Things will be better soon . . . I hope.

There are times I just can't say how much you mean to me.

I just can't do it.

A rocker to break up the album.

A fit of self-examination.

The full title is I Am Nothing Without You, and it's all about how my beloved completes me.

The world is so f'd up that I wonder if things will ever get better.

This song is meant to be the intro, set the stage, and talk about the direction of the album. The riff came to me while I was absent-mindedly noodling on my gtr in front of the idiot box one day. I knew at that point I had an album opener of a…