It’s amazing how the songs take new life.

I wrote this lyric back in 2000 sitting at my desk at a Fortune 500 company that I was working for in Florida. I sent the lyric to my good friend, Barry Drudge, and asked him if he thought he might be able to set the lyric to music.

A few months later, I got a cassette in the mail from him and was so excited to hear this little prayer from my private thoughts in another form. Another year later, his family moved to Nashville, as did I and it gave Barry and I the opportunity to create together.

We went into the studio and recorded two really special demos. This is one of them.

I ended up finally recording this song, “Tell Me That I Can”, for my 2006 album “The Muse”. The song asked for a different arrangement when we did the album, but this version has always been my favorite.

This song has been with me through so many transitions. Most recently, it came back to me again as I walk through the death and rebirth experience. While I’ve physically been dealing with things, the real work of this experience is truly the emotional and spiritual ends: finding the courage to let the old things burn away…to believe that I really can have the heart desires that I’ve tucked away for so long…to realize once and for all, that the person I’m talking to in this song is me…no one outside of myself…

I hear myself sing that last line…and realized that I was having my own epiphany each time I sang it….”Oh!!! I can…..”

I made this available for free download on Bandcamp yesterday…my gratitude for all of the love that my friends and supporters have shown my work in the past week in particular. I’m so, so thankful.