Dear Mr. Henly
I listened to your song "The End of the Innocence" today. I was driving down a wide street on a beautiful fall day; clear blue sky, Maple and Oak trees in full red and yellow bloom. I thought about how old age is our chance to throw it all out there like the trees. Show all this incredible color before dying. And the trees, inspire me by doing that again and again. I believe we can do too.
The lyrics, “Lay your head down on the ground, let your hair spill all around me” made me sob out loud. Amidst all this beauty is the suffering, the wrongness of what is happening right now. It is truly another chapter in the end of the innocence..
I feel whatever happens from now on, another evil has been let loose upon the world. I believe good is stronger but honestly, I do have some despair. The evil has grown with the explicit and implicit consent of so many of us.
Anyway, I am writing to thank you. Your words, years later, made me think, made me cry, made me go from hopelessness to the comforting image of being held by the earth, on another human’s shoulder.
And the feeling of comfort made me think; the end of the innocence shouldn’t happen in silence, right? We should go all out to fight evil even if we have to do it again and again and again.
Thank you,
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