Light of Days Gone By

A song I wrote for my son Alex.
All comments are welcome.
  
Light of Days Gone By
Verse 1
Light of days gone by
The memories of my life
Oh the mountains I have yet to climb
But now as time moves on
I hear a different song
In the heart of my only son

Chorus 1
He was God's gift to his mom and I that day
and thru the years I've watched him grow 
and find his way
And so the journey of my life is not my own
for with his love I will never walk alone

Verse 2
Finding a heart of peace
At times is hard to reach
when the thunder starts to roar
But as a father to my boy 
he's dreams are now my joy
thru each day and forever more

Chorus 2
He was God's gift to his mom and I that day
and thru the years I've watched him grow and find his way
And so the journey of my life is not my own
for with his love I will never walk alone

Bridge
The day he drew his first breath
our chosen one
Changed our lives forever
our precious son
Glory to the Father
let His will be done

Verse 3
Light of days gone by
The memories of his life
Oh the mountains he has yet to climb...

Nice song well recorded, performed and mixed.
Good stuff Jimmy

Jimmy, this is beautiful.  Your voice is very soothing and smooth which makes this recording shine.  Well done!

Top drawer song, performance and production Jimmy.

*to his mom and me.* when the pronoun is used as an object it's the accusative case.  Besides that, loved it.  Love, the grammar nazi.

Well done.  I love the sentiment presented in this song.  The instrumentation is very good and complements the lyrics.  Your vocals are spot on --- they convey emotion without overselling the song.
Beautiful song Jimmy.

This is really good. Makes me feel good and blue at the same time. The bridge was effective too. Good playing too.

Rimshot
@eph221
Thanks for the listen and comment. I guess I used poetic license on the lyric. Thanks for pointing out the technical issue though!
 
Mark - thank you for stopping by and your kind words. 
 
Freddy - I appreciate the comment on not overselling the song. I tried not to. I remember producing/engineering in L.A. where I told many a young artist to let the lyrics do most of the work with emotion if the lyrics are good anyway. 
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and I am happy you liked it.

 
Paul Simon was a nerd and he's taken poetic license.  I guess it's acceptable. :D:D

Hi Steve. Thanks for the listen and nice words. It's really good to know it holds up. 
The bridge has some unexpected chords. As I played the piano part, I had a live mic and so I just mumbled some words and sounds for lyric placeholders and played the keys. This song fell out really fast but the lyrics and mix took months.
On one of the takes, I played that bridge and just let my fingers fall. I had some clams and cleaned those up. The result suprised me! I went with it. Do I know what I am doing? Sometimes. Those times I don't usually turn out the best ideas!