This is a 'light' or fun song (written completely on guitar). It's about an interaction with a specific girl in Darwin (who shall remain nameless) and my realisation, as if it should be needed, that image and appearance are relatively unimportantly, and what really matters is personality, behaviour, kindness, and basic manners.

This started out as a demo about a girl called Taylor, a person who turned out to be pretty arrogant and not very nice, so that's where the lyrics came from. This is the 'unplugged' version, so is arranged with mainly acoustic instruments.

This song is written about relationship breakdowns, presented with a somewhat ironic perspective. The music grew into something reminiscent of 1980's pop, with echoes of Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, and similar. Not an altogether bad thing I guess? Like a number of my songs these days it develops from one musical theme into a different one towards the end, and gets a bit manic, lol.

This song was written after a couple of mornings when I woke up and realised I had been dreaming about the one person in the world I never want to think about ever again. It felt like torture - even when I am asleep I can't get away from it. The true meaning of a nightmare. So a number of people have said to me "Ahhhh, dreaming of you, that must be a nice song all about love." Errrrr, nope, quite the opposite - and I quite like that 'surprise' in the song.

Well, this song is certainly a bit unusual. It's quite a powerful piece of music, and not a standard "song" as such. The lyrics revolve around what it's like to live with someone who has depression, even if you don't recognise it as such at the time. So the music is supposed to be equally dark. Music to slash your wrists by? Hopefully not! But definitely music to reflect upon.

This song is about watching your children growing up, and realising that one day they will be faster, smarter, and have way more energy, and accepting that you will not see their whole life, and they will experience and achieve things after you are gone - which is sad - but because we love them we can celebrate their life in advance - and let them know how much we would have enjoyed sharing those things, and how proud we would be of the things they do in their lives.

This song always makes me smile because the sentiment and meaning is so utterly sad and frustrating, but the actual tune (and video) is so bouncy and amusing - but I really like that contradiction, so it's almost like getting two things for the price of one you know?

This is a little song about the irony of when people see you, and what's you're doing, and say "You are living the dream." And what they don't see, below and underneath, is something completely different and quite the opposite. It's more directly about relationship troubles, and finally understanding how one person can simply use another.

Lyrically this is an incredibly simple song - which feels right given it's simple meaning. The song is to my two daughters, and my feelings around the facts I didn't have any great desire to have children, but now I have them they truly are the most important people in my life, and have fundamentally changed who I am. So I guess it's also a song which may resonate for many other parents too.

This song is about being on your own, and lonely, and finding it difficult to interact with others due to past experiences.