Still They Pursue Me
This brief song, with its spoken style, reminds us of earlier connecting pieces such as "High in Control Rooms" or "I Don't Want to Die". It sits on side 1 of I Didn't Mean It between "I Heard it on the Radio" and "The Years Grow Tall", but seems to relate directly to neither, resembling more one of Leon's poems which he decided to set to a musical background. Accordingly, the irregularly patterned words are highly evocative. (The song was omitted from Leon's definitive 1992 songbook, although the original LP insert contains the lyrics.)