O Songs

Open up my heart and heal theBrokenness and the bitterness.Open up my heart to beat your rhythm.Open up my heart and help meTestify in witness,That you opened me and let me know I’m living. Chorus:Open me, and set me freeTo the silent truth inside of me.Open me, and set me free today.Open me, and set […]

Dedicated to my songwriting partner, Steve the Angel. This is one of those rare songs that was adopted as a live favorite by our fans before it was recorded. The danger of those songs is that they rarely live up to expectations. I think we nailed this one. Mike Wengler’s intro piece perfectly captures the […]

“Often times when the writing really happens well, I’m just messing around the guitar, hear something, it will suggest an image to me. And I was playing this kind of plaintive little riff and it was just starting to snow and was pretty blustery out and I was just kinda looking out the window and […]

“Adam Ant taught me the chords, I wrote the words. It’s a long story for a short song.” -From the liner notes for Flyover Land There’s somethin’ in your eyes this mornin’. I can see it isn’t stars. There’s something you’ve been tryin’ to tell me, I’ve been close with no cigars. I tell you […]