Tom wrote these verses as a poem for one of his poetry books. Over the past decade of our collaboration, I have modified several of his poems and created songs. I tweaked the lyric slightly with some wonderful input from my NSAI workshop group during a peer review. I then recorded a home demo of the song and presented it to Tom. In his feedback, Tom expressed a little surprise that the song was a ballad. He told me that he had thought the song could be an uptempo tune for Dwight Yoakam. So, you might also consider hearing this with Dwight's voice with an uptempo beat.
