Not every song I wrote for this album ended up on it, and I want to tell you about two of them, because they are coming your way in their own time, and the reason they got pulled says something about how much I care where a song lives.
The first is Bone Man. It is a slow, cinematic anthem about a giant figure assembled from everyone the world has forgotten, who rises from a churchyard of unvisited graves and walks on Hallows’ Eve so we will speak the names of the lost. His ribs are cages holding hearts that stopped too young to beat. It is beautiful and it is heavy, and it turned out to be too solemn to sit right next to a farting goblin. It deserves its own space to breathe.
Listen to Bone Man Here
The second is The Harvest Comes Home, a genuinely dark supernatural horror song about a family and a bargain made generations ago that finally comes due. It got too intense for a family Halloween record, and honestly, it belongs somewhere it can be exactly as dark as it wants to be, without a parent having to reach for the skip button.
Listen to The Harvest Comes Home Here
So I pulled them both. They are not gone. They are waiting. Sometimes the kindest thing you can do for a song is refuse to force it to fit. That instinct, that a song has a right home and it is worth holding out for, is a big part of why fresh music can go deeper than the old novelty formula. Not every Halloween song has to be two minutes and a punchline. Some of them get to be serious, and even a little frightening, and that is a good thing.
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