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This song was written really in my darkest period during the West Africa writing expedition. The Mefloquine by now had truly kicked in and I was a walking monster, under the right conditions. West Africa is a hard place to travel any way without adding the effects of a rage drug. I began to write this in Burkina Faso, it was finished in Togo.

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Underneath this hair you'll find a picture of youth, the months have been hard so the image suits; driven half-mad by the nothing to do.
Pacing in the corridors of numerous hotels, the healing in the bathroom with the ammonia smell, I catch eyes with no one as I pretend to know which way I'm going.
There's a hopelessness punctuated by an exclaimed regret; a great sense of disappointment.
Kick him in the back, kick him in the body if he won't move out of the way. Food is my enemy, every morsel treachery. I need to recharge my batteries, both metaphoric and literally. This is a battlefield. This is how the battered feel.
My head is for headaches and negotiating borders, here they're called frontier. This is where the last country disappears; my innocence concealed.
Dutifully I walk to some horizon, actually, I end exactly where I began, this circular notion breeds satisfaction.
Invention holds me to my chair and what I can't find outside I can fine inside there. The autonomy I had here left me listless, I must work on my purpose.

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from Bears Will Eat Their Young, track released January 1, 2010
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Traveling Gonzo Composer/duo. Forty-One Countries tapped for inspiration. Traveling with a micro studio, a microphone and an acoustic guitar, composing and uploading where and when possible. Songs written freely from Iceland to Togo without the constraints of industry. ... more

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