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Kansas — Dust In The Wind
Album: Point Of Know Return
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Released: 1977
Length: 3:18
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I close my eyes
Only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity

Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind

Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind

Now don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
(All we are is dust in the wind)
Dust in the wind
(Everything is dust in the wind)
Everything is dust in the wind
(In the wind)
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Bill: Say something, Ted
Ted: All we are is dust in the wind

Most excellent movie
More older Kansas would be nice,  too. 
Posted 8 months ago by eyke    [ Reply ]
 snitramc wrote:

Saw Kansas in 1974 at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago warming up Hawkwind. It was the most boring musical presentation of my then young life. Do not like top 10 hits in general and I make no exception for this one. 



We heard you the first time. Clearly you were into a different kind of groove at the time. 

I love this song, so to each his own. 
Posted 10 months ago by Tippster    [ Reply ]
Saw Kansas in 1974 at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago warming up Hawkwind. It was the most boring musical presentation of my then young life. Do not like top 10 hits in general and I make no exception for this one. 
Posted 10 months ago by snitramc    [ Reply ]
Posted 1 year ago by onomasticator    [ Reply ]
 snitramc wrote:

Saw Kansas warming up Hawkwind at the Auditorium in Chicago around 1975.  Undoubtedly one of the most uninspired performances I've seen from such a large band.  And my mom grew up in Coffeeville Kansas, so you'd think I had a bias. Nope. No more Kansas on RP please.


Boo!  I personally turned the volume know up when I heard it start, in fact I don't recall hearing it often on the RP Main Mix - and I liked how well it flowed into A Perfect Circle's "Disillusioned" 
LLRP
Posted 1 year ago by lizardking    [ Reply ]
Saw Kansas warming up Hawkwind at the Auditorium in Chicago around 1975.  Undoubtedly one of the most uninspired performances I've seen from such a large band.  And my mom grew up in Coffeeville Kansas, so you'd think I had a bias. Nope. No more Kansas on RP please.
Posted 1 year ago by snitramc    [ Reply ]
 Ipse_Dixit wrote:


YOU'RE MY BOY BLUE!!!
Posted 1 year ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
 Sofa_King wrote:


i cannot stop laughing...thank you! 
Posted 1 year ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
One of a handful of "classics" that I never get tired of hearing.  Our company was hosting drum clinics and the first one of many we did was with Phil Ehart, drummer for Kansas.  As a 20'ish aspiring drummer I was awestruck.  He was the humblest, nicest guy ever.  He said that the only reason they got signed was because one of the three songs they were allowed to submit had a violin in it and it intrigued the record company.  They were hesitant to put it on the demo...
Posted 1 year ago by terryweir    [ Reply ]
Posted 1 year ago by Ipse_Dixit    [ Reply ]
We're dust in the wind and Johnson & Johnson is a defense contractor.
Posted 1 year ago by yesnojoe    [ Reply ]
 Usul83 wrote:

Not the best version for me, but definitively a super song



Wait, there's another version?
Posted 1 year ago by Tippster    [ Reply ]
Life changing events with songs like this. This one was me being out in the big world fending for myself.

The other was End of the World as we Know It.  I was watching the late night lights of a city in the rear view mirror as I was on yet another adventure...
Posted 1 year ago by xrdstv    [ Reply ]

DonnieIsDustInTheWind
Posted 2 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
Not the best version for me, but definitively a super song
Posted 2 years ago by Usul83    [ Reply ]
 DoctorHooey wrote:

nice segue after Harry Manx "All Fall Down" with the repeated "disappear into dust" lyric



and here we are 1 year later and the same sequence; Harry M. AFD ->Kansas DITW.
Posted 2 years ago by bigbargain    [ Reply ]
 coloradojohn wrote:

Truly a magnificent, spiritually soothing song, from an amazingly talented group. I was a wild adolescent in a family that was beginning its vicious disintegration, and this really helped me feel grounded somehow. I must say, all their work is excellent, and some of it still rocks me to the core. For many, this song pigeonholed them, and for some (unfortunately, influential) ass-hat blowhard critics too full of themselves to talk about Music, they were dismissed as 'merely an American version of ELP, Moody Blues, etc.' but I beg to differ. This song, as was Carry On My Wayward Son, was Divine inspiration along a Timeless theme, but they also explored drug use and its perils, Love, Madness, Death, and everything humans can endure and contemplate. For their spicier, absolutely rocking out and jamming side, check out Bringin' It Back, Down The Road, Lonely Street, The Devil Game, Child of Innocence, Icarus -- Borne on Wings of Steel, Stay Out of Trouble...and for mind-blowing stuff that spells out what we're dealing with today, Death of Mother Nature Suite, Sparks of the Tempest. Dive in, the well is deep, and full of incredible music!


+1 to 9 now, and with your suggestions heading to spotify for a little trip through the greater Kansas catalog.

Long Live RP and CoJo too!!
Posted 2 years ago by lizardking    [ Reply ]
Thanks RP.
Posted 2 years ago by jesseoxwell    [ Reply ]

What a treat to hear this beautiful song again and see it in the RP play
list. It was overplayed in its time, then went away, and now sounds as
if it could have been written today. That great last line, "And all your
money / Won't another minute buy", gets me every time. I've always been
astonished how in its simplicity the song captures so much -- the
fragility and the impermanence of existence, and our often misplaced
sense of what is meaningful and what isn't. Gorgeous song.

