Keifer Honors His Late Mother On The Anniversary of Her Passing

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<v Speaker 1>So Hey, what's up everybody. Hey, it's Keeper Tonight flying
<v Speaker 1>solo with you on this episode of Talking with Thompson Square. Honestly,
<v Speaker 1>I wasn't gonna do a podcast today, but I felt
<v Speaker 1>like I should because it's just I don't know, man,
<v Speaker 1>it's just it's it just seems the right thing to do.
<v Speaker 1>Before I get to that, it's I've been snowing like
<v Speaker 1>crazy here in Nashville and we have had a blast
<v Speaker 1>We live outside of Nashville about an hour and we
<v Speaker 1>have had a blast out with our son on the
<v Speaker 1>side by side and the snow playing, and it's just
<v Speaker 1>the coolest thing to become make the transition from being
<v Speaker 1>a son to a father. I remember when I was
<v Speaker 1>a kid and some of the most some of the
<v Speaker 1>most vivid memories. Some of the most happiest memories I
<v Speaker 1>had growing up were around snow. I lived in a
<v Speaker 1>little town called Myama, Oklahoma, and man, we had so
<v Speaker 1>much fun when it was snow on the ground. It
<v Speaker 1>was just it was such a magical time for a
<v Speaker 1>kid and their dad. And man, my dad took me
<v Speaker 1>sledding and we would get these big, huge cardboard boxes
<v Speaker 1>like a refrigerator. We'd go we'd go down the alley
<v Speaker 1>of these furniture stores and find these giant refrigerat raider
<v Speaker 1>boxes and he'd cut them up and turn them into sleds.
<v Speaker 1>And so he had this huge sled and we'd go
<v Speaker 1>down to the park and slide down the hills and
<v Speaker 1>it was such a cool thing, you know. And and
<v Speaker 1>Sean and I are getting to experience that now with Cooper.
<v Speaker 1>He's five and and we live out in the country
<v Speaker 1>and there's hundreds of acres around us, and it's been
<v Speaker 1>so much fun to be able to go out and
<v Speaker 1>have fun with him and make those memories and take
<v Speaker 1>those photos and stuff. Because you know, it's our job
<v Speaker 1>as parents to uh to give our kids those memories,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and where they have these stories to tell
<v Speaker 1>when they get older and when they have kids, and
<v Speaker 1>so we're trying to do our best, our best to
<v Speaker 1>give him those memories. And man, what he's giving us
<v Speaker 1>back is is tenfold. I mean, we go out and
<v Speaker 1>we freeze our butts off, you know, and you know,
<v Speaker 1>he wants to he wants to break up in the
<v Speaker 1>hot chocolate when you get back, and it's just it's
<v Speaker 1>just it's just that thing. Man, It's it's so so
<v Speaker 1>very cool u to do that. And we've been having
<v Speaker 1>a blast doing that with him. But I want to
<v Speaker 1>talk about something real tonight because you know, a lot
<v Speaker 1>of the podcasts that we do so far, and thank
<v Speaker 1>you guys for listening, first of all, but a lot
<v Speaker 1>of the podcasts we do, you know, or you know,
<v Speaker 1>they're a personal nature. We talk to different guests about
<v Speaker 1>different things, you know, and you know, I've been talking
<v Speaker 1>to a lot of people here lately who have lost people,
<v Speaker 1>and it seems like around Christmas time is one of
<v Speaker 1>the most frequent times that we lose people that we love,
<v Speaker 1>and it just kind of, I don't know, man, it
<v Speaker 1>just kind of puts a damper on the events because
<v Speaker 1>it's not the same anymore, you know, it's it's one
<v Speaker 1>day it's the.
<v Speaker 3>Same and the next day it's not.
<v Speaker 1>And you know, it's it's something that I never thought
<v Speaker 1>I would ever have to deal with. For some reason,
<v Speaker 1>I don't think you ever really consciously think about what
<v Speaker 1>life is like without this giant figure in your life.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm having to go through that now. You know.
<v Speaker 1>I lost my mom two years ago yesterday, and they
<v Speaker 1>had just spent Christmas with us, and I thank God
<v Speaker 1>every day to have the last Christmas with them together.
