Michael Arata (born February 23, 1966) is an American actor and film producer. He began his acting career at age four and has since appeared on stage, in feature films and television programs.
Arata was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. As an actor, he has worked with Academy Award winners Oliver Stone, Gene Hackman, Kevin Costner, Jamie Foxx, Tatum O'Neil, Kim Hunter, Billy Bob Thornton, Denzel Washington, Ellen Burstyn and Sissy Spacek, and has appeared on stage with Sir Kenneth Branagh, Ben Kingsley, and Rosemary Harris, as well as Alec Baldwin and Elizabeth Ashley in Tennessee Williams's classic The Night of the Iguana.
In addition to his film history, Mr. Arata has extensive theatre experience, including acting and producing the works of Tennessee Williams, Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner, and William Shakespeare. In 1997, American Theatre Magazine hailed Mr. Arata's performance of Stanley Kowalski in the 50th anniversary production of Tennessee Williams' classic A Streetcar Named Desire as "unhinged and electrifying", and reviewer Dalt Wonk called the performance "a Stanley for our times".
Why love everybody
When you won't be back again
Are you only ever happy
When you're only ever in?
And completely arrogantly
Look into the mirror
Making muscles by yourself
And stop when they come nearer
In other words, he wants the girls
To think he has a big one
But if you see the prize of he
You know he really has none
You wanna say you're doing great
But that would be a lie
But underneath, the little chief
Won't set the world on fire
Why love everybody
When you won't be back again
Are you only ever happy
When you're only ever in?
You're only ever in
You're only ever in
Why love everybody when you
Won’t be back again
Are you only ever happy
When you’re only ever in?
And completely arrogantly
Look into the mirror
making muscles by yourself
And stop when they come nearer
In other words, he wants the girls
To think he has a big one
But if you see the prize of he
You know he really has none
You wanna say you’re doing
Great but that would be a lie
But underneath the little chief
Won’t set the world on fire
Why love everybody when you
Won’t be back again
Are you only ever happy
When you’re only ever in?
You’re only ever in
You’re only ever in
You’re only ever in
Slow motion; don't say anything,
Better left unsaid, refrain as she always did.
Pretty words I read them from a book, expressing her face(?) she's only worthy of perfect.
But nothing's what it seems, cavalier and sadistically(?), smile she fronted and the making of a fine way to an end,
She suddenly will not give in...
In...
In...
She's worn thin.
So close your eyes, so your ears can see,
Black hearts appear in nightmare or daydream, cause when she smiles, it's just a low grade attempt of hiding the truth of what's real and what's pretend.
So nothing's what it seems,
Pixilated memories,
Smile she fronted and the making of a fine way to an end,
She suddenly will not give in...
In...
In...
She's worn thin.
Help for this girl's in trouble, something's gone missing,
Something within me, a love for a passion,
Emotion is crashing,
And nothing is working,
She turns for a final farewell with her chin down,
A tear rolling slowly,
She'll ask if we're going,
What is believing if no one can see me and nobody knows me,
Nobody holds me,
Open up your eyes for a safe land,
She's falling,
She's falling,
She's falling,
In...
In...
In...
In...
I saw my love I saw my love
but it was a surprise
for I had not revealed myself
wearing a disguise
and I knew the door was locked
no open window here
I was busy giving up
I had disappeared from sight
then you turned on the light
baby how did you get in
I knew my love I knew my love
but I didn’t know
dancing with the obstacles
drinking down the walls
falling into every hole
touching every skin
I’m so glad you found me girl
won’t you tear me limb from limb
blowing like the wind
baby how did you get in
how did you how did you
how did you get in
how did you how did you
how did you get in
I heard my love I heard my love
singing in my ear
the sweetest voice I ever heard
bringing me to tears
how did you find your way to me
it was cold and dark
I was the man made of stone
how did you break into my heart
you broke in my heart
my heart my heart
you broke in my heart
We cant let this be us, "My heart is in the sand." Let love close your eyes.
Let love open your hands. You can't live on the streets and change not your desire. Let love take you under. I'm in love with a bottle of grace, who am I to think you ain't, I'd be lying to you if I said my heart was up for all to see. because, I'm not talking about making lovers out of golden picturesque sunsets. I want to be the one who can bring it to the streets and to the fixed and the victim-esque.
We are all capable of love. We are all capable of cancer.
[Solo:]
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head, a-ha-hah-hah-hah
Nothing in my pockets but an empty wallet and some house keys
And a fuck you for anyone who doubts me
As I walk the streets armed with the faith
That these boots will be enough to get me home in one piece
I exhale, breathe the air
Smoke trail got me thinking bout the reason I'm here
Cause I'm only nineteen but my mind is old
Sydneysider heatwave to Minnesota cold
Cold like the streets of the Cross where underages
Litter the pavement, this ain't "Paradise", it's "Innocence Lost"
Cold like the veins of the junkies
Cold like the hearts of those who take their money
And I swear to God somebody died on my block the other night
A life lost to a domestic fight, and that shit ain't right
Now my picket fence don't look so white
I wonder what possesses a man to kill his wife?
And as if that wasn't enough
We got these fucking poker machines sucking the souls of our single mums
See I'm like Tim Friedman, I wish I could blow 'em up
For all the futures that they've ruined and the homes they've broken up
Now that's proof of a cold world, they package an addiction
And they sell it as a game, but anyway
Times are exponential, two-party preferential
And though it's incremental, day to day we making change
So here I am still trying to make this stone bleed
In the city of late trains and broken dreams
Where you rap with your talk, or you graff on the wall
You gotta something out of nothing at all
And yes, I built this house, I made it wrong
I watched it crumble, now I'm moving on
Now shit is rotten to the core, what a pity
We don't wanna be forgotten
That's why we write our stories on the walls of our cities
I'd write 'em all for you if I had the time
In forty-foot high letters cause they're important
It's enough of a challenge handling mine
Take it one day at a time
Treading water and crossing borders
Next to me a baby's crying for his mum as the ground's leaving
Economy class with chaos all around me
But I don't even care, I'm not even there
Frozen in a blank stare with my headphones blaring like
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head, a-ha-hah-hah-hah
Nothing in my pockets but a boarding pass and a passport
Plus an "I love you" for the friends I never asked for
It keeps me safe, guards me from the sickness
Like a pocketful of posie as I walk with the wicked
Talk with a quickness, never let 'em catch up
They wouldn't play with you if they could see the odds was stacked up
So you pack it up, move it town to town
Gotta study how the local village people get down
Riding through the night on a tube train
Having revelations bout my place in the food chain
Looking out the window at the world whizzing by
I'm determined to do something with my given time
And to begin with I'm a fit it in a rhyme
Watch us plant this forest one seed at a time
So shit, I spend my days hoping but by the same token
We here to get our chains broken and our names spoken
So this is my dot on the map, my drop in the ocean
My patch of dirt, and I'm make something
Make something work, make something feel
Make something hurt to make something real
Make something out of me, make a friend out of you
Then again, make an enemy if need be
So just let me be, let me rest, let me sleep
Let me wake, let me eat, let me grow, be at peace
Let your guard down, let me close
I'll let you see, let you know
Let you near, draw you in
Let you hear, show you things
I'm a let you in
Said I'm a let you in
Said I'm a let you in
Horrorshow two-double-oh-nine
One time for your mind
Said I'm a let you in