[00:10.19] My parents got some big money problems
[00:13.81] We're all young and we're countin' on 'em
[00:15.63] I'm four years old, you think I'm bouncing on 'em?
[00:18.37] I just sit back and watch, thinkin' bout em
[00:21.95] Mom's probably stronger than Pops is
[00:23.72] The talk is, that the old man has lost it
[00:27.42] Last week he came back from work
[00:29.28] I saw him on the porch
[00:31.09] With a glass of milk in his shirt
[00:32.80] He was flippin' out
[00:33.73] Mom probably put it there
[00:35.56] Judging from how angry that she was
[00:37.36] It probably should be there
[00:39.19] Now both folks know that I'm standing there
[00:41.02] But Mama protects me
[00:42.88] Throws me behind her back
[00:44.68] Why did Papa do that?
[00:45.56] What's that tellin' me?
[00:47.33] Birds can't help but sing a melody. (I ain't stupid)
[00:52.73] Happy ever after is nothing but a fantasy
[00:58.14] Police are part of our family
[01:00.87] Son and mother look out from the porch
[01:03.65] See father's head duck under the door
[01:05.49] I believe in nothing
[01:11.79] I believe in myself
[01:16.23] I believe in nothing
[01:21.76] Nothing at all
[01:28.00] My papa got some big anger problems
[01:31.67] I'm getting older and I'm sick about 'em
[01:34.38] It's getting harder just to live around it
[01:37.01] I need to take a stand as a man, I need to be about it
[01:39.77] So ring around the posies round the living room table
[01:42.50] I can't remember what we were arguing about
[01:45.25] I stood up to the scariest man in the country
[01:47.94] I held my head high as I left the house
[01:50.65] Little boy stood in the face of a dragon
[01:54.27] Left with the heart of a lion, amazing
[01:57.07] It's funny, I left the house so it could cool down
[01:59.74] But the dragon stayed hot, who's the fool now?
[02:03.37] Papa and the devil, sitting in the basement
[02:05.17] A-R-S-O-N-I-N-G
[02:07.88] Young son, headed back to the household
[02:10.53] Running down the block, eight firetrucks deep
[02:13.23] Fell to my knees and I screamed in the front yard
[02:16.08] Fireman running around like no one's in charge
[02:18.76] Sort of like when it rains, it pours
[02:21.43] See the flames burst out of the door
[02:24.17] I've learned a lifetime
[02:52.12] A lifetime as a boy
[02:58.56] Evil's on the inside
[03:03.90] Waiting for all
[03:08.47] Got an apartment
[03:11.13] I'm 20 years old
[03:12.96] Finally thinking I have everything under control
[03:14.76] It's been years since I spoke to the man
[03:18.41] When, he gave me his old cutlass to get out of the sand
[03:20.29] So just like a hyena, I take the meat
[03:22.03] And then I run my ass away, you need to let me be
[03:25.62] But over time a part of me knew one needed to speak
[03:28.37] That's right when the world decided that it couldn't be
[03:31.92] It's the biggest hurdle thinking past tense
[03:34.63] When a strong man takes his last breath
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