This, my friends, is a song about Santa Claus.  No, no, I’m just kidding.  All of the Santa songs will be unleashed in due time.  I mean, I guess this song could be about Santa, though, if Santa is an old, kind of addled guy who you see walking around town all the time.  This song sounds more intriguing with every word I write, doesn’t it?

This song — well, the chorus, actually — was initially inspired by a friend’s dog, who is named Willie, but once I started the verses it became about something else entirely.  I guess the heart of it is the notion that you can never really know what’s going on in another person’s mind, body or heart.  It’s easy to make assumptions about people based on what we see, but we’ll never have any idea about the reality of their lives.  And when it comes down to it, we’re all wandering.

In addition to our usual line-up — Matt on guitars (including the solo!) and harmony vocals, me on mandy and lead vocals, and Stephanie on a really stellar bit of fiddle — we’d be remiss if we didn’t give credit to special guest Rachel Spaulding on the bad-ass hand claps.  Now stop reading and go download Willie.