2014
I Ain't Ready
A plainspoken song about the approach of autumn as a metaphor for everything unfinished. The refrain softens its declaration into something closer to an admission.
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2012
I Don't Know
A song about the baffling pull of someone who keeps slipping away and coming back. It captures the weary tenderness of a relationship that never quite settles but never quite ends.
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2010
The Turning
A reflective song about sensing change before anyone can name it. It asks whether history is turning, whether a reckoning is coming, and whether we are capable of recognizing it while still inside it.
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2015
Easy
A searching song about the unruly act of making something true out of inner noise. It moves through fear, fatigue, and self-scrutiny toward rare moments when expression briefly feels effortless, even while the...
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2012
Desperate Times and Drastic Measures
A breakup song written from the stunned quiet after long companionship suddenly ends. Instead of big declarations, it relies on small physical details, rain, cold, empty woods, to show how abandonment settles...
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2017
No There There
A ballad about a relationship that almost became something real and never quite did. It borrows a famous phrase to describe an intimacy that never found solid ground.
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2011
Simple
A plainspoken love song about wanting tenderness without games or pretense. What saves it from sentimentality is the final turn, where simplicity becomes less a slogan than a question asked of another person.
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September 9, 2018
I'm Alive
A plainspoken song that catalogs the moments, sights, and seasons that make being alive feel undeniable. It finds meaning in attention rather than proclamation.
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2015
Over and Out
A song built from directional opposites — in and out, over and under, up and down — until all that movement circles back to defeat. Its plain language gives the pattern real weight.
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2010
Let it Flow
An exuberant song about opening up to the world and letting joy rush in. What begins with windows and sunlight widens into something freer and more bodily, as if release itself were the point.
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2008
One More New Years
A New Year's song for anyone who has tried to squeeze hope out of one more late-night promise. It balances weariness and resolve, treating the wish to begin again as both fragile and necessary.
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2019
Callous Heat
A plainspoken song, about a woman who carries physical presence like a natural force. The description builds from specifics — boots, jeans, bedroom eyes — to a plain statement: she could blow your mind. The...
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March 10, 2018
Many Happy Returns
A birthday song written with warmth rather than fuss. It offers goodwill in the simplest possible form and trusts that simplicity to carry the feeling.
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...
