"Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend, sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend" -Bruce Cockburn

October's In the Distance, Oblivious Music Playlist has some louder songs and some quieter songs. Find all eleven of them on either Qobuz or Spotify.

"Come to conclusions, I believe we all do, to look around us and the taste of the fruit, set free your morals, it should be written on every door" -Ó Maonlaí, Ó Braonáin, O'Toole, Fehily, and Barnes

"I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form, come in, she said, I'll give you shelter from the storm" -Bob Dylan

"On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place, if the summer change to winter, yours is no disgrace." -Anderson, Squire, Howe, Kaye, Bruford.

"In the grand scheme of things, we're just travelers" -Chip Taylor

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

"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