True story.

Have no idea what to call this one.

Repetition of a melody line I didn’t want to forget.

This is the first recording of this song before I had fully worked out the lyrics and the bridge.

This is the first time I recorded this song that I later produced as a full-on multi-track effort. It is mostly true that the very best songs hold up really well as demos, not just when they are fully polished for release.

After several years of not recording demos, riffs, or melody fragments, I asked Mary for a microcassette recorder for Christmas, and received the one I wanted on December 25, 1986. It couldn’t have been more timely as I was about to enter a very prolific creative period, not just in music, but in the quest for personal identity and in the development of the Dramatica theory of narrative structure.

I recorded all of that in about fifty hours of tape spanning almost a decade. Then I ran out of things to say. For a while…

This was written at a time when my parents had embrace religion at the same time I was questioning my own beliefs. I decided to create something that put a more spiritual spin on the Jesus story and a little less emphasis on the deity part.

Oddly, this is one of the few songs I actually remember writing – actual process of sitting there with my guitar trying to work out the lyrics. I have no idea why I don’t remember the moment of writing most of the rest of them.