I’m happy with the new album, but there are four or five songs that I’m particularly pleased with. “Long Shadow” is one of them.
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Liner Notes: Long Shadow
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Strip (Lyrics)
Strip me of immortality
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Say religion’s just a drug
It should be swept under the rug of reality
Strip me of immortality
Give me meaningless devotion
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Liner Notes: Strip
Top photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash When Harold and Doug approached me about releasing and recording old songs from the band, I was torn about the idea. “Strip” illustrates the main reason for that.
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Liner Notes: Wall St. Wisdom
A.I. image by, I presume, Doug Lada. The Reign recorded “Wall St. Wisdom” at Neverland Studio in 1991, but its roots reach back another seven years or so.
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Wall St. Wisdom (Lyrics)
Brown nose, serving time, focus on the bottom line
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Servant of the dollar bill, master of the overkill
Fiery hoop high jump, God the Father Donald Trump
Long hours, job is wife, Wall Street Journal, Book of Life -
Better Late than Neverland: An Album
Photo by Oliver Thin. My old band, The Reign, is on the cusp of releasing our second album. It only took 35 years.
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Liner Notes: Footsteps in the Hall
Illustration cropped from the York Grief Study’s website. I wrote a new song, centered around a character’s experience of grief.
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The Color of the Pen (Lyrics)
I saw suspicion in her eye
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Liner Notes: Josie
“How does that Simul-sync function?” In the early ’80s, I got my hands on my first multi-track recorder: a Teac 4-channel reel-to-reel tape recorder.
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