A meditation on the cycles of life, a song that uses the metaphor of a journey to describe the search for meaning. Earth Wind & Fire wrote it as a centerpiece of their masterpiece album *That's the Way of the World*, a song that asks the biggest questions without pretending to have easy answers. he follows the path laid out before him, learns what he can, and accepts that some things will always remain mysterious. Maurice White's vocal carries the weight of someone who has made peace with not knowing.

That same acceptance gets a late-career gospel reading from