Written in 2009, recorded 2015-01-16.

These are some words to celebrate the lonely days
because without them what would it mean to be near you?
It wouldn't feel the same
So when I'm alone and getting lost in lonesome thoughts
I'll play this tune and I'll feel blue
for as long as I need to

Celebration

Written in 2011, recorded 2021-05-15 to 18.

I wait right up until
there's no more time to kill
in a typical slapdash fashion
By the time I pull on my coat and hat
the train is way on down the track
and you're already gone far and away
I'm not too slow, I'm just too late finding my way

I'll throw a thing or two
into this warlock's brew
in that typical slapdash fashion
By the time that everything is said and done
the sun's down, the race run
I missed the gun, and I've had my fun
Run, gotta catch my breath and catch up soon enough

Slapdash Fashion

Written in 2011, recorded 2021-05-23 to 29.

Always looking for...
Always looking forward or behind
Always looking for...
Always looking for a better time

just better than I can find in the here & now, in the here & now
Always hearing how it's been a downhill slide
Times gone by: just an uphill fight

Crowds are getting loud as they gather round
somehow feeling proud while they just fertilize the ground

So why can't I have faith in the pace of change?
It's taken us from yesterday to the here & now
Always fearing how the future is a fickle beast
but at least distraction gives me peace of mind
Whiling time awhile, keeping me from looking forward or behind
Living in the present just witnessing progression
or maybe a funeral procession...

Can't decide the lesson that history repeats
whether we're headed to victory or defeat

Here & Now

Halloween's approach made this recording necessary.
——————
As the sun falls
and the doors close
and the candles die
as the night falls
no one else knows
what wakes up inside

A dark room is my own true cocoon
Something new moves in this old tired costume

When the night calls
and the wind blows
and the moon is high
in the thick walls
of my envelope
I am alive

Envelope

Wrote this long sentence last Wednesday in Seattle, then came back home to my guitar this week & wrote the simple tune.  Really didn't feel like fussing with this recording, so while the last one was super multi-tracked, this is just 1 track recorded on my phone.
——————
Tonight I took a windy walk
by the light of a glowing glorious gibbous —
just a lively jaunt past quiet haunts,
just a little taste of what living can give us —
between two friendful homes
(though maybe not as much as mine),
alone on rosy dozing roads
in sight of nightly skyline lights,
glimpsing gilded buildings bright,
thoughts of you from time to time,
by the by,
by and by,
blowing through my mind
between these friendful homes
(though maybe not so much as my own),
alone and reeling as I roam
on these sweetly dozing roads.

Lively

First song recorded in about 20 months
——————
I've got a window
I'm looking out now
Got a window of time
and I'm standing by
watching as it slides on down
and closes tight

I've got a pitfall:
thinking about how
I'm doing nothing at all 
with my life, my time, my mind
and doing nothing at all
So much time and somehow
none at all

I wanna follow
I'm just a furrowed brow in the crowd
Gotta swallow my pride
and I'm standing by
watching as I ride on down
the quickening tide

I got a pitfall: doing nothing at all
I got this pitfall: doing nothing at all

Window of Time Blues

Wrote some obscenely happy guitar a while ago.
A couple moons ago, I wrote a poem.
Yesterday another verse; today another guitar thing.
Threw everything together and recorded it, probably prematurely.
——————
The moon is round and bright in the sky
and the wind is in the willow tree.
The windows tremble at the sight
but a sweeter night there just couldn’t be.

The shine from dying stars is just in time
to catch my eye and light this fire in my mind.
I try to fathom all the many miles
through lonely space it had to fly.

Fathom

Took some lyrics from a couple years ago and threw together this weird thing, mainly to practice singing high notes.

I always regret recording guitar and vocals at the same time. And not using a tuner or metronome. What lack of rigor, alack.
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I I can't can't feel feel my my heart in my my chest
only in in my my throat a choke alone, a choke alone
I I can't can't feel feel my my heart in my my chest
only in in my my throat a choke alone, a choke alone 
I I know know I I spoke of love, and how, but it seems a euphemism now
Well but now, now now, how about our blood, our stab at evolution's bough?
Now now, don't look down, don't look down
It's so far, far to fall from our own ambitions proud
The slope is slick and hope goes quick
It's so far to fall from our ambitions
so say it loud: ambition ambition ambition ambition
Oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no no no no no no

Sage & Sewage

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