What have all the sci-fi stories I've seen taught me about time travel?  With all the possibilities time travel allows, you're always able to ask at the end, "why couldn't they just..."  The lyrics for this song began with a question: what kind of instruction handbook would Rick leave for Morty if he left him alone with a time machine?

How To Use Your Time Machine

Tense Background

Rest

Desert Spirit

Going for a Ride

Quasi Step

Feelin' It

No Matter Either Way

The Drain

I've been avoiding it, writing a song about love.  That's because 60% of all songs are about love, I get it - love, love, love, I know... throughout history, when a person was struck with the desire to kill their neighbor and take their things, they picked up a sword.  When they felt goo-goo over somebody, they picked up a lute, or whatever.  And another love song was born.  So now when you listen to a random song, 60% chance it's about love.  Remember that scene from Better Off Dead?  John Cusack just got dumped by his girlfriend, and he's changing the stations on his car stereo because every song is a sappy love song.  Easily relatable, because there's too many love songs!  Not nearly enough songs about grabbing a sword and defeating your neighbor in open combat - winner take all.  I mean, I've been trying to come up with fresh ideas... a song about a slow driver in your way, even a song about a cannibal store.  I'll yield to the temptation and write about love, but on my own terms - this is a song about overcoming the nerves you feel when you've met someone amazing and special.  You have to do it - but there's a tremendous fear of initiating that contact and opening up, some people can barely do it at all.  Here, a tribute to that nervous obstacle to ...love.

Killer Butterflies

Re-discovered a love for creating music in 2019, and was lucky enough to find the right person to show me how to use modern, convenient tools for creating and publishing from home.  Songwriting is now a regular creative means of expression, and a path to learn and grow in this 2nd life.

Jacco

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