This song is one of my favorites.
Itâs about having to wear a reputation created by an adversary, one who got out ahead of the narrative. Iâm sure everyoneâs had someone in their life take advantage of them by telling exaggerated stories or telling ones that were missing context. Itâs an effective tool, I guess.
We took off âWhat You’ve Doneâ this rotation. Thanks for listeningâŠ
This is one of my favorites, but Iâm really not sure what reaction Iâll get to it.
This song really didnât work in its first iteration (and maybe not in this one, eitherâŠbut itâs better than it was). It took a certain scheming, disingenuous individual to pull this one out of me the right way. Anyone out there who knows me and might be concerned this is about themâŠif youâre not sure, itâs not about you. She knows who she is.
And she earned this.
I took off Damage is Done this week. Let me know what you think at [email protected].
This is one of my favorites. The key line for me is âI may tell you that I love you, long before I do.â The idea came from a situation where someone told me that they loved me so early in a relationship, it felt like manipulation to me. It was awkward, like there was some angle that I wasnât seeing. And, yesâŠfor those of you that know me…I did, in fact, consider that maybe that person was being honestâŠbut my Spidey senses went off, big time. If you were dating someone that had never really been in a long term relationship, and they told you they loved you really quicklyâŠwould you trust it?
I took down âI Want This Fightâ this week.
As usual, let me know what you think of the siteâŠor the songs, or the blog, or the lyrics, or the blue color⊠at [email protected]. Really. Like, even if you donât like it.
This is about 20 years old, written about the time I moved, for all intents and purposes, from San Francisco to San Jose. The only thing that really rang true to my life was the move itself. I missed the city, I was a little further away than I thought Iâd be, and those sentiments drove the initial idea here. The song itself is about a relationship going a little south, and settling on a plane a little lower than expected. It doesnât always reach the heights expected, but those are still within range.
We took off âKissed Her Goodbyeâ this week. Thanks again for listeningâŠ
This rotationâs song was inspired by a conversation with a good friend. In the course of outlining why a relationship wasnât working, and she used the phrase âI just want us to align to a purpose.â I immediately thought, well shoot, there we goâIâve never heard that phrase in a song. I started writing it largely attacking myself, with a much more personal, Dashboard Confessional-type feel to itâŠslower, and more biting lyrics. I ultimately sped it up some, cut out two versus and, hopefully, wound up with a better song.
I took off âLiftâ this week. Once again, welcome to the new folks. Let us know what you thinkâŠ