I'd like to share something my hubby wrote: Not Just a Phase. About mental illness.

[KidsHappen]

NOT JUST A PHASE

(by Jeff P.)

 

I woke in a place with no roads I can take

Don't know how I got here or if I'm awake

At the end of the pavement there is a spot

A drop off to gravel and then river rock

 

[CHORUS]

Here comes the flood, here comes the flood

And there's nothing that I can do

Hold my breath and tread water

Until this storm passes through

But I'm clinging to nothing and its drowning me

Its cold and I'm lonely in so many ways

I'm holding my hope out

But its NOT JUST A PHASE

NOT JUST A PHASE

JUST A PHASE

 

Your tears of self-pity drop to the ground

Yet you just stand there watching me drown

Your an island a fortress a tiny ait

A place above water where love turns to hate

 

[CHORUS]

Here comes the flood, here comes the flood

And there's nothing that I can do

Hold my breath and tread water

Until this storm passes through

But I'm clinging to nothing and its drowning me

Its cold and I'm lonely in so many ways

I'm holding my hope out

But its NOT JUST A PHASE

NOT JUST A PHASE

JUST A PHASE

 

Uproar and confusion or a lamb in the bed

There's a great vault of conflict alive in my head

I want you I don't at once I'm a loon

Dancing half-naked with the lunatic moon

 

[CHORUS]

Here comes the flood, here comes the flood

And there's nothing that I can do

Hold my breath and tread water

Until this storm passes through

But I'm clinging to nothing and its drowning me

Its cold and I'm lonely in so many ways

I'm holding my hope out

But its NOT JUST A PHASE

NOT JUST A PHASE

JUST A PHASE

 

I personally would have changed the one line in the chorus to, "I'm holding out hope." but otherwise I am very impressed.

Edited June 26, 2009 by KidsHappen

[ThatCyndiGirl]

Beautiful!!

[Pink Fairy]

Very powerful. Your dh has a gift! :001_smile: