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I'm thinking about recording an album of songs about dogs for the RPM Challenge in February. When I started to put together a list of dogs who could be the subjects of my songs, legendary Trenton Thunder bat dog Chase That Golden Thunder made the list early. When the news of his death in 2013 made the news, Gentleman Caller showed me a compilation of his at-bats (including some of his late-in-life appearances). The story stuck with me as I started writing songs, if only because "Chase That Golden Thunder" is a great song title. After writing the entire song on Tuesday, I rewrote the lyrics for "Chase" on Wednesday morning. The original draft made Chase into a commodity that the team bought to boost ticket sales, and it skipped directly from his first night on the job to his death. That didn't sit right with me, so I moved part of the second verse up to the first and spent the second verse writing about Chase's tasks as the bat dog. The bridge remains the same. This lyrics for this iteration of the song work better on a narrative level, but they're less technically smooth than the first draft. The last two lines of the first draft don't scan all that well, some of the transitions between verse and chorus are clunkier than they need to be, and while I need to address his death in the bridge, I could stand to depict it in a less tear-jerking way. If I actually make the dog album, and if I include this song on it, I want to work with an editor to help it sound better. (Lest I sound like I'm down on myself, I really like the melody.)