David DeSoto is on the upright bass fiddle.

demo from April 2008. must have been singing to my future self, which i do all the time.

lyrics: what’s happened to our city where has she gone another vertical building built over more homes in enclaves of exclusion where the American dream is an American illusion in this despotic system it is hard to resist them but…

The text on this track comes off a B-side from one of [Putnam Aldrich's](http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putnam_Aldrich) (my great-grandfather) records. He was a harpsichordist, a professor at Stanford, a chain smoker, and apparently had a sense…