Started recording this with no idea what to do with the sound. Wound up with three different vocal takes to choose from, didn't like any of them, used all of them.

I (Al) wrote this song way back, just before the start of the current Iraq war. But it comes back to my mind every time a politician utters words matching a regex something like /(capture and )?kill (Osama )?Bin Laden/. It happened to be Obama…

through the dead branches, through the dead branches

through the dead branches, through the dead branches

This song was inspired by the Life of Pi...and yes, i feel like a drifter at times, floating, going no where. I've been drifting i've been drifting for days going no where being driven by the waves driven mad by the wind and her voices…

learning....forever learning to look beyond the circumstance, look beyond the pain, and maybe find peace through the pain.... in my valleys in my darkest hours when the water has risen so high there's no support to be found I'm battered…

I don't want to leave you I don't want to turn and walk the other way i don't want to leave you even though you've never heard my name and i rise from my grave as if the world was mine to save you were so cold and lonely your offer…