For this song, Laurie Anderson spoke in her male alter ego, Fenway Bergamot (formerly The Voice of Authority), using an octaver to deepen her voice into what she describes as “audio drag.”

With regards to this track specifically, Anderson remarked:
“This time he was more melancholy, but also I was trying to speak with jump-cuts, trying to represent the way your mind is jumping around – the things that don’t get said. This character was the narrator of most of the shows [I played in support of Homeland], but I only put him on the record at the last moment. And then, let’s have him give a manifesto on time, so that’s why he’s sitting in the middle there. That’s what that character’s become – just a dreamer …”