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DREAMS ON A RAINBOW (BEHIND THE SONG) When a young couple starts out in their relationship they have no idea where they are going , they talk about forever as if such a thing really existed for them. They never think in terms of , ‘well we’ve got 80 or 90 years which is more…
LOCKED AWAY IS THE ANSWER (Behind the song) Mankind is responsible for so many horrible abuses. But how can that be when humans are generally compassionate, loving, unselfish etc How can the abuses take place in the midst of such positive tendencies ? As the song acknowledges ,” justice torn in two, INNOCENCE BROKEN…
Lover, where am I now (Behind the song) One of the hardest thing to adjust to is a loss , especially if the loss is another human being! When what was a wonderful beginning turns out to be a broken and sad ending. A relationship gone bad of which helplessness is the frustrating inability to…
Lovers of Bread (Behind the song) The decade of the 1970 s left us with some beautiful and unforgettable music but also left us with the beginnings of some horrible crimes. A child murdered in the schoolyard only to be increased many times over with massive school shootings carried out to this day in…
ONLY THE DESIRES AND TOYS CHANGE Only the desires and toys change (Behind the song) As we become adults we still have desires and toys, but they obviously change. The principles in life remain the same if we are to have any success. For instance we may have a big 4×4 truck instead of a…
Ribbons in your hair (Behind the song) Most people have had a brush with betrayal and a lack of fidelity. How sad is such an endurance that seems like it will never end. It is especially hurting when one had toiled with so much effort to make things work. It seems to be a sad…
STARLIGHT (Behind the song) Courtship has been a generator of some of the greatest love songs. Songs spun from those new and special emotions leave us remembering what was and sometimes what we try to regain if we lost it in the dark holes of life. In those dark holes we sometimes remark, “Did…
Surely it has to be (Behind the song) Are things really that bad as portrayed in the song? Some are happy with the life they live, and really one should always try to have a positive attitude because negativity destroys the human organism. But one can have a positive view and simultaneously see the reality…
THE FEELING TO BE FREE US ABOUT TO LEAVE ME (Behind the song) The trip from Sacramento, California to San Juan , Puerto Rico was a long one. First by car to Miami , Florida and then Fly to San Jaun. At first there seems be nothing lacking freedom on a trip like this that…
THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD Through the eyes of a child (Behind the song) Blacksburg, Virginia , Newtown, Connecticut ,Uvalde, Texas , Parkland, Florida Austin, Texas, Greencastle, Pennsylvania , Santa Fe, TexasRed Lake, Minnesota Roseburg, Oregon ,Isla Vista, California, Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania , Oakland, California Fullerton, California , Nashville, Tennessee , Stockton, California, DeKalb, Illinois Rancho Tehama, California , Charleston, West Virginia, Craighead County, Arkansas Mesa, Arizona, Marysville, Washington, Oxford, Michigan, Winder, Georgia, Las Vegas, Nevada…
UPSIDE DOWN (Behind the song) Have you ever been upside down. You are definitely out of your comfort zone. Once MR Spock of the original Star Trek series was upside down which was totally out of his non- emotional character. All to do with some flower spewing infections that changed the goals and emotions of…
Where’s his country (Behind the song) Pieces of land have been scraped together and held onto possessively and eventually become a country. And now we have planet earth all divided up into separate nations who hold on tightly to their bordered earthly spot and sometimes try to acquire or claim other spots belong to them….