DESCRIPTION:
Parts of this song have been running around in my brain for the better part of a decade but I could never quite bring it to a close. . . until the day my mother died. I was with her for the last few days of her life. A very hard time. A time full of mixed feelings. Hurt that my mother whom I loved very much was clearly leaving. Something not quite happiness, but more a mix of relief and satisfaction (for her) that the pain she had been in all of her life would finally end. It was an added bonus that it was going to happen with her family, husband, children, grand children, and great grand children gathered around her.
This song finally came together in my head about three hours after my mother had died. I had to be alone for a while and so I took my guitar and climbed a small mountain behind my childhood home, and there I sat playing. As I looked down on the house where my mother was still laying, this song was all that would come to me, all I could hear in my head. So, for better or worse, happy or sad, a fitting tribute or a pathetic cry of a child missing their mother, I've named this song in honor of her.