As you have perhaps noticed, I will take the lyrics of a familiar song and then re-write them to become about recovery from drug and alcoholic abuse/addiction. I share these perceptions with other members of the recovery program ETA. Several months ago, a fellow ETA member told me about a song he had heard and how much he liked it. Then he gave me a CD with the song on it and ask that I listen to it. I took the CD and promptly lost it. A few days ago, he gave me another CD and last night I played the song- about 72 times.
I still don't know all the aspects of recovery the song speaks to, but there is reference to different perceptions people have to the same thing. Also the different perceptions one person has to the same thing, depending on their mood. I do know the song is soothing and speaks to my soul, just like it does to the guy who turned me on to it. (That might not be the best phrase to put on a recovery blog. Oh, well.) Hope you enjoy it, too.
See The Same Way by Bruce Hornsby
There was a little girl picked up a doll
Oh so white as snow
Said this is me as I really am
Same little girl picked up a doll
Looked just like her
And threw it away in the garbage can
One man in a courtroom with a grim-faced stare
A sea of armchair experts judging what's said
One man saw another man that could've been him
One man and a woman saw nothing but red, red, red
You're looking at a picture
I'm looking at it too
Do you see what I see today
Let's talk about the difference
Find out what's in the way
Open our eyes, see the same
See the same way
One man saw a healer doing such good, good things
One man saw a sinner by the Holy Sea
Well Jesus and the Pharisees didn't see eye to eye
But the man on the shore saw so clearly
You're looking at a picture
I'm looking at it too
Do you see what I see today
Let's talk about the difference
Find out what's in the way
Open our eyes, see the same
See the same way
I want to be at the meeting, I want to be in that number
When we all see, see the same, see the same way
One man saw a million men standing in peaceful grace
One man saw nobody missing work
Telling lots of bad jokes might just make you feel good
But you never know who, who you hurt with your words
You're looking at a picture
I'm looking at it too
Do you see what I see today
Let's talk about the difference
Find out what's in the way
Open our eyes, see the same
See the same way
There was a man playing G.I. Joe, way back there in the woods
In training for the coming of the promised war
Seeing all conspiracy, needs somebody to blame
If only he could open up, love a little more
You're looking at a picture
I'm looking at it too
Do you see what I see today
Let's talk about the difference
Find out what's in the way
Open our eyes, see the same
See the same way
Have a good and sober day.
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Anonymous Dan here: This reminded of me on the writings of Chuck Chamberlain when he was talking about the struggles of accepting his son and he suddenly realized that what he saw from the picture window of his living room was not the same scene his son saw....and recovery, tolerance and love opened his eyes and changed his view.
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