Half My Heart in Down Under- A J Ko Song

Writer's note:  So this actually was written on a little white paper sack I pulled out of my seat pocket on my one of my flights when I couldn't sleep.  I believe I was listening to Holly Long's Can't Forget You, from Wicked- For Good, and watching the in flight movie, "Safe Haven" as I gathered my thoughts to write it.  Strange how it all came together.  I guess you can say I dedicate part of it or more so owe my inspiration to my Aussie friends and my life I had in Australia! Cheers mates!

Half My Heart in Down Under

By J. Ko

Written 28 July 2013

She gazes out the window

Looking at Botany Bay for one last time

She couldn’t believe her time

To return half way around the world

Had already come

It seemed just like yesterday

Some of her dreams were coming true

Right in front of her eyes

As she saw a glimpse of the city

And the pilot said “Lift off”

(Chorus)

Tears rolled down her face

And she prayed

“God I feel like I’ve been livin’

In a complete surreal state of being

Yet all I can think of is how I’m not

Good with good-byes

All I wanted to really say before I got on the lift

“I’ll never forget you
You’ll always be on my heart
I too really hope we meet again

But I froze, left a note

Not able to explain the past two months

Got on the lift

Realizing I was leaving

Half my heart Down Under

(Yeah half my heart)

Verse 2
When it all began

She knew it’d be an adventure

An opportunity

A small town girl

Could put on her bucket list

Never would she had expected

To see what the other half

Of the world had to offer again

Still she could believe the bliss

So sensual and magical

And

(Chorus)

Verse 3

Time was passing by,

Emotions shaken, rattled

Her hearted pulled

She never really planned

To find herself and know who she was

Her passion, faith, desires

All in complete harmony

How could it be?

Oh tell the world how could it be?

Yeah

(Chorus)

Out her bag falls a card and a passport

She reads the card thinking

How she touched lives

More so how they touched hers

Then she finds a slip of paper

Sticking out of her paper

With an address written on it

She smiles and

She closes her eyes

Oh…

(Chorus)

Her minds races

Thinking of a man she met unexpectedly

The laughs, chats, little moments

So rare, natural, real

All unheard of

Never once seeming how time realizing the time

Which passed by

How could she forget a kind and gentle face

And those dark earnest eyes

Finally in the 25 years on this earth

She wore no mask

She was her true self

How could he notice her out of a crowded room

For whatever reason

Ever moment priceless and unforgettable

In the end no barriers

God explain?

(Chorus X 2)

Plane lands

Voice on the PA Says

Welcome to the USA

She would never change a thing yeah…