Good Night America... a lullaby(e) by Steve Dore

It's a just plain fun to perform. I remember well singing the chorus (which came first) in our front living room at the top of my lungs and getting chills. I knew this was a good song. It sat with me a couple months before the verses came. Couldn't be happier it hits an uplifting chord with you. I love that feeling. :-) Thanks LL!

reaches beyond me and comes back to sooth me in fact as the little part of America that I am. It's easy to wander into the darkness and wonder how the heck to get home again with no compass or light (or cell phone - lol). Your second paragraph is well stated indeed.

The song is sad, but one way or another we will unite in the morning for what we believe in and prevail. What is left over when we are done probably will look a lot different than now, but this is a good thing. :-)

I'm some moved by your words. And honored. I think it's only because there's a piano in there yanking at you around! :-) You fall for a piano line like I do. I wish you were a player that could take on some bass playing on the road my friend. I am putting out a request here and on my website and all over for a band of virtual players that can just appear at the next festival/rally wherever it is and put on a powerful show. I'm thinking there's gonna be freedom/liberty rallies all around the country and I want to play all of them I can...

Thanks for this wonderful support. I have substantially, "made it" in this life with the quality of just the one new friendship I have found with you.

I'll use this mistake post to bleat out my wishes for the virtual band.

Bass players, drummers for liberty music, please stop by http://stevedoresongs.com and write or call me. Let's talk! This could be a whole lot of fun for us and very rewarding.

This most definitely works for me! :-) Thanks very much for this.. the most enthusiastic comment I can remember getting on a song!

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I believe this message is about the obvious losses that have already taken place. There is hope in the song.
If you don't believe that these losses have already taken place and that there is already enough reason for grief, then, nobody will be able to reason with you. Plenty of veterans and civilians who have lost loved ones will understand--

perhaps that is the point; if you have not experienced loss, then you wouldn't understand. Those who have experienced loss, will understand.

I apologize if you have experienced loss. But it certainly doesn't seem that, if you have, you are acknowledging it.

*I* remember a time when America was a good place to live, and I have seen much of that pass away, and I feel sorrow about that.

If you are young and cannot remember that, then perhaps that is why you post as you do. If you are older and have not seen that, then--

you will see it yet.

Fine, you don't like it, but did you have to say... pathetic? I spent a good 6 hours researching this subject and a then 30 hours recording it and wrestling with how to present it with a message of hope. You can't just have all the good stuff! I don't think you really got the song at all. Or you refuse to. But that's what makes a life interesting is peoples opinions and views. Thanks for taking the time to post at all. Your tone seems to balance out the "negativity" of my message, so between us, we have a positive...

Cheers back at you! :-)

Hope to see you soon somewhere or other on the way to a rally or something. :-) What are you driving these days? Have you cut down on your gas consumption? Lol.

You couldn't have said it better. It is heartbreaking.

Sometimes it is necessary to feel the sadness. Not to resist it or be stoic, just feel it, be with and accept it. That is the only way to clear it.

And once you clear it - create a clearing - there is peace and and clarity about what to do next.

Once there is a clearing, you are free to act - not react.

Thanks strangerr, and thank you Steve Dore. I know this song is going to be in my head for the rest of the day.