What is life? One can view life as a spec of dust in the vast vacuum of space, or they can view life as dust in the wind. Written by Kerry Livgren and performed by Kansas on their fifth album, Point of Know Return, “Dustv in the Wind captures the unambiguous story of how life is purposeless and no matter how triumphant we are, death will still occur. “Dust in the Wind” was written by Kerry Livgren ,who was the one of the main songwriters in his famous band Kansas. Kansas performed this song which explains how all we are are nothing in this world seeing that we all have the same ending story, death. He justifies that everything we do in life will be forgotten. After reading an American Indian poetry book, Livgren was inspired by the line “for
