That's one possibility. Another is that we will see a new Boxing Gandhis album, though it is just as unlikely. Kudos for Ball for digging up one of the more obscure artists in the world to name his episode. Back in the ancient 1990s, Boxing Gandhis managed to funk this track up acoustically, basically bringing strumming soul to the world after being absent since "He's Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother."

The song and episode title is "If You Love Me (Why Am I Dying)," and it is a freakin' doozy. How this song has not become the anthem of a generation is concrete proof that there is a Man and he hates your guts. The Virginia funksters left us in 2001, save for an occasional reunion gig, but they left behind two albums that we are sorely ashamed of not owning.

It's a quiet kind of power, the way a dream become a movement. The way a whisper turns into a scream. It's unfortunate that it gets so short a bill in the episode. We hear less than 30 seconds of the track as Lafayette, Jesus, and Tara decide how they will handle their coven rebooting Eric's brain. The star slot over the credits goes to yet another cover of Donovan's "Season of the Witch."

We don't know whose it is, but it's not Joan Jett, so we do not care.

A path is laid out before us, friends and enemies, and though we see only a short way down it that does not change the fact that it leads but one way. True Blood is already on its way into the true death, and the music may dance the corporate marketing mating call of the ingenious cover and proven product, but down in its heart there still beats the true blood of genre rebellion and forgotten genius.

You can download the two albums that are all that is left of a funky juggernaut in the realization, but the future has already been written to be over. Prepare yourselves for the end that is nigh.

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