Quietly turning the back door key, stepping outside she is free...

So my most recent song that I can't stop listening to: She's Leaving Home, by the Beatles.

I just realized so many things that I am thankful for.


Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free.

She (We gave her most of our lives)
is leaving (Sacrificed most of our lives)
home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband Daddy our baby's gone
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly
How could she do this to me.

She (We never thought of ourselves)
is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye

Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the motor trade.

She (What did we do that was wrong)
is having (We didn't know it was wrong)
fun (Fun is the one thing that money can't buy)
Something inside that was always denied
For so many years. Bye, bye
She's leaving home. Bye, bye


I guess it just made me realize that wow. My parents really have sacrificed most of their lives and done everything they could to make me happy. Literally. They provided me with everything that money could buy. A house, food, heat, furniture, a bed, clothing, etc... and they never once thought of themselves. I hope that I am half the parent my parents have been to me someday.

Today is Veterans Day, and I just want to say my heart is full. I'm emotional because I just wonder what my Grandpa would think if he could see America today. What Keith Bennett would think. That people My age say they would burn the American Flag like it's nothing. Like they don't appreciate the people who have sacrificed their lives and fought so hard for what is Right... They just don't get it.

I feel like we're no longer the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
it's the Land of the Free and Home of the Celebrity President now...