The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one

Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.