When we'd play this live with Skull Puppies I'd always have two ways of introducing it depending on the crowd and how I was feeling. Which was the same for most of our tracks really - they pretty much all have a surface meaning and an implied one. So this was either a song about the Legend of Zelda or complex post-traumatic stress disorder.

"Anna" is a name I've used in tons of my projects from music, comics, and zines through to the main character of my ongoing puzzle series. Besides being satisfyingly palindromic and attractive to write and speak, there is a bigger reason I'm obsessed with the name; in the 1973 non-fiction book 'Wisconsin Death Trip' and the short 1999 documentary of the same name, a newspaper report from Jasckon County in the 1890's details the actions of a teenage arsonist called Anna Majonek.

The information, and lack thereof, about her in these two sources sparked a blaze of imagination in me (so to speak). As well as having a starring role in a two-page comic, being a placeholder name in a 48-page perzine, the protagonist of a 20+ issue puzzle series, and being mentioned in multiple songs I've written (including one about Majonek herself), I now also have the initials "A.M." and a burning cabin tattooed on my arm.

In this song, I'm appealing to the Anna who hadn't taken shape yet - the one from my puzzle series. The hero and survivor, who I could take strength from when the world around me just served as a constant reminder of pain and fear. It's a song letting you know that escapism is one of human-kind's most valuable evolutionary tricks following a traumatic episode. Having the ability to dissociate can be the crucial difference between making it or not, and is an essential part of a wider and ongoing recovery process for a lot of folks. And if chinning Ganon and restoring peace to Hyrule helps you get there, all the better.