Laukiu Vizzinio from Dieve Tylos by Dominyka Čiplytė and James Metelak

This is a song was written from a pretty dark place. The title alludes to a scene from the Princess Bride, which actually takes things to an even darker place. In some ways I feel like the two sides of this song: the hope and the hurt, seem impossible to reconcile. On the other hand, I feel like this is one of the few songs I've written that speaks from and to the deep places of hurt I see my friends in all the time. Is God still God when you've messed up? When you hate yourself? When you're suffering and abused? I hope so, and this is what that song is kinda about.

I knew this song would take a lot of courage to translate, so I picked my friend Dominyka, an amazing poet and songwriter in her own right, and someone I felt I could trust not to judge me for lines like "suicide's no longer interesting." She toned down the translation a bit, so it's a bit less shocking than the English version, but I trust her and I think it turned out really nicely. She also made me to sing along with her, so this is the only song you get to hear my voice on this album.

Indie-folk Acoustic Singer-Songwriter Multilingual World Traveler Music That is Sometimes to God, and sometimes not.