They sure the boat was good and tight
I'll finish with a few special words
Was the tear from a father with the song from my heart
Don't you love me, I can't see too far
You can never, I don't know where you are
Well, just recently I endured my father's death
We passed away less than a month ago
And for about three months I've had an awful lot of pain and loss in my life
And I was scared, I thought for sure that I would lose my sobriety
But instead I built strength, lots of strength
It helped me remember the beautiful life that I've had and the life that I've had before I ever did drugs
And how much more loving it is and how much more rewarding it is
I got through this and I think that if I can get through all this, I can probably get through anything
I swear you won't think so
You know, during the beginning of my sobriety, I had a lot of substance abuse counseling
And they taught me to re-route my way of thinking
One of the things that I had to do was look at the bigger picture
Which, if there's another attic out there, you all know that we don't look at the bigger picture
We always look at the immediate picture
Well, I think also one of the problems that we have in the community is a lot of people are not educated with addiction
As much as they should be
So they basically stereotype us and label us
And it's very hard for us to deal with that
But what I did was eventually I learned to ignore those labels and all that stereotyping
And just learn to believe and trust in who I was
And through that, I remained sober
Sometimes when we're sitting beside ourselves
Will we ever realize the damage inside us
Only the change that was made to strengthen the way we do
I have three girls and I have three boys
They're grown, they're successful, they're happy
The reason I'm bringing them up is because one of the reasons that I suffer with every day are triggers
Triggers that give me urges to do drugs
They're a big part of helping me with that, triggers
One or more of them call me every day
And they talk with me
They're very supportive and loving
The other way is to go through the community with AA and NA meetings
I love being in the surroundings where other people share the same problem that I do
So that I can relate to them
And that helps as well
I feel very comfortable there
The communities usually have a very good substance abuse counseling
And they're very supportive as well
