Recovery

For Japan

I wrote this song during a personal crisis; it now seems very appropriate for Japan and its people:

Recovery

There are times when your soul’s had to pay so many tolls

that it falls under their weight and is smothered

it’s as good to you as gone, so you have to carry on

while you wait for it to slowly recover

You know your life has changed when you go from day to day

and you just don’t want to show up for tomorrow

You look into the mirror, and the image that appears

is a face so unlike yours you’d swear it’s borrowed

I didn’t know where I was going; I just knew that where I was

was no place that I wanted to stay

carrying my past around ‘cause I didn’t know how to put it down

is how I wound up where I am today

Just as a river flows sometimes high and sometimes low;

but without the rain would dry up like a stone

yet there are different kinds of rain as there are different kinds of pain

and there are kinds you wish would just leave you alone

I've had no grand adventures; I’ve just had some ups and downs

and I’ve made and lost some friends along the way

I’m not looking for attention; you can go or stick around

but I’ve got some things I've wanted to say

I’m not glad and I’m not sad that I’ve had the life I’ve had

at least it’s taught me some things about living

of all the things that I possess, the one that serves me best

is that I’ve gotten pretty good at forgiving

There are times when your soul’s had to pay so many tolls

that it falls under their weight and is smothered

it’s as good to you as gone so you have to carry on

while you wait for it to slowly recover