This last round of songs from the new album, 'On Reflection', features the lightest and darkest songs from the album.

TRUST - I wrote this song in about an hour while sitting at a coffee shop in Dallas, napkin style. I performed it that same night at the Universal/Firstcom party I was flown in to play. This is one of my more positive songs.
It was used in the 'Your Voice Your Choice' contest PSA for the World Trust Foundation before its release.

GLASS WALL - the basis for this song was presented to me by Eric Sampson and Dan McMaines, with even most of the lyrics done already. They felt it suited my sound best, and I agreed. The darkest song on the album, Glass Wall was originally intended to close the album with a big-production build of insanity, a bitter-sweet release, and finally finished with an ascent.

DEAD MAN'S SONG - This is another song that came to me very quickly, after the songs for the album had been chosen (and even half-recorded). I wrote this before I heard Glass Wall's lyrics, though it was already almost done. There is an intense number of coincidental parallels between these two songs - i.e. Glass Wall takes place with the narrator looking out the window, where as Dead Man's is looking back in what seems to be the same window.
This last-minute addition is one of my favorites on the album.

Please enjoy these!
If you do, these and the rest are available on iTunes, grayscalerecords.com, or you can get an autographed hard copy for $27 by emailing contact@craiglyons.net. Your support could make all the difference.

 

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