Given the placement in the album, perhaps I should have called this song “Interlude”, but on its own it does feel more like a prelude, like the setting of a stage. Originally it was “Prelude to Thirst” (that being the next song), but that didn’t sound right either. It’s another old lyric in one of my notebooks, something that I found fit in well with the idea of drought that is central to this album. The musical accompaniment is a sound collage comprised of unused footage from other songs.

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