This song was a tune that I'd been playing over and over again at home. Invariably, every time I picked up the guitar, I'd end up playing this song. The lyrics came much later, after the band had worked up the song and tried it on, so to speak. The one line, 'time gets around in my head - I don't want to feel it' was the only thing I had to work with for quite a while. In fact, this was one of those songs where the lyrics were completed just minutes before the recording. Since I recently turned the corner at 30, I decided to make this an updated version of "Time Again," a song I had written about growing old at the age of 25. It's not an obsession with age, but more of a fascination with time and perspective - and getting bald and fatter.
Al:
This song was a tune that I'd been playing over and over again at home. Invariably, every time I picked up the guitar, I'd end up playing this song. The lyrics came much later, after the band had worked up the song and tried it on, so to speak. The one line, 'time gets around in my head - I don't want to feel it' was the only thing I had to work with for quite a while. In fact, this was one of those songs where the lyrics were completed just minutes before the recording. Since I recently turned the corner at 30, I decided to make this an updated version of "Time Again," a song I had written about growing old at the age of 25. It's not an obsession with age, but more of a fascination with time and perspective - and getting bald and fatter.