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