secret songs

rare collection of early sneak peeks of new music, home recordings and unpublished works

iphone recording, songwriting, instrumental. written nov 2022.

iphone recording, songwriting happening, unfinished. written may 2023. (kids in the background) humming. can’t get in the water.

iphone recording, written oct 2023. can you see i’ll give you everything? can you see i’ll give you all of me? can you see i’ll give you everything? can you see i’ll give you all of me? can you see a plastic diamond ring? can you see i’ll give you everything. can you see i’ll give you everything. can you see i’ll give you all of me.

iphone recording, written oct 2023. when you marry a daughter, do you change her, do you save her? rearrange her? eloise, eloise. now i can say, pretty safely, we change each other. we change each other. eloise. eloise.

iphone recording, written 9/24 still in a war. i don’t feel like fighting so i’ll just lie down here

iphone writing session, unfinished Oct 2024

iphone recording, written July 2024

written and recorded 11/23

a home iphone recording on the living room floor, may 2024. i know what you want. i know what you came for. taking me round the bend. taking me by the handful. again. 

a piece of a song written june 2024

let you down was written and recorded on the spot on my living room floor during a late difficult parenting night, april 2024, break the silence with song on a windy night as storms move through my boys and through my heart and through my boys and through. brew a hot cup of tea. no tea cups are clean. i don’t want to sit with regret for how i could have done better. but i’m sitting away from you now. eyes puffed and nights like these make them older, not wiser. have i let you down. have i let you down. it kills me now to think i might be letting you down. 

iphone recording, written and immediately recorded, march 2024 in the sun, in the sun, i pull my face backwards, i can’t lay straight, i pull myself sideways, i can’t stay. too many typical things. i’m not a typical thing. too many typical things. i’m not a typical thing…. 

press my heart was written and shortly thereafter recorded in garageband, describing beauty inside of a relationship, april 2024