Panic Room - Picking Up Knives lyrics

Mother watching from the window Funny how there's still no sign Recently you know she's seen her baby change What if he has crossed the line? His brother was hanging with the big crowd Never seen a harder man And the hero sets a battle for the child He wants to do his family proud Running through the beat of his life Learning to graduate to picking up knives Yeah, yeah, yeah Cover your ears from the violence It's getting worse here day by day Have you seen the streets They're running with young blood Crimson tide among the grey Running through the streets of his life And he'll learn the tricks of the night Gotta prove his brother was right He'll get better at, better at picking up knives And then, it tells another tale Another young boy found In the streets last night And the people hide Afraid to go outside And the water's running wild With the finding of the child Mother watching from the window Hears a sound beside the door And she runs to it, her hand across her heart She sees her little boy once more But I stand watching from my window I see the lights as they arrive I've been waiting for you Waiting for all the night Now I know the reason why Running to the beat of his life Where he learned the tricks of the night He had to prove his daddy was right But he got better at, better at picking up knives And I'll never understand (Picking up knives) Never see him as a man (Picking up knives) There was beauty in his eyes (Picking up knives) (Picking up, sticking up, picking up) I will never say good bye (Sticking up, picking up knives)