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This one popped into my head on the drive home from work tonight pretty much as is...so any thoughts to strengthen it would be greatly appreciated.

Bobbie

When There Are No Easy Answers
© 2005 Lyrics by Bobbie Gallup ASCAP

Why am I the last one picked?
Why aren't I like other children are?
Why can't I go to school?
Why do we live in this old car?

When is daddy coming back?
Why did he have to leave?
If God took him to heaven
Doesn't God care about me?

CHORUS:
When there are no easy answers
And words will not suffice
When your heart breaks for the hurt they feel
But nothing comes out right
When there are no easy answers
Love can improvise

She only sees the imperfections
She hates to go to school
Won't talk about the way she feels
When other kids are cruel
Fourteen years old
She thinks she's plain
You know the beauty that's inside
But it's so hard to explain

CHORUS:
When there are no easy answers
And words will not suffice
When your heart breaks for the hurt they feel
But nothing comes out right
When there are no easy answers
Just let love improvise

BRIDGE:
Let love guide you
The answer's inside you
If your heart and mind are open
You will find the way to show them

CHORUS: Repeat

TAG: Just let love improvise



[This message has been edited by Bobbie Gallup (edited 02-03-2005).]

Hiya Bobbaneedle,

Its that wascally Tewwence

CHORUS:

When there are no easy answers
And words fail to suffice
When your heart breaks for the hurt they feel
Love can improvise

I like the title: "Love Can Improvise" too.

Terry

Hello Miss Bobbie

Funny you should write this today of all days... my daughter is 16 but I don't have the answers she needs either... I'm hoping you're right and the answers are there if I just let love improvise... nice little lyric you have here Trudi

Well howdy WT,

You picked up on one thing I almost did..and that was use Love Can Improvise as an alternative title. Only reason I didn't wss because I changed that line in subsequent versions of the chorus...but am still open to changes. I will also think more on the "fail to" suffice switch. I was leaning towards the alliteration between the "w" sounds in words and will, but I do like the fail to alternative also. Sure do appreciate those great ideas!! You are such a wascally wabbit!!

Hugs,
Bobbie

Hi Trudy,

I have always said it was too bad parenting didn't come with a training manual. Sometimes I am amazed at the things parents do and say to their children...like parents who get divorced and then use the children against the other parent. I also have real trouble with parents who set no parameters for their children in the misguided belief that saying "no" will somehow bruise their tender egos. I hope I am not alone in believing that kids need to learn very early that there are consequences, both good and bad, to their actions. I have no children of my own...so at least I can't be blamed for messing up any young minds (except for the ones I used to teach I guess)

For the past several months, I've been working with a young woman, a former Miss TN, who is striving to establish a child abuse awareness program for schools, advising her regarding how to get funding for her project. This woman is, to me, the epitome of a survivor, having been abused herself from te age of 5 on and yet somehow managed to emerge, one of the most incredibly beautiful souls I have ever met...so humble and yet with a real sense of humor. One wonders how she got through it at all.

I am also a firm believer in the Source of all Love...but I chose not to take this lyric overtly in that direction.

I am glad you liked this and pray you will find those answers for your daughter inside...and help her to find her own answers there also. It is not an easy process...that is for sure.

Hugs,
Bobbie

HIDee SBL...FINE Hook..Both of 'em...& Fine Lyric.

Today's Trib had a Depressing Story of this little kid...around 5 years or less in age..who'd been removed from his Mom 4 months...then returned. Lived just 4 weeks...til his Daddy punched him in the back of the head repeatedly enough he died. Dad's facing 1st Degree Murder..Mom's facing Child Neglect charges/SHOULDA called SOMEONE when this abuse started.

No Easy Answer here. Wish there Was!

Anyways, I feel better gettin' it off my chest. Your Lyric offers Some Hope to those who get the Chance for it. God Bless Ya for Pennin' this Really Sweet, Special Lyric, & Good Luck with It.

