Relative Something

Yesterday I walked in the door with the mail and found a $10 iTunes gift card I had ordered through exchanging points in my Recyclebank account.

I’d forgotten I ordered it, since it had been a couple weeks.

During the drive home from work, a song on the radio (that I was hearing for the first time) intrigued me enough to want to look it up when I got home.

That reminded me I had been meaning to search for a Levon Helm song I heard playing on the credits of a movie I recently bought.

Found Levon’s song, “A Train Robbery,” on the 2007 album, Dirt Farmer.

I listened to the samples for most of the songs on the album and liked them enough to want all of them.

Price of the album download on iTunes: $9.99.

Forgot about searching for the song I had heard on the radio.

For some entirely unknown reason, the Levon Helm songs brought to mind some Bob Dylan lyrics from his song, “When You Awake” that The Band performed.

Ollie told me I’m a fool. So I
walked on down the road a mile, Went to the house that brings a smile
Sat upon my grandpa’s knee, And what do you think he said to me?

When You Awake you will remember ev’rything, You will be
hangin’ on a string from your… When you believe, You will relieve the only soul
That you were born with to grow old and never know

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Snow’s gonna come and the frost gonna bite, My old car froze
up last night. Ain’t no reason to hang your head I could wake up in the
mornin’ dead. Oh! And
if I thought it would do any good, I’d stand on the rock where Moses stood.

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That last line has rolled around in my head for as long as I’ve heard it, starting sometime in the 1970s.

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If I thought it would do any good, I’d stand on the rock where Moses stood.

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