Ummm... kinda on topic.. but more an awkward line, that could have rhymed...

Stephen Fearing has a great song called "The Life..." As in "ain't it just the..." About playing sometimes lousy gigs, and how being a touring musician can sometimes suck rocks, but how there are things that keep ya coming back and back and back... It's one of my ALL TIME favourite Stephen Fearing songs too...

In this song there's the verse...

"So you pick up your guitar
And play it for yourself
These days you only play it seems
For everybody else
Pull the strings into your hand
Hold the wood against you hips
Unwind the miles of silence
From your fingers"

Now, Stephen is a consummate word smith and ya just know he labours over getting every word just right with his Thesaurus and his Rhyming Dictionary... But last time I chanced to sit with him over a pint after his show I asked him, interested in a little insight into his songwriting head, "Why not 'Unwind the miles of silence from your FINGERTIPS' eh"?

He kinda looked at me blankly for a beat and a half, raised half an eyebrow and said, "Ya know, I never thought of that."

So much for meeting yer heroes eh...

LOL!!!!