I did everything in my life as best as I could ever
I worked hard I provided I loved all best as could..
I made good money all of the time family and home
But there was always something missing down the line..
Something with all life ever taught me I never had
And where and how I was in life this I could not learn..
As it simply was never there to take advantage of
And always my candle of life continued to burn..
Never seemed anything I ever did was as many dreamed
I almost broke my own back always in life simply trying..
To do more to make more happier within their own lives
And it was all about making more money always buying..
All I wanted was to see them all a loving in life family
And the more I made their more they needed to buy..
Seemed all the money in the entire world never enough
Reluctant to ever quit I kept on and my soul it would sigh..
Someone else always had more and they wanted more too
But myself in life the only bread winner could never please..
I worked hard doing things well I'd never done before
My heart ached so my soul it was never in life at ease.
I felt nobody ever loved myself the way as I did them
Not a soul ever told me how they appreciated all I'd done..
And I'd worked hard all of my life giving my very all to all
Yet I worked always in life performing as if I was the sun..
There was never any real love to be found by any so to say
If there ever was there was never really any left over for me..
It was a beat the Jones always as if way of life that they lived
Do better make more buy more need more it seemed always to be..
Not a soul was I felt was really being happy in any way at all
My mind body and soul was aching there had to be more to life..
I used to say if I could live without money I'd the richest man
I was never afraid of hard work complaining was my then wife..
The children grew with perfections true the marriage ended
A long time after traveling I ended up in the Philippines..
Here was a people with nothing at all but happy loving souls
Beautiful attitudes loving to extreme hard working to extremes..
Here was I learning all over again as they were teaching me
Of all the things I never knew before all money could never buy..
Gods own children in a paradise of love attitudes totally unknown
To any anywhere else never complaining under a bluest ever sky..
After all my hard work learning of life I've lived upon earth
After all my passing every test of life in life's university..
And after all of my writing song and book thoughts in life
Here only in the Philippines the simple Filipino is teaching me..