Susan Harrison: Music
If I Were A Shoe
There is the saying that when you are looking for something you have to stop and ask yourself now if I were a________ where would I be. My Dad would often say that to us when we were growing up to get us to focus. I took this idea and went in that direction when I wrote this song for my Dad after he died. It was first released on a collection for hospice called, "Sunset at Meditation Point". I hope it brings comfort.
If I Were a Shoe ©Susan Harrison
When I was young, I would misplace many things, many times.
So, I’d ask my Dad to help me retrace, my steps so I might hopefully find
lost things I left behind.
He said to me, “Gotta think differently.
Here’s something works well for me.
Imagine, just become what you want to see
and ask yourself, where could I be?”
Where could I be? Where could I be?
If I were a shoe, a watch or a key I’d ask where could I be?
Where could I be, where could I be?
Well I found my wallet, found my shoe, keys, sunglasses and books overdue.
All I really had to do was ask where, where would I be?
Socks, earrings, kittens, jobs, hats and love, throughout the years, I’ve lost all the above.
Yet, sometimes when I sit quietly, things seem to even find me… when I ask.
Where could I be? Where could I be?
If I were a shoe, a watch or a key or if I wanna find me.
I ask where could I be?
We lost you one Monday, when you slipped away.
No matter how hard we all did pray.
Well, I searched my heart and I searched my mind.
Who do you think I did find. When I asked,
Where could you be, where could you be?
In hearts of people, people like me, that’s where you’ll forever be.