Posted 2 years ago by tinypriest    [ Reply ]
I came close to changing the channel for the first time in many months! Please no more Kansas, no more of the crap commercial 70s shlock (Kansas, Journey, REO, Boston, Foreigner, and those damned Eagles)
Posted 2 years ago by SoundThinker    [ Reply ]
This really is a beautiful song. 
Posted 2 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
We buried my 30 year old brother in the ground as this song played in a windy, forlorn cemetery in Clearwater, Kansas many years ago.  RIP, Greg.
Posted 2 years ago by Larrygrrl    [ Reply ]
I was debating on what to rate this, gave it an 8
Posted 2 years ago by jp33442    [ Reply ]
Truly a magnificent, spiritually soothing song, from an amazingly talented group. I was a wild adolescent in a family that was beginning its vicious disintegration, and this really helped me feel grounded somehow. I must say, all their work is excellent, and some of it still rocks me to the core. For many, this song pigeonholed them, and for some (unfortunately, influential) ass-hat blowhard critics too full of themselves to talk about Music, they were dismissed as 'merely an American version of ELP, Moody Blues, etc.' but I beg to differ. This song, as was Carry On My Wayward Son, was Divine inspiration along a Timeless theme, but they also explored drug use and its perils, Love, Madness, Death, and everything humans can endure and contemplate. For their spicier, absolutely rocking out and jamming side, check out Bringin' It Back, Down The Road, Lonely Street, The Devil Game, Child of Innocence, Icarus -- Borne on Wings of Steel, Stay Out of Trouble...and for mind-blowing stuff that spells out what we're dealing with today, Death of Mother Nature Suite, Sparks of the Tempest. Dive in, the well is deep, and full of incredible music!
Posted 2 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
Brings me back immediately to the Fall of 1977:  I'm on the phone, talking with Kathy Hooper while holding a brand new Point of Know Return LP in my hand. Earlier in the day she had snuck into my room at my parents house and dropped it off as a birthday gift. Sigh. 

I still have the LP but I haven't seen Kathy since 1978. 
Posted 2 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
A sing-along classic.
Posted 2 years ago by Tippster    [ Reply ]
Such a limited view on what life is....
Posted 2 years ago by jacopo777    [ Reply ]
All we are is just dust in the wind, dude..
Posted 3 years ago by Tylersmyler    [ Reply ]
 Roguewarer wrote:

…and suddenly I’m 15 again.
RP programming (and the ethereal quality of music) is the best time machine yet devised.
☺️❤️



And my guess is that you have a slightly different perspective on the lyrics, and even the nostalgia of listening to them, now than when you were 15.  
This song places me in a very specific place (neighbor's front yard listening to the "Best of Kansas" cassette with headphones when I was 16).
Posted 3 years ago by bitterdave    [ Reply ]
…and suddenly I’m 15 again.
RP programming (and the ethereal quality of music) is the best time machine yet devised.
☺️❤️
Posted 3 years ago by Roguewarer    [ Reply ]
 jmjohall wrote:

SKIP!



You must be one of those 1 voters on epic classic songs!
Posted 3 years ago by nu11    [ Reply ]
You're my boy, Blue!
Posted 3 years ago by Ipse_Dixit    [ Reply ]
You're my boy Blue!
Posted 3 years ago by admascott    [ Reply ]
 tinypriest wrote:
What a treat to hear this beautiful song again and see it in the RP play list. It was overplayed in its time, then went away, and now sounds as if it could have been written today. That great last line, "And all your money / Won't let another minute bye", gets me every time. I've always been astonished how in its simplicity the song captures so much -- the fragility and the impermanence of humanity, and our often misplaced sense of what is meaningful and what isn't. Gorgeous song.


The line in the song is  "And all your money / Won't another minute buy."  But I like your way better.
Posted 3 years ago by robinesque    [ Reply ]
SKIP!
Posted 3 years ago by jmjohall    [ Reply ]
Bought the album in Spring of 1979. Distant time, clear memories.  
Posted 3 years ago by Pjesnik    [ Reply ]
 paulmeier wrote:
This song started out as a finger picking exercise for Kerry Livgren.  Practice makes perfect.  
 
and now it has become exactly that for millions of fingerpickers around the world, including me! It's harder than it sounds!!
Posted 3 years ago by DoctorHooey    [ Reply ]
nice segue after Harry Manx "All Fall Down" with the repeated "disappear into dust" lyric
Posted 3 years ago by DoctorHooey    [ Reply ]
This song started out as a finger picking exercise for Kerry Livgren.  Practice makes perfect.  
Posted 3 years ago by paulmeier    [ Reply ]
What just happened ?  Kansas on RP ?


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Posted 3 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
Timeless lyrics and amazing song
Posted 3 years ago by orthomd    [ Reply ]
Easy 10!  Haterz!!   
Posted 3 years ago by jelgator    [ Reply ]
Posted 3 years ago by Sofa_King    [ Reply ]