Someone Else’s Car

Some of the best times to be had are in cars.  Especially growing up in the woods where I did, a movie date was a 30 minute trip each way, and the back and forth, and the traveling I did for girls when I was young, the road means a lot to me.

The dreams  you had, the drinks you mixed
All in all we weren’t missed
Leather seats and coffee stains
30,000 miles before

The paint peeled back and rusting through
trouble adjusting the temperature
an import hatchback or Cadillac
driving someone else’s car

I remember giving you your first ride
matchless yellow halter, straps on the side
But you, you couldn’t sit still
and you came to my shoulder and killed –

my ambition to kiss what I did not know
whether you’d want me to take it slow
a different angle and a clumsy mess
I found it before I’ll find it again

a shoeprint etched into the glovebox
transmission pulled into park
a family sedan or an unmarked van
driving someone else’s car

Long Face

I don’t know why, but this is one of my favorite of my slow songs.  It has simplicity and complexity in the harmony, and achieves what I wanted to in the lyrics.  The demo itself is a little rough, the time is off on some chunks, and the piano lines don’t line up as tightly as they should.  Still, a song I’d love to see go somewhere.

lyrics to come.

Where Are Our Sundays

So the chorus section is three bars of 5/4 and one bar of 15/8, because reasons.  Honestly, it doesn’t really sound very technical, but it was just the feel that I needed so there it is.  Otherwise, I think it’s a pretty nice song.  

Sayana

That time I had a fling with the queen of the faeries (as you do).  It’s a nostalgic song that plays with the idea of trying to know her name, and whether that would shift the power balance in the relationship.

Your Mouth

This is a song about romance, the memory of a kiss hours after the moment’s gone.  Just like the picture. 

your every look, every eyeball fluttering
Still speaks volumes in awkward majesty
When you tied me to your headboard, last time…

you looked through my eyes
to see my racing…

I tasted you on my tongue from some long distance
I waited till you were gone, but stole some kisses

for the road that leads me back to the place where I found
answers to all predilections by your mouth

dont ever look back with fireballs holy god
biting my pillow and pulling away and towards

don’t grow complacent with the knots that you tie
tying them up to my heart and pulling me inside, lucky

I watched you in my mind pulling your love back up from…
the floor, you had gone and wasted some kisses

Walking By

Fun with orchestral synths.  Understanding the humor in my own personal mythology and how serious the feels can be sometimes. 

Walking by, what if I stopped for a minute
Said to you, it was true, everything that you feared

Other nights we might have tossed our rings aside
Trouble is, in all of this, we never opened our eyes

Ingrid

a through-composed electronic song that  sort of goes all over the place.  There’s arppegiators and strings, and orchestral momentum and noodly organ solos.  Still, it’s kind of fun.

Later that morning Ingrid tripped,
Slightly over Nathan over records over gifts
Into formica and out of her skin
tripping on laughter and laughing on the in-
sideways cocked head and eyebrows up
half smile locked on sweet young shoulderblades
lifting toward even-handedness,
as she kissed and the smile fades

Later that year, Ian was born,
Colic and crying.
Even with love, weather broke through shutters.
and cold, and shuddering
and sore and nursing
and left. And needlessly alone.

Leave me crawling like my son
My bittersweet eventual meaningful crushing.

Charts and Arrows

By here, I’d written hundreds of songs. Emoted, shared, loved, sobbed and grooved. This is about getting that output back.

Fairly completely produced for a demo, though I could easily see this one going in a very different direction musically.

Your Picture

Not putting the pieces back together.  Break ups. amiright?  It is hard to write music when I’m not miserable. Some nice reverse B3 in there for good measure.

Up Up Down Down

Sometimes we fight.  Sometimes it’s hard to take that too seriously, and sometimes everything good left the room long before you’re done breathing fire.  This is all about a fun jazz pop feel, with a stick bass and competent (read not mine) harmonies.