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The room goes cold and dark My wife stands over me The bloodstain leaves the telling mark Oh why, oh why, could I never see I truly loved her so But something deep inside was broken If only she could know How the demon in me was woken I was just a boy My father towering tall For every scattered toy His heavy hand would fall And when I failed at school His harsh words would fly Telling me I was a fool It never mattered how hard I'd try The only peace I'd get Was when he took the bottle I'd wait until he slept Then finally I could settle All I ever knew was violence How was I supposed to know If the voices would never silence This torment would only grow And so when I became a man I took for me a wife And taught her with a firm hand A woman's place in life With every strike I knew The boy inside would cry But what was I to do I never questioned why This deadly disease I had My father passed it down Was I truly all that bad To earn his constant frown As the blood pooled round me And I heard her sobbing cries Was my love so hard to see I slowly closed my eyes This thing my father gave That took my life away I'll take it to the grave This I vowed where I lay Never would I beat my child The way that he beat me His mighty fists swung wild On a little boy of three I beat my pregnant wife Now here my life does fade Oh please Lord give good life To her unborn babe This abusive life it carries on Till someone finally dies Surely he was wrong Those mean words were all just lies And so with me this vicious circle Will finally see it's end Released from this deadly girdle Perhaps her broken heart can mend As I slip away I take her hand in mine These words of love I cannot say I hope she'll know in time With every bottle that I drank The boy in me would drown Deeper and deeper the pain sank Till the memory could not be found I had turned into my father A weak and hate filled man A man tormented by anger A sad and weary man The drink would not remove the pain But now as life flowed out of me Forming a deep red stain I knew she had set me free
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