Story & Lyrics

"Dance of Paradise" has a very short life span compared to many of my other pieces. I had recently re-attached my guitar cables, and in the course of confirming that…

Well, I'll get the lyrics part out of the way first: (I want) a wonderful time(To be) going onI want a wonderful time to be going on (repeat)I want a…

This one's kind of interesting, because it brings up a whole big, personal phenomenon in the development of my songwriting. At a point in my early twenties, it occurred to…

This one is actually a rather old song of mine. It originally had a completely different set of lyrics, oriented around the chorus hook, "easy for you," and that's what…

This song is quite special to me, personally. The tune and chords for the verses and chorus were "given" to me--basically channeled to me--in the summer of 2018. The feeling…

This one has a weird history. Its genesis was a hot July afternoon in 1999. It was one of those instances where I'd decided to set out a challenge for…

This is a weird one. It has a very weird origin. The first batch of songs I tried recording made it to digital multi-track audio in summer of 1998. Later…

I wrote this one in two pieces, basically... I remember having the Em main guitar riff and the hook "What's Her Name," first, and I had that as the stub…

This song has a weird history for me personally. It originally had a totally different verse and choruses, and I recorded it twice, once in 1998 and again in 2000-01,…

This song dates back to a real-life incident that took place, I'm quite sure, in 1995, when I was fifteen years old. I'm on my way to a high-school baseball…