Saint Lover
This song is a prayer, a poem, a reminder of how damn lucky I am to have Tony Czech as my partner in this life. He’s in the middle of the Bering Sea making a surf film right now & wont see this for another week so I’m gonna gloat…
He is every word of this song & more. It was written in the beginning of the hardest season of our lives & marriage. April of 2020, building our house DIY & living in a 700 sq/ft condo with an infant & 4-year-old. We’ve been broke & jobless, frustrated creatives, we’ve been sick & down on our luck, we’ve known worse more than we’ve known better & there isn’t anyone else I’d want by my side to battle it all out with.
I had found respite reading every book by Barbara Brown Taylor & texting with my friend Leslie Jordan about our mutual love for this woman & her wisdom. Leslie sent a message back that BBT was “the Patron Saint of saving my faith” & that was it. This song literally fell out of the sky. I sent her a sketch of melody & lyrics & we sent voice notes back & forth until it was written. A whole song out of a single text in a couple minutes while driving down the interstate. A prayer.
A cord of three strands is not easily broken. My Uncle John prayed those words over Tony & I when he married us. We get to celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary next week when he’s back & I can honestly say we’re in one of the sweetest chapters of our lives after 17 years together. I would’ve given up a hundred times on all of it if it wasn’t for you Tony. You are my Saint Lover forever.
Credits
Written by Melissa Fuller & Leslie Jordan
Produced by Davis Naish
Guitar, Piano, Bass & Tambourine - Davis Naish
Vocals - Melissa Fuller
Mixing - Davis Naish
Mastering - Adam Grover, Sterling Sound
Photo - Tony Czech
Lyrics
He’s the patron saint of saving my faith
Ain’t a bone in his body knows how to hate
The forgiver of my wilder days
The keeper of my stubborn ways
The better half of the best of me
My desert island company
Morning coffee, last whiskey
Never should’ve got so lucky
Saint lover
Saint friend
No other
Till the end
Praying father
I’ll be damned
If I ever lose him
Amen
He's heard the worst words from my lips
Always makes it right with just a kiss
I'm wrong a lot but I know this
He's quick to forgive all my sins
Saint lover
Saint friend
No other
Till the end
Praying father
I’ll be damned
If I ever lose him
Amen
He don't get it right all the time
But when he holds me tight
It's as close as I have been
To heaven
Saint lover
Saint friend
No other
Till the end
Praying father
I’ll be damned
If I lose him
Amen
