Listening to the charts some weeks it can be hard to imagine that within the songs there is anything of lasting value. However, never underestimate what you do when you write a song. For many when a moment of fear, loneliness, heartbeat, sickness or death strikes then it’s all they have to hold on to.

Often the creative arts are treated with disdain or dismissed as mere frivolity - that couldn’t be further from the truth. Take these words.

When you’re weary 

Feeling small 

When tears are in your eyes 

I will dry them all 

I’m on your side 

When times get rough 

And friends just can’t be found 

Like a bridge over troubled water 

I will lay me down 

Like a bridge over troubled water 

I will lay me down.

These are words to mend a broken heart and they touch people where pills often can’t.

Never stop trying to put into song what so many people can’t put into words, sometimes the only thing a person has left is a song and that song might be your song.