For MPR music, you're connected to all songs, considered I'm Bob Boylin.

Frank Turner woke from a dream and wrote a song.

Writing songs inspired by dreams is not incredibly unusual,

but a song played in the dream by a dear departed friend is a different story.

The friend in this case is Scott Hutchinson from the Scottish band, Frank Mrabid.

Here's Frank Turner to tell the tale and play his incredibly powerful new song,

A Wave Across a Bee.

A Wave Across a Bee is a song about my friend Scott Hutchinson from the band,

Frank Mrabid, who tragically took his own life in 2018.

Scott and I were friends. We were two people who did a very similar job,

which is quite a rare thing actually, so we used to have a long late night fun conversations,

comparing notes and hang out when our mutual tour schedules would allow.

After Scott died, I was broken up, everybody was, it was a great tragedy.

Although one that I kind of have many conflicting thoughts about,

among other things, I don't buy the idea that there's any cowardice involved in suicide.

I think that Scott took a very conscious decision and followed through on it.

It's not one that I'd like or agree with, but there it is.

Anyway, a few months after he died, I was at home in London asleep and I had what I can only describe

as a vivid or lucid dream in which Scott came into my bedroom with a guitar and showed me a couple

chords and a humdermality and even some words for me.

I'm not very given to believing in the supernatural or that kind of thing,

but it was quite affecting.

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