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LIVING RIGHT
Paul Morey / Jay Clementi

The VA made me prove my PTSD
With forms and news clippings
Like they forgot there was a war

My hope is fleeting, my faith is bleeding
Don’t know what I’m believing that’s for sure
Every time that hurt would hit me
I’d reach for the whiskey

But I don’t pass out to go to sleep anymore
I can face the pain cold sober
I don’t wake up on the floor and wonder
If my self sabotage, hit the main stage last night
There’s a new sheriff in town, I don’t play when I fight
Won’t let it back inside, no it had to die, so I
Could start living right

They had a right to kill me, would they, if they, knew me
What that war did to me, put the bottle in control…until I made it let go

Now I don’t pass out to go to sleep anymore
I can face the pain cold sober
I don’t wake up on the floor and wonder
If my self sabotage, hit the main stage last night
There’s a new sheriff in town, I don’t play when I fight
Won’t let it back inside, no it had to die, so I
Could start living right

We toasted the tough times, numbed the pain I won’t lie
Those days are gone of living wrong, the truth is that I

Don’t pass out to go to sleep anymore
I face the pain cold sober
I don’t wake up on the floor and wonder
If my self sabotage, hit the main stage last night
There’s a new sheriff in town, I don’t play when I fight
I won’t let it back inside, no it had to die, so I
Could start living right

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from SW​​​​​​​:​​​​​​​S May 2023, Beaver Hollow, NY, released June 20, 2023
©2023 SongwritingWith:Soldiers Music (ASCAP) / Sony ATV Cross Keys (ASCAP)

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