Hey, it’s new music Monday! Thanks for coming back. First, here’s a little bit of history on last week’s song. While on a trip to Nashville, my husband was staying at the Day’s Inn on Broadway Street when he saw a documentary on PBS about sharecroppers. Lying there on that hard mattress in his underwear, he got the inspiration for the whole song. Somewhere, scrawled on a Day’s Inn notepad is the basic outline for it. If I can find it, I’ll post a picture. It ended up being one of those songs that he says almost “wrote itself.” (My husband would like to add that unless you’re on a really tight budget, don’t stay at the Day’s Inn on Broadway!)

And now for this week’s experiment. The title for this song is Say The Word. It’s a bit heavy, but I wanted you to hear one that wasn’t so country. Like many of my husband’s songs, it has a Nashville version that has a lot of bells and whistles but I like the simple version that I heard first. I hope you will, too.

Be sure to comment. We’re reading them all!

Say The Word

A busy airport on a Sunday afternoon
I went to see her off – the least that I could do
‘Cause there were dreams I had and fortunes to be made
And her love was in my way

As I watched her slowly walk toward the gate
Somethin’ deep inside woke up and called her name
She turned her hopeful eyes and through the tears that bled
This is what she said…

CHORUS:
Say the word and I would give to you my life
Say the word and I am your’s until the day you die
But I just stood there while my pride got in the way
And I still regret today the words I didn’t say

I heard someone in Denver made her smile again
And now she’s got his name and kids that look like him
And I got my fortune – more than I could ever need
But Denver’s got my dreams

REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE:
All the choices I have made
All that could have been
A thousand dreams have haunted me
I try to speak, but she just says again…

REPEAT CHORUS