MP3 LyricsThe winds of change had blown me to Buenos Aíres, where I was living with a Christian couple from Switzerland that I had briefly met a year before near Appenzell in SwItzerland. Mary was a really good musician, and together with her and an American fellow named Tom Walk we formed the trio "Elixir" there & played the clubs and on high society parties is Buenos Aíres.
There in our little house in the suburb of Acassusso I wrote this love song to the Lord...
After Fuengirola I traveled up to Southern Germany & Switzerland where I wrote this song. I still remember one of the first times I tried it out on a street in Munich or so... only to find out that busking on the streets wasn't really my thing...
A pretty simple song, but freedom still remains one of my favorite themes. As I often joke these days, "If freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, then the free people must be living elsewhere." The cool thing is, Jesus can really set you free!
The oldest song that's available in a half-way decent recording on one of my mostly homegrown productions is this tune based on a lick in a G-Tuning (both E bass and A strings to G) I was shown by the piano player of the first band I ever played in at the age of 13. I was by far the youngest member of the band, and the front man was twice my age. In 1980, at the age of 17 I was traveling through Spain with an American fellow musician and his wife, and working on a melody to accompany that lick, and some lyrics to it. At first I tried to interpret it as a love song for a girl (I was badly in love with a girl named Shalom at that time), but later realized that no one fit that perfect description, except Jesus, or God Himself, so I added the last verse to make it clear that this was a love song dedicated to the living God.
