Little People-The Procussions

[ti:Little People] [ar:The Procussions] [al:5 Sparrows for 2 Cents] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Little People - The Procussions [00:09.73]Lyrics by：Jason Christopher Medeiros/Brian Roberson/Nathaniel Harvey [00:19.47]Composed by：Brian Roberson [00:29.20]Envision the prison of age [00:30.77]Where the apparent disposition [00:31.99]Is that of a parrot commissioned to live in a cage [00:34.49]Who hit's the parents when decisions are made [00:36.11]To not listen and they got [00:37.40]Their fists in opposition to fair play [00:39.72]Must be in your submission to rage [00:41.32]You became a victim the same way [00:43.17]The system done gave way [00:44.63]Inflicting the same pain [00:45.75]Your convicted and can't blame [00:47.09]Recondition your brain till your convinced you can't change [00:49.51]Understandably wishin' family [00:51.44]Tradition won't land you in a position [00:53.06]Where you feelin' the rain [00:54.58]Lonely without a home 'cause now your child's grown [00:56.96]Wearing a milestone like it's the only tie you own [00:59.41]Crying when your alone [01:00.68]Hoping that God forgives you wondering if your kids do [01:03.10]No one should have to live through [01:04.25]The violence that you been through [01:05.64]The fight that's still within you [01:06.91]It's time to make things right [01:07.77]And free the child that lives in you [01:10.08]Hear me [01:10.68]Hear me see me see me [01:12.43]Do you even know I'm still breathing [01:14.67]I listen to the sounds of a TV [01:17.16]The only thing that really wants to reach me [01:19.75]Daddy listen [01:20.72]Daddy listen [01:21.19]Mommy please [01:21.81]Mommy please [01:22.45]There must be a better way to raise me [01:24.72]I'm yelling till my ears can't hear me [01:27.02]Into a silence that kills me [01:29.65]There Billy stands in twenty below gripping his coat [01:32.19]That froze two hours ago [01:33.88]Dramatic I know but cold ain't it [01:35.69]Seven year old's waiting [01:36.51]Takes another look at a picture that lost time painted [01:39.47]We say put it away I can't look at it [01:41.84]The truth stings a little when you look at it [01:44.43]We're creating a mold of bad habit's [01:46.23]When the teacher got eleven year old's that blast at 'em [01:48.66]And the world tunes in just then [01:50.74]Listening to every word that he should have heard at age ten [01:53.58]Then daddy wonders where it all began [01:55.45]He could call you a father [01:56.61]But couldn't really ever call you a friend [01:58.54]You worked hard to provide a home for good living [02:01.06]And you figured that's all that you really had to give 'em [02:03.60]Now if you don't know much know this [02:06.10]All work no play far cry near miss [02:09.61]Hear me [02:10.13]Hear me see me see me [02:11.88]Do you even know I'm still breathing [02:14.08]I listen to the sounds of a TV [02:16.55]The only thing that really wants to reach me [02:19.28]Daddy listen [02:20.04]Daddy listen [02:20.53]Mommy please [02:21.15]Mommy please [02:21.78]There must be a better way to raise me [02:23.99]I'm yelling till my ears can't hear me [02:26.43]Into a silence that kills me [02:28.90]Grass will wither and the flowers will fall down [02:30.78]And every man will pass when his number gets called [02:33.05]But when a child takes his life [02:34.41]That type of logic don't work out [02:35.95]A flower never chose to pluck it's own pedals out [02:38.15]And through out of the tears it gets so clear [02:40.82]That the son I held dear I lost somewhere [02:43.41]Between my work passion and a child size casket [02:46.12]Hard to grasp when these dreams keep flashing his [02:48.60]Cold foot hanging from a stainless steel table and [02:50.58]A white sheet stain with a mothers pain a grief [02:53.40]Every day I wake to face this feeling of pain [02:55.65]So I milk the scapegoat to ease [02:56.93]This feeling of blame thinking [02:58.56]What kind of man am I [02:59.82]What kind of mother were you [03:00.87]What kind of life did we subject our child to [03:03.17]Wishing I would have listened [03:04.07]I would have probably seen clues [03:05.79]Praying for salvation that his soul could sure use [03:08.79]Hear me [03:09.47]Hear me see me see me [03:11.31]Do you even know I'm still breathing [03:13.45]I listen to the sounds of a TV [03:15.98]The only thing that really wants to reach me [03:18.74]Daddy listen [03:19.34]Daddy listen [03:19.98]Mommy please [03:20.62]Mommy please [03:21.24]There must be a better way to raise me [03:23.35]I'm yelling till my ears can't hear me [03:25.82]Into a silence that kills me