"I was born in Cleveland, Ohio. This album is very much about the street I grew up on. Where The Earlie King ruled without mercy. And Bobby Slot and Freddy Weiss invented the Dance of Diminishing Possibilities. I left for New York in 1972 and eventually became a musician. I was good at the sacred and I was good at the profane but I could never get the hang of anything in between and I went from the street to the church to the street again and then I stopped. I found myself back in Cleveland and began to write songs. And then I stopped writing songs. I thought I had said everything I had to say and there was nothing left to say, so I simply stopped. And then I remembered Bobby Slot and Freddy Weiss and my own father and all the little ghosts that lived with us and I realized that there was something left to say after all. The inside is bigger than the outside, more important, and less destructible. 'Many mansions' and all that. Kingdom of god. I love everybody." -Dee
01 Safe inside the day - 6:22 02 The earlie king - 5:26 03 A compass of the light - 3:34 04 The only bones that show - 5:18 05 Fresh out of candles - 6:04 06 Big titty bee girl (from dino town) - 3:02 07 A christmas jig for a three-legged cat - 1:14 08 Flowers on the tracks - 4:02 09 The dance of diminishing possibilites - 4:11 10 Bad kidneys - 4:35 11 You'll find your footing - 4:54