<v Speaker 1>Kind of it just symbolized everything that I'd always grown
<v Speaker 1>up with and now there are grandparents and there with Cooper,
<v Speaker 1>and it was just awesome, you know, And you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's a it's weird. Uh, yesterday was a tough day
<v Speaker 1>on me. I never felt pain quite like that. I
<v Speaker 1>got h remember. I remember very vividly. We were we
<v Speaker 1>were in we were in our house in Tennis in
<v Speaker 1>in Nashville, just outside Nashville and Brentwood, and my phone
<v Speaker 1>rang about six o five in the morning and it
<v Speaker 1>was Dad, you know, and it was like, you know,
<v Speaker 1>your Mom's gone. It was just kind of that cut
<v Speaker 1>and dry, and I think it was just in shock
<v Speaker 1>and and uh, I just remember kind of collapsing, you know,
<v Speaker 1>and and as Seana is just she's freaking out, you know,
<v Speaker 1>and and uh expecting the worst, you know, from what
<v Speaker 1>I'm getting ready to tell her. And obviously it was
<v Speaker 1>some horrific news. And so we got you know, I
<v Speaker 1>got up and we were going actually had two shows
<v Speaker 1>to go to that weekend, and I hopped on a
<v Speaker 1>plane and and went home, and uh dealt with that
<v Speaker 1>whole thing, you know, and and uh, I I've just
<v Speaker 1>it was it's it's weird. Uh, I've just never felt
<v Speaker 1>a void quite like that. We've lost grandparents, and we've
<v Speaker 1>lost friends and things along the way, but there's something
<v Speaker 1>about losing a parent that really puts life into perspective
<v Speaker 1>in so.
<v Speaker 3>Many ways for me.
<v Speaker 1>And it was just one of those moments where you're
<v Speaker 1>just numb and you can't think, and you can't speak,
<v Speaker 1>You can't you can't even put a thought together of
<v Speaker 1>what to do next because you've never had to function
<v Speaker 1>in this capacity. And you know, my dad's never been
<v Speaker 1>one to accept change that much, and you know, his
<v Speaker 1>whole world.
<v Speaker 3>And I've talked to him.
<v Speaker 1>I talked to him today about it, and you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's one of those things where it just he's eighty
<v Speaker 1>five and he just told me, you know, I just
<v Speaker 1>never thought i'd deal with this. I always thought I
<v Speaker 1>would go first so I wouldn't have to worry about
<v Speaker 1>what this felt like. And you know when that does,
<v Speaker 1>that didn't happen. You know, it was always It was
<v Speaker 1>also sudden. There was not a conversation of I'm sick,
<v Speaker 1>it was going down this path of pain and all
<v Speaker 1>this stuff, and it was just it was just overnight,
<v Speaker 1>it was gone.
<v Speaker 3>It was over.
<v Speaker 1>And so Shauna had dealt with this with her dad.
<v Speaker 1>And that's really the main reason why I wanted to
<v Speaker 1>do this tonight, to pay tribute to my mom and
<v Speaker 1>tell her how much I love her, how much I
<v Speaker 1>miss her, and for all those out there who have
<v Speaker 1>gone through the same thing and understand the kind of
<v Speaker 1>the kind of pain that this is. And but I
<v Speaker 1>I've learned to discover that the pain is good. The
<v Speaker 1>more it hurts. It's just a testament to how much
<v Speaker 1>we loved him. And I I've clung onto that mantra
<v Speaker 1>for the past two years.
<v Speaker 3>And you know, I consider myself.
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<v Speaker 1>Of a very strong person, but yet a very emotional person.
<v Speaker 1>I love hard, I fight hard, you know. And about
<v Speaker 1>seven years ago we were at CRS was it a
<v Speaker 1>great country radio seminar here in Nashville.
<v Speaker 4>And.
