The Story Behind the Song “Why That Love”
Some songs are carefully planned. Others arrive unexpectedly, born from a moment that leaves a permanent mark on the heart.
“Why That Love” belongs to the second category.
It is probably the most personal song I have ever written—not because it tells my own story, but because it captures a question that millions of people have asked throughout history. A question that has echoed through hospitals, churches, battlefields, empty homes, and silent nights.
Why, God?
The Moment That Changed Everything
The inspiration for this song came after reading about the death of a four-year-old child who lost the battle against leukemia.
I had never met the child.
I didn’t know the family.
Yet the story stayed with me for days.
I kept imagining those tiny hands, the hospital room, the parents who had believed, hoped, prayed, and waited for a miracle that never came.
As a human being, I found myself asking a question I could not silence:
What could a four-year-old possibly have done to deserve such suffering?
People often try to explain pain.
Some call it destiny.
Some call it God’s plan.
Others say everything happens for a reason.
But when a child dies after fighting cancer, explanations suddenly feel very small.
Sometimes there are no words that can satisfy the heart.
Only questions.
The Question Is Older Than Humanity Itself
This song is not an attack on faith.
In fact, it comes from faith.
Throughout history, believers have cried out to God in moments of confusion and grief. The Psalms are filled with questions. The Book of Job is built around one overwhelming mystery: why do the innocent suffer?
I realized that questioning God does not necessarily mean losing faith.
Sometimes it is the deepest expression of faith.
Because you are still speaking to Him.
Still searching.
Still hoping that somewhere beyond the silence, there is an answer.
“Why Kids Fade in Hospital Shades?”
The opening verse was the first thing I wrote.
Why God
why kids fade
in hospital shades?
As tiny hands dance
on heavy fate?
These words were inspired directly by that little child.
Hospitals are places where hope and fear exist together.
Children should be discovering the world, playing outside, laughing without worries—not learning the language of chemotherapy, hospital corridors, and medical equipment.
The image of “tiny hands” represents innocence.
The phrase “heavy fate” represents a burden no child should ever have to carry.
Beyond One Child
Although the song began with one heartbreaking story, it quickly became about something much larger.
It became a reflection on suffering itself.
Why God
hunger stays
on polished streets
while no one feeds…
We live in a world of extraordinary wealth.
Technology advances every year.
Cities become taller.
Yet millions still go hungry.
The contradiction is impossible to ignore.
The problem is often not the absence of resources—but the absence of compassion.
When Good People Suffer
Another verse asks:
Why God
why the pure pay the price?
and good hearts break
on another’s game dice?
Some people spend their lives helping others.
Some choose kindness over selfishness.
Some give everything they have.
Yet suffering does not always distinguish between good and bad.
Wars, disease, accidents, and tragedy often strike without warning.
Sometimes the people with the kindest hearts experience the deepest pain.
This is one of life’s greatest mysteries.
A World Divided
The second half of the song turns toward humanity itself.
Why God
brothers bleed, brothers fall
as flags and lies
with guns decide?
Wars are usually presented as political conflicts.
But every war eventually becomes personal.
Every soldier is someone’s child.
Every victim leaves behind a family.
Every bullet ends a story that once began with dreams.
The song asks whether our divisions have become stronger than our humanity.
The Silence
Perhaps the hardest lines for me to write were these:
Why God, prayers float
but never land
we speak with faith
you speak with silence?
you speak with sand?
Many people have experienced moments when their prayers seemed unanswered.
Moments when heaven felt silent.
This verse is not meant as an accusation.
It is simply an honest confession.
Sometimes faith includes silence.
Sometimes belief survives even when answers do not arrive.
“If You Are Love…”
The chorus asks the central question of the entire song.
Why God…
if You are Love
why that love
hurts from above?
It is not a statement.
It is not a conclusion.
It is a question.
One that countless people have whispered through tears.
One that perhaps none of us can fully answer.
Filming the Song at Prophet Elijah Chapel
When the time came to record the video, I knew it had to be performed somewhere that reflected the spirit of the song.
I chose the small Prophet Elijah Chapel, high on Mount Parnitha, overlooking Athens.
Surrounded by mountains, wind, silence, and endless sky, the setting became more than a filming location.
It became part of the conversation.
Nature has a way of making us feel both incredibly small and deeply connected to something greater.
Standing there with only my acoustic guitar, I wasn’t trying to deliver answers.
I was simply giving voice to questions.
Music Doesn’t Always Answer
People sometimes expect songs to solve problems.
I don’t believe music exists for that.
Music gives us permission to feel.
To grieve.
To hope.
To ask difficult questions that ordinary conversation often avoids.
If “Why That Love” offers anything, I hope it offers this:
The reminder that you are not alone in asking why.
Whether your questions come from personal loss, from witnessing injustice, or from trying to understand a world that often seems unfair, those questions matter.
Perhaps faith is not always about having every answer.
Perhaps sometimes faith is simply continuing the conversation.
And this song is my conversation.
Thank you for listening.