Angel - The sweetest introduction to any album I've heard. Matt Nathanson opens 'Between These Fireworks' with this short narrative about connecting with a past love and the pain of being so close to a past love but eternally out of reach. This perfectly complimented Fish Story and was included as an introduction track. [ Download MP3 ]

Fish Story - A lament to losing someone that at one time in life was so very close and now years have gone by and lives have changed. The analogy is a fish who has grown into a human and looks back into the ocean wishing he could once again talk to his friend. [ Download MP3 :: Read Lyrics ]

Disappear - A song to those with walls and reservations in their life from past love. The girl in the song pines away for her past lover while the man before her is willing to give her the world. [ Download MP3 :: Read Lyrics ]

Slipped Away - Andrew Wyeth is an American Painter best known for his painting 'Christina's World' (pictured above). The painting was inspired by a neighbour of the Wyeth family in Cushing, Maine named Christina Olson who suffered from infantile paralysis. Wyeth was inspired to paint her as he watched her gazing up at her house from the wide field in front of it. I've always enjoyed this painting as it truly is a work of art that shows distance and desire. Slipped Away is a song about missed opportunity. The song is written from an old man's perspective who looks at a poem he wrote to a girl that he was enamored with in his youth ... he sees a painting (perhaps Christina's World) and sees a back turned to him, just as he had always felt the woman of his musing had been. It's not meant as a tribute to Christina's World in any regard, but much of the imagery was inspired by the painting and era of the painting. [ Download MP3 :: Read Lyrics ]