released July 30, 2012
To start off with, I’d like to make a note about my tardiness today. It has been quite a while since this website promised that songs would be posted at any particular time on a Monday. Originally songs went up reliably at noon. Later I bumped it back to 3pm. Lately, songs have gone up any time between 11am and 4pm, with listeners able count on hearing them when they got home from work. Today’s song is posted after seven, but I want to assure you that I am not establishing a new precedent for when these songs will typically be released. It is my intent to return to a schedule of posting these songs in the afternoon, rather than in the evening. I’m sorry that I didn’t hit that mark today.

Todays song is about the forces that keep people apart, be they personal, political, geographic, economic, religious or otherwise. It is a bit vague, but just roll with it. In a rare turn for me, the music was far more important than the words today. The fingerpicked guitar and the backup vocals were my real voice on this tune.