I Am Alive

I awake all alone, to find I’m on my own.

Today I learned a new way.

To live my life alone.

 

I have fought and I have cried.

I have learned and I have lied.

To survive more than one day and say to you.

I’m alive.

I’m alive.

I'm alive.

I am alive.

 

I have been half in the ground.

I’ve been lost but never found.

For I live inside this shell of a living hell.

 

I started writing this song when I came to learn.

That over 300,000 soldiers were wounded.

And over 58,000 lost their lives.

In our attempted police actions in Vietnam.

What is even more startling.

Is the way they were treated when they came home.

 

© JUMP INK PUBLISHING 

WRITTEN BY JOE PULLEY