Yes, yes, yes!
You’re about to listen to The Beginning.
This album is 44 minutes long and it’s best listened to the first time through, all the way through with no distractions.
That means no email, no text, no social media.
So if you don’t have 44 minutes of time right now, I politely ask you come back later and turn this off.
I love you.
I wrote this album when I was trying to alchemize the grief and pain in my life into beauty.
It’s been a long time since we spoke. A lot has happened since my father died and I walked across America trying to figure out what was wrong, but I speak to you today in a different place, a place of joy and faith and love.
This album was my attempt to remind you that there are rainbows in your life, while admitting the sun does not alway shine.
If you are listening to this I also want to invite you to join the Inner Bloom community. It’s free of charge and every week we alchemize pain into beauty.
Go to mikeposner.com and I’d love to see you there, until then keep going and remember it’s a beautiful day to be alive.

(Verse 1)
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
February in New York, such a vibe
I have a hundred different moods from one day to the next
And I’ve seen a lot of shit, but still, I know I’m blessed

(Pre-Chorus)
‘Cause life is not a checklist
I’m sorry to my exes
Keep checking all my messages
I’m done being a pessimist
The old way wasn’t working
I gotta put that work in
I know I’m far from perfect
But it’s time for a change

(Chorus)
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
So if you’ve got love, then give it away
Here’s to the joy and the pain
It’s a beautiful day to be alive

(Verse 2)
There’s a part of me
Underneath the part that I let people see
That part is the good part
Oh my God, it’s true
I look at the sky and its electric blue

(Pre-Chorus)
How was I so selfish?
The money never helped it
Keep checking all my messages
I’m done being a pessimist
The old way wasn’t working
So I gotta put that work in
I know I’m far from perfect
But it’s time for a change

(Chorus)
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
So if you’ve got love, then give it away
Here’s to the joy and the pain
It’s a beautiful day to be alive

(Outro)
So if you’ve got love, then give it away
Here’s to the joy and the pain
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
It’s a beautiful day to be alive

(Verse 1)
Every time I’m next to you
I see pink and royal blue
Every time I got you close
I feel like I took a dose (Yeah)
I never felt this way before
Like I known you from way before
You’re the one that I’ve been waiting for
I’m with you ‘til I’m 84

(Pre-Chorus)
And then some, my head spun
You’d light me up like ten suns
I’d give your ass like ten suns, baby

(Chorus)
Is it just me?
I feel like I’m tripping out
Everything is different now
This is crazy
Or is it just me?
‘Cause I can feel it kicking in
Take you back to Michigan
Meet the family

(Post-Chorus)
Or is it just me?
I’m not crazy, I’m just out of my mind
Is it just mе?
I’m not crazy, I’m just out of my mind

(Verse 2)
When I got you in my arms
Galaxies and shooting stars
Every timе I touch your lips
I feel like I’m on a trip (Yeah)
I swear you’re like my medicine
You got me out my head again
I feel you in my skeleton
Let me meet all your relatives

(Pre-Chorus)
You shine, girl, you glistenin’
You sweet, girl, you cinnamon
Unique, girl, you different, baby

(Chorus)
Is it just me?
I feel like I’m tripping out
Everything is different now
This is crazy
Or is it just me?
‘Cause I can feel it kicking in
Take you back to Michigan
Meet the family

(Post-Chorus)
Or is it just me?
I’m not crazy, I’m just out of my mind
Is it just me?
I’m not crazy, I’m just out of my mind

(Bridge)
Life was so difficult
I was so cynical
You are my anecdote (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Life was so difficult
I was so cynical
You are my anecdote (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

(Chorus)
Is it just me?
I feel like I’m tripping out
Everything is different now
This is crazy
Or is it just me?
‘Cause I can feel it kicking in
Take you back to Michigan (Yeah)
Meet the family (Yeah, yeah)

