Listen With Your Eyes and Ears
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name and the streets became her domain she walked the nights for money
hoping to stay alive to see tomorrow empty soul lost cold unwanted alone
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the truth everytime she turned a trick for a hot meal and roof over her head
exposed to all sorts of beasts and demons innocence betrayed by human hands
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free she swallowd her reality and was captured by the monsters in the streets
using and abusing every bit of pride she had to indigest constantly to stay alive
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mother your sister your aunt your daughter she cries out loud for our help
shes dying out there we drive by her and stare and turn away shes alone
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Copyright © Brandy Megens | Year Posted 2009
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