Author: Gregor McCole

This one is a metaphor about being wedded to something that isn’t healthy for you—family, bad habits, a spouse, etc. Pick your poison. In reality, there are all sorts of things I was screaming at in this song but…not one of them was my actual wife.

We took off “Align to a Purpose” this week. Thanks for listening.

This one is about my regret on how I handled a certain friendship / not friendship over a couple decades. This individual and I crossed paths in a number of ways over the course of junior high, high school and college. We were close at times, but we had a unique ability to get under each other’s skin. After about 10 years, we wound up at odds.

Long story short, several years ago, he was murdered by a jealous ex-boyfriend of a woman he was seeing. This song came in the aftermath of trying to absorb it all. It’s a little non-linear, because I’m processing two things: one, the horror of the situation (“it should all be different”); and two, the crystal clear realization that I blew something that was a lot of effort and should’ve been a bigger part of my life.

I’m certain his response to this song would be: “smh…here we go, he took this situation and wrote a song about himself!” And I’d say…”wait, wait…I’m processing real emotion here, however it comes off!” And…we’d both be right, in our own way. Would we resolve it? Um…no.

He was beloved by a lot of people.

We took off “Moving in Circles” this week. Thanks again for listening.

This song got buried after I wrote it, for at least 8-10 years. When doing the reconstruction project five+ years ago, I did some heavy editing–adjusting the lyrics, cutting out a verse, cutting out a bad bridge, etc. It looked better to me after that.

If you visit the site every so often, you’ll find I’m not a big fan of long songs. 4 minutes is the most I want something to be. If anything starts to approach 5 minutes, I start cutting. Eliminating bridges, choruses, intros–anything. I always try to err on the side of too short. 

We took off “Raging Storm” this time.  Thanks for listening.  

The source for this one was actually a newspaper review of a movie I never saw. The review stated that this song’s topic was too complex to cover in a 2 hour film. Of course, I thought it could be done in 3 minutes, with short lyrical lines.

I think this is one of my better songs.

We took off “Let Him Win” this week. Thanks for listening.

This is about seeking out the counsel of someone who probably has a good understanding of who and what you are. In short, extending trust to someone you believe you can trust.

This was written on one of my Hawaii vacations, where I would buy a cheap guitar at the start of the week and then sell it back to the store in a prearranged at the end of the week (they laugh at me, each time). I think some of that low key feel permeated this one.

We took off “Handle It” this week. Thanks for listening.