Shirley Comments: Here you can make out my roots as former lead singer of SadoNation, but the song is about the idea that our true identities are concealed under the scar tissue of social condition and the wrong kind of parenting. And it's about the energy that comes from getting to that essential self.

Shirley Comments:This cut acknowledges that we all long for something difficult to define, something that the gnostics longed for, the mystics sought for, the Sufis worked at -- a connection to what the Sufis called 'the beloved'. It may be an authentic love relationship, if you like, but it's also something else: we're longing for another kind of connection with the intelligence that underlies reality itself.