| Name | Description | | Written |
| Waking Dreams |
I wish it wasn't always never you |
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4/21/24 |
| Tolls |
When they come due all is unsure |
|
4/20/24 |
| Just a Little |
When she's feeling really pretty |
|
4/13/24 |
| Stop Doing Jobs |
Just stop doing useless jobs |
|
4/13/24 |
| gender, sex, and freedom |
Some people don't want other people to be free |
|
4/11/24 |
| New Song |
And when you call again |
|
4/5/24 |
| Go Away (Leave Us Alone) |
Man you got a mouth on you |
|
4/2/24 |
| Barricades |
We put more effort into jobs we hate |
|
3/28/24 |
| You Have (Mona Lisa) |
You have the most of all |
|
3/27/24 |
| Enough For Two |
When we're coming we'll be home |
|
3/27/24 |
| (Some of You) Worship |
Some took to the old gods for comfort after theirs had died |
|
3/26/24 |
| Death Is Final |
(Art in Three Choruses) |
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3/12/24 |
| Devaluation |
ignominy, fame, and illusion |
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3/10/24 |
| Perfusion |
Your agenda of mystusion |
|
3/6/24 |
| Ten Days in March |
The restless ground yearns to burst forth |
|
3/2/24 |
| Generations |
Sometimes a smile in between |
|
3/1/24 |
| Aunt Megan's Eats and Mama Jenn's Grub |
A tale of two restaurants |
|
2/25/24 |
| Go (Go Go) |
The anti-narcissist song? |
|
2/24/24 |
| On Your Own Road |
On your own, by yourself |
|
2/23/24 |
| We Come With Torches |
We know the secret keys to these doors |
|
2/21/24 |
| Before the Mast |
She wanted me to come again |
|
2/20/24 |
| Treasured Island |
It's really just about making do when deserted |
|
2/19/24 |
| Crimes and Punishment |
- they serve as part of the infinite loop |
|
2/14/24 |
| Little Things |
the things don't let a wedge between us |
|
2/14/24 |
| Big |
Don't be a fish in their pond |
|
2/11/24 |
| My Wildest Dreams |
The cover of a glossy magazine |
|
2/10/24 |
| Justice (or Just Us) |
We only want to be free |
|
2/3/24 |
| Prove It |
(You knew you could) |
|
2/2/24 |
| Silence |
even the squirrels stopped their chatter |
|
1/28/24 |
| Fidelity |
The sidewalk passes gently underfoot |
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1/27/24 |
| The Kids |
The kids will never believe this |
|
1/23/24 |
| One Love, One Life |
A pretty little thing that I wrote and sing |
|
1/19/24 |
| A Pirate Ship |
A little maritime story I made up |
|
1/14/24 |
| Right About Now |
How do you feel? |
|
1/11/24 |
| A Glimpse of Joy |
...that you will never see |
|
1/7/24 |
| If I Lean Towards You, I Will Change Direction |
And you liked me with this... intention |
|
1/2/24 |
| It's a New Day Coming |
All over us this morning |
|
1/1/24 |
| Slow Down It Hurts |
It hurts like hell |
|
12/27/23 |
| Plaything Part Two |
Why do all men come with a toy? |
|
12/24/23 |
| Civilisation 2024 |
Did we put an end to all war? |
|
12/24/23 |
| Plaything |
I just wanted to feel inside what he's like |
|
12/17/23 |
| Adventure |
Expanding where there's room |
|
12/16/23 |
| Have to Go |
You don't. Have to go. |
|
12/11/23 |
| Drugs and Love |
Drugs are better than love, honey |
|
12/10/23 |
| Libration |
Those take two to operate as well |
 |
12/7/23 |
| A Twist |
Stains where one was two |
|
12/5/23 |
| Ink |
Stains where the light gets through |
 |
12/2/23 |
| Call Me Soon |
She said 'Come with me...' |
|
11/29/23 |
| You Want This |
If you've ever been alive... |
|
11/27/23 |
| Outside a World of Fear |
it took you years to adjust |
|
11/21/23 |
| Everybody for Everything |
Blames everybody for every little thing |
|
11/20/23 |
| One More Time (We Should Be) |
If you move to me again...
