Look At Life Different
This isn't about me, I'm going to write with a different concept
You could be having a great day, then slip and fall in one step
Maybe this wouldn't have happened if you'd gone left
We always over analyze our mistakes and misfortune
We'll always be judged even without a courtroom
You could be a saint, leave your house and have a crazy man pull a knife on you
They don't know who you are, but still proceed to take the life from you
Turn on the news, and see a kid that's five also died with you
He got hit by a stray bullet in a drive by shooting
Now the murderers are trying to hide their movements
A 15 year old girl at school is getting called names because she's sleeping around
Little do the bullies know, her dad raped and beat her down
Now she's sleeping with guys to feel some kind of affection
Teachers don't notice anything wrong, because she acts normal in lessons
These things happen daily, yet we'll never have the answers
I thought it was hard growing up without a dad but it could have been worse
Because there are people who have a dad who loved them and he's now fighting cancer
They have to watch him suffer, knowing they can't prevent the hurt
They're about to lose someone who's been there for them their whole life
Which is always going to be a lot harder to take
My biological sperm donor died on February 25th 2007, but God didn't take a father away
We all have an ex we miss
Trying to think of the perfect words to text them with
But we don't out of fear
Yet we'll regret it when their heart stops and they're no longer here
We'll always talk about it can't be fixed right now
But their car could flip right now
They're left on a life support machine, and you get a call, saying "we've got to hit the switch right now"
So they're gone and they're never coming back
You're left with regret until you become numb from that
So then you become cold and heartless
Walk down a road of darkness
The love that you used to have is now missing
When you look at all of this, hopefully you start to look at life different
Copyright © Alex Duffy | Year Posted 2017
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