David Husted Music

ESCAPE BY D.H. LAWRENCE

When we get out of the glass bottles of our own ego,
and when we escape like squirrels from turning in the cages of our personality
and get into the forest again,
we shall shiver with…

I am closing in on having enough songs to imagine distributing an album and I am back to the same question; is it worth it to release an album or just stick with the singles format? It is a good…

suerza = a feeling of quiet amazement that you exist at all — gratitude that you somehow made it into being, despite the almost unimaginable chain of events required for you to be here.

The idea is actually pretty profound…

Even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world and himself through the lenses of delusive formulas and artless simplifications — and most of all himself. For it appears to be an inborn and imperative need…

 I started my random song generator many moons ago. By that point, I'd already written quite a few songs—but since then I've created more than 15 new ones that I've intentionally kept out of the generator. My plan is to…

One of the best parts of releasing a song is that it stops belonging only to me.

Once it's out in the world, every listener brings something different to it. A memory. A mood. A moment I never could have…

To Paula in Late Spring
W.S. Merwin

let me imagine that we will come again
when we want to and it will be spring
we will be no older than we ever were
the worn griefs will have eased like…

I've always been drawn to songs that leave a little space for the listener.

Not because they don't mean anything, but because they can mean different things at different times.

There are songs I hear one way today and completely…

"The harmony of natural law reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."

Albert Einstein

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear infinite.

William Blake

Photo by Alexander Mass

Most worthwhile things don't reveal themselves the first time around.

Some songs grab you immediately.

Others take their time.

That first listen is spent chasing the obvious—the hook, the chorus, the clever lyric. But after a few spins, something shifts.…