This Time Is the Only Time ©, 2019, Chez Raginiak, USA

Since I was 16, I remember doing the same thing every time I had a few minutes of free time and a guitar near me—I would write a song. Years and hundreds of songs later, the same story and situation repeats itself. About a year ago, I grabbed my guitar and searched my imagination for another song. 
Through my songs’ lyrics, I attempt to communicate something meaningful, something to which most of us can relate. I never wrote a song without a meaning, story, emotion or message. As Eddie said in, “Eddie and the Cruisers: “Words and music. Words and music!” Or… like someone more “real”, “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” ― Charles Darwin
About This Time Is the Only Time … 
I, and many people I know, went through divorces—one of the saddest personal experiences for too many of us. I guess this life-altering chapter was following me for years asking to be noticed, brought to attention, removed from a list of the taboo topics. So, it was time to pick up “a pen and a napkin” and get busy writing.

As I wrote it and rewrote it, I saw that this song would be more than about broken relationships. With every rewrite it was forming to be about us trying something again. Something that deals with relationships and love:
- restarting relationships with our children, if those relationships suffered before,
- losing or almost losing someone dear,
- starting a new romantic relationship when the first one, for whatever reason, ended in ashes…
 
It was difficult to come up with lyrics that would not overpower the music. These questions started to drill a memory-hole in my heart… if I could go back…
- would I see what and when started to derail what supposed to last forever? 
- would I feel what started to hurt her, us, the union?
- would I do more, care more or LOVE harder?
And then…
- would I be determined that “this time would be the ONLY time?”
- would I FEEL the new rhythm of my feet when walking the new streets of love again?

As a result of these reflections, This Time Is the Only Time song was born. I hope that it can help whomever hears it to believe in second chances, in streets of hope and promises, in learning from the past, in LOVING HARDER, intentionally, passionately, and wholeheartedly. The solo (guitar solo) in this song represents the new beginning – it stars just simple, pleasing, as expected. But then it kicks to a new level: 2 guitars playing together in harmony: faster, louder, climbing to a goosebumps-giving climax. Like the ultimate relationship filled with togetherness, passion, and harmony.

Enjoy the tune! Think about the words as you listen. 
Chorus: 
	What went wrong, and what went right?
 	What’s gone and is never coming back?
 	That this time we know better?
 	That this time we’ll love harder?
 		What went on, and what went off,
 		Why didn’t we love - enough?
 		That this time, that this time— 
 		That this time is the only time?

This Time Is The Only © Chez Raginiak, 2019 Minneapolis, MN, USA