"Buildin' on Your Case" was written last spring. I had been spending some time listening to and studying the Piedmont blues musicians and wanted to try something along those lines - particularly the guitar style. The lyrics are pretty much self-explanatory, playing with the metaphors of construction as a way of suggesting how we create and de-create our relationships. The bitterness of the sentiment gets mollified supposedly by the humor in the images. It's one of the lighter tunes on Thugs and Lovers and is fun to perform. - JP Jones