Great post, and great comments (is there a more pithy musical statement of the First Noble Truth than "I can't get no! no, no, no!" I submit that there is not) . My vote = "The Ballad of the Absent Mare" by L. Cohen, rendered as "The Ballad of the Runaway Horse" by Jennifer Warnes, on her great CD, "Famous Blue Raincoat: 20th Anniversary edition" issued in 2007: especially the very last line ...
"And they're gone like smoke
and they're gone like this song"

Excellent post, Jaed. Maine seems like an appropriate place to lead you into this inquiry: with a name like "Coffin," you've probably got family that goes back to colonial days in the Pine Tree State, and therefore probably have much deeper Maine roots than most of the people who might regard you as an interloping out-of-stater from away. Go figure.

Is there supposed to be a video or audio link? "Take a listen to the whole piece below"