June 10, 1998: A few months prior to marriage separation. Looking for a miracle. I always heard McCartney's voice singing it in my head when I wrote/played it.
May 28, 2009: I was listening to a Kinks song "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" and thinking how each generation goes from rebels to ruling class. Sounds like an eighties techno-pop song.
July 16, 2001: Written for a friend. Sometimes people have problems or face situations in life for which it's hard to provide answers or words of encouragement that don't sound trite. I didn't know what to say, so I wrote this for her. In my original 4 track demo of this I was going for a Beatles' 'I'll Follow The Sun" kind of thing, however another friend said it sounded like Herman's Hermits. So this version is much different and far removed from good old Herman.
January 3, 2005: I was playing guitar, looking out the window, which had a frost pattern forming on it and the tree in the front yard was barren; meanwhile, the movie Pearl Harbour is playing on the TV.
July 19, 2003: Usually I don't think about the lyrics, I just write what comes into my mind. With this one, I had the tune but no words and the thought I had was that people like to hear the name of their town in a song. So, it became a tune about someone who travels the world trying to find the greener grass.
March 19, 2008: Started with a chord progression which, while a bit jazzy, was more intended to be a Latin/Calypso thing. I used some jazz drums and that changed it to be about as jazzy as this hep cat gets!
