A Year to the Day

from This Place Is Not My Home by Blake Farha

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It’s been a year to the day.
Not a lot has changed.
I’m just a bit older,
But I still feel the same
As that day one year ago
When I came back home,
Telling myself not to be scared
Because adventures also roam.

I live my life one phase at a time.
It helps to keep me moving;
It helps keep hope alive.
When I’m unsure of my direction in this life
I delude myself:
“Everything will be different at the
Next stop down the line.”

I wouldn’t say that I
Wasted all my time,
But I can’t deny things haven’t gone exactly
How I hoped they might.
Which doesn’t meant that things aren’t good.
It doesn’t mean I would
Go back in time and skip that flight,
Though I sometimes wish I could.

I live my life one phase at a time.
It helps to keep me moving;
It helps keep hope alive.
When I’m unsure of my direction in this life
I delude myself:
“Everything will be different at the
Next stop down the line.”

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from This Place Is Not My Home, released May 24, 2018
I'd like to thank Ursula Le Guin for her commencement speech at Mills College in 1983, and credit that speech, entitled, "Success is somebody else's failure," for inspiring the refrain of this song.

The full text of that speech can be found here:
speakola.com/grad/ursula-le-guin-mills-college-1983

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Blake Farha Berlin, Germany

Blake Farha is a native Texan singer/songwriter who has been playing and writing music for over 17 years.

Fueled by his transience, Blake’s vocal driven tunes are reflections of wanderlust, that ever elusive search for self, and the people he meets along the way. ... more

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