Wicked Gift: Lyrics and Stories of Stained Glass Scars

The Void

Angels

Lemons

Sleeping In My Clothes

Beauty

Cell Phone

Real Life

Designated Driver

Wicked Gift

Snake Eyes

Afterword

Stained Glass Scars

Behind the Songs:

I’ve personally always enjoyed it when a songwriter lowers his or her instrument, leans confidentially into the microphone, and lays bare for all the world how a particular piece of music came into being. I can’t presume to speak for anybody else, but in my own case this inevitably reeks of Monday morning quarterbacking of the worst kind. Because for me, the whole process of songwriting amounts to striking a match in a dark cave, and stumbling and groping your way towards the surface, with many a conveniently forgotten blind ally taken and discarded along the way. In hindsight it might all make rational sense, but actually doing it is a matter of pure gut instinct. I didn’t “set out” to write any of this stuff, it just kind of suggested itself as I went along. So it goes ……..

Also, for some reason lately I always seem to be writing in the first person. This doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m the narrator. The narrator might be someone I wouldn’t ever want to be. But there’ll always be something there I can relate to. I don’t strive to be factually truthful, but I absolutely strive to be emotionally truthful; you can always count on that …..

We decided to leave the lyric sheet out of the CD package this time. Sometimes it’s fun to guess at the words you can’t really make out. The words are here on the site if you want them; I hope you won’t be too disappointed when you find out what I’ll really saying …….

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