THE STORY BEHIND THE MUSIC -
MORNING SONG
written by Robin Lerner &
Tommy Lee James, critically
acclaimed songwriting team
from America (SHE'S MY KIND OF
RAIN performed by Tim McGraw)
with tracks by the illustrious
Stephan Oberhoff.

When we began the search for
new music for this project, I
was honoured when Robin
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THE STORY BEHIND THE MUSIC -
MORNING SONG
written by Robin Lerner &
Tommy Lee James, critically
acclaimed songwriting team
from America (SHE'S MY KIND OF
RAIN performed by Tim McGraw)
with tracks by the illustrious
Stephan Oberhoff.

When we began the search for
new music for this project, I
was honoured when Robin
presented me with songs for
consideration.

Though I have this up on my
MYSPACE page music player, at
this time we haven't done a
video for it as it is just a
demo, but we wanted to put it
up on YouTube so we did it as
a video slideshow.

Because photography is a hobby
of mine, to reflect my
memories and interpretation of
the song, we decided to make
the video from photographs
that I have taken and a few
others, done as a backdrop to
the vocal.

From the first time I heard
MORNING SONG, there was
something about it that got to
me right away.

I wanted to know if there was
a story behind the writing of
the lyrics, so we asked Robin.


Robin told us that when Tommy
gave her the music to write
the lyrics to, it was around
the time that the American
girl Natalee Holloway had
disappeared in May of 2005 on
a graduation trip to Aruba.
She said, 'It was all over the
news. As a mother of a
daughter, the words just came
from my heart, one mother
relating to another mother on
the most unconscionable, most
horrible of loss, losing your
child. A loss that is never
meant to happen. The
unimaginable emptiness of a
parent losing a child, and how
do you go on.'

Even though the haunting and
beautiful tune and lyrics of
MORNING SONG affected me on an
emotional level, when I
learned that the inspiration
behind the lyric had been the
missing girl in Aruba and
particularly Robin writing the
lyrics from the mother's
perspective, I related to the
situation on a different
personal level.

Having myself lost a sister to
a rare illness, all be it when
I was still an infant, I have
been acutely aware of the life
changing effect this kind of
loss has on a family and that
the law of nature perhaps
dictates that the loss is most
profound for the mother.

Currently there is a very raw
reminder of the story behind
MORNING SONG with the ordeal
being experienced by the
parents of Madeleine McCann, a
three year old British girl
that went missing in May of
2007, while on vacation with
her parents in Portugal.

Sadly, too many parents and
family members have to face
this kind of loss with
children that go missing and
are never found, and so many
children lost to illness,
every year.

Thanks to all of you not only
for your wonderful support of
my music, but for the
heartfelt comments and
responses that you have all
been sharing with us, that
have touched and honoured us
all.

peace and love to you all,
David

Category Music

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