Night Flight

Brooky

This song, was the first one I wrote after leaving my wife…

Well… I say “left”, but in truth she literally changed the locks on our home, and after working my usual long shifts, I came home at around 7pm to find that my key no longer worked in our familiar - and familial - front door.

You see… whilst I won’t name the religion, my family was a part of a “cult”, and after 14 years of marriage, and five beautiful children, I had come to realise that I no longer “believed”… and due to the abundance of rituals involved (which I could no longer perform in good conscience) my then-wife, had worked out that I had “strayed from the Right Path”…

It took months of debate and heart-ache (as well as quite a few “Priests” who all tried to “set me straight”), but eventually she decided that if I wasn’t a “Believer”, then she could no longer remain married to me…

And the fact that I was a good husband - and Father - was no longer relevant.

Once we separated, she made sure that I would also no longer see our children… Court Orders, and Lawyers, be damned… which shattered my heart into a million and one pieces.

This song is the account of those tragic circumstances.

And irrespective of one’s religious, or spiritual, beliefs and affiliations, I am sure that alienated Fathers everywhere, can relate.