"You'll Stay Right Here" is one of the most personal and meaningful songs I've ever written. It's a message of support to someone going through a very tough time. I wrote it when I learned that someone very close to me was diagnosed with cancer.

This song actually came to me in a dream for the most part - the first time that's ever happened to me. This news was on my mind nonstop and one night I woke up in the middle of the night and the piano part was in my head, as were parts of the melody, so I got out of bed and sat at my piano. Started playing and the words and music just flowed -- it was very intense. In a couple of hours I had pretty much written the whole thing. So I turned on the computer and banged out a demo.

The song was my way of saying 'I'm with you, and you're going to beat this. You're not going anywhere.' That's the main message. But in a secondary way I guess it's also about the bumpy emotional ride experienced not just by the person suffering but by those who are standing by him or her. There's a painful helplessness to that situation - I tried to capture it in the line: "You know that I'd gladly take your place / But it isn't up to me." As someone offering support it's not about you, and you don't want to make it about you -- you just wish you could do more.

Making the track in the studio was a profound experience. We went to a special studio with a beautiful sounding grand piano where I played the piano part. Uri and I felt strongly that we needed strings, and real strings. We got our friend Mauricio Herszkowicz -- a brilliant musician from Brazil - to arrange the string part, and brought in a trio to play. That really made the song, along with the percussion and background vocals I sang in the climax - spent a fair amount of time getting the 3-part harmony just right.