The original idea for the song came to me when reading the “News Of the Weird” column in the Hartford Advocate. On this particular day there was a sub-heading entitled “Thinning the Herd”. So I thought about that title coupled with my interest in the fact that so very many of the “Visionaries” we produce as a society we then reduce to ash. And though they are killed, the ideas they conveyed, and the reasons they were killed, remain in the world. I also wanted to bring into the song the idea that we all have within us the duality of good and evil and I recall an American indian story I heard about their being two wolves within us that battle for control of our actions...a good Wolf and a bad wolf. The story ends with the young boy of the story asking the elder how do you know which one of the wolves wins the battle for control of the person in the end and the elder answers..."the one you feed".

I carried around the song idea for several years until it finally came out as you can witness for yourself here. I think “Too Much Food” on Jason Mraz’ live concert DVD “Tonight, Not Again”was the musical inspiration for the groove.