Words and Music by Eg

I wrote this song the day my mother died (11/23/08).  While this 
was a very painful time for me, it was also infused with spirit and 
with love.  I was able to hold her hand and say goodbye to her as she departed.  The night before my sister and I took her off life support, I spent the night in her condo on Marathon Key (she was in the hospital 
in Miami).  I could not sleep so I sat vigil in her chair overlooking the Atlantic and connected to her.  While I was sitting there, I picked up her 24 Hours a Day book of meditations (She was two years sober).  A prayer she had written fell out of her book on to my lap.  It was her 3rd Step Prayer.  I was able to take this prayer and read it to her in the moments before she died.  I loved that she and God conspired to use me for that purpose—to get her own words to her to send her to be with her God.  So, while it was painful losing her, I just could not see the process and anything other than her “going home.”  It was beautiful.

When we finished up recording the music at County Q and as I listened to it over the next month preparing to record the vocals, I came to like this song the least of all that we had recorded.  I was even considering not including it on the album.  When we did get to Danny’s to record and it came time to record this song, I asked Lisa to try to sing it (I had planned on doing the vocals).  She nailed it in one take and it was so much better with her singing it.  She really gets the spirit of the song and, to me, the ending of the song is just like the last few minutes of my mother’s life—hauntingly beautiful.