BPH
Stan

Hi Bobbie, I can remember my teen years, (believe it or not) and they were the most impressionable, heartbreaking, tear jerking years of my life! I think that these are the years when you think about how ugly you are, how dumb you are, how people are always looking at you, how every little unimportant gesture is a personal slight to you!The hair is ugly, the lips are too fat or too thin, the chin sticks out and there is that pug nose--Oh God!! And freckles!! How could anyone ever like ME ME ME ME ME ME ME. Now, place that teen attitude on a poor child that has been abused and you have a real problem with depression. These kids need lots of help and I applaud anyone who recognises there is a problem and tries to help fix it. God Bless your efforts on behalf of all the young people who are neglected and abused. Thanks Idamarie

Hi Bobbie,

I put "fail" in only to help cover for the line I removed. . . so as to shorten the chorus to what I did.

I.e., "fails to suffice" serving
to make "nothing turns out right" somewhat expendable in the interest of chorus brevity.

TT

Howdy Stan,

I am not sure if we are just hearing more about it...or if abuse really is more rampant today than ever. I am sure that the media brings it to our attention more...but it almost feels as though so many people feel helpless theae days and end up taking their own feelings of powerlessness out on those who are most vulnerable. It just breaks my heart. We get reports of just horrific stuff seemingly every day. There are a lot of folks trying to stop it...but I believe it has to start with teaching children to love respect themselves. If we can get that message through, I think there would be far less need for drugs, alcohol and a lot less crime and abuse. Kids with a healthy sense of self don't need to hurt someone else to feel powerful. JMO of course...but I really believe that.

Glad you liked this. I think it was one of those that I was supposed to write. The words sort of came from somewhere outside myself. I like it when that happens.

BPH,
Bobbie

I really think this is lovely
B.G.....and I think it's done well.....

On first reading...I didn't pick up on the first verse being different kids...different questions......because I saw...not going to school.......and then...going to school in the second verse...and just didn't do the connect.. I'm assuming it's me bein' a bit dense....as no one's mentioned it....

In any case..it is a wonderful.....theme..
fitting for..a children's advocacy group...

best of luck with this...B.G.
kk

Hi Bobbie,
Good story. Good subject. well handled. Had to get pretty "nitty" to find anything and they may or may not be nits,
In line two, since it's the girl in question talking to herself, seems like she'd be more apt to say, "kids" instead of children. that would mess up the way the line flows tho'.
Line 4--"inside a car" just sounded a bit strange. 'nother poss, "Why do we live in this old car"
C--line 4--'But nothing comes out right"
Seems would be lopen to more than 1 interpetation, tho' you no doubt mean "you cant express it right. Poss.-----
" But you can't express it right" or some such.

Wy

Hi Bobbie.

These are such beautiful lyrics - full of warmth and hope! I like the way you say you were meant to write this one - those ones are usually the best!

Hearing you tell of the young woman you have been working with made me think of a lyric I posted on here just a few days ago called "She's Never Going Back". My song is dark, without any hope in it - I wish now I had given it a more hopeful treatment. Your bridge is such a poignant "other side of the coin" to my girl's story!

Thanks for posting this Bobbie, and for reminding me there's always hope!

Diane

Howdy Mz Idamarie,

Surprisingly, I too, can remember those teenaged years. Although I had a very happy childhood, I will never forget the anxieties I guess we all experienced, trying to figure out where I fit in all this...why some kids acted like they did towards others. Guess I was always somewhat of a peacemaker and was able to be welcomed in several different groups at school. But I remember many times, sticking up for someone that some of the "in crowd" were picking on or shunning. I always hated that and tried to get other kids to be kinder to each other. In thinking back, I probably have several songs I could write about things like that.

I definitely remember with clarity, my very first heartbreak and the awful enormity of being mistreated by someone I had let myself fall hard for. The pain was excruciating. I cannot imagine being abused both psychologically and physically at the tender age of five. How could anyone survive that with soul intact? I only hope I can help in some small way.

Glad you liked this...
Hugs,
Bobbie

Howdy Tall One,

I did see where you were going with that. In this case, however, I think I need to keep the chorus at 6 lines because if I scale it back to 4, then the rhyme scheme becomes the same as all the verses ABCB and it may make it more difficult to vary the music there. A 6 line chorus with ABCBDB is going to require a far different musical treatment. Plus, I hear this as almost an uptempo thing...because those questions are going to move fairly quickly. That means the length on this hopefully won't be an issue. Think I am gonna opt to keep that chorus as 6 lines though I may end up rephrasing some of it.