<v Speaker 1>Shawna's dad had fallen very ill the Christmas prior and
<v Speaker 1>just a few months later, just a few months earlier,
<v Speaker 1>and I remember getting that call, Sean. I got the
<v Speaker 1>call and said, you need to get down here. It's
<v Speaker 1>not good. And I've never known somebody. I know that
<v Speaker 1>there's a special relationship between fathers and daughters, but I've
<v Speaker 1>never quite seen the kind of connection that her dad,
<v Speaker 1>Mickey and her head. And I asked her about doing
<v Speaker 1>a podcast about this, and she just can't do it. It
<v Speaker 1>would be we would never get through it. And you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's seven years later, and you would think that some
<v Speaker 1>of that pain would subside, but it's only it's only
<v Speaker 1>just it's just refreshed to the day every single year,
<v Speaker 1>and all these memories come flooding back. And he was
<v Speaker 1>a He was a wonderful, wonderful human, which is the
<v Speaker 1>highest compliment I can probably give some And what an
<v Speaker 1>amazing father he was to Sean him that he's the
<v Speaker 1>reason why they play music. It's the reason why she
<v Speaker 1>did a solo project this past year. And you know,
<v Speaker 1>every once in a while, whether it's a smell or
<v Speaker 1>something that someone says, or just a memory that comes
<v Speaker 1>shooting in or what we like to think of a
<v Speaker 1>message from him from the other side, that just reminds
<v Speaker 1>her of it, and we'll be driving down the road,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and and she'll start crying. I know exactly
<v Speaker 1>what she's what she's going through. So I never and
<v Speaker 1>it happened the same time, you know, you know, tomorrow
<v Speaker 1>will be I think that marks the day that we
<v Speaker 1>actually had had Mickey's funeral, or the day he died
<v Speaker 1>six or seven years ago. I can't remember exactly, but
<v Speaker 1>so we're literally a couple of days apart losing our
<v Speaker 1>parents several years in between, but we were in the
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's I never I understood when it's not
<v Speaker 1>your parent, it doesn't it doesn't hit you like it
<v Speaker 1>does when it's yours. And I never understood that until
<v Speaker 1>it happened to me. And we were in the kitchen
<v Speaker 1>tonight and she was very, very busy all day and
<v Speaker 1>I knew what the anniversary was coming up, you know,
<v Speaker 1>I knew what was going on, and you know, we
<v Speaker 1>had just one of those beautiful moments where we both
<v Speaker 1>shared in our own pain and thank God I have
<v Speaker 1>someone and to be able to share that with and
<v Speaker 1>to be able to console with through this, through this
<v Speaker 1>difficult time. And it was just one of those things
<v Speaker 1>where she just she's a daddy's girl and she will
<v Speaker 1>be to the day she died.
<v Speaker 3>You know.
<v Speaker 1>I remember talking to my mom about her dad, and
<v Speaker 1>it was years after he passed, decades and the pain
<v Speaker 1>was still real. It never goes away, and it just
<v Speaker 1>changes a little bit, you know, it takes on a
<v Speaker 1>new form, but the miss is always there. The miss
<v Speaker 1>never goes away. The void's never filled. There's nothing you
<v Speaker 1>can do to fill the void. And I think you
<v Speaker 1>have one heart and there's only so much room for
<v Speaker 1>so much love in that heart, and when something that
<v Speaker 1>means something is removed from that heart, it's just a whole.
<v Speaker 3>That's it.
<v Speaker 1>But again, you know, we talked about it tonight. I
<v Speaker 1>do think that the harder it hurts equals the more
<v Speaker 1>that we love them. And I don't know, I just
<v Speaker 1>you know, I know exactly how she felt all those
<v Speaker 1>years ago and how she feels every year to this day.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm very thankful that my mother lived long enough
<v Speaker 1>to see my son born and he has memories of
<v Speaker 1>her and and all that stuff, because that's one thing
<v Speaker 1>that Shawna's dad is not going to have, and that
<v Speaker 1>I think is maybe the most painful part of what
<v Speaker 1>she's going through. And that is just unimaginable from a
<v Speaker 1>mother's standpoint, I think, especially when you had such a
<v Speaker 1>figure in your life. It was such a positive, uplifting
<v Speaker 1>and loving figure like Mickey mcawain, you know. And I
<v Speaker 1>remember just growing up in my house the example that
<v Speaker 1>my parents gave to me they were married. Dad, I
<v Speaker 1>talked to her, that talked to him today and he
<v Speaker 1>said that they'd been together sixty three years and they
<v Speaker 1>had a good run, you know, and he's doing good.
