You think that you're the only one,
Who feels pain and hurt and loss?
Well after all the years of suffering,
You too have paid the cost.
And as I drifted off to sleep, my chest began to heave.
I remember the pushing and the shoving, the way I couldn't breathe.
You'd tell me that you loved me, but I knew that wasn't true.
Told me it was my fault when all along it was only you.
I never thought I'd feel a pain that hurt much more than that,
But the memories and the nightmares kept on flooding back.
You hurt me more than you could know, when you'd beat me without
stopping,
But it wasn't the cuts or the hurt outside that put me in my coffin.
You'd hear me scream you'd watch me cry and wish that I was dead,
And I hope now you'll be tormented by my presence in your head.
I couldn't take it anymore; my life was full of fear,
But everyday you walk the Earth I'll make sure that I'm near.
To haunt the footsteps that you take in the world I left behind,
And my voice will tell you everyday what's already in your mind.
Of that day you got a phone call to tell you I was dead,
But it wasn't from your beatings, was a bullet to my head.
The doctor took you to one side and told you something new,
It wasn't just me who'd been lost, there was a baby too.
At this you fell down on your knees and you began to cry.
I hope this is what will haunt you, dear, until the day you die.
