Who's the song about?

[mkt]

Does anyone know if the Jack Johnson song 'If I Could' is about anyone in particular? Its quite touching and i was just curious.

[SurferChick1]

Hi there, the song's about Jack's friend Moe Lerner who died 2 weeks after his grandchild was born.....

Johnson: "It's related to the first record. The song Mud Football on that album was dedicated to Moe Lerner. He was a friend of our family that passed away while I was making Brushfire Fairytales. I started writing If I Could way back then because he'd meant a lot to a whole lot of people out on the North Shore. And before he passed away, he called around to everybody to let everyone know that he was going. He told everybody that he felt really at peace because he had had a chance to meet his grandkids. That was just really a beautiful thing to me. And I wanted to write about it because he was making jokes and everything when he had only two weeks to live. It was really nice that he was able to be so positive about it. I think it had a lot to do with transferring that love from yourself to your kids and, even more, to your grandkids - passing the love and spirit on. We're sort of whole ourselves. But then there's that grander thing of us all being connected."

[mkt]

thanks for that.

was just curious as i think its a beautiful song and a situation i found myself in last year.