Pushed to the ground and shoved through the cracks   The boy's been left out on the back steps   Eating the greed that his parents left   Disconfigured the pain   Suffered through those timeless lies   Ripped and torn the blood sore eyes   Comfort gave by no one   The cat's left out in the rain      Take that book and burn the page   Take me far from this horrid age      The road to manhood blocked off   An alternate route must take   The shell of once a soft sweet child   Twisted, torn, bitter mistake   A harder road must be led   This hardened blood must be bled   These suffered words must be said   The twisted shell must be shed      Take that book and burn the page   Take me far from this horrid age