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You see people coming from all sides |
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With their broken hearts and hollow eyes |
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And you try to love but it's easier to hate |
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When the seed that was planted was watered too late |
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Ooh, oh, child |
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Ooh, oh, child |
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Your roots stretch down to grow up wild |
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Roots stretch down to grow up wild |
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It was late last night when the doorbell rang |
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My brother in some trouble |
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He stood shaking on the doorstep in the rain |
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With a freight train pounding in his veins |
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And I took him in and cleaned him up |
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Gave him some water and |
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I put him to bed |
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Then I cried for the sadness of his life |
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And his lonely struggle with addiction |
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Friends say, oh, what a shame |
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Mum says no one but himself to blame |
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But I don't want to play that game' |
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Cause I know the truth is not so plain |
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Call it a hard life or a lack of love |
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Call it passed down from his father |
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Call it lack of faith in |
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God aboveThere are no easy answers |
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He is just a child, he is just a child |
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Arms stretched out for love |
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Arms stretched out for love |
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Arms stretched out for love |