<v Speaker 3>He's very positive.
<v Speaker 1>But he has his days, you know, and he's there
<v Speaker 1>by himself in Oklahoma, and he has his days and
<v Speaker 1>we talk about those days. And you know, a picture
<v Speaker 1>just doesn't replace the person. But when all you have
<v Speaker 1>is pictures and memories, you better be thankful for that.
<v Speaker 1>But I just want to thank her for the example
<v Speaker 1>that she gave to me. From a parental standpoint, she
<v Speaker 1>lived my dad through the good times and the bad
<v Speaker 1>for over sixty years. They gave me a wonderful house
<v Speaker 1>to grow up in with wonderful memories. They taught Sunday
<v Speaker 1>school at our local Baptist church, Emmanuel Baptist Church there
<v Speaker 1>in Miami. They Sunday school, oh Man, from the time
<v Speaker 1>that I could remember even going to church. So the
<v Speaker 1>example they set for me and my sister on how
<v Speaker 1>to how to worship, what that meant, what God meant
<v Speaker 1>leading us both to the Lord, and I can't I
<v Speaker 1>can't describe how thankful I am for that, because those
<v Speaker 1>lessons that I learned way back then are the same
<v Speaker 1>lessons that I'm trying to teach my son. And if
<v Speaker 1>it hadn't been for that example, I wouldn't be able
<v Speaker 1>to do that. And I'm very grateful for that.
<v Speaker 5>Man.
<v Speaker 1>She was a she was a church secretary. I mean
<v Speaker 1>she this woman was a godly woman who read her
<v Speaker 1>Bible every single day. She loved her kids. She loved
<v Speaker 1>the kids painfully, I mean through it. And I could
<v Speaker 1>tell you stories that you probably wouldn't love, you know,
<v Speaker 1>it'd be hard to love after some of the things
<v Speaker 1>that I did. But she loved us through everything. And
<v Speaker 1>you know, I never understood that. Sometimes I would catch
<v Speaker 1>her looking at me in an odd way, you know,
<v Speaker 1>And I never understood that until I had a son,
<v Speaker 1>And you do you become so enamored with this miracle
<v Speaker 1>that sometimes I catch myself just looking at him, just going, man,
<v Speaker 1>this is such a gift from God, is such an
<v Speaker 1>amazing miracle. And I can't believe that this is what
<v Speaker 1>I'm doing. But I just wanted to tell you guys
<v Speaker 1>a little bit about her, just because she was never
<v Speaker 1>in the limelight. She was a mother to two kids,
<v Speaker 1>she was a wife to a husband for a long
<v Speaker 1>long time, and not a whole lot of people really
<v Speaker 1>probably know a whole lot about her. But I think
<v Speaker 1>if it's the things that I would want everybody to know,
<v Speaker 1>was just even though she wasn't out into the social
<v Speaker 1>realm of things, Man, she loved hard, she really did.
<v Speaker 1>And and and her church was her life. God was
<v Speaker 1>her life. And she instilled that in me and my sister.
<v Speaker 1>And uh, man, what a what a powerhouse. I mean
<v Speaker 1>she uh you know, she worked a job. She was
<v Speaker 1>a housewife as well, you know, and man, what a
<v Speaker 1>hard job that is now that I see how hard
<v Speaker 1>it is to keep a house together and clean, raise
<v Speaker 1>two kids in the right way, and uh and and
<v Speaker 1>and try to do your best with everything and all
<v Speaker 1>the turmoil and stuff. But I've never and I talked
<v Speaker 1>to Dad about it tonight. I never knew anybody who
<v Speaker 1>had anything bad to say about her. There was some
<v Speaker 1>jealousy there at some point, I think in the uh,
<v Speaker 1>in the church world, because she did love so hard,
<v Speaker 1>and she did go out of her way to be
<v Speaker 1>good and to do good things. And sometimes when you
<v Speaker 1>really feel the power of that, and you really in
<v Speaker 1>your heart you're trying to do the best thing you
<v Speaker 1>possibly can for people. There's other people who don't have
<v Speaker 1>that courage who look upon people who just do it
<v Speaker 1>because it's the right thing to do, and they feel
<v Speaker 1>bad about themselves. And that's where that jealousy comes from
<v Speaker 1>sometimes and I saw that a few times with her.
