There is lot of emotion attached to this song. The whole idea of separation between loved ones is one of my favorite topics, perhaps because I live and breathe it being away from my kids and my wife quite a bit while touring. You miss them so much, and it’s like you live two separate lives. When you’re a soldier and you’re away, it’s very difficult to bridge those two worlds. The song is inspired by a soldier writing a letter to his daughter who he misses very much, and her writing a letter back to him. He was laughing that what was really cute to him was that they were saying the same thing in the letter and using the same terminology. Those kind of coincidences really get to me. Because it was a father-daughter relationship, I asked my daughter Emily, she’s 10, to sing with me. That was really fun, I’d never done that with one of my kids before. It’s one of the toughest songs to sing for me on the record, it’s in a low key, but she did a good job with it. As per Geoff Tate on www.queensryche.com
There is lot of emotion attached to this song. The whole idea of separation between loved ones is one of my favorite topics, perhaps because I live and breathe it being away from my kids and my wife quite a bit while touring. You miss them so much, and it’s like you live two separate lives. When you’re a soldier and you’re away, it’s very difficult to bridge those two worlds. The song is inspired by a soldier writing a letter to his daughter who he misses very much, and her writing a letter back to him. He was laughing that what was really cute to him was that they were saying the same thing in the letter and using the same terminology. Those kind of coincidences really get to me. Because it was a father-daughter relationship, I asked my daughter Emily, she’s 10, to sing with me. That was really fun, I’d never done that with one of my kids before. It’s one of the toughest songs to sing for me on the record, it’s in a low key, but she did a good job with it. As per Geoff Tate on www.queensryche.com