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Songs About Grief


Feathers Brush My Heart Album

Feathers Brush My Heart is an album with 12 songs I've written over the last decade. The album and video are available digitally for purchase.

I lost my wife in 2013 to Multip[le Sclerosis. I grieved for 7 months in our house. Through all the emotional pain I realized that my life needed to move forward. I am a life long musician and started writing songs in my early 20's. THe song "Down Below" was written when my maternal grandfather passed away in 1983. I held on to a dream of moving to Nashville since I was in my early 20's. I realized the dream was still alive so at 55 years old in January 2014 I moved to Nashville. I was still in very heavy grief from the loss of my wife "Jerri Rachelle" but my thought was that I could grieve anywhere.

My Songs about grief and loss are deeply personal. The grieving process is also deeply personal and unique to everyone. The songs on the album and video are raw and all self recorded. Just me and my guitar. It is a honor and a pleasure to share with you my journey through grief and loss with my music.

Thank You Chuck Frederick



Can't Stop It

I just gotta get out of here These four walls are closing in. Memories running through my mind of a love I will never have again. Never have again. Hell on Earth I can't take it. In my dreams and when I'm awake Crazy thoughts running through my mind. Now that your gone love is so unkind Love is so unkind. This is what I get for loving.Gave my heart away. I can't see you I can't feel you or make the pain go away.Ohhhhhh stop it. I Can't Stop it. Lord I'm on my knees. Stop it. I Can't stop it. Lord I'm beggin you please. Stop it. I Can't stop it. I Can't stop it. Time goes by I feel the fear when I wake up your not here. Walking wounded through another day. Hope this pain will fade away.Hope this pain will fade away. You were always home to me. You were my best friend. I just gotta get out of here find myself again. Ohhhhhh stop it. I Can't stop it. Lord I'm on my knees. Stop it. I Can't stop it. Lord I'm begging please. Stop it I Can't stop it. I Can't stop it. I Can't stop it.I just gotta get out of here. These four walls are closing in



In My Loving Arms Again

Woke up this morning to a pouring rain. Cried myself to sleep again. I just miss holding your hand. Got up put the coffee on miss you can't believe your gone. Your not in this world with me. Remember how my Momma cried when my loving Grandma died. I couldn't take her pain away. They say that time's a healer but just want to feel you in my loving arms again. One step forward two steps back your love made up for all I lacked. Hard to live with half a heart. Kiss your picture everyday. Tell you I'm gonna be O.K. I know that's what you want for me Pray before I go to bed same way we always did. I hope I meet you in my dreams. They say that time's a healer but I just want to feel you in my loving arms again. It's a lonely road when we lose the ones we love. Looking back we have regrets, memories we can't forget. The ones that help us rise above. They say that times a healer but I just want to feel you in my loving arms again.They say that times a healer but I just want to feel you in my loving arms again.



Touch Me Now (Jesus)

(In Memory Of My Grandpa August Muller)

I can't stop this feeling tears coming down like rain. Gonna be such a long time before I see you again. Angel eyes and an angel smile gonna be such a long long long while. When you were here with us you gave us so much love. You filled our hearts with joy with the spirit of the dove. Some day soon we'll see you again. Praise you Lord until then. Jesus fill my heart touch me now. Jesus heal my pain let me feel your power. I'm on my knees lead to your light. Help me Lord get through another night. When we are weak it makes our hearts strong. We feel his love and it helps us carry on. Help me Lord through one more day. Help me walk in your loving way. Jesus fill my heart touch me now. Jesus heal my pain let me feel your power. I'm on my knees lead me to your light. Help me Lord get through another night. Help me Lord get through another night.



God Had Other Plans

Never got to say goodbye stayed up nights and wondered why. We never second guessed our love. I moved on with some regret. Realized it was for the best though we fit just like a glove. I moved on with a broken heart. Been so long that we've been apart. I just had to ask God why. Need your touch that never came filled with anger hurt and blame. Every night broke down and cried. And in the end God had other plans. He called you home to heaven now I understand. I'm just a man. Powers in his hands. I love you forever even though I may never understand why God had other plans. Time has passed and things have changed. My whole life's been rearranged. I no longer question why. Now there's healing in my heart looking for a brand new start. Cause I need a loving touch. And in the end God had other plans. He called you home to heaven now I understand. I'm just a man powers in his hands. I love you forever even though I may never understand. Why God had other plans. I love you forever even though I may never understand why God had other plans.



Missing Piece To A Puzzle

I was driving down the road picked up my phone to calI and just like that remembered you were gone. All the memories come rushing back to me. Sitting at the dining table doing jigsaw puzzles kids birthday parties and them blowing bubbles with endless smiles. Think about you all the time. I Shake my head I miss you dear. Just can't believe that your not here. It's like a popped bubble missing piece to a puzzle. Sittin here lonesome by myself pictures on the walls and all the shelves. Precious memories of our family. Your always in my heart and I have few regrets. We saw each other through the worst and best with endless smiles, think about you all the time. I get in bed around eleven lay there wonder what your doing in heaven. My hearts so troubled missing piece to a puzzle. Sometimes your beside me gentle in my dreams. I hear your sweet voice and see your angels's wings. I was driving down the road picked up my phone to calI and just like that remembered you were gone. All the memories come rushing back to me. Sitting at the dining table doing jigsaw puzzles kids birthday parties and them blowing bubbles with endless smiles. Think about you all the time. I Shake my head I miss you dear. Just can't believe that your not here. It's like a popped bubble missing piece to a puzzle. It's like a popped bubble missing piece to a puzzle. It's like a popped bubble missing piece to a puzzle.



