Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Pity the Child #2 , by - Chess In Concert. Release date: 11.06.2009
Song language: English
Pity the Child #2 |
| Pity the Child |
| >From the Musical Chess |
| When I was nine I learned survival |
| Taught myself not to care |
| I was my single good companion |
| Taking my comfort there |
| Up in my room I planned my conquests |
| On my own, never asked for a helping hand |
| No one would understand |
| I never asked the pair who fought below |
| Just in case they said no Pity the child who has ambition |
| Knows what he wants to do Knows that he’ll never fit the system |
| Others expect him to Pity the child who knew his parents |
| Saw their faults, saw their love die before his eyes |
| Pity the child that wise |
| He never asked, did I cause your distress? |
| Just in case they said yes |
| When I was twelve my father moved out |
| Left with a whimper not with a shout |
| I didn’t miss him, he made it perfectly clear |
| I was a fool, and probably queer |
| Fool that I was, I thought this would bring |
| Those he had left closer together |
| She made her move the moment he crawled away |
| I was the last the woman told |
| She never let her bed get cold |
| Someone moved in, I shut my door |
| Someone to treat her just the same way as before |
| I took the road of least resistance |
| I had my game to play |
| I had the skill, and more — the hunger |
| Easy to get away |
| Pity the child with no such weapons |
| Do defence, no escape from the ties that bind |
| Always a step behind |
| I never called to tell her all I’d done |
| I was only her son |
| Pity the child but not forever |
| Not if he stays that way |
| He can get all he ever wanted |
| If he’s prepared to pay |
| Pity instead the careless mother |
| What she missed, what she lost when she let me go And I wonder, does she know |
| I wouldn’t call, a crazy thing to do Just in case she said, who? |