![]() ![]() She told me about the hopes she had for her daughter, and about how she wanted this song to express her everlasting love for her. She was in the process of preparing a collection of things to give her 21-year-old daughter - to whom she’d been a single mom for 21 years - before she died, including this song that I would write for her. When we spoke, she told me she believed she had only a few months more to live, as she’d reached the end of her treatment options for Stage IV lung cancer. I spoke on the phone with her once, when a mutual friend set up an appointment for us to talk. I never met the woman for whom this song was written. Having weathered so many storms together, and having lost it all and rebuilt from wreckage their places in the world and in each other’s lives, Marianne just wanted to let Mike know how much she loves him. That love was tested and held steady when, years later at the end of a year-long breakup, they took shelter together for 3 weeks without electricity when his house was destroyed in hurricane Ike. She thinks she loved him the first time she saw him. ![]() ![]() Later that night they stood next to each other during the concert, bumped heads while they were talking, and spilled their beers. Marianne met Mike when he came through the line where she was serving up BBQ at a post-hurricane Alicia benefit concert in Houston, Texas. ![]()
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