From the recording Touched By Life - Touched By Life
<p>This is the title track from my CD "Touched By Life". It is a song about my life and many can relate it to their own lives as well.</p>
Lyrics
<p align="center">TOUCHED BY LIFE</p>
<p align="center">By Gregory W. Irish</p>
<p>WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY I MET A PRETTY GIRL</p>
<p>SHE WAS MY VERY FIRST LOVE AND THIS TOOK ME FOR A WHIRL.</p>
<p>WE SPENT THE SUMMER TOGETHER. SHE WORE HER HEART ON HER SLEEVE.</p>
<p>SO IT REALLY BROKE MY HEART WHEN SHE, SAID SHE HAD TO LEAVE.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>:CHORUS: LIFE HAPPENS OR SO THEY SAY… IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN ANYWAY…</p>
<p>LIFE’S SIMPLE IT’S JUST NOT EASY SO IT SEEMS…</p>
<p>I’VE BEEN TOUCHED BY LIFE.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO, MY WIFE AND I HAD A BABY BOY.</p>
<p>SPENDING TIME WITH HIM AND PLAYING GAMES BROUGHT US SO MUCH JOY.</p>
<p>BUT AS HE REACHED HIS TEENS, HIS ATTITUDE BEGAN TO CHANGE.</p>
<p>HIS MOODS WOULD TRAVEL UP AND DOWN THROUGH A VERY WIDE RANGE.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>:CHORUS: LIFE HAPPENS OR SO THEY SAY… IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN ANYWAY…</p>
<p>LIFE’S SIMPLE IT’S JUST NOT EASY SO IT SEEMS…</p>
<p>I’VE BEEN TOUCHED BY LIFE.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>EARLY IN NINETEEN NINETY SIX MY FATHER PASSED AWAY.</p>
<p>I MISS HIM VERY MUCH, AND I MISS HIM MORE EVERY DAY.</p>
<p>IT WAS DUE TO AN ILLNESS BUT IT WAS NOT HIS TIME TO GO.</p>
<p>NEAR THE END WE WEREN’T TOO CLOSE BUT STILL I MISS HIM SO.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>:CHORUS: LIFE HAPPENS OR SO THEY SAY… IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN ANYWAY…</p>
<p>LIFE’S SIMPLE IT’S JUST NOT EASY SO IT SEEMS…</p>
<p>I’VE BEEN TOUCHED BY LIFE.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>A CHILD WAS BROUGHT INTO THIS WORLD, BY OUR SON’S GIRLFRIEND.</p>
<p>THIS BROUGHT US SO MUCH HAPPINESS YOU WOULD NEVER THINK IT’D END.</p>
<p>SHE HAD A GENETIC DISORDER, IT WAS KNOWN AS SMA.</p>
<p>IT WAS ONLY NINE MONTHS LATER THAT GOD TOOK HER AWAY.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>:CHORUS: LIFE HAPPENS OR SO THEY SAY… IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN ANYWAY…</p>
<p>LIFE’S SIMPLE IT’S JUST NOT EASY SO IT SEEMS…</p>
<p>I’VE BEEN TOUCHED BY LIFE.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>:CHORUS: LIFE HAPPENS OR SO THEY SAY… IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN ANYWAY…</p>
<p>LIFE’S SIMPLE IT’S JUST NOT EASY SO IT SEEMS…</p>
<p>I’VE BEEN TOUCHED BY LIFE.</p>
<p>I’VE BEEN TOUCHED BY LIFE.</p>