Burn Whatever's Left

The final collection of songs from Act III of our double album is the come down and the reckoning. We are at the end of the journey. You might feel nostalgic that it’s over. You may have regrets but you’re not going to dwell on things you can’t change.

After all, what would Joan of Arc do?

“Strike a match and start again, light the rope from either end, so many pages I can’t forget, tear them out and burn whatever’s left.

Thanks for joining me on this journey. I hope to see you again soon!

“The Closer I Get” was originally meant to be the opener of this double album. "Being alive costs a lot of money but so does dying”. I’ve always thought it was unfair that the moment we are born, we immediately start racking up debt just for existing. This song was conjured from the ashes of our initial psychedelic trip. Sometimes your perception and depth of field changes depending on where you’re at in life.

Love and pain it comes in waves but it was quite enough in those early days, we were wild as wolves my darlin’, we were strays.

“Malibu” was written with Mike Campbell in his Malibu home after Jeremy and I had driven through the canyon fleeing a forest fire to get my guitar from our AirBnB. I had the start of the song and brought it to him looking to finish it out. I wanted to write something with a country funk/Bobbie Gentry feel, a good long rambling story about the minutia of the day, like Ode to Billy Joe. Mike added the long “California” yodel and the bridge and was exactly what the song needed. He also helped to write some verses with Jeremy and I. Also, shout out to Drew Erickson who nailed the string arrangement on this one.

My favorite line is "love and grief are a package deal, the more you have, the more you feel."

love and grief are a package deal, the more you have, the more you feel.

Are you ready to travel into my mind?

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