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