If I Could Fly isn’t just any song. It’s a composition Joe had been laboring over for well over 10 years before he recorded it. In Joe's words: “I started writing it on the Flying In A Blue Dream tour back in 1990. But because of the way I write, sometimes songs take a while, as this one did. In 2003 I started demoing it in earnest. I played it on the acoustic guitar on a demo so I could sing the melody, then I demoed it on electric to get the sound. And the performance turned out to be so spontaneous, so right and so emotional, that it wound up being a keeper.” Since If I Could Fly came out in 2004, Satriani has been gratified by the reaction it’s received from his fans, many of whom have called it one of his most captivating songs. “That was the intent all along,” he says. “It was a love letter to my wife, Rubina – a simple, direct expression of feeling.