One Day at a Time (a song)

This is a song I wrote over the Holidays.

One Day at a Time

 

I’m dying one day at a time

Mind rolling fast forward; heart stuck in rewind

Yeah, I’m making a living, and doing just fine

Dying one day at a time

 

Watch my dreams drop dead where they stand

Two steps from the border of my Promise Land

Hope is the manna rain’s turned into mush

Doubt is a sniper hunched down in the brush

And it’s shot after shot

Loss after loss

Can’t run a good race

While I’m nailed to a cross

I’m sipping Love’s whiskey

Shooting Faith’s dope

Don’t preach me a sermon

Man, throw me a rope

 

I’m dying one day at a time

Mind rolling fast forward; heart stuck in rewind

Yeah, I’m making a living, and doing just fine

Dying one day at a time

 

Hear people talking about changing course

Cornering goals to be taken by force

But I’m beating the bones of a horse long since dead

In an old burning barn where my heart meets my head

And I’m frozen with fear

Feeling the flames

Calling to God

By all of His names

Coughing up prayers

Like smoke from my lungs

Don’t say “Amen” man

Just call 9-1-1

 

I’m dying one day at a time

Mind rolling fast forward; heart stuck in rewind

Yeah, I’m making a living, and doing just fine

Dying one day at a time

 

Don’t get me wrong: it isn’t that bad

It’s just worst that I’ve ever had

All wounds will heal, and all nightmares end

I don’t need a savior, just a good friend

So please shut your mouth

Open your heart

Hold me together

I’m coming apart

We may fall down

But together we mend

We’re nobody’s heroes

But we’re our own men

 

Dying one day at a time

Mind rolling fast forward; heart stuck in rewind

Yeah, I’m making a living, and doing just fine

Dying one day at a time

Author's Note

trying to record it on the computer....to add later

Reviews

[Robin]

yeah cant wait to hear it .. hurridafuckup ;)

[jenniewren (J.W. Bouwma..]

can't wait to hear the end result, because the lyrics are amazing.. (i have to admit i flashed on that old 70s sitcom when i first saw the title LOL)

[Kerry O'Connor]

Now that I'd like to hear... you in the voice.

It's definitely a song which has something to say for itself:
But I’m beating the bones of a horse long since dead
In an old burning barn where my heart meets my head