mid tempo pop - full band ("When The Dust Settles") studio recording. Digitally converted to mp3 from a very old cassette tape. Pardon

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First song i wrote from someone else's perspective (male). My friend was married to (what 'they' call) an "adult child of an alcoholic. Being one myself, I could only imagine how difficult it was for each of them. The marriage was on the rocks - and this is what i composed coming from my friend's perspective (the husband)

How Can I Make You (Tell Me You Love Me)

Knowing things haven't always been easy for you
I've been trying to give you
All the love that I have to support you
But now I'm needing it, too
I'm dedicating my life to this, baby
But the silence is driving me crazy

How Can I Make You Tell Me You Love Me
How can I feel that your words are sincere
I'm going out of my mind just wondering
How you really feel
About me, about me.

Watching years going by seeing time passing by us
Slipping right through our fingers
Life just isn't the same as it once was
Oh, can't we bring back those days?
I need need to know you're still into me, baby
But these questions keep driving me crazy

How Can I Make You Tell Me You Love Me
How can I feel that your words are sincere
I'm going out of my mind just wondering
How you really feel
About me, about me

I know that we've changed and we've grown
Maybe we've grown apart
But I know if we want to
We can make it

(Guitar Solo/Dick Brundage, Sr.)

How Can I Make You Tell Me You Love Me
How can I feel that your words are sincere
I'm going out of my mind just wondering
How you really feel
About me, about me

Repeat