Thread

The song "Thread" -- rough recording can be heard at my myspace page

This is one of those speculative story songs. Where something I've observed gets stuck in my brain and starts to accumulate possible storylines, kind of like coral. In this case it was one of the numerous run-down old houses in our New England mill town and the semi-shut-in man who lives there. I guess what struck me was the fact that he's more or less middle aged and not elderly, this incongruity was enough to start me pondering and once I start pondering usually a song follows at some point. Originally the character's name was Edgar not Edward, but I realized that was because I'd recently been listening to John Gorka's Edgar the Party Man. So I quickly changed it to avoid one of those embarrassing public rock star law suits --- like the one Joe Satriani and Cold Play are embroiled in ---I mean it's just so much work for our publicists!