Collin Raye Honors Granddaughter on New Album
Filed under: Country News, Story Behind the Song
Collin Raye’s first No. 1 hit, ‘Love Me,’ is a poignant love story about two grandparents who wait for each other in this life and the next. Now that he’s a grandparent himself, Collin is telling another kind of love story, this time about a grandfather and his granddaughter, that would touch even the Grinch’s heartstrings. Collin wrote ‘She’s With Me’ for his nine-year-old granddaughter Haley, who has a debilitating neurological disorder.
“Haley inspired me to write the song,” Collin tells The Boot, with a lump in his throat. “In life, bless her little baby heart, she can’t do anything. She’s totally helpless in every way. She can’t hold her head up, she can’t sit up, she can’t roll over, she can’t scratch if she itches, she can’t let you know if she’s in pain. It’s just a miserable little life she has … But, I always feel like it’s such an honor to take her places and be her representative on this earth and say, ‘Oh, hey, she’s with me.’
from The Boot
