February Rain
Lyrics of a Lonely Traveler
One afternoon in February, I was sitting in the parking lot of a local grocery store in the pouring rain. It was freezing outside, and I noticed a man walking down the road in a T-shirt smoking a cigarette as if it were the middle of July. Why would a guy walk in the freezing February rain in a T-shirt? That was the question that birthed February Rain. My mind created a story, and I started with the idea right there in the grocery store parking lot. As soon as I got home, I started putting the words to paper. Within a few minutes, I had written the title song for the book.
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Over the next couple days I kept turning the song — and the man — over and over in my mind. More songs came. I began to envision him walking away from something and began to craft a story of heartache, divorce, pain, and a pilgrimage to regain something. I saw him alone in a hotel room with just his guitar, pen, and paper writing his own story as he went.
In February Rain, he is trying to remember where he began with his wife and trying to figure out how to get back there. However, there’s a good chance that no one will be there if he does get to wherever he’s going. He’s walking a literal journey as he walks a pilgrimage toward fixing his life.
I never give either of them a name because, in a sense, he could be a lot of people. This is the lyrical story of losing everything and then wondering where you went wrong and what to do now. Can you get your life back after you’ve lost it?
This is a lot of people’s story. You don’t have to walk the footsteps yourself to get there, you just have to have lost something. We’ve all felt the emotional ups and downs of heartbreak, loss, despair, hope, and change. You may even find yourself in this lyrical journey.
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