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It started in 1989 when supporting an American band called Tommy Walker Band - Tommy Walker was (and probably is) a great jazz and rock guitarist of the Larry Carlton school.  They had a song based on Psalm 63, which I hadn't really read - so I read it!

Anyway, the line "my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you in a dry and weary land where there is no water" stuck in my head for a long time.  This is partly because I have had a tendency to find myself in spiritual and emotional "dry and weary lands" so it struck a chord.

I wrote the song at a time when, following having a record distributed around the world, our band lost its singer and (as far as I could see) all hope of that elusive "proper" record deal.  It was very much a moment of frustration, but it led me to realise that essentially all the things I wanted and relied on could easily fall away, and the only thing I could truly hold on to was God's goodness to me in the past and His promise to bless me and not to curse me, to give me a hope and a future. 

There have been so many times when I have felt like giving up on the whole God thing but every time those feelings come to me I only have to give a minutes consideration to the emptiness of all the alternatives, and go back to where God has brought me from, and all He has done for me.

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