This is a song I wrote a few years back when a few of us were doing a carnival themed punk band called the Donikers - carnie speak for the toilets. This is a song about a carnival freak contemplating the meaning, or absence thereof, of his existence. It's written in the second-person, so as to put the listener directly into the carnival freak's shoes.

Headless Affair

A short little country-ish song about losing something, and then being confronted by the loss unexpectedly.

Lost You Again

I wrote this song while my wife was in the hospital recovering from a recent surgery. I was sort of emotionally wrung-out and exhausted, my voice was shot to shit, and this is the song that came from that. The vocal melody relies on about all five notes I was able to hit at that point. Now I'm back up to my usual ten note range. There was some coughing there a couple of minutes in so I inserted some silence. It's jarring, but not as bad as the coughing was.

Still Searching

I'd been playing that old Johnny Cash song called "L&M" a lot in my live sets and really like that low-down kind of sound. I was messing around with it and came up with this keeper. I used that classic formula of the narrator first lashing out, then realizing the real problem is the face looking back at him from the mirror.

Pass This Way Again

This is an old Sleazy Earl Ray sing-a-long song. I have always envisioned it being played by a New Orleans style jazz band, with the muted trumpets, trombones, and whatnot.

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