2012
Walking Away
A leaving song for the moment when endurance has run out. It doesn't dramatize escape so much as accept it, gathering its reasons verse by verse until walking away feels less like surrender than...
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Songs Tagged: defiant
22 songs
January 11, 2024
Predator
A song about a specific type of political figure — hand grenade, dark-side clown, machine that consumes. The chord sequence borrows from Blaze Foley's "Oval Room," and the acknowledgment is in the notes. The...
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2016
Creature Discomfort
A darkly comic song about media saturation, public cruelty, and the warped creature that collective fear can summon. The tone is satirical, but the unease underneath it is real.
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2008
Don't Wanna Be Your Friend No More
A sly blues song about the difference between saying goodbye and actually letting go. What begins as a complaint gradually reveals its own entanglement, giving the song both its humor and its sting.
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December 3, 2024
No More
A three-string stripped-down accompaniment song, built on the simplest possible structure: three-note musical figures and a repeating pattern. The five verses catalog refusals — no more weepin', hatin', lyin'...
Rough Working Demo
2016
It's Over
A bleak, matter-of-fact song about waking up to the feeling that something fundamental has already been lost. It is less melodrama than recognition, with humor used only to make the truth bearable.
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2014
Palestine
A political song of grief and witness, refusing the idea that any faith can own a piece of earth by right. Its refrain is simple and direct because the sorrow it names already says enough.
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2013
Ninety-Nine
A political song about collective resistance, built from paired opposites and crowd-sized images. Its refrain is plain and insistent: we can take it back.
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2016
Dear Comrade
A political song addressed to working people and the ways they are taught to misread their own hardship. Its argument is blunt because the stakes are.
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2016
The Man is Back in Town
A plainspoken political song, with a gallery of characters each responding differently to a new authoritarian presence. Jethro Bodine, Jihadi Jack, Martha Sue, the corner guy — each verse inhabits a type...
Rough Working Demo
2013
Not. Stopped. Again.
A blues-rock declaration of recovery after being held back by a person or circumstance. It looks backward just long enough to measure the distance already traveled.
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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
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.
Rough Working Demo
2011
Hey Jesus, What the Fuck?
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
Evil is Out Walking
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...
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February 25, 2026
Ballad for the ICE Man
A folk-blues structured as a community's collective voice speaking directly to immigration enforcement. The verses escalate from neighborhood to schools, from refusal to warning. The final line repeats slowly,...
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September 30, 2025
Headin' North
A blues with a jam structure that opens up in performance. The lyric is about leaving a place that can no longer be saved — a town, a country, a moment — with the anger of someone who saw it coming and...
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March 25, 2025
Can of Worms
A satirical folk song that turns its attention to public figures and the stories that gather around them. It lets the details speak for themselves, allowing the tone to shift between humor and unease without...
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Video
March 9, 2025
Liberty
A political song spoken in the voice of Liberty herself, protesting the way her image has been turned against the people she was meant to welcome. Its anger is sharpened by grief for the promise being betrayed.