(Post-Chorus)
Or is it just me?
I’m not crazy, I’m just out of my mind
Is it just me?
I’m not crazy, I’m just out of my mind

(Verse 1)
Now you’re all in my city, pretendin’ you′re busy
Tryin’ to make me feel envy
‘Cause your calendar’s full, and your Raya is full
But we both know your heart’s still empty

(Pre-Chorus)
And all it is is confirmation
I’m already so past you
I hope you have a really nice vacation
‘Cause you got nothing to come back to

(Chorus)
Swipe right girls are the death of me
They’re the recipe for a big disaster
Swipe right girls always show me love
Blow my ego up, then the pain comes after
I thought that you loved me
Turns out that it was nothing
Swipe right girls are the death of me
They want attention, but this song’s not about you

(Hook)
This song’s not about you
This song’s not about you

(Verse 2)
Texts keep comin’ in, people seein’ you out
You’re with men that you don’t even know
You’re on a trip to Tulum, you’re in Ibiza for June
And I’m at home just watchin’ the show

(Pre-Chorus)
And now you wanna have a conversation
But I’m already so past you
I hope you have a really nice vacation
‘Cause you got nothing to come back to

(Chorus)
Swipe right girls are the death of me
They’re the recipe for a big disaster
Swipe right girls always show me love
Blow my ego up, then the pain comes after
I thought that you loved me
Turns out that it was nothing
Swipe right girls are the death of me
They want attention, but this song’s not about you

(Outro)
This song’s not about you
You, you
This song’s not about you
You, you
This song’s not about you
You, you
It’s over now

(Intro)
Told me
It was over

(Verse 1)
Hoodie on my head, cold breath in the air
People walkin’ by like I’m not even there
Last three nights felt like a hundred years (Ooh, ooh)
I get paid for my pain long as I can make it rhyme
But sometimes I can’t tell if it’s even mine
Either way, it’s beautiful, look at how it shines

(Pre-Chorus)
It sounds like
Ooh, it’s all in my head (My head)
Lightning and thundering
Ooh, I’m not dead yet
In case you were wondering

(Chorus)
This is what a sad song sounds like
It’s been playin’ in my head for my whole life
It’s beautiful and cruel at the same time
Ooh, ooh, yeah
And this is what a broken heart beats like
It’s tearin’ up my chest like a jackknife
But it gets me through the good and the bad times (Ooh)
This is what a sad song sounds like

(Post-Chorus)
Told me
It was over
Told me
It was over
This is what a sad song sounds like

(Verse 2)
Say it like you love me, say it like you care (Care)
I know that I’m fucked up, I don’t even care (Care)
When I close my eyes, I swear I can disappear

(Pre-Chorus)
It sounds like
Ooh, it’s all in my head (My head)
Lightning and thundering
Ooh, I’m not dead yet (Dead yet)
In case you were wondering

(Chorus)
This is what a sad song sounds like
It’s been playin’ in my head for my whole life (Whole life)
It’s beautiful and cruel at the same time (Yeah)
Ooh, ooh, yeah
And this is what a broken heart beats like (Beats like)
It’s tearin’ up my chest like a jackknife
But it gets me through the good and the bad times (Bad times)
This is what a sad song sounds like

(Post-Chorus)
Told me
It was over
Told me
This is what a sad song sounds like
Told me
It was over
Told me
It was over
This is what a sad song sounds like

(Verse 1)
If I have a son, I will name him King
Teach him how to fight, teach him how to sing
And that a good woman will show you who you are
Not with her words, but with her heart

(Chorus)
But underneath it all
I love you
Underneath it all
I love you

(Verse 2)
It’s okay to smile, it’s okay to cry
Know your daddy’s songs, they will never die
And don’t you feel guilty for what you’ve won
There is good and evil in each and everyone

(Chorus)
But underneath it all
I love you
Underneath it all
I love you
But underneath it all
I love you
Underneath it all
I love you
But underneath it all
I love you
Underneath it all
I love you
But underneath it all
I love you
Underneath it all
I love you

