Better Days

[jade_athyst]

I'm not one for resolutions, and I don't usually celebrate New Years Eve, but I don't ignore it either. I usually think back on the year behind me, and look foreward to the one ahead. At many times throughout 2006, there was a song that would come to mind. I thought of it when I graduated nursing school, and when I started my first job as a nurse. I thought of it when it became clear that Jayden was going to be ours. And I thought of it when I really needed to. When the job didn't work out, when I got bogged down in my sisters' struggles, or my own depression. When my grandmother died....

I don't think it was a real big hit, but it has a lot to say, and I agree with it. It's a fundamental part of who I am that I'm always searching for, working toward- Better Days.

Better Days

And you ask me what I want this year
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days

So take these words
And sing out loud
Cuz everyone is forgiven now
Cuz tonight's the night the world begins again

And it's someplace simple where we could live
And something only you can give
And thats faith and trust and peace while we're alive
And the one poor child that saved this world
And there's 10 million more who probably could
If we all just stopped and said a prayer for them

So take these words
And sing out loud
Cuz everyone is forgiven now
Cuz tonight's the night the world begins again

I wish everyone was loved tonight
And somehow stop this endless fight
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days

So take these words
And sing out loud
Cuz everyone is forgiven now
Cuz tonight's the night the world begins again
Cuz tonight's the night the world begins again

-By the Goo Goo Dolls