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After a few problems during publication, I'm finally able to offer up the fourth installment of A Tune A Day, The Jam's 'Burning Sky', which is taken from one of my favourite albums ever, 'Setting Sons'. My dad has the album on LP and I used to listen to it for hours. I'd normally skip 'Girl on the Phone' (the first track) and 'Heatwave' (the last), because I never really felt as though they fitted in with the social commentary of the rest of them album, but I love the rest of the songs. I've selected 'Burning Sky' as today's tune because it fits well with my own situation at present. You'll notice all of the songs I choose are for selfish reasons, but I don't think there's anything wrong with that. The experience of music is in itself a selfish art: no two of us enjoy the same music in the same way, everyone interprets lyrics differently. There's a Paulo Coelho quote I love, which I think is taken from 'By the River Piedra, I sat down and prayed', that says 'it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for'. I'm currently part-way through the final struggle for my dreams before I finally admit defeat and surrender myself to the mercy of the 'Burning Sky'. I'm 26 now, so maybe I should just embrace it and try to get something from it before it's too late.
There's no time for dreams when commerce calls
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