(Outro)
Go
The exciting thing is it’s only the beginning
Go
The beginning, the beginning, the beginning, the beginning, the beginning
Go
The exciting thing is it’s only the beginning
The exciting thing is it’s only the beginning
Go
I wish you could see yourself right now
Struggling and thriving at the same time
Go
You beautiful thing
Go shine
Go
Being who you are
Go
Will bring great peace to many others
Go
Go

(Intro)
You give love and I pull back
It feels like I’m under attack
It’s just too much, so I detach
And you’ll be gone when I come back around

(Verse 1)
There’s a whole lotta sadness in my smile
Dragging around my attachment style
Friends give me advice, add it to the pile
Of things that I’ll do when I’m done being wild

(Pre-Chorus)
My trauma makes me act like my mama
Now I’m creating more drama
I spin the whole thing round and round and round and round and round!

(Chorus)
You give love and I pull back
It feels like I’m under attack
It’s just too much, so I detach
And you’ll be gone when I come back around
You try, but I don’t care
Brush you off, and that’s not fair
Thеn I move back to my hometown
And you’ll be gonе when I come back around

(Post-Chorus)
Back around
And you’ll be gone when I come back around

(Verse 2)
Circling around my trigger points
And acting as if I have a choice
Maybe I never should have left Detroit
I could call you now, but what’s the point?

(Pre-Chorus)
It’s tragic how I’m so stuck in my habits
I walk around in this package
Like it’s okay, but it’s not, it’s not, it’s definitely not, ow!

(Chorus)
You give love and I pull back
It feels like I’m under attack
It’s just too much, so I detach
And you’ll be gone when I come back around
You try, but I don’t care
Brush you off, and that’s not fair
Then I move back to my hometown
And you’ll be gone when I come back around

(Post-Chorus)
Back around
And you’ll be gone when I come back around

(Verse 1)
I meditate, do my breathwork and micro-dose
I got this talent for makin’ everybody close feel like they’re not close
Genetic predispositions tryna pull me into bad habits
I turn my suffering into money, and that’s a black magic
You know life is relentless, it’s got ladders and shoots
But look at my long, long branches and my short little roots
Was listenin’ to the album before the last album, the one everybody knows
It was full of songs like this, I guess I haven’t really grown

(Chorus)
You can’t stay high forever
You can’t stay high forever
When you hold too tight on to your own life
It’ll eat you up alive
You can’t stay high forever

(Verse 2)
I was readin’ Camus yesterday at my Michigan place
My father’s features were all over my face
And when I go through my personal history
I see victory mixed with liberty mixed with misery
Mixed with mystery, mixed with what my parents did to me (Woo!)
Maybe there’s more trauma to unpack
You don’t see me the way I see myself, and that’s what hurts so bad
Tomorrow is a concept, nostalgia’s a dead-end road
I’m haunted by the ghost of my twenties, he’s with me wherever I go

(Chorus)
You can’t stay high forever
You can’t stay high forever
When you hold too tight on to your own life
It’ll eat you up alive
You can’t stay high forever

(Verse 1)
You’re not the one, but you sure showed me something new
You’re the prototype of perfect, and your aura’s royal blue
My mouth is getting dry, my little Jewish heart is poundin’
Must have left my twenties somewhere back up on the mountain

(Pre-Chorus)
There was something stuck inside the wheel
All this white guilt and these white women are nippin’ at my heels
The heat that emanates from you is like a thousand suns
I love it, and I need it, but you are not the one, you’re not the one

(Chorus)
You’re not the one (You’re not the one)

(Verse 2)
You’re not the one, but you’re a goddess, that’s for sure
And the universe is flowing in and through your human form
We’re parading in the sunset, we’re crying out like wolves
We’re stretching in formation every time the spirits pulls
You could change the weather whenever you flick your tongue
I worship you, goddess, but you are not the one

