"Oil Man's War" is not so much a political song - I know that's hard to believe. It's actually a story of a family I met who'd been living in Canada for years and years and left [the United States] during the Vietnam War and raised their family and stayed in Canada. It's that sort of feeling that someone would feel so strongly against participating in something, like being in a country that participates in war, that they would leave. Leave their families and leave places they loved and grew up in and had a lifetime of memories in, for the sake of their ethical beliefs and it's about what the consequences of that are. That's sort of more what the song's about and the feeling that people would be ostracized for believing or not believing in something. It's so un-democratic and yet it's so common in our democracy these days.

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