Edge Of Neptune

If I Had A Rocket was the first song selected for this CD and is the title track.  The chorus originated from an idea I had in my youth where poisonous materials, garbage, spent nuclear waste and etc. would be loaded onto a giant rocket and launched towards the sun where it would incinerate.

A long time ago, in my youth, the environmental movement was in its infancy.  There would be litter everywhere, scarring from open pit mines, smokestacks bellowing nasty smelling waste into the air and raw sewage and chemicals dumped into lakes, rivers and oceans.   This reckless behavior was, and still is, very  disturbing to me and the loading of a rocket to jettison the waste into space was a solution I pondered as a small child.

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"Here we are just killing trees."   The 1st line of the 1st verse was inspired when a company was hired to clear a beautiful green area on the west side of the 610 loop near the Galleria area in Houston, TX.   In 1993, and too often now, that area becomes a virtual parking lot.  Depending on the time of day, one might find themselves inching along for forty minutes or longer.  That green area was one of the few nice things to look at while stuck in such a log jam.

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I think it took about an hour to write If I Had A Rocket.  This song was instantaneous and just flowed.    So why is such an old song on this project you ask?  I loved this song but had never recorded it.  And every now and then it would haunt me.  I would just start singing it in my head.  Before I began working on this album, a lot of stuff was going on about the  environmental movement and I just thought "Why not."