Every Saturday I go along to the coffee house and listen to the kids from the music program at the college sing their songs. I listen real hard, but by the time they get to the end of the second line I can't remember what the first line was about and by the time they get to the end of the song I am without a clue. The music is just fine but there's nothing in the words you can latch onto. I think most of them are "I'm so mad at my boyfriend" songs but they could equally well be "I'm so ambivalent about my boyfriend" songs or even "save the whales" songs. But once a fellow codger did a cover I'd never heard before, Tom Russell's "Blue Wing", a story song about an alcoholic drifter. I had it practically memorised after one hearing.