Song Day "We Are The Champions"

Today's song about recovery from substance abuse is "We Are the Champions" written by Queen. Not many of the words have been rewritten, it becomes a recovery song by listening with a different pair of ears, or, for those of you that are literal minded (we all know who you are), read with recovery in mind.

I've paid my dues
Time after time
I've done my sentence
REGARDLESS OF crime
And bad mistakes
I've made a few
I've had my share of sand kicked to my face
But I've come through
And WE KEEP GOING on,and on, and on, and on

We are the champions,my friends
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions
Of the world

I've taken my bows
And my curtain calls
You brought me fame*, THEN CHARGED ME A fortune
And everything that goes with it
I thank you all
But it's been no bed of roses
No pleasure cruise
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race
And I'd never lose
And WE KEEP GOING on, and on,and on, and on

We are the champions, my friends
And we'll keep on fighting till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions
Of the world

* For those of us whose drunken exploits were in the newspapers, boy ain't that the truth!

Queen also wrote a song about relapse: "Another One Bites The Dust"
(Bad blogger! Bad, bad blogger! You should be ashamed of yourself!)

Have a good and sober day.