You left me there all sad and lonely
I\'ve always asked... I am the one and only?
When I didn't do something right... You yelled at me
Didn\'t you ever care about your baby?
One slap across the face and I break down
Not a word at dinner... not a sound
I was sometimes afraid to come home after school
My friends always asked... and I felt like a fool
You left me there bruised and hurt
At school... there was a hole in my white shirt...
Surrounding that hole.. was a spot of red
What happened to you... my teacher said
I told him I fell down and hit the ground
and on the ground was a piece of glass
I looked around and got the attention of the whole class
What really happened was I got cut with a knife
It was my mother who almost took my life
I came home a little late
I was beginning to feel a little fate
I saw my mother cooking rice that she had fried
She saw my grades and knew I had lied
I told her that I was doing fine in school
She grabbed a knife and said "You know the rule\"
I\'m not supposed to lie.. and thats the reason why... I was hurt on the side
My mother took the knife... and stabbed me
i watched the floor as the blood streamed down
I was too scared to call the cops the lived all the way in town
For most of my life.. i have been scared of my own mother
Every single night... I would cry to my brother
I always told myself... I lived a lie
I couldn\'t get this out of my head why?
I have known my mother as someone I never knew
My heart tore to pieces and this was all true
Finally... one day my father came to visit us
My mother told me not to fuss
My father saw the bruise on my eye
My father asked me why
I couldn\'t help it and my eyes began to water
My mother told him she had no idea what happened and not to bother
I finally got up the guts to shout out... that my mother had hit me for not reason at all
I saw my mom fall
My father called the police and mother got sent to jail
I knew most of my life.. my mother had failed
I lived with my father far away from there
I knew from that day on that my father did care
My father said I love you before I went to bed
I cried after that.. because this is something mother has never said.
