It was over 11 years ago, when I first began to write this song. As in most songs at the time, it began as an entry in my journal. The date was July 17, 2010, and the weeks before were spent agonizing more and more about the worsening condition of my eyes. In the fall of the year before, Sept. 2019, I spent several days in the Eye Clinic because the pressure in my left eye especially, had risen to a dangerous level; there was danger of Glaucoma. At that time, the head surgeon called for an operation to relieve the high pressure, emphasizing that it should be done soon. My whole life I had never spent more than a few days in the hospital, even that weekend of exams in the clinic was cause for anxiety and stress for me. I experienced panic even just thinking about going in for surgery. It was out of the question for me. I continued with my eye doctor appointments and tried to ignore the warnings as the pressure rose, until I noticed blurring in spots of my vision – in the summer of 2010. I prayed, I confessed, I examined my heart for an answer to why I was not getting better, but worse! I prayed for healing, for myself, for everyone I knew. I said, I will never give up – not stop believing! Finally, I came to the next step, to give up – admit that I have no answers – and so wrote down the beginnings of this song:
Another song, I want to tell of what You mean to me
And who’s to say if I’ve lived my life the best way
But through every trial You have heard me sing.
I had my surgery in April of 2010, and it was successful (for a time). That fall I began a program to train as a Christian counselor. Through the three-year program I ended up completing, I learned about a whole other area in me in need of healing – inner healing. Eventually, I rewrote some of the lyrics for this song, with additional musical help from my daughter.
One more thing I would like to say, about this newest version of “Another Song”. After enduring several other eye surgeries, I was emboldened to seek out time in two Psychosomatic Clinics specializing in PTST and childhood trauma, in 2017 and in June of this year, 2021. Both times I somewhat reluctantly talked about my singing and songwriting and ended up finding others who loved to sing. By the end of my time at both places, this song became one of our favorites – only one other of my songs surpassing it in popularity 😉
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Julie DeTroy 