As with all teenagers, there are times when it seems like you are pushing as hard as you can and life is pushing back. Feels like you are getting nowhere fast. It’s frustrating. You wonder if you’re ever going to make any progress toward your goals, much less your dreams.

Let me tell you. It feels the same way fifty years later, only now you’re also running out of time.

And so, this song, Slog, summoned itself from out of my subconscious to express that feeling. Though it isn’t very inventive, with a little multi-tracking of several appropriate instruments, it might just capture the mood.