Story Behind The Song

I am a Gulf War Vet and this song is very personal to me. I hope others can take a healing message from the song as well.

Song Description

A Soldier is reflecting on the life he had and he knows that as bad as he wants things to be the same at home as they were when he left it just isn't going to happen.

Lyrics

I have lived the soldier?s life
I?ve been away for so long
I know that the life I left
Has picked itself up and gone

I can smell the cold blue lakes
I can see the trees and hills of green
But will they look the same to me
After seeing the things I?ve seen

I know my family wants me back
They?ve held each other and prayed
I know exactly where my home is
But I don?t know if I can find the way

{CHORUS}
When you?ve seen the things I?ve seen
When you?ve done the things I?ve done
Only the lord can show you the way home

I remember back in school
Me and my friends would get together to play
And we?d talk about what we?d be
When we?d grow up some day

Some wanted to be cops
Some wanted to be fireman
Oh what I would give
To have that innocence back again

I have lived the soldier?s life
I?ve done exactly as I was told
And now all that I want to do
Is find my way home