What I Cannot Say

It's All Here For You

I want to be close but I'm afraid
In front of my heart I put a spade
I'm just a funny little puzzle God made
God made

Little by little I'm coming out
With you I want to whisper not to shout
Isn't that what life is all about
All about

And if you would like I'd like to sing  with you
About those things in our hearts that ring   so true
If I weren't so scared who knows what I'd have shared  with you

Everything I need's already here, my friend
If I didn't stop the joy it wouldn't end
Just give me the love and the patience that you have   to send

I want to be close but I'm afraid
I want to venture out but I have stayed
I still think of all the strides that I have made
I have made

Little by little I'm coming out
The love is replacing all the doubt
Isn't that what life is all about
All about


But I'm Afraid

We may be through with our past, but our past ain't through with us.

Our Past Ain't Through With Us

I wrote this in summer 2016, all on my guitar named Quincy which I started playing March of that year.  Many of the fast runs in the "cadenza" of this piece were recorded two notes at a time and stitched together because nobody plays like that after 3 months. :-)

Quincy Appears

Reinvent Yourself

I started this track in 2013, inspired by Daft Punk's "Face to Face".  Based on a "collage of drum beats", pieced together from a lot of different drum loops.  I worked on it on and off over the next few years, intermittently inspried and disheartened about it (basically if I showed somebody and they liked it, I'd work on it more, and if they didn't, I'd stop for a year).

Together | Apart

Never Be Great

A piece I wrote last year after I had decided to move out of California and start over.

Waltz

A piece I sketched a year ago, but before I was ready to really develop it and play it due to its rhythmic complexity.  I finally spent the last few weeks polishing it and learning it. I'm pretty happy with it, though it's still right on the edge of my ability.

It's so named because it evokes the desert -- a desert caravan perhaps, an intense journey through day and night and then day again.

Luke Palmer

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