Air Force Medics are trained in healing others wounds while armed and ready for combat. How does that double responsibility impact the medic, the healer and warrior over time - and what is coming home like? Air Force Veteran Blair Morin and acclaimed Nashville songwriter James House got together for a writing session to explore these questions in the song, Warrior-Healer.
Warrior-Healer
Blair Morin and James House
11 September 2018
I remember seeing a lot of good in people
Back when I was a younger man
But I went to war looked into the face of evil
Change forever who I am
I did my duty, I was unapologetic
Swore I’d be there when a brother in need
That's whet you do when you’re a warrior medic
Give comfort and aid no matter what you believe
But somewhere between then and now
I lost myself
Oh oh oh healer - oh oh oh warrior
Oh oh oh healer - oh oh oh warrior
My wife asks me why am I so angry
My kids ask me why am I so scared
They see it but I don’t burden them
Cause I’m still fighting that war over there
But somewhere between then and now
I got lost myself
Oh oh oh healer - oh oh oh warrior
Oh oh oh healer - oh oh oh warrior
I haven’t given up on my brothers
They haven’t given up on me
Looking back pushes me forward
Fighting to feel the hope that I thought I’d never see
Oh oh oh healer - oh oh oh warrior
Oh oh oh healer - oh oh oh warrior
Thank you to Blair and Sarah Morin for your service, sacrificies and your passion to help others with your story.
Many thanks to Mr. James House for your service through songwriting, and our friends at SongwritingWith:Soldiers.
Thanks to Joe Wallace for photography, and to Chuck Clough at Above The Basement for your support and technical assistance.
If you are interested in a great podcast that examines and dissects the songs we all know and love and how they came to be, check out Song Exploder!
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