Episodes
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The Traveler
The Traveler Aldebar came to me in a dream, or if not a dream, then a close relative; that space where you are no longer awake, but not yet asleep. I was listening to Bach at the time—the second movement of his Trio Sonata No. 2 in C minor, as a matter of fact—and as I heard, suspended mid...
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Aldebar
Aldebar For years I tried to fuse two of my songs, this song: Aldebar, and the next: The Traveler into one longer song in two parts, since The Traveler truly is a direct continuation of Aldebar. But I could never find a good bridge, an unobtrusive transition; and so they have, to this day…
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Enjoy
Enjoy Every now and then it just strikes me over the head, lead hammer, full swing, brains on the floor, heavy impact: we live in a society almost entirely designed for, and driven by consumption. Perhaps there’s no “almost” about that, come to think of it. A society—if not a world—where more is...
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The Conversation
The Conversation This song started out as the two opening chords. I played them over and over again knowing that the opening line was approaching. Closer and closer the longer I played. Then one morning, they arrived, as if born fully-fledged. Now, I don’t know whether this love song is dedicated...
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The Fading
The Fading I don’t remember which came first, the music or the lyrics. Looking back, perhaps they arrived hand in hand. It was an image. I’m not sure from where. Just a brief scene. Her by the fire, I in the room, reading or watching the fire; perhaps I was saying something. She heard what I said...
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The Sharing
The Sharing I find that each of my songs is a collection of impressions, glimpses gleaned and gathered. And as the collection grows, life stirs and soon these impressions align and cry out for melody. And so, eventually, since they don’t easily give up these impressions, the song is born. And…
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The Difference
The Difference It struck me once that not only is “beauty skin deep” but so are races. I challenge the bigots of this world to differentiate a white man’s spleen from a black man’s. There are though, I perceived, other kinds of races, the spiritual kinds. The philosophical race, the creative…
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Little Earth
Little Earth Sometimes I have the district feeling that this blue little planet of ours knows precisely where she has been, precisely where she is, and precisely where she is going. Other times I’m convinced that she has not a clue, and just spins obliviously on through the whispering starlight....
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Stephen
Stephen Let me confess, this song was directly inspired by Cordelia’s Dad’s The Frozen Girl; I just loved the long, story-telling ballad, so reminiscent of the Swedish Skillingtryck (things that cost a shilling to print/buy—a broadsheet ballad) which my dad loved and which I used to sing as a...
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Neither
Neither So many dire opposites, so diametrically positioned, so at war with each other, and so utterly false. As a teenager, I once saw the world as a painting, all of existence within the frame of the universe. And from within this painting, looking up you see good, looking down you see evil;...
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Wonderful
Wonderful I wrote this song when I lived on a 36-foot sloop in Long Beach, California—one of the best places I’ve ever lived—which is probably where the harbor comes from. It’s really just a love song. Boy, girl. Man, planet. ____________________ The Words: Finding his ship in harbor she’s…
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Sleep
Sleep Sleep, when you stop to think about it, I mean really stop, and really think about it, is one of the strangest phenomena around. Really, what is it good for? Rest? You can rest sitting down reading a book. Recharging batteries? I can think of many things that are better chargers, sunshine…
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One Ship Fleet
One Ship Fleet Four years out (at near light-speed) from the nearest form of Terra Firma can take its toll, especially if you’re the only one onboard this inter-stellar freighter. I’m not saying that this is the truth. I’m not saying that this is not the truth. All I’m saying is that this song—as...
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Think
Think What if? What if there is more to this world than meets the eye? Beyond what may appear. What if we didn’t crawl out of the primordial ocean some gazillion years ago? What if we’re more than chemicals and stimulus response? What if we have a history, vast and just about forgotten? What if?...
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Friends
I have to be honest. Sometimes, lovemaking strikes me as possibly the strangest thing two humans can engage in. It’s just an odd thing to do when you stop to think about it. Even the mechanics of it. Just odd. A visiting alien utterly unfamiliar with both the urge and the concept would wonder…
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Untroubled
Untroubled Driving east on the Ventura freeway, just before you hit the 405, there stood—or towered rather—well, at least a few years ago, a very impressive tree. Not far from the everlasting stream of cars: this river of metal-cased fates rushing (or crawling) by every hour of the day, the tree...
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Heart To Heart
Heart to Heart Well, this started off as seeing eye to eye: the phrase and idiom. And thinking about lovers who don’t see eye to eye, well they would not see heart to heart, then. And the lyrics grew from there, heart to heart being the requirement for true love and a lasting friendship. And they...
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1241
1241 The way I heard it, the Mongols first came out of the East to overrun Europe in the year 1241. Up until then, the Europeans—for hundreds of years up through the Dark Ages—had done a pretty good job of slaughtering themselves, they didn’t really need a hand. Nonetheless, here they came…
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Phantoms
Phantoms At times, growing up, I felt—almost knew—that behind love (and here I’m talking about infatuation or sexual attraction/compulsion) there was nothing. Just shadows. Phantoms. ____________________ The Words: All my reason has fled me left I stand with one single hope in hand Hearts and...
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