From the recording Family Portraits (Volume 1)
A straightforward love song -- a declaration of love -- to my wife, Juliet.
Written in Maidstone Hospital, during a health scare in November 2020 (where a suspected stroke thankfully turned out to be labyrinthitis, a nasty but eminently treatable infection of the inner ear, which mimics some of the same symptoms, including vertigo, eye-spasms and dizziness), the song was conceived as a sonic memento: a declaration of love to leave behind and return to "just in case I go before you, you can still hear me dream of you"
Lyrics
Summer (Thought I'd Write a Love Song to You)
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Whispered Shakespeare to Anne Hathaway
Now if only I too could think of clever ways to say “I love you”
Thought I’d write a sonnet to you
Just in case you’re in the mood
To close your eyes and smile and fantasise about
All the good times that we share
Thought I’d write a love song to you
Just to remind you who we are together
It’s easy to forget sometimes
How much I we love each other
Thought I’d write a love song to you
I’ll try my best to be here for you
But just in case I’m gone before you
You can still hear me dream of you
“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies ” wrote Lord Byron
He was right when he described
You as
Best and bright
Thought I’d write a sonnet to you
Just in case you forgot
When we fight you might need reminding
We’re really two peas in a pod
Thought I’d write a love song to you
When you said you were cross with me
I thought I’d put these words to music
As an offering of peace
I thought I’d tell you in verse and melody and words in song
You’re my summer and my every season
And we belong
together for a reason
Thought I’d write a love song to you
Just to remind you who we are together
It’s easy to forget sometimes
How much we love each other
Thought I’d write a love song to you
I’ll try my best to be here for you
But just in case I’m gone before you
You can still hear me dream of you