I was still in high school during the summer of love in 1968 and didn’t graduate until 1971. So, though I adopted the hippy dress code just a little bit, I was a tad too young (coming from a loving family) to run off to Haight Ashbury. In fact, I didn’t get involved in much anything in those days, preferring to keep to my own company other than organized events my parents got me involved in (with a few exceptions). And looking back years later, once I had developed more of a social conscious, I wrote this song as a mantra against lack of involvement. I originally called it Tarnished Karma, but when I decided to take that for my performance name, I changed the name of the song to Straight As An Arrow, which seemed very Republican somehow, and (from what I’ve seen of late) was not all that inaccurate. Anyway, here ’tis…