Sole Survivor

 Lyrics

I grew up a jungle child

A strength and will required

Even then, I had survival in my genes

On the western coast of Peru

Finishing high school

My mom and I were to be flyin' home that night

On Christmas Eve

Though my father warned us

Not to board that plane

But board we did anyway

Plans were already made

Above the Amazon, a thunderstorm swirled in our way

Heard the aluminum creaking

And turbulence wreaking

Havoc and scaring all the passengers on LANSA Flight 508

The sounds loud and frightening

Fuselage struck by lightning

Which tore it apart while we were two miles high

Still strapped into my seat

My mother right next to me

I fell like a hailstone from the sky

*...ah...ah..ahhhhhh....*

Waking up I was all alone

Gashed leg, broken collarbone

And nothing around to be found, but wreckage strewn

Eleven days wading downstream

Found a boat with some gasoline

And I poured it all in my festering wounds

But I did not take that boat

To steal away from this

A wild wanderer still guided by a moral compass

Then found by fishermen

A local pilot took me 

And flew me back home to see my newly widowed father

*...ah...ah..ahhhhhh....*

It's been over forty years now

But still hard to see how

I came through the rain forest alive

When I fell from the sky

It still haunts me not knowing why

I was the only one to survive

A few notes

Based on the AMAZING true story of Juliane Koepcke. 

Go read about it.