Forthcoming · Canonical work page
Leave The Latch Undone
A threshold song about the life we build, the self we confine, and the patience required for return.
The Collected Works
Collection
Songs arranged as a body of work rather than a stream of releases. Each entry keeps the recording, lyric, context, and verified record together.
8works in the Collection
10active ideas
8canonical work pages
Published
The works currently in the Collection
A song enters this index only after its page is complete and its facts, credits, rights language, and internal paths have been verified.
Published · Canonical work page
The Long Argument
A civic song about inherited promise, unfinished work, and the responsibility to keep showing up.
Forthcoming · Canonical work page
It Just Don't Feel Like Mine
A mid-life reckoning with the good life, the wild self left behind, and the cost of belonging.
Published · Canonical work page
Don’t Be That Guy
A comic Navy story song about liberty, memory, and the younger self who refuses to stay gone.
Published · Canonical work page
This Body Still Knows My Name
A woman begins to trust the body she once tried to leave behind.
Forthcoming · Canonical work page
I Never Saw Jerusalem
A roadside confession about longing, delay, and the life built just short of arrival.
Published · Canonical work page
The Next Bright Lie
A wary song about grievance, belonging, and the seduction of certainty.
Published · Canonical model page
White Stones Don’t Lie
A grave-side witness song about loss, loyalty, and the stories authority tells afterward.
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Ideas are cross-references, not verdicts. Each published song receives exactly three, chosen for centrality, human stakes, and its place in the larger body of work.
2 canonical works
Truth
Honesty, testimony, denial, public narrative, and what can responsibly be known.
White Stones Don’t Lie · The Next Bright Lie2 canonical worksLoss
Death, absence, separation, and the changed world after something cannot be restored.
White Stones Don’t Lie · This Body Still Knows My Name3 canonical worksAuthority
Power, command, legitimacy, obedience, institutions, and who gets to decide.
White Stones Don’t Lie · The Next Bright Lie · The Long Argument5 canonical worksIdentity
The names, roles, inheritances, injuries, choices, and explanations through which a self is made.
The Next Bright Lie · I Never Saw Jerusalem · This Body Still Knows My Name · It Just Don’t Feel Like Mine · Leave The Latch Undone2 canonical worksMemory
What is retained, altered, inherited, forgotten, or made newly visible by recollection.
I Never Saw Jerusalem · Don’t Be That Guy2 canonical worksTime
Aging, waiting, recurrence, lateness, mortality, and the habits that become a life.
I Never Saw Jerusalem · Don’t Be That GuyNavigation
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White Stones Don’t Lie and The Next Bright Lie share Truth and Authority across the divide between consequence and prevention. The Next Bright Lie and I Never Saw Jerusalem carry Identity from public persuasion into private self-explanation. I Never Saw Jerusalem and It Just Don’t Feel Like Mine extend that path through delay and chosen settlement. The Long Argument returns to the civic field through Hope and Work. Leave The Latch Undone then turns the Collection back toward a private hallway, answering domestic estrangement not with escape but with an open door, patient attention, and Grace.
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Songs remain outside this index until their lyrics, context, credits, rights language, and internal links have been verified. The Collection favors coherence over volume.