Songs Published in 2012

7 songs

I Don't Know

BMI: 17711318

I Don't Know

countryfolkreflectiverelationshiprueful

A song about the baffling pull of someone who keeps slipping away and coming back. It captures the weary tenderness of a relationship that never quite settles but never quite ends.

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Walking Away

BMI: 17710552

Walking Away

bluesdefiantjazz shadesleavingreflective

A leaving song for the moment when endurance has run out. It doesn't dramatize escape so much as accept it, gathering its reasons verse by verse until walking away feels less like surrender than...

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Desperate Times and Drastic Measures

BMI: 17711311

Desperate Times and Drastic Measures

americanabreakupcountryfolklonely

A breakup song written from the stunned quiet after long companionship suddenly ends. Instead of big declarations, it relies on small physical details, rain, cold, empty woods, to show how abandonment settles...

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Bushwhacking

BMI: 17710550

Bushwhacking

bluesfolkhappinessinstrumentalreflective

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...

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Bitter Seeds

BMI: 17711312

Bitter Seeds

angerdefiantgriefpoliticalprotest

A protest song built from images of planting and harvest, where the crop that keeps coming in is grief. The language stays vivid but controlled, keeping its focus on the human cost of war rather than slogans.

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Goin' Down

BMI: 73851715

Goin' Down

angerbluesbreakuplonelysomber

A hard-luck blues song that keeps finding new ways to fall. The singer is worn down, half-defiant and half-defeated, and the repeated turns on the word "down" give it a dark comic edge.

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Stop the Train

BMI: 79740838

Stop the Train

angerapocalypseclimatedespairfolk

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...