songs by bert

I started writing this melody over top of song 82. At some point I realized I should just start my next song and leave 82 alone. That wa...

This song is about resolution so it makes me think that the Giving Tree story must be almost finished. There's no real resolution her...

I'm a secret agent and I have a secret pill, This knife here in my pocket's not meant to kill, I keep it around just to prote...

It's been a while. I wrote inheritance almost three months ago. A lot has happened. I went to Paris to hang out in Montmartre for two ...

This song is about going to visit family my Rhode Island; revisiting past relationships; a generation living off inheritance; life without...

This song was written by request. Last week my friend Kallee asked for a duet with the Tree and the Boy's first Girl Friend. So I wrot...

As the boy falls asleep, the tree starts singing a lullaby, expressing her admiration of the boy but also expressing her awareness of the...

I'm not sure why I feel so connected to the Giving Tree but I started writing a third song this morning. Maybe I do know why.  I wrote...

My computer burnt out, my pre-amp burnt out but now I'm back with a new song and some good news. Songs by Bert is now a live show ever...

So this song. This continues my idea of finding happiness in giving up control or in surrender. I recently had a relationship not work ou...

I've started hanging around with a writer friend of mine and we decided that we should do a writing project together. We started thin...

It's taken almost two weeks for me to get this next song posted because I left my power supply in Paris and I couldn't record for ...

I wasn't sure what to write about this morning so instead I made a list of questions that were on my mind. Then I turned them into a s...

I'm really excited about my last 30 songs. I've written 5 songs in the last week but didn't post any of them. I'm not exac...

This song is a Jon Dhama original. We've learned to collaborate in a way where he takes my songs and makes them more listenable and I...

I went for a walk yesterday and saw a huge hawk that I've seen almost every day since I've been here. Later that day I was sitting a...

This song is an almost perfect translation for me. It doesn't happen very often. Winter (song #57) was an almost perfect translation as...

I'm not sure what to say about this one. I'm also not sure what to think of the song but I wrote it and it exists so here it is. O...

This song is Jon Dhama's creation; I just gave it some meaning that it was probably destined to have anyways. And if it wasn't des...

Two months ago I wrote 12 poems about hope. Not my usual topic; it was a request. Strangely, it was one of the more frustrating projects I...

On the weekend I was thinking about a short poem I wrote a month ago that goes 'Fire's passion and hope's a breeze; love...

To understand this song imagine you're watching a glacier. Imagine the ice breaking off and plunging into icy water as it grows. Then ...

I'm back from traveling. I'm staying at my parent's place in Paris right now because they're away and they have a really ...

I couldn't leave without writing my 60th song. Yesterday I sat down with my guitar and played the first thing that came into my head. ...