The First Verse

Kick off my dusty shoes

Sit back and put the world in cruise control

Haven't felt this way for so long

Feel in my heart a song to make me whole

Fresh air comes in the window

With it comes a ravens cry

Sunlight shines in the room

And I gaze into the sky

My heart feels so much older

But the cloak of life is tight around my shoulder blades

I feel my old scars start to heal

And I see my mind start to feel the forest glade

Where I hear the voice of friends

And I see the tankards raise

I know I've reached the end

Of my heart broken days

So I'm writing the first verse

Of my song

Trying to find the path

Where I belong

I'm hearing the beat

That I feel inside

And I'm letting the music

Flow out to the skies

Another night in South Central

With the earth screaming like a mental asylum

As the cars screech on by

I cast my eyes to the sky with a shaded sun

My mind wanders back down the path

That I recently traveled

To the mountains and the clean air

That let my heart be to sleep lulled

So I'm writing the first verse

Of my song

Trying to find the path

Where I belong

I'm hearing the beat

That I feel inside

And I'm letting the music

Flow out to the skies

And all that I see is in shades of green

All that I smell is the trees

I think back beside rivers flowing so clean

In a land next to the sea

And I feel the scars begin to heal somehow

The old memories are losing their ground

Nothings as real as this life is now

And I lift up my hearts joyous sound

I'm writing the first verse

Of my song

Trying to find the path

Where I belong

I'm hearing the beat

That I feel inside

And I'm letting the music

Flow out to the skies