Are you alright? All of a sudden you went away. Are you alright? I hope you come back around someday. - Lucinda Williams

When you go, you let me know
If there's a Heaven out there.
When you leave me here to grieve
In pain and despair,
I've seen the face of hell.
I know that place pretty damn well.
But when you go, you'll let me know
If there's a Heaven out there.

My mother passed away in 2004, and then my dad 10 years later. That period in between, I wrote songs like “Death Came”, and then after my father passed away I wrote, “If There’s A Heaven” and “If My Love Could Kill”, which I wrote about the Alzheimer’s disease that killed my father. There’s a lot of dealing with loss, and heavy stuff, and life. It’s a lot different of an album than some of my earlier ones, like Essence, when I was still struggling with unrequited love as a younger girl.

He sleeps all alone on Second Street
With a roof over his head and food to eat.
But he can hardly make it day to day cause
Everything he wants is six blocks away, six blocks away.