A few words on Promise

It is here! (If you pre-ordered a copy, it is there).
Promise will be available on CDBaby early next week.

Even Tobi, the consummate agnostic, has expressed an interest in what the songs on the new CD have to do with the bible and my religious upbringing. (I think that's a good sign. The connection is meant to be subtle and obvious all at once :)

So, over the next few weeks, I'll post the inspirations behind the tunes and you can let me know what you think.

PROMISE

The title track is actually the third track on the album, but who listens to albums anymore, right? Promise is also the inspiration for the cover of the album.
I've always been a sucker for rainbows. (Sometime when I was in high school, my hyper religious mother pointed out that I wasn't allowed to like them any more because of, well, other affilitations :)

Anyway, I like 'em 'cause they're beautiful.
Also kind of appreciated that the "bow" was set in the sky at the end of the story of Noah and the Ark as a promise that there would be no further destruction of all life on earth by means of a flood. It seems a very interesting omission to me that the book says nothing about other means of mass destruction... 
Not what the song is about. 

The song is about promise. Hope, despite the storm.
"Where there is pain, let love rain down. When the sun is shining (for you), spread it all around.
Love is a seed. Cast it far and wide. In all hearts there is fertile ground."

So the lyrics are dripping (sorry :) with references to the ark story, but the song is about individual and collective struggle.

Perhaps Blues Traveller said it best, "Every struggle could have paradise behind it."