I was able to enlist my guru friend of many years, Neale Eckstein to record this version below. (lyrics at bottom of post) It a spin of the incredible Maya Anglou’s recounting of her Grandmother’s advice. People will forget how you treated them, but they never forger how you made them feel. Thanks to Neale and to everyone who helped during the birthing process. See you Thursday. I may sing it several times. Thanks to RainSong guitars for making an instrument that’s in tune all the way up the neck.

Lyrics

If it’s got to rain on something,

must it be my parade

when the sun can shine on a junkyard

and make you feel like the whole world

has been saved.

Now a heart can get caught out the open

like a little brown mole

wincing in the broad daylight.

Just let me go, crawl back in my hole,

and everything will be alright

eventually everything will be alright.

They’ll tell you life is for the living,

that it’s always been part of the deal,

you won’t remember the lonely details,

you’ll never forget the way it made you feel.

Irony is lost on the present.

In the past, it’s almost always missed.

The future may laugh on my behalf

but how much longer must I feel like this.

They’ll tell you life is for the living,

that it’s always been part of the deal,

you won’t remember the lonely details,

you’ll never forget the way it made you feel.

They’ll tell you love gives up on no one,

that it’s always been part of the deal.

One day you know to crawl out of that hole

and remember just how good love can feel.

You’ll know that love gives up on on one,

that’s the other part of the deal.

One day I’ll tell all my friends,

I will rise up again.

Once I remember just how good love can feel.

words and music by Greg Greenway, ©2024 Sheen of Heat Music, BMI