This quiet coda to Song Cycle sees Parks reminiscing on war, peace, and the history of Japan. The singer watches a Nisei gardener tending peacefully after a purple arbor and struggles to reconcile this moment of serenity with the atrocities committed by Japan in the second world war.

This is not the only time that Parks would invest himself in Japanese history: His fifth studio album, Tokyo Rose, is singularly concerned with American-Japanese relations from the mid-1800s to the 1980s.