1. Attention –about a crooked politician, youth long lost, in bed with his latest 20 year old conquest…thinking he can save the world….what an idiot.
2. Fascinated – about growing old and ugly and having no one to share your life with, your wife long dead or flat out left you. The only thing left in the world that excites you is watching the sun set, because that will soon be you. No one in their right mind unless you cough up right amount of cash will creep into your narrow bed….sick
3. Settle down –: about looking for something to do with your life, crazy like a trip to Russia on a strange train to Moscow. About the friends you lose touch with during your “looking” (John is John B), and about friends losing loved ones during their lives ( I wrote this after Dave’s dad died)
4. Darlin fool :? About finding the person you love, trying to protect them at all costs, regretting the times you didn’t trust them completely, wishing you could just walk away hand in hand to…I don’t know… Vt?
5. Paper cup: song about, who else?, …”think about me” written like 20 years later was also about her.
6. Bad Dreams: : about me and my headaches and general depression. What did I ever do to deserve this? But I’m going to put on my jacket and face the world anyway, no matter how tough it get’s (and it’s getting tougher)
7. Coming ashore: folk/pop: about a guy who meets a knock out girl escaping from prison. She rejects his offer of help/love and escapes into the sea from the advancing guards. He sits and waits and waits for days. Finally giving up, he realizes that he has mysteriously lost his taste for whiskey and smokes….
8. Half the time: : about d and t, wondering where she is, still very much in love with someone who doesn’t love him back. He wishes he could go back to his teens and start over again ….with t again, maybe treat her differently, pay more attention to her so that he’ll never lose her. rebuilding a work of art with the love of his life.
9. YLB: : about being afraid of everything including fear itself, FDR would disapprove…”I fear I’m feeling afraid”. Having someone around that you can turn to calm those fears down when they come to the surface. About how the church isn’t/wasn’t any good in calming anyone’s fears…especially mine. Why does god constantly lie to us?
10. The best years: : about a boy who sees a form staring at him from the dark woods around their house. As he grows old, he realizes that he was in fact being stared at by an older version of himself. Not scary, just odd and kinda judgemental…”what the fuck are you gonna do when you grow up little boy?”….like that. He owes to himself the best years of his life until…
He meets his mate. Though all the fucked up family stuff, deaths and estrangements, he still loves her like Alice’s “Mad Hatter”. Now he owes to her the best years of his life.
11. ring out – folk ballad : about the way things should be..according to Tennyson/Van Hook. Alfred Lord Tennyson was poet Laureate of England in the mid 1800’s.
12. clay – folk: wrote this one night when zig and I were sitting around writing songs in ledgewood while gina was in NC with her very ill mother. I wrote the whole thing, words and music in about 5 minutes…almost as I played it. Zig’s guitar is in the background. Just a song about wanting to be a better person yet badly wanting gina back home “trapped in amber” – very selfish thought and hating myself for thinking it, but wrote it anyway so I wouldn’t forget thinking about it
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