(Previously two separate songs) |
|
11/18/23 |
| Infraction 571428 |
When the acid burns your fingers |
|
11/13/23 |
| Teenage Girl |
They treat you like it's a crime |
|
11/10/23 |
| Disconnection |
Forget all the things you think they did |
|
11/9/23 |
| Simplify |
Your wishes might help you learn to fly |
|
11/6/23 |
| Oppression |
Not bound to a curve |
|
11/4/23 |
| Sunset Valley Icicles |
Orion hunts higher and bold |
|
11/4/23 |
| To the End |
There's never enough time |
|
11/3/23 |
| Art! Music! Love! |
We create them ourselves and share with others |
|
11/1/23 |
| isolation |
we learned to make do |
|
10/30/23 |
| Downtown |
Show me all that you know |
|
10/29/23 |
| Rock and Roll |
We put it all together and discovered... |
|
10/23/23 |
| love diffusion |
Oh please, release me |
|
10/21/23 |
| Lonesome (Parts One and Two) |
...so much I can't cry |
|
10/20/23 |
| Unstable |
Come now in syncromesh |
|
10/15/23 |
| The Bog |
We make camp this night or |
|
10/15/23 |
| Exclusion |
...of all others |
|
10/13/23 |
| A Song About You |
A redrafted version - stronger in general appeal |
|
10/10/23 |
| A Song About You (Part One) |
The first version, which might make a nice album closer somewhere |
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10/9/23 |
| Song 2 |
What could possibly go wrong? |
|
10/5/23 |
| Still Alive |
Despite your mouth |
|
10/5/23 |
| Some of Us |
Drawing outside the lines, drumming outside time |
 |
10/1/23 |
| Hearts and Jewels |
You were still breathing life into fools |
|
9/29/23 |
| Something Darker |
Wanting ... all their bones and fleece |
|
9/28/23 |
| The Silence Explodes |
Ai-ee-yeah, and some others, ai-ee-oh |
|
9/20/23 |
| Something |
... please sound no alarms |
|
9/19/23 |
| Regrets Only |
My words pale, my eyes tears dried |
|
9/17/23 |
| I Left in Your Heart |
You can easily seal that hole |
|
9/13/23 |
| Getting Drunk by All the Right People |
Both a little bit behind and out in front |
|
9/12/23 |
| (My) Baby's on a Train |
Waiting for someone who never came |
|
9/12/23 |
| Free Speech |
It's not enough to help them kick their addiction - stop abusing free speech |
|
9/11/23 |
| (How) To Think |
You don't know |
|
9/8/23 |
| The Luxury of History |
A bit more perspective |
|
9/4/23 |
| She Said (She Said) |
She said I like it, she said |
|
8/30/23 |
| Dislodged |
There's no home any more for me |
|
8/26/23 |
| From the Trees |
...let us make peace and be free |
 |
8/24/23 |
| Everything Hurts |
...and for silence, I beg |
|
8/21/23 |
| Without You |
I am sadder now you're not around |
|
8/19/23 |
| You Were There |
You were there, you were always there |
|
8/17/23 |
| Come |
How soon can you come again? |
|
8/15/23 |
| Traitor |
By your signs it is true, we know you |
|
8/13/23 |
| Crossroads |
Probably not too young |
|
8/7/23 |
| You Make Me |
Feel something inside |
|
8/5/23 |
| How Long |
Could I erase your presence? |
|
8/5/23 |
| Ordinary Song |
About some ordinary people |
|
8/3/23 |
| Bricks and Roses |
How perfectly British |
|
8/2/23 |
| Not So Easy |
Whatever happened to love? |
|
8/2/23 |
| Science Fiction |
More or less |
|
8/1/23 |
| Not For Me |
How to be free |
|
8/1/23 |
| Not For You |
No can do |
|
7/28/23 |
| I Don't |
Stop asking me why |
|
7/16/23 |
| Wait |
I gave you all of mine |
 |
7/13/23 |
| I Will Wait |
She said, for you - for me |
|
7/5/23 |
| A Different Castle |
A castle after all but still... |
|
7/4/23 |
| Teach Me |
With you within, with you without |
|
7/2/23 |
| Lisa |
Tonight every woman's named Lisa |
|
7/2/23 |
| Heroes Lovers |
Love isn't what it seems |
|
6/21/23 |
| You and Me |
We go a long way to bind |
|
6/18/23 |
| One Day |
Just to be nice to you |
|
6/15/23 |
| A Charming Thought |
Who leads the rider - or the horse? |
|
6/6/23 |
| (Wind Chill) |
The middle of the night even worse |
|
5/27/23 |
| In Over Our Ears |
The middle of a kiss might be even more so |
|
5/26/23 |
| Midnight Kisses |
The middle of the night is far more important to know |
|
5/24/23 |
| Frost |
Never forget to protect tender new growth |
|
5/24/23 |
| One Sail |
Also about mythologies and our unadmitted failings |
|
5/22/23 |
| Of the Conversation |
Not about mythologies or unadmitted failings |
|
5/13/23 |
| seventeen lines |
you can't miss me if I don't |
 |
4/27/23 |
| Delivery |
Delight is served |
|
4/19/23 |
| Inside Outside Blues |
Out there it's the same old shit. |
|
4/18/23 |
| Spring My Love Will Come |
When, then, where, there, why. How. |
|
4/14/23 |
| I Want You |
Tell me now do you love her? |
|
4/9/23 |
| Magic Never Leaves |
