2015
Slipping Away
A song about disorientation and the slow erosion of self-recognition. It speaks in clouded fragments, admitting only what it can: something is slipping away.
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Songs Tagged: alienation
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July 15, 2018
Sweet Mary Jane
A blues song addressed to marijuana as a companion when other comforts have failed. Its humor never quite hides the loneliness underneath.
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2014
I Don't Belong
A plainspoken outsider's song tracing a sense of not fitting in from childhood through adulthood. Its power comes from how directly it speaks: no grand theory, just a lifetime of knowing the world has always...
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October 19, 2019
I Don't Have To
A reflective song about being too far gone to try. The verses use a three-part structure — love you/want you/touch you but can't reach you — and the bridge acknowledges the other person's good intentions...
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November 21, 2021
The Jay
A window-side meditation on a blue jay and the mystery of awareness itself. The bird becomes a way of asking what, exactly, is seeing and being seen.
2010
Stranger
A song of estrangement, sung from the point where alienation from friends, country, and public life starts to feel permanent. Even so, it keeps reaching toward a different destination, ending not in defeat but...
January 14, 2022
Relief
A meditative song about the stories people tell in order to survive fear, uncertainty, and the knowledge of mortality. Rather than dismissing those stories, it wonders how they can become part of what makes us...
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January 1, 2025
New Years Day, 2025
A New Year's Day reckoning that catalogs crisis after crisis without softening any of it. The repeated questions at the center are as plain as they are hard to answer.