(Chorus)
You’re not the one
You’re not the one

(Bridge)
I got a strange feeling like you can see me
Sacred geometry and Kundalini
The words only go so far, the deep layers
You’re like a Grateful Dead song pre-Mayer

The god in me plus the goddess in you
I’ve got attachment issues, yeah, that’s probably true
But let’s meditate the way two llamas would do
Let’s shoot across the sky like two comets would shoot, woo

(Outro)
You’re not the one
You’re not the one
You’re not the one

(Verse 1)
My story is an old one
Older than the ocean
Older than the night sky, I am
Someone that you knew well
Something that your heart felt
The little voice inside you that guides you to the end

(Chorus)
Then why does it feel
Like nothing is real?
When I look in your eyes
I feel so alive
And I can finally see
There’s no one to be
I don’t wanna go
I don’t wanna leave

(Verse 2)
I wasn’t in the right place
You caught me in a weird phase
Got stuck inside the future of my head
I don’t know where I’m goin’
At times, it’s like I’m floatin’
It’s kinda like I’m meant to be where I am, oh

(Pre-Chorus)
And I can hear you callin’, callin’
Callin’, “Come home”
I can hear you callin’, callin’
Callin’, “Come home”

(Chorus)
Then why does it feel
Like nothin’ is real?
When I look in your eyes
I feel so alive
And I finally see, ooh
There’s nothin’ to be
Nowhere to go, ooh
I don’t wanna leave my (No, no, no, no)

(Bridge)
Kaleidoscope of emotions (No, no, no, no)
Kaleidoscope of emotions (No, no, no, no)
Kaleidoscope of emotions (No, no, no, no), oh
Kaleidoscope of emotions (No, no, no, no)
Kaleidoscope of emotions (No, no, no, no)
Kaleidoscope of emotions (No, no, no, no)
Kaleidoscope of emotions

(Outro)
I deserve the best, and I accept it now
I am letting go

(Chorus)
I see God when I look at you
Pink and green and a thousand blues, oh yeah, ooh, ooh yeah
Spirit wrapped in the human form
I believe we were meant for more, oh yeah, ooh, ooh yeah

And the spirit
In the blue light
In the white light
In the halo
In the moonlight
In the sunlight
And it feels like
A volcano

(Verse 1)
It’s drippin’ off my cheeks and I love it
I can see who I’m now becomin’
I spent three decades runnin’
Tryin’ to shine, now I just chill and let the sun in
The Holy Spirit in the human form
You’re just hidin’ underneath the uniform
I fell pretty far but made it through the storm
Now I got fame and peace, I’m a unicorn

I could feel my dad watchin’ me
My life story is like prophecy
I just fear mediocrity
So much light inside, gotta get it out of me
And the journey′s been intense
Sit back and light some incense
We don’t know where we′re goin’
But I do know my past led me to this moment and

(Chorus)
I see God when I look at you
Pink and green and a thousand blues, oh yeah, ooh, ooh yeah
Spirit wrapped in the human form
I believe that we met before, oh yeah, ooh, ooh yeah

And the spirit
In the blue light
In the white light
In the halo
In the moonlight
In the sunlight
And it feels like
A volcano

(Verse 2)
The excitin’ thing is, it’s only the beginning, the second inning
The underpinnings of sadness have alchemized and crystallized in the service
I still feel that horrible, existential, deep, fucking pain, deep sadness
I just don’t try to numb it anymore
I don’t try to cover it up with drugs or food or sex or fame anymore
I sit right there in the fuckin’ thick of it
And it’s the courage to feel this
This sadness

It’s that courage that makes me who I am
It’s what allowed me to write this
It’s what makes me a deeper, more real man
It’s what allows me to connect with you right now
And all I really want to say to you is I love you
And by you, I don’t mean some person from my past or my future, I mean you
You

