May Your Heart Live Forever

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Commentary: May Your Heart Live Forever

A much older friend lost his wife after her prolonged illness. I’d only know them a few years, and so never had seen them in their youth. On display at her funeral was a photo of her – young and pretty, yet with the same tight, confident smile I’d grown to love.

…and the tragedy of it all moved me deeply: To spend perhaps forty years loving and cherishing someone – and then to have them torn from you by the irresistible hand of death! - Leaving you alone and empty.

I pondered this, tearfully, on one of my long trips to Salt Lake City in production of my movie “Bloodstones” – and wrote the gist of this song while driving. It’s rare for me, in that it was written without a guitar in hand – which is my usual approach.

This one’s for the woman in question – Betty. Sometimes good things can come from the most tragic situations.


- Alan Kim Cochran