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"these last couple years"

I originally wrote this song in 2018, during a season of job loss, empty pockets, and children who still needed to be fed. In the middle of it all, I found peace where I always have, in the arms of my wife.

Since then, the song has carried us through more than either of us could have imagined: a cancer diagnosis, a near heart attack, fear, uncertainty, and, finally, healing.

Its meaning has grown alongside our marriage. What began as a song about surviving one difficult season has become a testament to every season we have survived together.

I’ve never loved you more, my dear, than these last couple years.

Something about his voice is ethereal with raw honesty.”

— Charlotte Ivol, Texas Rebel Radio

Who is Billy?

Billy Lister is a genre-bending singer-songwriter from Boerne, Texas, crafting songs that live somewhere between memory, melody and heartbreak. The grandson of Big Bill Lister, a Grand Ole Opry regular and former opener for Hank Williams Sr.—Billy carries a legacy of storytelling into a new generation. His music blends country, rock and indie-pop textures, pairing raw emotion with cinematic detail to create songs that feel like late nights, lost love and the places you can’t quite leave behind.

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This blog is where I share the stories behind my songs, along with poems, short stories, reflections, real life, and the strange little ideas that refuse to leave me alone.

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