My two songs from Zero Point Elegies – I’m Your Father, and Ballad of a Convalescent – are available to listen now on all streaming services.

I’m Your father

This is a raw ballad I wrote for my son. I wanted him to know that whatever I have been through, it was totally worth it to get to him.

It is by far the most sentimental song I have ever written. But it is the truth.

Content warning: The song contains the word ‘pissed’. Need a clean radio edit? Get in touch with me.

I’m Your Father features as part of Zero Point Elegies chapter “The Things We Do For Love”.

Ballad of a convalescent

Ballad of a Convalescent is a song I wrote and recorded on my 41st birthday. I was alone in my mother’s house, sick and fragile while recovering from surgery and hiding from a wintry world and COVID. I wanted to go out dancing. I could barely walk.

“I want it all” came to me rather sardonically: a way of laughing at the mismatch between my desires and my capacity. The recording is almost unchanged from that day.

The bigger idea is about how circumstance changes the scale of our ambitions. On one day, I may genuinely want to change the world. On another, all I have wanted is to still be breathing at the end of it.

Ballad of a Convalescent features the appreciated contribution of Matt Rhys Jones on guitar. Find more of his work as Me Against Misery.

Ballad of a Convalescent appears in Zero Point Elegies episode Ambition Is Critical.