22 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...
2017
A lusty, half-comic confession song that piles appetite on appetite until desire becomes the whole joke. It is playful and knowingly excessive, closer to a grin than a scandal.
2010
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.
2008
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.
2011
A sharp, memorable blues song about the high emotional cost of wanting someone who brings more trouble than grace. Its title line carries the song: a little heaven may be on offer, but hell is what lingers.
August 1, 2023
A song written from inside the disorientation of dementia, where the world no longer lines up with memory. Its plea for help is simple, devastating, and impossible to answer fully.
2011
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.
2016
A tender song of absence and longing, carried by the feeling that memory can make the whole world echo with one missing person. Its sadness is direct but never heavy-handed, more ache than despair.
2011
A generous, open-hearted invitation to hear the world differently and come along for the ride. More than a seduction, it's a song about wanting to share a state of feeling, rhythm, and attention.
June 8, 2024
A folk song about the specific flatness of depression — not wanting to die, not feeling alive, going through motions without the feeling that should accompany them. Two verses, a plain refrain: "drownin' in...
January 27, 2024
A song, built entirely on the question of what to do with an attraction that probably shouldn't be followed. The musical figures — E6/11, Esus9, and two chromatic neighbor chords — create a sustained,...
August 12, 2018
A song about spending most of life half-awake to what matters. Its final question gives the whole piece its ache.
1980
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...
March 22, 2026
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...
