Tom Cochrane

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"I guess it proves that naivete is one of the mothers of invention... I wrote most of the lyrics in a dusty corner of Guelph University's Porter Hall library after reading Henry Miller's White Heat/Time of The Assassins, an essay on Rimbaud. Kenny came up with the mystical piano intro after I played him the song at his place in north Toronto. I would travel to Somalia during the crisis there some 15 years later with World Vision. This was a country in which Rimbaud had sold guns, and unfortunately that legacy still remains." - Tom Cochrane