<v Speaker 1>But it made me proud. It didn't make me angry.
<v Speaker 1>It made me proud. And you know, she was just
<v Speaker 1>an amazing person. You know, I can make her laugh
<v Speaker 1>like nobody's business. And she loved to hear me sing.
<v Speaker 1>They supported everything I ever did. Her and Dad both
<v Speaker 1>they were at every soccer game, football game, track me
<v Speaker 1>baseball game, and every concert. You know, once we broke
<v Speaker 1>in the music business, they read every show if it
<v Speaker 1>was close by everything they could possibly go to. And she.
<v Speaker 3>Loved comforting me.
<v Speaker 1>She loved she loved to hear me sing, and she
<v Speaker 1>loved to hear Seanna sing and us together, which is
<v Speaker 1>a whole that's a whole different animal. But we'd sit
<v Speaker 1>around the house, sit around the kitchen table at home
<v Speaker 1>when I when we would go home, and we would
<v Speaker 1>sing gospel songs or just really whatever, you know, and
<v Speaker 1>she was just she could never get enough.
<v Speaker 3>And it was such a it was such a thing.
<v Speaker 1>That I took in my life as man, this is
<v Speaker 1>someone who has always got my back, you know, and
<v Speaker 1>no matter what was going on, she was always worried
<v Speaker 1>about me. I was always her baby. And I never
<v Speaker 1>understood that either, but now I do. But always, you know,
<v Speaker 1>if I had a new song, i'd call her and
<v Speaker 1>play it, and oh, she just loved it, you know,
<v Speaker 1>she loved it. If I had good news, I'd call
<v Speaker 1>her and tell her.
<v Speaker 3>You know.
<v Speaker 1>That was the first person I called, was Mom, you know, always.
<v Speaker 1>And it's very strange to not be able to do
<v Speaker 1>that anymore, you know. And I called Dad now and
<v Speaker 1>and he loves it, obviously, but it's really weird when
<v Speaker 1>you when you can't do that. And I don't know, man,
<v Speaker 1>I wasn't gonna do this either, but I kind of
<v Speaker 1>feel like I want to. I got together with a
<v Speaker 1>couple of friends of mine, and I've written a lot
<v Speaker 1>of songs since then about her, about the situation, And
<v Speaker 1>there's one in particular that I wrote with two great songwriters,
<v Speaker 1>and it was Bill Uthrip and Vicky McGehee. I wrote
<v Speaker 1>with the song and on May first of twenty nineteen,
<v Speaker 1>and I was still I was still hurting, you know.
<v Speaker 1>When I got there and we got to talking about it,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and as songwriters, you know, and the pain
<v Speaker 1>is uh is real. Country music's real, and when you
<v Speaker 1>put all that stuff into the mix, I know you
<v Speaker 1>can really write some cool stuff. And uh, I never
<v Speaker 1>I didn't really consider this song anything other than kind
<v Speaker 1>of a thank you, kind of a tribute. But I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna sing a little bit of this song for you guys.
<v Speaker 1>I may try to get through the whole thing and
<v Speaker 1>we'll see. But there's a couple of things. Since she
<v Speaker 1>did love music so much that I want to do tonight,
<v Speaker 1>and I wish that Seana was here to sing with me.
<v Speaker 1>But I understand why she didn't want to do this podcast.
<v Speaker 1>But I just really, I just really felt like I
<v Speaker 1>should to tell you guys a little bit about her.
<v Speaker 1>Her name was Alice Carrol Thompson. And man, she was
<v Speaker 1>born tiny, tiny house and a farm, four deacre farm
<v Speaker 1>outside of Mayam, Oklahoma, and I had a bunch of sisters,
<v Speaker 1>and man, how they grew up as it was very
<v Speaker 1>very difficult, but her parents made a good way for
<v Speaker 1>her as well. But I'm going to give this a shot.
<v Speaker 1>So it's very late where I'm at and I want
<v Speaker 1>to sing a little bit muted as not to wake
<v Speaker 1>Shauna thirteen years old, my best friend both found out
<v Speaker 1>about two pusson and trying to be cool dumb dum mixed,
<v Speaker 1>and we both walked on train track sick.
