[00:00.00] 作曲 : Brian Roberson[00:00.00][00:09.87][Verse 1: Mr. J. Medeiros][00:28.904]Envision the prison of age[00:30.378]Where the apparent disposition[00:31.854]Is that of a parrot commissioned to live in a cage[00:33.959]Who hits the parents when decisions are made[00:35.986]To not listen and they got their fists in opposition to fair play[00:39.332]Must be in your submission to rage[00:40.939]You became a victim the same way[00:42.980]The system done gave way[00:44.239]Inflicting the same pain[00:45.354]Your convicted and can't blame[00:46.804]Recondition your brain till your convinced you can't change[00:49.334]Understandably wishin' family tradition won't land you in a position[00:52.856]Where you feelin' the rain[00:54.103]Lonely without a home, cause now your child's grown[00:56.510]Wearing a milestone like its the only tie you own[00:59.166]Crying when your alone[01:00.252]Hoping that God forgives you, wondering if your kids do[01:02.842]No one should have to live through[01:04.124]The violence that you been through[01:05.325]The fight that's still within you[01:06.574]Its time to make things right and free the child that lives in you[01:08.929][Hook][01:09.714]Hear me...see me...[01:12.136]Do you even know I'm still breathing[01:14.735]I listen to the sounds of a TV[01:16.872]The only thing that really wants to reach me[01:19.692]Daddy listen...Mommy please...[01:22.207]There must be a better way to raise me[01:24.546]I'm yelling till my ears can't hear me[01:26.832]Into a silence that kills me[01:28.574][Verse 2: Stro][01:28.930]There Billy stands in twenty below gripping his coat[01:31.972]That froze two hours ago[01:33.600]Dramatic I know, but cold ain't it, seven year old's waiting[01:36.539]Takes another look at a picture that lost time painted[01:39.227]We say put it away I can't look at it[01:41.766]The truth stings a little when you look at it[01:44.199]We're creating a mold of bad habits[01:46.142]When the teacher got eleven year old's that blast at 'em[01:48.94]And the world tunes in just then[01:50.348]Listening to every word that he should have heard at age ten[01:53.024]Then daddy wonders where it all began[01:55.320]He could call you a father, but couldn't really ever call you a friend[01:58.265]You worked hard to provide a home for good living[02:00.930]And you figured, that's all that you really had to give 'em[02:03.938]Now, if you don't know much know this[02:05.882]All work, no play, far cry, near miss[02:08.333][Hook][02:09.235]Hear me...see me...[02:11.509]Do you even know I'm still breathing[02:14.016]I listen to the sounds of a TV[02:16.178]The only thing that really wants to reach me[02:18.830]Daddy listen...Mommy please...[02:21.229]There must be a better way to raise me[02:23.614]I'm yelling till my ears can't hear me[02:26.334]Into a silence that kills me[02:28.268][Verse 3: Rez][02:28.590]It was once said that the[02:29.228]Grass will wither and the flowers will fall down[02:30.813]And every man will pass when his number gets called[02:32.890]But when a child takes his life that type of logic don't work out[02:35.587]A flower never chose to pluck its own pedals out[02:37.763]And through out of the tears it gets so clear[02:40.445]That the son I held dear I lost somewhere[02:42.856]Between my work passion and a child size casket[02:45.510]Hard to grasp when these dreams keep flashing his[02:48.159]Cold foot hanging from a stainless steel table and[02:50.515]A white sheet stain with a mothers pain a grief[02:52.917]Every day I wake to face this feeling of pain[02:54.857]So I milk the scapegoat to ease this feeling of blame thinking[02:57.988]What kind of man am I? What kind of mother were you?[03:00.623]What kind of life did we subject our child to?[03:02.805]Wishing I would have listened I would have probably seen clues[03:05.378]Praying for salvation that his soul could sure use[03:07.753][Hook][03:08.267]Hear me...see me...[03:10.967]Do you even know I'm still breathing[03:13.141]I listen to the sounds of a TV[03:15.80]The only thing that really wants to reach me[03:18.451]Daddy listen...Mommy please...[03:20.844]There must be a better way to raise me[03:23.129]I'm yelling till my ears can't hear me[03:25.515]Into a silence that kills me[03:37.82]