I hate having to explain things. LOL Means I didn't do it right the first time. Dontcha just hate imperfections in yourself? Nottt. I got too many of 'em to worry anymore!!

Hugs,
Bobbie

Mornin' Mz Kaley-girl,

I got the coffee on and warm oatmeal raisin cookies baked if'n you wanna drop by. Well, I am at the office now but you are still more'n welcome. So glad you liked this.

When I wrote this, I was thinking that each of those questions in v1 would be typical questions that any child might ask that would be tough to answer...not necessarily that they would be from any one specific child, though I think it might work that way also. Then, in V2, I went to one specific child...who was a bit older..in her teens, those terrible years of trying to figure out who you are and where you fit in.

In any case, I am not certain if it matters who is asking the questions in V1. It probably could have been the same girl...but that was one of the reasons I did put the school line in V2, to make sure folks figured out that it wasn't the same child talking. Maybe I need to rethink that if it really makes people stumble.

I guess that talking with Melody Guy last weekend and listening to her really deep message songs bent me a bit in this direction. I am hoping to get some music for this that might be appropriate for Martina McBride. I think this is the sort of material she would do so well. I can dream, can't I?

I started writing another song for my friend Valorie (the young woman who started CAARE...Child Abuse Awareness program). I haven't finished it quite yet.

Thanks so much for the peek and perspective. I always enjoy having your sweet and thoughtful comments on my lyrics. Makes me rethink my reasoning and that is always a good thing.

Hugs,
Bobbie

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Hi BG. I like the story, the message, and the flow. I think "Love Can Improvise" fits and is a more positive title. One nit is that I may change "imperfections" to "wrongs".

Howdy Wy,

You got some excellent ideas there. Already stuck one of 'em in there...Why do we live in this old car? Definitely a keeper. Line 2 actually isn't the girl talking...so I obviously didn't make that very clear. That first verse is just a litany of examples of some of the tough questions children might ask...and they were intended to reflect young children...though you very well could be right that kids would be what they would say, I need the extra sillybilly there.

I never saw it till you mentioned it about the line: But nothing comes out right. It probably could be interpreted two different ways. Not sure that is a problem though. Will ponder on that a bit more. May end up using your express it idea though.

Always appreciate the fine toothed comb on my stuff. Your eagle eyes pick up stuff I surely miss when I am so close to my own writing. Glad you liked the story and subject. One of those tuffies that people face all the time. Thanks for heppin' me make this one better!!

Hugs,
Bobbie

Hi Diane,

Thank you so very much for the read and the thoughtful remarks on this. The past few months have really made me start to pay more attention than ever to those subtle proddings one gets from time to time. The lyrics that come to me when I get that sense of almost urgency to get out the pen, I honestly do believe come from somewhere else, other than just my own mind.

I have always been a believer that we have a choice in how we perceive life and the things that happen to us...whether good or bad. We can let them control us and turn us bitter or depressed...or we can choose to focus on the positive side of the coin. Every situation is like a coin that has a positive side and a negative one. It is up to us to flip it to the side we want. As a songwriter, I feel compelled to write what I hope will bring happiness and strength...and positive options to listeners. That is just my choice. I know life really isn't all happiness and light...but there is truly so much darkness in the world already I just don't want my songs to add to the misery that already exists. There are several others besides yourself that write so eloquently about the darker side of things...and there really is room for those lyrics also. Tink writes some awesome stuff that is almost painful at times....and I have been known to write my own tearjerkers. Guess it is all just whatever spirit moves us at any given time.

There really IS always hope. No matter how grey the skies...just remember that on the other side of those clouds, the sun is still there, shining!!

Hugs,
Bobbie

Probably everyone knows of a situation this could apply to, and I think the writing's really good.
What holds me up, though, is I seem to be waiting to see it actually happen -- love improvise a way through a really tough situation. Right now, that's just an assertionin the song, and it doesn't touch me emotionally like the stories of the troubles do.
So I go away from the song kind of depressed and feeling like the narrator is whistling past the graveyard.
In the second verse, maybe the girl could be grown and happy now, and the narrator could be looking at her as she's going off to college or getting married or something. She could be thinking about when the girl was 14 and wondering how she ever got past those times, but she did because love can improvise.
The situations in the first verse would be a lot tougher, but to me that makes it all the more important to show the listener things working out and not just telling them they can.
Oh yea, grain of salt.

