could use more rollickin but i'm tired

track from the 2011 RPM Challenge album Burds.

Track from the 2011 RPM Challenge album Burds.

Track off of the 2011 RPM Challenge album Burds.

Track from the 2011 RPM challenge album Burds.

Track of off the 2011 RPM Challenge album Burds.

An ode to the loss of vinyl records (yes... i know you can still buy them... but it's not the ONLY way to get music as it was when I was a wee lad). But really it's just a thin metaphor allowing me to write another song about a girl. Yahoo…

Track off of the 2011 RPM Challenge album Burds.

I'm horrible at foreign languages. So I apologize to anyone who is actually trying to translate this. It came to me spontaneously. Here's my interpretation. It could mean "Saint Love"... which references a song I wrote in 2002... and yet this…

From the 2011 RPM Challenge album Burds.

Awoke tonight to realize that my girl had a broken heart, And like an image of me, she fell apart. You laid it all out on the line, another time. A shout out in the dark. And I should have come but it seemed too far at the time. In the end it…

Lack of self respect can blind, Lead to self destructive tendencies. But I am old enough to know this game. I cannot deny the truth to this. Still I... I've always recklessly believed that there was more to you than what they said you were. I…

There are no lyrics here... I will not put politics into music. However... the man gives me a very demented case of the blues. Therefore I played music to sooth my poor, sad soul.

With a new day comes new hope for tomorrow, It may be unfounded but it's all that we've got. So don't hide your eyes. No one's watching out for us. We're on our own, and we're all that we've got. In your shadow I am groping to find purpose. What…

If you've never been there, the how could you know? Funny you should mention faith, for mine has always been misplaced. A decade or more, and all I've learned couldn't fill these hands of mine. Couldn't fill this head of mine. If you've never…

I was playing my mandolin and thought... this sounds like an Irish drinking song. So... that's more or less what it is.

Some may say that given time, every one messes up and thinks of no one else, Sins their sin, their selfish acts. But you I would have sworn were different, a faithful heart. Not without fault, but I never thought you would cut me like that. Some…

Sometimes things are just clear.

Both of us have made mistakes, I know I'm not so naive to think this is an empty canvas for me to paint my hopes on Even so, that doesn't mean there's no potential Even so, I'll still put myself on the line Just take it or leave it. This…

You'll find me there. Discover my smile. I'll be confused, and so will you, But it won't last for long. Because you and I were never meant for this place. Soon you'll see- We're better with wings. It's in the air, Reaching out for a hundred…