Better days

Goo Goo Dolls - Better Days Lyrics

• Songwriters: John Rzeznik

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

'Cause I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
In designer love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days

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

And it's someplace simple where we could live
And something only you can give
And that's faith and trust and peace while we're alive

And the one poor child he 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
'Cause everyone is forgiven now
'Cause 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
'Cause everyone is forgiven now
'Cause tonight's the night the world begins again
'Cause tonight's the night the world begins again

Sharing this this morning.

I have loved this song by the Goo Goo Dolls since the very 

first time Gypsy Baby told me in the car when she was in high school:

"Mom you have to hear this song, you are going to love it."

How right she was.

I  may have even shared it on the blog before.

I, over the last few days, have had better days.

So much better that not only did I walk last night

but actually enjoyed it. When this song came into the buds in my ears,

I knew I had to, once again, share it.

The first year I heard it, I used these words as my TES Christmas card.

Not only did I do that but I also played it and sang it

in front of staff when I had to do classes for them.

Gina B. was alive back then and especially fell in love with the song.

Big Man, yes he talks to me when I brush my teeth 

and he also talks to me via my earbuds when I walk.

Last evening, my thoughts were on a family member

who is going through a very rough time through

faults of no one but themself. 

My thoughts were on this family member and

how if I were in that spot, what I would do.

I also think, "Hell if It were me, I would have never gotten myself

in that place to begin with."

Then this song, having not heard it in years, is in the shuffle of the IPod.

I realize that is the answer, right?

That I am not this person, cannot think like them nor act like them

but no more or less a child of the one I call The Big Man.

They may not deserve nor get the forgiveness that they request,

but don't they deserve "Better days" if they work hard to get it?

Is it for me to judge? For sure not.

and what should we all give to all?

"FAITH AND TRUST AND PEACE WHILE WE'RE ALIVE"

This is what we should all strive to give and yet we are all 

imperfect sinners, and the Big Man, the one true,

who so does ask us for these three things.

I want peace for myself, for all I love.

Some of us have to work harder than others.

Some of us can only gain these things back by lots and lots of hard work

not in words but in actions

I know I cannot give what I have given in the past to this person I speak of today.

It is draining and unpleasant to do so.

However, I cannot deny the love I have for them.

I do want the best not only for their children but for all the children of the world.

"SO TAKE THESE WORDS AND SING OUT LOUD,

CAUSE EVERYONE IS FORGIVEN NOW,

CAUSE TONIGHTS THE NIGHT THE WORLD BEGINS AGAIN."

It is the one thing Big Man promises us all,

Forgiveness and a chance for the 

"world to begin again"