Mark Schultz

I really don't know how to start off this post, but this first song makes me cry. Yeah, I'll admit it. A lot of different music does. Like I mentioned in a prior post, I'm HUGE about lyrics, and these are two of those songs that really takes the cake. I'm doing a dual posting just for the heck of it. I was listening to both of these songs today, and I really felt the need to post both of these songs for everyone to read. This first song is called Walking Her Home. Read the words, tell me what you think!



Looking back
He sees it all
It was her first date the night he came to call

Her dad said son
Have her home on time
And promise me you’ll never leave her side
He took her to a show in town
And he was ten feet off the ground

(Chorus)
He was walking her home
And holding her hand
Oh the way she smiled it stole the breath right out of him
Down that old road
With the stars up above
He remembers where he was the night he fell in love
He was walking her home

Ten more years and a waiting room
At half past one
And the doctor said come in and meet your son

His knees went weak
When he saw his wife
She was smiling as she said he’s got your eyes

And as she slept he held her tight
His mind went back to that first night

(Chorus)

He walked her through the best days of her life
Sixty years together and he never left her side

A nursing home
At eighty-five
And the doctor said it could be her last night
And the nurse said Oh
Should we tell him now
Or should he wait until the morning to find out

But when they checked her room that night
He was laying by her side

Oh he was walking her home
And holding her hand
Oh the way she smiled when he said this is not the end
And just for a while they were eighteen
And she was still more beautiful to him than anything
He was walking her home
He was walking her home

Looking back
He sees it all
It was her first date the night he came to call


The video is a montage someone on YouTube created with the song, and using a montage from the movie The Notebook.





The next song is Letters From War. You have probably heard this song before.. maybe, maybe not. Anyways.. I have a cousin, his name is Peter, and I leave on Tuesday to head down to Georgia with my grandparents and my sister to go see him graduate from basic training with the Army. Also, one of my best friends Josh is in the Navy, and has been serving for a little longer than 2 years now. Josh and I have known each other for 15 years now. Thinking about these people that I know in the military.. it brings on a whole new meaning to this song. I pray daily for those that I love to stay safe and that God forever protect every single one of them. Here are the lyrics to the song, and the music video is following the lyrics.



She walked to the mailbox
On that bright summer's day
Found a letter from her son
In a war, far away

He spoke of the weather
And friends that he'd made
Said, 'I'd been thinking 'bout Dad
And the life that he had
That's why I'm here today'
Then at the end he said
'You are what I'm fighting for'
It was the first of his letters from war

She started writing

Chorus:
You're good and you're brave
What a father that you'll be someday
Make it home, make it safe

She wrote every night as she prayed

And late in December
A day she'll not forget
Oh, her tears stained the paper
With every word that she read

It said, 'I was up on a hill
I was out there alone
When the shots all rang out
And bombs were exploding
And that's when I saw him
He came back for me
Though he was captured
A man set me free
That man was your son
He asked me to write to you
I told him I would, oh I swore'
It was the last of the letters from war

And she prayed he was living
Kept on believing and wrote every night just to say

Chorus
You are good and you're brave
What a father you'll be someday
Make it home, make it safe

Still, she kept writing each day

Then two years later
Autumn leaves all around
A car pulled in the driveway
And she fell to the ground
And out stepped a captain
Where her boy used to stand

He said, 'Mom, I'm following orders
From all of your letters
And I've come home again'
He ran in to hold her
And dropped all his bags on the floor
Holding all of her letters from war

Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home