About the song, “A World Without Your Face”

This song was written about my wife, Sherry.  Using Animoto, I made a video (slide show) using photos of her (thanks goes to my sister, Lee Ann, for many of these photos.)

Ain’t she cute!  About this song, you should know…

the part about the fever on her 18th birthday was true; I was 18 years old, in Lawrence, poorly attending KU (I dropped out after that semester.)  When I called on her birthday I was told her fever was dangerously high (105 or 106?) and they feared a coma. (The original lyrics actually had the line, “they feared a coma” rhyming with “made me sober”- can you believe it!  I couldn’t see the problem until it was pointed at an Arizona Songwriters Association meeting. The songs that are the most personal are the hardest to pay attention to the craft of songwriting, me thinks.) By the time I hitchhiked into KC, she was better.

As with many of my songs, this one had been listened to and loved by my daughter, Emily, for many years.  At her request (she WAS the producer, after all) it was pulled out, dusted off, and, after a little bit of re-writing, made the album (From the Dining Room.)  Kriegs