Thursday on American Idol, Danny Gokey mentioned that one of the writers of My Best Days Are Ahead of Me had lost his wife shortly before writing the song. Today in The [Nashville] Tennessean, Cindy Watts tells the story behind the song.
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Songwriter Kent Blazy's wife, Sharon, died January 19 last year -- five days after Danny told his own story during his televised debut on Idol. But Blazy (who has also written such Garth Brooks hits as If Tomorrow Never Comes and Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)) didn't watch Idol last season: He hadn't even heard of Danny when he cut the song, and Danny didn't know Blazy's story when he recorded My Best Days.
"It doesn't matter how old you are, your best days can still be ahead of you," Blazy told Watts. "But if you feel like, 'I've lost my spouse, my life is over,' then that's what you're going to create. My motto is I'm going to be me, be happy and change the world."
Blazy's co-writer, Marv Green, says it was fate that the song wound up with Danny: "Songs, a lot of times, they know where to go. It didn't even have a chance to go anywhere else."
SOURCE: USA Today
