It's unwanted advice, people telling you that you're better off just staying connected to the environment you grew up in, but for me, I don't have an environment I grew up in. The rumpled overcoat on the beautiful loser song. A song about the possibility for self knowledge when you're in pain. That raw vulnerability lets everything come in, you're feeling so much, understanding so much. About the resignation that comes when a relationship is finally over.
Happiness is sometimes like being disconnected.
A song about when the body dissolves during the ritual and beauty of sex. It's that point when when you're not of body, but you're communicating in a pure way. It happens with bands, and it happens with lovers and friends. It's a little window you get into occasionally. It's also about a dog I used to walk with on the old elevated West Side Highway.