Polyphony Marimba

STORY~
My brother-in-law at the time, Keith Hennessey, was playing around with the chord progression C/G/Am/F during a visit one time, across a few days, in many ways. It fermented in my musical mind and one day came out as the basic pattern to this song. The lyrics were inspired by "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen, which I was reading as a bedtime story to my daughter Quianna.
The slow middle section is meant to evoke the departure of the soul at the moment of the death of the body. The feel of it was inspired by "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" as performed by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.