You just never know which ones people are going to like.

If you’re a songwriter, you love all your “little babies” at the moment of conception. But over time, some of them you find yourself singing a lot more…and some you forget about.

Not always because they’re bad. It’s hard to keep an eye on all the offspring when there are a few hundred of the little blighters. But they often disappear into the proverbial mists of time.

I got a text from my daughter-in-law this week, who had happened to hear one tune that I’d forgotten about. This is what she said:

“Omg David, you got me good today!! We were driving back from our holiday, and had random songs from Spotify playing in the car, and your song Gravity Is Calling came on, and I instantly fell in love with it. It’s such a stunning song!! I cried listening to it!! Amazing work!!”

Well that’s the sort of reaction you want to get. But as well as a chance to blow my own trumpet, it’s also a reminder that it’s worth getting a song out there in some way or other. Because you just never know.

ps. This song was a co-write with Eddi Price who wrote and played the guitar part you hear, and which inspired the words I sang over it. It is performed as a duet with Clair Tierney who has an absolutely gorgeous voice and is a fantastic writer too. We all only met once, for a project which brought songwriters from Argyll together to make an album from the region, called In The Wild Country.