Well...
My friend Graham did some music to these words just a few weeks ago..wrote kind of a swing melody to them that really surprised me...
The be-bopper in me said "wow..that's cool"
But my wife said.."yeah..that's nice, but these are words that everybody should hear..I think you'll stand a better chance if you do a more "commercial" version.
Well..I tried and just kept coming up empty..I couldn't get Grahams melody out of my head !So I called Chris Dasch and asked if he'd take a look at it...
Next thing I know he's written this gorgeous melody and produced this beautiful and elegant track !
I just love what he's done with this (and so does Mary) I hope you all will agree.
He even let me get a little artsy fartsy with the ending !
What a guy !
Thanks Chris !

and a thanks as well to Bobbie and Dawg who heard a pre=production of this and gave some good advice !

http://artists2.iuma.com/site-bin/m...ung_-_How_Long_Do_Hearts_Stay_Broken.mp3
(hi-fi dwnload)

http://artists2.iuma.com/site-bin/ramgen.ram?aid=61698&sid=261272 (lofi stream)


I thought I'd seen it all
I was no stranger to the pain
I'd played the game and lost a time or two

When the fires of love went out
(I) gathered all my wits about
And readied for the start of something new

So, it was no small surprise
When the tears that filled my eyes
Seemed different from the ones I'd cried before
And all the things I used to do
To ease the pain and see me thru
Well, it seemed they just weren't working anymore...

(chorus)
And I don't know what's been holding me together
I really can't remember
Where I was just yesterday
And, I wonder if I'll be this way forever
How Long Do Hearts Stay Broken Anyway ?


If, indeed, Time is a teacher
Maybe time can teach me now
Or, grant me coin enough to pay the cost

For the lesson that I've learned
From pages,up till now unturned
(Is) that we really don't know love
Until it's lost

(chorus..outro)



[This message has been edited by bob young (edited 09-05-2002).]