I was listening to John Lee Hooker the other night. I've had this thing about Hooker since I first heard this duet he did with Van Morrison back in '92 - hard to believe that it's been that long, but it has. There's no denying the years. They come and push through your life without you knowing. One minute your seventeen, looking out at the potential that is your life and the next thing you know the years have raced by and your sitting at some nightmare job realizing that your going to have to salvage the rest of this shit!

"I Cover the Waterfront" It's a song about a man sitting at the docks, waiting for a ship that's bringing his baby back to him. He's waiting, smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. There's a sense of hopelessness about the whole thing, but at the same time there's a feeling of a tranquility. The song goes on for six and a half minutes - Hooker trading verses with Van Morrison, the whole time your hoping that they will just get up and leave "She's not Coming!" But they wait and eventually the ship does arrive. Is it real? Does it really happen in life? I don't know. I like to think that it does, but I can't be sure. It makes for a good song. And I guess that's all that really matters.