Ah, The Sky, this is the dreamscape (or maybe fever dream) track on the album where myth and machine collide. What I love about poetry and music is that its meaning can be so influenced by the listener (the observer). I suppose everything is. But truly, songs morph, bend, and interact in a cellular way. Abstract offerings, such as The Sky, have an especially ineffable nature. I am here on Substack to talk about the meaning of the songs, and so I shall endeavor to do so, yet I fear that...

When I was writing and whenever I play Track Me Down, I get this Western movie vibe in my mind. When you listen, you can kind of hear galloping horses, that sense of something chasing you down. But the law in this story isn’t a sheriff. It’s the past. The choices that find their way back around. The reckoning, for good or bad, that shows up when you least expect it. I wrote this song not long after I’d left the city for a small town. I had walked away from a fast life that looked exciting...

The album takes its first turn here. All Sail Away carries the spirit of rebellion, of being pulled into service, whether for war or...