"We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye" and "Just Like aButterfly (That's Caught in the Rain)" were inspired by the relaxed recordings of '20s singer Annette Hanshaw.
Caught, killed, relaxed, and spread, the butterfly was laid to rest in a Riker mount, a shallow glass-topped box filled with absorbent cotton a sort of mass grave for soldiers who had given their lives on the battlefields of suburban Connecticut.