"Well, your old hometown's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playin' a song called Hold On" -Tom Waits

"We stood on the crest of summer, beneath an oak that blossomed green, feeling as I did in April, not really knowin' what it means" -Dave Loggins

"Turmoil and passion such wondrous things, what they called summer lovers happening in spring, who's dreaming of who tonight, who'll be walking by your side at the dawning's first light" -Alison Elizabeth Goldfrapp, William Owen Gregory

"I could feel the summer getting near, felt like we could just disappear" -Christopher Turpin, Stephanie Jean Ward

August brings eleven great new songs to Al and Phoebe's In the Distance, Oblivious Music Playlist. Check them out on Qobuz, or you can still find the playlist on Spotify.

"It's never easy and it's never clear, who's to navigate and who's to steer, and so you flounder, drifting ever near the rocks" -Dan Fogelberg

"And the only heroes we got left are written right before us, and only angels who sees us now watches through each other's eyes" -Rickie Lee Jones

"I believe in these people, I believe in this age, though I hear about torment in life's lonely page, yet still we walk strong, we'll remember we're free, for the truth we are given, for what we believe" - Ó Maonlaí, Ó Braonáin, O'Toole

"I take a look around and I see crossbones on a rose, how we let this come to be seems no one really knows" -Rodney Crowell

"Never should have had to try so hard to make a love work out, I guess, I don't know what love has got to do with happiness" -Jackson Browne

"In world of illusions, all you're left with is your changin' luck" -Fuller, Payne, Tackett

"Oh my Red Wing, hold me closely, take me under the setting sun" -Trent Wagler