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Younger Days

by Mike Vitale

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While I am certainly not an old man, I do remember when phones were still attached to walls, and when they were dialed by rotary.

My grandparents went from the bold new innovation of electricity and radio on a rural farm in California—to watching astronauts landing on the moon on a television from a house in Tulare.

I remember when my parents gave my grandparents a VCR for Christmas. The clock would be blinking 12:00, 12:00, 12:00. I would wonder why my grandparents never set the clock to the actual time of day it was.

I understand why, now, at 42 years old.

The world keeps moving, and changing, any a rate that I hardly feel I can keep up with—and people are no different as well. We are walking contradictions in that sense. We stay the same—yet, we also do not. Slowly changing, yet rapidly aging.

I had a person give me the advice once, to be the best version of myself. I suppose, as a turn of phrase, it politely takes into account that we are "ever changing like the shifting continents"—and with each passing day, I do feel that I am growing older and older at an exponential rate. Time, perceptibly, seems to be moving faster—and I change quite slowly—perhaps imperceptibly to myself and everyone else around me, until I catch up with a person I have not seen in 15 or 20 years, or look into a mirror and notice grey hair in my beard and hair.

I know for certain that I am not the same man I was 20 years ago. I am all the better for that. I also feel that wading in the waters of the past has its short comings, when the future is as optimistic as we make it.

This is called YOUNGER DAYS. It is now available on Spotify and Apple Music and all the other streaming platforms you fancy—and if you're feeling especially awesome, you can purchase it right here on Bandcamp.

Find it on your streaming service of choice right heya: sng.to/mikevitale/younger-days

Do something nice today. Reach out to a friend and say hi and tell them that you love them.

Thanks for listening!

Mike

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YOUNGER DAYS
words and music by Michael Patrick Vitale and Daniel Blake Wilson

I'm searching in the attic
For something long abandoned for survival
I used to feel ecstatic
When horizons were the frame of your arrival

But nothing seems to stay the same as how we pictured it
People ever changing like the shifting continents
And there's no sense in fencing in or building walls to save
The emotions we were swimming in
In our younger days

A shoebox full of moments
The memories that made us who we are
We're smiling in these pictures
The last light from a dying star

Because nothing seems to stay the same as how we pictured it
People ever changing like the shifting continents
And there's no sense in fencing in or building walls to save
The emotions we were swimming in
In our younger days

Because nothing seems to stay the same as how we pictured it
People every changing like the shifting continents
And there's no sense in fencing in or building walls to save
The emotions we were swimming in
In our younger days

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released August 24, 2021
released August 24, 2021
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Organ - Mike Vitale
Electric Guitar - Tom Bremer
Bass - Paul Jones
Drums - Evan Stone
Background Vocals - Anastasia Lynne and Daniel Blake

Recording Engineers: Mike Vitale, Evan Stone, Anastasia Lynne, and Daniel Blake
Mixed by Ryan Lipman
Mastered by Mark Alan Miller

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Mike Vitale Los Angeles, California

Mike Vitale is a singer-songwriter and producer based out of Los Angeles, CA. When not preoccupied with other stuff, he enjoys short walks on long beaches with his two border collies, Border and Collie. He is certain that this sentence is useless, but also doesn't believe in absolutes. The dogs may or may not be fictional. All the other stuff is probably true. ... more

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