Feathers Brush My Heart (Title Track)

(In Memory Of My Sweet Wife Jerri Rachelle Meder Muller)

Feathers brush my heart I see you in my dreams. A thousand points of light that heal eternally.Turns my pain to tears of joy to know that you have angels wings. I can let go of your hand because I hear the angels sing. We love with all our heart let go of all our fears. When our time has come and gone so many loving years. To find the courage to go on. To know that some day that we'll have wings. The hope and faith to live our lives because we hear the angels sing. Love opens up the sky and feathers they come down. For each tear that we have cried and every love that's lost and foun . Feathers brush my heart I can see you in my dreams. A thousand point of light that heal eternally. Turns my pain to tears of joy to know that you have angels wings. I can let go of your hand because I hear the angels sing. We'll never be apart your feathers brush my heart.



One Foot In The Past

Headlights coming at me as I'm riding down the road. Moonlight shining on the lake calling to my soul. Sun goes down behind me another day comes to an end. Feel my heart so heavy I miss my best friend. I've got one foot in the future moving on to find my way. One foot in the past can't get out of my own way. I'm lost somewhere in between long as memories of you last. I've got one foot in the future one foot in the past. Sometimes I see the Lord's hand in the clouds and I remember what you said. Each evening God paints a masterpiece of orange pink and red. Each sunset pulls me forward our love pulls me back, and I'm lost somewhere in between The future and our past. I will always love you I have no regrets. My heart always remembers won't let my mind forget. I've got one foot in the future moving on to find my way. One foot in the past can't get out of my own way. And I'm lost somewhere in between long as memories of you last. I've got one foot in the future one foot in the past. I'm lost somewhere in between long as memories of you last. I've got one foot in the future one foot in the past I've got one foot in the future one foot in the past.



I Need To Let Go

Deep in my soul I feel the call of the ocean. Smell of the salt on the breeze. Deep in my heart I still feel the devotion feel your spirit calling me. Moon is high as the sun goes down. God paints the sky all around me. I feel the love, pain and joy and the beauty that surrounds me. I need to let go to find joy in life again. I need to let go this is not goodbye my friend. I need to let go even though we are apart. I need to let go your love is always in my heart. As the moon goes down over the ocean stars are all around me. The earth it moves in forward motion. The beauty it astounds me. Deep in my soul feel the call of the ocean. Smell of the salt on the breeze.



Another Trip Around The Sun

I wasn't sure that night. I prayed and I asked God why? For so long she was the purpose in my life. Our Father took home my loving wife. For months I struggled to understand. Pain in my heart made me a humbled man. Each day I try to do the best I can. The rest I putin God's loving hands. So many months went by cried almost every night. Was so empty when day was done. Hardest year was that first trip around the sun. It's a miracle time has healed my soul. Yet in my heart they'll always be a hole . Memories of our love brings a smile. My music has helped me to survive. So many years gone by no longer ask why. Get on my knees when day is done. The hardest year was that trip around the sun. Get on my knees when day is done. Thank God for another trip around the sun. Thank God for another trip around the sun.





In My Momma's Eyes

(In Memory Of My Mom Margaret Papelian)

I walked in the room she smiled ear to ear. I hadn't seen my Momma in a couple of years. I kneeled at her chairside put her hand in mine. She looked straight at me she said it's about time. She taught me to love she taught me to fight. Without saying a word taught me wrong from right. She stood by me through my darkest of times. I looked at her as have all my life. I can still see the love in my Momma's eyes. Took a bus to the city when I was a child. Crossing the street she said hold my hand tight. Here we are now at the end of her life. Don't want to let go as she closes her eyes. She taught me to love taught me to fight. Without saying a word taught me wrong from right. She stood by me through my darkest of times. I looked at her as I have all my life. I can still see the love in my Momma's eyes. I can still see the love in my Momma's eyes.



Down Below

(In Memory Of My Grandpa Garabed Papelian)


We are the fruit of the garden. We are the roots of the old plum tree. We are the children of God whose spirit was captured in the life of the man that planted our seeds. Down below down below. Go in peace and in truth and in love to the garden that grows. Down below down below. Our roots are steadfastedly planted in the garden that grows down below. The hands of the man we'll remember forever. His powerful grip is one that's remembered by all. God bless the man for trying to be honest. Though bitterness tore his heart for those that did fall. Down below down below. Go in peace and truth and in love to the garden that grows. Down below down below. Our roots are steadfastedly planted in the garden that grows down below. So we say our farewell as we enter the springtime. And the land it will rest now though the roots remain deep in the ground. And the man that we love has returned to his maker. He stays in our hearts for all things they will come back around. Down below down below. Go in peace and in truth and in love to the garden that grows. Down below down below. Our roots are steadfastedly planted in the garden that grows down below. Our roots are steadfastedly planted in the garden that grows down below.



Momma's Old Rocking Chair

Baby I know what's on your heart and mind. I can see the hurt and pain in your eyes. Girl you can't hide that empty stare. Sitting there in your Momma's old rocking chair. Baby cry tears of a child. Comforting and wise she touched all of our lives. The love she gave still remains. Things will never be the same. Sitting there in your Momma's old rocking chair. Baby I know sometimes life feels unkind. Longing to turn back time. The warmth of her hug her gentle hand touching your heart like only your Momma can. Close your eyes baby sleep and pray that your Momma comes into your dreams. Baby cry tears of a child. Comforting and wise she touched all of our lives. The love she gave still remains. Things will never be the same. Sitting there in your Momma's old rocking chair. Sitting there in your Momma's old rocking chair. Sitting there in your Momma's old rocking chair.




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