I’ve seen the trimmings you destroy The kindness that you avoid Our subtle ways our sad affairs Our vagrant airs dissolve to noise What do you contemplate you're standing still Your posture motivates the scene You still don’t understand…

Linda spins without a care Idle thoughts twirling in the air Never quite a mystery Never choosing what she wants to save She escapes substantial loss By adding interest to her cause A little death a shallow say Never paying for her shallow…

Falsely You call me Desperately At least when it's my turn quickly You agree You're killing off the ways that you could be Someone who's willing to live Or willing to learn Falsely You call me Desperately At least when it's my turn…

You know I'm not perfect But I admit when I am wrong I know how to ask for favors One too many times from you But I can be a kinder soul Far better than a polished fool So when you find me falling, ask for grace Don't despair again…

There's still a way you rise at dawn Before I feel I don’t belong Before we lock into the worries of the day Yet every morning brings romance A short reprieve a second chance With every heartache comes the hope that I am wrong And…

You’re painting a dead end Capturing traces Of throwaway faces You memorize lines You smother your fire To better appeal to the maddening crowd I'm aware Setting you dead to rights when it's easy to blame you for finishing fine When…

You are beautifully taken when you have the upper hand when you're in high demand A Lady in Waiting but steady when cloying, precious toying precocious with hunger “Beware” but nobody hears Your wilting complaint "aren't you petty but…

Old school art rock Red clay still shot White board wet rotting fall away No time on the clock It's over mop it up A little left for a holiday Well it's time to stop the routine You might say it just another phase of the game But now…

Enervate what's in your head No time to talk? A leak instead And yet you wait and yet you wait A break a drain a mottled stain You're Clouding over ambered pain Standing still you're standing still You're never tempted so you've never…

Inform your decisions All your conditions (But what is the spread, what a sure excuse) desert your ideals For what appeals (So easy to stay undercover girl) Heal Thyself is what you say Lost in thought in the self help section The closer…

Written & Recorded: Feb 26, 2011 GADGAD Capo III, DADGAD Capo III This is probably my last track for this year's RPM Challenge (leaving it incomplete for 2011). I'm kind of worn out and not feeling super inspired this year and I sort of…

bonus from yesterday

A major thing, This began as I sat down to lunch and did some musing about my old wind-up gramophone, as food poisoning set in I spent the rest of the day lying in bed thinking of lyrics, getting up to type them in, throwing up, and going back…

Ok, Who HASN'T had the fantasy about the hot librarian? This was originally intended to be sung by a friend of mine with a much higher range, but a massive earthquake disrupted the schedule. I wound up singing it down an octave, trying to do…

This was originally a much longer gospel style song about meeting the devil at the crossroads and selling him my car, I got discouraged when I put down the scratch vocals and realised that no ammount of overdubs could possibly make me sound like…

I had a go at channeling Ray Charles for this one, I just forgot to channel his talent.

Still looking for Miss Right...