I Wear My Shadows Where They're Harder

Music Itself Isn't Enough To Completely Wear Down My Stash Of Anger. And I Don't Have All That Much More To Be Angry About Than Anyone Else. It's Not Like I Was Abused As A Kid Or Anything. I Had A Pretty Comfortable Childhood With Parents Who Took Good Care Of Me. But Resentment Exists, And Some Of It Goes Into The Music. Some Of It Goes Into Physical Activity.

I Wanted To Play Rock And Roll When I Started Playing. Nobody At That Time Ever Thought About Songwriting. You Sang Songs, That's All. You Sang Other People's Songs. That's All There Were.

There Are Some Decision-makers In The World Whose Version Of Sanity Is A Little Different From What I Consider The Right One.

Here's Iraq, Where Irrigation Was Invented, Where Law Was Invented, Where Writing Was Invented. All These Things That We Consider Necessities Of Civilization Started There. And The People Who Live There Damn Well Know That.

Gotta Kick At The Darkness Til It Bleeds Daylight.