I wrote this song for my Dad and sang it live during a celebration of his ministry back in 2004. It took quite a bit of practice to get the whole picking and singing thing down at the same time. It brings my Dad to tears, which is mighty hard to do. ;) It’s also one of my favorites.

UPDATE: This recording is an outdated version. A new, full-band recording of this song is available here.

Download “Tribute” (old)

Lyrics are after the jump.

I wrote this song back in 2005, my senior year of college.  It’s a sad song about suicide that tied in with a presentation that a group of fellow students and I put together.  Our presentation was the best there ever was (I thought so anyway), but we didn’t get all that great of a grade.  We must have made the professors cry too much or something.  Anyways, it’s a tear jerker, but it remains what I consider to be one of the best songs I’ve written.

Download “It Wasn’t Worth It” or stream it live:

Lyrics are after the jump.

I will be adding some of my older recordings here as well.  Amber (my wife) and I recorded this shortly before we were married in 2005.  She played the violins and sang the female vocals.  I was still rather uneducated from an audio recording perspective when I laid it down, but somehow this recording turned out better than I would have expected.  Must have been the violins.

I wrote the song with another friend of mine from college named Catherine Crawford, who helped with the lyrics.  She’d probably murder me if she found out I recorded it with somebody else. ;)

Download “Believe” or stream it live:

You can find the lyrics after the break.

I finished the recording for this song a few weeks ago; it literally took months.  It’s hard to find the time required to get something like this done, especially with a baby boy. ;)

I’m quite proud of the final result, though.  This is, by far, the closest I’ve ever come to a professional recording.  I learned so much this time around I can only hope I remember it all.  Look for some more to come soon!

Download “Fighting for the Day” or stream it live:

You can find the lyrics after the break.