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 turning
Round and round…
I slide along a dotted line
Wrinkled maps and mountains
Pockets full of coins with different queens don’t slow me down
My feet been shuffling for a while now
I think they’re trying to take me home
But I don’t know, I don’t know if I want to go
I can see the ends of the line shaking hands
Wrinkled maps, lonely naps, sleeping on the train
Dreams soak in through my skin
The window and the wall within
Wrap around my dreams of other shores
My feet been shuffling for a while now
I think they’re trying to take me home
But I don’t know, I don’t know if I want to go
I can see the ends of the line shaking hands
8:30 and the sun is setting now, but my seat cuts off my view
Of the waves and the sun and the sky and the sea
My letter from my city friend falls from sleepy fingers
Rests alone on the dirty floor
And I see myself upon that shore, upon that shore
My feet been shuffling for a while now
I think they’re trying to take me home
But I don’t know, I don’t know if I want to go
I can see the ends of the line shaking hands
And I long to feel the wind that moves it
to feel the sun that keeps it warm
to walk the sand beside it
to 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)
Share this post