TEARS FOR ASA


There are children everywhere living lives in dark despair
Isn't there a better way to teach them
Does anybody really try to reach them
Does anybody really try to reach them

I defy the world to show surprise when from their private hell they rise
And lash out at the world that has tormented
Or did you think that they were born demented
Or did you think that they were born demented

Does anybody wonder why this child took a gun to school that day
And went looking for his teacher
Or do you think he's just some horrid creature
do you think he's just some horrid creature

At seven CSB was sent to see the burns upon his arms and did not remove the child from harm
What could they have possibly been thinking
Just lost within a system that was sinking
Just lost within a system that was sinking

At school they put him in a box, made him endure the jibes and taunts
Of passing peers you would have thought would back him
But being children of our time, attack him
But being children of our time, attack him

A genius not given half a chance to live his life
The way that we all are meant to live it
If there was a second chance for him I'd give it
If there was a second chance for him I'd give it

Now his sister's sitting in the street with hot tears rolling off her cheeks
Are they the only ones to fall for a tortured youngster
But we don't care we, think he's such a monster
But we don't care we, think he's such a monster

Now we are a maddened human race in our modern time and place
And we've all forgotten how to nurture
Like LC I see murder in our future
Like Leonard I see murder in our future

There are children everywhere living lives in dark despair
Isn't there a better way to teach them
Can we at long last really try to reach them
Can we at long last really try to reach them
Can we at long last really try to reach them

                                     Neil Devore