My lyrics and titles change alot over time, as well as during performances. I often forget lyrics, and either make up new ones on the fly or just leave them out. So nothing here is set in stone, but it should give you an idea. I will try to change things here as I feel it is needed.

Trying to Find You this is a song I wrote with Keary Joe Crisp during our practices for the recent Monody show. We did not play it at the show but I have held on to it.

Horsemen I love this song I don't know what it is about it, I think it is probably the imagery and the language, it is defiantly me and they really fit well with the music. I really get into playing it too. I got really into it one night at The Corner Cafe and got a little wild, ok it was alot wild, but when I got done there was complete silence I mean not a peep, and they had been fairly responsive to everything I played before that. It was really weird, I have got alot of different responses and seen alot of different responses, but I have never seen or heard anything like this.

Little Naked Boy if you just read the lyrics you should get it. I have been questioned alot about this one just because of the opening lyric, and I realize I can be quite difficult to understand live, but I don't see why people get so flustered when you sing "little naked boy". It is simple a love song using a reference to some children's (including mine when I was younger) natural dislike of and not wanting to wear clothes.

She's a stripper, Better than me I like this song, but I figure the less said the better.

Graceous Kinds of Smiling made for the electric, it works on the acoustic, but I wish I had a band damit.

Backseat Choir the opening lines came to me just before I went to sleep, and the verse guitar came to me in my dream. (capo 2nd)

Too easily the dangers of confronting someone you wish you did but no longer do have a relationship with while chemically challenged. (tuning DADFGD)

Break em' Down I wrote this while I was really sick and could not sing. So I screamed. I like the song alot and think it is important, but it is really hard to convey the song to people. I question how well I can do this and weather or not I should be trying. (tuning DADFGD)

Two Small Kids in my mind the most terrible thing in the world is to hurt a child. When something bad happens to an adult they usually deserve it or have brought it on themselves in some way, but children are just being children. They are not perfect, they are just children, and to deprive them of the ability to be children either by making them believe that being a child (acting like a child) is wrong or by hurting them in such a way as to take part of their innocents is a terrible thing. I know all this seems obvious but many of us do it quite often without even thinking about it. So do think about it.

Like Birds and Owls the three verses are about three different female interest of a brief period. The music came about by playing different ideas on the electric guitar in different ways, and then putting them all together on acoustic. The bridge comes from two poems I wrote "The Way a Male Cardinal Chases a Female Cardinal" and "The Way Owls Sing Making Love". I like it

Beautiful and Haunting to me this is like an old fifties rock love song. Well maybe rock is pushing it, it is in 3/4. Maybe a waltz

I do. And you? (Third Coming) I wrote the guitar sitting on my grandmother's couch. It is simple, but I like the chorus.

Restless Trail an attempt to leave more space in my songwriting.

Flying Things the song that to date I am the most proud of. I love the lyrics, chords, movement, feel, and melody, if only I could play it right. (capo 9th fret)

Ode to the Dead I see this song as an old war ballad of some sort, others don't seem to get that. If I have a September 11 song this is it, but it really comes more from my sister Lisa's death in November of 2000.

Nature Spell a song I wrote after the first and only practice I had with Keary Joe Crisp, a brilliant songwriter, when we were trying to get a band together. It is very influenced by his writing style, although not the same.

I'm still sacred of Jake The Ripper I wrote this after seeing a special on TV, where a woman claimed to have solved The Jake the Ripper murders. It really freaked me out, as I am sure you will notice if you read, and understand this.

So lonely when you read it you should not think about it just read it. Feel it if I may be so corny.

The Boy in the Bird I did this weird thing on my wall a few years ago of a bird shape with a human head and outstretched arms coming out of the shoulders. This is kind of that in writing. It makes me happy to read it, which is something I often have trouble achieving.

I Scream to Learn My Mouth My cousin Fiona who is 3 years old was screaming out the window at a bird one day, and I asked her why she was screaming. She answered "I scream to learn my mouth". I don't know and don't care if this counts as poetry, but I think it is one of the most amazing thing I have ever heard.

May 15th 2001 This is actually published in some poetry book that I doubt anyone reads, by some company that seems to take advantage of poets who think it is a big deal to be put in some book with several hundred other poets that no one has ever heard of before.

The Most Modern of Unmodern Poetry I wrote this after seeing a thing about T.S. Elliot. It is about my love, hate feelings toward modern poetry, but as T.S. Elliot said it is important for artists to have other artists to respond to, even if it is only to rebel against. He said something like that anyway.

The Trouble with Making it Back I wrote this especially for this occasion. I thought it would make a good compliment for "The Most Modern of Unmodern Poetry"