You don't know what I know you want me to need |
|
4/4/23 |
| Insensible |
unity achieved when five are merged as one |
|
4/1/23 |
| Time |
If only life's disorder were rearranged |
|
3/31/23 |
| Pin-ups |
All the girls looked like you that night |
|
3/28/23 |
| Wouldn't You? |
Love to love to love |
|
3/26/23 |
| All Around Us |
And never calls the end |
|
3/22/23 |
| And Again |
We're going to do it again |
|
3/14/23 |
| (Bleed) In Dreams |
All traces of beauty to forget you remember |
 |
3/3/23 |
| Even Better, Sex |
You're better than all the rest. |
|
2/22/23 |
| his freedom |
can't stop the ringing in your ears |
|
2/18/23 |
| Love Song Part II |
Our spirit sings we call our minds |
|
2/15/23 |
| Love Song Part III |
The only things that keep us alive are our insatiable needs and drive |
|
2/13/23 |
| Primordial Fuse |
when the eve of life is defective |
|
2/11/23 |
| A Twisted Rocker (Not About Your Mother) |
...and every girl you ever haunted |
|
2/9/23 |
| Twisted Rocker |
Your mother cares even if you can't be bothered |
|
2/8/23 |
| Dead Girlfriend |
I don't care if you're there too |
|
2/7/23 |
| Empty Heroes |
No sympathy. Just tea and consolation. |
|
2/6/23 |
| Formaldehyde |
If only preserving memories was this easy |
|
2/2/23 |
| Love Song |
I thought I'd never write... (an improvisation like this) |
|
2/1/23 |
| Antimony |
Improvised (to be polished) as needed for side two |
|
2/1/23 |
| Electric |
Zzzzt |
|
1/23/23 |
| Succubus |
Fly by the night of your lights |
|
1/23/23 |
| Ammonia |
Somebody had to say it |
|
1/14/23 |
| Requiem |
It's not going to change a thing |
|
1/12/23 |
| Glorious |
And so we embark upon unknown crossings |
|
1/1/23 |
| Acutely Aware |
...of the time not spent doing this |
 |
12/25/22 |
| Why Ask Me |
You know answers |
|
12/16/22 |
| everything |
you were everything including yourself |
|
12/2/22 |
| Habits |
From a brief lyric note of twenty years ago... today? |
|
11/28/22 |
| Bitter/Sweet |
every word I hear sounds like your name |
|
11/24/22 |
| The Mess You're In |
This is not what you had planned |
|
11/22/22 |
| It Goes Like This |
And if it does, they'll listen |
|
11/19/22 |
| Get Back |
I took the liberty of writing the rest of the song |
|
11/12/22 |
| I Want You to Hear |
Ruminations on a rainy night |
|
11/11/22 |
| Love Comes and Goes |
Sometimes she comes, sometimes she goes |
|
11/3/22 |
| Rather |
A simple little poem song about light and dark |
|
10/26/22 |
| Pictures (Pirate Party) |
Overlapping conversations and dessert |
|
10/22/22 |
| Down the Road |
A little something the band and I came up with |
|
10/18/22 |
| If You Remember |
Another journey into classic folk |
|
10/13/22 |
| We Have Never Met |
It doesn't really matter in space or time to be |
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10/2/22 |
| Preparing to Hide |
When all we've built is threatened |
|
9/30/22 |
| Those Boots |
One more crack like that and I'll have to... |
|
9/20/22 |
| Some Stories |
Your tale might not be written yet |
|
9/17/22 |
| Filler (With Just a Little Kiss) |
It's a tropical rainforest out there |
|
9/16/22 |
| Pleasure |
There's something I forgot to say |
|
9/16/22 |
| Seasons |
Our work will never be done |
|
9/10/22 |
| Librarian |
If you know what I mean |
|
9/3/22 |
| Roses and Coffee |
The answers are all inside us |
|
8/28/22 |
| Name and Number |
Too brazen to remember how to lie. |
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8/25/22 |
| Revolver |
It's either all or nothing |
|
8/22/22 |
| You Made It |
A poem/song about and for a friend, from 6/13/22 |
|
8/19/22 |
| When I Was Young |
It seems like I don't like the summer as much |
|
8/17/22 |
| Piss Off |
What do you want? |
|
8/12/22 |
| Church Then |
You could go but then what then? |
|
8/6/22 |
| Revolution |
If you want a revolution... |
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7/15/22 |
| When She Twists |
Every one a soft sweet peach |
|
7/12/22 |
| Flowers |
I thought you were the one |
|
7/8/22 |
| No Way to Live |
But a worse way to die. From notes of 6/21/22 |
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7/4/22 |
| By What Right? |
What I was trying to write five days ago |
|
6/29/22 |
| Slavery Rag |
Friday, June Twenty-Fourth, Twenty Twenty-Two |
|
6/24/22 |
| You Gotta Heal |
You really, really have no choice |
|
6/20/22 |
| You Gotta Steal |
Learn how to use your voice |
|
6/20/22 |
| again tomorrow |
...and it might be worse... |
|
6/14/22 |
| Full of Strangers |
You should treat them as yourself |
|
6/13/22 |
| Who Falls In Love |
Are you a person... |
