Songs Tagged: aging

2016

Promises

A weary desert song about promises of deliverance that never quite arrive. Drawing on images of wandering, punishment, and the elusive land of milk and honey, it turns sacred language into a human story of...

2016

Leaving

A song about autumn as an inward weather pattern, where color, warmth, and feeling all begin to recede together. By the end, its numbness sounds almost like peace.

December 24, 2024

Choir of the Aged

A sharply observed group portrait, affectionate and mocking at once, of older performers and personalities sharing a stage. Beneath the satire is real fellowship: a recognition that everyone in the room is...

January 27, 2024

Old White Dudes

A folk song that attempts to hold two perspectives on aging white men — their own dread, and the structural-power analysis — in the same frame without resolving them. The last verse finds the real problem in...