Compulsion

this song appears on "snow robots volume 3"

"Charms in limited supply And refusing to stretch That indefinable nothing Somehow keeps pushing you Finding the right words Can be a problem How many times must it be said There's no plan It had to happen"

-The material way of life can only take you so far. The spiritual side tends to push you into a different direction. You might find it hard to describe or even understand, but it was meant to happen.

"Got to move on sometime And it's about time By putting one foot in front of another And repeating the process"

-You have to walk the path eventually, and why not now? All you have to do is begin. 'A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.'

It seems to me that the author of the song is concerned about the question, whether a person inherently is free or there is something that drives him. The author has doubts, he feels as if there is some mighty “indefinable nothing” that controls him, pushing him to act according to some unknown plan. And this guess tortures the author (otherwise he wouldn't drink limited edition whisky without diluting it, which the first line of the song seems to hint at). The song’s chorus is positive though, the author has found a way to live and act. There is no plan, he tells himself, just move on, go forward, jazz! Don't think long about the purpose for the first step, you can change your mind at any time