Every time I drive away
reminds me of why I want to stay
I can't wait I can't wait
to turn around and come on home
Every time I drive away
reminds me of why I want to stay
with you I can't wait
to turn around and share our home
Leaving is easy
when you are looking down the road
to new and brighter days
It's always hard
to retrace your trail
when life reminds you of darker stays
It makes you look into the eyes
of the ones you hurt
along your lonely unguided ways
Turns out staying is easy
when you find out what you want and need
The road ahead now calmly waits
the price to pay- for life this way
is the toll for the road I let leed
and facing the music and making amends
to the family and friends who once believed
Everyone has to pay the toll
for rolling down this road
Turns out staying is easy, when you find what you need
Every time I drive away
reminds me of why I want to stay
I can't wait
to turn around
and come on home
Every time I drive away
reminds me of why I want to stay
with you
I can't wait
to come on home
Owned and written by Mark Burkenbine, Copyright September 7 2013
Thursday, April 17, 2014
30 Days of Change
Walked that mile A thousand times a day
Traffic hits me at the crossroads
always leaves a bruise
So I never crossed it
always turned away
Going to have to do this
someday
Walked a mile in those shoes
Tried to smile through the pain
Can walk blind to that same crossroads
I know what that proves
Never win and never lose
Hell I never play
Same ole shoes walk me here
They walk away
Change a life for better
Change it today
To Change those same ole shoes
You need a month of Sundays
and a new pair of shoes
just for fun and game
30 days of change
could do a cold life some good
On day 30 Ill walk barefoot to that crossroads
Cause my feet know to cross
When my stubborn same ole shoes
never would
30 days to break a chain
30 days of change
Change a life for better
Change it today
Change a life for better
Can you spare any change?
30 days of change
Can I borrow
a cup of change
Change those same ole shoes
before they wear a hole
Change those same ole shoes
It's time to smell new leather
and break in
A new sole
You need a month of Sundays
New Shoes New fun and games
A month of Sundays
30 days of change
Written and created by Mark Burkenbine, April 17, 2014
Mark Burkenbine Copyright 2014
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Little Victories
learning to let them know before you're gonna go
learning don't touch that ,because it is too hot
learning don't touch those, because you were told NOT
The ABC's , and arithmetic and history
boys and girls, religion and family
Jobs and career, fail and succeed
finding out what worked for you, may not work for me
Little Victories
strung together
may slowly win a war
but don't get so caught up in battle
that you forget , what you are fighting for
Time slips by when you are having fun
It really flies when you find something, or someone
to take your mind off the facts
that this runaway train has lost the tracks
You spend most of your life being taught and told what to do
and part of your life trying to decide what's right and who was wrong
and part of your life realizing it was all true
you don't know what you've got til it is gone
and your kids grow up and move away
find someone to love and a job that may or may not pay
and they decide you are wrong even though
they may not have heard ALL you have to say
and you go to work and do your best
hope you can be there for them when they are put to test
and you wonder where the time has gone
as Time lays your parents, family and friends to rest
Learning, Living Loving and Losing
we all have to deal and find "what works for me?"
I remember being taught how to brush my teeth
to ride a bike, to say thank you
I remember the times mom and dad smiled so proudly
Little Victories
Strung together
Will Slowly Win a War
but don't get so caught up in battle
that you forget what you are fighting for
Created, Written and owned by Mark Burkenbine
Copyright 2014 Mark Burkenbine
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