Gee, I love this song, but nobody else ever seemed to. I remember when I played "Still Not Lonely Enough" for my wife at the time she complained that the ascending part at the end of the chorus went on too long and made no sense. And Ann Hammer—sensitive native Oregonian that she was—didn't like the original lyrics I had at the opening: "I'm lonely as a WASP on a Metro Bus..." So I changed "WASP" to "smile." Why offend? But then I switched it back to "WASP" when I recorded the vocals in 2002. I still wasn't lonely enough to compromise.

I can't remember exactly what or who inspired "Still Not Lonely Enough." It might have been that first separation in 1998. Wife left me cos I wouldn't do things her way all the time. Took my son, too. And I was lonely, but not lonely enough to give up my free will just to have them back and "compromise."

There's a bitter sort of Cole Porterism going on lyrically, reminiscent of "You're the Top." The examples of loneliness are satirical until the end of the stanza. I thought that made it all rather poignant, and all the repetition in the chorus just hammers home the desperation.

Still, it's a bit of a downer, and never much downloaded. Nor has anybody ever told me, "I love that song!" But maybe anyone who seriously identified with it would be too ashamed of their own loneliness to admit it? I can dream, can't I?

In the opening of the song the struck chords of the guitars fade in gloriously. I think what I did was to strike them, then hit REC/PLAY and the tape deck faded them in naturally. Cool!!

The beat gulps along cheerily despite the subject matter, and the interlude riffs are the riffs of the closing song "Karmalita," perhaps as she's the cause of the this loneliness via compromise. (Also the riffs from "Don't Step in the Revolution" are used, a song that was dropped at that time.) Cool!!

Nobody got it. Hey, if you get this song, write in and say that, although you yourself don't get it, you know a guy who just LOVES this one. You'll be the first.