This song was written in a workshop with people in early recovery at Cataumet 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.

Lyrics

Cataumet June 2015
I don't remember exactly what day or time the alcohol……. took over my mindMy body was shaking and I found it hard to think…… I couldn't go an hour ……..without another drink
We can learn to breathe, Let ourselves slow downWe deserve better This new life we found…Get down on our knees Help me higher power Just get us through…. twenty four hours….
Looking to myself in the mirror when I’m high….Staring into my eyes makes me want to cry….Today is now tomorrow never comes…Somethines I ask myself ask self how has this begun
Chorus
The future’s full of chaossays the carnage of my past…The war inside my minddoesn’t have to lastThe future is coming one day at a time ….the future is coming… and it will blow my mind….
Chorus
Just get us through…. twenty four hours…. One day at a time ….. 24 hours..one day at a time…24 hrs…one day at a time…24 hrs…one day at a time…24 hrs….one day at a time….