This is simply put, a heavy song.
I have a friend, nicknamed Percy, who is battling cancer. Has most of her life. To my recollection, a few years ago, she was diagnosed in remission.

Then a few months ago, like so much guesswork in a white coat, the doctors told her it’s back, and time to start treatment again.

Now, She’s told me about this occurring before (being told she’s fine, to find out later more treatment). For some reason this just hit me harder than normal. And I wanted to know more.

So, we IM’d, and she explained to me her treatments: the iodine, the chemo, the geiger counters and the bed she makes in her bathroom where she literally camps out on the weekend she does chemo.

Her resilience has always struck me; her fondness for life is in the amount most of us are clueless on how to achieve.

Yet, this time it just bummed her a little more than usual.

And I thought immediately of that moment in time when her mind races and composes. When she processes the words “has to do it again”, for that instant, still feeling like she’s on the other side of life.

XTRA LITTLE HOOHAA:

I wrote the song, both music and lyrics in an afternoon, and recorded that evening. It was a Monday, as a matter of fact.

I added a bass line to the song a few days later but, to piss off my bass player friends, it doesn’t come in ’til the very end anyway.
Enjoy.