Before The Fire's Gone combines funk rhythms and instrumentation, with concise lyric writing, and a deep sense of jazz improvisation and group interplay to create an emotionally immediate listening experience. The song  describes a sense of longing for the person you're already with. It begs that they "touch the flame to my lips before the fire's gone."

Before The Fire's Gone

Mother is a song about my own mother, memories of my family growing up, and the complex relationship I have with my Roman Catholic upbringing. I see people as inherently religious, in the same way that we are inherently political, sexual, and spiritual. That said, religion takes on many forms, and can be liberating or entrapping. This song is to, and about, my mother. I wanted to view her through the lens of her own Catholicism, and in doing so view her with compassion. That's the challenge for me with this song, because I've neither been to mass, nor spoken with my mother in several years.

Dan Saulpaugh