It's so hard to be a kid these days - what's happened to our world
That made it overnight into the nightmare that's unfurled?
What happened to my parents - their divorce is final soon...
The cops say "Dad" did something bad...the case comes up in June.

Why do I have the feeling that Mum's very mad at me
For telling the school counsellor what no-one else could see
I keep having to go over it as if in some bad dream
And sometimes I can't face no more and simply want to scream.

I've got to get the details right and time and time again
I'm asked the same old questions - they don't care about my pain
Or that I'm having flashbacks and I'm scared to go to bed
'Cause the gremlins of the daytime road do night miles in my head!

I've been warned my chosen company is bad but it's not fair
Me mates are sometimes rough and tough but g-e-e-ze they really care
They give me grass to smoke and booze, although I'm underage
And one stood up to Grandpa when he hit me in a rage.

There's lots of talk of child abuse and stuff that's in the news
'Bout Paedophiles who murder kids - and families air their views
On who's to blame and what to do, how much it's going to cost
But no-one sees WE pay the price of innocence that's lost.

I drank a lot and did a stint in jail for DUI
Me Mum stood up for me in Court - it hurt to see her cry
But in the end it did me good - it gave me time to think
What I was doing to m'self on that precarious brink!

Years have passed and Sandra, who's had baby number three
Is sitting, nursing Brendan....fast asleep upon her knee.
I watch his older sister, Anne, play tag with her new friend
And know with peace inside my heart - that life, with time, can mend.