This track was a left-over from Black Entertainment. I thought the record could use a little interlude before Ives Park and this was the first version I came up with. How it went down was this: When I’m focused on writing, sitting at the computer in my tiny room adjacent to the bedroom I share with my girlfriend, I tend to fly up my own ass and be almost completely unresponsive. Aimee (my ol’ lady) was picking a fight with me to get my attention away from the machine, probably about American Idol or the laundry or something, and we got into a non-severe yelling match about something other than what we were really fighting about. I needed to get the record done and she needed me to pay attention to her… Anyway, I usually get pissed and go aggressive in this kind of situation but I flipped on this occasion and wrote more of a defeated plea to her to just hear me out and understand that this is important and whatever was bothering her could wait. It didn’t get on the record because it didn’t quite fit the mood, and at the time all things were decided as a committee. I can’t tell you how much that sucks… Actually I suppose I could, but enough bitching. If you are familiar with Black Entertainment you’ll notice that this track has the lawn mower sample at the end of it, the sound that drove the critics of Black Entertainment nuts, the same sound that closed Defender on the record. Being from rural Indiana (and now living in NYC) it’s a sound I never hear anymore and something I would have never thought I’d be nostalgic for. If you live in a box for 10 years, what will you end up missing most? Who the fuck knows… It’s interesting to me when these things come up, though. The track opens with birds a la Goodbye Blue Sky by Pink Floyd, one of my favs. I wanted to release this even though I’m a little unsure about it because I really like the acoustic guitars in it. There is a sound I made in the track that reminded me of the way cicadas sound in the summer, so I called it Cicada. You can download it HERE. (Mac users, control click, then select “download linked file”.)