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Today’s songs from my Zen ...

Pebbles and marbles like things on my mind
Seem to get lost and harder to find
When I am alone I am inclined
If I find a pebble in sand
To think that it fell from my hand
... ... ...
Pebbles and marbles like words from a friend
Make us hold tight but are lost in the end
When we're alone we all seem to tend
If we find a marble in dust
To wish someone left it for us
-- Phish (from Pebbles and Marbles)


If I could give all my love to you
I could justify myself but I'm just not coming through
You're a pill to ease the pain of all the stupid things I do
I'm an anchor on the line of a clock that tells the time
That is running out on you
-- Counting Crows (from All My Love, off Hard Candy)


Today we took a walk up
the street
And picked a flower and climbed the hill
Above the lake
And secret thoughts were said aloud
We watched the faces in the clouds
Until the clouds had blown away
And were we ever somewhere else
You know it's hard to say

And I never saw blue like that
before
Across the sky, around the world
You've given me all you have and more
And no one else has ever shown me how
To see the world the way I see it now
Oh, I, I never saw blue like that before
And it feels like now,
And it feels always,
And it feels like coming home
-- Shawn Colvin (from Never Saw Blue Like That)


Elwood Decker died the other day
He was abstractly struck by a train
He lived in Nipomo but he painted his own way
For 88 years he walked on the track
For 88 years he never looked back
Now he's gone, that's the end of Moy Mell
He's gone and there's no more to tell
-- The Bobs (from Elwood Decker, off Unplugged)


When the ship runs out of ocean
And the vessel runs aground
Land's where we know the boat is found
Now there's nothing unexpected
About the water giving out
"Land's" not a word we have to shout.
-- They Might Be Giants (from Women and Men, off Flood)