2014
Urizen Awake
A philosophical piece built on a complex instrumental architecture ), which is unusual enough to shape the whole sonic character. The title references William Blake's personification of cold reason, and the...
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Songs Tagged: atheism
9 songs
December 24, 2024
Let's Do It
A philosophical song about building meaning without supernatural framework. The verses catalog what doesn't exist; the refrain proposes alternatives — find a cosmic voice, make a joyful noise, make it on our...
July 30, 2022
On Our Own
A philosophical song that moves through inherited religious language toward a bracing conclusion: no one is coming, and meaning is ours to make.
Rough Working Demo
January 14, 2021
Sandman
A philosophical song, built on a three-against-four rhythmic feel. The "sandman" is the false comfort of simple answers, and the bridge makes the counter-observation: "streaked with beauty, it reeks of...
March 1, 2024
Doesn't Your God Wonder
A song built as a direct challenge to divine certainty. The verses catalog specific Biblical incidents — the flood, bears sent to kill children, the Incarnation — with the plainness of someone reading a...
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...
Rough Working Demo
2007
When
A searching song about belief, denial, and the stories people tell themselves to avoid what is in front of them. Rather than preaching, it keeps circling the same hard question until it becomes the song's...
Rough Working Demo
1980
Too Late
An early apocalyptic lament that faces loss without softening it. The song piles up its reckonings one after another, but beneath the severity a human voice insists that what has happened must be named.
May 3, 2025
Ain't No Slave
A song with a dark, resonant pulse, written as a direct response to the traditional spiritual "Ain't No Grave." The theological swap is explicit: no maker, no afterlife, no submission. The lyric is as plain...