Songs
Each title below is a link to the song’s page, where you can listen to it and read the lyrics.
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A Sidewalk Holds The Heat
A poem about abandoning esoteric mystical pursuits in favour of appreciating the everyday.
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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.
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Brain Cages
In praise of paying attention.
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Christmas Rock
In the Hungarian tradition, the Christmas tree was brought by angels, and magically appeared on Christmas Eve.
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Day Turns Into Night
A short poem about the beauty and mystery of a city sunset.
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Days Like This
A reminder to myself, that it should always be “love that leads me through the wonder of another day.”
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Do What You Love To Do
A song about leaving a bad situation for a better one.
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Easier To Hide
A song about love overcoming fear, i.e., what happens when a self-conscious chicken meets the love of his life.
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East Sky
Another ode to twilight, and to noticing.
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Every Damn Itch
It was great fun trying to work in every possible rhyme for “itch”!
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Feel It In Your Heart
Wrote this many decades ago, but I do still agree with the Beatles about love.
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Found Sound, Round
Mostly loops, strung together in good old ACID PRO, with 2 tracks of actual bass guitar.
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Friday Afternoon
Written in graduate school, about leaving the musty old Botany Building library and walking home in a glorious thunderstorm.
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Hey Annie
About seeing a friend through a very dark night of the soul, and celebrating how very well she got through it.
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I Love Her
About what happens when a dorky clueless bookworm falls head over heels in love.
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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.
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Love Today
“The mind works hard to see the things the heart knew all along” pretty much sums this one up.
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Nothin’ To Do With Me
Written in reaction to someone once telling me that the joy I was feeling was just down to luck.
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One Day In Mind
Written many decades ago. Your basic “poor me, you done me wrong” song.
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Outside Again
Country-style song about what to do after a long winter, or a long global pandemic.
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Place in This World
My attempt at a longing type of song, a little bit in the spirit of Our Day Will Come.
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Sad Little Man
Not “sad” as in “unhappy”, but “sad” as in “a sad little specimen of a human being.”
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Sally Fills Out Forms
It’s the age-old story of being spurned because of paperwork.
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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”.
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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.
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Thank You For Being Here
In loving memory of both my mother and my big brother.
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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.
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Tonight There’s A Train
Written to remind myself to try less and appreciate more.
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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.
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Walk Through The Forest
Intended as encouragement, that I couldn’t directly give at the time, to a depressed friend.
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What Appears To Be
Your basic “my guru done me wrong” song. Could also work for a former lover too though.
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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.
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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.