FALSE SMILES (Mike Martin)

I go out looking for your smile
and I find words haste shields
I just want to feel your hands with mine
but your eyes show false caresses

Sidewalks of wax that melt before my way
when I talk to people like you
cars that fly to a stopped destination
for the many people with the sense of bitterness

I don´t need you
you aren´t what I want
for this perfect world
that I never expected

I just want to know what I need
to fill the river of my loneliness
to stop with false smiles
and keep the true ones

I walk in the afternoon with shadows of the past
trying to take his place without looking back
I inhale chocked air because of rush
of people who don´t care about other ones

I´ve looked at thousand places trying to find
where such errors were born to make me moan
on the blue sky until it´s bluer
the problem is you

WET CRYSTALS (Mike Martin)

Tell me how that song ended
so your memories remind me of every moment
They are what makes me not forget you
the tv, the empty table, lonely days without you
eternal moment keeping to myself

Wet crystals due to my loneliness
sitting next to you on the couch
Wet crystals due to tears
that ends up in a bar in Madrid

Everything is like how you left it
your shoes on the stair and you make-up in my drawer
my heart destroyed and goodbye you forgot to say
days aren´t days without you
eternal moment keeping to myself

SIMPLY WORSE (Mike Martin)

Vapor of sulphur after seeing
a smell of stinky ashes
a relic that can´t be taken of
even though I´m tired of cleaning

A salty taste that remains on my lips
after your Judas kiss
a poor man that totally shred
for the years and pain

You aren´t bad as the say
You aren´t the angel that fell
in my hands because I got distracted
You are simply worse

A hungry lamp shines in my eyes
while you look at the way I go
to release all the destroyed dreams
that were actually few for the dreamer I am

A needle nailed in the steel
what is the thing I have in my heart
a stamp in the palm of my destiny
I found on the way from the word love

YOUR NAME (Mike Martin)

I don´t want to listen to your name
but I really feel like
hugging you like yesterday
before you go

I don´t want to listen to your name
because It has been so many hours
waiting for that call
waiting for a sign

For you to tell me where you are
for you to tell me when you will come

To say it myself
to fill the air
to name you by my side
to tell you how much I love you

I don´t want to listen to your name
but tie me to your shadow
tie me so that
I´ll never be where you aren´t

I don´t want to listen to your name
because it has been so many dreams
that remind me you´re close
but I can´t touch you
when I ´m awake

FACE TO FACE (Mike Martin)

Show me your eyes once again
so I can say by to them
touch me with your cold hands
I can wake up in the sky

Show me the way to silence
I´m sure I´ll get lost
follow me if you don´t mind
to discover myself with no fear

now I see myself
face to face in front the mirror
asking if it´s true or not
what is happening

I only want a shadow of your skin
a ringing heart
that heats me up
I want a paper look
that I can understand
All I feel

Leave me dreaming of your kisses
that give me a life
take with you only bad a moments
I´ll stay with the good ones

Leave me singing on the beach
without you can´t see me
keep the moons we counted
I don´t have space for them

I WISH (Mike Martin)

You don´t realize what you have until you lose it
when the trays of your boat carry away all the answers
You don´t realize each moon I touch isn´t the same without you
each heaven I see goes away before the end of the way

open the window for the sea breeze
it can´t carry away the sea light
so the silver shines and the sea smells
and I can watch you in the eyes

I wish I could give you everything you wanted
I wish I could give you everything I felt

You don´t realize I keep myself warm in your sight
if my soul is cold my words melt each time I look at you
You don´t realize I´ve not been able to make you feel like a queen
and life goes on and I feel I´m left half way

BOHEMIAN (Mike Martin)

Sun and sand path
in the sad world
that hinder my spring
and mist my carnaval
I off load in silence
when I least expect it
and I find the other half
when I never expect it

I live out of my body because I never wanted it
I live because I can´t feel more than I already have

I feel like a bohemian
that turns his back against everything
and doesn´t connect
I feel like a shower in the morning
that dazzles and accompanies me
to nowhere

Colourful light
that draws my senses
making the ways dark
and listen to my heart
I move the sea
without explanation
without anybody asking
who I go with or not

WITH ANYONE (Mike Martin)

With a notebook on a Sunday morning
after losing the lottery
threating each verse I write to you
as long as I don´t sleep with anyone

With a blue pen with no origin
to the desperate impatient waltz
two lovers on a fourteen of February
playing in a way that no one will see them

Not even two of them
could stand me that comes to live
on my staircase
in the darkness of my skin

To the wicked Mr John
that thought me
that allows me
to forget anyone

The filled cup of bitterness
that is full of spirits in the morning
and makes me write a lot of madness
and takes me flying till the moon

To the carnival costume
of the queen of the bars
that invites me to drink at doorsteps
and leave my song without saying a word

CRAZY (Mike Martin)

I´m a deluded and I breath to the moon
I´m an intruder in your darkness
I´m worried and I have a lot of doubts
I draw dwafts and witches

I´m also tired of doing the same always
and I lose control over my destiny
I´m tired of not being always with you
and I ´m getting back with old friends

I´ll look and wait for another love
I´ll look and try , and forget about old love
She drives me crazy

I have gotten to the limit
and I live thinking about not doing anything
I´m still waiting for you to come back home
I say any swearword when I feel like

I plead respect and a bit affection
I don´t want time to go so fast
I avoid new breakdowns
I ask for support when I tensed

I thought you came down from heaven
and you gave me love
If I don´t say this now maybe I repent
but the love I felt for you
that got me crazy

HATE ME (Mike Martin)

