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Thanks David Be reassured, I am as wary and as skeptical as they come and I fully realise that what I listened to last night was a VERY long advertisement for his online courses (and of course his books) Business is business, though it shouldn't be when it comes to spiritual matters.

BUT, I found that within that "ad" there was some quite interesting food for thought. At the very least some perspectives that I personally hadn't taken the time before to consider at any great length. There were also some good stories, whether they be true or not,

The thing with religion, (I reckon) is that so much of it is just basic common sense and a good foundation for humans to actually co-exist with some degree of peace and harmony but unfortunately, and far too often, it's marred by human individuals own personal agenda's which usually amount to greed.

So I'm a "picker". Flitting about from one ideology to another and taking from them what resonates with me personally.

But . . . but . . . I didn't say anything. Oh, those links? Hmm. They must have fallen out of my pocket.

I feel tangled, strangled and frustrated.

I wonder if you already know this is going to somehow morph and grow and become a new song of yours.

Almost all of what I write, especially in recent times expresses that exact sentiment David.

Sometimes I just think I'm saying it in different ways but it all means the same.

I know what you mean about expressing the same sentiments again and again with songs. I certainly revisit themes again and again with mine, even though I don't set out to do so. I can also hear that in your songs. Of course, if we wrote songs that didn't express ourselves - if we just wrote songs to be "catchy" or whatever - then it wouldn't even be something we'd waste a thought on. But, I also know each song is still different, yours too, and that we never know how someone else might interpret them, or how expressing something in a different way can have a different value for us or a different impact on someone else- especially if the music is very different. We revisit issues for the simple reason that for us, they are still issues.

Having said all that, I still think you will become intrigued with the words, concepts and lyrical sounds provided by "tangled" and "strangled," and that you may even throw a "mangled" in there, and you'll have a song about it. To support my belief, I offer the fact that in 2008 you wrote a blog entitled In My Own Skin, and that now you have the song In My Skin which does not just restate the thoughts and feelings expressed in the blog post. I think that the phrase and concept of "in my skin" stuck in your head until you got it out in song, and I bet ya "tangled and strangled" does too!