God please listen as I talk to you
God please listen as I pray
God please listen as I confess to you
And tell you about my day
I wake up this morning, thinking
Of all the problems my family's had
How everyone has had their time
Their time for being "bad"
Lets start with my cousin
She drank all her problems away
Wouldn't listen to what her family had to say
They sent her to boarding school far away from here
So she would stop with the drinks wine and beer
One day they brought her back to us
"Cured" from then on she was no fuss...?
Now my oldest brother had a love that was so deep
Hours he drove to visit her every week
One dreary day he was coming back from afar
The road was slippery because it was raining so hard
He was going so fast and across the road he did slide
At eleven o'clock that morning John Roth died
My other brother is a "troubled one"
He lit a joint and thought he was having fun
As he kept lighting
He and dad kept fighting
Jake got kicked out of the house tried to control his rage
Now hes landed himself in our county's cage
My cousin Alex met this guy
They started going out promised never to hurt cheat or lie
As time went by he became obsessed
Controlling and abusing her he wouldn't give it a rest
Now because of his anger and strife
That teenage girl is scarred for life.
Her younger sister Natalie
Turned to god to help her with reality
Ha yeah that lasted long
The ways shes living is all wrong
Works by day, breaks all the rules at night
Please tell me is that considered right?
Hm, now i guess its my turn
To tell you the truth there's not much you can learn
About me in a couple lines
Explaining my problems would take all your time
Yeah its really not that severe
If i wish i saw another person when i look in the mirror
My littlest brother i feel bad for him
With this family he can never win
Hes given up instead of kept trying
Sometimes at night i can hear him crying
He stays strong though at home and at school
His friends love him so much for being so cool
This is my family the ones i cherish and love
The gifts god sent me from above
The ones who are with me every step of the way
The angels that give me a reason to wake up every day
You may think that we're all pretty messed up
But we'll stay together and keep growing up.
