Somewhere Outside has that whole expeditionary and illuminating feel to it. I wrote the starting parts for it in an older track I abandoned called Depth and Despair, which is currently available to hear in the B-Sides Collection. The last few bars of the song actually made me quit entirely on Depth and Despair, a song written in Logic Studio 8, and move into a more comfortable and aesthetic environment within Cubase. I sat and worked out a very dark and illuminating theme using loads of layered synths created in Absynth and FM8 and supported them with some heavy subsonic bass percussion parts from Battery. The whole song was actually very low heavy when I first intended to release the CD, but I remixed it and made the whole piece more tight and not so sloppy...so to speak.

The actual place of the song in the lineup, following Signal Fire: From the Outside, was meant to wind down the album into the more abstract and spacey feel of Waiting. I couldn't quit thinking of expeditions through the Himalayas or something as I wrote it. I sincerely feel this is one of those pieces I could arrange for a larger string set and have recorded live with most-likely good results. If only I had such resources at the ready.