This is just another morning,
one that I hope becomes the day
that I find the strength to tell you
that I’m going away.
It’s been a long time of us talking
wasting the hours in the day,
but I must confess
that my mind’s been elsewhere
and in good conscience, I cannot stay.
There’s a whole world of people
out there
and we’ve found something
that’s good,
but there’s so many
who struggle under tyranny,
so I feel I must do what I should.
I know I told you
I’d stay home,
I told you that I was done
with war,
but all of those scenes
that you see on the TV;
that’s what I was made for.
I see the tears in your eyes,
but behind them you know it’s true.
There’s evil out there
in the dark hearts of men,
and this thing I have to see through.
I know you’ll wait for me,
I’ll do my best
to make it back here,
home to you.
I’ll call when I can,
I know you understand.
That a man’s gotta do,
what a man’s gotta do,
while there’s still something
he can.
This place is our safety,
our comfort,
but comfort’s been what’s killing me.
So I made a call,
signed my name
and I’m back
in my old job next week.
I love you more
than anything in this world,
and this war will end for me.
I’ll be with you and the girls.
I’ll do what I can
to love you
the way that I know,
like the way that you love me,
when I tell you that I have to go.
HG – 2021
