March 2, 2024
Now It's Gone
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...
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Songs Tagged: democracy
9 songs
September 22, 2018
Time
A dark political song about the collapse of norms and the narrowing of public life. Its urgency is sharpened by how little it needs to say.
2016
Comes the Flood
A slow, searching song about damage that may already be beyond repair. Its repeated refrain makes the recognition feel heavier each time it returns.
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.
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
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...
Rough Working Demo
Video
May 18, 2025
A Thin Veneer
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....
Rough Working Demo
Video
May 3, 2025
Winter of Hate
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,...
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.
