The Explanation
(for those who require one)
And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
6 comments:
or Willie Nelson, The Dixie Chicks, and Boudleaux Bryant.
I am a million years away from the form of Art...
Sorry. ;)
What's the title on the sheet Berlin's holding? I can't make it out.
They were great.
P.S. No need to apologize. :)
Saint Russell, the patron of detail,
could it be one of these -
"Let's All Be Americans Now"
"Let's Face the Music and Dance"
Found it!
"The Freedom Train"
http://www.lincoln-highway-museum.org/FT/FT-04-Song-Index.html
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