<v Speaker 3>And I could tell Daddy.
<v Speaker 1>And I could tell God, but I can't tell Mama.
<v Speaker 3>I turned to eighteen from baughtercase Bill.
<v Speaker 6>Stole with the keys to Grandpa's old John There got
<v Speaker 6>it upside down from blue Hoole Creek, and that's scared
<v Speaker 6>the hell ride out of me. But I could tell Dad,
<v Speaker 6>and I could tell God. But I can't tell Mama.
<v Speaker 7>It wasn't a wrong to.
<v Speaker 4>Let her down.
<v Speaker 8>I can't tell Mama and break your heart as she
<v Speaker 8>found out. I know I should, but I know that
<v Speaker 8>I ain't gonna. I can't tell Mama.
<v Speaker 1>Now.
<v Speaker 3>I grew up and moved away.
<v Speaker 8>To the big town where dreams from mate.
<v Speaker 3>And now I call home away to a shape to
<v Speaker 3>tell her. I fell on my face.
<v Speaker 1>I could tell Daddy, now, I could.
<v Speaker 3>Tell God, Bud.
<v Speaker 8>I can't tell Mama we wanna let her down. I
<v Speaker 8>can't tell Mama and break her heart as she found out.
<v Speaker 8>I know I should, but I know I ain't gonna.
<v Speaker 8>I can't tell mama.
<v Speaker 3>See here I.
<v Speaker 1>Am where the flowers grow on my knees, talking to
<v Speaker 1>a stone. Mama got a good girl, the kid of
<v Speaker 1>my and I just pray some how she knows.
<v Speaker 3>Because I could tell her Daddy and I could tell God. Lord.
<v Speaker 8>I can't tell Mama, but another she be prayer, can't
<v Speaker 8>tell Mama.
<v Speaker 3>You should see me.
<v Speaker 7>Now.
<v Speaker 3>I wish I could.
<v Speaker 8>This guy knows that I want her, but I can't
<v Speaker 8>tell Mama.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, wish I could.
<v Speaker 3>Because God knows that I want her. That was one
<v Speaker 3>of the first things.
<v Speaker 1>That I actually wrote and felt comfortable with sharing, sharing
<v Speaker 1>the story with other writers. And you know, I think
<v Speaker 1>you know she had a love of music. Man, She
<v Speaker 1>loved music, and we always had that in common. Her
<v Speaker 1>mom was a poet, singer and a writer. And you know,
<v Speaker 1>there's a there's another thing that a lyric that just
<v Speaker 1>blew me away, and I want to try to find
<v Speaker 1>it for you because it's a if you don't know me,
<v Speaker 1>I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen fan and a steward of
<v Speaker 1>his songwriting. And there was a song on the Magic
<v Speaker 1>Record that I come across one time.
<v Speaker 3>I bought the album.
<v Speaker 1>And I remember Seanahan never was a Springsteen fan. She
<v Speaker 1>couldn't really understand it and what the big deal was.
<v Speaker 1>And he had a song called Terry's Song, which was
<v Speaker 1>it was written about his personal assistant of twenty three
<v Speaker 1>years that passed away, and his name is Terry, and
<v Speaker 1>it it's very rare that one song on one listen
<v Speaker 1>just totally captivates me and uh and brings me in.
<v Speaker 1>But this song for one to sing about another man,
<v Speaker 1>so intimately, I just thought was absolutely beautiful. And I
<v Speaker 1>remember where we were at and I played it for
<v Speaker 1>and I said, if you don't get Springsteen after this,
<v Speaker 1>then you're just never going to get it. But I'm
<v Speaker 1>not going to sing it for you because I can't.
<v Speaker 1>But the title is Terry's Song, and the lyrics are
<v Speaker 1>they built the Titanic to be one of a kind,
<v Speaker 1>but many.
<v Speaker 3>Ships have ruled the seas.
