Once upon a time there was a girl
In her early years she had to learn
How to grow up living in a war
that she called home
Never know just where to turn
for shelter from the storm

Hurt me to see the pain
across my mother's face
Everytime my father's fist would
put her in her place

Hearing all the yelling
I would cry up in my room
Hoping it would be over soon

Bruises fade father,
but the pain remains the same
And I still remember
how you kept me so afraid
Strength is my mother
for all the love she gave
Every morning that I wake
I look back to yesterday
And I'm OK

I often wonder why
I carry all this guilt
When it's you that helped me
put up all these walls I've built

Shadows stir at night
through a crack in the door
The echo of a broken child
screaming "please no more"

Daddy, don't you understand
the damage you have done
To you it's just a memory,
but for me it still lives on

Bruises fade father,
but the pain remains the same
And I still remember
how you kept me so, so afraid
Strength is my mother
for all the love she gave
Every morning that I wake
I look back to yesterday

It's not so easy to forget
All the marks you left along her neck
When I was thrown against cold stairs
And every day I'm afraid to come home
In fear of what I might see there

Bruises fade father
but the pain remains the same (same)
And I still remember
how you kept me so afraid (so afraid)
Strength is my mother
for all the love you gave
Every morning that I wake
I look back to yesterday
And I'm OK
I'm OK

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