This Issue's Song: After All These Years

     This is one of the more contradictory songs I've written. It's smooth and flowing, andante, yet it's sung in rhythmic pulses and attains an emotional intensity andante never sees. But at the same time, it has a nature very similar to a lullaby, delicate and fragile. And the chord progression is anything but standard, at times a soft and spritely picking, at times a powerful strum, only to drop quickly back to the softness. You can't sing this song properly if you don't feel the praise found in the lyrics. This song is a tap of profound inner appreciation for another. If you've never felt this kind of love, you can't do this song justice.