The boards and the nails

The title of The boards and the nails is an excerpt from the song White prints. The general theme of this album – as the cover hopefully hints at – is about celebrating something small or delicate. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on the circumstances. Proscenium players is one of the first songs I ever wrote, and is about people with no exceptional talent being celebrated as if they were geniuses. This was inspired by endless, miserable TV shows. The black clothes is about longing for your lost partner. Common shore is a song about having a common goal, or having something important in common with your partner. Our own is just an image of a nice, random morning with the one you love. I didn’t write the lyrics for Kenya’s burning. I put it with these songs because its tale of something that should have been changed long ago fits in well here. Blackwards and White prints are both about the future. Blackwards is wary and Prints  tries (sort of like River of Knives) to give a piece or two of advice.