Kassie

"My mom is my hero; she lived through a bad situation and then got us out of it when I was just a baby. I didn't  meet my biological father again until I was 30 years old. I had never even seen a picture of him and had no idea what he looked like. All I knew was that I'd gotten my blue eyes from him. I wrote a song about him called These Eyes Are Blue, and my husband and I performed it at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in 2012. To be onstage in that place, singing that song about my father, meant a lot to me. When I finally did meet him, we didn't talk much about the past, really. I was glad to meet him, but we didn't have a lot to say to each other. He called me after that, and it was during our second conversation that he cried and asked for forgiveness. I told him I had already forgiven him. I felt like I was meeting not the man he had been, but the man he was becoming. The next time I heard anything was when his housemate called and told me that he had died of a heart attack. His funeral was only the second time I'd ever been with him."

These Eyes Are Blue

You didn’t run away;
She was the one -
The bruises on her face,
She’d finally had enough.
Now you’re finally free
From the burden of a family.

I was barely one;
You gave me up so easily.
Would you even know me
If I passed you by?
And could you say my name
Even after all this time?
Cause all I know of you
Is these eyes are blue,
Blue, they’re blue.

I didn’t have to ask
If you had a temper too.
It was a given that
I’d surely got it from you.
I never did believe
That you were coming back for me.

See, I was barely one;
You gave me up so easily.
Would you even know me
If I passed you by?
And could you say my name
Even after all this time?
Cause all I know of you
Is these eyes are blue,
Blue, they’re blue.

Cause all I know of you
Is these eyes are blue,
Blue, they’re blue, blue, blue.

YouTube link to These Eyes Are Blue:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BurTVC-x3GY

Kassie and Ben Wilson performed at South Main Sounds (550 S. Main) and at The Green Beetle (325 S. Main) on Friday evening, August 14, 2015. South Main Sounds is a venue for local songwriters and (occasionally) visiting artists such as Kassie and Ben.

Kassie Wilson, Singer / Songwriter

• Website:  Kassie Music
  
• FB:  Kassie Miller Music
  
• Email:  [email protected]
  

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