Innocence

~ Lyrics ~

Inevitably we’re gonna be coming back to this

It never seems what we've dreamed ever happened

And more than flings why it stings what the passion is

Can never see try to make sense ‘cause sense doesn’t

‘Cause it wasn’t always buzzing meant for something normal

Thoughts are drumming feeling nothing ‘cause it’s always horrible

Pray for loving cussing out the sun with a sore throat

Running from the rain I pray that hope can float

While a little boy writes a Mother’s Day card

To a mother that don’t even want to see him at all

Just a picture he’s drawn saying, “I love you mom”

I wish we could talk ‘cause it’s been so long

And in his innocent mind, it’s gonna be on the fridge

But she gonna read it once, and throw it in the trash bin

And I can’t even tell him!

‘Cause there’s nothing more fragile than a child’s innocence

I’m fading to black

Please take me back

Anymore I will crack

This pain is left inside a quarterback

This can’t set me free

Why did you leave?

I’ll run these yards so fast you’ll never see me

Cause if I run away

I’ll never feel the pain

I call the shots now

It’s time to explain

Just a little girl screaming out for a father

But he don’t hear a thing ‘cause he up and left his daughter

And she feels worthless ‘cause her own dad didn’t want her

What a real man, leading lambs to the slaughter

And so she grows up and she fills her bed with boys

But they don’t love her, they just treat her like a toy

And after it’s all done she feels broken and destroyed

But what’s it matter she’d done anything to fill the void

And all the kids at school are calling her a whore

But they don’t know that’s she’s missing what she needed more

Than the secrets that were keeping locked behind the doors

If you could feel her pain it’d shake your core

So don’t talk to her

You don’t deserve a word

You don’t know how much it hurts

Her heart still burns for whatever it’s worth

Innocence dies in the shadow of a curse