We listen to “Shuffling Feet,” a song we wrote together back in 1990, and talk about how it came to be:
I’m riding the magnet train with the magic wheels turningRound and round…I slide along a dotted lineWrinkled maps and mountainsPockets full of coins with different queens don’t slow me down
My feet been shuffling for a while nowI think they’re trying to take me homeBut I don’t know, I don’t know if I want to goI can see the ends of the line shaking hands
Wrinkled maps, lonely naps, sleeping on the trainDreams soak in through my skinThe window and the wall withinWrap around my dreams of other shores
My feet been shuffling for a while nowI think they’re trying to take me homeBut I don’t know, I don’t know if I want to goI can see the ends of the line shaking hands
8:30 and the sun is setting now, but my seat cuts off my viewOf the waves and the sun and the sky and the seaMy letter from my city friend falls from sleepy fingersRests alone on the dirty floorAnd I see myself upon that shore, upon that shore
My feet been shuffling for a while nowI think they’re trying to take me homeBut I don’t know, I don’t know if I want to goI can see the ends of the line shaking hands
And I long to feel the wind that moves itto feel the sun that keeps it warmto walk the sand beside itto breathe the air around it, to breathe the air around it…
Mentioned in this episode
Daniel Coyle’s book The Talent Code and Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers
Shamsi Ruhe’s music (Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music)
