This is the first song on the record and the first single.

We played Poets a lot during Hundredth Meridian on our last tour. Some nights Gord would sing Poets for ten minutes and some nights just a snippet and then it would disappear from the setlist for a while but it always returned. What we were playing musically was usually changing. We never really fixed the music behind Poets while we were on the road but we all knew there was a good lyrical germ to work from.

Last September, during our early writing sessions for this record we would get together for a few days and introduce ideas to the each other we had recorded at our home studios. During one these sessions I introduced this riff and chorus chord progression and quite soon after that we had a sound everyone liked. When Gord started singing the lyrics to Poets over the music we knew the song was coming together. Rob Baker