right down the line

You know I need your love
You got that hold over me
Long as I’ve got your love
You know that I’ll never leave


When I wanted you to share my life
I had no doubt in my mind
And it’s been you, woman
Right down the line


I know how much I lean on you
Only you can see
The changes that I’ve been through
Have left a mark on me


You’ve been as constant as a Northern star
The brightest light that shines
It’s been you, woman
Right down the line


I just wanna say this is my way
Of tellin’ you everything
I could never say before

it is the inspiration for a scene in a novel

Yeah, this is my way of tellin’ you
That every day I’m loving you
So much more


‘Cause you believed in me
Through my darkest night
Put somethin’ better inside of me
You brought me into the light


I threw away all those crazy dreams
I put them all behind
And it was you, woman
Right down the line


 I just wanna say this is my way
Of tellin’ you everything
I could never say before
Yeah, this is my way of tellin’ you
That every day I’m loving you
So much more


If I should doubt myself
If I’m losing ground
I won’t turn to someone else
They’d only let me down


When I wanted you to share my life
I had no doubt in my mind
And it’s been you, woman
Right down the line

Gerry Rafferty

City to City

1978

Many key parts in my writing stem from music or visuals – photographs, nature, anything that I see and immediately sparks the imagination.
This song opens up a story I didn’t know about one of my favorite characters in A Tale to Tell. I think of him when I first hear the song, then I journey to places that touch me to the point of tears, and I am always amazed at how much sentimiento — it is not sentiment, it is something else, deeper and palpable and moving — and power we have inside. It’s not just me. Hmm, the impetus for writing A Tale to Tell.
The novel continues to hover about me, yet I am at a standstill.