2008
Tossing and Burning
A song of yearning so intense it borders on torment. What makes it memorable is not just the desire itself, but the loneliness of wanting to be seen by someone who may not even know you are there.
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Songs Tagged: unrequited love
6 songs
2015
Stephanie
A rock song about an unattainable woman, working through the full knowledge that it can't be more than what it is. Each verse ends on a slow, repeated version of the situation statement: too far out of reach,...
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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...
Rough Working Demo
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...
Rough Working Demo
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...