Ah sweet Molly Malone, what a fine reply.

Another thought (in spite ofthe notion that I couldn't add or detract from it)...

Songs are a special vocabulary, used for saying things that neither prose nor other poetic forms quite touch, a special voice peculiar to Middle Earth.

They capture the soul, and turn the mind, and thrill the body, when well done.

Who would not turn their hand to such an instrument?

"Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws", was (I've been told) an ancient Iroquois saying. It points to the power and beauty of songs as a way to touch hearts.

If you can touch hearts, how could you possibly refuse to do so, or not want to leap up each morning ready to begin?

A.