"Hold Me" genre: Crooners/Vocals
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	Hold Me - Brian Lasser
	CD: Something That I Wanted You To Know   Label: TAGLine Music Credits: Tom Grounds
	Story Behind the Song This song was not originally planned for this album. But when I heard Karen Mason sing it for the first time, it just stuck with me. If you have not heard Karen’s version of this, you really need to – it is on her ‘Better Days’ album (a wonderful album, by the way). Well, we were looking for a song that would bridge the gap between realizing that being completely consumed by work is one thing, but at the expense of a personal life is another. When I worked to build a personal life – including a life with someone special, I really didn’t know how to do it. This song is the ‘Alright… a Night off… NOW WHAT?’ song. This song takes you to the desperate place where you know you something is missing, and you think you know what you need, but the things that you try just don’t work. One of the challenges with this song was how do you show that desperation without this turning into a lesson in self pity? The other pitfall in this song is that it is such a beautiful melody and wonderful music that you can fall into ‘singing a pretty song’. But the combination of the lyrics – and what is truly being said with the song adds the juxtaposition necessary to add the tension. I hope we got this one right.

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