Today Was then, Yesterday Is Now ©

Spent an evening watching Tender Mercies again

A true classic, Robert Duvall was great,

And something stayed with me

The next day, just another quiet Friday night

At home making dinner,

And my mind went there, to the movie, about heartache.

I started to thinking about loss, who I've lost.

Not just the idea of it, but the hurt I felt.

When someone you love is gone,

And life is still sitting there in front of you

Asking you to keep going.

I thought about my losing brother Brian

Holding his hand, knowing he couldn’t come back.

I thought about my two friends I’ve also lost

And then my mind went somewhere else.

What about a young dad, two kids, his wife gone

How does he even get out of bed the next morning?

That’s where this song started.

My first line came from a saying

we've all heard a thousand times before.

“That was then and This is now.”

But that line didn’t feel right.

It felt too clean… too simple

To say something that isn’t simple at all.

Because when you lose someone,

"Life don’t stop for broken hearts

So.. this was my line

From there, it just poured out.

Took about half an hour, and I honestly couldn’t stop it.

It wasn’t writing, it was remembering,

Feeling, connecting everything I’ve been through.

And somewhere in all of that, one truth kept

coming through louder than anything else.

"Love doesn’t leave when someone does…

it just changes hands."™

That’s my song

NKM