Kenny Ray Horton: Blog

I was thinking about when I wrote this song and I thought I would share. I guess the writing of it actually started with conversations that I had when it seems like all you heard on the news were stories about children getting abducted. 

One of the conversations went to the "what would you do if it were your child" scenarios. I sat and listened and joined in a few times until one morning the conversation really hit me. One of my friends asked, "How would you be at the trial if they caught the person?" and I answered, "It wouldn't be their trial they'd be watching." He asked me what I meant and I said, "It would be my trial they would all be seeing on TV." 

I went home and wrote that conversation down and 3 or 4 months later the song pretty much wrote itself. 

It amazes me where song ideas seem to come from. They are so much a part of everyday life and yet, sometimes it takes a song to really make a statement. Starting with a blank sheet of paper and a simple idea, then turning that into something that can really move people...that is the goal when it comes to songwriting for me. 

I hope you all find something in my music that moves you or speaks to you. In the meantime, I just keep chasing the muse...