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PS: Someone wrote this morning and asked why I hadn’t included “If There’s a Way” in my blog yesterday. That’s the song I mentioned that Malcolm Cecil mixed for me in 2014 with Tonto the giant synth in attendance. Truth is, it didn’t occur to me. But I love this song. I wrote it as my first marriage was ending, thinking about Forrest and the unknowns of the life I was heading into, one that I wasn’t sure would include singing for an audience anymore. It was an intense time for me, but it led to something else; something good. I hope it warms your heart.

Peter Tomlinson played accordion and electric guitar, Lou Pappas is on bass, Manuel Quintana played the triangle. I’m playing guitar and piano. Malcolm Cecil did the mix. Tonto watched over us.

If There’s a Way

If there’s a way to end these tears 
So they won’t fall forever after or years
Or overflow, drowning all of my dreams
I would catch them all, give them back to the sea 
To find a way 

At dawn I would lie down before an altar of stone 
And watch a songbird flying over the hill  
I would wander high above the tree line to see a full moon rise 
I’d linger ‘til the morning light
To find a way

I would give up everything I know
I would learn to love again
I would empty every pocket I own
I would carry the hardest sticks and stones
To find a way

I would try to build a shelter without a border or walls
Where I would sit by a bridge
And I would listen to the water fall