Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

Tough, you think you've got the stuff

You're telling me and anyone

You're hard enough

You don't have to put up a fight

You don't have to always be right

Another day of computer work went by, quite successfull for that. For be what best keeps me close to the keyboard and the screen is music. This U2 song got in line today and made me shut everything else out of my mind. I always wanted to be tough, I thought I had to be. And I always need to be right.

Let me take some of the punches

For you tonight

Listen to me now

I need to let you know

You don't have to go it alone

In a year of time people crossed my path and took some punches for me, for what I'll always be grateful to them. Yet from only a few problems an easy path might follow, I still took most of the punches myself. I know there's plenty more coming. A year is not enough time in fighting with yourself, fighting with everyone, fighting with alcoholism. 

And it's you when I look in the mirror

And it's you when I don't pick up the phone

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

We fight all the time

You and I...that's alright

We're the same soul

I don't need...I don't need to hear you say

That if we weren't so alike

You'd like me a whole lot more

My lesson, in sharing this song, is that I don't need to take punches that were meant for others. They have to fight their battles themselves. I'd be most pleased to share my knowledge about it but in the end they'll have to learn how to fight and look themselves in the mirror. That's where I'll be waiting. And all of the other fighters who are with me in this. We fight alcoholism together, each in her/his own way.

Listen to me now

I need to let you know

You don't have to go it alone

Can - you - hear - me - when - I -

Sing, you're the reason I sing

(THANK (to) U2)