Leave It All Behind

Watch the man Next door Take his wife By her hands And beat her life To the floor And then she's left Crying And in pain She wishes She was dying Cause everyday When he gets home He goes insane Leaves her alone She knows if she wants to live She's gotta Leave it all behind If she had anything to give She would Leave it all behind But the silent movies Play over And over again In her mind She's gotta Leave it all behind Leave it all behind Three shots Three minutes Three cops cars Swerve past my house Then the young boy Runs his punk ass The opposite direction Fired the shots In a shuffle With a gun Like a toy And his own dirty past Never knew Any other way He only knows He to live today His dad's at home And he never understands He beats his mom With his own hands The poor kid Only wants a way out So this is what he did Now he's got his doubts He knows if she wants to live He's gotta Leave it all behind If he had anything to give He would Leave it all behind But the silent movies Play over And over again In his mind He's gotta Leave it all behind Leave it all behind Young girl Only seventeen Can't deal with the world Or what she's seen She watched her friends They all seemed To like it It was a new end For a permanent dream This is the third Try She knows Everything she's heard But she's Ready to Die Her brother is the punk With the gun Her father the drunk Who don't give a damn 'bout his son Her mama gets beaten Everynight She's tired of being told It'll be alright So she takes the needle And she heats it all up She makes another scar For that last high up Fifteen times too much And it ends her life It all wouldn't be so bad If her dad Didn't beat his wife She knows if she wants to live She's gotta Leave it all behind If she had anything to give She would Leave it all behind But the silent movies Play over And over again In her mind She's gotta Leave it all behind Leave it all behind Written December 16th, 2001 © on Dec 17 2001 01:29 AM PST   0 • 10