song2

just a song that goes where my life went and ends where it is (a week or 2 ago from February 21st, 2010).

A summer day, I’m seven years old
In a windswept field just off a dirt road
standing next to trees that seem so
tall…
they seem so tall..

And in a campsite far from the city lights
where the fire’s warm and the stars are bright
We’re the only ones in the world tonight
that’s all…
oh that’s all.

I’ve been here for a while now
through sunny days and starry nights
it’s so nice to be a child now
and this is all there is to life

Well I learn to write and think and pray
I learn to love and learn to hate
And I decide to learn to play
guitar…
And I love my life most every day
but I find it’s true about what they say
for many this is not the way
things are…

I’ve been here for a while
the radio tells of wars and pain
another spin of the dial
I know I’ll make this world change

I ace exams but find life’s test
to be much harder than all the rest
And through it all I’m so depressed
somehow

I’ve been here for a while now
Here to help the world, but I need some help
I think I need some more style now
I think I need to change myself

things change,
lives change
only one remains the same
things will not change as had been planned
but understand all things will change

I didn’t mean for this to be
I always thought that I’d be free
But when you’re with me I cannot leave
here…
I’ll be here..

Once I had my life arranged
but then you came and then it changed
So I will stay if you remain
near…
please stay near..

I’ve been here for a while, girl,
standing in the cold cold rain
and when I’m greeted by your smile, girl,
I’d do it a hundred times again

It’s funny how love can stay
for so long, but once you say
“it’s here” it’s gone or that’s the way
it seems…
that’s how it seems..

when that lovely thing you think you’ll find
was already found but left behind
for something only in your mind
my friend…
we’ll stay friends..

I’ve been here for a while, Lord
with no idea what to do
carry me for one more mile, Lord
to the only thing that’s true

And things progress another year
of happiness and things almost pure
and someone feeling almost near
again
but with a clever smile college calls
and the trees have been replaced with walls
and life has been with narrow halls
choked…
it’s all a joke..

I’ve been here for a while, sitting
in a dirty room with a dirty mind
staring at the ceiling tiles, wishing
I had something to seek, if not to find

things change,
lives change
only one thing remains the same
things will change but not as planned
but understand all things will change

I look at what I had and what I got
and life and God is what I want
decide to give my money but not
my soul

I’ve been here for a while Lord
I’ve given all except my heart
I’ve walked a thousand miles Lord
Still I arrived back at the start

I’ve been here for a while Lord
I’m nineteen and I can barely stand
I’m too old to be a child Lord
Here I was, here I still am
I want to be – I’m afraid to be – I want to be – please make me – a man.