" My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't understand the words to their songs, she found the music almost unbearably sad. After the concert, Kate approached the lead Mongolian singer and asked, " What are your songs about?" He replied, " Our songs are about the same things that everyone else's songs are about: lost love, and somebody stole your fastest horse. "