Don´t strive because of me
I have already gone
I have cut the armour
that joined my hands to yours

Don´t wait because of me
I´m already free
I have burnt the paper
that you left in my hands

I can´t remember if I closed it all
I can´t remember if I told you

Hate me the way you loved me
the way you like without knowing what to do

I´m not asking you to come
what is happening to me
I want to see you
vice can be overcomed

I´m not asking you to come
let see if it ends
the love once and for all
the love you never gave me

SECOND PART (Mike Martin)

How long do I have to look to find you?
How long would I have to wait for a second part?
How many years will I pass without looking at you?
at your doorstep where you kissed me for no reason

And now I have to wait to see you again
and now I have to look at the sky and imagine

Your eyes, stars, your hair, the sea breeze
and the sand falls in love with your feet when you walk
and your hands caress the beach´s salt
and darkness came when I saw you going

How much do I have to drink to forget you?
How many nights without your kisses and hugs?
How many missed calls and lost dreams?
dreams I told you I had when I felt you

LOOKING AT YOU (Mike Martin)

I found you on a rainy night
when my notes were covered with blue
the long distance that separated us
when I saw you

Now I´m awake from my dream
which I don´t want to remember
all I want is you
and not this world with no life

Tell me about you
I want to see more
I want to be a part of you

I´´draw your smile of you let me
I´´sing to you till you fall asleep
till you shout out my name from your dream
asking me to wait
I´ll keep looking at you

I´ll kiss you slowly till you understand
till you wish to kiss me again
on the silent night
cause I can´t losing you

AGRADECIMIENTOS DEL DISCO

El hecho de grabar un disco es un sueño para algunos músicos. Éste no es mi caso, pues el mío siempre había sido tocar junto a grandes músicos fuese donde fuese, y se ha hecho realidad. En este proyecto han participado los que, para mí, son los más grandes.
Músicos que han ido fortaleciendo y estabilizando mi carrera de manera inconsciente y que se han convertido en los pilares de este proyecto y del que tan solo soy una pequeña gárgola de decoración en todo esto.
Hablo de los tres culpables que un día me escucharon cantar y me animaron a dibujar los planos de lo que hoy se ha levantado sobre tierra firme. No puedo saber se si aguantará mucho tiempo,pero realmente es lo que espero.
Gustavo Díaz, Alberto Brenes y Gerardo Ramos, lo que estoy aprendiendo junto a vosotros no lo puedo describir con palabras. Muchísimas gracias maestros, algún día espero poder devolveros todo lo que he aprendido.

Me gustaría agradecer la colaboración en este disco a muchos músicos y mejores personas:

A la sección de vientos; Javier Martínez, Javier Escribano y Sergio Bienzobas por vuestro saber hacer y por dejaros los pulmones en cada tema.

Al maestro de maestros, Javier Sánchez, gracias por tu elegancia, tu guitarra ha pintado cada obra y le ha dado un color que yo no habría imaginado jamás. Eternamente agradecido por tu gesto (uno de tus peques se tenía que haber llamado como yo)

A mi “compi” del conservatorio el señor David Sancho, profesional como pocos, y el cual he querido que estuviese formando parte de esto porque era importante para mí, por la amistad que nos une y porque sabía que se iba a involucrar en ello con mucho cariño, muchas gracias amigo por tu musicalidad, eres muy grande.

A mi cuarteto de cuerda, gracias por vuestra profesionalidad y vuestras sonrisas en el estudio, por transmitirme tanta alegría y hacerme olvidar la tensión acumulada durante todos esos días. Arturo Sánchez, Pilar Rubio, María Cámara e Inés Cruz, sabía que podía confiar en vosotros.

A mis niños del coro Bastian Iglesias, Javier Pascual, Sara Berruezo y Tatiana Suárez por prestarme vuestras voces y darme tanto cariño aún conociéndonos de hace tan poco tiempo,enormemente agradecido chicos, valéis muchísimo.

A “mi hermano mayor” Gustavo Díaz por su trabajo magistral en los arreglos de viento y de cuerda. Véndeme tu cerebro. gracias por tu dedicación y confiar tanto en mí, no tengo palabras.

A Daniel Arroyo por invertir su tiempo para echarme una mano y aguantarme todo un día cantando y grabando en su casa, en la que me hizo sentir como en la mía.

Muchas gracias a Javier Ortíz por su paciencia durante todo el proceso de grabación y mezclas,y a Marcos Bandera por ayudar a que todo fluyera más rápido. Ha sido un placer trabajar con vosotros.

A Iñaki Lungaran por el arte plasmado en cada fotografía, por transmitirme tranquilidad y hacerme sentir bien en cada sesión. Eras el único que podía conseguir que saliera bien en alguna foto. Era un reto difícil,ya que sabías que no me gusta hacerme fotos, pero has hecho que consiga un poco de confianza en ellas. Gracias Iñaki.

A Carlos Molinero por tu amistad y tu gran ayuda con la pronunciación, aunque seguro que alguna se me habrá escapado.

A Santi de Hinves Pianos, por prestarme tu tienda para las sesiones fotográficas. Tus pianos se portaron muy bien, como siempre.

Y finalmente quiero agradecer y dedicar este disco a mi familia,a los que diariamente me ven crecer personal y musicalmente, y a los que no me han podido llegar a ver. Pero sobre todo esta dedicado a mis padres por su apoyo incondicional desde el día que decidí estudiar piano, por confiar en mis posibilidades. Lo he hecho lo mejor que he podido, espero no haberos defraudado.

Mike Martin