Sing a song about faith....

I want to tell you about a song I recorded today.

I wrote this song a little more than a year ago.

It's called "A Promise is a Promise".

At the time that I wrote it, I wrote my excitement and fears about leaving Bangkok to move back home to Singapore.

The words spoke of a promise that was to be claimed - a strength that could be grasped in times of fear and doubt.

Last week, as I practised this song in preparation for today's studio recording, I realised how much more apt it was for my current circumstances.

Please don't think I am complaining.

I am not.

I am simply stating this:

It is insanely difficult struggling to make a living as a musician/singer in Singapore.

Why?

There are so many factors that I could site.

But I'd rather not get into that....

Just suffice to say that this is possibly the one trade you can be fantastically good at but still, hardly anyone will pay for your services/product.

ANYWAY....

Given these tough circumstances, and set it beside the fact that SINGAPORE IS AN EXPENSIVE PLACE TO LIVE IN...., and what do you get?

STRESS.

The point is - music is my full-time job.

I'm not in it for the money.

Never was.

I'm in it because I love music so much.

And somewhere along the way..., the industry, the lack of support, the brutal truth of reality - started to eat away at my faith in myself.

"If I'm really good at what I do, why aren't I succeeding?"

BUT.

Back to the song...

As I practised - sitting in my room, plucking at the guitar strings, legs crossed sitting on my bed - just like when I started out learning to play the guitar.. sitting on my bed at night, plucking and singing...,

I realised - the song isn't so much about a promise as it is about FAITH.

The focus isn't about the promise to be claimed at the end.

It's about how DIFFICULT faith can be during times of trouble.

How even when you don't FEEL like you're worth it..., that you're good enough, that you DESERVE the beautiful promise..., that you can STILL hold on to that sliver of hope and KEEP THE FAITH.

"Hold on.

Hold on.

Hold on to His promises...

they're true."

** "A Promise is a Promise" will be released online (only) as a Single before my album release. Stay tuned for more details as they come.