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6/12/22 |
| We Would Die |
If they touched us |
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5/27/22 |
| Damaged Floor Model |
Just let me get out of here |
|
5/22/22 |
| The Devil to a Draw |
nightmare slayer |
|
5/21/22 |
| Psycho Metric |
ego love shallow trash |
|
5/16/22 |
| In Your Attic |
I'm your cranky uncle |
|
5/10/22 |
| Time With Fire |
Pasts and futures always present |
 |
5/3/22 |
| You Feel Nothing |
The days go by. |
|
5/2/22 |
| Intending to Love |
'As long as I don't realize they are pretending, I'll take it.' |
|
5/1/22 |
| Daphne Smiles |
Nostalgia for what was but never was |
|
4/16/22 |
| Girls & Boys |
Enjoying some holidays away |
|
4/6/22 |
| When To Sleep |
A little bit about love with no answers |
|
4/4/22 |
| By the Bay |
A story about a lovely couple |
|
3/31/22 |
| My Lover Midnight |
A song about a magical garden |
|
3/30/22 |
| Love You When (You're Here) |
A song about the near and dear |
|
3/30/22 |
| You Have Been Gone |
A song about gaps in connections |
|
3/30/22 |
| Correspondence |
The title track of Carbon Copy, about the walking wounded |
|
3/22/22 |
| For Who You Are |
A song about growing younger |
|
3/15/22 |
| Who Could Ever Forget? |
A song about moments of eternity |
|
3/13/22 |
| Subway Blues (A Cost-Benefit Analysis) |
A treatise on urban planning |
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1/25/22 |
| So Well |
A song. Do you really think so? |
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1/24/22 |
| Postcard From Blue |
A song about some sun and some rain |
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1/15/22 |
| Romance Is For Others |
The title track of Victory Is For Lovers |
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1/14/22 |
| normal people |
A song about two of you - or us |
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1/13/22 |
| Dirty Tools |
A song about getting overheated |
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1/5/22 |
| Calling Home |
A song about time and space. A folk song. |
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1/1/22 |
| Burning Rocks |
A draft of a poem, set to music 2/6/22 |
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12/15/21 |
| Magpies |
We understand corruption as little as we do justice |
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12/10/21 |
| Come Closer |
A song I found for my birthday |
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12/7/21 |
| Erasure |
A song about blankness |
|
11/8/21 |
| All the Time |
Who else would understand? |
|
11/5/21 |
| Tank Treads |
The destruction we wreak for no reason breaks my heart |
|
11/1/21 |
| I Can't Come Anywhere Near You |
A love song, of sorts. A "can't love" song. |
|
10/15/21 |
| Dancing Woods |
Un poème, une chanson, de Norvège et d'Ecosse: a thousand-year throwback, give or take a century or two |
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9/30/21 |
| And Dance |
What we should get out and do |
|
9/26/21 |
| Back Roads Rock |
A song about cars and girls |
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9/21/21 |
| A Girl About a Kiss |
A song I made from a sketch I wrote on 3/16/14 |
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9/6/21 |
| People Like You |
People like people like you |
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8/17/21 |
| Llamas on Their Way to Denver |
Exactly what it says on the tin |
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7/26/21 |
| Invasive |
The title - and closing - track of IntroViolet |
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7/11/21 |
| Shopworn |
Damaged goods still sold as new |
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7/11/21 |
| Silent Flowers |
Another oldie, a sad classic by now |
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7/2/21 |
| The Transition |
Shaking off the cobwebs of fiction. With music. |
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6/21/21 |
| Elaboration |
Lateral strategies in tense detail |
|
6/16/21 |
| Dangerous |
Another love song. A somewhat abstract love song. |
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6/7/21 |
| Strawberry Tuesday |
A love song. She liked chocolate shortcake. |
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5/26/21 |
| Counterfeit |
A song about death - the death of hope |
|
5/5/21 |
| It Was Raining |
I took some words I wrote in 11/04 and made them into a song |
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4/20/21 |
| Private Plains Ape |
A song about how we survive and function in groups |
