Not sure if this song is informed by more than a winking sense of dharma — I suspect that it is — but it’s interesting when you have a pop song with such an overtly Buddhist reference/title (Steely Dan had a song with the same name, back in the day). And hey, it’s nice sounding. In fact, it’s really, really good:

Renee-Louise Carafice has said about the song:

“One of my friends was really struggling, deep in this mess – a very melodramatic character who had a reputation for feeling suicidal whenever he broke up with a girl. I was driving my car to this party house where I knew my friend was… and feeling very strong feelings of sympathy for him, and of wanting to be a guiding light for him… and this song came to my head, a very big song, full of instruments, like ‘Leader of the Pack but different.”

Check out this page from the blog A Thousand Ears to download the song, and to see the video for the also-great “House on Fire” — whose title, too, could be informed by some knowledge of Buddhism. But it’s hard to guess how just yet.

Doesn’t matter; either way, I’m a fan.