April 20, 2019
Annie Likes to Walk
A lullaby-like ballad that follows one woman's walks to the shore where the waves do what words cannot. It is gentle, patient, and a little heartbreaking.
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2011
Just One
A compact blues song about the lonely arithmetic of heartbreak. Its central line does all the work: it takes two to make love work, but only one to carry the sorrow.
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2010
Hour of the Wolf
A reflective love song that looks back on intimacy through images of mirrors, glass, and fracture. It carries the ache of hindsight, as though understanding has arrived only after the damage was done.
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2011
Let's Remember to Forget
A rueful song about a love affair caught in its own repetition. The title says everything: this is not about forgetting, but about trying to will memory and desire into silence for one more night.
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2017
No There There
A ballad about a relationship that almost became something real and never quite did. It borrows a famous phrase to describe an intimacy that never found solid ground.
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2011
Simple
A plainspoken love song about wanting tenderness without games or pretense. What saves it from sentimentality is the final turn, where simplicity becomes less a slogan than a question asked of another person.
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2009
Water Sign
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.
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October 19, 2019
I Don't Have To
A reflective song about being too far gone to try. The verses use a three-part structure — love you/want you/touch you but can't reach you — and the bridge acknowledges the other person's good intentions...
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January 19, 2024
Waterfall
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...
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November 9, 2023
Love is What Love Survives
A song of love as ordeal, residue, and persistence. Rather than praising romance in easy terms, it treats love as something that burns, wounds, and endures — what remains after illusion and heat have passed.
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January 6, 2021
Be With Me
A folk love song, moving through the hours of a day — morning grass, afternoon sun, evening stars, dark of night — with the same simple request at each turn. Four verses, one feeling, no complications.
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January 29, 2024
It's All About You
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.
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September 30, 2018
Sands of Time
A folk song about time running out on a relationship and maybe on other things. The central image — each step dropping a grain into the sands of time — holds the verses together loosely, and the refrain asks...
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December 28, 2023
Earth Sign
A folk-jazz song, following a walk with a companion through the last cold days of a season. The turns — maj7 and m7 shapes throughout — give it a warm suspension. The bridge is wordless until the last time...
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2010
Catch Up With You Later
A wry, easygoing song about loving someone whose pace is impossible to match. Rather than fighting it, the singer steps aside with a smile, letting the refrain carry equal parts affection, admiration, and...
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1980
God Can Only Love and Grieve
One of the earliest songs in the catalog, this is a rain-soaked meditation on longing, sorrow, and the uneasy feeling of being joined to something larger than oneself. Its language moves between intimacy and...
May 21, 2022
Lose Your Love
A warm, unguarded love song about the fear of losing something precious just after finding it. Its simplicity is part of its charm: open-hearted, slightly breathless, and fully given over to devotion.
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2017
Wedding Blessing
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...
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July 8, 2026
Still Here
A grief song set inside a shared house: the voice from the overstuffed chair, the hand reached for at night, doors that open onto memories. Presence in absence, gently insisted on — this house ain't really...
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March 27, 2026
Love Ain't Lovin' Me Back
A folk song, about giving love and not having it returned. The verse structure is plain — three lines building a situation, resolved in the refrain. The final verse turns the question: could this time be...
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March 25, 2026
Always Mine
A tender, complicated love song about the part of another person that remains within us even when life refuses permanence. It is less a claim of possession than an acknowledgment that deep feeling leaves a...
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March 22, 2026
Siren
A song about a woman who might be a hallucination or might be real, whose hair floats and whose siren song the narrator can't stop hearing. The refrain — "oh, I want to see me in your eyes" — is the most...
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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,...