"Deep In My Bones" genre: Adult Contemporary
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	A great ballad about loss. Moving, but not sad; a deep exploration of the feeling of loss set to evocative acoustic guitar.
	CD: Tom's Cafe   Label: 2002 Sidewalking Crab Records available on CDBaby.com and www.jamescurley.net Credits: see www.jamesfcurley.com for full credits
	Story Behind the Song This song about loss masqerades behind imagery from romantic relationships, but is really about the death of my father. "Brush of a passing kiss shakes me to the bone" was the central image out of which I wrote the song. When my father died, I was struck one day by a vivid sensual memory of him picking me up as a child in my crib to kiss me good night and his 5 O'clock shadow of a beard brushing on my baby skin, causing me to shiver. The sense of loss for me was so profound from this remembrance that I wrote the song "all at once" and have only edited the lyrics once for grammar and metric fit just before recording it. Lyrics Deep In My Bones These past few days; my thoughts of you Secret and sweet; joyous and blue We're still good friends; love followed through Deep in my bones; I still need you Pale is the moon like a bedroom light The image stays when my eyes are shut tight You fill my thoughts; the moon fills the sky These past few days, tears cloud my eyes I remember this Brush of a passing kiss Shakes me to the bone Silence heard aloud Detachment disavowed I recall it all when I'm alone These past few days; I seek my smile Hidden beneath a forced denial That you're really gone; I must believe Deep in my bones, you'd never leave Deep in my bones, you'd never leave ©2002 James F. Curley

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