Week 9 - Not A Dream (Coming Home Song)
What? Monday already? I can’t believe it. The songwriter’s family is surviving summer so far. Of course, it’s only been about 4 days. I have a plan to take the kids to every VBS in town and we’re thinking about taking some sort of family vacation so that ought to make it go a little faster. And did I mention it’s hot? It’s starting to feel like it usually does about this time of year, but I never really get used to it.
While I was getting my hair cut the other day, this couple came into the salon and everyone dropped what they were doing and ran over to see them. Apparently, it was the daughter and son-in-law of one of the stylists and they had come by to see her. She was telling everyone that her son-in-law had just returned home from Iraq the day before. Everyone was so happy to see them. The man was holding his son who looked to be about 9 or 10 months old and I heard him say he had been gone about 5 months so I imagine he was excited to see his growing boy. And, of course, the whole scene reminded me of one of my husband’s songs. It’s called Not A Dream, but I’ve always referred to it as the Coming Home Song and it has a really neat story behind it…which I will tell later this week after you’ve had a chance to listen to it a couple of times.
Not A Dream
I really like this! Will be coming back to listen to it again. Am interested in hearing the story behind it!
Great song…can’t wait to hear the story behind it. I listened to it, then listened again. The 2nd time around, I noticed the piano in there and towards the end of the song, I noticed the bass!!
Very sweet.
The chorus is my favorite, music/melody/harmony-wise. 
I found your website through a link and have been listening to some of the songs. This one is one of my favorites. Great theme to the whole song and good music. By the way, I think all of the songs are enhanced when he adds simple harmonies. But I’m a harmony kind of gal, so that may just be me.