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I'm Tanya Wilmoth.

When the lead guitar player of Kansas was interviewed about their song Dust in the Wind, this is what he had to say.

More people seem to identify with what I said in that song.

And that really surprised me, because in a way, that's kind of a decimal song.

He said, I mean, this is not Kansas.

When he was going to record it or pitch it to the studio he said I'm really hesitant to even play this one but they asked me if it had anymore.

So I played the song on acoustic guitar and everybody kind of stood there and said we need to be doing this song and I was amazed. In fact I rejected

the whole idea. I actually fought with the band over the fact that we shouldn't do this song.

I thought this is not us. Well it shows you what I know

about the value of a song because it turned out to be our biggest hit ever.

Dust in the wind goes right with Ecclesiasties Chapter 4.

In Ecclesiasties 4 we have the voice of a preacher and he's referring to an observation that he's making

about how people are pursuing really meaningless things.

And he points out the underlying motivations and thoughts behind these everyday foolish things that we do.

It's actually kind of embarrassing what he calls out in us, but it's true.

And then he says all of it is like chasing the wind.

And so you're listening to all of Ecclesiasties for and you're kind of left

like you are when you listen to the song

by Kansas. There's a feeling at the end like, huh, that was really profound, but I don't

really know what to do with that. Except in Ecclesiasties 4 you have the whole

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