This song was written with Evon Handras. Evon was my boss at Chrysalis Music Publishing in New York. Several times a week I would go and sit in her office and listen through a box of demo tapes and do my best to provide constructive responses to those who submitted their songs. On several occasions we would have a guitar of our own and kick about song ideas. On the occasion of “Farewell To Reason”, as I recall I was playing a chords structure and we started reading the titles from a rack of demos Evon had on her wall. The lyric developed directly from these titles. To me, the song always had an REM “Losing My Religion” feel as it was all over the radio during the time the song was initially written.

In the songs current form, I have made some edits to quicken the flow and make it pop. The original second half of the second verse, “Butterflies do roam where stagnation steeps. Back in the dark hole where they think that I sleep” came directly from the fact that Evon had a windowless office that Chrysalis (Butterflies) Publishing was borrowing from Capitol/EMI Records at 810 7th Avenue in Manhattan. The office was directly across the hall from a massive closet where all the abandoned old new release posters and out-dated (not really, rather no longer cool) stereo equipment would be deposited. There were SEVERAL McIntosh Amplifiers in there SO that should tell you ultimately how much these people knew about sound!