The title "Lacrim Flood" comes from the puritan poem "The Flesh and the Spirit" by Anne Bradstreet. The poem is a parable about two sisters who are arguing about the value of earthly pleasures versus those of spiritually and the promise of heaven. Within the songs on this record I attempt to reconcile the two points of view so that instead of being contrary, they intersect.

In 'The End of the Affair' by Graham Greene he writes, "The words of human love have been used by the saints to describe their vision of God; and so, I suppose, we might use the terms of prayer, meditation, contemplation to explain the intensity of the love we feel for a woman." It is with that kind of mentality that I wrote these songs.

I wanted to write songs where romantic love and spiritual love are indistinguishable from one another, and I feel they are at their most analogous in the wake of a breakup. It is easy to mythologize past love, and losing someone you love can feel a lot like losing your faith. The word lacrim is derived from the Latin word lacrima meaning tears, and it is only during times of great sadness, “close by the banks of lacrim flood” that the sister of flesh and the sister spirit convene.