This is one of the three
songs I wrote while limiting myself only to using my Casio.
(See
also "The
Queen Will Save Herself" and "Grace
Falls.") This
particular version, however, was re-recorded later using my
Emu XK-6 for the distorted bassline, as I thought it offered
a harsher texture than I could achieve with the Casio.
I chose the animal/jungle imagery in the song to represent
myself visually on this album because this song defines a
large part of who I was and who I was un-becoming during the
process of writing the songs you will hear.
There
is a story of a lion-man I was semi-involved with at the time.
His influence is felt, for me, through several of the songs
on this album. But, he is not as important to the story as
the things I was learning about myself through him. And the
particular lion-man in this story was truly nothing more than
my animus, and so he will remain anonymous and mysterious
as such.