step behind late for school don't have my homework done falling down

there must be some kind of mistake

sun-soaked evenings, just the two of us, drinking wine on the lawn, no cares, a happy fading memory

oh, mister purple, always afraid you'll do something awful. please, mr. purple. Be you. old lonely bachelor wandering in your silly garden crunchy little white stones pass the time. tough to relate to harm now got to make your dime…

that will be all

you saw some thing you shouldn't have

ambient creepiness. I had a lot of fun making this one and was pretty surprised and pleased with the results.

you left my guitar tuned differently. This turned into a nice way for me to say goodbye to this collection. Always reminds me of early morning quiet after parties at school.

good night

neglected children are coming back home to roost kind of goes with 'fret.'

anxiety over something horrible that someone might have done, will destroy you when it's something that you'll never know for sure. leads into 'roost.'

instrumental. no relation to westley and buttercup, just the title that stuck.

A song about someone I know, or at least used to, who is almost as much a mess as the metaphors I threw at this effort.

Trying to capture the spirit of 4AM.

Corporate boardroom buzzwords are meaningless and worse than useless.

Sundays have always been a disappointment for me. If you've never spent the entire day just moving about, drinking beer, enjoying the weather and putting off the upcoming week, you should. Maybe not every week.

RPM '09 instrumental. This one was a lot of fun and relatively painless and unplanned, which accounts for its roughness.

rpmchallenge is exhausting. even when you don't have kids, or aren't taking classes, or don't have lots of vocational responsibilities. so, I didn't give up. I finished. but I thought about calling it quits. this song was a thought along the way…

Based on the first lines of a Hindu spiritual song I've had stuck in my head for years, this song was included on the RPM 08 world music category compilation. World music--crazy! Wouldn't have expected that, but I'm honored that it was nominated…

Standing in the shower last summer one weekend when my family was out of town, missing them. It made me think about how empty life is without the ones I love most. Also worked in some imagery I've been toying with for a number of years--the river…