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: freedom
8 songs
December 23, 2024
Sodom Rd #87
A searching song about freedom, knowledge, and the pull of what lies beyond the known world. The title keeps one foot in a real place, but the feeling is larger: restlessness, curiosity, and the urge to break...
Rough Working Demo
January 6, 2024
What's That Got to Do
A folk song arguing for bodily autonomy and the right to live without explaining yourself to others. Four verses speak from four different subject positions — transgender, dealing with an unwanted pregnancy,...
2017
In Line
A folk song, built entirely on adverbs — "soberly, carefully, methodically" — stacked verse by verse into a portrait of submission and quiet desperation. The bridge is instrumental and arrives as relief. The...
Rough Working Demo
2015
Glimpse of Freedom
A searching song about seeing freedom in the animals — chickens scratching, sheep behind wire, dogs in the sun — and finding the comparison disquieting. The bridge redefines freedom as not just taking what...
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...
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.
