It was one of those images that stuck with me for a while before I decided to do something with it. Afraid of something, but you don’t know what it is exactly. Not fear of the unknown in general, more like a fear of a specific unknown, which is a different thing somehow. As sometimes happens, I was talking about the concept with someone and I grabbed a phrase out of thin air. “You know what that is,” I said, “it’s a tiger in the long grass.” The concept hung around long enough that I figured I should do something with it. And eventually this song came along.
the song–>The Long Grass from the CD ‘The Long View’, 2006 (LV001)
Sometimes just by naming something it loses its power over us, calling it something that amuses you is even more potent. Try it some time. I know what that is…