BONAHORA returns with “Path of Love,” a collaboration with Ronnie Romero that feels less like a single and more like a memory you stumble into. I pressed play expecting a classic rock throwback, then realized I was processing feelings I thought I had filed away years ago. The energy lands in that Stranger Things kind of space, nostalgic but slightly haunted, and Romero’s entrance feels like someone carefully reopening a scar you were sure had closed.
The story behind the track explains that weight. After his father died, Paul Bonahora discovered a letter, tucked away and unfinished. Losing someone is already disorienting enough, but finding their words after the fact can flip your whole sense of self. Instead of leaving the letter hidden, he built this song from it, and you can hear that choice in the writing. The grief sits beside a kind of acceptance, and there are those late night questions about fate and connection that most of us pretend we are not asking.
When Romero sings, “Give me one more reason and not claim defeat,” it lands like a conversation with someone you have not even met yet. The chorus holds a kind of frantic plea, like he is asking for a future that is still out of reach. It sounds less like a performance and more like someone bargaining with whatever version of hope they have left.
The band supports that emotional tension with real focus. The guitars feel like they inhale and exhale. The drums move like a heart that is trying to keep a steady rhythm while the rest of you comes apart. There is a soft cinematic haze over the whole production, not in a glossy blockbuster way but in the way ordinary days suddenly feel loaded when you are carrying loss.
One line in particular stops everything: “Clues to find the path leading back to you.” I paused the track and stared into space, because it feels uncomfortably accurate. Most of us have someone we keep trying to find again, whether they are gone for good or only gone from our immediate life. They are absent, yet they keep appearing in our habits and choices. The song frames that idea of giving a new place to the person you lost as a quiet kind of growth, the subtle character shift that comes from surviving something you did not choose.
What lingers after the last note is how deeply human the song feels. It leans on rock language and retro atmosphere, and yes, the guest vocal is a draw, but none of that matters if you strip away the core. At its center, this is one person sorting through grief and turning it into something that can hold other people’s stories too.
“Path of Love” earns a spot for listeners who gravitate toward songs that feel like a late night conversation with yourself. It is worth giving it full attention, from the first note to the last echo.