<v Speaker 1>They built the Eiffel Tower to stand alone, but they
<v Speaker 1>could build another one if they please. The taj Mahal,
<v Speaker 1>the pyramids of Egypt are unique, I suppose, but when
<v Speaker 1>they built you, brother, they broke the mold. And it
<v Speaker 1>just goes on and on just comparing these things, and uh,
<v Speaker 1>there's one passage in it that really encompasses loss, and
<v Speaker 1>it's probably some of the best words I've ever heard
<v Speaker 1>written down to really get across the point of the
<v Speaker 1>empty hole in your heart when someone that you really
<v Speaker 1>care for is gone and it says they can't They say,
<v Speaker 1>they say you can't take it with you. But I
<v Speaker 1>think that they're wrong, because all I know was I
<v Speaker 1>woke up this morning and something big was gone. And man,
<v Speaker 1>when that lyric hit me, I was just I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>I don't even know what to say. I was absolutely
<v Speaker 1>blown away. I want to see I'm not get in
<v Speaker 1>trouble for this. I want you to hear this. If
<v Speaker 1>I can find it real quick, this is I just
<v Speaker 1>want to put it in context for you. Hang on
<v Speaker 1>a second, let me see if I can figure this out.
<v Speaker 7>B they say you can tag it with you, what
<v Speaker 7>they're wrong. It's all I knows I would this moment.
<v Speaker 7>It's something gone.
<v Speaker 3>I just don't think it gets much better than that.
<v Speaker 3>It just blew me away.
<v Speaker 1>But that's just kind of how you know you feel
<v Speaker 1>after this is after it happens, you know, So you
<v Speaker 1>know that's really all I wanted to say. I just
<v Speaker 1>wanted to take a moment to to to thank Shawna's
<v Speaker 1>dad for giving me this amazing woman that I've not
<v Speaker 1>called my wife for over twenty years. And I want
<v Speaker 1>to thank my mom for all the lessons you She
<v Speaker 1>taught me how to be a man, how to be
<v Speaker 1>a husband, how to be a Christian, how to be
<v Speaker 1>a just a good person, and how to be a father.
<v Speaker 1>And I hope you guys got something out of this.
<v Speaker 1>And my heart goes out to you if you're going
<v Speaker 1>through the same thing, and like Dad says, you know,
<v Speaker 1>if you live long enough, you're going to feel what
<v Speaker 1>this feels like. But again, I want to overemphasize the
<v Speaker 1>fact that the harder it hurts, the more love that's there.
<v Speaker 1>And I seriously want to thank you out for listening
<v Speaker 1>and let me do this. I want to play one
<v Speaker 1>of my mom's favorite songs before we go and thank
<v Speaker 1>you again for listening. I appreciate it very much. She
<v Speaker 1>always made me sing this song to her and just
<v Speaker 1>about every show that we did, I tried that they
<v Speaker 1>were there. I tried to do it.
<v Speaker 3>Silver Wings shining in the sun like.
<v Speaker 4>Ro Ring and John.
<v Speaker 3>He did.
<v Speaker 4>Somebody reply, they're taking you away? Leave on me long.
<v Speaker 3>Silver way.
<v Speaker 4>Slowly fading out of sight.
<v Speaker 8>And don't leave me, I cry, don't.
<v Speaker 4>Take that airplane ride because you locked me out of
<v Speaker 4>your mind.
<v Speaker 3>It let me standing here behind.
<v Speaker 4>Silver weas shining in the sun, ring and jines hit
<v Speaker 4>us somewhere and fly. They're taking you away and leave
<v Speaker 4>on me lonely.
<v Speaker 3>Silver wings.
<v Speaker 5>Slowly fading outside, silver wings, slowly fading outside.
<v Speaker 1>Well, thank you guys so much for listening. I truly
<v Speaker 1>appreciate it. I hope you got something out of it.
<v Speaker 1>I sure did. I need to do this, And Mama,
<v Speaker 1>I love you, I miss you, and we're all gonna
<v Speaker 1>be okay. And God bless you guys out there who
<v Speaker 1>are dealing with the same kind.
<v Speaker 3>Of thing.
<v Speaker 1>You're in our thoughts. I promise you that we'll see
<v Speaker 1>you guys next time. Thank you so much. Hey, everybody,
<v Speaker 1>this episode of Talking with Thompson Square It's a Podcast
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