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This song came late in my process and it hit hard. I originally named it, “Songworthy”. And it resonated with the desperation of our current predicament. Tim Sonnenfeld, the song’s producer and guitarist, played through it once and he felt immediately connected and we developed the voicings.

In this year of cultural disintegration, unbridled corruption and the brazen attacks on civil rights, it’s clear that we are in a desperate situation that marks the ends of the American experiment. I feel heartbroken and ashamed that the American system, no matter how flawed, is now at an extreme level of abuse. I’ve had the pleasure of living outside the US for many years, but 5 years ago I grew to embrace my return to the US.

With the re-election of this venal psychopathic narcissist, I was again seeking a way out from America’s rise to fascism.  While Borderlands portrays a desperate escape from a dangerous situation it remains unclear where we are escaping from. For decades the escape was from foreign lands to America, but now thousands take flight from the US. Is no place safe in these times? Where is sanity? Where is humanity?

In the grip of the algorithm, under the jackboot of corporations, we are kept divided and powerless.

We made scorched earth of our common ground
So goodbye
– Borderlands