Chronological List of Songs
2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010
2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000
1999 | 1998| 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990
1989 | 1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983 | 1982 | 1981 | 1980
1979 | 1978
This index is accurate to the best of my ability to recollect. I recently found the complete chronological list of everything that I'd written through the end of 1986, so that section is accurate as is 2003 to date. The rest are placed according to the info I've got. If I get better info, I may move them to a different year.
Some things are obvious, looking back. Finishing "Promises" gave me a case of writer's block that lasted a year. That dry spell in 1995 and 1996 was from writing and shipping Alcar's first Windows product. And the pandemic was clearly not a good time for songwriting for me.
And some of these songs, I had just forgotten. Apparently, Clif and I wrote "Hacker Symbols" to the tune of "Herbs and Simples". I even found a permission form that suggests that Juanita recorded it. Now if I could only find the lyrics...
2024
Zeta (PDF)
Roulette (PDF)
You Should Know (PDF)
Flying on a Rainbow (PDF)
2023
It's Very Dark (PDF)
Everything Ends (PDF)
Postcards From the Stars (PDF)
Counting Up (PDF)
Road Trip (PDF)
Third Planet From The Sun (PDF)
Voodoo Love (PDF)
Wise Guys (PDF)
2022
Night Flowers (PDF)
Laundry Day (PDF)
Rare Earth (PDF)
The Old Centauri Run (PDF)
I Knew (PDF)
2021
2020
2019
Coal (PDF)
Canvas (PDF)
Make a Joyful Noise (PDF)
Weekend Away (PDF)
2018
Running Down the Storyline (PDF)
Passport to Genre (PDF)
First (PDF)
2017
Cut the Police (PDF)
Solar System Survey (PDF)
2016
Good Advice (PDF)
Reader's Waltz (PDF)
I Wonder Where We're Filking Tonight (PDF)
The Anything Machine (PDF)
Of Dogs and Men (PDF)
2015
Going There With You (PDF)
Time After Time (PDF)
Juicy Details (PDF)
Silver Inside (PDF)
2014
Stuck On You (PDF)
Mrs. O'Brien (PDF)
Starry Weather (PDF)
A Distant Song (PDF)
Taking Down Your Names (PDF)
2013
Overture (PDF)
Reality Breaks (PDF)
Kathleen Sloan (PDF)
Electric Skies (PDF)
Mrs. Schaefer (PDF)
2012
Oz (PDF)
Halloween (PDF)
Happily Ever After (PDF)
Save The Titanic (PDF)
There Goes Time (PDF)
Last Ship Outbound (PDF)
Comes To Your Love (I'm Depending On It) (PDF)
2011
Run, Cassie, Run (PDF)
End Of The Line (PDF)
Darkness (PDF)
Dressing Like A Penguin (PDF)
Too Much Sugar (PDF)
Dreamers (PDF)
Marvelous Me (PDF)
2010
Counting To Infinity (PDF)
Cable Car To The Sky (PDF)
Hanging Harry Truman (PDF)
Remembering (PDF)
Jump In (PDF)
The Cold, Cold Sun (PDF)
A Matter Of Time (PDF)
Dream What You Want (PDF)
Tornado (PDF)
2009
Wonders (PDF)
Lunatic Moon (PDF)
The Candy Tree (PDF)
What Do You Want? (PDF)
Change Winds (PDF)
Cruising (PDF)
Baby Wants A Penguin (PDF)
Café Underground (PDF)
Running Down The Stars (PDF)
2008
Breaking Orbit (PDF)
Games That Children Play (PDF)
Trapped (PDF)
Lamplight (PDF)
Snowflakes (PDF)