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2/10/21 |
| Islands |
(A song about) coming back to Earth |
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1/31/21 |
| Blackout |
I don't know what this (song) - or any of this - is. |
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1/26/21 |
| cold still waiting |
A words and music thing |
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1/20/21 |
| Nothing to Heal |
A song - a waltz macabre |
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1/8/21 |
| Sunflakes |
A musical treatsicle |
|
12/21/20 |
| Strung Out |
A song about love and beauty. Or drugs. |
|
12/8/20 |
| (Climbing) Gravity's Well |
An astronomical song |
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12/2/20 |
| When She's Gone |
A song about the mysteries of love |
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11/18/20 |
| Bad Weekend (3:16) |
A song about a long lost weekend |
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11/16/20 |
| Citrus |
A song, now, about waste |
|
11/8/20 |
| What You Got |
A sinuous song of the night |
|
11/8/20 |
| When This Is Over |
A plague-inspired song |
|
4/11/20 |
| Overture (Fever Dream) |
The opening for Lost and Found |
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6/28/18 |
| Closer (To the New) |
...than the old - another damn song |
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5/27/18 |
| Beauty (Is) |
... timeless and nameless. A song. |
|
5/21/18 |
| Adaptation (Scarborough Fair) |
A traditional folk song with a 'human' touch |
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4/27/18 |
| Photograph (Good-bye) |
A lullaby about parting |
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4/19/18 |
| (You're Not Here) To Forgive |
A song about a shift in perspective |
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3/9/18 |
| (In the Theater) Tonight |
A light-hearted song |
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3/9/18 |
| Fortifications (Letter to Myself) |
A song for healing |
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2/22/18 |
| Lighthouse (You Will Find Your Way) |
Another (song) from the eye of the storm (2:40 AM) |
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12/6/17 |
| Winter (Lost You Two) |
A song that developed out of Lost You To |
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8/25/17 |
| Winter (Lost You To) |
A song about fearing a terrible loss - and losing |
|
8/25/17 |
| Stupid Global Village |
A song about perspective from 'Ruins' |
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9/23/04 |
| Trust |
an instrumental from 'Ruins' that I made up words for |
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12/11/02 |
| Good Love |
an old fashioned blues from 'Ruins' |
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3/8/02 |
| Somebody Else's Well |
a song about infidelity from 'Ruins' |
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7/7/98 |
| You Must Be Crazy |
a song about habit from 'Ruins' |
|
June 98 |
| I Stand Alone |
a song about loss from 'Ruins' |
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6/7/98 |
| Moonlight |
a song about loss |
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6/5/98 |
| Believe |
a song about faith from 'Ruins' |
|
5/6/98 |
| Nobody Knows |
a song about neurotic fixation |
|
9/2/97 |
| Northern Eyes |
a song about war |
|
7/9/97 |
| Lover's Waltz |
a song about loss, remade and remodeled 2/1/23 |
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5/5/97 |
| Choices |
a song about freedom from 'Ruins' |
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1/28/97 |
| Impressions of a Sunset |
a song about loss from 'Ruins' |
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9/12/96 |
| Shambles |
a song about - who knows what - from 'Ruins' |
|
June 96 |
| Exit Wound |
a song about life and death from 'Ruins' |
|
Sept. 95 |
| Jealousy |
a song about 'dancing', remade and remodeled 1/30/23 |
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8/25/95 |
| Lemonfishbutter |
a song about requited lust from 'Ruins' |
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12/29/94 |
| Hunger |
a song about food from 'Ruins' |
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2/10/94 |
Random |
Pick a thought at random, or go to the "index index" |
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Indexed |
| Support | This is where I shamelessly solicit your contribution to the cause! |
| Dedicate | A list of past dedications |
| Reading | Some recommended reading |
