18 songs
March 25, 2022
A song built on two versions of the same musical figure — one quiet and one rocking — that alternate through the song. The narrator wants what he can't have, knows it, and the arrangement enacts the...
2015
A song built from parallel questions about what comfort might look like when everything falls apart. It asks for company, song, and touch without pretending any of them will fix the collapse.
2013
A song of exhaustion and emotional suffocation, written from the point where even rest and breath feel out of reach. It moves through weariness toward a distant hope of peace without pretending the way there...
2013
An affectionate tribute to the plainspoken songwriting tradition John Prine made his own, where humor and heartbreak sit side by side. The song celebrates the way simple language, well placed, can carry...
2010
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.
2009
A love song steeped in water imagery, where desire, comfort, and surrender flow into one another. The repeated invitation to return to the water gives the whole piece a steady, immersive pull.
2008
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.
December 3, 2023
A ballad, named for the Trojan prophetess who was never believed. The lyric moves from present calm — breezes, branches, quietude — to a contemplation of cosmic scale and personal smallness, and returns to the...
2014
A song of cautious hope that refuses easy specifics. It lets uncertainty stay in the room while still insisting on endurance.
January 29, 2024
A warm invitation song that keeps widening its scope, moving from music into companionship and shared space. It carries a relaxed sense of welcome without pushing toward any single outcome.
January 14, 2021
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...
2015
A reflective walk through the woods that becomes a quiet hymn to attention, season by season. It finds renewal not in grand revelation but in the steady company of light, leaves, birds, bees, and breath.
October 26, 2022
A reflective song, built on a list of alliterative failures: "busted and bungled, cracked up and crumpled." The three verses escalate the disorder before the final refrain offers something that might be hope:...
2014
A playful invitation song that keeps widening its welcome from dancing and singing to staying close all night. It is light on its feet and fully aware of its own charm.
2017
A generous blessing song that mixes warmth, wit, and earnest hope. Instead of grand abstractions, it offers a life wish in human terms: love, freedom, self-knowledge, dependable friendship, and enough grace to...
March 31, 2025
A banjo song about two people who have been circling each other for too long. The first verse can't remember what to say; the second sees that she's been ready; the third admits they could both be lonely and...
March 9, 2025
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.
