Greetings all.

Again, thank you for your kind words and encouragement. As you all know, it's not always easy posting your work for everyone to hear.

Because folks have asked, here are just a few notes on how I created the track:

- I first hear the tune in my head and I sketch the idea into a rough piano track.
- I settle on chord structure and melody and then I begin to populate the individual parts, usually starting with a good piano line, bass and percussion to give me a "click track."
- I quantize sparingly.
- I add additional acoustic instruments (if applicable).
- After the piece is done, I mull it around for a while till a lyric theme develops and I stitch it together with my melody.
- I processed it using PG Music effects including: flanger, compression, reverb, and EQ.

Here are the lyrics:

Mama may I go down to the water, see the people wash their sins away?
Mama may I enter in the water, cleanse my soul and live for another day.
Make haste, and don't be late! Keep the fires from burning.
Hold fast, and don't look back! Keep your mind from yearning. Oh, oh, oh.
Mama may I sit next to the water, forget about the past and the pouring rain,
And live my life again?

Father may I look towards the heavens, watch the wonders fold up in the sky?
Father may I glance below the oceans, feel its mighty power that's in your design.
Make haste, and don't be late! Keep the flames from burning.
Hold fast, and don't look back! Keep your mind from yearning. Oh, oh, oh.
Father may I hold on to the future, forget about the past and the pouring rain,
And live my life again?

May I open my heart to my brother, be a friend and not a distant soul.
May I help with truth and understanding, let that be my constant eternal goal.
While I live my life again.

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