2. Down Where the River Meets the Road (2:59) Words & Music by Steve Gillette & Barry Hyman

This is the most recently written song on the album. It's a sweet remembrance of young love and a special place where the couple would escape the cares of the world. It's co-written with Barry Hyman. Barry is the youngest son of Shirley Jackson, author of "The Lottery," "The Haunting of Hill House" and other classic tales.

The cool of the forest on a hot summer day, and the old abandoned road leading down off the bluff to the river. That sweet hidden place where we could escape from the world and delight in the sensual joys of young love.

A nostalgic vision of a simpler past and the remembrance of how good it felt to be young and to splash in the cool water and lay in the dappled light of the shady bank. There I go again. But I think that's half the point, the listener will follow you into those enchanted places of memory and fantasy, and why not? What's so real about reality that it can displace the sweet enduring illusion of young love?

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