Superwise was written on a day off in Italy on tour a couple of years ago. It was going to be on a compilation album, that never happened. Essentially I had to write a song that day, if I wanted to be a part of it. So, I sat down at a cheap home organ in the studio, clicked on the drum machine…started playing those chords that open the song. In fact, since the tape was rolling, the drum machine and organ chords, plus organ bass pedals, are a live performance, which happened once and only once, and conveniently that’s the take. I preserved that performance for the album version, I just added new stuff over the top of it. Lyrically, it’s about transformation, transubstantiation, reincarnation. The interconnectedness of all things. And that Nirvana might be the point where you simply remove the last blocks that have cut you off from what you are vestigially connected to at all times–everything. In life, your ego, the I, conceives you as a unique item in a world of foreign objects. And therein lies the flaw in your perspective. Of course, I didn’t want to write this as new age sounding things, so I try and work in a lot of scientific-sounding mumbo jumbo. You can say it’s BS but in fact, I trust my subconscious very much. I let it write everything!

[Inspired by Tim Christensen]