Todd Wright - 40x40 - Song Archive
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Alien Love Song ( 10/28/09 )
Alien Love Song started as an "I'm gonna try to write a hit" moment. I thought if I was going to write an obvious love song I should make it about something unique. That way I could have a hearty laugh when Faith Hill recorded it and had no idea it was really about an astronaut falling in love with an interplanetary space beast.
Some time later my friend Yvonne was in the last weekend of a brave fight with cancer and I was called to the hospital to come say goodbye. Her family asked if I would sing to her. They borrowed a guitar from a very sweet woman who routinely came around and sang to the terminally ill patients. I didn't know what to sing. I had never written anything that even remotely touched on this kind of farewell.
I played Alien Love Song and in that moment the song, for me, was changed forever.
I avoided recording it for a good long while. With the help of some amazing friends: Matt McGinn (co-produced), Rico Allen (drums) Mark Williams (guitar) and Micah Wilshire (mixed) I have finally put it out there. I could not be happier with the result.
This song is, always was and always will be for Yvonne Haga...and a special tip of the hat to Will Foreman as well
Faith Hill never did record it by the way. Oh well, it's mine now...
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