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Growing up in extreme poverty, and living in a town filled with empty promises, the young boy is filled with scepticism. |
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He battles between right and wrong. |
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Facing a horrifying decision, which no child should have to make, his whole life could be turned upside down. |
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Does he listen to the wishes of his kind, but stressful mother, to remain living in poverty, and be persecuted by many? |
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The alternative is to take a road into crime and deception, with his so called friends. |
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Either way he'll suffer the consequences. [Verse]</i> |
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His mother sad, now she's left alone |
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No shoulder to cry on, no hand to hold |
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To stay alive, worked her fingers to the bone |
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Guilt nor shame, her child must have a home |
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She tried to teach him right from wrong |
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A town without vision, they don't belong |
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Eternal friends, persuasive lies |
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Tainted images, through sorry eyes [Bridge] |
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Don't be shy, pull up a stool, stick with us |
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You'll do okay |
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Money talks, that's their rule, |
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Once you join, you're here to stay you can't walk away [Chorus] |
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Lord knows she tried hard to save him |
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The angel without wings [Verse] |
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Stigmatised, the poor, the few |
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Opportunities given, but not to you |
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He searched along the corridors of power |
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A fruitless journey, his darkest hour [Bridge] |
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By any rule he doesn't play, |
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Now he's the keeper, no-one's fool |
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Who said crime doesn't pay |
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All his fears have disappeared [Chorus] |
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Lord knows she tried so hard, to save him |
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Lord knows she tried so hard, to save him [Middle-8] |
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The angel without wings |
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Time, will it tell, a choice of heaven or hell [Repeat chorus] [Outro] |
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The years have passed by, the leaves have fallen |
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Learn to survive in time, you're on your own |
