The following songs are included on Rain on the Sand

• Smaug's Lament (December, 2007) In Smaug's Lament the dragon narrates his encounter with Bilbo and the adventures that follow.
• Frozen April (May, 2008) There are any number of songs that celebrate the joy of a person being selected to go off into space, leaving everything and everyone behind. Frozen April looks at it a bit differently.
• Burning Ages (December, 2007) Burning Ages is the second song that I've written in my attempt to tell a full length story in songs. This may take some time.
• Powders and Signs (October, 2007) Powders and Signs is part of an experiment where I attempt to tell an original story using songs to advance the plot.
• Differences (February, 2008) Sometimes I imagine that there's music in everything. Differences suggests that you just have to be attuned to it to find it in nature, or aliens, or that filker on the other side of the room.
• Southbound (June, 2007) Southbound is based on an idea that had been kicking around in my head for a year and a half: What if there were sensitive Orcs who were upset and dismayed about the management of the Mordor forces? I think it works better up-tempo than in its earlier, thoughtful incarnations.
• Cheerin' For Chess (July, 2007) While trying to learn the guitar part for Seanan McGuire's Maybe It's Crazy, I came up with the idea of Cheerin' For Chess. What if highschool had been the kind of place where guys like the one in her song were the most popular?
• Universal Follower (October, 2004) I insist that Universal Follower is a joke rather than a plea for help. When I started going to house filks (Summer, 2004), I was nervous that songs I wanted to try would be seen as misfits compared to what others were singing. I'm over that now. No, really!
• I'll Remember (March, 2007) I was walking to the grocery store one day when I got a mental image of two people in a sick room, one in bed and the other beside it. The result was, I'll Remember.
• Tea At Four (February, 2006) Though I'll probably write more songs from The Hobbit, I see Tea At Four as being sequentially last: Bilbo contemplates the outcome of his adventure, getting it mostly wrong.
• Trout (May, 2007) Trout is another of those ideas that arrived while I was working on something totally different. But I have had a long-time feeling that the displays of live "food" in stores and restaurants was a bit grotesque.
• One Dawn (July, 2005) One Dawn is about the three trolls in The Hobbit. Probably the stupidest critters in all literature.... A Tolkien moment: I thought that I would never see a monster dumber than a tree.
• The Heart of the Mountain (February, 2007) Thorin gets a moment to apologise for his tunnel-vision (Oh, bad! The song's not like that, I promise.) in The Heart of the Mountain.
• Insubstantially Yours (October, 2007) Insubstantially Yours is a song about a ghost who seriously cannot take a hint. It tends to cause arguments about which character is the victim.
• Melkor's Blues (January, 2005) Melkor's Blues explores the idea that all of Middle-Earth's problems might have been avoided if Melkor had been allowed to keep a pet. (When Randy Hoffman heard it, he called it Sympathy for the Morgoth, which I also like.)
• I Don't Think They've Noticed (December, 2006) While I was filling in time by doing a bit of guitar practice, the last line of I Don't Think They've Noticed's chorus arrived with no warning. It turned into speculation on the nature of life and death. Riiiight!