I’d been reading a bit about synesthesia where a person hears colors or sees sounds. I began to wonder how that would change one’s view of the meaning of life and of death, and wrote this to explore the possibilities. As Dan Aykroyd says in the original Ghostbusters, “Listen, do you smell something?”

NOTE: The melody of this song made it into the horror film I directed in 1979-1980 called The Strangeness. You’ll find it played by one of the actors on a harmonica in the scene where they first enter the cave from the shoreline.