"I Wish I Was An Angel" is my present to my mother for Mother's Day 2007.  Writing this song has taken me into new territory.  In it I try to speak for the dead.

My younger brother died of AIDS in 1992.  We learned of his diagnosis about three weeks before my daughter was born so they never knew each other.  While he was in my mother's care he told her about a dream in which he and I were angels together, and then he became reincarnated as my daughter.

The vision of his dream has haunted me to this day.  When I look at my daughter I can't get over the striking resemblance she bears to him.  Who knows what would have really happened had he lived, but I like to think that the two of them would be very close.

But he stands on the other side where the the seasons pass him by.