Heaven Is a Journey

[Verse 1]

Scrolling back through twenty pages of yesterdays

The neighborhoods and the young folks it was left to raise

Many lives on the rise had met their demise

Hard to recognize the signs, it was such a disguise

It all looked so clean and beautifully groomed

While in fact, all our lives were brutally doomed

No mask, whiskey shots with no flask

Broken homes like broken bones with no cast

Lives torn completely apart, then lives gone

By storm from guns pulled and knives drawn

All in pursuit of achievable highs

Reached all new lows so believe our lies

Deceiving all our family and friends

It starts like a whirlwind but calmly it ends

On the bathroom floor in the back of a store

You started off asking for more, damn…

[Chorus]

You can’t take away my history

It made me who I am

I give thanks for my family

And for those who chose to love me

Even when they didn’t understand

[Verse 2]

Intervention before the tension is extra high

Your name came off a list of who’s next to die

Chose life, what a great choice and the right move!

Not a waste is a strong case that you might prove

When nobody else believed, your family will

Your horror stories got told like Amityville

But you can put that in your rear view

Hold life in front of you, in a clear view

You can see what you want to be, and you’re aiming for it

Your former friends were skeptical ‘til they came and saw it

You’re on a better path than your previous

All you gave to misbehave with the devious

You on the road to recovery now

Yeah, like a whole new discovery wow

Yeah, it’s called livin’ lovin’

What you have been given

Gods gift to this new decision, made it

[Chorus]

You can’t take away my history

It made me who I am

I give thanks for my family

And for those who chose to love me

Even when they didn’t understand