This song was written in a workshop with people in early recovery at Miller House in Cape Cod, MA. The format of the workshop allows people to gain hands-on experience with recovery skills like letting a process unfold and slowing down. It was rerecorded by Kathy Moser and Alice Leon and additional members of the Promises Collective.
Contact Kathy Moser: 908-591-4541 or kathy@musicforrecovery.com for more information.
The Miller House Anthem – Trusted and Respected
Miller House, December 2015
Feeling trusted and respected
Connected and accepted
Now I come to Miller house
And now I feel protected
Brotherhood togetherness
better than alone,
strength runs in numbers
lets just call this home.
CHORUS
Feeling trusted and respected
Connected and accepted
Now I come to Miller house
And I…I I I I
feel protected
You can’t win them all but win lose or draw,
we all played the game and left them in aww.
I am carrying the load but never alone,
this may be miller house but I call it home.
Breaking jail mentality, learn a new reality,
this tough guy exterior is really just a fallacy.
I’m an introvert enslaved since the first of his days
Songs of brotherhood felt within his ribcage
CHORUS
Put our egos aside together we rise
now I’m a member of the Miller House tribe.
Feeling trusted and respected
Connected and accepted
Now I come to Miller house
And now I feel protected
Who knows what binds together
Maybe some strange collective call
Or some defects of genetics
perhaps nothing at all
Brotherhood togetherness
better than alone,
strength runs in numbers
lets just call this home.
Put our egos aside together we rise
now I’m a member of the Miller House tribe.
CHORUS