Vince of Free From Gravity sent over a tune that touched me, and I wanted to share it with our MTM friends. It’s not just the tune, but the story behind it that really gets ya…

The story behind The Song
The Long Road
A very poignant song and one very close to me. It is the story about my mother’s battle with cancer. It came about during August 2010 when I went to visit her in Spain.
She had been taken to hospital with fluid on the lung (after having been diagnosed with cancer one month earlier and started chemo and gone through 2 courses by then).
When I got to the hospital, I went into the room where she was – there were two beds and I honestly thought I had the wrong room, I just didn’t recognise her. Then I saw her eyes (behind the mask she was forced to wear) and barely recognised my own mother whom I had seen not 3 weeks prior.
I was shocked to say the least – the first line sums it up – “I saw you lying there – it was such a shock, it was plain to see how much your world was rocked”
After I got home that week, I was playing around with a downward chord progression from D, D7th all the way back to D. This was something that kept sticking in my head. Eventually I decided it needed some words to it that summed up my mums experience in fighting the cancer (which I am glad to say she did very successfully). The result is the song as you now hear it.
There are 3 main parts to the song – verse – this is a somewhat melancholic overture to describe initially the shock of dealing with cancer.

Vince had originally asked me to check out and review the mix on this song, which is something I am always happy to do. You can read my thoughts on that, over at Small Barn Sound