It's something Bukka Allen and a couple of his buddies put together--sort of a local response by Austin-based musicians to raise a little money for the International Medical Corps. The song itself had started as a movie thing, but they didnt use it so when Bukka asked me if I had anything sort of about the Iraqi war I said yes, sort of, and just took the genral cadence and the "If Only" motif, which came from the movie script--(just occurs to me I might be in some kind of copyright violation--though the record is charity--) and wrote a bunch of new lyrics. Anyway, it ended up that each verse is from the perspective of a different person--a dead mother; a desperate doctor, and a soldier dying in a ditch. The choruses are from a sort of sick, Kurt Weill-Bert Brecht kind of place, sort of circus-y, and deeply cynical. I don't know, it's just sort of what I feel like when I think about war in general, but this one in particular. I wasnt able to participate much musically, cause I was just passing through town long enough to do the vocal. Steven Barber and Bukka and Rob Gjersoe really did everything.