“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.”
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Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.