Hi Bobbie,
I was looking at this and the last comment. I am wondering if you couldn't sum it up in the bridge much easier than changing the second verse...

BRIDGE:
And love guided her
The answer's inside her
Now her heart and mind are open
And she's found a way to show them

just a thought you may keep or sweep
ttfn Trudi

Thanks Summeoyo,

Sure appreciate you taking a look at this and sharing your kind thoughts and suggestions. Not sure I can use the "wrongs" to replace "imperfections" as it only has one syllable to replace four and would mess up the meter there. The girl is looking at herself and sees only the things she perceives as being less than ideal about herself. That is what young girls do. My hair is too curly, my thighs are too big..etc. That is what leads so often to eating disorders in young women today. It is the expectations of perfection that they place on themselves...believing they don't deserve the approval of society unless they have it all together. Depression all-too-often results.

Thanks once again!
Bobbie

Bobbie,

I love this. I can almost here a melody in my head to it, too.

This reminds me of something Martina would record.



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Hi Bobbie

not sure you'll see the word aren't in many songs, as it's a flat word and won't sing well.

Other than that i like this; might have more impact if you gave the girl a name. Perhaps introduced in the improvise line; due to many like sounding sounds I like the name Lorraine should you choose to go that route.

Dear C'est.

Well, grains are what make up those lovely beaches we long for when the snow is piled 3 ft deep outside the door!!! Each one may be tiny but together they create something very powerful.

I will certainly think on the idea you introduce here. I'm not totally convinced every song has to go full circle to implementation...which would certainly be the predictable thing to do. I may run this lyric by a few of my cohorts on the Row and see if anyone picks up on that as an issue. As a few folks have mentioned...this is only intended to go as far as establishing hope. If it is a letdown for others, however, I wouldn't be adverse to going a different direction at the end. I just hate for a song to get so long it doesn't stand a chance of getting cut...or of falling into that morass of predictability. I could be blind, however...what do I know? I may be staring at the trees not seeing the forest.

Thanks so very much for your insights...
Bobbie

Howdy Mz Trudi,

I suspect a variation of that might work. I'm not totally sure I want to bring this one full circle though...so am going to think on that a bit more. Any given song doesn't necessarily have to get all the way to implementation. I was only shooting for establishing hope with this one. Sometimes I think hope is enough.

I am, however, going to keep all these suggestions! I am never done tweaking a lyric.

Thanks again....hugs,
Bobbie

"If it is a letdown for others." You're probably right. I do tend to be a depressive sort.
Sometimes hope is enough ...

Bobbie,

Well, I guess anything I might say would only be redundant, after all the replies. But, that's okay. This is worth all the support and accolades it receives. Well written on a very tough subject.

In some ways, you and TINK are similar. Both of you write about the human emotion so well and so convincingly. You are a little more direct whereas CIndy comes at it a little more obtuse. Both of you do it so very well. And this is a great testament to your approach. Very, very nice writing.

Alan

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Morning, Ms. Bobbie. This is definitely a Martina lyric. I especially like the 2nd verse and chorus. That's pretty powerful writing.

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Hi there Lindsay,

First, let me welcome you to JPF...as I think this is the first post I have seen from you. Just 3 years ago, I moved here to TN from Ft. Collins...where I had lived for 10 years (actually didn't live in town, but rather on a small ranch on the backside of Horsetooth Mtn in Redstone Canyon...sure miss that place!!)

I'm so glad to see you here...and very pleased that you enjoyed this lyric. Hey, if you compose and it gave you a melody, let me know. I am NOT a composer so always looking for good folks to bring my lyrics to musical life! I tried to write this in the specific vein I thought might appeal to Martina. She has such a powerful, emotive delivery and does not write her own material. One of my pluggers here in Nashville has connections with her management, so if the music is good enough, I can at least get it to "her people" for consideration. I'm gonna go check out your website.

Hang around here awhile..there are some terrific folks!

Bobbie

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Howdy Miss Bobbie,

A wise, funny, gracious fellow once said to me..."they're your words, from your heart and only you can decide what is best for your song"... he told me that on the very first lyric I ever wrote called Thrill of the Ride, one I hope to see recorded in the near future, and I have followed that rule for the past six years... so I'm sharing this with you..."they're your words, from your heart and only you can decide what is best for your song "

I know an angel in overalls is watching over you Trudi

Howdy Ritt,

I will take that word "aren't" under advisement and see if I can rework that line. Thanks so much for bringing that to my attention.

