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My parents got some big money problems

We’re all young and we’re countin' on 'em

I’m four years old, you think I’m bouncing on 'em?

I just sit back and watch, thinkin' bout em

Mom’s probably stronger than Pops is

The talk is, that the old man has lost it

Last week he came back from work

I saw him on the porch

With a glass of milk in his shirt

He was flippin' out

Mom probably put it there

Judging from how angry that she was

It probably should be there

Now both folks know that I’m standing there

But Mama protects me

Throws me behind her back

Why did Papa do that?

What’s that tellin' me?

Birds can’t help but sing a melody. (I ain’t stupid)

Happy ever after is nothing but a fantasy

Police are part of our family

Son and mother look out from the porch

See father’s head duck under the door

I believe in nothing

I believe in myself

I believe in nothing

Nothing at all

My papa got some big anger problems

I’m getting older and I’m sick about 'em

It’s getting harder just to live around it

I need to take a stand as a man, I need to be about it

So ring around the posies round the living room table

I can’t remember what we were arguing about

I stood up to the scariest man in the country

I held my head high as I left the house

Little boy stood in the face of a dragon

Left with the heart of a lion, amazing

It’s funny, I left the house so it could cool down

But the dragon stayed hot, who’s the fool now?

Papa and the devil, sitting in the basement

Young son, headed back to the household

Running down the block, eight firetrucks deep

Fell to my knees and I screamed in the front yard

Fireman running around like no one’s in charge

Sort of like when it rains, it pours

See the flames burst out of the door

I’ve learned a lifetime

A lifetime as a boy

Evil’s on the inside

Waiting for all

Got an apartment

I’m 20 years old

Finally thinking I have everything under control

It’s been years since I spoke to the man

When, he gave me his old cutlass to get out of the sand

So just like a hyena, I take the meat

And then I run my ass away, you need to let me be

But over time a part of me knew one needed to speak

That’s right when the world decided that it couldn’t be

It’s the biggest hurdle thinking past tense

When a strong man takes his last breath

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