This needs a better arrangement, but it's central to the album's themes and images.

Write-in contest for the second-to-last line of this song. I've gone through about 20 different ones, all terrible.

... and even if they are totally earnest in doing their jobs professionally, the execution of their work certainly has political consequences and must not be allowed to escape public scrutiny...

I'm probably not a good enough singer for four-part vocal harmony. Or maybe I should space the parts out more?

AAAAARGH HOW ABOUT PLAYING THOSE NOTES EVENLY THEN?

DULCIMER TIME EVERYONE.

titus passes by his old home, decides not to go back.

this is titus alone and the brown dog affair. that, combined with the slowness, makes for a long-ass song.

titus and gertrude throughout Gormenghast

in our vision of this world these guys live out in the foothills and are threatened not by floodwater, as in Gormenghast, but by landslides, as in The Control of Nature (John McPhee).