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My mother-in-law Frances passed away in December 2019, leaving a huge emptiness in our lives. I wrote this in honor of her. The production took a surprisingly Celtic turn. I'll note that Bob Dylan listed the MacPeakes (famous for Wild Mountain Thyme, or at least that's what the Byrds called it on their second album) from Belfast as his second biggest musical influence (after Woody Guthrie). I'm sure we are very distantly related.

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The Deeper the Love (January 2020)

We pray for the sun but we need the rain
The price of our pleasure we pay with our pain
I’ll take the risk, I’m in all the way
Till the toll of the bell at the end of the day

The lessons of loss, so heavy they lay
When we bear the cost of living each day
We’re whittled away to wounds burned and raw
Till we’re blown in the wind and our bones turn to straw

The deeper the love, the darker the sorrow
The shadows that fall when the sun sets
Count your blessings, not your tomorrows
We borrow each moment of love that we get

Grief freezes time and we’re lost in the now
Between frozen moments of wondering how
To return to the cycle, back to the flow
It’s our turn to be here till it’s our time to go

The deeper the love, the darker the sorrow
The shadows that fall when the sun sets
Count your blessings, not your tomorrows
We borrow each moment of love that we get
Light leaves a shadow, joy leads to sorrow
We borrow each moment of love

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from Mixing Metaphors, track released March 1, 2022
I played and sang everything on this track.

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Bob McPeek Gainesville, Florida

The founder of Mirror Image Studios in Gainesville, Florida, Bob McPeek has produced, engineered, and/or played on at least 10,000 songs for artists as diverse as Bo Diddley, River Phoenix, and Less Than Jake.

Mixing Metaphors is his first solo album of original material, showcasing the considerable songwriting, performing, and producing skills applied for his own material at long last.
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