July 4, 2021
So Damn Easy
A song about the creative process and how impossible it can feel from the inside. Its refrain catches the gap between how art looks and how it is made.
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Songs Published in 2021
7 songs
April 10, 2021
Whisky and Ashes
A folk song, about lying on a couch and being unable to care, while the world outside has gone sideways. The last verse reaches for help with "this message bottle" and "a rescuer who needs a lot of rope.".
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November 21, 2021
The Jay
A window-side meditation on a blue jay and the mystery of awareness itself. The bird becomes a way of asking what, exactly, is seeing and being seen.
May 7, 2021
WYSIWYG
A blues song played with a rough, homemade feel. Five verses, each taking the opening statement one degree further: I am what I am, what you see is all there is, I'm damaged to the core. The melodic fragments...
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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 14, 2021
Sandman
A philosophical song, built on a three-against-four rhythmic feel. The "sandman" is the false comfort of simple answers, and the bridge makes the counter-observation: "streaked with beauty, it reeks of...