a ruby in your backyard?

a diamond in the dust?

a spiral nebula in deep space?

if i could get that kind of compressed meaning into my lyrics, i'd die a happy songwriter.

but all this focus on the writing is actually a distraction, it's the humanity that's startling, the prose the horse it rides in on.

quite the steed, though!  

 

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty