Nobody told me life was going to be easy,
I pray every night that these streets will leave me,
Lord, I have prayed to you many times before,
and all I do is keep coming back for more,
Don't tell me there is plenty to eat,
I can get more love than this from the street,
Don't tell me you love me, or that you even care,
Because, when I was crying out in pain, you weren't even there,
Life is hard enough, I can't please you, too,
But, you put me down, and call me a fool,
Every night I close my blinds to darkness,
and open them for light to soften the hardness,
I'm scared. Who's going to calm my fears?
No one's even here to wipe my tears,
I'm confused. Can't you just stop the lies?
My knees soften, and here comes the cries,
Sometimes, the light doesn't soften the hardness,
and what always follows the light...is darkness.
