Story Behind The Song

In 1996, I moved away from Austin, Texas, where I had been writing, performing and recording music for six years, to find greener pastures. I eventually ended up in Washington, D.C., where I still live today. For the first half of 1996, I lived away from my longtime girlfriend (and now wife) while she figured out what she was going to do. It was a very anxious time for me, as I honestly had no idea how things would work out. I fondly remembered us going to cheap Chinese restaurants (we were poor students). However, the restaurants always had the same placemats -- the Chinese horoscope. I was born in the year of the cock, and my wife was born in the year of the rabbit. The placemat warned me, "Rabbits are trouble. Snake and oxen are fine." For some reason, that line really stuck with me.

Song Description

"Rabbits Are Trouble" is a quirky love song about the anxiety of a long distance relationship. In the singer-songwriter tradition of Beck and George Harrison, "Rabbits" is a very personal ballad, but not sentimental. The title is borrowed from a line often seen on placemats at cheap Chinese restaurants. (I'll let you figure out the rest.) The Baton Rouge Advocate says, "the oddly titled 'Rabbits Are Trouble' and its slide guitar are surprisingly Harrison-like." The Atlanta-baseed Music Morsels magazine calls it "ambient Brit-pop."

Lyrics

Hey Love, where are you going today?
Hey Love, when are you heading my way?
When will we be together?

Hey Love, ever since I saw your face
I knew I couldn't turn away
My eyes are burnt with a picture of you

Rabbits are trouble,
snakes and oxen are fine
But that's alright,
?cuz my love is blind

Come in, why don't you come back in?
I'll arrange the pillows for you to dream again
You'll find me just the way that you left me

Rabbits are trouble,
snakes and oxen are fine
But that's alright,
?cuz my love is blind