Originals
Trying Too Hard To Try
About
This song is inspired by my attempt to let go and trust the flowing soul and breath of the universe.
Chords
Key = Dbm
Dbm Am
Trying too hard to try.
Dbm Am
To live and not to die.
Dbm E B
Trying to do too many things.
Dbm E
Trying to get it in -
Am Ab
before the bell rings.
Dbm Am
But the eitzah is to try - not.
Dbm Am
For nothing matters - not a lot.
Dbm E B
Nothing matters - it's all mist.
Dbm Am Dbm
Breathe in breathe out - hiss.
Recording
Not A Hippie
About
This song is inspired by feeling like my own in-between category in a world of boxes.
Chords
Key = Ab
Ab
Not a hipp-ie.
Eb
Not a norm-ie.
Gm
Not char-ad-ie.
Ab
Not chi-lon-ie.
Ab Eb
Just a being who bes.
Gm Ab
Just a soul who bel-ieves.
Recording
Same Same
About
This song is inspired by a sense of futility - that it's all for nothing.
Chords
Key = Bm
Bm D
Same same.
Bm D
Lame lame.
Bm D
Tame tame.
D Em Bm
Same Lmte Tame.
Bm D
Train train.
Bm D
Strain strain.
Bm D
Rain rain.
D Em Bm
Train strain rain.
Recording
Monday Morning
About
This song is inspired by a bluesly monday morning where nothing really felt right.
Melody
Key = Am
1 2 4 5>b6 5 1
Monday morning blues. (repeat)
b6 5 b6 1
My E er gy (repeat)
^b7 ^5 2 1
is all confused.
2 ^b7 1
All confused.
Recording
Dancin Beyond Time
About
This song is inspired by the feeling of dancing in loneliness and feeling the presense of the beloved beyond constraints of time and space.
Chords
Key = Bbm
Bbm Abm-Bbm
Feelin in the dark.
Bbm Abm-Bbm
Gropin for that spark.
Bbm Eb Fm
Fingers reaching out.
Bbm Abm Bm
Soul whispering doubts.
Bbm Abm-Bbm
Dancin with you in shadow.
Bbm Abm-Bbm
Dancin, now us, spacetime below.
Bbm Eb Fm
Hand in hand ignoring place.
Bbm F Bm
Soon my dear face to face.
Recording
Singing For Me
About
This song is inspired by the longing to sing something truly real - soul bared, words meant for those that love you.
Chords
Key = Fm
Fm G Ab G Fm Ebm Fm
Say-in some-thing tru-ly real.
* * * * * ** *
Beneath this worldly peel.
Fm Db Ebm Fm
My naked auora un dressed.
* * * *
My soul exposed - bare chest.
(Part 1)
Words between you and me.
(Part 2)
No one else needs to sip my tea.
Recording
Thank You Hashem
About
This song is inspired by that feeling of overwhelming gratitude that hits and all you can say is Thank you Hashem.
Melody
Key = Am
1 2 3 2 1 _7 1
Thank you Hash em.
1 2 3 4 5/6\5 5 4
Thank you Hash em.
5/6\5 5 4
3 1 _7 1
Thank you Hashem.
Recording
Cutie On The Q
About
This song is about that feeling of seeing a cute girl on the train and not saying anything to her as she passes you by.
Chords
Key = Bb
1 5m
My cuite on the Q.
4m 7 1
Whatever happend to you.
1 5m
Eyes kissin - passin by.
4m 7 1
Your smile got me tongue tied...
Recording
What About Joe
About
This song is inpired by the pull of modern society to have fewer kids and my feeling that if I did that I would never have my own Joe.
Recording
This Could All Just Be So Simple
About
This song is inspired by the feeling that so much of life could just be so simple - a good job, a cute girl, and a nice family in the burbs.
Lyrics
Life could be so simple.
But we choose to confurse and crinkle.
God, job wife and some kinderlach.
Why must we pretend - ach ach ach.
Recording
When It Rains It Pours
About
This song is about the confusion of romantic options and the biggness that these choice seem to invoke.
Lyrics
When it rains it pours.
Please God - let my soul soar.
Please let me be strong enough to choose.
Please don't make my weakness confuse.
Recording
Freed By Choice
About
This song is about the freedom found in choosing your girl.
Chords
Key = Am
1m 5m
Tension torn tendencies.
4m b6 1m
Toiled tragic tenacity.
Finally freed floorward.
Fatefully found forward.
Recording
Between Two Worlds
About
This song is about Shabbat between two worlds.
NNS
1m-b3-1m-4m-1m-b3-b7
Recording
Waking Up Alone
About
This song is about waking up and feeling alone among the people in your life.
NNS
Key = Dm
1m-5m-1m-5m-b6
b3-5m-1m-5m-1m-17
One morning woke up all alone.
Weekend moments - no one to phone.
Might be retarded might be broken inside.
But my oh my - the turn will tide.
Recording
Almost There
About
This jam is about that feeling of almost arriving somewhere special.
Recording
Waitin' For You To Text Me BacK
About
This song is about getting caught up in early romance and attempting to nourish other parts of your life.
Music
Key = Dm
[SDN]
5-4-b3-1
5-4-b3-1
1-b3-4-5-5
5-b6-5-b6
5-b6-5-b6
5-b6-1-2-1
[NNS]
1m 4m
Waitin for you to text me back.
5m 1m
Feeling that suspicious kind of lack.
1m 4m
Addicted to you so quick.
5m 1m b3 1m
Gotta recenter before I get ick.
Recording
Ein Od
About
This song riffs on the words "ein of milvado" - there is nothing beyond the Divine source.
Music
[SDN]
2-2-1-2-1
2-2-1-2-1
b7-1-4-1
b7-1-4-1
1
Recording
Wasted Gifts
About
This jam is about the torture of feeling that you have kochot that are being wasted.
Song
Key = G
1 4
Born to do something real.
1 3m 4
Soul soarin goodness feels.
1 4
Wasted energy - a tragedy.
1 3m 4
Won't return to heaven - on empty.
Capo 7th fret.
Recording
Esehet Chayil
About
A riff on eshet chayil.
Song
<bdi>שֶׁ֣קֶר הַ֭חֵן וְהֶ֣בֶל הַיֹּ֑פִי אִשָּׁ֥ה יִרְאַת־יְ֝הֹוָ֗ה הִ֣יא תִתְהַלָּֽל׃</bdi>
b6-4-b3-1
b7h1s2-4-5sb6s5sb6
b6-4-5-b7
5-b6-b7-1
Recording
Nothin' And Everythin'
About
This song is about that feling that you are both worthless and the most important thing in the same moment.
Song
- 3 can be played 3maj7.
Key = B
1 3 4 3
I'm nothin' and everythin'.
1 3 4 3
Joy and despair - whatever the weather brings.
1 3 4 3
I'm nothin' and everythin'.
1 3 4 2 1
Please Hashem help me sing.
Recording
Jam.