
Date of issue: 16.02.2004
Record label: Elektra, Rhino Entertainment Company
Song language: English
What's the Matter Here? |
That young boy without a name I’d know his face. |
In this city the kid’s my favorite. |
I’ve seen him. |
I see him every |
day. |
Seen him run outside looking for a place to hide from his |
father, the kid half naked and said to myself «O, what’s the |
matter here?"I'm tired of the excuses everbody uses, he’s their |
kid I stay out of it, but who gave you the right to do this? |
We live on Morgan Street; |
just ten feet between and his |
mother, I never see her, but her screams and cussing, I hear them |
every day. |
Threats like: «If you don’t mind I will beat on your |
behind,""Slap you, slap you silly."made me say, «O, what’s the |
matter here?"I'm tired of the excuses everybody uses, he’s your |
kid, do as you see fit, but get this through that I don’t approve |
of what you did to you own flesh and blood. |
«If you don’t sit on this chair straight I’ll take this |
belt from around my waist and don’t think that I won’t use it!» |
Answer me and take your time, what could be the awful |
crime he could do at such young an age? |
If I’m the only witness |
to your madness offer me some words to balance out what I see and |
what I hear. |
All these cold and rude things that you do I suppose |
you do because he belongs to you and instead of love, the feel of warmth you’ve given him these cuts and sores won’t heal with time or age. |
I want to say «What's the Matter here?"But I don’t dare say. |
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