Road to Freedom – full album digital download

Written from the perspective of a family who’s lost someone to violence, who have to watch the murderer get a hearing every year under Canada’s “Faint hope clause.”  Often we know the names of the killers but not the victims.

Inspiration in its many forms is the main subject here, like you find on a sun-drenched walk with an early love, “holding all the keys.”

Another sun metaphor wrapped around a relationship song, this one more matured but still dazzled by the beauty of it all.  Nothing more beautiful than waking up to a gorgeous day with a sweet, dream-formed melody ringing in your ear.

I had a vivid dream of John Lennon singing the opening verse of this song, which I immediately got down on waking, and added the rest (in the throes of a current crush – source of so many songs).

A simple tune of separation from a new love, writing back and forth, longing for that to turn into her riding a plane back home.

Another love song, about the early onset stage when both parties aren’t really sure it’s becoming what it inevitably is.

An ironic title; the singer minds, believe me.  An achingly sad song with that longing for things to be better that we love about the best sad songs.

True story, James was not named after the movie star, he was the third in his family with that name (and did have a teenage heart attack).  But what’s in a name? and how does that impact our destiny?