You can run on for a long time, Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time...
Sooner or later God'll cut you down

Driving home from work last week, I couldn't find anything tolerable on the radio until I landed on Seattle's alleged "alternative" station 107.7 The End. Here I stumbled, quite surprisingly, on the familiar cadence of a dead man reminding listeners of God's inevitable justice. This new song caught my attention for two distinct reasons: one, the singer/songwriter Johnny Cash has been dead since 2003. Two, it strikes me as ironic that so many people in our city would be tapping their feet and resonating with a song that is simultaneously indicting them.