Am I wrong to think that your new song "Slow Decay" has political overtones — that it's about war?

It is. It's absolutely about war. More specifically, it's about a soldier coming home from war, trying to adjust. The narrative is a conversation from son to father, and father to son. It's a loosely fictitious tale, based on two friends of mine and a third person, whose story I saw on 60 Minutes — the soldier was wearing a Dashboard shirt.

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