It's Been 15 Months Since I Left Home

August 26^th, 2012

This is for all my country music loving friends.  I changed the words to the song “Great Day To Be Alive” by Travis Tritt exactly one year ago.  At that time I was in month three of living in Swaziland and never thought I would see month 15.  Well I made it, and this song sums it all up!

I got rice cooking on my gas stove,

I got dirty hair I don’t plan to comb,

And it’s a goofy thing but I just got to say hey I’m doing all right.

I think I’ll make me some homemade soup,

Feeling pretty good and that the truth,

Neither drink nor drug induced no I’m just doing all right.

And it’s a great day to be alive; I know the sun still shining when I close my eyes,

There some hard times in my community, by why can’t everyday have all this beauty!

It’s been 15 months since I left home,

Said good luck to ever seed I’d sewn,

Gived it my best and then I left it alone,

I hope their doing all right.

Now I look in the mirror and what do I see,

A different person then I use to be,

A wiser, tanner version of me,

Lord I guess I’m doing all right.

And it’s a great day to be alive; I know the sun still shining when I close my eyes,

There some hard times in my community, by why can’t everyday have all this beauty!

Sometimes it’s lonely,

Sometimes it’s only me and the shadows that fill this room.

Sometimes I’m falling, desperately calling, looking for something to do-o-o-o-oooo.

Well I might go get me a night out of site,

see some PCVs and chat about life,

might even go wild and stay out all night, Oh…

And it’s a great day to be alive; I know the sun still shining when I close my eyes,

There some hard times in my community, by why can’t everyday have all this beauty!