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This was nearly the title track of the album. But "a soul" is too easily read aloud as ... well, let's put it this way: a soul is like an opinion, everybody's got one. 

Or maybe not. One idea the song flirts with is that rather than a soul for each imagined "self," there are collective souls. Perhaps it's a selfish little ego that wants to lay claim to its own private soul. What do you think? 


BTW: the "single drop of dew" is a reference to the Tao meme of living on nothing but air and dew. In some sense this song is about my own little drive toward enlightenment. It's also about moving away from earlier entanglements that proved less then viable. 

Anyway, it's kind of my "soul" tune. 



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A Soul Of  Your Own

All I need is air 
A single drop of dew
But I lost my way
When I mistook these things for you

Gravity shifts
It does it all the time
That's how something so sweet
Can prove so unkind  

And oh, don't we all want to find
   A better way to kill time

You want a soul of your own
'Cause you don't want to share
You imagine a place
But the place isn't there

The illusion of self 
It keeps us all on our toes
We pay with our breath
We pay though the nose 

And oh don't we all want to find ...

All I need is air 
A single drop of dew
I'll find my way
When I cut myself free from you

Gravity shifts
But it ain't getting me down
When i want to fly
I just let go of the ground 
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