Love Reigned

[Heard here http://www.mixcloud.com/nick-thomas2/sounds-from-the-cloudno-to-the-g-word-special1-aug-2013redruth-radio/ AND here on Feb 13, 2014: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/54428 ] As a novice of songwriting, I'm finding every composition involves some unique inception story, and this one's no exception. [Probably true, too, for veteran and masterful songwriters, but I only know it of my greenhorn experience.] I'd been thinking for a while I wanted to cover Neil Young's "After the Goldrush," a beautifully simple song I dearly love to harmonize with whenever I hear it. But I wanted some unique angle to covering it and determined it might work very nicely to a reggae rhythm. A text file where I kept Young's lyrics was where I'd also stowed a four-line start to a poem idea of mine. While I was scanning through "Goldrush" and fitting it to my reggae beat, I noticed my own stanza fit with the rhythm just as smoothly. So I got to work writing four additional verses with a couple of repeated chorus lines and a minor-key melody and, voila!, a wholly original, multi-track piece emerged that employs most all of my instrument arsenal plus some percussion loops. It's always said you need to "write what you know." Well, the story I share below takes a page directly from personal experience several years ago. LOVE REIGNED I had settled in the City of Angels, But a lucifer whisked me away To a Second City, so windy, no pity. Soon he left me one fall day. That was a time past passed through. Such a dark and a hard time on my way to you. All alone and on edge in Evanston, Edge of winter and of the Lake; As the nights grew longer, my hurt grew stronger. My heartbeat kept me awake. That was a time past passed through. Such a dark and a hard time on my way to you. Came a day in May at the waterside: The tears spilling down my face Turned from pain to joy on that rocky shore Within a flow of a glorious grace. That was a time past passed through. Such a right and a light time, I'm on my way to you. I felt love washing all around me Deep connection to every thing. To each grain of sand, to the family of man And every atom in between. That was a time past passed through. Such a right and a light time, I'm coming to you. I floated home to my carriage house With a great grin for all I greet That's returned in kind, and now forgiven behind Me is that devil in his defeat. That was a time past passed through. Such a right and a light time on my way to you. [On my way to you/ On my way to you / On my way to you I'm on my way to you / I'm coming to you / Coming to you]