The Pine Tree State of Mind

12/30/2025

https://youtu.be/o1s3oWeqmAw

12/20/2025

🎵 RED, WHITE, AND BELLOW 🎵

This song is a rally cry.

Red, White, and Bellow is a politically charged satirical anthem born out of frustration, silence, and the growing disconnect between public image and lived reality. It’s not about party lines—it’s about power, accountability, and what happens when systems meant to protect people instead protect themselves.

Through sharp lyrics, symbolism, and unapologetic energy, this song challenges listeners to stop looking away. It speaks to the quiet harm caused by complacency, selective justice, and leadership that performs concern while real people pay the price. It asks a simple but uncomfortable question: What does patriotism mean if we ignore the people being crushed beneath the process?

This track is meant to resonate with those who feel unheard, unseen, or dismissed—and also with those who may not yet understand why so many people are angry, exhausted, and demanding change. Satire has always been a powerful tool to tell truths that formal language can’t reach. Music cuts through defenses. It reaches emotion before ideology.

That’s why this song exists.

🌲 Pine Tree State of Mind presents: Music Moves Me 🌲

Red, White, and Bellow is part of our new campaign, Music Moves Me—an initiative focused on using creativity, storytelling, and music as effective, efficient ways to voice lived experience. Our goal is to reach people who might otherwise tune out policy debates, legal language, or headlines—but who will feel something when truth is carried by rhythm, melody, and message.

Music has always been a catalyst for awareness, solidarity, and change. This campaign is about proving that art isn’t a distraction from justice—it’s often the doorway to it.

If this song makes you uncomfortable, that’s intentional.
If it makes you think, question, or talk—then it’s working.
And if it helps even one person see what they couldn’t before, then it matters.

🎤 Listen.
🌲 Reflect.
🔥 Don’t look away.

Creativity is a voice. Music moves people.



The Pine Tree State of Mind

Ryan Michaels

https://youtu.be/BFGKK7eGTc0

12/18/2025

The Shenna Shake!

The Pine Tree State of Mind

Ryan Michaels

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04/14/2025

🚨NEW TRACK DROP: “The New Post” — THIS TIME, IN RHYME.

Yeah, the one they couldn’t delete. The one Amy Cilley can’t redact.
On December 3rd, 2024, I was No Trespassed from Sanford, Maine DHHS because I dared to post the truth.

They twisted my grief into a “threat.”

All I said was that I’m coming for those who abused their power — legally, civilly, ethically, and truthfully.

And now?
I’ve written a new “post”…

Only this time, it’s written in rhyme.

🎤 And yes — Amy Cilley, your name’s in it now, too.
There’s a line in the song about a public riot — and before anyone tries to twist my lyrics the way OCFS twists family truth:

➡️ THIS. IS. NOT. A. THREAT.
It’s a metaphor. A lyrical matchup. A bar that bangs — not a plan for violence.

What this song is, though, is a promise.
A promise that I'm not even close to done.

I will keep fighting (Lawfully in case you get all excited to twist my words again) until truth and transparency are not just buzzwords, but the standard in Maine’s broken child welfare system.

I will keep shining light on the corruption, retaliation, and systemic failure that Maine OCFS leads the nation in — not in excellence, but in disgrace.

💥 Maine OCFS, you messed with the right dad.
Not right for you — because I won’t stop.

But right for my sons.
Right for the innocent families you’ve hurt.
Right for the system that desperately needs someone to speak, rise, and refuse to back down.

💪 And to the families who feel forgotten:
I made this track for you.
I live by the Warrior’s Creed — taught to me in the Army, forged into me through every battle I’ve faced since:
I will never quit.
I will never leave a fallen comrade.
I will always place the mission first.

🎧 This is not just a song.
It’s a lyrical mission statement.
And I won’t stop until every voice silenced by this system is heard again.

👇 LISTEN. SHARE. TAG SOMEONE WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS.

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I hope you enjoy this track, Amy Cilley....thank YOU for the inspiration ❤

🚨 This is the post they banned. But now, it’s a song they can’t silence. 🎙️On December 3rd, 2024, I was hit with a No Trespass Order from Maine’s OCFS — al...

04/14/2025

🚨 NEW DROP 🚨

🎤 “The Political Playbook” is LIVE! 🎤

They thought we wouldn’t speak up.
They thought we’d stay silent.
But we flipped the script — and now we’re FLIPPING THE PLAYBOOK. 📕🔥

This isn’t just another rap.
It’s a high-speed, truth-loaded, name-dropping exposé on how Maine politics really work — and the corruption they don’t want you to hear.

👁‍🗨 Featuring brutal bars, high-energy satire, and hard-hitting truths, we’re calling out:
👉 Janet Mills
👉 Jean Haynes
👉 Bobi Johnson
👉 Kevin LeDouche (aka the badge-wearing bully)

🎧 Inspired by Hollywood Undead + The Lonely Island, this track hits with punchlines, purpose, and pure rebellion.

