When did we plan to meet?
Have you been waiting long for me?
When did the sky turn black?
Do you still want me back?
I'll pick it all up piece by piece.
And the wheel goes round and round.
And the flame in our souls will never burn out.
And the wheel, and the wheel goes round.
I am a river with a voice.
I came into your life by choice.
And none can judge just how that feels.
You are a messenger from God.
You are the angel I forgot.
And who's to say that it isn't real?
And the wheel goes round and round.
And the flame in our souls will never burn out.
And the wheel, and the wheel goes round.
I'm not looking for the answers.
Oh, darling don't you see
That just to know the question
Is good enough for me.
Take up the hearts you came to heal.
Put down your dagger and your shield.
You need fear nothing now from me.
I see the essence of the man.
I stand before you as a friend.
The truth moves through us even when we sleep.
And the wheel goes round and round.
And the flame in our souls will never burn out.
And the wheel, and the wheel goes round.

Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country musician Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian Cash.
Although Cash is often classified as a country artist, her music draws from many genres, including folk, pop, rock, blues and, most notably, Americana. In the 1980s, she had a string of genre-crossing singles that entered both the country and pop charts, the most commercially successful being her 1981 breakthrough hit "Seven Year Ache". It topped the U.S. country singles chart and reached the Top 30 on the U.S. pop chart.
In 1990, Cash released Interiors, a spare, introspective album which signaled a break from her pop country past. The following year she ended her marriage to songwriter Rodney Crowell.
She moved from Nashville to New York City. She has continued to write, record, and perform, having since released six albums, written three books, and edited a collection of short stories. Her fiction and essays have been published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Oxford American, New York Magazine, and other periodicals and collections.
Cash won a Grammy Award in 1985 for "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me" and has received 12 other Grammy nominations. She has had 11 No. 1 country hit singles, 21 Top 40 country singles, and two gold records. Cash was the 2014 recipient of Smithsonian magazine's American Ingenuity Award, in the Performing Arts category.
On February 8, 2015, Cash won three Grammy awards: for Best Americana Album for The River & the Thread, Best American Roots Song, with John Leventhal; and Best American Roots Performance for her album A Feather's Not A Bird. Cash was honored further in October that year, when she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Yikes, maybe the little ones have been on your nerves just a bit. Try to chill out, open another box of white zinfandel, there's time before that PTA meeting.
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It appears the scoring is a properly weighted score: (sum of (score * vote_count)) / total_votes. Exactly how it should be. Tell your friend to quit complaining.
Rosanne Cash at Ottawa Bluesfest 2006 by Andrew Carver
Sucko-barfo is the perfect comment for this song. This is crappy saccharine suburban folk country diluted and distilled for mindless soccer moms driving their minivans! And I am a mom who drives a minivan but mindless I AM NOT!
Reading this review has me wondering and dying to know...do your kids play soccer?
It appears the scoring is a properly weighted score: (sum of (score * vote_count)) / total_votes. Exactly how it should be. Tell your friend to quit complaining.
One example where the median is better than the mean as a measure of "typical" is the wealth distribution (in the U.S. or elsewhere). If there's 1 billionaire & 1000 people with a net worth of $50,000, the average (mean) is $1,050,000,000/1001 = $1,048,951, which if misinterpreted would mean that the average person is a millionaire. This isn't a problem with RP ratings, since they're bounded between 1 & 9. The best way to understand what people think about a particular song is to look at the distribution (right there under the song info). Then you can see the difference, for songs having an average of about 5, between a true "meh" (everybody gives it a 5) & a bimodal distribution where half the people hate it & give it a 1 & the other people love it & give it a 10. I can't think of any reason to even try to find a single number that says which of two songs is "better".
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What's your co-worker's email address?
It appears the scoring is a properly weighted score: (sum of (score * vote_count)) / total_votes. Exactly how it should be. Tell your friend to quit complaining.
I understand cam97mason's coworker's point. The ratings are distributed in a non-normal fashion. Thus another measure of central tendency might more accurately reflect the true, observed distribution of ratings.
It is a silly concern. Everybody, not just math heads, understands 'averages'. Moreover, for the numerically sophisticated there is the illustration of the distribution of ratings.
RP ain't hiding nothing and this is all supposed to be casual fun, not ultra serious.
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Actually not such a bad idea. What is commonly referred to as "average" is usually the "mean." Unfortunately the mean is greatly affected by extreme outliers. This is why median housing prices are always referred to instead of the mean house price. This is a way to prevent the extreme outlier (i.e. 10 million dollar house), from affecting the average house price of all the other houses that are priced reasonably and allows people to know what the true average of house prices in that area are. And yes, it is fun for me to see evenly distributed bell curves in the ratings. I'm off to the nerd corner of RP now. Regardless, thanks for the music Bill! : )
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Heh. Your co-worker needs to lighten up. The median score for this song is 7, in case that helps them. That's also the most popular score, so they could look at that if they want to feel better. I wouldn't say 6.2 -> 7 is 'much' higher, though. :)
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You get to listen to RP at work? Tell your co-worker to get back to work before they get canned.