"The Clorox Metaphor" is one of my favorite songs on Building a Hole. I love how it picks up. The tuning is crazy. The song is powerful and exciting to perform. I realized years later that it’s much easier to play in standard tuning. I used E A D C B E with a capo on the fifth fret for the recording. The song was inspired by a letter I had gotten that summer. It was from a lady friend of mine. She noted in the letter that she was writing by the pool. The paper was a bit wrinkled, ostensibly from sweat. Kind of gross, but I took the idea and ran with it. Most of the scenario is fictional, but the letter was real. Collapsis did a rhythm track of "The Clorox Metaphor" during a demo session, but we never got around to doing the overdubs. It wasn’t a priority, so we never even got around to playing it live, either. Although, we had been known to play "Orange" quite a bit during our first year together. I was severely disappointed when I got the second printing of Building a Hole back from the printer in 2000. Someone ran a spell check on my master file and screwed up a lot of type settings. "Clorox" was changed to "color" for some reason. I was really unhappy. I also realized that I couldn’t get a refund, so I just opted to sell the disc as is. A good way to know if you have a second printing is if your copy says "Color Metaphor" for track three.