Description: My recorded heartbeat from a sonogram is heard in the intro as my arranger-producer dad wanted to convey the very special interest he had in my arrival even half-way through gestation by recording my heart with a handheld cassette recorder in a physicians office.

Description: Separation resulting from a relocation and the painful revelation is the subject of this lyric and the love that was interrupted by its fulfillment.

Description: I was looking up at the sky and thought of lyrics such as 'birds that fly and high in the sky.' But the most important line I came up with was what became the title, 'Shining In My Hair;' which I meant to suggest that I was different from others; something everyone noticed but can't put their finger on.