The EVER-EXPANDING SONG LIST

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Here’s an incomplete list of songs I’ve written.

Plus a lot of CONVER SONGS I’ve learned (and possibly forgotten) over the years.

 
 

Original Songs

From the upcoming album NOT EVERYTHING THE FUTURE NEEDS TO KNOW:

  • Our Turn Now

  • Everybody Thinks They’re a Romanov

  • The Lost 9th Legion of Rome

  • Lonely Little Lighthouse

  • Nothing Works

  • An Empty Net

  • Anger (Like a Virus)

Songs released (so far) only as singles:

  • Truer Than Them All

  • Go Ask Lazarus

  • Big Blue Sky

  • Firefly Will

  • Morning Edition

From the album A FILAMENT IN THE WILDERNESS OF WHAT COMES NEXT:

  • American Dreams

  • There’s a Bird

  • Lotus Eaters

  • Sandra

  • Love is a Four-Letter Word

  • Love in a Time of Sharp Decline

  • Filament



From the album PROPER NOUNS:

  • Straight White Male

  • Margarette

  • Paper Angels

  • Crow in the Snow

  • Louise, Louise, Louise, Louise



From the album SECRET SOCIETY SESSIONS:

  • Let You Go

  • Irretrievable Beauty

  • 1+1+1=3

  • This, This, This

  • The Holy Go-Between

  • Collapsing Star

  • The Long Laugh of Serious Time



From the album THE GREAT MAKE BELIEVER:

  • Eden

  • Anonymous

  • 1973

  • Evangeline

  • Lonely People

  • Mission Bells

  • Fisher King

  • Veteran’s Day

  • Stained Glass Windows

  • Silently



From the album GHOSTS’ MENAGERIE:

  • The Charango Song

  • Nostalgia

  • Andalucian Pines

  • Half Awake, Half Asleep

  • Raymond Carver Couple

  • Ghosts

  • Heaven is Too High

  • House Warming

  • Hold Me in Your Hopeless Arms



From the album MOVIE THEATRE HAIKU:

  • A Memory Lost at Sea

  • User-Friendly Guide to Change

  • My Life in Film Festivals

  • Solipsist in Love

  • Atheist’s Prayer

  • Premiere

  • The Late, Great Age of Paper

  • Concrete & Nails

  • Glass Reich

  • Baltimore Fugitives Buried in Brownsville, TX

  • Permanent Fixture of Regret

  • Waltz for Angelika Dittrich



From the album THE DRUNKEN DANCE OF MODERN MAN IN LOVE:

  • Prelude/Primer

  • Culture Jammer

  • A Vague Notion of Nothing Much

  • Little Love Affairs

  • Gaslight Girl

  • Centaurea

  • N.E. Brazee

  • Faulkner’s South

  • 388 Hate House

  • The Love I Fake

  • Aubade

  • Archipelago No. 12



From the album THIS IS THE:

  • Little Miss Masochist

  • Devil’s Playground

  • Swimming Lessons

  • Preamble

  • All Roads

  • Wondrous Withering of Days

  • Isabelle

  • Mantra of a Melting American

  • Stalin Looks Back

  • Rainy Day Amputee



From the album ANXIETY ON PARADE by The Sort OFs:

  • Anxiety

  • The Soldier’s Bride

  • XMAS Card from NYC to Anyone Who’ll Read It, 1946

  • Terror-ism

  • Sitting Inside a Sinking Submarine

  • Youth in Vogue

  • Our Bed’s an Angry Ocean

  • War, Thank You

  • Head to Head with the Smarts of Our Leisure, Part 2

  • Fascist Freedom

Songs that haven’t found a home yet:

  • There’s a Hole in Heaven’s Ballroom Floor

  • Not a Boomerang

  • All of Egypt Slipped Away

  • Dumpster Fire (That’s the Good Ole’ USA)

  • Hail the King

  • All the World is Wild

  • What Becomes of the Horses

  • The Cage Agrees

  • Some Jerichos Won’t Fall

  • Plain as Day (Blindsided)

  • Common Room

  • Napoleon’s Exile is Over

  • Sweeping Up (Jesus, Man, I Miss You)

  • First Snows of the Autumn

  • How Deep is the Sea

  • Amazing Grace

  • The 50,000 Watts

  • Let Me Go Easy

  • Does Anybody Ever Think They’re Wrong?

  • Oh, Pitiful You (Only Half Vanish)

  • What Good are All the Hearts of Rome?

  • The Night Before Laika

  • Weird Ways

  • Normandee-dee-dee

  • Hey Ho, Dosey Doe

  • The Lightship 318

  • Middle of the Desert in the Middle of the Day

  • Sunday is a Sunday

  • Till the End of the End of the World

  • Canyon

  • No Sad Songs

  • Streetlight for the Moon

  • To the Moon and Back Again

  • Fighting in a Photograph

(There’s many more I need to add, so check back often!)

