New Song: The Less You Hold
A mandolin-and-dobro folk song built from a fable — and the harder lesson of knowing when to let something go.
Added a new song to the music section: The Less You Hold.
It started with a prompt to a local LLM — asking for a short story with a philosophical moral. What came back was a weaver’s fable: a wanderer named Elias, a master named Silas, and a tapestry built from what remains after you’ve lost everything you were chasing.
From there came the song. And from there came the real work — working it over, again and again, until nearly everything changed. Even the title shifted, from “The More You Take” to what it is now.
The music leans on mandolin and dobro, which felt right for a story about old wisdom and threadbare clocks. Suno wanted to add a clapping section. It always does. Getting rid of it was its own lesson.
Some of what I learned was technical. Some of it was the kind of thing you can’t write on a checklist. The song’s about letting go — which turns out to be harder to practice than to write about.
It’s on the Music page now, with lyrics, the full backstory, and the story that started it all.