The Shepherd (Interlude)

I, I don't think that it's ever fated in a person that you'll write some music

You know, your life events dictate

And situations dictate what you create

Kinda whatever you do

I, I sort of think of it all kinda like this

I mean, all the songs that I have written

I feel like I just, just captured out in the wild

I've never set out trying to be the best musician

I just wanted to live a, a life worth living

I, I, I, I want to be here while I am

And songs become just sort of distilled time, experience

All of my music is, comes from my friends

The things I've wanted to do, the things I have done

It's just a big mish-mash of, of dreams and reality

Whatever the series of events in my life that led me to meeting you that night

And the series of events that, you know

Sent Jay Manley on his path

Somehow met up in the future

And through that, using that guitar

I ended up writing these songs that I don't think I would've written on any other guitar

It's just the time and the place, and, and the culmination of that

And that's what I caught and put it out in the air

And then now I feel like I'm just sort of

Get to be the shepherd of these songs

You know, I, I heard something and put it together and named it

And now that's something that I get to be responsible for

The, you know, tied to my, to my life

And then whatever those songs might inspire other songs, you know

It's just a continuous tumbling of time

It's craziness

But it's our craziness

And we all share that

And that's maybe my favorite thing about it all

Just those echoing voices

Through time