Back on the stationary bike listening to my Shuffle, the Junior Vasquez and Dolly Parton version of "Peace Train" came on, and it occurred to me that that song, more than Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" or any other, is the song of the recently concluded election. It's a hopeful, progressive, even utopian song written by a folk singer who subsequently converted to Islam and sung by a country singer from rural Tennessee over urban beats created by a gay, Latino DJ and finishing with an a cappella African Chorus. If that's not the future we're headed for, then I don't want to go.