Thank You,Caitlin

A year ago, if you had told me that my first solo record was about to be mastered and prepared for worldwide distribution, I would have asked you to pick me up an extra tube of the same glue you were sniffing. If you would have then told me that,not only would the record be supported by the likes of Terry Anderson(who wrote one of my favorite songs,"Battleship Chains" as well as :"I Love You Period")and Rick Richards(who sang "Battleship Chains"and charted with it,plays with Izzy Stradlin and The Ju Ju Hounds)but that also Caitlin Cary(Whiskeytown/Ryan Adams/Tres Chicas) would play violin and sing a duet with me on it-I probably would have spoken very calmly to you and gently escorted you to the nearest involuntary psychiatric admission.
But life is very,very strange.
Yesterday, I was having a rough day when I received an e-mail from...Caitlin Cary...THANKING ME for "INCLUDING HER" in this record. I was completley sober at the time so i am sure that this was not a delusion.
Ladies and Gentlemen, when you hear the track that she sang and played on you will only wish that, instead of it having been a duet,she would have sang the entire song by herself. She has a beautiful heartbreaking voice and her violin is an extension of that beautiful,painful voice.I wrote the song and have heard it replayed now without her on it probably 300 times. But as soon as she made her appearance, that song was changed forever.
What's more-it's probably the song that was the most painful for me to write as well as the song of which I was most proud when I wrote it, yet was least sure of including on the record-until Caitlin blessed the song with her gifts.
The song is called "Kill A Love" and here are the lyrics:

If you kill a love
It don't die fast
It shakes and it shudders
'fore it breathes it's last

If you kill a love
You'll hurt the most
You'll find yourself haunted
By Love's lonely ghost

Now son, are you listening to me?
You kill a love you will never be free
Now son, better hear what I say
You kill a love
You won't walk away.

If you kill a love
Be ashamed of yourself
Don't look in the mirror
Or up on the shelf
Cuz if you kill a love
And you get up the nerve
You'll find in the long run
You'll get what you deserve

Now son, are you listening to me?
You kill a love you will never get free
Now boy, better hear what I say
You kill a love
You can never walk away
Now son, are you listening to me
You kill that love you will never get free
Now boy, better hear what I say,
Don't you kill that love.
["Kill A Love" Monty Warren/Son Of A Pup Music c 2008]

Thank you again,Caitlin, for making a dream come true.