Here’s another new song, straight from my iPhone to your iPhone (or Motorola Razr?). Again, there’s some rough edges. Someday I’ll sing like Whitney, but thanks for dealing with the amateur-ity until then. I've been sitting on this one for a lil' while because I didn't know how well it would speak with just an acoustic guitar and occasionally pitchy vocals. But I'll let you, my best friends forever, decide.
Lyrics:
Should've never looked back
When the city burned
Should've never got soft, got sick, got hope
For the way we were
Now you're resting easy
And you're miles away
And even with your eyes closed, babe,
You're keeping me awake
You fall like rain on my wings again
I'm going down, but I still pretend
With a heart like stone
It's easier to lie than let go
I hope you win your race
'Cause you sure passed me by
How did you learn that pace, so fast
You're so damn fast
Getting kisses for your cries
I hold on tight like a picture frame
The moment's gone, but you look the same
When I'm on my own
It's easier to lie than let go
Yes, you paid your respects
It didn't cost you much
But I still feel the effects of you here
The breath on my ear
The mirage I just can't touch


Easier To Lie

Here's a demo fresh off the iPhone. Some songs take months for me to finish. This one took about an hour or so. Hopefully that's not too noticeable. I try my hand at a lil' keyboardness, so that's another thing you get to give me grace for (besides the usual pitchy vocal forgiveness). 

Lyrics:
If I looked like the preachers do
Saving souls and following rules
If I was sanctified, 
would I finally feel alive?
All I want is to fall in love with you

I should send checks to Africa
I should lobby to change the law
If I just did my part, I could wake this sleeping heart
But all I want is to fall in love with you

What happens in a world restored?
When every tongue finally calls you “Lord”
Would you leave us if 
Our problems all got fixed? No

Cause all you want is to fall
All you want is to fall in love with me

To Fall

This is a song I wrote for my friend Kayle. Thought I'd share the iPhone demo with the rest of you, too. I even threw in a pretty sour note just to keep it, ya know...organic. 

Kayle (Won't You Pray)

Hope you like this new guy. Recorded in my bedroom with state-of-the-art equipment: my iPhone. There's some imperfections, but I hope you don't mind and instead find some Christmas joy from this song that has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas.

Lyrics:

Where did you get your education
I wanna learn to think like you
Do you calculate the risk? The distance of the fall?
Cause the only way I know to love is to risk it all

You’re so much faster than me
You’re so much faster than me

Got me thinking that I was an evergreen
but you broke away like autumn leaves
Do the sun and moon work for you? Do you change seasons when you want to?
How is moving on so easy to do?

I guess you’re just faster than me
You’re so much faster than me
The world must be brighter, must be lighter on the heart
Wish someone could catch me up speed 
You’re just faster me

Faster

Here's a good ol' fashioned love song for ya, recorded fresh on my iPhone. Happy V-Day, y'all!

Lyrics:
I’ve seen pretty girls before with the long hair and skirts
I’ve even kissed a few in my day, I know how it works
But I’ve never seen such beauty
in a woman’s eyes
She can see right through me, but I don’t mind

She’s my true love

I knew when I was 8 years old I’d play for the Chicago Bulls
But long gone are my youthful years, and I’ve never even dunked a basketball
I guess that’s a funny way to say that
She makes me feel alive
See, I haven’t had this much faith since I was a child

She's my true love

It’s 11:11, I always catch that on the clock
It makes me think about the one I haven’t got
Even if I had to wait
Til I turned 99
I’d work every last day just to make her mine

My True Love

This is a clip from "The Bounce Bounce EP," a collaborative effort between me an R. Kelly. 

On Your Mind ft. R. Kelly

Recorded with the utmost care and quality (that can be had with a one-take through an iPhone).

Let me know if you dig it, y'all. 

Let Me Win You Over

This is a live, unedited recording from a house show I did recently in St. Charles, IL outside Chicago. Thanks Brent for being such an amazing host and setting up a great show for me!

I threw in a lil' Peter Gabriel at the end...just cause. 

"To Feel Your Love" (live)

This is a live, unedited recording from a house show I did recently in St. Charles, IL outside Chicago. Thanks Brent for being such an amazing host and setting up a great show for me!

This is a cover of a Proclaimers song. You can listen to the studio version on The Bellevue EP: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-bellevue-ep/id461776775

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