A track with a looooonnnng gestation period.  I had most of the slap bass parts floating about around 4 years ago, I actually recorded the music for the song 2 or 3 years ago, finally wrote the lyrics and recorded the vocals at the end of last year and have been tweaking at the mix since then.
I usually prefer lyrics that are more in the obscure, ambiguous vein, but for this song I purposefully set about writing about my 2012 trip to/around the UK and Europe and the people I met and/or caught up with while I was over there

Phil Does Europe

Tom Waits meets Screaming Jay Hawkins via Ween?

I'd read about how dogs could sense/smell cancer and I thought of all the times a dog had been sniffing around me (as they are wont to do) I thought "wow, imagine if everytime they were sniffing at me it was because they were like 'buddy, what are you going to do about that tumour?'"
so from there (and with the music in place) the mental image came to me of some grizzled old man and his poor pooch who is doomed to be able to sniff out cancer wherever he goes.

TVH "Cancer Sniffing Dog"

short, fast punch of adrenalized rock (well I guess that's what it is anyway)

Phil Does Europe

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