Love You to the Moon and Back

A Real Life Story by Glenn Hansen

Dedicated to Sweet Judith, wherever you are in God’s universe.

FINAL CHAPTER

CHAPTER 20

About a month before Judy passed away, I started working on a song called “Don’t Want to Say Goodbye (Moon Beams).” I started to write the music with the lyric line that is the title. However, while I recorded a piano track with some strings, I did not want to continue lyrically. I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I knew what I wanted to say, but it was too much for me at the time. I left it as an instrumental, but did not release it to the music streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music etc.) to be publically played.

About a week and half before her passing, I woke up one morning and the lyrics poured themselves out of me. The words came to me so quickly and easily I had a hard time keeping up as I wrote them down. Now I understood why I did not release the instrumental. It was God and His universe’s way of telling me I wasn’t done with the song. I was glad about the way it worked out. I then recorded the vocal and added instruments to the arrangement and did the mixing and mastering. It was ready for the world now.

Following are the words to this song. I think it accurately captures my feelings for Judy and how I felt about her impending passing in a thoughtful way. You’ll have to decide for yourself though.

“Don’t Want to Say Goodbye (Moon Beams)”     

The clock runs fast, or so it seems

Don’t want to say goodbye

We have become so very close

Our minds meet in the sky

Our universe connects as one

I do not question why

The clock runs fast, or so it seems

Don’t want to say goodbye

You light the world with your moon beams

Don’t want to say goodbye

I know we will meet once again

Somewhere beyond the moon

Just be patient, our time will come

We will reunite soon

The clock runs fast, or so it seems

Don’t want to say goodbye

Don’t want to say goodbye

Don’t want to say goodbye

Moon beams

By the way, my name is Glenn.