"City By The Bay" - Track 5 from "Echoes of a Life"

A folk ballad chronicling seven years in San Francisco during the late 80s, where beauty and pain painted the city's fog-wrapped streets. From corporate success to profound loss, this song weaves together the story of found family, the AIDS crisis that claimed too many - including a dear friend from Panama days - and the gradual healing that time brings. The track honors both the vibrant life and deep shadows of the Castro, where some friendships became eternal while others slipped away like morning fog.

With flowing guitar work, atmospheric piano, and intimate vocals, "City By The Bay" moves like the tide beneath the Golden Gate - from darkness to light, from guarded hearts to tentative healing, until the Texas wind calls once more.

Echoes of a Life

City by the Bay

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Instrumental produced by 9th Wonder & Low the Great

Following up to the meaning of this shout out to my neighbor Tony who spoke life into me unknowingly prophesying to The "T" the purpose The Most High has destined for me & for others. 

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