Dear Wayne, I like how you put it and I think you're right. This, as probably all my music, comes out of a soup of influences that's really just the stuff I grew up listening to, which goes back across the last 5 or 6 decades. Different to me is a good word. I long ago accepted the fact that I'm strange, weird, and odd. That this piece is maybe a bit baffling musically I'm ok with. In the end we just make stuff we like to listen to, pretty much, and this is one I would crank up on the road to Vegas.

Thank you, Silverman. Yes there's a psychopathic murderer lurking in there with a bloody axe, who looks a little like the German ancestors of me except that I actually wouldn't hurt a fly. Well, ok a fly. That grinding bass, which to some might be ugly, to me is beautiful because it expresses a true state of being which is being worked through with great effort. To trust someone in this world of betrayals is an act of great daring and a terrible psychic challenge - so that's what that music is all about. I guess you could say I was working through some stuff when I wrote that song - and still am - and probably always will be. Thanks as always for your perceptive and interesting feedback!