 

Cover Songs

Fleetwood Mac:

  • Gold Dust Woman

  • Big Love

  • Never Going Back Again

  • Dreams

Radiohead:

  • Paranoid Android

  • Street Spirit

  • Nude

  • Everything in Its Right Place

  • Exit Music

Paul Simon:

  • Gumboots

  • Me & Julio

  • Graceland

  • The Werewolf

Queen:

  • Bohemian Rhapsody

  • Don’t Stop Me Now

  • We Are the Champions

  • Under Pressure

David Bowie:

  • Under Pressure

  • Space Oddity

  • Ashes to Ashes

  • Oh, You Pretty Things

Jason Isbell:

  • If We Were Vampires

  • Cumberland Gap

  • Last of My Kind

Stevie Wonder:

  • Sir Duke

  • Superstition

Elton John:

  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

  • I’m Still Standing

  • Bennie & the Jets

  • Rocket Man

Phil Collins & Genesis:

  • In the Air Tonight

  • That’s All

  • Take a Look at Me Now

Billie Eilish:

  • Bad Guy

  • When the Party’s Over

  • Birds of a Feather

Dua Lipa:

  • Houdini

  • New Rules

Bruce Springsteen:

  • Dancing in the Dark

  • I’m on Fire

  • Youngstown

  • The Ghost of Tom Joad

Warren Zevon:

  • Werewolves of London

AC/DC:

  • Hells Bells

Hits from the Great American Songbook:

  • When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano (Ink Spots)

  • Tonight You Belong to Me

  • Blue Skies

  • We’ll Meet Again

  • Has Anybody Seen My Gal (Five Foot Two)

  • Side by Side

  • Home on the Range

  • I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles

  • My Funny Valentine

  • I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire

  • Summertime

Harry Nilsson:

  • Everybody’s Talkin’

  • Without Her

  • Without You

  • (Put the Lime in the) Coconut

  • Mr. Richland’s Favorite Song

  • One (is the loneliest number)

  • 1941

  • Jump into the Fire

  • Cuddly Toy

  • Gotta Get Up

  • Don’t Forget Me

  • The Beehive State (Randy Newman)

Ed Sheeran:

  • Shape of You

Shawn Mendes:

  • Nothing Holding Me Back

Arcade Fire:

  • The Sprawl (II)

Talking Heads:

  • Crosseyed & Painless

  • Burning Down the House

  • Psycho Killer

Holiday and Christmas songs:

  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

  • Silent Night

  • Sleigh Ride

  • Walkin’ in a Winter Wonderland

  • Jingle Bells

Taylor Swift:

  • Shake It Off

Miley Cyrus:

  • Flowers

Chappell Roan:

  • Good Luck, Babe

George Michael:

  • Faith

Songs from Hamilton:

  • You’ll be Back

  • Wait for It

Steely Dan:

  • Dirty Work

  • Reelin’ in the Years

  • Peg

MGMT:

  • Kids

Tom Petty:

  • Breakdown

  • American Girl

  • Into the Great Wide Open

  • Free Fallin’

  • Listen to Her Heart

  • Don’t Come Around Here No More

  • Mary Jane’s Last Dance

Bob Dylan:

  • It Ain’t Me, Baby

  • With God on Our Side

  • Make You Feel My Love

  • Don’t Think Twice

The Beatles:

  • Martha, My Dear

  • Dear Prudence

  • Rocky Racoon

  • Blackbird

  • Julia

  • Penny Lane

  • Eleanor Rigby

  • Day in the Life

  • I’ve Just Seen a Face

Katy Perry:

  • Teenage Dream

Pink Floyd:

  • Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2

  • Time

  • Bike

  • Comfortably Numb

  • Wish You Were Here

  • Lucifer Sam

Jethro Tull:

  • Thick as a Brick

Peter Gabriel:

  • Solsbury Hill

Lizzo:

  • About Damn Time

Squeeze:

  • Tempted

ACE:

  • How Long

Scissor Sisters:

  • Take Your Mama

Annie Lennox:

  • Why

Gnarles Barkley:

  • Crazy

Depeche Mode:

  • Enjoy the Silence

Nirvana:

  • Smells like Teen Spirit

Alanis Morrisette:

  • You Oughta Know

Billy Joel:

  • Vienna

Randy Newman:

  • Political Science

  • Sail Away

  • Short People

Paul McCartney:

  • Say, Say, Say

  • Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

  • Let Me Roll It

  • Junk

Elvis Costello:

  • Allison

  • Accidents Will Happen

  • Green Shirt

Prince:

  • When Doves Cry

  • Let’s Go Crazy

The Police:

  • Message in a Bottle

  • Every Breath You Take

Jim Henson:

  • I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon

  • Muppet Show Theme Song

Robyn:

  • Call Your Girlfriend

The Weeknd:

  • Can’t Feel My Face

Sia:

  • Cheap Thrills

George Harrison:

  • Beware of Darkness

The Kinks:

  • Sunny Afternoon

  • Waterloo Sunset

  • You Really Got Me

Gilbert O’Sullivan:

  • Alone Again (Naturally)

Love / Calexico:

  • Alone Again Or

Chris Issak:

  • Wicked Game

Joe Pug:

  • The Letdown

Anaïs Mitchell / Hadestown:

  • Why Do We Build the Wall?

Elbow:

  • New York Morning

Vulfpeck / Theo Katzman:

  • Mayor of Lonely Town

M. Ward:

  • Dead Man

Blue Oyster Cult:

  • Don’t Fear the Reaper

Bill Morrissey:

  • Ice Fishing

Rolling Stones:

  • Sympathy for the Devil

Tony Rice / Norman Blake:

  • Church Street Blues

Bill Withers:

  • Lovely Day

Hozier:

  • From Eden