Lyrics

PROOF OF LIFE
By Kristopher Daniel Pinnell

[INTRO]
This is proof of life
Statement from
A man trying to stay
Alive the best he can

[VERSE 1]
This is not a complaint.
This is not a grievance.
This is not an attempt
To manipulate.
I am writing this
Song
Trying to find
where I belong.
I don’t know
How many days
Or even how
Things went so
Very very wrong

[CHORUS]
I know what happy
Joyous, and free
Feels like
Because I’ve lived it
I know what clarity
Of thought
Feels like
Because I’ve already done it
I know what recovery is
Because I’ve already experienced it

[VERSE 2]
I’m no longer willing
Or can pretend
I know what happens
Where this road leads
And how this will all end
I have watched this happen
Again and again
I’ve already lost ground
I am nowhere
I can be found.
But this
Is no lost and found

[CHORUS]
I know what happy
Joyous, and free feels like
Because I’ve lived it
I know what clarity
Of thought
Feels like
Because I’ve already done it
I know what recovery is
Because I’ve already experienced it

[VERSE 3]
The public sees relapse.
The public sees addiction
What they don’t see
Is death by attrition
The months
The years
All those wasted tears
The sons
The fathers
The mothers
The daughters
All the phone calls
All the attempts
The failed treatments
The unspoken resentments

[CHORUS]
I know what happy
Joyous, and free feels like
Because I’ve lived it
I know what clarity
Of thought
Feels like
Because I’ve already done it
I know what recovery is
Because I’ve already experienced it

[Verse 4]
This time
I’m worth saving
I have one foot in the grave
The other foot wedged
In your closing doors
I sit on the edge
Nothing left to hedge
I make my last pledge

[CHORUS]
I know what happy
Joyous, and free feels like
Because I’ve lived it
I know what clarity
Of thought
Feels like
Because I’ve already done it
I know what recovery is
Because I’ve already experienced it

[OUTRO]

What they don’t see

Is a man fighting

For proof of life

The life that is Still within me