Pity the Child #2

[00:05.26] When I was nine I learned survival
[00:08.81] Taught myself not to care
[00:12.46] I was my single good companion
[00:16.08] Taking my comfort there
[00:19.66] Up in my room I planned my conquests
[00:24.15] On my own, never asked for a helping hand
[00:29.63] No one would understand
[00:35.04] I never asked the pair who fought below
[00:41.30] Just in case they said no
[00:50.38] Pity the child who has ambition
[00:53.94] Knows what he wants to do
[00:57.59] Knows that he'll never fit the system
[01:01.23] Others expect him to
[01:05.78] Pity the child who knew his parents
[01:09.31] Saw their faults, saw their love die before his eyes
[01:15.66] Pity the child that wise
[01:21.06] He never asked, did I cause your distress?
[01:27.36] Just in case they said yes
[01:32.82] When I was twelve my father moved out
[01:39.15] Left with a whimper not with a shout
[01:45.43] I didn't miss him, he made it perfectly clear
[01:51.72] I was a fool, and probably queer
[01:58.04] Fool that I was, I thought this would bring
[02:04.40] Those he had left closer together
[02:10.70] She made her move the moment he crawled away
[02:17.01] I was the last the woman told
[02:21.52] She never let her bed get cold
[02:26.03] Someone moved in, I shut my door
[02:30.59] Someone to treat her just the same way as before
[02:40.58] I took the road of least resistance
[02:44.17] I had my game to play
[02:47.75] I had the skill, and more - the hunger
[02:51.30] Easy to get away
[02:54.03] Pity the child with no such weapons
[02:58.54] No defence, no escape from the ties that bind
[03:03.16] Always a step behind
[03:09.49] I never called to tell her all I'd done
[03:14.88] I was only her son
[03:44.80] Pity the child but not forever
[03:47.59] Not if he stays that way
[03:51.16] He can get all he ever wanted
[03:54.74] If he's prepared to pay
[03:59.39] Pity instead the careless mother
[04:02.99] What she missed, what she lost when she let me go
[04:07.43] And I wonder, does she know
[04:12.80] I wouldn't call, a crazy thing to do
[04:19.16] Just in case she said, who?
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