wife and children on many occasions due to my necessary and sometimes unnecessary absence. The ?rst story of the Be Yourself and Free Yourself video, is an emotionally neglected wife of an absent police of?cer, and how she turns to alcohol to comfort her loneliness and worry. For the wife of this police of?cer her plea is "why'd you leave me alone" The second story is of a young female prostitute seemingly trapped in a life of abuse, with a plea to her abusive pimp boyfriend "why won't you leave me alone", As the story unfolds both the young female prostitute and the young  oliceman make positive changes that not only better their own lives but also those whom they care about. Inspired by Tears for Fears 'woman in chains', I also needed to create a new melody, chorus and lyrics that would tell our story, and to do that I began collaborating with Ray Hope, my good friend and keyboard player from Undercover. Keeping true to some of the original elements of the song, I sang the familiar phrases and bridge falsetto originally sung by Roland Orzabal, while Jackie Hope sang the female part originally recorded with guest vocalist Oleta Adams. For the new elements of the song I wanted to ?nd an artist that would add a larger world beat sound and perspective, and so the search began and led me to a fresh new local hip hop artist with style. After meeting with the artist to discuss