March 2, 2024
Now It's Gone
A folk song about the erosion of rights, norms, and freedoms, addressed in turn to brother, father, mother, sister, comrade, and children. Each verse names a different category of loss. The refrain is the...
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Songs Published in 2024
24 songs
January 11, 2024
Predator
A song about a specific type of political figure — hand grenade, dark-side clown, machine that consumes. The chord sequence borrows from Blaze Foley's "Oval Room," and the acknowledgment is in the notes. The...
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December 9, 2024
I Know One Thing
About working through variations on not knowing — what she wants, where she goes at night, what she's thinking — until the refrain arrives at the one thing the narrator can state plainly. Plain-spoken and...
December 24, 2024
Let's Do It
A philosophical song about building meaning without supernatural framework. The verses catalog what doesn't exist; the refrain proposes alternatives — find a cosmic voice, make a joyful noise, make it on our...
December 23, 2024
Edge of Night
A haunted breakup song that drifts from private hurt into a larger question about whether real feeling ever held. Its images of empty halls, cobwebs, and lingering debris give it the feel of grief after the...
December 23, 2024
Sodom Rd #87
A searching song about freedom, knowledge, and the pull of what lies beyond the known world. The title keeps one foot in a real place, but the feeling is larger: restlessness, curiosity, and the urge to break...
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December 17, 2024
I Know What I Know
A political song, working through the full catalog of conspiracy theory and authoritarian propaganda — chemtrails, birtherism, QAnon, end-times belief — from the inside. The refrain identifies the emotional...
December 3, 2024
Because of You
A short song built on superlatives — "bluer than blue, newer than new" — repeated with different color sets through four verses. The bridge is a simple chord pattern that lets the feeling breathe. The feeling...
December 3, 2024
No More
A three-string stripped-down accompaniment song, built on the simplest possible structure: three-note musical figures and a repeating pattern. The five verses catalog refusals — no more weepin', hatin', lyin'...
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June 8, 2024
Desolate Blue
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...
April 20, 2024
I Don't Get It
A furious song of disbelief aimed at people who keep mistaking cruelty, fraud, and manipulation for strength. Its anger is sharp, but it never fully gives up hope that those being used might still wake up.
January 27, 2024
Smoldering Blue
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,...
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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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January 6, 2024
How Far
A searching song about the limits of consciousness and how they feel from the inside. The verses move between the mechanical and the cosmic — a heartbeat, Saturn's rings, a painted sky — and the refrain asks...
January 6, 2024
What's That Got to Do
A folk song arguing for bodily autonomy and the right to live without explaining yourself to others. Four verses speak from four different subject positions — transgender, dealing with an unwanted pregnancy,...
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That's Okay
A song, about watching someone you disagree with get what they wanted — and knowing the costs will be paid by others. The bridge admits the narrator's helplessness, and the refrain gives the only available...
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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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December 24, 2024
Choir of the Aged
A sharply observed group portrait, affectionate and mocking at once, of older performers and personalities sharing a stage. Beneath the satire is real fellowship: a recognition that everyone in the room is...
January 27, 2024
Old White Dudes
A folk song that attempts to hold two perspectives on aging white men — their own dread, and the structural-power analysis — in the same frame without resolving them. The last verse finds the real problem in...
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March 1, 2024
Doesn't Your God Wonder
A song built as a direct challenge to divine certainty. The verses catalog specific Biblical incidents — the flood, bears sent to kill children, the Incarnation — with the plainness of someone reading a...