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Peak #484
Peak in subgenre #46
Author
Christopher Fontes-Barry
Uploaded
May 13, 2014
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MP3 4.6 MB • 128 kbps • 5:02
Lyrics
Look, little Tina Andrews riding on her bike,
Around the coldasac really late one night
In a good neighborhood where here parents raised her right
Only eleven years old not a worry in sight
She was getting straight A's and was really well behaved
When her goldfish died she cried and prayed
For the next ten years she'd grow up pretty slow
Never got into drugs and had no where to go
But come twenty one she decided she would leave
Because her parents constant fighting wasn't leaving room to breathe
So she moved to California so that she could see the sea
She would never have guessed how hard life could really be
She started as a waitress boyfriend got her into weed
A couple years had passed and turned to ecstasy and speed
The chase had burned her dollars and her hopes had turned to greed
Along side all that she had another mouth to feed
its the first of the month so there's money that she'll need
But there's not a dime in sight it doesn't look like she'll succeed.
So she spoke with her dealer asked him if he'd hook her up
He thought for a moment and said sure what the fuck
From that point on Ms. Andrews went dark
She never took her children but was always at the park
Till the day she was caught by the guy they call nark
And when they took her kids it couldn't help but break her heart
At the trial she plead guilty but
said that it wasn't fair
The judge just shrugged honestly he didn't care
He said, "your getting locked up, and you have kids and im aware.
They'll be children of the state and I hope they're treated fair."
Gasping for air Tina breaks down to tears.
Then after that she doesn't see her kids for years
Five to be exact, trapped, with her worst fears
Then another year or two of being judged by her peers
When she finally saw her daughters felt like she had gone to heaven
The oldest now thirteen and the younger one was seven
It made her think back to when she was eleven
Just riding on her bike in the coldasac at night
Not really any problems because everything's alright
And she never had to fight for herself or her kids
And she prayed for the day that they both would forgive
Her for getting locked up and leaving them all alone
She promised she would never leave until the two had grown
Then she got a job selling insurance, over the phone
Despite how much she tried both her daughters kept a grudge
She says that its unfair, but who is she to judge
Tinas fifty three and has long been off her drugs
But her younger daughters just about to start just because
Tina doesn't know of course, her daughter moved away
With a friendly handsome fellow that she met the other day
She met him at a party where he let her try cocaine
She took it just because she knew that mommy wouldn't like it
She never would have thought it would have made her that excited
She started using often cause she felt like it ignited
Her body into action every time that she would try it
Habit got so bad that there's no money left to buy it
Now its been a few years since her daughters been away
April fifteenth and Tina hopes that she's okay
She's hears a phone ring but there's no good news today
It was only muffled cries but she could make out what they'd say
Tina, she had overdosed they did all that they could
Will you identify the body I dont think that I should
When Tina saw her daughter she thought that she couldn't speak
There has been no other time in her life she felt that weak
The funeral was grim and the days after much darker
Tina blamed herself for the death of her daughter
How could she not have listened to the things that she had taught her
problems from her past that had put her in hot water
Tina wished things had been different or shed been a better mother
Or at least had had a chance to tell her daughter that she loved her
Then made a promise that she'd be a great grandmother.
Her daughter left alive is just about to have another.
Tina now sixty three thinks about lifefrequently
Watches her granddaughter play and wonders what t
