Songs

Each title below is a link to the song’s page, where you can listen to it and read the lyrics.

  • A Sidewalk Holds The Heat

    A poem about abandoning esoteric mystical pursuits in favour of appreciating the everyday.

  • About You

    Written about 40 years after I wrote I Love Her, so I guess you could say this one’s I Still Love Her.

  • Brain Cages

    In praise of paying attention.

  • Christmas Rock

    In the Hungarian tradition, the Christmas tree was brought by angels, and magically appeared on Christmas Eve.

  • Day Turns Into Night

    A short poem about the beauty and mystery of a city sunset.

  • Days Like This

    A reminder to myself, that it should always be “love that leads me through the wonder of another day.”

  • Do What You Love To Do

    A song about leaving a bad situation for a better one.

  • Easier To Hide

    A song about love overcoming fear, i.e., what happens when a self-conscious chicken meets the love of his life.

  • East Sky

    Another ode to twilight, and to noticing.

  • Every Damn Itch

    It was great fun trying to work in every possible rhyme for “itch”!

  • Feel It In Your Heart

    Wrote this many decades ago, but I do still agree with the Beatles about love.

  • Found Sound, Round

    Mostly loops, strung together in good old ACID PRO, with 2 tracks of actual bass guitar.

  • Friday Afternoon

    Written in graduate school, about leaving the musty old Botany Building library and walking home in a glorious thunderstorm.

  • Hey Annie

    About seeing a friend through a very dark night of the soul, and celebrating how very well she got through it.

  • I Love Her

    About what happens when a dorky clueless bookworm falls head over heels in love.

  • If The Morning Called

    One of the first songs I ever wrote. Kind of a folk song, with some recently-added harmonies that sound vaguely Byrds-like, to me anyway.

  • Love Today

    “The mind works hard to see the things the heart knew all along” pretty much sums this one up.

  • Nothin’ To Do With Me

    Written in reaction to someone once telling me that the joy I was feeling was just down to luck.

  • One Day In Mind

    Written many decades ago. Your basic “poor me, you done me wrong” song.

  • Outside Again

    Country-style song about what to do after a long winter, or a long global pandemic.

  • Place in This World

    My attempt at a longing type of song, a little bit in the spirit of Our Day Will Come.

  • Sad Little Man

    Not “sad” as in “unhappy”, but “sad” as in “a sad little specimen of a human being.”

  • Sally Fills Out Forms

    It’s the age-old story of being spurned because of paperwork.

  • She Checks the Weather

    What I love most about this one is that my sweetie came up with her own version called “He Never Bothers”.

  • Snowing in Heaven Today

    A poem about a dreamy Sunday morning in Toronto, written back when the old man in verse 3 was a young man.

  • Thank You For Being Here

    In loving memory of both my mother and my big brother.

  • The Sweetest Surprise

    More griping about gurus. The big question, of course, is why it took me more than 15 years to write this one.

  • Tonight There’s A Train

    Written to remind myself to try less and appreciate more.

  • Two Bag Dog

    The challenge I set myself was to get interesting MIDI sounds out of an old AWE32 soundcard. Hence the dog and the helicopter.

  • Walk Through The Forest

    Intended as encouragement, that I couldn’t directly give at the time, to a depressed friend.

  • What Appears To Be

    Your basic “my guru done me wrong” song. Could also work for a former lover too though.

  • Who Do You Listen To?

    First asked a long time ago by my bewildered teenage self, but it’s actually still a valid question in this new age of disinformation.

  • World Like This

    A song about how remembering a great day spent with a good friend can really help you get through a different day full of sharks and phonies.