Here?s where we get to the sharing part. Take this song by Martin Zellar for instance, Problem Solved (realplayer required), from his cd Born Under.

She is the one who?s always sorry She is the one who's always wrong
She always felt that she was weak And he caught on
She will bend until she breaks The shit he gives she always takes
She's not stupid, she's just scared To be alone
She feels her world grow smaller every day The few dreams that she had have drifted away
She learned long ago the way love works When a coward is involved
Just sail the white flag and there The problem's solved
Her high school friends have long stopped calling They know exactly what she'll say
Some other time, some other night Some other day
She feels her world grew smaller every day The few dreams that she had have drifted away
She learned long ago the way love works When a coward is involved
Just sail that white flag and there The problem's solved
She feels here world grew smaller every day The few dreams that she had have drifted away
She learned long ago the way love works When a coward is involved
Just sail the white flag and there The problem's solved

What I like about the song is that Zellar manages what is an increasingly rare trick in popular music--his delivery makes the subject's pathos real enough that the listener can identify emotionally with her, yet never descends into bathos the way Pearl Jam's Last Kiss or Tim McGraw's Don't Take The Girl does--though I must admit just reading the Don't Take The Girl lyrics causes me a twinge or two.

Getting soft in my old age.

If you liked Problem Solved, there are some other Zellar tunes available here.To my ear, the sound is reminiscent of blogosphere favorite Bob Walkenhorst, he of Rainmakers fame. There are a number of songs just as good if not better on the rest of the cd. I purchased the entire thing from an EBay vendor for the stupendously high price of six cents--a price I'm sure Martin will just be ecstatic about should he ever stumble across this, as he didn't get anything at all out of the deal. But then, since I'd never heard of him to begin with, he wasn't going to get anything from me anyway.

Now at least there's a chance I'll buy a full price cd from him should he release another, or that I'll catch one of his sets should he drop by NC.

Which, come to think about it, is another reason to keep the record execs up at night.