In “Kozmic Blues,” Joplin is meditating on why people drift apart. The lyrics include statements like, “Time keeps moving on / friends, they turn away. / I keep moving on / But I never found out why.” ...

“Kozmic Blues” is a single from Janis Joplin’s I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama! album, her first after departing Big Brother and the Holding Company. The song being played during a Sylvie scene ...