What I Want Said



Behind The Song


I started out in 2011 to write a song that will reflect how I will love to be remembered when I die. In a sense, I set out to write my own obituary and also the epitaph. I left the song unfinished.

The events of the last two weeks set the mood and the emotional canvass upon which the song can be finished.

Three deaths in one week. First was my dad's. Second was a patient who prefers me to anyone else in attending to her venepuncture. Third was a man of God who has impacted me indirectly.

So the motivation is there and the morale is high enough to have a song written in honour of the departed souls and for the instruction of the living.

Wait a minute, have you ever put your thought to how you will love to be remembered after you are dead? I realized that this line of thoughts are held sacred in several minds and we do not want to talk about death, however it is part of life. It is inevitable. If we will put on the resurrection glory, we must endure the pain of death. By the way, it is easier for a disciple of Jesus Christ to embrace the philosophy "...to die is gain" because "for to me (a disciple) living means living for Christ..." I think those who lives in the constant fear of death are yet to make peace with their maker and needed to do so urgently. Jesus Christ is our PEACE.


The Lyrics

This is what I want said
this is what I want done
when all my time on earth is done
and I'm gone home
this is what I want said
if I'll have a tombstone
"He lived his life both for Love and in Love"

Not everyone will have a burial place
but I for one wants God for my space
when it's all done
and my time is gone
I want it said even now to my face

"He lives for Love"
"He lives in Love"
"Sometime so tough"
"but always, he loves"
"but always, he loves"


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