April 8, 2022
Don't You Ever Come Back
A song about a final break with someone who has been lying all along. The ending slows verse by verse to a near stop.
17 songs
April 8, 2022
A song about a final break with someone who has been lying all along. The ending slows verse by verse to a near stop.
March 2, 2024
A folk song about the erosion of rights, norms, and freedoms, addressed in turn to brother, father, mother, sister, comrade, and children. Each verse names a different category of loss. The refrain is the...
April 20, 2024
A furious song of disbelief aimed at people who keep mistaking cruelty, fraud, and manipulation for strength. Its anger is sharp, but it never fully gives up hope that those being used might still wake up.
2012
A warning song about runaway systems, where profit and speed have long since outrun wisdom. The image of the train is simple and effective: once the machinery is in motion, the question is whether anyone can...
January 1, 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.
2011
A blunt protest song aimed at violence done in the name of faith. Its anger is public rather than private, turning outrage into a rough, unvarnished chorus that refuses consolation.
March 25, 2026
A song built on the traditional doubled-line verse structure. The verses accumulate: evil is talking, scheming, grasping, using a whippin' boy, fooling frightened minds. The refrain names the target without...
May 18, 2025
A folk song, about watching someone reveal themselves as something they didn't appear to be. The verses track from initial perception to current behavior to the question of how it will be viewed by history....
May 3, 2025
A folk song, about the Boomer generation's transformation from Aquarian idealism to fearful authoritarianism. The verses describe the movement — tired of the establishment, now become the establishment,...