--A friend and me @ McCraney Lake, Algonquin Park, ON, Canada, 2017

I didn’t know what the book was at first because the song had no chorus at first.

I sang the song for a friend of mine, on a camping trip, sans chorus. Neither one of us knew what the book was, or what the song meant, but I kept singing it for the whole weekend—and for the decade that followed.

“It’s hard to understand that a book about a band makes a proper man a pauper.” Until you know what the book is.

Now, the song has a chorus, and I know what the book is. I won’t say it out loud. I’d like you to listen and decide for yourself.

Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/5tpOpKrpq5tSBIfZfXEPNC

—Album cover art by Ian Dunbar

I'll only get bigger
I may be a monster
But baby, you made me this way
—excerpt from You Made Me This Way

You Made Me This Way explores our relationship with monsters, people that we think are real bad, and that wouldn't necessarily exist without us.

The title of the song was originally, My Name Is Jeff Bezos. I pretended I was him when I wrote it, when I used to think he was evil. Then I realized it was me. I'm the monster. So I had to change the title.

Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/6c3g9edeIpf6eFMRFluIvj