Day 29 - The Music Man

This song is deep. It's about how I know my best music comes from a broken heart, and how I know I already gave up this dream once when I was in a long-term relationship. I have to be alone, give up on other dreams of love and family, to pursue this music career.

Lyrics after the jump.

Day 28 - I Loved Alone

Most of these lyrics are not my own, but that of my friend Ian Henson, who sent me a poem some time ago and asked me if I could try and make it into a song. The poem he sent was an interpretation of "Alone" by Edgar Allen Poe, and you'll see a few references within (including the titular one).

It was a very interesting challenge, both writing someone else's lyrics and having lyrics first altogether (I have always, always written music first). But it was a challenge that I absolutely, thoroughly enjoyed undertaking. I cut up and added to his work quite a bit (with his permission), and I think the end result is something of which we are both very proud. I know I am.

Lyrics after the jump.

Day 25 - Bleed

I almost left this song as an instrumental. But it's not nearly complicated enough to justify that, I'm sensitive, and I didn't want the Internet to call me a sh***y guitar player. Day 25!

Lyrics after the jump.

Day 21 - Can't Define

Lyrics after the jump.

Day 20 - The Rife Machine

This song is about a friend of mine who's been bedridden with a crazy illness for weeks. I tried to imagine that happening to me, which might have been a bad idea.... I'd be losing it by now. Hence the angry grunge riff.

[Insert insane guitar solo for the bridge]

Day 20... hope you enjoy.

Lyrics after the jump.

Day 4 - Silver Spoon

This song is dark, and personal. Honestly I kind of don't want to share it. This is about a tragedy that hit my hometown this week.

What drives a man to commit such a horrible crime? The father of a very good friend of mine in high school was shot and killed. Four others were also targeted and killed, and then the shooter, as if his actions weren't full of sheer cowardice enough, shot and killed himself too. It's been constantly on my mind ever since I heard the news a few days ago.

I don't pretend to feel an ounce of pain compared to those of the families affected. As I say in the song, this pain isn't mine, just speaking my mind. I just can't fathom it.

The title "Silver Spoon" refers to the sick sense of entitlement the shooter must have had, thinking he had the right to take these lives and deprive so much from their surviving loved ones.

Lyrics after the jump.