This Saturday marks my 39th wedding anniversary with my wife, Tina. Most love songs talk about idealized love–fireworks, heart palpitations, rainbows, and so on. That’s all very nice, but anyone who has been in a relationship for more than six months knows that those feelings eventually dim. I wrote “One More Year” several years ago as an attempt to capture what I consider “real” love: it is about choices and commitment and compromise and understanding that “a tapestry of love is woven from threads of trust and fear.” Happy anniversary, Tina, and thanks for choosing to love me for one more year.