I thought about naming the girl in V2 but decided against it. I'm not sure she needs a name. Remaining nameless sort of fits with the concept of this song. I would only have room for a one syllable word in that first line...and none of the one syllable names seemed to flow well for me. It would also change the flow on the improvise line to just stick a name in there..plus that is the Chorus so it doesn't make sense to name someone there. One of my best friends is named Lorraine so I have always liked that name myself though it's sort of old-fashioned and isn't used much anymore. Nowadays it is all stuff like Ashleigh, Sarah, Ariana...LOL

Keep these thoughts and ideas coming!! They really DO help!

Hugs,
Bobbie

PS...in relooking at this...I think I do see a way to put a name in there if I decide to go that route. How about:
Ashley's only fourteen
She thinks she's much too plain


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This doesn't seem as solid as your other recent stuff. I think you need a third verse to either nail down that this is the same girl in all three, or different people altogether. Also, while there are nothing but questions in V1, V2 has none at all, which doesn't seem right. Lastly, I'm not crazy about "love can improvise." You do a great job of explaining that in the bridge, but surely there's a simpler phrase that embodies that idea.

Hope that helps! Good luck with this one.

Anthony

Hi C'est.

Hope I wasn't too preachy...was sure not my intention...but I really do try to accomplish different objectives with different lyrics and this one really wasn't about telling the story of any particular individual as much as it was about giving listeners/readers something to hold onto when things get really bad in their lives. Sometimes just keeping hope alive is a struggle when life throws you questions that really have no simple answers.

But..I do want you to know that I appreciate your observations and suggestions. Even if I don't always use every idea...they do help me rethink the reasons why I wrote what I did.

Thanks once again,
Bobbie

Howdy Alan,

To be compared to Tink is an honor indeed. She writes so well about the emotions that so many feel but cannot express. I strive to do that...and hopefully, come close on occasion. I am so glad you enjoyed this one.

Hugs,
Bobbie

Howdy Mz Tricia,

I can only "dream" that this would appeal to Martina...but if it gets solid music...I may be able to get it to her. I was shooting for her "style"...a song that hits hard at current "issues" and people who deserve attention.

Am so glad you liked this...Thanks so much.
Hugs,
Bobbie

Hee hee...Trudi, sometimes I sense that good ol' boy is keeping tabs on me!! He certainly lived what he believed....and left behind so many wonderful memories and memorable lyrics. By nature, I am a nightowl..and he was definitely a morning person. One of my fondest memories is of coming into our office in the morning (where he had been up and working for at least a couple of hours already). He would have fresh coffee and usually sticky buns ready..and he'd say..."Can I read you what I got this morning?" And he would read me whatever lyric he had written while I was still sleeping. We'd then talk about it and I would nit it for him and help him with any spelling issues. He used to joke that he only married me so he wouldn't have to open a dictionary again. LOL What a great way to start the day. Though I have to be up very early these days to go to work, I still see that sign in the kitchen that says Corky's Cafe...and it makes me smile. He did love his breakfasts!!! Anyone who ever came by Piney House knows...breakfast was "his" meal to share with guests.

Thanks for bringing back some very happy memories for me.

Hugs,
Bobbie

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Hey Bobbie,

That's the truth I made the mistake of having breakfast before I came to your house last year during Pineyfest. I just had to eat again when I got there, you and Corky cooked up a storm and it was too good to just look at. You two sure could treat folks good.

Bill

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Hi again, Bobbie,

I hate to be mundane, but I think before the music comes you may want to get your first verse (or two), more in meter with the verse(s) after the first chorus. Wonderful sentiment and lyric, though.

Bill

Howdy Anthony,

Sure appreciate the read and remarks even if this one isn't your cup of Darjeeling. I don't personally care for some of the songs that make it to the radio...so as long as it gets a high five from someone on the Row, I will be happy. A third verse would put this one out of the market lengthwise..and I am not sure it makes any difference if the girl in the second verse is the one asking the questions in V1. Enough folks seem to really like the word improvise that I'll probably keep that phrase in there. Country music today is embracing a more expansive vocabulary, so simplifying a word like improvise isn't as much of a concern as it might have been 10 years ago.

