Midway through the song, he stopped playing. The crowd went silent. Forde looked down at his guitar, then looked at the side of the stage where his wife, Elena, was standing in the shadows. With a cracked voice, he ad-libbed a line that was not in the original lyrics: "At the end of the loudest day, through the silence and the noise… I just need you to know, Charlie Forde loves his wife."

Here’s a short song/poem titled "Charlie Forde — I Love My Wife."