30 songs
2017
The song has been arranged for multiple instruments — open D six-string, open F four-string, and three-string stripped-down accompaniment. The lyric works through a catalog of possible causes before declining...
2010
A 12-bar blues song with stops, built as an extended food metaphor for desire and companionship. The bridge turns practical: "together we will go exploring, variations on our homemade recipe." Rollicking,...
2010
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.
2016
A searching ballad about a long road traveled and a mountain that's always there in the mind. The lyric doesn't sentimentalize — "broken people, bodies, hearts and minds" is in there — but it finds a resting...
2013
A 12-bar blues instrumental — no lyrics, just the standard I–IV–V progression with room for improvisation. Loose and good-humored, it sounds like a player enjoying the space between songs.
2012
A restless instrumental that lives up to its title, moving forward with a sense of momentum and uncertainty. It feels like pushing through rough country without a map and trusting motion itself to reveal the...
2007
A brief wordless instrumental that earns its title: a rush of motion through extended chord shapes (E6/11, Amadd2/E, chromatic neighbor chords) that create a suspended, passing atmosphere. More sensation than...
2016
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.
2015
A searching ballad that uses dialectic as a way of thinking about conflict, from the intimate to the historical. What keeps it human is the sense that every grand argument still lands in lived experience.
2014
A philosophical piece built on a complex instrumental architecture ), which is unusual enough to shape the whole sonic character. The title references William Blake's personification of cold reason, and the...
2016
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...
2014
A song of cautious hope that refuses easy specifics. It lets uncertainty stay in the room while still insisting on endurance.
December 23, 2024
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...
January 19, 2024
A love song The verses move between intimate physical detail and a philosophical claim: the universe becomes aware through us, and we belong at home in that awareness. The instrumental bridge repeats twice...
January 6, 2024
A searching song about the limits of consciousness and how they feel from the inside. The verses move between the mechanical and the cosmic — a heartbeat, Saturn's rings, a painted sky — and the refrain asks...
2017
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...
2016
A slow, searching song about damage that may already be beyond repair. Its repeated refrain makes the recognition feel heavier each time it returns.
June 18, 2015
An instrumental, structured in three sections with a refrain between each. Named for a bay in Prince Edward Island.
2014
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.
2016
A philosophical song, about the sparks and friction of human experience. The first verse is physical, the second cosmic, the third reflective. The bridge is instrumental. The closing verse is the most honest:...
2015
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...
2012
A warning song about runaway systems, where profit and speed have long since outrun wisdom. The image of the train is simple and effective: once the machinery is in motion, the question is whether anyone can...
January 14, 2022
A meditative song about the stories people tell in order to survive fear, uncertainty, and the knowledge of mortality. Rather than dismissing those stories, it wonders how they can become part of what makes us...
February 10, 2019
A searching, introspective song about the divided self and the feeling of being watched from within. It moves from ordinary awareness into something more mysterious, then turns toward love, where the question...
2007
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...
