The Golden Soldier

This song is… amazing.

“We’ll have the days we break,
And we’ll have the scars to prove it,
We’ll have the bonds that we save,
But we’ll have the heart not to lose it.

For all of the times we’ve stopped,
For all of the things I’m not.

We put one foot in front of the other,
We move like we ain’t got no other,
We go when we go,
We’re marching on.”

Marchin On – OneRepublic – Waking Up - Track 10



I absolutely love this song! (This video is pretty fantastic too!) It's just hard to describe my feelings. It’s beautiful, but… I feel… gritty when I listen to it.

Just like everyone else I have a past full of pitfalls… things that were disastrous, catastrophic, and just plain tragic. But the one thing I still cling to is… I NEVER GAVE UP. I’m a… serve you your own ass... card carrying... grade A... FIGHTER!

Maybe it’s the artist in me? Maybe I’m just masochistic! But I keep all those awful feelings just as close as I keep all the good. It’s ALL still there. The Good, The Bad, and The Very Ugly. It’s all still there changing me, molding me, reminding me what it means to be here... to be me.

Where I was wrong, Where I was right,
Where the world changed, over-night.

This song feels like a battle cry to that dented part of me. That part that’s just too damn stubborn to lie down and die. That steely part that turns into the storm… That granite part that laughs when the sky starts raining down… That resolute part of me, that spreads golden wings when it all falls apart.

With all of the wars I fought
And so many things I’m not...
With what I have,
I'll promise you that,
I’m Marchin On!