For many of us, lyrics from Paul Kelly help tell the stories of our lives. From Jock Serong on the fastest Ford in Western Australia to Lorin Clarke on the death of her revered dad– comedian John Clarke– and from Gina Williams on the 'special treatment' of the people of the Noongar nation to Bram Presser on the ghosts that inhabit St Kilda, twenty-one writers enter the Paul Kelly songbook and let their minds go walking.