Connections (PDF)
Questions (PDF)
Never Was (PDF)
Reflections (PDF)
Just Play (PDF)
Mindripper (PDF)
Stuff (PDF)
Primarily Yours (PDF)
Imagination Rising (PDF)
If (PDF)
The Sinister Walk (PDF)
Dreams Of Distant Lights (PDF)
Into the Day (PDF)
Waiting For Tomorrow (PDF)
2007
Moonlight (PDF)
Genie In A Bottle (PDF)
Buttercups and Roses (PDF)
Nine Things (PDF)
Crystal Dance (PDF) (MP3)
Haunted (PDF)
Midnight Girl (PDF)
Beyond the Sky (PDF)
With You (PDF)
Fortunate Sun (PDF)
2006
Shai 'Nuff (PDF)
Wings (PDF)
Second Class Fans (PDF)
Spin The Planet (PDF)
We Can Change The World (PDF)
Long Night Of The Moon (PDF)
Good Intentions (PDF)
Illusions (PDF)
2005
Behind The Mask (PDF) (MP3)
Belief (PDF)
Mother And Daughter (PDF) (MP3)
The End Of The World (As We Know It) (PDF)
Hyperspatial Network (PDF)
Butterfly Wind (PDF)
Inconstant Moon (PDF)
Dance By Starlight (PDF)
Son Of A Son Of Isildur (PDF)
2004
Silver (PDF) (MP3)
Request (PDF) (MP3)
Out to the Stars (PDF)
Crosstime Bus (PDF) (MP3)
It's All Right (PDF)
Gulf (PDF)
Elements of Disaster (PDF)
Love At First Sight (PDF)
2003
Look At Me (PDF) (MP3)
Power (PDF)
The Colors Of You (PDF)
Falling Toward Orion (PDF)
Shades Of Gray (PDF)
Half A Chance (PDF)
Apology (PDF)
2002
Winter Waltz (PDF)
Fortune's Child (PDF)
Pieces (PDF)
You Are My Life (PDF)
2001
Make A Trade (PDF)
My Husband, The Filker (PDF)
New Frontier (PDF)
Not Everybody Dies (PDF)
Sharing (PDF)
Wandering (PDF)
2000
Far Horizon (PDF)
Nobody Calls (PDF)
1999
Since I Fell (PDF)
Chickasaw Mountain Walk (PDF)
1998
1997
1996
1995
Good God, Almighty! (PDF)
Brain Sludge (PDF)
1994
1993
Seven Miles A Second (PDF)
Albuquerque
1992
1991
I'm Gonna Be A Hero (PDF)
Circles (PDF)
Strong Poison (PDF)
My Very Best Secrets (PDF)
1990
Turn Around, Look Around (PDF)
Deep Dark Chocolate (PDF)
1989
Countdown (PDF)
Dark Star Lady (PDF)
Teenage Popsicle Girl (PDF)
1988
Godzilla Stomp (PDF)
Hyperspace (PDF)
Puppet Master (PDF)
Mirror (PDF)
Starlight And Gold (PDF)
Dinner Party (PDF)
Starbow's End (PDF)
1987
Too Many Years (PDF)
Fire In Her Eyes (PDF)
Dark (PDF)
1986
Come With Me (PDF)
The Songs of Distant Earth (PDF)
Masquerade (PDF)
Challenge (PDF)
Library Song (PDF)
Shadow Of The Nighttime (PDF)
Dark Moon Rising (PDF)
1985
1984
The Horse Of Silver Gold (PDF)
Hacker Symbols
Children Of Tomorrow (PDF)
1983
Dream A Little Dream Of Me
Teaching Song (PDF)
Dream Rider (PDF)
The Wrong Side Of The Sky (PDF)
A Planet Called Melody (PDF)
The Stranger
Kinda Mediocre Actually (PDF)
1982
1981
Remember The Hyatt (PDF)
Promises (PDF)
Follow That Road
Michelson-Morley (PDF)
The Han Solo / Indiana Jones Blues
Miracle Man (PDF)
The Wind From Rainbow's End (PDF)
Entropy (PDF)
1980
Riders Of The Rim (PDF)
Legends (PDF)
Working The Convention Blues (PDF)
The Destroyer (PDF)
Dream Ship (PDF)
Gunga Wells (PDF)
Your Star (PDF)
1979
Brady's Bend
The Title Will Follow (PDF)
Requiem (PDF)
Why We Don't Let Gordy Go For Ice (PDF)
1978
Follow The Rising Stars (PDF)
Space Is Dark (PDF)
One Last Battle (PDF)