Dan Fogelberg, August 13, 1951 ~ December 16, 2007

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His albums...yes, albums :-), are still among some of my favorite music, speaking stories to me in that special bridge of time as I gingerly found my way from adolescence to adulthood.

Nether Lands

High on this mountain

The clouds down below

I'm feeling so strong and alive

From this rocky perch

I'll continue to search

For the wind and the snow and the sky

Oh I want a lover and I want some friends

And I want to live in the sun

And I want to do all the things that I never have done

Sunny bright mornings and pale moonlit nights

Keep me from feeling alone

Now I'm learning to fly and this freedom is like

Nothing that I've ever known

Oh I've seen the bottom and I've been on top

But mostly I've lived in between

And where do you go when you get to the end of your dream

Off in the Nether Lands I heard the sound

Like the beating of heavenly wings

And deep in my brain I can hear a refrain

Of my soul as she rises and sings

Anthems to glory and anthems to love

And hymns filled with earthly delight

Like the songs that the darkness composes to worship the light

Once in a vision I came on some woods

And stood at a fork in the road

My choices were clear yet I froze with the fear

Of not knowing which way to go

Oh, one road was simple acceptance of life

The other road offered sweet peace

When I made my decision

My vision became my release

- Dan Fogelberg, 1977