Robert Kennedy was riffing on a line from a George Bernard Shaw play when he said:
Some men see things as they are, and ask why?
I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Now that Kennedy's son has made common cause with the sociopath in the White House, it's a good time to think of things not as they are but as they could be. That's what this song is about. It is also a love song because how good can life be without love?

A friend suggested I enter NPR's Tiny Desk Contest, so I recorded this song yesterday as my entry. It is called "How Life Can Be."

When the sunlight is on the river
And the birds nest in the trees
When there’s contentment in creation
That is carried on the breeze
You and me will be together
We’ll see how easy life can be
How life can be

When the guns have all gone quiet
And there’s no such thing as being poor
When the tears of generations
Wash the sorrow from our souls
You and me will be together
We’ll see how easy life can be
How life can be

When the time that was so precious
Becomes something we can let go
When the memories that were frozen
Melt together like April snow
You and me we’ll be together
We’ll see how easy life can be
How life can be