I explained the reasoning for the litany of questions in V1 above so won't repeat it here. Your thoughts and suggestions are always appreciated! Thanks so much.

Hugs,
Bobbie

Hi Bobbie,
This is well-written. I just don't know about starting the lyric with no set-up.

A child can't sing this, 'cause then s/he would have to also sing the mother's POV, and if an adult sings it, she'll start with sounding like a child..

I believe a short spoken intro would do the trick.

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Howdy Bill Lemonjuice!!

I am so glad you were able to be at Pineyfest this past summer. It was great to meet and to finally put a face with the screen name! Dawg and I loved having folks here for big Pineyhouse breakfasts. That is one of my fondest memories...all the great JPF folks gathered round the table in the dining room ...or in whatever other rooms they could find chairs...or on the big front porch. This house is so much like Dawg...nothin' fancy, just a big, welcoming spot to gather, find friends and a bit of peace. Dawg always said a good breakfast just gets the day started off right.

Thanks for taking a good look at this lyric. I am still working on this one...particularly on the first two verses. That second line bugs me but I am too close to it to find a totally different direction for that line. I think the meter is solid in v2. Any suggestions welcome!

Good to see you round here again. You have been missed.

Hugs,
Bobbie

Hi Bobbie,

Since you are still musing about verses one and two. . .

Why am I always the last one picked?
I wanna be like other kids are
Why can't I go to school?
Do we hafta live in this old car?

Why isn't daddy coming back?
Didn't he want to stay?
If he's with God in Heaven
Will he come back if I pray?

Will God send him home
If I pray. . . . .

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Hi Shayne,

I might have agreed that not having a setup for this was a potential problem had I not had the distinct pleasure of hearing a song by a new friend and songwriter I met at the JPF awards weekend...Melody Guy. She had just finished a song called Mistakes Like Me that she performed at the pre-awards showcase. The song is sung in first person though it is obvious that it is actually a male child saying the words. It is definitly NOT a problem because you just understand the situation immediately when you hear the words she is singing. I think anyone who sticks with this song till the chorus will catch on to the situation here. If a singer chooses to do a setup for this, that wouldn't be a problem either, however. Thank you so much for dropping by...and for the always helpful insights!

Hugs,
Bobbie

Howdy Tall One...

The daffodils are blooming in my front yard!! The sun actually shone yesterday and today. Life is good.

Thank you so very much for continuing to hang in here with me on this one! I am going to put those excellent ideas in my "possibles bag" and give things a bit more pondering. I "think" I want to keep V1 as all questions, but could be persuaded otherwise. I want to take my time on tweaking this to be sure it is as tight as possible.

Hugs,
Bobbie

Bobbie: YOu are so able to tackle some hard issues. But you do it with such heart and sensitivity. so nice to read and know it comes from your heart. God bless you. So glad to call you my friend....Paul

You are such a sweetie, Paul. Thank you so much for the kind words. I was so pleased that you were able to come to Pineyfest this past summer...and hope you will come back this year. We will have a date for you folks real soon.

Sure appreciate you taking time to check this one over.

Hugs,
Bobbie

I didn't read through all the replies, cause there's a mountain of them, but this is such a NEAT lyric, Bobbie. I like the way the first verse is "childlike" conversational. That's really clever writing. I also like the "love can improvise" hook.

The "only" nit I would have is that it is sorta close to Reba McIntyre's "What Do You Say (At a Moment Like This)", although this one has completely different topics.

You always write the ones that tug the heartstrings and you do it so well!!
Tink

Hiya Bobbie.

Beautiful lyric and sentiment. It's good to see someone willing to write about these emotional issues that involve love other than the romantic type.
Nicely done.
I see you have it fully waxed and now you just have to buff it up a little and awy to the composer to make you famous all over again......<g>
Bet ya can't guess where I learned <g> from.
Would have loved to have been to that breakfast and met You, Dawg, Bob, Willam and ol Lemonjuice himself........Maybe this year, I'll finally get to meet some of the folks.
In the meantiome you keep them coming from the heart like this.....It's nature's greatest gift to share.

Eric