Written and Recorded in 1991
Ideas I combined for making this instrumental stuff mostly came from an arrangement I made for solo piano to play You Don’t Miss Your Water Till Your Well Runs Dry, live on stage a couple of years earlier. The song was written by William Bell and I first heard it in an album by Taj Mahal. While I used the chord progression of the arrangement as the key structure of this tune, I also have to admit that inspiration for the main melody owes to the Closing theme featured at the end of Reunion in Central Park album by the (Original) Blues Project.
I was (and am) not satisfied with the way this tune is finally delivered – I think the tune is bit too long and I could have played solos on the guitars to make it better – but I remember the tune represented a special emotion I had at that time; to finish off my life as a student. I thought the tune would fit the funeral ceremony to bury myself as a student but if I could see my younger self, all I would like to tell him is ‘life goes on.’
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