
Tom Hinkle

Running Running
This song is about runners. Specifically, it's about looking at runners, not being one.

First Christmas Alone First Christmas Alone
This is a Christmas song about a couple's first Christmas alone together. The song is very mildly risque.

Hay que huir Hay que huir
Esta canción habla de un ingleshablante que quiere huir al mundo hispanohablante como manera de huir de si mismo (pero claro, esto nunca funciona). Empieza con un eco de un poema de Pablo Neruda ('Walking Around')

Read every night Read every night
This is a song about a romance of taste, and of the way falling for someone gets entangled with falling for what they read and listen to. It's really modeled on my high-school experience/high-school fantasy. Some folks might thing it sounds like a m


So Sad So Sad
A blues about how sometimes everyday stuff can seem really sad. This song sports my lovely keyboard with some organ to back up the usual harp and guitar.


If I was designed If I was designed
This is a song about intelligent design. It attempts to make a clear, personal case against intelligent design without being preachy. Basically, the case is that if I was designed, it wasn't a very good design.

I Still objetify You I Still objetify You
This is a song about objetification, and the joys thereof.




The Vinegar The Vinegar
This is a song about having just finished eating Salad on a hot summer day. It


Paper or Plastic Paper or Plastic
This is a song about hating to make decisions, and being proud of it.

Rumble Strip Rumble Strip
I have a long commute to work, so I got to thinking about the 'Rumble strip' as the basis of a country song. Needless to say, it turned into a trucker song of sorts.

Pitter Patter (let the rain fall) Pitter Patter (let the rain fall)
A song about floods and kisses.


Silly Putty Silly Putty
This is an old song I wrote about a crush I had that felt, well, kind of infantile. So I wrote an infantile song about it.

The Day I Die The Day I Die
The Day I Die -- this takes the classic 'Let's enjoy ourselves before it's too late' love song and emphasizes the 'before it's too late' part.