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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.
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.
15works in the Collection
12active ideas
18canonical 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.
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Turn To Me
A marriage song about the far side of a shared bed, a story told on someone's behalf, and the nights we almost reach.
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White Stones Don’t Lie
A grave-side witness song about loss, loyalty, and the stories authority tells afterward.
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I Never Saw Jerusalem
A roadside confession about longing, delay, and the life built just short of arrival.
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Hold Me To It
A song about the promises we make in quiet rooms, the pressure that tests them, and the person we ask to meet us there.
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Leave The Latch Undone
A threshold song about the life we build, the self we confine, and the patience required for return.
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Because It Was He
A friendship song about the people who have known several versions of us, and the stories we let each other end.
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Don’t Be That Guy
A comic Navy story song about liberty, memory, and the younger self who refuses to stay gone.
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Summer Sweat
A summer-night song about a held glance, the distance across a kitchen, and the moment both people choose to close it.
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The Next Bright Lie
A wary song about grievance, belonging, and the seduction of certainty.
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I Don't Know How
A quiet song about private uncertainty, a sleeping household, and the choice to move without an answer.
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This Body Still Knows My Name
A woman begins to trust the body she once tried to leave behind.
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Nothing Leaves This Room
A writer's song about the best work held back, and the fear of dying with it unheard.
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The Long Argument
A civic song about inherited promise, unfinished work, and the responsibility to keep showing up.
Published · Three-part work
The Confession Trilogy
Three songs about borrowed words, borrowed identity, and the end of performing for love.
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Selected paths through the Collection
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.
4 canonical works
Truth
Honesty, testimony, denial, public narrative, and what can responsibly be known.
White Stones Don’t Lie · The Next Bright Lie · Cut & Paste · Alive or Just Well-Read3 canonical worksLoss
Death, absence, separation, and the changed world after something cannot be restored.
Turn To Me · 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 Argument10 canonical worksIdentity
The names, roles, inheritances, injuries, choices, and explanations through which a self is made.
It Just Don't Feel Like Mine · I Never Saw Jerusalem · Leave The Latch Undone · Because It Was He · The Next Bright Lie · This Body Still Knows My Name · Nothing Leaves This Room · Cut & Paste · Alive or Just Well-Read · No More Auditions3 canonical worksMemory
What is retained, altered, inherited, forgotten, or made newly visible by recollection.
I Never Saw Jerusalem · Because It Was He · Don’t Be That Guy6 canonical worksTime
Aging, waiting, recurrence, lateness, mortality, and the habits that become a life.
I Never Saw Jerusalem · Because It Was He · Don’t Be That Guy · Nothing Leaves This Room · Summer Sweat · Alive or Just Well-ReadNavigation
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Open the Journal indexContinuity
A chain of relationships is now visible.
White Stones Don’t Lie and The Next Bright Lie share Truth and Authority across the divide between consequence and prevention. I Never Saw Jerusalem brings the question inward, to shame and the difficulty of making an approach. It Just Don’t Feel Like Mine examines the life already chosen. Hold Me To It and Because It Was He place commitment beside the help of another person. Summer Sweat and Turn To Me give the private room different pressures: reciprocal desire and uncertain reach. Nothing Leaves This Room turns attention toward the work still waiting to be heard. The Long Argument keeps the civic question open, and The Confession Trilogy closes the Collection with borrowed language, performed identity, and the possibility of being known.
Publication Standard
A work enters the public Collection only when its page is complete.
Songs remain outside this index until their lyrics, context, credits, rights language, and internal links have been verified. The Collection favors coherence over volume.