There is a strange story behind this song. It is about an old friend of
mine who I used to hang out with quite frequently. After years of intensive
contact our ways parted and we only saw each other now and again.
We hadn't had any big argument or so, it was more that we were both doing
our separate things. On one occaission I met up with him in a bar and we
got onto the subject of boats. I was telling him about the sailing boat
I had recently acquired and how I liked to take it out on the lake to cool
down after a hot summer's day at the office. He told me that he also had
a boat, a small rubber dingy, but it lacked the privacy of a larger sailing
boat with a cabin.
He went on to tell me a tale of how he had been out on the lake drifting
in his rubber dingy about 500 meters from the shore. Feeling quite alone
out there, he started to play with himself. However some lady, probably
in an upper story appartment, had spotted him through her telescope and
called the police, who arrived on the scene to check it out.
You can imagine the he was very embarassed by it all and it made such a
big impression on me that I just had to write this song, which apart from
this annecdote is also about our friendship and how I would one day like
to hook up again and do something together,... but not in a rubber boat!
Another interesting point about this song is that it has no specific time
signiture. In fact I play it differently each time. There a bars of 2/4,
3/4, 4/4 and 5/4 all mixed up together. No structure and impossible to
play along with