Tara Ellis - W.A.N.T.S. lyrics

We Are Not The Same Drove him to school just after the day that he flipped Told him if any students asked for him To say that he slipped So many bruises past to him they faded in quick They say the fatal wounds The fact that he don't play with his kids And now I pray that he lives Persuaded he gives into the lie The bed you made it was his Just say what it is cus basically the pain that you give Is the pain that you received and you afraid to relive And you can blame it on your past tenses Tame it or have fences But it don't change the fact You can't escape your last sentence When they have to reference evidence You broke the surface skin Laugh but after that they sending him to social surface Then where would you be at bending at the kneecap Pretending that he needed that slap When well you see that You doing to your son what your father did to you He put you on the run And it ain't hard for you to do The same We are not the same The distance in our lives Bares the innocence I claim Please know that we are not the same The instant you arrived With this infant and my name Please know that Met her at school forever he knew He'd have to tell her the truth In a letter he drew out every letter as proof He wouldn't let her be used How his treasure of youth bowed and tethered abuse Better to use now to measure every moment they shared As a powerful atonement How broken he bared Can one hoping to share his life with another be When you as beaten as the lover in me Holy seeking for the Brother in three Uncovered to see me Before becoming a mother to be See while the facts bruise I couldn't figure it out Why my back was being used for putting cigarettes out And my laugh was subdued for it please him to cry These are the reasons why for you I would leave it behind I refuse to do to you what my father did to me Only I choose who I am I pray to God that you will see the same We are not the same The distance in our lives Bares the innocence I claim Please know that we are not the same The instant you arrived With this infant and my name Please know that