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1    "Into The Light" is based on a little guitar figure I've played for decades. Its motion suggested the idea of "walking."

2    "Lizzie Wears A Six Gun" is made of stories my father told me about being a little boy in the Mormon colonies in Mexico (his uncle fled there with two wives). At eight, he was baptized there in an irrigation ditch, then confirmed in El Paso.

3    "Eddie, Sweet Sand Dragon" is a true story about a sand creation my family made by the Sea of Cortez.

4    "The End Of The World" gave this album its title. Our world is different sizes, each of them real.

5    "The Stranger" grew out of Christlike kindnesses I witnessed shown to an immigrant family.

6    "New Heart," the last song written here, was suggested by my nephew having received a literal new heart, but this is spiritual rather than medical. Something about the law being inscribed "on fleshy tables of the heart."

7    "How Far Can You See?" was written after the album title was chosen. There needed to be a "title song." It was fun to produce--Eagles influenced.

8    "Wings Of Love" is a melody that came in an instant or two. Conceived as an "anthem," it became very personal instead.

9    "Snake In The Creek" sprang into songhood when I caught sight of a beautiful snake being carried inexorably along on the current of a local creek wild with spring runoff.

10  "The Borderline" was written while my wife was on the phone with a Romanian refugee family.

11  "A Dog Named Marvin" has been requested for decades now. I caved.

12  "Banjo Lullaby" is for the young spirits who made me into a great-grandfather."