Away

Today I Had Such A Hard Time School Was Too Much For My Mind Tears Filled My Eyes But I Wouldn't Let Anyone Hear My Cries Additude Was Written All Over Me Like Grafiti On The Window Sill That You Sometimes See My Hands Shoved In The Pockets Of My Jeans A Problem Child At Only Fifteen Runaway Two Nights Before Hate My Momma So Much I Just Walked Out That Door Came'on Back 'Cause I Got No Where Else To Go A Slap On The Face Is All That I Got To Show Screaming At Eachother, Saying We Hate Eachother So Much I Tell Her Imma Leave Again, If One Hair On My Head She Decides To Touch Daddy Aint Home, He Left For A Few Days Leaving My Sanity In A Fragile Haze Sentenced To My Room, To Sit There And Die All Day Long I Have To Hide Wrote My Friends Name In Sharpie On My Skin To Keep Away The Cuts That Would Have Been No Drugs Are Around Me, Thats A Relieve It Makes My Goals Of Soberness, Easier To Achieve Momma Leaves For Work, That Makes Me So Glad It Makes It Easier To Calm Down And Not Be Mad Daddy Comes Home, At Twelve O'Clock Midnight It Seems That Him And The Woman He Loves Had Another Fight No, Daddy Isn't Cheating, She Doesnt Feel The Same Way Now They're Just Friends, And Thats All That They Will Stay Daddy Is Mad, Someone Got On His Bad Side My Mind Flashes Back To The Night Of Our 'Great Divide' Tears Start Streaming, My Hands Start To Shake I Wont Let Him Know That Im Scared, Even If I Have To Fake This Dark Man In Daddy, Taught Me Street Things To Remember, In The Battle Heat I Will Not Be Afraid That Weakness Cant Be Displayed I Will Not Hide I Must Have More Pride I Will Not Ever Cry That Rule I Must Abide I Will Not Cower Unless I Want To Be Devoured I Will Not Be Weak Unless I Want To Be Beat That Man That Scares Me And Is Full Of Deciet Taught Me That Those Are The Rules Of The Street I Went To Sleep And Didn't Weep Woke Up Late Still Hurt And Full Of Hate Made Up My Mind I'll Be Living At Hersey, Next Year This Time Just To Get Away Away Before I Decay Before I Die