When you try too hard to please someone else at your own expense, the leash starts to chafe. 

All  vocals and instruments by me (Jeremy Cohn) except drums which I arranged  and edited using authorized samples.

Good Good Boy

A retro synth ballad about what is really important in life. Animals.

Music, vocals, and instrumentals all by Jeremy Cohn.

Pets > People

Holding Hands

Here Comes The Sun

IYKYK. You can't keep it in. 

Music, Lyrics, and All Recordings Copyright Jeremy Cohn 2025

Under Control

This is the story of the outlaw bandit Arsenio, a raccoon who repeatedly ransacked our campsite many moons ago, and the one man with the courage and determination to try and end his reign of terror. 

Honestly, it's a much better song if you picture all of the instruments being played by a band of woodland creatures. 

Music and lyrics by Jeremy Cohn copyright 2025. 
All recording and instruments played by me. 

Thee Ballad of Arsenio

An ambient track I wrote after a walk in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery last year. Copyright Jeremy Cohn 2024

Graceland Cemetery After Dark

I went through the lyrics on this on this one a lot. Tentative grasps towards the past and future. 

Music, Lyrics, and Recording Copyright Jeremy Cohn 2025. All rights reserved. 

Maybe

A Quick Arrangement of Billy Joel's "And So It Goes. 

All rights reserved

33 and Childlike

And So It Goes

Music, Lyrics, and Performance by Jeremy Cohn. Copyright 2021, All Rights Reserved

CW: grief, loss, and pandemic trauma
I wrote this in April, near the beginning of the pandemic. Its the first track I've released with original lyrics in the past six years. I find lyrics very vulnerable, and I don't think they're my strong suit. But I'm pretty confident in these. When I wrote them I had no clue how their meaning would change for me over time--I feel like they are less about the desire to reach the period after the pandemic anymore, and more about the devastation COVID has caused both personally and for our community, and about how even afterwards the grief and effects of this trauma are going to be permanent.

There are a lot of influences here, ranging from the indie band Spiritualized to John Denver to Bob Dylan and the theme from Friday Night Lights. The shanty "Bring Back my Bonnie to Me" is directly quoted in the chord progression of the verse.

Aftermath

A country blues song about learning how to become less of a trash panda.

Words, Music, and Performance by Jeremy Cohn (all rights reserved)

I made up the first verse of this song around the house a few years back when my now wife bought me a laundry basket to replace the old broken down one I was using (she bought me the pair of boots for Christmas a couple of years later). This symbolizes for me how the way I used to fail to take care of myself was about how I didn't really feel worthy of love. So in the end this a song about learning to accept love in all the odd quirky ways that happen in real life. 

Apologies to anyone who had to visit my studio apartment when I was 25.

Influences include Keb' Mo' (give him a listen if you aren't familiar--its worth it),Willie Nelson, and Randy Newman.

Chasing Seratonin

Laundry Basket

This one is a jam y'all. 

It might sound like it's about.....um....something. But its actually not. 

I came up with the hook while trying to figure out what to order for dinner with my wife. We were both very hungry, but didn't really have an appetite for anything because of the repetitiveness of the pandemic. So this song in a weird way is about pandemic fatigue, and the internal confusion that results. I always heard the background of the hook with this blues/funk feel, and once I realized how the lyrics could be interpreted, I decided to lean into it a little bit.

The drums on this track are basically demo drums and were made by hitting my drumsticks on a yoga block and my padded stool, along with an electronically lowered bass-drum sound made from a hand thump on the body of my acoustic guitar and the clicking together of my sticks. I would love to hear it with real drums someday.

Influences include Gary Clark Jr, Charles Mingus, Carlos Santana, Lenny Kravitz, and Prince.

Music, Lyrics, Performance, and Production by Jeremy Cohn copyright 2021. All rights reserved.

What Do You Want From Me?

I wrote and performed this song a few years back for a production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It". I wanted it to be seductive and inviting, but also a bit haunting, unreal, and even menacing--like a siren's song. The characters in the play are in exile, and though the lyrics are merry there is a deep underpinning of sadness underneath the whole play--I wanted this song to have that dichotomy, especially since two other songs I wrote for the production were more overtly joyful. 

For the production all I had was my voice and an acoustic guitar, so I enjoyed building out this arrangement using a Jeff Buckley-like guitar as a base and adding electric bass, organ, vocal harmonies, and some synthesized sounds to add depth to the piece. To reflect the dreamlike quality I wanted, I added some distorted and phased portions near the end--like the image is flickering in and out of reality. 

Music, Performance, and Production by Jeremy Cohn, copyright 2021. All rights Reserved.

Lyrics adapted from "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare

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