5. Green Grass Blue Skies

This Song's Story

Green Grass Blue Skies was written and tuned by Anni on the last day she spent in Math class (she was in her freshman year of college, majoring in Information Technology), looking out the window. She sang it to us when she came home, and we all knew it was a hit.

Soon after, she and Mom went up to AIMS to get to the bottom of her chronic painful cough.

She never went back to college. The last two weeks of February 2007 were spent in AIMS, consulting with doctors there and, with Uncle Jeff's help, doctors in NIH. On March 1st we flew for the USA, hoping for a treatment plan with chances of survival. The whole journey is chronicled in the archives of Tale Of Grace, the blog we started at that time.

Mere hours before we left AIMS for the airport, Kartik and Suresh flew down from Mumbai to see us off. Anni showed Kartik, our musical genius-friend, her new song.

Back in the insulated and isolated hospitals of the USA, we got an email. Kartu had taken the song, arranged it with drums, pads, guitar, and the works, sung it beautifully, and sent us the MP3. It was beautiful, and cheered us up immensely, as well as all the other hospital patients and friends we showed it to.

This is the song that persuaded us to work on this album. Enjoy!

That's great, but why does the same song come twice in this album? Read the rest of the story to find out.

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