“Love Came Home To Stay”: Lee Miller Matsos Transforms Grief Into Grace in Moving Pandemic-Era Ballad

Akron, Ohio-based singer-songwriter Lee Miller Matsos reflects on love, loss, and the resilience we might discover in sorrow in “Love Came Home To Stay,” a new ballad. Written during the stifling early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the song represents a deep inner meditation which was influenced not just by the tragedy of a global pandemic, but also by Matsos’s grieving his mother, who died in 2016.

The song opens with the reflective line, “Once I was an ordinary creature…,” then gently unfolds like a diary entry transcribed into song. A haunting piano-led melody complements Matsos’ evocative vocal, which conveys the painful absence of a loved one while aiming to enter the healing space of empathy.

“If I can hold all this pain, maybe then I can help carry someone someday” distills the heart of the message of grief as a pathway that leads toward compassion.

Made with simple grace, "Love Came Home To Stay" intentionally sidesteps grandiosity for emotional sincerity. Although Matsos's larger-than-life operatic and theatrical inspirations give this song heft, it is his unvarnished vulnerability that allows it to take flight. For those who have grieved quietly or loved grandly, this is a song that will stay with you.

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