Long Lost Mates

I Knew Life Would Be Hard
That At Times It Gets Rough
But Once Upon A Happy Time
I Could Actually Face All This Stuff

I Didn't Know Id Lose Friends
To All The Drugs In The World
That Id See Friends I Played With
Turn Into Drug Addicted Boys And Girls

I Didn't Know Id See Dreams Gone
See People Just Throw Them Away
One Less Doctor,One Less Lawyer
They Just Followed A Different Way

I Didn't Know Id See Girls
That Id Known All My Life
Not Be Able To Handle This
And Turn To wards A Knife

I Didn't Know Id See Friends
Live Just To Die
Doing everything That Isn't Them
I Still Don't Know Why

I Didn't Know Id See Girls
Throw Up Everything They Eat
To Be Some Perfect Little Size
Just To Cope With The Heat

I Didn't Know Id See My Friends
Having Babies At Only fourteen
To Guys Id Known Forever
Who Now Are Know Where To Seen

I Didn't Know Id See Friends
End Up In A Hospital Bed
Under Suicide Watch Every night
Because Their hanging on a thread

I Didn't Know My Little Heart
Would See All My Friends In Pain
Losing Them Day By Day
To Things No-one Can Explain

I Didn't Know My Perfect World
Would Be Turned Upside Down
I Didn't Know The Day I Was Born
Id End Up Being A Rape Victim With A Frown

But Who Would Ever Know
That All These Things Could Be Lost
And The Day I Entered Life
All This Would Be The Cost...