"Striving After Wind"

This is one of the few songs I’ve written in the past ten years which has actually been performed live. It is form the collection Rented Idea, written in Chicago, which contains some songs I’m quite happy with. This one is bases on Ecclesiastes. I toyed with the idea of turning all the songs from Rented Ideas into a song cycle based on Ecclesiastes. That hasn't happened yet, but it still might...

Current listening: The Partridge Family, Bulletin Board

Striving After Wind

© 2011 Brian Hutzell

I deny everything except this song

I deny everything except this song

I deny it

I don’t buy it

I think it's wrong

I didn’t do it

I didn’t see it

I wasn't there

I don’t care

I don’t believe it

I don't get it

I didn't know

I won’t go

It's all folly

Vanity

Striving after wind

It's all nothing

Insanity

Striving after wind

What matters? To what purpose?

We're so small

Do we count at all?

Why bother? What’s the point?

It's all folly

Vanity

Striving after wind

It's all nothing

Insanity

Striving after wind

"December Blues 1"

Brian Hutzell