good lord. i was addicted to crosswords, and therefore became uncontrollably competitive and paranoid. [by the way, if anyone could help me master my songs, please give a shout! i can't seem to get them any louder...]

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…