SEE THE LIGHT is the newest song on the album SHOT OF BLUE. It’s about a man who is lost and wandering, and a woman who loves him says,

“If you see the light, come home.

If you see the light, come home to me.”

Home has deep meanings for me. I never really had one until I was in my 30s. My dad was in the Marine Corps, and we moved every two years. I was born on a military base in North Carolina but only lived there for a year. By the time I was seventeen, I’d lived in three different states, seven cities, and one foreign country.

You don’t really think about it as a kid. You just pack up, leave whatever friends you had, and start all over again. You don’t know any different, so it seems normal. The first time I noticed something odd was when I was twelve, and we were moving back east from California. I remember looking out the back window of the car and seeing my best friend standing in our front yard waving goodbye.

I never saw him again.

I used to have dreams about wandering through strange neighborhoods at night, trying to find some recognizable landmark that would help me find my way home. My wife, Jane, came from a small town in Vermont. I’ll never forget my first visit there with her. Everyone knew her; she knew every street, every store and every house where all her friends still lived.

I couldn’t comprehend it. It was nothing I’d ever experienced. It was like being in a Frank Capra movie.

“If you see the light,” she said, “Come home.

If you see the light, come home.

Come home to me.”

You can get the song on Bandcamp here.