Original song about the end of a relationship.

Bridge

Original song about the first morning waking up with someone in a new relationship. Early version - I've pared some of the religious imagery and cliches out of the later version.

Lover Let Me Linger

Original song - written in response to my compulsion to turn to others for answers or comfort, and how I sometimes sabotage attempts to get closer to people.

Rescue Me

Original song - written about a girl a met at a coffeehouse. She was a practicing Catholic who had 10 pet ferrets.  I don't think that those facts are related. 

We talked all night about our relationships with God and religion, understanding at the end of the evening that while we each had things that were attractive to the other person, our differences were too great to consider any sort of relationship.  She told me she would include me in her daily prayers. Maybe she did.

Seraphim are small angels, which I thought sounded nicer than ferrets.

Victoria

Original song - Sad bastard music about the end of my first marriage, the worries I had about my kids and my regrets. Whee.

Every Day Is A Journey

Original song. It's about the wonderful feeling of dread that you get when you first realize you need someone in your heart.

Sorry for the sound quality - only recording I have is from a handheld device that was on a table at an open mic feature.

Ember - Live

Original song inspired by a fever dream and the story of Catherine of Alexandria that explores solipsism, faith and death.

The setting for this song is the space that prayer occupies, and is encapsulated within Catherine's consciousness during the time between when her head is severed and when she actually expires.

At the start of the song, the voice is Christ's, divine yet human. Understandable and approachable.

As Catherine is dying and her universe collapses in on itself while she hurtles towards the maw of oblivion, Christ transforms into the full representation of the Old Testament godhead, full of terror, power and retribution.


Catherine [vocal demo]

Demo of a song about desire, closeness, and time.

Mopey Dick