"I need a vaccination for the black-eyed blues" -Joe Cocker and Chris Stainton

"Neck full of mockingbirds, all calling your name, I tried to sing it all back like I heard it, it don't sound the same" -Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers

There are some great new songs that Phoebe and Al found for the September version of the In the Distance, Oblivious Music Playlist. Check them out on Qobuz, or you can still find the playlist on Spotify.

"And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you" -Bob Dylan

"I can't be holdin' on to what you got when all you got is hurt" -Adam Clayton, Bono, Larry Mullen, Jr., The Edge

"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

"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