John H,

I think you see rigth to the heart of this song. That it came up at all was because I was looking over some lyric sheets that I used to study when I was a singer in a country band in Oregon. I picked up my son's 3/4 size guitar in the den and started playing. I was struck with the simple honestly of the song and it took me to the exact emotional place I was in the relationship I have with my wife. When I read (and sang) the lines, "If I made you feel second best, Girl I'm so sorry I was blind" I was singing my own heart. When I finished, I walked into the kitchen and my wife was very quite and clearly she had been listening. We spoke the first kind words to each other that we have had in days. It is not that we are hostile- it is that in a busy life (we have 5 kids) it is too easy to let the clutter of life distract us from saying those "little things" that need to be said to let the ones we love know that they are not second best. If a song can do that for us, that is a great song. The fact is, I don't know what I would do without my wife. It is because music is emotional magic, that we listen, play and write.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein