Life is funny. When you’re really young, it seems like it lasts forever (and it does). Then when you’re 20, you’re pretty old and feeling pretty good about it – big possibilities, and there’s lots of time.

Things happen, then more things.

You get caught up in all the things. One day you’re, say, 60. Twenty years ago you were 40 . . . getting on, and those first forty years went by like nothing. Add another twenty; it’s just another twenty. It doesn't take that long to get there.

More things happen and pretty soon you’re knock, knock, knockin’.
The world went by, but you were in it.

Now you finally take the time to notice,
and you watch the world go by.
And it does.

I wrote this song when I reflected back to when Jackie DeShannon was singing "What The World Needs Now is Love, Sweet Love" so many years ago. We believed that was the answer then, and I thought we would have it by now.

Still, we have lived through remarkable times. It’s 2017 and it certainly looks like there are more interesting times to come.

Credits:
There’s a lot going on in this song. I can’t believe I used up all my tracks! Vocals, synths, bells and tambourines, my Rickenbacker 12-string, and my Firebird through a Mel pedal. This song was coming along pretty well and for quite a while I thought it was done. Then I brought Jamie Philp in to add guitars. At first, it was mainly to add some substance to the middle section where I quoted JS Bach’s "Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring". It turned out to be much more than that, and Jamie filled things out a lot with his guitar playing, acoustic and electric, throughout the song. Another week or more went by as I reflected on what I had. That middle section was still bothering me. It seemed like it needed to be more than just a repeat of the JS Bach line.
I asked Jamie to come back and ‘try something’ with some warm distortion on electric guitar. He tried a few things. Then one of the takes was the special one. It’s the beautiful guitar work on the second half of the Jesu instrumental section. That’s now my favourite part.