💜 The system’s broken.
🗣 The people are rising.
🎶 The Pine Tree State of Mind is bringing the soundtrack to the revolution.

🔗 https://youtu.be/_OUXEfAY-M0

🔥 Listen. Share. Tag someone who needs to hear this.
Drop a 🎤 if you’re done with the gaslight game.
Drop a 💜 if you’re ready for the Purple Party.

🔥 Welcome to “The Political Playbook” — a hard-hitting political satire rap that exposes the truth behind Maine’s corruption, cover-ups, and gaslighting tac...

04/14/2025

For my friends in Mass:

🎬 Video Description:🔍 Maura-ly Blind: See No Truth, Hear No Shame 🔍When truth is redacted and accountability is dodged, music becomes the megaphone. This ...

04/14/2025

🎤🔥 NEW SONG DROP! 🔥🎤
“Oh Janet, Where’s Your Stand?” is officially LIVE on YouTube 🎧👇

This one’s for every voice that’s been silenced, every father ignored, every citizen pushed aside by the very systems that claim to serve justice.

It’s raw. It’s real. It’s sarcastic. And yep — it’s got bars 🎯

📽️ Click the video below to watch and let me know what you think!

🧠 Whether you’re here for the lyrics, the message, or just some solid protest rap — your support means the world.

To everyone who’s shared, liked, commented, messaged, or just silently rooted for me — THANK YOU. 🙏

This movement is bigger than me. I’m doing this for the many who’ve been steamrolled by broken systems and left without a voice. I will never stop fighting for them.

🎙️ Because speaking loudly isn’t weakness —
It’s what truth sounds like when no one’s been listening.

💬 Drop a comment, share with a friend, and let’s keep growing. Together.

🎙️ Oh Janet, Where’s Your Stand?A protest rap from “The Pine Tree State of Mind” exposing Governor Janet Mills' broken promises, constitutional contradictio...

04/14/2025

Give a listen, and let me know what you think. ❤

All references in the song can be found be simply googling "Maine OCFS". Read the reports, hear my words, and please help me stand for families who have been silenced and bullied by Maine State OCFS.

🎪 Maine’s Child Welfare Circus: OCFS Exposed in The Greatest Show of InjusticeA satirical rap protest by The Pine Tree State of MindWelcome to the circus — ...

04/14/2025

🚨 NEW SONG DROP: "Lobster Trap Politics" 🎤🔥

This one hits different. (Click Music Video Below to Listen)
After being silenced, trespassed, and torn from my kids by a corrupt system that protects itself instead of families—I’m done playing nice. I’m turning pain into purpose.

Introducing The Pine Tree State of Mind — a creative resistance born from Maine’s backwoods and courtrooms, where satire, rap, and raw truth collide to expose injustice and demand accountability.

🎶 "Lobster Trap Politics" is more than a song—it’s a battle cry.
It’s my story. It’s my fight.

And it’s just the beginning.

This project stands for:
🌲 Truth over silence
⚖️ Justice through creative expression
🛑 Exposing corruption in CPS, courts, and beyond
💡 Inspiring others to speak up—no matter how hard they try to shut us down

📢 If you’ve ever been silenced, alienated, or ignored by the system—this one’s for you.

Together, we’re not just surviving. We’re creating. We’re reclaiming. We’re rising.

▶️ Listen now. Share it loud.

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04/14/2025

Welcome to The Pine Tree State of Mind 🌲🎤 | Music, Truth, and the Fight for Justice.

Welcome to The Pine Tree State of Mind — where music meets movement and truth gets the mic. 🎙️💥

This isn’t just a band.
It’s a revolution.
A lyrical uprising born in the heart of Maine, built for every voice silenced by broken systems and bureaucratic abuse.

🎵 Here, we don’t just drop tracks.
We drop truth bombs — in rhyme.
We call out corruption. We challenge injustice. We fight with words, rhythm, and facts.

From Maine’s darkest corners of political misconduct to the voices of parents, veterans, and survivors being ignored — this page will be a safe place, a LOUD place, and a movement made of art, advocacy, and action. 🔥

If you’ve ever been silenced, sidelined, or stripped of your rights, this is your home.
If you believe that music can spark awareness, unity, and reform — you’re already one of us.
If you’re ready to , let’s rise together.

Because here in The Pine Tree State of Mind…
📢 We don’t play by their rules. We rewrite them.

💜 Truth through music. Justice through rhythm. Power through people.

📲 Call to Action:
👇 Drop a 💜 in the comments if you believe art can fuel real change.
🎧 Hit "Follow" to stay in the loop with every song, story, and movement we launch next.

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