Faith, Hope and Carnage

So much hope and so much hopelessness.

but my intention is not to provoke. That’s important. Negative responses take up mental space. They require time and energy they often don’t deserve, time and energy I would rather put elsewhere.

There is the work, of course, and if we can free it from that sort of self-absorption or self-conceit, so that it becomes an expression of love, then that has extraordinary value.

I want to know I have done something of value within my allotted time, for others, that the songs have been of some utility to people.

Our shared predicament was a gift that could potentially have transformed the world into something extraordinary. To

move on my part to make a song seem in

It seems to me that some of my contemporaries just became disenchanted and cynical about things. And I kind of understand it, because sometimes the world feels like a fucking lunatic asylum, and the desire to

This is how I have chosen to live my life – in uncertainty, and by doing so to be open to the divine possibility of things, whether it exists or not.

But the songs do have a greater function for me. They’re the way I measure my life, song by song, in order to continue a creative journey that will surely never really reach its destination,