Gary Alt

Listen to radio interview about this song
It seems to me that political correctness has moved racial and other tensions below the surface, rather than eliminate them. So now they are just simmering unobserved. Resentments may have even increased as a result, I don't know. Rather than forcing each other to accept ideas about human relationships, why not have our hearts re-educated?
The title of the song had been laying around in a file of 100 or so titles and lyric bits I have been keeping for years. I always knew it would be about racial prejudice, but only recently decided to write it.
To record this song, I first laid down a basic drum beat and constant bass line for about 15 minutes or so. Then when recording the guitar, I did about 8 takes or so, thinking I would piece together the best bits of each performance. When that proved more cumbersome than just playing it right in the first place, I buckled down and said "OK, this is it," and laid down the guitar from start to finish. That is the performance used in the final mix. Then I went back and re-recorded the bass and drums to react to what the guitar was doing. Vocals were recorded last.