the mountains
Dying for water flowing from its fountains
Hiding from the elements
No embellishments
All I need, is a little spark
A kick in the pants to spur me on
I will rise up with your helping hand
I promise sincerely
To be the best version of me,
That I can be
Chorus
You sent me an Angel,
In the middle of a halo
To show me that I am able
You sent me an angel
Divine and graceful
To show me that I am able
To be the best version of me
That I can be.
Verse 2
Everybody needs some help sometimes
In the darkness, a little flame will do
Don’t need a magic wand
Just a helping hand
God will help those that help themselves
As long as he knows that you’ve been trying
He can feel the tears you’ve been crying
All I need, is a little spark
A kick in the pants, to spur me on
I will rise up, with your helping hand
I promise sincerely
To be the best version of me,
That I can be
Chorus
I will be your guiding light
So you can see very far
You can be who you really are
I am your shining light
I am burning bright for you
I Count My Blessings.
Copyright. Michael Lutz-paap 2010
Sometimes I wake and look around me yeah
I see on TV bad news everywhere
Some have too much
More than they will ever need
And the rest of humanity have just the bare necessities
But the sun rises and flowers will bloom
My spirit soars like a kite in the sky
My hopes are raised lifting me higher; higher and higher
And I make a list of God’s blessings
I have health, and I have freedom
I have things that I take for granted
But the blind man can’t hear the color of the sea
I have enough and I have free will
I can roam the wilderness as I please
But the deaf man can’t see the songs of the wind
I have hopes and I have dreams
That no one can ever take away
There are those who cannot afford to dream at all
I have little but I have a lot more
compared to some outside my door
But the crippled man can’t run from the lion
Guitar solo
But the sun rises and flowers will bloom
My spirit soars like a kite in the sky
My hopes are raised lifting me higher; higher and higher
And I make a list of God’s blessings
I have health, and I have freedom
I have things that I take for granted
But the blind man can’t hear the color of the sea
I have enough and I have free will
I can roam the wilderness as I please
But the deaf man cannot see the songs of the wind
I have hopes and I have dreams
That no one can ever ever take away
But there are those who cannot afford to dream at all
I have little but I have a lot more
compared to some outside my door
But the crippled man can’t run from the lion
I can’t complain, I can’t complain
There are people who are worse off than me
I can’t complain, I count my blessings
I can’t complain, I count my blessings
Chorus to end.
Miracles.
Copyright Michael Lutz-paap 2021
Verse 1
Sitting down waiting for money
But money don’t come too easily nowadays
Golden clouds will rain a bounty
Silver trees leaves will grow plenty—Fantasy
Sitting down waiting for miracles
You have to struggle
You have to fight to survive
In this crazy world today
Losers run away from the fray
You do not go day dreaming
You are riding a winner
A horse called Lucky
You need something steady
And to eat, man must work
To work, man must eat
Search for your lost motivation
And everything you do
There must be a reason so…
Don’t wait for miracles. X4
Middle Solos
Verse 2
Hungry days, Twisted faces
Lonely nights no friends- a life in pieces life in pieces
The higher you are, the easier it is
The lower you are my friend, close to the grave
Sitting down waiting for miracles
You have to struggle,
Shake the dirt off your skin
And eat with the kings
And flirt with the queens
You can’t be lazy
life will be hazy
If you watch from the skies so high
Where no one hear your cry
And to eat, man must work
To work, man must eat
To eat and work leave your fantasy behind
And everything you do
There must be a reason so…
Don’t wait for miracles
