Songwriting Heals
Lucy Say Goodnight
When I was 16 years old I fell in requited love for the first time, I experienced intimacy for the first time and not long afterward I abruptly prepared for fatherhood. Lucy, our chosen name for our daughter, would have been the foundation we built our hopes and dreams on. We lost her and she never saw the light of this world. Though over 20 years have passed I still feel her presence in my life. This song had been coming for a very long time, and in the spring of 2009, I wrote a letter to Lucy, which subsequently became her song. I wanted her to know our experience of losing her from my perspective. I wanted her to know I love her and I never gave up. In “Lucy Say Goodnight” I honor her sacrifice to my life as I’ve known it.
Songwriting is a reflection of your inner most truth.
Your truth can guide you into your future.
Seven Come Eleven
When I left Los Angeles in the spring of 2019, I had lived there for 14 years and 7 days. For nearly half of that time I felt a strong pull back to the southeast and more specifically Nashville. I was never in the “right place”. My relationship, my band, my career all became scapegoats for what was passively keeping me there; my fear of failure both past and present. It took a significantly broken heart, life changing therapy and profound enlightenment to understand that at the roots my fear of failure was an inability to love myself. If I could just make everyone in my life happy, I believed I’d find happiness too. Words cannot fully express my gratitude for this second chance at life; this “one last try”.