I know we haven’t met
But in some ways, we know each other very, very well
Because you know that horrible, existential, deep pain just as well as I do
And I just want to remind you what I need to remind myself

I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love
I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love
I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love
I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love
I see, hear, feel, and know your purpose is to give love
You have fallen so many goddamned times, but get up
Get up

Sometimes the thing that hurts the most is just how much love you have inside you
You feel like you don’t always have a place to put it
You don’t know what to do with it
You think the people around you won’t appreciate it
So you pretend like you don’t have the love and it gets stuck inside you
And love is like water, when it doesn’t flow, it gets rancid and turns to poison
It turns to poison
It turns to anger, resentment, and hate
And if you’re really honest with yourself, your hate is really just love that you didn’t express
You got scared

You got scared that if you actually gave all the love you had, that you might run out
You got scared that maybe your love wouldn’t be received and it would go to waste
So you throttled down the amount of love you were givin’
To match the amount of love you thought you were gettin’

But come home, silly
You could never run out
And your purpose is not to get love
Your purpose is to give love
I wish you could see yourself right now
Strugglin’ and thrivin’ at the same time
You beautiful thing, I wish you could see how beautiful you are
Go shine
Being who you are will bring great peace to many others
Go

(Outro)
Go

(Verse 1)
Play ‘Connect The Dots’
With all my darkest thoughts
And how are they to blame
For this season of pain?
And I’m grateful for what we had
Even though some of it was bad
I had to get that off my chest, alright
But I still wish you the best

(Pre-Chorus)
So hold me close for the last time
This is for the past times
This is for the last time
Yeah, hold me close for the last time
This is for the past times
This is for the last time

(Chorus)
It’s time to make a change
Time to make a change
It’s time to make a change
It’s time to makе a change

(Verse 2)
There’s tеars in both my eyes
Oh, I apologize
For this teenage rage that got out of its cage
It’s time to make a change, I’m tryin’ to make a change

(Pre-Chorus)
So hold me close for the last time
This is for the past times
This is for the last time
Yeah, hold me close for the last time
This is for the past times
This is for the last time

(Chorus)
It’s time to make a change
Time to make a change
It’s time to make a change
It’s time to make a change

(Bridge)
Sometimes, life can feel like torture
Like you’re on a roller coaster
But you gotta keep movin’ forward
Don’t look back, don’t look back
And when times start gettin’ harder
You know God wants you to get stronger
Don’t cry for a moment longer
Don’t look back, don’t look back

(Chorus)
It’s time to make a change
Time to make a change
It’s time to make a change
It’s time to make a change

(Outro)
So hold me close for the last time
This is for the past times
This is for the last time
Yeah, hold me close for the last time
This is for the past times
This is for the last time
This is for the last time

(Verse 1)
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
February in L.A., such a vibe
I’ve got a hundred different moods from one day to the next
And I’ve seen a lot of shit, but still, I know I’m blessed

(Pre-Chorus)
‘Cause life is not a checklist
I’m sorry to my exes
Keep checking all my messages
I’m done being a pessimist
The old way wasn’t working
I know I’m far from perfect
I gotta put that work in
It’s time for a change

(Chorus)
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
So if you’ve got love, then give it away
Here’s to the joy and the pain
It’s a beautiful day to be alive

(Verse 2)
There’s a part of me
Underneath the part that I let people see
That part is the good part
Oh my God, it’s true
I look at the sky and its electric blue

(Pre-Chorus)
How was I so selfish?
The money never helped it
Keep checking all my messages
I’m done being a pessimist
The old way wasn’t working
I know I’m far from perfect
I gotta put that work in
It’s time for a change

(Chorus)
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
So if you’ve got love, then give it away
Here’s to the joy and the pain
It’s a beautiful day to be alive

(Bridge)
Hey!
WooHoo!
Hey!
WooHoo!

(Outro)
So if you’ve got love, then give it away
Here’s to the joy and the pain
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
It’s a beautiful day to be alive