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G.S.: guitars, vocals, slit drum, tambourine. Recorded 6/26/91. Lyrics 6/12/91, music 6/25/91.

The lyrics were written in the middle of the night after yet another bad experience (in a very long chain of them) with a woman who inspired so many of my other songs the same way. It caused me to doubt not just my time spent on her but my time spent on just about everything else, including my music and drawing breath. To continue or to move on? Where to draw the lines in one's life? Very old questions, and finding answers- literal or metaphorical - is never easy, with no guarantees.

The music was a challenge because the rhyme scheme of the poem is weird. I was stumped for a while until I thought, "How would Peter Hammill do it?" Suddenly I had a starting point for an approach, and the song was written in an hour or two.

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from Always Look On The Dark Side Of Life, released September 18, 2015

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