Featured song "Spirit of Love"

For today's “feature”, I’m going all the way back to the beginning. The first song I ever wrote is “Spirit of Love.” This song was inspired by the young man I met from the German soccer team when I was 13 (full story on the My Story page). We became very close very fast and when they left, I was broken hearted. I wrote back and forth with him for almost a year. The last letter he wrote said he was back in trouble and had to go away for a while. I believed I could help him stay out of trouble. That was the last time we wrote each other. That was the inspiration for this song. When I wrote this, it was a little odd to me. I didn’t sit down and write the words or sit at a piano and play out chords. It just all came out of my head together.  I sang the first couple lines to myself and each time I sang it, the next line just seem to build itself. I never wrote the music down, just kept in my head until I met my friend who put guitar chords to it and we sang it together. So, yes, I was about 14 when I wrote this song, I just wish I had a recording of the song itself. I’ll have to work on that.

Spirit of Love

Too many people, too many places, not enough love for you and me

Time passes quickly, so do the faces, of life’s endless road, between you and me

(chorus)

Let the spirit of our love, keep our hearts, and let the memories of the past remain

Don’t put the bad time and the lies apart, they are all scenes of our happy life

If you’re not around, I’d surely go crazy, without the love you have given me

But the tears I cry, when I say good-bye, fill my memory with your love

(chorus)

Let the spirit of our love, keep our heats, and let the memories of the past remain

Don’t put the bad time and the lies apart, they are all scenes of our happy life

Lyrics by Michelle Gallardo, 1980

Music by Michelle Gallardo and Tama Moritz, June 1982