I ran across The Promise when I first started sorting through old tapes looking for songs
to include on the website about a year ago. I had totally forgotten about it & was surprised that I didn't think it was good enough to work on further when I wrote it. So many ideas seem good at the time,but don't hold up later. I didn't find the original lyric
sheet for another 6 months,so I wasn't sure when it was written. Here it is below,from 1989, at 1:30 a.m.! I didn't usually note the time,so I must have had a fit of inspiration
and wrote & recorded it in one sitting. It follows a theme I'm finding in a lot of my songs,
confronting my own mortality,how fleeting life & time is,& my hope to not waste it & to
be able to accomplish my goals before my time on this earth is up.I was 29 then,& now,
27 years later,it says exactly what I'm thinking now. There is promise in the future if you
strive for your potential now. There IS still hope,as long as you have dreams.Thank you
for joining me in mine,I wish you the best in yours.
to include on the website about a year ago. I had totally forgotten about it & was surprised that I didn't think it was good enough to work on further when I wrote it. So many ideas seem good at the time,but don't hold up later. I didn't find the original lyric
sheet for another 6 months,so I wasn't sure when it was written. Here it is below,from 1989, at 1:30 a.m.! I didn't usually note the time,so I must have had a fit of inspiration
and wrote & recorded it in one sitting. It follows a theme I'm finding in a lot of my songs,
confronting my own mortality,how fleeting life & time is,& my hope to not waste it & to
be able to accomplish my goals before my time on this earth is up.I was 29 then,& now,
27 years later,it says exactly what I'm thinking now. There is promise in the future if you
strive for your potential now. There IS still hope,as long as you have dreams.Thank you
for joining me in mine,I wish you the best in yours.
The Promise will be featured on Archive VII which I expect to release here in 2018.